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tt0212338 | Meet the Parents | Gaylord "Greg" Focker is a male nurse living in Chicago. He intends to propose to his girlfriend Pam Byrnes, but his plan is disrupted when he learns that Pam's sister, Debbie's fiance had asked Pam's father for permission before proposing. Greg and Pam travel to Pam's parents' house to attend Pam's sister's wedding. G... | bleak, comedy, humor, entertaining, stupid | train | wikipedia | Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) is a male nurse, poised to propose to the woman he loves, Pam (Teri Polo) but the right thing to do would be to ask her father's permission first.
Her father (Robert De Niro) isn't quite what Greg has been led to believe, and right from the start he seems to have it in for his daughter's partn... |
tt0082861 | Othello | === Act I ===
Roderigo, a poor and dissolute gentleman, complains to his friend Iago, an ensign, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army. Roderigo is upset because he loves Desdemona and had as... | tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | I'd studied the play in school, of course (seems to have been mandatory in my day), and I'd seen the usual versions (Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, etc.), yet always this one nagging question kept gnawing at me, kept me from fully appreciating this play .
..How in hell could Othello ever let himself be taken in by so ... |
tt0120053 | The Saint | At the Saint Ignatius Orphanage, a rebellious boy named John Rossi refers to himself as "Simon Templar" and leads a group of fellow orphans as they attempt to run away to escape their harsh treatment. Just as Simon is caught by the head priest, he witnesses the tragic death of a girl he had taken a liking to when she a... | suspenseful, boring, psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | Val Kilmer bears nothing in him that even gets close to Roger Moore's character - but if you look away from that and try to see it as an ordinary film, it's really good.First of all, Val Kilmer performs fairly well, despite his weird accents.
I thoroughly enjoyed this film and not just because of Val Kilmer's accomplis... |
tt1462054 | Letters to God | Tyler Doherty (Tanner Maguire) is an 8 year-old suffering from cancer who has a love for writing and sending letters to Jesus. His local postman, Walter Finley (Christopher Schmidt), takes them to his office after work. His boss sees them and instructs Walter to take care of them.
Later Mr. Finley goes on an extended v... | romantic, christian film | train | wikipedia | This was like a bad b movie without the 80's charm.It's a shame really, because the real story it is based on, is one worth telling..
written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." Those words - which are featured in the closing caption of the movie ... |
tt0115940 | Conte d'été | Gaspard, the main character, arrives on holiday in Dinard, a small Breton seaside resort. He awaits his girlfriend, Lena, who does not arrive. Only a short while after this, he crosses paths with the waitress Margot, and they develop a strong friendship; Gaspard also has a fling with Solène, Margot's adventure-seeking ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I love the way Rohmer slowly guides the audience into the film, without a need for narration, only the sights and sounds of Brittany.
"I don't want to plan my life around money", Gaspard tells Margot, and you see him go through a process of writing his sea shantey, a really great little piece of music if you ask me.
On... |
tt0069822 | Breezy | The first scene begins with a young couple awakening in bed, after a one-night stand. An older teen, Edith Alice “Breezy” Breezerman (Kay Lenz) hops out of bed, gets dressed, and steps into the daylight. Breezy lost her parents years before in an auto accident, and has taken the lifestyle of a homeless free-spirited hi... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0323033 | Laws of Attraction | High-powered divorce attorneys Audrey Woods (Julianne Moore) and Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) have seen love go wrong in many scenarios—so, how good could their own chances be? As two of the top divorce lawyers in New York, Audrey and Daniel are a study in opposites. She practises law strictly by the book; he seems... | comedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | Audrey Woods (Julianne Moore) and Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) are New Yorks finest divorce attorneys, but when celebrity Couple (Parker Posey and Michael Sheen) raise the stakes in their divorce, Audrey and Daniel set out to make their cases and end up getting hitched themselves.
For the sake of their reputations ... |
tt0093509 | Matewan | It was 1920 in the southwest West Virginia coal fields, and, as the narrator recalls, "things were tough." In response to efforts by miners to organize into a labor union, the Stone Mountain Coal Company announces it will cut the pay miners receive, and will be importing replacement workers into town to replace those w... | historical, murder, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | Director Sayles masterfully documents the nuances of the ageless conflict between those that would control others for profit and those that would not let themselves be controlled and thereby captures the essence of a battle that still rages between the American ideals of freedom and free enterprise.Historically, the fi... |
tt0173682 | Sky High | Will Stronghold begins ninth grade at Sky High, a high school that exclusively teaches teenagers with superpowers. Will's parents are The Commander and Jetstream, some of the world's most famous superheroes. Will's best friend, Layla, who happens to have a crush on him, has the power to manipulate plant life. Will is a... | murder | train | wikipedia | SHOULD BE PASSED OVER.. Director Nico Mastorakis is responsible for some fairly well-crafted linear output, but with this piece it is obvious that he lacks a point of view as to the nature of the type of film he wishes to create, with a result being an inordinately silly affair that is opposed to constraints of taste o... |
tt0471020 | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers | The Man Who Walked Between The Towers follows the French street performer Philippe Petit in an illustrated children's book made by author Mordicai Gerstein. Philippe Petit had an idea to walk a wire between the twin towers and acted upon it with much planning and setting up. He had once walked a wire on the Notre Dame ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | OK, but not really my thing.. I'll immediately put up my hand and admit I only watched this because Jake Gyllenhaal narrated it. To be honest, if he hadn't and I could turn back time, I wouldn't have chosen to see it. Jake manages to put emotion and a sense of "awesome!!" into what Phillipe tries to do, but this is ess... |
tt0083296 | Visiting Hours | Deborah Ballin (Grant), a feminist activist, inspires the wrath of misogynistic psychopath and serial killer Colt Hawker (Ironside) on a TV talk show. He attacks her, but she survives and is sent to County General Hospital.
Hawker begins stalking her. Deborah befriends nurse Sheila Munroe (Purl), who admires her devoti... | cruelty, grindhouse film, murder, cult, violence, flashback, sadist | train | wikipedia | Some of the acting in minor roles (notably the nurses) is weak, but Zann does a pretty decent job as a slutty date of Ironside's and the leads hold the film together (as much as they can with the somewhat contrived script.) Grant's conviction to her role and Ironside's steely determination go a long way to saving the ... |
tt0083390 | Brideshead Revisited | In 1923, protagonist and narrator Charles Ryder, an undergraduate studying history at a college very like Hertford College, Oxford, is befriended by Lord Sebastian Flyte, the younger son of the aristocratic Lord Marchmain and an undergraduate at Christ Church. Sebastian introduces Charles to his eccentric and aesthetic... | philosophical, flashback | train | wikipedia | Evelyn Waugh's 'Brideshead Revisited' is, I think, the quintessential and the finest novel of the twentieth century - English literature at its highest form.
