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tt0093144 | Hansel and Gretel | Hansel and Gretel are the young children of a poor woodcutter. When a great famine settles over the land, the woodcutter's second, abusive wife decides to take the children into the woods and leave them there to fend for themselves, so that she and her husband do not starve to death, because the kids eat too much. The ... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Best Fairytale Brought To Screen.
I first saw this movie in 1988 and recently in 2002 I wished I could watch it again.
Fourteen years on, I still remember this film.Everyone plays their part well.
It is a fantastic story which can be enjoyed by adults and children alike.
The songs are great, the scenery is lovely and w... |
tt0023737 | Ace of Aces | When the United States enters World War I, Nancy Adams (Elizabeth Allen) becomes a Red Cross nurse, while her fiancé, Rex "Rocky" Thorne (Richard Dix), registered as a conscientious objector, pursues his sculpting career. She mocks his pacifism and accuses him of cowardice. Thorne, in retaliation for her rejection and ... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | this movie dares to be different and makes an excellent point.
This movie, along with the similar EAGLE AND THE HAWK and ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, is an excellent anti-war film made during the 1930s.
Well, Richard Dix plays a pacifist who only reluctantly agrees to go to war.
However, once he becomes a fighter pi... |
tt0112800 | Dao | In 1967, a pregnant woman is attacked by a vampire while giving birth. Doctors are able to save her baby, but the woman dies of infection.
Thirty-one years later, the child has become the vampire hunter Blade. He raids a rave club owned by the vampire Deacon Frost. Police take one of the vampires to the hospital, where... | cult | train | wikipedia | The final action sequence, including Hung Yan-Yan, is now a legend in Kung-fu movies, just like the duel between Jet Li and Donnie Yen in Once Upon A Time in China 2...
the editing and camera-work seems to have influenced gladiator, with choppy nasty hits.the plot is rudimentary, something about sword-makers, evil bald... |
tt0062292 | The Sorcerers | Dr. Marcus Monserrat (Boris Karloff) is an elderly practitioner of medical hypnosis. He lives with his wife Estelle Monserrat (Catherine Lacey). He has invented a device which would allow him to control and feel another person's experience using the power of hypnosis. They decide any youngster will do as their test sub... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036676 | Buckaroo Bugs | The film is set in a small town of the "San Fernando Alley" (San Fernando Valley). According to the narration, "Our story begins when the West was young, and early pioneers settled down to never more roam, and made the San Fernando Alley their home." Despite its Western setting, the short makes references to World War... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Red...
Buckaroo Bugs is a thoroughly entertaining Bugs Bunny cartoon.
My only problem was that Red while he is voiced brilliantly and has some nice juicy dialogue comes off weak and silly as a character.
Buckaroo Bugs is entertaining for primarily a rootin' tootin' performance from my favourite rabbit(or wabbit as Elme... |
tt1440180 | Goethe! | At the University of Strasbourg in 1772, young Johann Wolfgang Goethe fails his doctoral examination in law and, despite wishing to be a poet, is sent by his father to work in the Reichskammergericht, the imperial law court in the small town of Wetzlar. Set to read old files by his grim chief Kestner, he is befriended ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0141996 | Wolfman | In 1891, Ben Talbot is killed by a fierce creature in the Blackmoor woods. Gwen Conliffe, Ben's fiancée, has contacted his brother Lawrence, a Shakespearean actor, saying that Ben disappeared. Lawrence returns to his family's estate in Blackmoor where he has an uneasy reunion with his estranged father, Sir John. Lawren... | revenge, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Well, it looks like there's another contender here for the "so bad it's good" category.
This is a werewolf movie that was made towards the end of a very long dry spell, after the glory days of Universal's "Wolf Man" series, and before the year 1981 brought us several great werewolf movies ("American Werewolf", "The How... |
tt0060037 | Underdog | In the Capital City Town Hall, a beagle on the police bomb squad sets off a false alarm. After being shunned by his fellow police canines, the beagle leaves in shame and is abducted off the street by Cad, who takes him to Simon Barsinister's lab. Bitter his proposal for genetic experimentation was declined, Simon plans... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0846694 | God of War II | === Setting ===
As with its predecessor, God of War II is set in an alternate version of ancient Greece, populated by the Olympian Gods, Titans, heroes, and other beings of Greek mythology. With the exception of flashbacks, the events are set between those of the games Betrayal (2007) and God of War III (2010). Several... | violence | train | wikipedia | Well, if there's anything that comes close, it's this game.
I'm a huge fan of the first game, and as a seasoned gamer I can honestly say that the first level of the first game and the battle with the Hydra is one of my most memorable gaming experiences.
The moment where Kratos is climbing the rope ladder on his way to ... |
tt0068428 | The Cross and the Switchblade | The film is based on the true story of David Wilkerson (Pat Boone), a small-town preacher who gets caught in the shadows of a crime-ridden neighborhood in New York City. He encounters the Mau Maus, a gang led by Nicky Cruz (Erik Estrada), and David brings a message of hope to the angry youths. Guided by the street-wise... | christian film | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097123 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | The story follows two main characters: Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau), a successful ophthalmologist, and Clifford Stern (Woody Allen), a small-time documentary filmmaker.
Judah, a respectable family man, is having an affair with flight attendant Dolores Paley (Anjelica Huston). After it becomes clear to her that Judah... | realism, murder, flashback, satire, philosophical, romantic | train | wikipedia | This is a lesson that Woody's character, Cliff, doesn't even fully grasp at the end of the film, but Allen gives us the insight, even though what Hally reveals about Lester goes against what we've seen of him.Crimes and Misdemeanors is certainly not for all tastes.
How much was Allen able to meditate on life, death, Go... |
tt1063336 | The Perfect Assistant | The movie begins with the hiring of Rachel Partson (Josie Davis) as an administrative assistant at Wescott Public Relations. She is a nice girl, but starts to obsess over her boss David Wescott (Chris Potter). She finds out he has a wife who is dying and a daughter.
His wife soon dies, due to an injection Rachel gives ... | murder, home movie | train | wikipedia | Perpetually perky and seemingly psycho Josie Davis (as Rachel Partson) works as a secretary for attractive executive Chris Potter (as David Wescott).
"Actually, I'm his executive assistant," she corrects.