And Nickolas Grace plays to the hilt the sybaritic, viper-tongued Anthony Blanche.Jeremy Irons does sterling service as the narrator, Charles Ryder, who is, after... |
tt0090948 | The Dirt Bike Kid | Jack Simmons (Peter Billingsley) is a lazy boy who lives with his widowed mother (Anne Bloom) who is struggling to support herself and her son since the death of her husband. One day, Mrs. Simmons orders Jack to buy groceries with her last $50 bill she has in her savings, but Jack is distracted by a dirt bike race and ... | comedy, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0178149 | Lexx | The main characters of the series are the Lexx and its crew. The crew consists of the captain of the Lexx, Stanley H. Tweedle, the love slave Zev/Xev, the undead former assassin Kai, last of the Brunnen-G, and the love-crazed robot head 790. Together they are looking for a new home. The background conflict of the serie... | cult, comedy, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0137922 | Luther | The film begins during a thunderstorm in 1505, as Luther is returning to his home. For fear of losing his life in the storm, Luther commits his life to God and becomes an Augustinian monk.
In the next scene, it is 1507 and Luther is a monk in Erfurt. During his time at the monastery, he is constantly troubled by viewin... | christian film | train | wikipedia | Hagiography About The Life Of Herr Martin Luther. Herr Hans Kyser was a reputable German scriptwriter who worked with the most important German directors of his time such as F. W. Murnau, G. W. Pabst, Karl Grune and Arthur Robison. Herr Kyser had also a predilection for film adaptations of stories from literary or hist... |
tt2515034 | The Gunman | Jim Terrier (Sean Penn) is a former special forces soldier who, in his 50s, has become a black-ops mercenary. He is part of a team deployed by a corporation in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006, under the cover of providing security to local projects. He falls in love with Annie (Jasmine Trinca), a fellow expat ... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | If you are looking for a fairly low commitment to a 'smart' action movie, then you can do worse.In 2006, Terrier (Penn) works for a global corporation (that might as well be called Umbrella Corporation) and is asked to kill a high ranking diplomat.
Unfortunately, Elba who gets second billing is in the movie for 2 scene... |
tt0156812 | My Dog Skip | Willie Morris as an adult is looking back on his childhood in the early 1940s and how it was colored by his dearly beloved dog, a Jack Russell Terrier whom he had named Skip (Enzo). In the beginning, Willie (Frankie Muniz) is a lonely 9-year old child with a gruff, proud father (Kevin Bacon), a Spanish Civil War vetera... | flashback | train | wikipedia | This is an absolutely wonderful movie that's aimed for children, but will probably be even more loved by adults.In 1942, a 10-year-old boy who is more intellectual than athletic and is constantly teased by others finds solace in the puppy given to him on his birthday.
The acting all around is excellent, but special cre... |
tt0177822 | Grim Fandango | === Setting ===
Grim Fandango takes place in the Land of the Dead (the Eighth Underworld), where recently departed souls aim to make their way to the Land of Eternal Rest (the Ninth Underworld). Good deeds in life are rewarded by access to better travel packages to assist in making the journey of the soul, the best of ... | comedy, dark, neo noir, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | They don't make 'em like Grim Fandango anymore.
Put simply, this is one of those games you have to play before you die.Lucasfilm Games/LucasArts is one of those studios that has a well-deserved and rabid cult following even years after it has ceased to support its classic titles, and Grim Fandango is perhaps their grea... |
tt0064747 | The Oblong Box | The film takes place in England in 1865. Having been grotesquely disfigured in an African voodoo ceremony for a transgression against the native populace, Sir Edward Markham (Alister Williamson) is kept locked in his room by his guilt-ridden brother, Julian (Vincent Price). Tiring of his captivity, Sir Edward plots to ... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | There's some violence (although I wouldn't call it gore) and no shortage of women with bug-eyed, frightened looks on their faces.As with the other 1960s horror flicks based on Edgar Allan Poe stories -- although this one is not part of Roger Corman's series -- the movie only uses the title and is otherwise unrelated to... |
tt0084453 | Otelo (Comando negro) | === Act I ===
Roderigo, a poor and dissolute gentleman, complains to his friend Iago, an ensign, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army. Roderigo is upset because he loves Desdemona and had as... | tragedy, romantic, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0102130 | Isabelle Eberhardt | Isabelle Eberhardt (Mathilda May) travels from North Africa to be with her father, who is dying in Geneva. Shortly after Eberhardt euthanises him, the wife of Marquis de Mores summons her to Paris. de Mores has disappeared in North Africa, and his wife wished to hire Eberhardt to track him down, as she is familiar with... | romantic, violence | train | wikipedia | The Anarchist's Daughter. The story of the brief life (1877-1904) of French-Russian-Swiss traveler and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, this dark little film is almost impossible to find. I saw it years ago on IFC a couple of times, but haven't been able to find it in any other format.This movie is wildly uneven in style, bu... |
tt0098802 | Get a Life | Chris Peterson is a carefree, childlike bachelor who refuses to live the life of an adult. At the age of 30, Chris still lives with his parents and maintains a career delivering the St. Paul Pioneer Press; a job that he has held since his youth. He has no driver's license (instead, riding his bicycle wherever he goes).... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | If you've seen "Cabin Boy", you'll love Chris Elliott in this show.When "There's Something About Mary" came out, I saw it and was reminded instantly of the sort of outlandish humor both that and "Get a Life" used.My favorite episode is definitely the one where Chris is mutated by nuclear material and becomes a spelling... |
tt0102217 | The King of the Kickboxers | Jake Donahue and his older brother Sean are in Thailand. Jake's brother is fighting for the kickboxing championship of Thailand and wins his bout. Jake and Sean leave the arena victorious and are soon attacked by Khan and his henchmen. Khan takes Sean on in a fight and subsequently kills him. He then attacks Jake and l... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1180583 | Vaaranam Aayiram | The film begins with elderly Krishnan (krishnan) returning home after a haircut. Once he reaches home, he vomits profuse amounts of blood and is kept to rest. After the doctor checks him, he is reported dead after a few moments of grief with his wife Malini (Simran), daughter Shreya, and daughter-in-law Priya (Divya Sp... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | First of all its a Gautham Menon film,lot of ups and downs,twist and turns yet its totally different from all the other movies its a Masterpiece given by him,the story deals with a simple relationship between father and son,but said in a extraordinary way.