Once tragically orphaned, and displaying a compulsive use of anti-bacterial hand lotion, Ms. Davis is extremely dev... |
tt1172186 | Ang lihim ni Antonio | Antonio (Kenji Garcia) is a curious fifteen-year-old boy who is beginning to come to terms with his own sexuality. Although his straight best friend, Mike (Jiro Manio), has been supportive of his coming out, his first sexual conquest has led to the destruction of his friendship with his other best buddy, Nathan (Ferdin... | murder | train | wikipedia | An interesting look at adolescence and sexuality.. 'Ang Lihim Ni Antonio' (Antonio's Secret) deals with the sexual curiosities and explorations of an teenage boy, who is just coming to terms with his sexuality. It gives us an interesting glimpse into what goes on in his mind, as well as what his mother and and close fr... |
tt0068421 | The Cowboys | When his ranch hands abandon him to join a gold rush, aging rancher Wil Andersen (John Wayne) is forced to find replacement drovers for his upcoming 400-mile (640 km) long cattle drive. He rides into deserted Bozeman, Montana. There, Anse Peterson (Slim Pickens) suggests using local schoolboys. Andersen visits the scho... | realism, revenge, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | The Cowboys is directed by Mark Rydell and adapted from the novel written by William Dale Jennings; who co-writes the screenplay with Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank Jr. It stars John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern and Colleen Dewhurst.
It's a journey of some distinction, for Wil, the boys and the villains who lur... |
tt0026683 | Marihuana | Burma is a confused girl who likes to party. One day she meets some strangers in a bar who invite her and her group to a party. She goes to the party with her friends, they all drink alcohol, only the girls at the party smoke marijuana unknowingly, and keep on laughing. Burma and her boyfriend have sex on the beach whi... | violence | train | wikipedia | Beating the more famous "Reefer Madness" into the theaters by all of about 15 minutes, "Marihuana" is yet another morality play whose producer tries to pass off a warning about the evils of marijuana use as an excuse for the picture's real reason for being: a nude swim scene (shot so darkly that the participants can ba... |
tt1712064 | BioShock Infinite | === Setting ===
BioShock Infinite is set in 1912 and takes place in a fictional steampunk city-state called "Columbia"—named in homage to the female personification of the United States—which is suspended in the air through a combination of giant blimps, balloons, reactors, propellers, and "quantum levitation." The cit... | alternate history, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0089679 | The New Kids | Abby McWilliams (Lori Loughlin) and her brother Loren McWilliams (Shannon Presby) are a pair of teenagers.
When their parents Mac (Tom Atkins) and Mary Beth (Jean de Baer) are killed in an accident, and it's decided that Abby and Loren will live in the small town of Glenby, Florida with their uncle Charlie (Eddie Jones... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Cunningham (the man behind such films like 'Friday the 13th', 'A Stranger Is Watching ' and 'Deepstar Six') takes a stab at a routine (but gutsy) revenge/vigilante thriller set in the good ol' south of Florida with a group of feuding teenagers at the core.
The plot is familiar in structure, but the bold dialogues and s... |
tt0039404 | Fun & Fancy Free | === Bongo ===
Jiminy Cricket first appears inside a large plant in a large house, exploring and singing "I'm a Happy-go-Lucky Fellow", until he happens to stumble upon a doll, a teddy bear, and a record player with some records, one of which is Bongo, a musical romance story narrated by actress Dinah Shore. Jiminy deci... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0022694 | Das blaue Licht | A soldier has been discharged from the king's service because of his wounds. The soldier leaves the castle and, as night falls, he requires somewhere to stay. Encountering the home of a witch, he asks her for lodging. The witch agrees on condition that he spade her garden the next day. This takes so long that he must s... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | Leni Riefenstahl, soon to become notorious as Hitler's favorite director, made her directorial debut with this vivid and beautiful film.
It tells the tale of a mysterious blue light on top of a mountain that lures young men to their deaths.
Riefenstahl certainly knew how to film and light faces (including her own), a t... |
tt0033872 | Man from Montana | As described in a film magazine, Warren Summers (Peil) and his wife (Lamb) along with their pretty relative Meta Cooper (Rich) go to the town of Green Water to purchase the Bumble Bee mine, which is owned by Duke Fairley (Hart) and Dad Petzel (Berrell). While Duke is out of town Dad sells the mine, receiving worthless ... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0039750 | Ramrod | Connie Dickason (Veronica Lake) is the strong-willed daughter of a ranch owner (Charles Ruggles), who is under the control of powerful local cattleman Frank Ivey (Preston Foster), a man her father once wanted Connie to marry. Connie instead takes up with a sheep rancher who is run out of town by Ivey. She inherits the ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Veronica Lake in her memoirs said that Joel McCrea was one of the kindest, most decent men she ever knew or worked with.
Foster's taken a shine to Ruggles daughter Veronica Lake, but she can't stand the sight of him.
When Foster bullies her fiancé out of town, Lake wants vengeance.She's got her own piece of land now an... |
tt0108207 | Splitting Heirs | The film centres on the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Bournemouth (England), upon which misfortune has fallen throughout history, leading its members to believe the family is cursed. The most recent heir, Thomas Henry Butterfly Rainbow Peace, was left in a restaurant as an infant in the 1960s; by the time his par... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0905968 | Black Dahlia | On January 15, 1947, LAPD Detectives Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard investigate the murder and dismemberment of Elizabeth Short, soon dubbed "The Black Dahlia" by the press. Bucky learns that Elizabeth was an aspiring actress who appeared in a pornographic film. Through his investigation, Bucky learns that ... | violence, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0385307 | Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous | Several weeks after the events of the first film, FBI agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) has become a celebrity after she infiltrated the beauty pageant on her last assignment. Her fame resulted in her cover being blown while she is trying to prevent a bank heist.
To capitalize on her publicity, the FBI decide to make ... | violence, humor, satire, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0049593 | Pardners | Masked raiders led by Sam Hollis attack the "K" Ranch, where owner Wade Kingsley and partner Slim Mosley bravely defend their property after Matilda Kingsley and infant son Wade Jr. safely return east to New York, her hometown. Wade and Slim (played by Martin and Lewis) are murdered, but vow before they die that their ... | violence, murder, comic | train | wikipedia | Martin and Lewis are seen as old men in the beginning of the film.They are these ranch partners who are brutally murdered.Their sons ought to revenge for their death.In 1910 their sons are fully grown men, at least Martin's character Slim Mosely Jr. is.Lewis' Wade Kingsley Jr. is a rich momma's boy.But together they he... |
tt2061604 | Casey Jones | At the hockey rink, Casey's coach berates him again for body checking another player. His cousin, Sid then calls him a benchwarmer, causing Casey to hit him in the face with his hockey stick out of anger. The coach then kicks Casey off of the team. On his way home, Casey tosses all of his hockey stuff, except for his s... | violence | train | wikipedia | As a child of the late 80's/ early 90's I grew up watching the ninja turtles cartoon every week and became obsessed.