Its a visual treat for audience gave by Surya and Sameera Reddy... |
tt0043341 | Big Top Bunny | At Colonel Korny's World Famous Circus, Bruno the "Slobokian Acrobatic Bear" is the star of the show. But when the Colonel gets a phone call about Bugs Bunny's talents, he agrees to put him on stage with Bruno - which Bruno shows his disgust for by spitting into a corner.
When Bugs is introduced along with Bruno, Bruno... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Bugs Battles Bruno.
"Colonel Korny's World Famous Circus" is in town, featuring "Bruno, the Skobokian Acrobatic Bear." The colonel gets a phone call informing him of a talented rabbit and the boss says, okay, tell him to come down and I'll have him perform with Bruno.
The big bear, overhearing this, is not happy.
"Nobo... |
tt0114272 | Restoration | The film concerns a small furniture-restoration business in downtown Tel Aviv, Malamud & Fidelman. As the film begins, one of the partners (Malamud, played by Rami Danon) has died, and bequeathed his share in the business not to his longtime partner Yaakov Fidelman (Sasson Gabai), but to Yaakov's son Noah Fidelman (Nev... | historical | train | wikipedia | The only truly unfortunate aspect of the film was the casting of Meg Ryan...just Plumb Awful(as they say)in the role of Dr Merivil's asylum inmate lover....who was by the way, miraculously cured of her insanity by his physical attentions.
Robert Downey gives a highly respectable performance as Merivel (and has an excel... |
tt0414215 | The Lawnmower Man | Dr. Lawrence Angelo works for Virtual Space Industries, running experiments in increasing the intelligence of chimpanzees using drugs and virtual reality. One of the chimps escapes using the warfare tactics he was being trained for. Dr. Angelo is generally a pacifist, who would rather explore the intelligence-enhancing... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Barely watchable. Written by Michael De Luca as an adaptation of Stephen King's story, but as much as these names are big, that much this short movie is bad. Although it lasts just 12 minutes it was torture to endure to the end.2/10. This is scary. If this does not scary you no movie will. This is one of the scariest m... |
tt0049629 | Wicked as They Come | Poor girl from the slums Katherine Allenbourg trades on her looks. She enters a beauty contest, then charms the elderly gentleman running it, Sam Lewis, into fixing it so she will win first prize, a trip to Europe. She promptly abandons Sam.
Changing her name to Kathy Allen, she is attracted to Tim O'Bannion, a passeng... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Arlene Dahl is "Wicked as They Come" in this 1956 film also starring Philip Carey.
Soap fans may know Carey as Asa Buchanan in "One Life to Live," the soap opera from which the 82-year-old actor recently retired, having been diagnosed with lung cancer in 2006.
Herbert Marshall also stars.A Hollywood insider once told m... |
tt0114537 | Steel Frontier | In the year 2019, a gang of bandits called the "United Regime" invade the town of New Hope. They are led by General Quantrill (Brion James), a descendent of Confederate cavalry officer William Quantrill. A mysterious motorcycle riding gunslinger named Yuma (Joe Lara) arrives in town and joins the gang, but actually pla... | violence, revenge, neo noir, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038979 | Stagecoach to Denver | Red is working as a stagecoach driver with one of his passengers being Dickie, a recently orphaned young child travelling on his own. Red puts him on the inaugural stagecoach from Elkhorn to Denver, Colorado where he will meet his only surviving relative, an Aunt that he has never met. Dickie is riding with the Land Co... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0979847 | 881 | A talented student from a broken home and an orphan who lost both of her parents at a young age, Big Papaya and Little Papaya grow up idolizing Chen Jin Lang, the King of Hokkien Getai, and dream of becoming Getai singers themselves.
After a chance meeting at a Chen Jin Lang concert and coached by their seamstress, Lit... | magical realism, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3672742 | Turbo Kid | In an alternate 1997, a post-apocalyptic society lives in a land nicknamed "The Wasteland" that is littered with trash and ruled by a sadistic and tyrannical overlord named Zeus, who uses a device to grind captives into water. The Kid, a teenage comic book fan, scavenges the wastes on his BMX bike to trade with junk de... | psychedelic, alternate history | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0164114 | Drive Me Crazy | Nicole Maris (Melissa Joan Hart) and Chase Hammond (Adrian Grenier) live next door to each other. Nicole lives with her divorced mother and Chase's mother died of cancer, making them two teens living with their single parents. However, they are worlds apart. Nicole is a popular socialite up on the latest fashions; Chas... | romantic, prank | train | wikipedia | Sit down and watch it and leave the cliff's notes at school.The actors were great (It's nice to see that Melissa can play something besides Sabrina).
Get the CD: (You Drive Me) Crazy, Unforgetful You, I Want It That Way, It's All Been Done, Stranded, Faith in You, Is This Really Happening To Me, Steps, Hammer To The He... |
tt0298052 | Super Mario Sunshine | The game takes place on the tropical resort of Isle Delfino, which is shaped like a dolphin and comprises ten primary locations. The island is mainly inhabited by the races of the Piantas and Nokis. All the levels either have Piantas, Nokis or both. Delfino Plaza is Isle Delfino's largest city and the game's main hub.
... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Super Mario Sunshine lives on the classic Mario, but takes it another level with even less side-scrolling than Super Mario 64, and a whole lot more sense of freedom.
The boss fights are fun instead of frustrating, the levels create more and more challenge, and the controls, despite the Side Somersault, are easy to mast... |
tt0202559 | A Room for Romeo Brass | 12-year-old boys Romeo Brass and Gavin Woolley have been best friends and neighbors for the majority of their lives. Gavin suffers from injuries to his back to subject him to bullying from other local boys to which Romeo quickly steps to defend him. On one particular day two boys confront Gavin and once again Romeo ste... | violence, prank | train | wikipedia | This is a truly great film, not seen by enough people in my opinion, Shane Meadows is a breath of fresh air for the British film industry, and I won't hesitate to go and see his next film, on the strength, of his last two ( twentyfourseven, romeo brass ) While most british audiences are somewhat ignorant to quality fil... |
tt0071400 | Death Sentence | Nick Hume, his wife Helen and their two sons, Brendan and Lucas, watch Brendan's hockey game. While Nick and Brendan are driving home, they talk about the latter's potential future as a professional hockey player. They stop at a gas station in a bad part of town and during a robbery of the gas station, Joe Darley, a ne... | murder | train | wikipedia | One out of dozens and dozens of tightly constructed TV movies of the 1970's (some hilariously bad, some unforgettably distinctive, most - sadly - missing in action!) Hincks is a clinging mistress, desperate to hang on to her married lover (Luckinbill) despite her own good-looking, but hard-drinking husband (Nolte.) Whe... |
tt0117477 | Ridicule | The film begins in 1783 with the Chevalier de Milletail (Carlo Brandt) visiting the elderly Monsieur de Blayac (Lucien Pascal), confined to his chair. He taunts him about his past prowess in wit and reminds him of how he humiliated him, naming him "Marquis de Clatterbang" when he fell over while dancing. He then urinat... | revenge, intrigue, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070904 | Welt am Draht | It is the present day. Cybernetics and Future Science's (Institut für Kybernetik und Zukunftsforschung) new supercomputer hosts a simulation program that includes an artificial world with over 9,000 "identity units" who live as human beings, unaware that their world is just a simulation. Professor Vollmer (Adrian Hoven... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0052808 | Five Gates to Hell | Several nurses including Athena Roberts, Joy Brooks and a Catholic nun, Sister Marie, and a surgeon, Dr. Richter, are taken captive in Indochina by a band of marauders led by Chen Pamok. He leads them to a jungle fortress guarded by five gates and heavily armed men and demands Dr. Richter treat the gravely ill Gung Sa,... | violence | train | wikipedia | grim but entertaining war story.
I first saw it very early (about 1970), and didn't see it again (as far as I know) until just a few years ago, but somehow the general idea of it always stayed with me.
There have been many movies, I think, about women guerrilla fighters, but as far as I know, they usually do it for pat... |
tt2042447 | The Amityville Haunting | In June 2008, the Benson family moves into 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, due to issues with their teenage daughter, Lori. Despite the disturbing history of the house where Ronald DeFeo, Jr. shot and killed six members of his family in 1974, the Bensons agree to purchase the house. Upon their decision, they walk outside... | murder | train | wikipedia | Oh wait, except for it didn't working on any level.The movie was an endless stream of really bad camera work, interrupted by this blackening-out screen and static sound whenever the entity was about to make something happen or make an appearance.
I got thoroughly frustrated by the crappy camera work and the static soun... |
tt3382518 | Wolfenstein: The New Order | Three years after the destruction of the Black Sun portal, the Nazis have developed advanced technologies, enabling them to turn the tide against the Allies. At dawn on 16 July 1946, U.S. special forces operative Captain William "B.J." Blazkowicz (Brian Bloom), accompanied by pilot Fergus Reid (Gideon Emery) and Privat... | alternate history | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0206917 | The Man Who Cried | Fegele Abramovich (Christina Ricci), a Russian Jew is separated from her father (Oleg Yankovsky) as a child in 1927. Her father has travelled to America to seek his fortune and plans to send for Fegele and her grandmother. Before leaving, he sings "Je Crois Entendre Encore" from the Bizet opera Les pêcheurs de perles t... | violence, intrigue, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0139462 | Message in a Bottle | Theresa Osborne, a former reporter, works as a researcher for the Chicago Tribune. On a trip to Cape Cod, she finds a mysterious, intriguing love letter in a bottle in the sand, addressed from Garret to Catherine. She is fascinated by it and comes into possession of two more letters by the same person, eventually track... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0112993 | Evolver | Teenage computer whiz Kyle Baxter (Ethan Randall) participates in a virtual reality version of laser tag and is about to win a nationwide tournament, only to be disrupted by another player, a girl named Jamie. Despite his loss, he hacks into the company's system to make himself the winner of the prize: "Evolver" (voice... | murder | train | wikipedia | Although Predictable and Forgettable, Evolver Entertains.
Kyle Baxter (Ethan Randall) is a teenager who plays very well a video game called `Evolver'.
This game was developed by Dr. Russell Bennett (John de Lancie).
He wins a competition of Evolver where the prize was a robot similar to the game.
What nobody knows is t... |
tt0117959 | La tregua | The book starts with the departure of the Germans from the camp. The sick Häftlinge were left on their own after the healthy ones were taken on a death march away from the approaching Red Army. As all the services have left the camp exploration journeys begin in search for food and essential items.
When they arrive the... | romantic, autobiographical, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4016454 | Supergirl | Kara Zor-El lives in an isolated Kryptonian community named Argo City, in a pocket of trans-dimensional space. A man named Zaltar allows Kara to see a unique and immensely powerful item known as the Omegahedron, which he has borrowed without the knowledge of the city government, and which powers the city. However, afte... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt5621890 | Liberdade, Liberdade | Born in the 19th century, Joaquina (Mel Maia/Andreia Horta) is the daughter of revolutionary Tiradentes (Thiago Lacerda). A woman ahead of her time who carries in her blood the fight for freedom in Brazil.
As a child, she witnessed her father’s death after he fought for people’s freedom and was double-crossed by Rubião... | violence, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Fake History With Politically Correct Standards. The Brazilian Globo network is characterized by sophisticated productions filled with Computer-Graphic-Imagery since approximately ten years ago. They opt for visuals based on sepia tones typical of old photographs. Liberdade Liberdade (Freedom Freedom) adds soft-core po... |
tt2205697 | Stuck in Love | Novelist and part-time teacher Bill Borgens (Greg Kinnear) has been floundering since his ex-wife Erica (Jennifer Connelly) left him for a younger man two years ago. Instead of working on a new book, he spies on Erica and her new husband Martin while pretending to be jogging. Bill's son Rusty (Nat Wolff) is a high scho... | cute, romantic, feel-good | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1014774 | A Shine of Rainbows | Young orphan Tomás (John Bell) is harassed and ridiculed for his small size, timidity and stuttering by the other children in his orphanage. Just after freeing a pigeon from his classroom, he is called to the headmasters' office to be greeted by Maire (Connie Nielsen), who has adopted him, and takes him back to her isl... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0041963 | The Threat | Detective Ray Williams (Michael O'Shea) is recuperating from a broken rib as his wife Ann (Julie Bishop) tries to persuade him to get a desk job, especially with the new baby on the way. However, a call from the police inspector (Robert Shayne) informs him that homicidal criminal "Red" Kluger (who Williams apprehended)... | revenge, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | Effective "B" film that established Charles McGraw.
"The Threat" is an effective "B" film noir that is kind of a junior league "White Heat" with Charles McGraw starring as an escaped killer seeking vengeance on those who sent him up.