As I'm sure with most people I couldn't get enough.
Got the video game, action figures and of course the live action movies.
If you really like the movies and like the darker take of the comics then this... |
tt0078488 | Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Natasha "Nat" O'Brien (Jacqueline Bisset) is a celebrated pastry chef invited to London to assist in preparing a state dinner for the Queen, organized by culinary critic Maximillian "Max" Vandeveer (Robert Morley). Natasha's ex-husband, Robert "Robby" Ross (George Segal), is a fast food entrepreneur ("the Taco King") s... | murder | train | wikipedia | sheer comic delight from beginning to end.
This one is going to make it to the roster of all-time great comedies.
Its sheer classiness and the elegant level of its wit on both the verbal and visual level - so different from the crassness and vulgarity of much American comedy (the more so in recent years) - made me susp... |
tt0425601 | Trailer Park Boys: The Movie | Julian (John Paul Tremblay) plans to steal money from an automated teller machine (ATM). He gets his two best friends, Ricky (Robb Wells) and Bubbles (Mike Smith) to help him succeed in the operation and get rich. However, the plan does not go accordingly and they are chased by the police. Bubbles runs off and is spare... | cult, comedy, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0326101 | Seinto Seiya: Saishu Seisen no Senshi-tachi | The story focuses on an orphan named Seiya who was forced to go to the Sanctuary in Greece to obtain the Bronze Cloth of the Pegasus constellation, a protective armor worn by the Greek goddess Athena's 88 warriors known as Saints. Upon awakening his Cosmos, the power of the Saints which is an inner spiritual essence or... | violence | train | wikipedia | Fallen Angels Versus Saints. This was the fourth Saint Seiya movie, and for a long time (Before the Hades Chapter got animated) was the last done about this anime.Like the other three previous Saint Seiya movies, this has a very interesting premise, introducing some new elements to the story: The use of motifs related ... |
tt0047795 | Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy | Two Americans, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, who are stranded in Cairo, Egypt, happens to overhear Dr. Gustav Zoomer (Kurt Katch) discussing the mummy Klaris, the guardian of the Tomb of Princess Ara. Apparently the mummy has a sacred medallion that shows where the treasure of Princess Ara can be found. The Followers of... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077532 | FM | QSKY radio station manager/program director Jeff Dugan (Michael Brandon) builds a large fan base by assembling a group of charismatic DJ personalities playing popular rock and roll. He soon finds that corporate management expects Jeff to use the station's position atop the ratings to sell more advertising time. (Jeff D... | satire | train | wikipedia | Turn Your Radio On. It may not be a cinematic masterpiece, but the 1978 movie FM has something going for it as, admittedly in its dated late 1970s way, it somehow foresaw the corporate turn that the radio media would take in years to come.
In essence, this is the classic rock response to the disco onslaught of Saturday... |
tt2023690 | Sightseers | Chris (Steve Oram) is a caravan fan and aspiring writer who takes his girlfriend Tina (Alice Lowe) on a road trip, much to the chagrin of Tina's mother (Eileen Davies), who has never forgiven Tina for the death of their dog "Poppy". At their first stop, the National Tramway Museum), Chris confronts a man (Tony Way) who... | comedy, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | Ben Wheatley provides one of the year's darkest and funniest comedies in this tale of true love, caravans and dead bodies.Ever since her terrier Poppy died in a bizarre knitting accident, Tina (Darkplace's Alice Lowe) has lived a sheltered life with her mother.
Wheatley shows directorial flair, but reigns it in from hi... |
tt1396208 | Action Replayy | The story focuses on Kishen (Akshay Kumar), a well-to-do businessman, who is unhappily married to Mala (Aishwarya Rai). They have young son, Bunty (Aditya Roy Kapoor), who does not want to get married because of the loveless relationship between his parents. Bunty's girlfriend, Tanya (Sudeepa Singh), keeps proposing to... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The creative team behind this movie have taken the Back to the Future theme and have obviously had a lot of fun making this Bollywood version - expect plenty of 70's throwbacks with quirky costumes, hairstyles and moustaches, wacky comedy ably performed by the seasoned cast, and of course this being Bollywood a decent ... |
tt0489235 | My Name Is Bruce | In the mining town of Gold Lick, Oregon, Jeff (Taylor Sharpe), a young fan of B movie actor Bruce Campbell, and his friend Clayton (Logan Martin) go out to a cemetery to meet two girls, Big Debbie (Ariel Badenhop) and Little Debbie (Ali Akay). Jeff removes a medallion off the mausoleum, unleashing the Chinese god of th... | cult, gothic | train | wikipedia | Before and after the show, Bruce talked a bit about how making a film in one's hometown, how great it was for him to "be able make a film and sleep in his own bed for the first time in 10 years" and that you don't need a big Hollywood studio and a big blockbuster budget to make a good movie everyone can enjoy.
Bruce ta... |
tt0044166 | The Unknown Man | Defense attorney Dwight Bradley Masen (Walter Pidgeon) is successful in seeking the acquittal of a young man, Rudi Walchek (Keefe Brasselle), accused of knifing to death the 19-year-old son of a local locksmith, but when Rudi lets a comment slip after the trial, Masen realizes he has defended a guilty man. Masen discov... | intrigue, murder | train | wikipedia | Conscience of the beholder.
I've seen this film criticized with the statement, "If you can get past the moralizing..." That misses the point.
Moralizing is in the conscience of the beholder, as it were.
This is a decent film with a standard murder mystery, but with a distinct twist that surfaces midway through.
The res... |
tt0433498 | Kino no tabi | In Kino's Journey, the protagonist, Kino, accompanied by a talking motorcycle named Hermes, travels through a mystical world of many different countries and forests, each unique in its customs and people. She only spends three days and two nights in every town, without exception, on the principle that three days is eno... | alternate reality, philosophical, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0029658 | They Won't Forget | A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Memorial Day. A district attorney with political ambitions, Andrew Griffin, sees the crime as way to the Senate if he can find the right scapegoat to be tried for the crime. He seeks out Robert Hale, Mary's teacher at the business s... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Occasionally the characters give out unmotivated speeches (especially Hale's wife), but the movie is very well-written and acted with Claude Rain chewing the scenery again and again.