The storyline is relatively clever and the threadbare production values are easily ove... |
tt3818776 | Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. | The game’s framing device is that it is a comic book being read. The story opens in a steampunk fantasy version of London on the opening day of the Steamgate Bridge. Henry Fleming (based on the protagonist of the same name from the book The Red Badge of Courage and voiced by Adam Baldwin) is going over security detail ... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0049006 | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Shreveport, Louisiana TV reporter C. J. Nicholas (Jesse Metcalfe) is convinced that District Attorney Mark Hunter (Michael Douglas) is corrupt, following an unbroken string of convictions based only on circumstantial evidence. After flirting with Assistant D.A. Ella Crystal (Amber Tamblyn) to obtain an evidential video... | plot twist | train | wikipedia | "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" is a curious film - it has the look and feel of a B movie and two stars who had seen better days - Dana Andrews and Joan Fontaine - yet it's a good script directed by Fritz Lang.
A novelist (Andrews) and his future father-in-law, a newspaper magnet (Sidney Blackmer) work together to prove th... |
tt0013741 | Das Weib des Pharao | Pharaoh Amenes (Emil Jannings) receives glad tidings: King Samlak of Ethiopia proposes an alliance, to be cemented by the marriage of Amenes to Samlak's daughter, Makeda. Sothis, Amenes's master builder, reports there has been an accident at the construction site of the treasury and begs for more time for his workers' ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Emil Jannings and Dagny Servaes Are Great.
Massive and brilliant restoration of this once-lost film is cause to celebrate.
This 1922 epic directed by Ernst Lubitsch boasts massive Egyptian sets, great costumes, a brilliant music score and several great performances.Twisting plot entwines the lives of Pharoah Amenes (Em... |
tt2289920 | Justice Is Mind | Henri Miller is a successful restaurateur and family man living the quintessential American dream. On the eve of the opening of his third restaurant while showing his proud minister father, Joseph, around his farm, Henri finally succumbs to a medical history that has trailed him since childhood—unexplained headaches th... | murder | train | wikipedia | Fascinating view into what may very well be our future. It is not often that a film inspires me to do some study but with this film, Justice is Mind, I did just that. A fascinating look into what may very well become part of our future.A gripping story that revolves around a trial of the century. One in which what is v... |
tt0114345 | The Scarlet Letter | In June 1642, in the Puritan town of Boston, a crowd gathers to witness the punishment of Hester Prynne, a young woman found guilty of adultery. She is required to wear a scarlet "A" ("A" standing for adulteress) on her dress to shame her. She must stand on the scaffold for three hours, to be exposed to public humiliat... | historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0075527 | Logan's Run | In the year 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed city contained beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by a computer that takes care of all aspects of their life, including reproduction. The citizens live a hedonistic life but, to maintain the city, everyone must undergo the ritual of Ca... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Gregory Harrison was perfect as Logan and Heather Menzies was great as Jessica.
Logan's Run, based on the 1976 movie of the same name, was a good show.
Gregory Harrison was Logan, a Sandman, Heather Menzies was Jessica.
Donald Moffat played the android Rem. Logan's Run originally aired on Friday nights at 9:00 pm, but ... |
tt0031831 | Q Planes | In September 1938, advanced British aircraft prototypes carrying experimental and secret equipment are vanishing with their crews on test flights. No one can fathom why, not even spymaster Major Hammond (Ralph Richardson) or his sister Kay (Valerie Hobson), a newspaper reporter, who is working undercover in the works c... | murder | train | wikipedia | A secret British aviation project is being disrupted by a foreign power, until an effete but supremely confident intelligence agent, Charles Hammond, is assigned the case.
What follows is a tense espionage thriller that refuses to take itself seriously.
Yet strangely, this odd mixture of screwball comedy and political ... |
tt0098206 | Road House | James Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is a professional "cooler" (i.e. specialized doorman, or bouncer) with a mysterious past who is enticed from his current job at a club in New York City by Frank Tilghman (Kevin Tighe) to take over security at his club/bar, the Double Deuce, in Jasper, Missouri. Tilghman plans to invest sub... | suspenseful, murder, violence, cult, good versus evil, humor, romantic, revenge | train | wikipedia | For all I know it was filmed either at Uncle Ron's or El Matador here in town!Road House is the story of a bouncer hired to clean up a rough bar in a tiny town.
The line focuses on the supposed size of Swayze's package, and the size vehicle his seed could fill.The film is filled with bar fights that eventually turn int... |
tt0040876 | The Three Musketeers | In Venice, the musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with the help of Milady de Winter, steal airship blueprints made by Leonardo da Vinci. However, they are betrayed by Milady, who incapacitates them and sells the blueprints to the Duke of Buckingham.
A year later, d'Artagnan leaves his village in Gascony for Paris i... | intrigue, action, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037514 | Anchors Aweigh | Joe Brady and Clarence Doolittle are Navy sailors who have a four-day leave in Hollywood. Joe has his heart set on spending time with his girl, the unseen Lola. Clarence, the shy choir boy turned sailor, asks Joe to teach him how to get girls. Donald, a little boy who wants to join the navy, is found wandering around t... | storytelling | train | wikipedia | Released some months before the end of the war, "Anchors Aweigh" is one of Gene Kelly's major musical triumphs of the forties
Under the direction of George Sidney, it had the benefits of a pleasant score, andbest of allthe services of Gene Kelly in his first true starring role at MGM
The year before, in Columbia's ... |
tt0177606 | 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... | romantic, action, fantasy | train | wikipedia | One of my childhood favourites.
When I was a kid I watched this many times over, and I remember whistling the "Happy Cat" song quite often.
All the songs are great, and actually memorable, unlike many children's musicals, where the songs are just stuck in for no real reason.
The scenes and costumes are lavish, and the ... |
tt0041481 | Home of the Brave | Shortly after learning their unit will soon return home, American soldiers Lt. Col. William Marsh (Samuel L. Jackson), SGT Vanessa Price (Jessica Biel), SPC Tommy Yates (Brian Presley), SPC Jamal Aiken (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) and PVT Jordan Owens (Chad Michael Murray) are sent on a final humanitarian mission to brin... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0312859 | Kannathil Muthamittal | The film begins in a small village in Sri Lanka called Mankulam, where M. D. Shyama (Nandita Das) is married to Dileepan (J. D. Chakravarthy), who along with few other Sri Lankan Tamils in the village, is part of the Tamil Tigers rebel association. While having a quiet moment, the couple hears sounds of Sri Lankan army... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | I have seen this movie and it has clearly revealed to me the maturity Tamil cinema has in its screenplay and narrative which bollywood better catch up with.By the way to all we westerners, Tamil Cinema is more qualitative and very different from Bollywood which is all about good looks glamour and promotion.Coming to th... |
tt0027099 | The Three Musketeers | In Venice, the musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with the help of Milady de Winter, steal airship blueprints made by Leonardo da Vinci. However, they are betrayed by Milady, who incapacitates them and sells the blueprints to the Duke of Buckingham.
A year later, d'Artagnan leaves his village in Gascony for Paris i... | action, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Interesting version.
This is quite an interesting version of the 3 Musketeers.
It does not follow all of the book, and ends about half way into the book.
I thought Walter Abel was great in this version.
If you see the 1948 Gene Kelly version, you will note that Kelly definitely copies the Abel look for the hero.
Also a... |
tt0029842 | The Adventures of Marco Polo | Nicolo Polo shows treasures from China and sends his son Marco Polo (Gary Cooper) there with his assistant (and comic relief) Binguccio (Ernest Truex). They sail from Venice, are shipwrecked, and cross the desert of Persia and the mountains of Tibet to China, to seek out Peking and the palace of China's ruler, Kublai K... | action | train | wikipedia | Gary Cooper plays the Venetian explorer, and the film opens in a Venice seemingly constructed of cardboard.
The placid mandarin figure takes this in his stride, and happens to mention that he is treating his son to a crash course in both eastern and western wisdom - which is not bad for a place that has not yet been vi... |
tt0083480 | Smiley's People | Maria Andreyevna Ostrakova, a Soviet émigrée in Paris, is told by a Soviet agent calling himself "Kursky" that her daughter Alexandra, whom she was forced to leave behind, may be permitted to join her for "humanitarian reasons". Maria eagerly applies for French citizenship for her daughter, but time passes with no sign... | insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | As far as I know, neither `Smiley's People', nor its prequel, `Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy', is available in the US in BBC packaging (the current distributor) so you'll have to use your initiative if you want them.
I acquired my copies of `Smiley's People' and `Tinker, Tailor' through my video guy, who makes a couple ... |
tt0085180 | L'argent | Saccard and Gunderman are rival Paris bankers. Saccard sees an opportunity to rescue his failing bank, Banque Universelle, by financing the solo transatlantic flight of Jacques Hamelin, a pioneering aviator, and then capitalizing on his popularity to set up a colonial business project in Guyane. He also hopes to seduce... | murder, prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0071577 | The Great Gatsby | In 1929, Nick Carraway, a World War I veteran, is receiving treatment for alcoholism at a psychiatric hospital. He talks about Jay Gatsby, the most hopeful man he had ever met. Nick's doctor suggests that he writes his thoughts down, since writing is Nick's passion.
In the summer of 1922, Nick moves from the Midwest to... | tragedy, revenge, murder, storytelling, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0247425 | In the Bedroom | The film is set in the Mid-Coast town of Camden, Maine. Matt (Tom Wilkinson) and Ruth Fowler (Sissy Spacek) enjoy a happy marriage and a good relationship with their son Frank (Nick Stahl), a recent college graduate who has come home for the summer. Frank has fallen in love with an older woman with children, Natalie St... | depressing, murder, bleak, dramatic, violence, flashback, melodrama, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1839591 | Recoil | Ryan Varrett (Steve Austin), is an ex-cop determined to avenge the murder of his family. In 2009, when Ryan was a cop in Dallas, Texas, his wife Constance Marie Varrett (Rebecca Robbins) and 9-year-old son Matt Ryan Varrett (Connor Stanhope) were viciously killed by a gang. Ryan survived the assault and killed three of... | violence | train | wikipedia | Classical revenge movie, with a rather boring plot.
Steve Austin is a massive mean looking dude and he is angry because his family got killed by another mean looking dude: Danny Trejo!
Small town violence and ass kicking ensues, to the viewer's delight.Or does it?
"Stone Cold" Austin is a stone cold actor.
He doesn't d... |
tt1772264 | Eliza Graves | In 1899, an Oxford University professor demonstrates a case of female hysteria, Lady (Eliza) Graves (Kate Beckinsale), before his class. The patient is drugged and protesting that she is sane, but the professor points out that all mental patients claim to be sane, much as all criminals claim to be innocent. He ignores ... | insanity, romantic, gothic, murder, plot twist | train | wikipedia | It was my first time encountering Jim Sturgess in any film but he did a great job too, I mean, everyone was right at the top of their game.The movie is not fast on its feet and contains little action but it makes up for it all with a well told and engaging story.
Despite this - the film works very well, not least becau... |
tt1173745 | Revanche | Alex works in Vienna for Konecny, owner of the brothel "Cinderella", where Tamara, a Ukrainian prostitute, also works. Konecny has a possessive attitude towards Tamara, not realizing that she and Alex are in a secret relationship and want to leave Vienna as soon as possible to begin a new life together. While visiting ... | romantic, revenge | train | wikipedia | Caught in the middle is Ursula Strauss, who plays Susanne, Robert's wife.The story starts out in the squalid world of Viennese prostitution, at a tacky brothel on the periphery.
Alex works for the local prostitution boss and he has fallen in love with one of the Eastern European streetwalkers, Tamara, played by Irina P... |
tt0002130 | L'Inferno | The exhumation of Lizzie Siddal's desiccated body is seen, followed by a shot of Rossetti dancing among the flames of a bonfire of paintings by Reynolds and Gainsborough. A voice-over informs us that Rossetti is a founder of a revolutionary group of artists called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The figure of the young... | psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | A striking piece of history, this 1911 adaptation of Dante's The Divine Comedy was the first full length feature made in Italy.Taking visual inspiration from Gustav Doré's iconic illustrations, Giuseppe de Liguoro worked for more than three years with 150 people and what was then the biggest film budget ever to complet... |
tt0049552 | Nightfall | Commercial artist James Vanning (Aldo Ray) and his friend, Dr. Edward Gurston (Frank Albertson), are on a hunting and fishing trip in Wyoming. They stop to help two men whose car has crashed. John (Brian Keith) and Red (Rudy Bond) are bank robbers, fleeing with $350,000 in loot, who don't plan on leaving any witnesses.... | suspenseful, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | He's just right here, playing tough guy up against cold-hearted Brian Keith and buddy/big brother/love-interest to model Anne Bancroft, who gets caught in this crime web and yet doesn't seem to mind.
Despite a sluggish start and a few details that don't come together (such as why the crooks' car runs off the road in Wy... |
tt0049301 | Helen of Troy | The film retells the story of the Trojan War in In 1100 B.C., albeit with some major changes from the Iliad's storyline: Paris of Troy (Jacques Sernas) sails to Sparta to secure a peace treaty between the two powerful city-states. His ship is forced to return to Troy in a storm after he has been swept overboard on the ... | violence | train | wikipedia | This film is well-scripted (it's based on Homer and neither substracts nor adds to his basic plot - except for the Gods, which are mentioned but never seen, which makes it a modern secular version of the Iliad), well-acted by some very impressive British actors, superbly constructed (art direction, photography, costume... |
tt0044859 | Lure of the Wilderness | The film is set in the 1910s in Fargo, Georgia, near a dangerous swamp. Ben Tyler and his father Zack one day go into the swamp to search for two lost trappers. During an unsuccessful journey, Ben's dog Careless disappears while running after a deer. While looking for Careless, Ben is hit in the head by someone, and wh... | murder | train | wikipedia | I would like this movie on DVD.