Gloria Dickson is very powerful as the defendant's wife, and Claude Rains is magnificent as the politically minded prosecutor, but Allyn ... |
tt0059246 | Guide | The movie starts with Raju (Dev Anand) being released from jail. Raju was a freelance guide, who earned his living by taking tourists to historic sites. One day, a wealthy and aging archaeologist, Marco (Kishore Sahu) comes to the city with his young wife Rosie (Waheeda Rehman), the daughter of a courtesan. Marco wants... | philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036542 | The Wise Quacking Duck | The cartoon begins with Mr. Meek carrying an axe in his hands. He turns to the audience and explains that his wife, Sweetypuss, told him that if he didn't bring home a roast duck for dinner, she would 'cook (his) goose'. The scene cuts to Daffy eating corn while singing "I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" min... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | One of my favourite Daffy Duck cartoons.
I have always loved Looney Tunes and Daffy Duck is a big part of why.
The Wise Quacking Duck is an example of Looney Tunes and Daffy at their finest.
The kissing joke is rather old-fashioned, but that is not enough to spoil the fun.
And fun there is.
The writing is deliciously f... |
tt0298491 | Den osynlige | Niklas (Gustaf Skarsgård) is a poet who wants to go to a school to develop his talents, while his mother wants him to follow in his family's footsteps and become something completely different from his dreams. He plans his escape and buys a ticket out of town to go to a special school in England, which he's been saving... | murder | train | wikipedia | Great film, instantly a favourite.
Being from Australia, not much news of Swedish films reach our shores.
It looked interesting, so I stuck with it, and I'm glad I did.I absolutely adored this film.
From the outset I found the main actor, Gustaf Skarsgard, very intriguing.
I was surprised to find out this was his first... |
tt0814014 | Apne | An ex-boxer Baldev Choudhary (Dharmendra) has had a stain in his boxing career. He wanted to wash it with his son Angad's (Sunny Deol) success, but times were hard and a financial crunch kept him from achieving this dream. Though Angad pulled through fine, Baldev never forgot who ruined his chance to wash the stain. An... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1138482 | Twenty:20 | Retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Viswanathan Menon (Madhu) and his wife (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) come home to celebrate Vishu with his children (Siddique, Vijayaraghavan and Sindhu Menon) and grandchildren, and hopes to spend the remainder of his life in tranquility. The big joint family arrives and prepares to celebrate... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | No doubt, an entertaining sixer!.
Finally the movie came.
Lemme say its good.
Nothing exceptional but its praiseworthy of the movie makers to give important roles to many of the top stars in the movie without affecting the story.
The 5 superstars - Mammootty, Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Jayaram & Dileep come up trumps with ... |
tt0045966 | Knights of the Round Table | === Arthur removes the sword from the anvil ===
With the land in anarchy, warring overlords, Arthur Pendragon (Mel Ferrer) and his half-sister Morgan LeFay (Anne Crawford) meet as arranged by the sorcerer Merlin (Felix Aylmer) to discuss how to end the bloodshed. Morgan maintains that as she is the only legitimate offs... | action, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070770 | Tales That Witness Madness | In the Clinic link episodes, Dr. Tremayne (Donald Pleasence), a psychiatrist in a modern mental asylum, reveals to colleague Dr. Nicholas (Jack Hawkins) that he has solved four special cases. Tremayne explains the case histories of patients Paul, Timothy, Brian, and Auriol, presenting each in turn to Nicholas:
In Mr. T... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0120401 | The Ugly | The film takes place in an old, worn down insane asylum in Auckland, New Zealand, run by Dr. Marlowe (Roy Ward). Simon Cartwright (Paolo Rotondo), one of his patients, is seeking an appeal from a psychiatrist to get a reevaluation of his mental state. He wants to prove that he’s been cured; Simon is a serial killer tha... | suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback, psychedelic, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1662626 | Another Life | Through its run, Another Life revolved around the Davidson family - local anchorman Scott Davidson, his wife Terry who works as a nurse (Mary Jean Feton), daughter Lori (Jeannette Larson and later Debbie McLeod), and teenage son Peter (Darrel Campbell). Although they sometimes struggle with their faith, they stick by t... | neo noir, violence, cult, flashback, romantic, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0039417 | Germania anno zero | Twelve-year-old Edmund Kohler lives in devastated, post-World War II Berlin with his ailing, bedridden father and his adult siblings, Eva and Karl-Heinz. Eva manages to obtain cigarettes by going out with soldiers of the Allied forces, but she resists her friends' advice to prostitute herself. Karl-Heinz is the older s... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0093713 | Pelle erobreren | In the late 1850s, the elderly emigrant Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle arrive to the Danish island of Bornholm from Skåne County, in southern Sweden. Lasse tells Pelle a better life awaits them in Denmark after the death of Pelle's mother, and seeks work. He immediately finds it difficult to find employment, given hi... | tragedy, romantic, murder, atmospheric, sentimental | train | wikipedia | Max von Sydow has probably been given proper recognition for his body of work in Europe, but I don't think we have acknowledged that talent sufficiently in America.This is a superbly made film for which more knowledgeable reviewers than I can make appropriate comments concerning everything from the original story line ... |
tt0045070 | Rancho Notorious | Wyoming ranch hand Vern Haskell is enraged when his fiancee Beth Forbes is abused and murdered during a store robbery. He sets out after the two thieves, first with a posse, then by himself. He finds one of them, Whitey, shot in the back by his partner after a quarrel. Whitey's dying words, "Chuck-a-luck", are the only... | murder | train | wikipedia | Best known for his expressionist black & white suspense thrillers, director Fritz Lang brings the same qualities to this Technicolor western.Although she must have been in her fifties when the film was made, Dietrich looks absolutely gorgeous.
The tension leading up to Vern's discovery of the killer's identity is almos... |
tt1578275 | The Dilemma | Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) are best friends and partners in a small auto design firm. Ronny is in a long-term relationship with his girlfriend Beth (Jennifer Connelly) while Nick is married to Geneva (Winona Ryder). The two have recently been given an opportunity to pitch an eco friendly car to Dodge.
... | bleak, romantic, psychedelic, stupid | train | wikipedia | So a light-hearted buddy flick with Vince Vaughn and Kevin James, and directed by Ron Howard, seemed like just the right change of pace.Unfortunately, the actual film has little resemblance to the film advertised in the trailer.
Sure the comedy scenes are present: Vince gives an acidic toast, Kevin James does his fat-m... |
tt0108670 | ¡Dispara! | Three disparate travelers, a disillusioned preacher (William Shatner), an unsuccessful prospector (Howard Da Silva), and a larcenous, cynical con man (Edward G. Robinson), meet at a decrepit railroad station in the 1870s Southwest. The prospector and the preacher were witnesses at the memorable rape and murder trial of... | cruelty, murder, violence, tragedy, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | A Depressing and Heartbreaking Travel to Hell.
In Madrid, the journalist Marcos Vallez (Antonio Banderas) is writing an article about a circus and he schedules an interview for the next day with the lead attraction Anna Meltzer (Francesca Neri) a.k.a. the Amazon Queen Guiditta, who simultaneously rides a horse and shar... |
tt0081218 | Navajeros | José Manuel Gomez Perales alias "El Jaro" is a fifteen year old with a long criminal record that includes among other things: 29 escapes from reformatories and three wounds in confrontations with the police. He visits his older brother in jail, but El Jaro spends most of his time with his three best friends: El Butano,... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0354899 | La science des rêves | Stéphane Miroux is a man whose vivid dreams and imagination often interfere with his ability to interact with reality. He is coaxed back to his childhood home after his divorced father passes away and his mother, Christine, finds him a job in a calendar printing company in France. His mother implies the position is a c... | psychological, fantasy, cute, alternate reality, flashback, absurd, humor, psychedelic, romantic, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0320244 | Party Monster | Based on the book Disco Bloodbath, by James St. James, the film opens with Michael Alig as a small-town outcast who lived with his mom before moving to New York. Michael learns the New York party scene from James St. James, who teaches him the "rules of fabulousness", which mostly revolve around attracting as much atte... | cult, comedy, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Party Monster is based on the true story of 80s club kid and promoter, Michael Alig, infamous for his bizarre New York parties and, later, for the brutal murder of a drug dealer.It's adapted from Alig's friend James St James' book Disco Bloodbath by filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, whose earlier documentary ... |
tt0297181 | I Spy | At the Bureau of National Security headquarters, Special Agent Alex Scott is accosted by his rival, Carlos, before being briefed on his next mission. Scott is assigned to recover a stolen fighter, the "Switchblade," plane sold to arms dealer Arnold Gundars. Gundars is sponsoring Middleweight world boxing champion Kelly... | violence, comedy | train | wikipedia | The funniest cameo is Gary Cole who plays an Irish spy playing a Cuban he is just so unexpected in his actions that I had to be amused (of course he is helped by Wilson'' reactions to his character).Overall this was kinda overlooked at the UK box office and I think it was because it was very slight and flimsy.
"I Spy... |
tt1890375 | Crawlspace | The plot of this film was very similar to the novel written by Lieberman, (the teleplay, written by Ernest Kinoy, was also based on the novel).
Albert Graves, (Arthur Kennedy), and his wife Alice, (Teresa Wright), have just moved from the city to this small country town for Albert to recuperate after suffering from a h... | paranormal, violence, psychological, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | With the latest film from Australia Crawlspace it takes on the more strange and unknown in regards to strange experiments.
Could this be one of those that delivers something special or is it just another in a long line of failed attempts to a difficult genre.Crawlspace follows a group of elite soldiers sent to infiltra... |
tt3084798 | Changelings | === Opening sequence ===
A swing set from the Dream World is featured in the forest.
=== Event chronology ===
The Enchanted Forest events take place some time after "Lacey", and before Belle is banished from Rumplestiltskin's castle in "Skin Deep". The Dream World events take place after "The Savior". The Storybrooke e... | paranormal, dark | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0285958 | Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat | Yash Sabharwal (Sunil Shetty) is an enterprising billionaire who excels in business strategy. He is smitten by the brilliant and lovely Isha Nair (Keerti Reddy). She is a smart medical student and her idealism leads her to Scotland for advance research. Yash sends her away by giving her a scholarship. Before she leaves... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Arjun Rampal shines on his debut!!!. I have not been an avid Indian cinema movie goer, but upon seeing this movie, i seriously consider seeing more. Indian movies carry the stigma of all being the same and that is pretty much true, but this movie is one that you have to see and i guarantee that you will love it as much... |
tt0047679 | Witness to Murder | Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck), while looking out her bedroom window, witnesses a young woman being strangled to death. The woman reports the killing to the police, but when the man named Albert Richter (George Sanders) notices detectives arriving downstairs, he moves the body. When the police show up to his door, Ri... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077788 | KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park | The film opens at Magic Mountain, where Melissa (Deborah Ryan) and her boyfriend Sam (Terry Lester) are enjoying a day at the amusement park. Sam, a park employee, disappears early in the film while investigating the laboratory of Abner Devereaux, who is the park's head engineer and the creator of a series of lifelike ... | cult, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0105616 | Tom and Jerry: The Movie | While moving house with their owners, Tom and Jerry get into a chase, and Tom nails Jerry inside his mousehole with floorboards, and is pleased to have kept the mouse from coming with him, but misses the moving van and is forced to stay in the house after angering a nearby bulldog. The house is demolished the next morn... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Tom and Jerry then meet an eight-year old girl named Robyn Starling, whose mother died of pneumonia when she was a baby and is left behind with her horrid and evil guardian Aunt Figg when her dad goes away to Tibet.
I'm still a teenager right now, so around the time Tom and Jerry the Movie was released, I was around 5 ... |
tt0051083 | Time Limit | Army Colonel William Edwards (Richard Widmark) is investigating the case of Major Harry Cargill (Richard Basehart), accused of collaborating with the enemy while he and his unit were held captive in a North Korean prisoner of war camp. Cargill willingly admits his guilt and brings forth evidence that proves that he sig... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0052751 | Donald in Mathmagic Land | === Entrance ===
Donald Duck, holding a hunting rifle, passes through a doorway to find that he has entered Mathmagic Land. This "mighty strange" fantasy land contains trees with square roots, a stream flowing with numbers, and a walking pencil that plays tic-tac-toe. A geometric bird recites (almost perfectly) the fir... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | I'm going to claim this is relevant for two reasons: one, that this cartoon is based upon some deep and beautiful mathematics; that this material can open up into deeper study for any student, from junior high to postgraduate.