I saw this movie in original release and have always wanted to see it again.
It is beautifully acted by the entire cast, especially Walter Brennan.
As usual, he was always an asset to any movie.
The setting of the swamp gave the movie adventure,suspense and beauty.
This is one classic t... |
tt0068502 | Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde | Dr. Henry Jekyll dedicates his life to the curing of all known illnesses, however his lecherous friend, Professor Robertson, remarks that Jekyll's experiments take so long to actually be discovered, he will no doubt be dead by the time he is able to achieve anything. Haunted by this remark, Jekyll abandons his studies ... | good versus evil, gothic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073114 | L'histoire d'Adèle H. | In 1863, the American Civil War is still raging and Great Britain and France have yet to enter into the conflict. For the past year British troops have been stationed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, carefully checking European passengers disembarking from foreign ships. The beautiful Adèle Hugo (Isabelle Adjani), the second d... | insanity, romantic | train | wikipedia | Without the film ever leaving the secular world, Adele Hugo descends to Hell and Truffaut finds the horror of her journey in the most mundane settings and gestures.
Not because there was any doubt about Adjani's acting, but because casting someone who was arguably the most beautiful actress in the world as a character ... |
tt0059557 | Our Man Flint | Spy extraordinaire Derek Flint (James Coburn) is an ex-agent of Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organization for World Intelligence and Espionage) who is brought out of retirement to deal with the threat of Galaxy, a world-wide organization led by a trio of mad scientists: Doctor Krupov (Rhys Williams), Doctor Wu (Peter Brocco), and... | brainwashing, absurd, satire, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt5978822 | The Wedding Party | A heatwave has hit Torquay, bringing Basil's incompetence—not to mention his intolerance—to an all-time high. When he realises that the two young lovers Alan and Jean, who are checking in, aren't married, he tries to force them into single rooms on separate floors. Meanwhile, Mrs. Peignoir, an attractive French antique... | romantic | train | wikipedia | If you're a Nigerian . . .. In particular a Nigerian of a certain age (b/w 30-40) who lives elsewhere, but misses certain aspects of Nigeria, this is a really good film. Noted: that's a very narrow category. Look, Nollywood has produced some embarrassing nonsense, but The Wedding Party is something that is actually wel... |
tt0060490 | Harper | Private investigator Lew Harper's (Paul Newman) marriage to Susan (Janet Leigh) is on the rocks and he doesn't have many friends, but one of them, mild-mannered attorney Albert Graves (Arthur Hill), brings him a case in Santa Theresa, 90 miles up the coast from Los Angeles. Ralph Sampson, the millionaire husband of har... | neo noir, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | "Lew Archer."In "Harper," all the characters are suspicious and they vary from suave "Allan Taggart" (Robert Wagner) to the coquettish late teen "Miranda Sampson" (Pamela Tiffin) to a lawyer "Albert Graves" (Arthur Hill) who's infatuated with the hot teen and also carries a gun.
I first saw this film when it came out, ... |
tt2784936 | Backtrack | Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers suffers from nightmares and eerie visions ever since the death of his daughter Evie in a street accident a year earlier, which he blames himself for after he was briefly distracted by something in a store window and failed to notice her veer off the sidewalk. His wife Carol suffers... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095984 | Retribution | Yoshioka, an experienced detective, investigates the murder of an unknown woman in a red dress. She was drowned on the Tokyo waterfront, but an autopsy reveals that her stomach is full of seawater. Moreover, all the clues he finds relate to himself: A button found at the murder scene matches one that is missing from hi... | paranormal, cult, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Manic depressive artist George Miller snaps one Halloween night, decides he wants to end it all and jumps from the top of the inner-city fleabag motel he calls home.
Across town, small-time gangster Vito Minelli finds out the hard way, what happens when you don't pay off your gambling debts, as his vengeful cronies blo... |
tt0031503 | J'accuse! | In a Provençal village in the south of France, the villagers welcome the declaration of war with Germany in 1914 and flock to enlist. Among them is François Laurin, a man of jealous and violent temperament, who is married to Édith, the daughter of an upright veteran soldier Maria Lazare. François suspects, correctly, t... | anti war | train | wikipedia | Startling and impassioned plea for peace!.
Abel Gance, undoubtedly one of the greatest film-makers ever, made this extraordinary film as he saw Europe rushing toward World War 2.
It is a remake of a film he made when he was in the trenches of World War 1.
At its core is the magnificent performance of Victor Francen as ... |
tt0049086 | Comanche | In 1875, near Durango, Mexico, a group of renegade Comanche attack a peaceful village and kidnap the daughter of a Spanish aristocrat. They escape the Mexican Army by crossing into US territory. Jim Read (Dana Andrews), a frontier scout, is sent to investigate and ease tensions between the Mexicans and the Comanche. Bu... | murder | train | wikipedia | This colorful western has plenty of action and the beautiful landscapes of Durango, Mexico as the setting for a story of war and peace on the Texas plains between the U.S. cavalry and the Comanches.
The Indians also attack Mexican villages and take horses and captives and rampage on both sides of the Rio Grande.
Dana A... |
tt0100130 | Megaville | National boundaries have been broken, two giant super-states remain—a bleak, decaying Hemisphere, and the sprawling media state Megaville. Travel between the states is restricted. The "CKS" governs daily life in the Hemisphere. All forms of media are illegal here.
Raymond Palinov, an unassuming captain of the media pol... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0164023 | Exiled | In 1998 Macau, former mobster Wo (Nick Cheung) lives quietly with his wife, Jin (Josie Ho), and his newborn child in a nondescript apartment, having turned over a new leaf. But vengeful mob boss Fay (Simon Yam)—whom Wo once tried to assassinate—has dispatched a pair of ageing hitmen to cut that peaceful existence short... | murder | train | wikipedia | I'm not sure how captivating this movie would be for those who didn't love Mike Logan from the first 5 years of "Law & Order".
I *think* Chris Noth did a brilliant job conveying Mike's sense of loss, despair, and alienation, but then again, I've missed him sorely from the series.