Even as an adult, I still find it entertaining, but would be something I would give to any ki... |
tt0052033 | Orders to Kill | A young American bomber pilot Gene Summers (Paul Massie) is selected by Maj. Kimball (John Crawford) to go on a mission to Nazi-occupied Paris and there kill a man believed to be a double agent working in the French Resistance. He is picked because of his fluency in French and military experience. Summers receives rigo... | murder | train | wikipedia | A powerful movie with tremendous moral dilemmas & lessons to be contemplated.
This World War II movie has a realistic well written script, good acting and presents the viewer with a powerful moral dilemma to contemplate about war.
This is a quietly gripping movie about a man ordered to kill a traitor in wartime France.... |
tt0807655 | .hack//Roots | ".hack//Roots" follows the tale of Haseo, a black 'Adept Rogue'(a class that can use multiple types of weapons) and member of the "Twilight Brigade",a small guild created within "The World R:2." In the year 2015, the CC Corporation's building burned down, and with it, most of the existing data for "The World." By splic... | revenge, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1174730 | City Island | Living on City Island, in the Bronx, Vince Rizzo (Andy Garcia), a prison guard, is the father of a dysfunctional family whose members all have secrets. Vince discovers that his secret illegitimate son is now the 24-year-old prison inmate Tony Nardella (Steven Strait) who is being held in the same prison where he works.... | entertaining, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0449189 | Banaras | A young woman, Shwetambari is the daughter to wealthy parents, Mahendranath and Gayatri Devi respectively and studies at university in the city. She falls in love with a low-caste mystic named Soham (played by Ashmit Patel). Soham, after one meditative session, is illumined by Babaji, his mentor (played by Naseeruddin ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0064652 | Medium Cool | John Cassellis is a television news cameraman. In one of the opening scenes, a group of cameramen and journalists are discussing the ethical responsibilities within their profession: When should filming a gruesome scene end and human responsibility to try to save a life begin? As viewers we are presented with issues su... | historical | train | wikipedia | Absorbing, thought provoking and, above all, a unique record of an important "place & time", why "Medium Cool" still fails to gain the attention it deserves remains one of life's great mysteries.First off, it's a pretty good if somewhat disjointed story
two "world-wise" middle class news reporters are sent to film the... |
tt0037859 | Lady on a Train | San Francisco debutante Nicki Collins goes to visit her aunt in New York. Her father's employee, Haskell, is to meet her and facilitate her stay. Before reaching Grand Central, Nicki's train makes a brief stop and she looks up from reading a mystery by novelist Wayne Morgan—and witnesses a murder in a nearby building.
... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | She's made up to look sophisticated as she emotes in a screwball comedy-mystery about a girl who witnesses a murder from her train window and then sets out to find the corpse and the killer with the help of a mystery writer (David Bruce).
Deanna Durbin not only manages to bring comic flair and poise to her inquisitive ... |
tt0380538 | Matando Cabos | Jaque is in a terrible situation after being caught having sex with the daughter of the dreaded businessman Cabos. The day after receiving the most savage beating of his life, Jaque is confronted by Mr. Cabos, who accidentally trips and loses consciousness. Jaque then asks his friend, Mudo, to aid him. Leaving Cabos in... | comedy | train | wikipedia | In Mexico City, the powerful and violent magnate of steel Oscar Cabos (Pedro Armendáriz Jr.) surprises his daughter Paulina (Ana Claudia Talancón) having sex with her boyfriend and his employee Javier "Jaque" (Tony Dalton) and he works Jaque over.
On the next day, Jaque pays a visit to Cabos in his office and the angry... |
tt0047976 | Dementia | A young woman awakens from a nightmare in a run down hotel. She leaves the lodging and wanders into the night. She encounters a dwarf hawking newspapers with the bold headline "Mysterious stabbing." She smiles enigmatically and quickly walks on. In a dark alley, a wino approaches and grabs her. A policeman rescues her ... | avant garde, fantasy, murder, cult, violence, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, sadist | train | wikipedia | Were it just a Film Noire murder story, it would still be a very good movie.
There are also the intriguing comparisons one could make between the "silent" version and the narrated one.As a horror movie in-itself, it may appear somewhat cheesy and overstated, but it clearly does not take itself too seriously, and you sh... |
tt0057918 | Carry on Cleo | The film opens during Caesar's invasions of Britain, with Mark Antony (Sid James) struggling to lead his armies through miserable weather. At a nearby village, cavemen Horsa (Jim Dale) and Hengist Pod (Kenneth Connor) attempt to alert Boudica of the invasion, but are captured by the Romans.
Once in Rome, Horsa is sold ... | historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0055895 | Days of Wine and Roses | San Francisco public relations executive Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon) meets and falls in love with Kirsten Arnesen (Lee Remick), a secretary. Kirsten is a teetotaler until Joe introduces her to social drinking. She is reluctant at first, but after her first few Brandy Alexanders, she admits that having a drink "made me feel ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0365296 | Hair High | A gothic high-school comedy with a Carrie-like story. Cherri (Sarah Silverman) and Rod (Dermot Mulroney) are the high-school king and queen and they justifiably rule their domain. Spud (Eric Gilliland), the new kid in town, accidentally offends both Cherri and Rod and so is forced to become Cherri's slave. Naturally, t... | adult comedy, paranormal, violence, absurd, satire, romantic, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0166601 | Mr. Rice's Secret | Owen Walters (Bill Switzer) is 12 and suffers from Hodgkin's disease. He has a group of friends who award points to each other for doing risky or strange acts. Owen's parents want him to befriend Simon, who has leukemia, but he rejects him as he considers Simon to be more ill than he, reminding him of his own mortality... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Death is always a difficult subject to cover in the movies.
Even more so when dealing with terminally ill children.
Mr Rice's Secret succeeds in covering the issues in a sensitive but not mawkish way.
Bowie gives a measured performance as the ancient mystic who befriends a young boy with Hodgkin's disease.
The real sta... |
tt1631707 | Enter Nowhere | Enter Nowhere opens with Jody (Sara Paxton) and her dirt bag boyfriend Kevin (Christopher Denham) robbing a convenience store. Jody holds a gun to the cashier (Jesse J. Perez) demanding he open the safe. Cryptically, he tells her that he will do so but doesn't believe she can handle what's inside. Clearly not amused, s... | alternate reality, alternate history | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0208003 | Big Momma's House | The film begins in an illegal underground dog-fighting arena in Korea, where an FBI agent, John Maxwell (Paul Giamatti), has been identified. John is ordered to be killed by a Korean mob boss, but is eventually rescued by his undercover partner and master of disguise, Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence). Suddenly, a group... | cult, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036161 | Minesweeper | Lt. Richard Houston (Richard Arlen) is an officer in the U.S. Navy who deserted during peacetime service to escape gambling debts, and took up life as a hobo. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor spurs him to rejoin the Navy under the assumed name of Jim "Tennessee" Smith. Houston is assigned to serve aboard a minesweep... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2654620 | The Strain | In New York City, a Boeing 777 arriving at JFK International Airport "goes dark" shortly after touching down. Unable to establish contact with anyone inside, airport authorities force open the airplane and discover the passengers and crew dead. When authorities suspect a possible contagion, CDC official Dr. Ephraim "Ep... | violence | train | wikipedia | I'll start off by saying that this series compelled me to create an IMDb account.There are many things that makes this show one of my all time favorites: 1) The intense, noir setting 2) No unwanted random scenes (Everything contributes to the plot) 3) Fast paced (the beginning is a little slow but it's very gripping) 4... |
tt1848832 | Crawl | Slim Walding (Paul Holmes), a pompous bar owner, hires a laconic, nameless Croatian (George Shevtsov) to kill an acquaintance over an unpaid debt. The crime is carried out, but the culprit intentionally leaves behind the murder weapon: an antique pistol belonging to Slim (thus framing him for the homicide). However, as... | suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | I attended a screening of this impressive movie last night at FrightFest in Glasgow, also in attendance were the China Brothers.After reading some critic reviews of the movie where it was described as a "slow burner" etc I prepared myself for 60 minutes of tortuous nothingness followed by 30 minutes of manic catching u... |
tt0040202 | Call Northside 777 | In Chicago in 1932, during Prohibition, a policeman is murdered inside a speakeasy. Frank Wiecek (Richard Conte) and another man are quickly arrested, and are later sentenced to serve 99 years imprisonment each for the killing. Eleven years later, Wiecek's mother (Kasia Orzazewski) puts an ad in the newspaper offering ... | romantic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | The case then turns on Stewart's ability to locate a missing witness, his growing belief in Wiecek's innocence and the use of a wire-photo, then a new and unusual technology, to prove that this star witness for the prosecution had been shown the accused--standard illegal police procedure--before she had made her origin... |
tt0074291 | Il Casanova di Federico Fellini | The film opens with a carnival in Venice as a prelude to a series of erotic encounters that follow Giacomo Casanova through the cities of 18th century Europe. It is during this festival that a gigantic bust fails to rise from the water, which is taken as a bad omen. Casanova is then introduced as he defiles a fake nun ... | psychedelic, philosophical, flashback | train | wikipedia | And Casanova, by far Fellin's worst reviewed film, is Fellin's masterpiece-- a sad, funny, wistful, grotesque, Rabelisian epic of a film.In a way, Casanova is a foil to Fellini's earlier classic La Dolce Vita-- the main difference being that the former is more pessimistic in tone, while the latter is enfused with a you... |
tt3141952 | Macbeth | === Act I ===
The play opens amidst thunder and lightning, and the Three Witches decide that their next meeting shall be with Macbeth. In the following scene, a wounded sergeant reports to King Duncan of Scotland that his generals—Macbeth, who is the Thane of Glamis, and Banquo—have just defeated the allied forces of N... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | Shakespeare in Paraguay?. While director considers it as the first adaptation of a Shakespeare play in audiovisual, theater, already had made adaptations of his works. What most stands out in this film, it is the fact with the scant resources available to it. The narrative voice, replacing dialogs and almost no recre... |
tt0215369 | Xizao | An aged father known to everyone as Old Liu (played by Zhu Xu) and his younger, mentally challenged son Liu Erming (Jiang Wu) run and live in a traditional bathhouse for men in an old district in Beijing. The bathhouse provides a variety of peripheral services, including haircut, massage, shaving, fire cupping, even ol... | comedy | train | wikipedia | On the basis of the preview I'd seen, I went to "Shower" expecting a sweet little comedy; what I found was a profoundly touching drama of family life told in some of the most lush photographic images I've ever been privileged to see.
One moment I'm here, the next I'm in a landscape from the past, just like that....I wo... |
tt0407732 | Dirty Deeds | High school student Zach Harper (Milo Ventimiglia) sets out to complete the "Dirty Deeds" - an outrageous list of ten challenges that must be completed between dusk and dawn on the Friday night of his high school's homecoming weekend. The only student to complete the entire list, Duncan Rime (Todd Zeile), did so in 198... | comedy, prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0069848 | Carry on Girls | The seaside town of Fircombe is facing a crisis – it's always raining and there's nothing for the tourists to do. Councillor Sidney Fiddler (Sid James) hits on the notion of holding a beauty contest. The mayor, Frederick Bumble (Kenneth Connor), is taken with the idea but feminist councillor Augusta Prodworthy (June Wh... | adult comedy | train | wikipedia | The only true weakness I would say is the directing and editing, though I would chalk that up to the obvious constraints of making films on a low budget.And, in conclusion, to all those who decry the CARRY ON films as being old sexist rubbish, let me just say, in the words of the late great Sid James: "Knickers!".
Alth... |
tt2113636 | Colt 45 | In the town of Red Rock, gun salesman Steve Farrell (Randolph Scott) demonstrates the new Colt .45 repeating pistols to the sheriff who is impressed that the United States government just ordered two thousand of these powerful weapons for the army. The demonstration is interrupted when men arrive to transfer one of the... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038302 | Anmol Ghadi | Chander and Lata were good kid friends in Jahanabad, Lata being the daughter of a rich family whereas Chander was the son of a poor, widow mother. Lata's parents didn't like Lata being friends with Chander. Renu's family gets transferred to Bombay. At the time of departure Renu gifts her watch to Chander as a memento.
... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A love-triangle romance. A love-triangle romance with reformist overtones set partly in Bombay. Impoverished hero Chander (Surendra) and rich heroine Laila (Nurjehan) are childhood sweethearts separated when Lailas parents move to Bombay. Later, Chander moves there when his rich friend Prakash (Zahur Raja) finds him wo... |
tt0028359 | Thirteen Hours by Air | Airline pilot Jack Gordon (Fred MacMurray) on a flight from New York to San Francisco, is immediately attracted to beautiful passenger Felice Rollins (Joan Bennett). Known as a "lady's man", he bets stewardess Vi Johnson (Ruth Donnelly) that he will take Felice out to dinner that evening. A jewel robbery is in the news... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | A very satisfying flight.