And the contrast between the suburban s... |
tt0084934 | Yol | Yol tells the story of several prisoners on furlough in Turkey. Seyit Ali (Tarık Akan) travels to his house and finds that his wife (Şerif Sezer) has betrayed him and works as a prostitute. She was caught by her family and held captive for Seyit Ali to end her life in an honor killing. Though apparently determined at f... | violence, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0228488 | Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) | At a Los Angeles party, Harry Lockhart recounts recent events. Fleeing a botched burglary, Harry's friend is shot, forcing Harry to evade police by ducking into an audition. Harry unintentionally impresses the producers with an outburst of remorse they mistake for method acting. At a Hollywood party before a screen tes... | murder | train | wikipedia | Came to me as a positive surprise.
I was supposed to see Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) but instead I saw this one - and I don't feel disappointed at all.
I'm surprised and delighted.I really liked this movie, because it made me feel not only joy but pity and sympathy as well.
It never was clear what would happen next thou... |
tt0278435 | Enough | The film begins in a Los Angeles diner where a waitress named Slim (Jennifer Lopez) works with her best friend, Ginny (Juliette Lewis). She receives unwelcome romantic advances from Robbie, a customer who teases her about her name. Another man in the diner, Mitch Hiller (Billy Campbell), reveals that the customer had m... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0080849 | Haywire | Former Marine Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) goes to a diner in Upstate New York to meet Aaron (Channing Tatum). He tells her to get in his car, but she refuses and they fight. He pulls out a gun, but she disarms and pistol-whips him. Scott (Michael Angarano), a customer in the diner, intervenes and Mallory demands his car... | cruelty | train | wikipedia | The Hayward/Sullavan bunch. One thing about Brooke Hayward and her memoir. She told it all in terms of her incompatible parents who had a great passionate love, maybe too much so. Haywire is both the title of the memoir she wrote and the title of this film. Deborah Raffin plays Brooke Hayward through whose eyes we see ... |
tt0118900 | Gang Related | Vice police detectives Frank Divinci (James Belushi) and Jake Rodriguez (Tupac Shakur) gun down narcotics dealer Lionel Hudd (Kool Moe Dee), after the two engage illegally in drug trafficking; this is in order to recover the cocaine Hudd purchased from them. When Divinci and Rodriguez find out Hudd was actually a "deep... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Jim Belushi and Tupac Shakur have a good chemistry as 2 crooked, conflicted cops.
Tupac Shakur actually played a very good character as the increasingly troubled cop.
Jim Belushi plays a morally dumb cop who continues to make the situation worse, and continues to believe he can probably manipulate his way out of anythi... |
tt0114137 | Piranha | Two teenagers come upon an apparently abandoned military installation. They take advantage of what appears to be a swimming pool to skinny dip. The teenagers are attacked by an unseen force and disappear under the water. A light activates in the main building and a silhouetted figure investigates the screams, but is to... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0186589 | Sugar & Spice | The story is narrated by Lisa Janusch (Marla Sokoloff), the bitter and jealous head cheerleader of Lincoln High School's B-squad.
Diane Weston (Marley Shelton), the popular head cheerleader of Lincoln High School's A-squad, becomes pregnant by the star football quarterback Jack Bartlett (James Marsden). The two move ou... | cult, comedy, satire, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0106226 | The Age of Innocence | In 1870's New York City, Newland Archer is planning to marry the respectable young May Welland. May's cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska, has returned to New York after a disastrous marriage to a dissolute Polish Count. At first she is ostracized by society and vicious innuendo is spread, but May's family boldly stands... | historical, flashback | train | wikipedia | But watching it again 10 years later, this film is anything but common.The true intensity is Scorcese's detached presentation of a hypocritical & hateful society which holds its members as prisoners.Not to mention impeccable art direction & beautiful cinematography by the legendary Michael Ballhaus.
The film looks as i... |
tt0847182 | Mansfield Park | At the age of 10, Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, as her own parents do not have enough money to support their many children. Once at Mansfield Park, Fanny meets her cousins Tom, Maria, Edmund, and Julia, as well as Fanny's other maternal aunt, Mrs Norris. Fanny... | romantic | train | wikipedia | And, as with all the other versions of Mansfield Park out there, the character of Fanny Price is no where to be found.
Someday, I would really like to see a dramatization of Mansfield Park that actually includes a depiction of the character of Fanny as she was written by Jane Austen.
Unlike some other Jane Austen novel... |
tt0120032 | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion | Romy White (Mira Sorvino) and Michele Weinberger (Lisa Kudrow) are two friends living together in a beachfront apartment in Los Angeles, California. Romy works as a cashier in the service department of a Jaguar dealership; Michele is unemployed. They are both single and unambitious. Romy encounters former high school c... | cult, revenge, comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | ROMY AND MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION (1997) ***1/2 Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, Janeane Garofalo, Alan Cumming.Hysterically funny comedy about two best friends/roomies Sorvino and Kudrow (think female "Dumb and Dumber") facing their 10th high school reunion and, realizing their lives are not worth really bragging about... |
tt1448608 | Turbo | In a suburban San Fernando Valley garden in Los Angeles, Theo, a.k.a. Turbo, is a garden snail who dreams of being the greatest racer in the world, just like his hero, 5-time Indianapolis 500 winner, Guy Gagné. His obsession with speed and all things fast has made him an outcast in the slow and cautious snail community... | violence | train | wikipedia | Making the most of a small budget!. Director Jarrett Lee Conaway does a lot in a surprisingly small amount of time. Choreographed fight scenes with flurries of special FX shots highlighted within, deceivingly big and futuristic sets, and a young cast you barely get to know, but quickly come to love.In Turbo, star Hugo ... |
tt0018742 | The Cameraman | Buster (Buster Keaton), a sidewalk tintype portrait photographer in New York City, develops a crush on Sally (Marceline Day), a secretary who works for MGM Newsreels. To be near her, he purchases an old film camera, emptying his bank account, and attempts to get a job as one of MGM's filmers. Harold (Harold Goodwin), a... | bleak | train | wikipedia | He gave little thought to financial matters; he believed in doing things right, whatever the cost in money, time or physical hardship.In 1928, Keaton's producer Joseph Schenck dissolved his studio and turned him over to MGM, the biggest, richest, and most authoritarian of the major studios.
As a result, THE CAMERAMAN b... |
tt1985017 | Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike | Dagny Taggart pilots an airplane in pursuit of another plane. Dagny asks herself, "Who is John Galt?" before apparently crashing into a mountainside.
Nine months earlier, Dagny is trying to understand the abandoned prototype of an advanced motor she and her lover Hank Rearden have found. Scientists across the country h... | alternate reality, philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
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