"Thirteen Hours by Air" is a fun little movie that's quick, surprising, and doesn't overstay its welcome.
Mitchell Leisen, an underrated director, is usually associated with screwball comedy or romantic melodrama, and there's a little of each in this film, but it's a pleasant surprise to see t... |
tt0079240 | The First Great Train Robbery | In 1854, Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), a charismatic member of London's high society, is secretly a master thief. He plans to steal a monthly shipment of gold from the London to Folkestone train which is meant as payment for British troops fighting in the Crimean War. The gold is heavily guarded in two heavy safes in t... | suspenseful, historical, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1190536 | Black Dynamite | In the 1970s, Black Dynamite, a Vietnam War veteran and former CIA officer, vows to clean up the streets of drug dealers and gangsters after his younger brother Jimmy is killed by a shady organization. O'Leary, Black Dynamite's former army and CIA partner, reinstates him into the agency because they do not want him see... | murder, cult, violence, flashback, clever, comic, revenge, entertaining, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | During the fight scenes, Michael jai white's kung fu yell is a spot on impersonation of Jim Kelly's (he of Enter the Dragon fame).Like all the best spoofs, all the actors play it completely straight.
There is an actual story (convoluted and non-sensical but it's there, and even allows long scenes that advance the plot ... |
tt0068920 | Antony and Cleopatra | Mark Antony – one of the triumvirs of the Roman Republic, along with Octavius and Lepidus – has neglected his soldierly duties after being beguiled by Egypt's Queen, Cleopatra. He ignores Rome's domestic problems, including the fact that his third wife Fulvia rebelled against Octavius and then died.
Octavius calls Anto... | tragedy, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Charlton Heston worked very hard in "Anthony and Cleopatra" an adaptation of Shakespeare scripted by himself .
Heston is the director too, and the movie is a wonderful experience of filmmaking, a true labour of love, with some fault, perhaps, but full of energetic sequences .
Heston knows very well the Shakespeare orig... |
tt0299930 | Gigli | Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck) is a low-ranking Los Angeles mobster who isn't nearly as tough as he likes to act. Louis (Lenny Venito), a higher-ranking member of Gigli's organization, commands Gigli to kidnap the mentally challenged younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor to use as a bargaining chip to save New Yo... | cult | train | wikipedia | `Awful', `Hopeless', `Terrible', `Benifer's Gate'.These are the words I read from some of North America's most respected film critics in my research before viewing the debacle Gigli starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
Ricky has an ex-lover show up at the house and attempt suicide, the gangsters ask for the thumb o... |
tt0380268 | Cocaine Cowboys | Cocaine Cowboys chronicles the development of the illegal drug trade in Miami during the 1970s and 1980s with interviews of both law enforcement and organized crime leaders, in addition to news footage from the era. The film reveals that in the 1960s and early 1970s, marijuana was the primary import drug into the regio... | violence, action, murder | train | wikipedia | This was a spectacular depiction of the life and times of Miami in it's criminal hay day.
I witnessed the carnage first hand as a member of federal law enforcement and this documentary hits the nail squarely on the head.
just like Miami at that time.
This was one of the few documentaries that told the stories of both s... |
tt0444781 | Deewane Huye Paagal | Karan (Shahid Kapoor) is a shy and nerdy canteen boy and college student, running a café with his friend Murugan (Johnny Lever), and Tanya (Rimi Sen) is a student in the same college. She is the most popular girl on campus. Karan is in love with Tanya but is too shy to tell her. After he musters some courage and rescue... | murder | train | wikipedia | Silly....
Based on the 1998 American cult movie 'There's Something About Mary', Vikram Bhatt's 'Deewane Huye Paagal' is a silly film, that doesn't pay the correct homage to the film it adores.Remember Ben Stiller sterling performance in 'There's Something About Mary', Diaz's charm, the witty dialog placed wonderfully i... |
tt0163488 | Robot Wars | By 2041, North America has been ravaged by "the great toxic gas scare of 1993": large swaths of land have been turned into inhospitable desert, where bands of raiders called "Centros" attack transports. The former United States have been assimilated into a Western bloc called the North Hemi. The opposing Eastern bloc i... | non fiction | train | wikipedia | supremely enjoyable!.
A truly excellent and enjoyable piece of entertainment!A battle of skill, design, tactic, intelligence and raw robot power.
Very fast-paced and dynamic, with no useless and vulgar theatrics typical of american "wrestling" shows..
American TV Execs take note.
I managed to catch an episode of this w... |
tt0127288 | Six Ways to Sunday | 18-year-old Harry (Norman Reedus), is an innocent, bashful burger boy who lives with his overly attentive mother Kate. Harry's father left the family sometime before the events of the film, leaving Kate for another man. They live in a ratty old apartment, where Kate treats her son like a child, even going as far to dra... | violence, comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | Six Ways To Sunday is billed as a black comedy.
It is fraught with great characters, situations, and relationships.
It is a psychological study that plumbs the depths of a mother/son relationship that effects or determines almost everything that happens in the movie --- good and bad.
The film tells the story of young m... |
tt1857913 | Bai she chuan shuo | The film starts with Abbott Fahai and his assistant Neng Ren heading towards a blizzard through a magical door. An ice harpy appears at the top of the mountains and turns the impetuous Neng Ren into an ice statue. She then reveals her past and reasons to kill all men. Unable to persuade the ice harpy to turn over a new... | paranormal, revenge, fantasy, romantic | train | wikipedia | A thousand year old white snake spirit and a young simple herbalist falls in love.
While I see the flaws that some reviewers point out, the CGI and fantasy settings were so beautiful and Jet Li's fight sequences so breathtakingly spectacular, that I loved this movie!!
The Sorcerer and The White Snake is a rare gem, it ... |
tt0026187 | The Casino Murder Case | Gentleman detective Philo Vance (Paul Lukas) begins an investigation when he receives an anonymous letter stating that society man Lynn Llewellyn (Donald Cook) will be in danger when he appears at the casino owned by his uncle, Kinkaid (Arthur Byron). Vance visits the Llewellyn estate, which is run by Mrs. Priscilla Ki... | mystery, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | In the wake of the success of The Thin Man, the studios began to churn out scads of little mystery movies that are really more like screwball comedies than problems in deduction or thrillers.
This is a pretty good sample of the type, with Rosalind Russell showing a flair for the genre that would be exploited in His Gir... |
tt0105271 | Roja | In Srinagar, a Kashmiri terrorist, Wasim Khan (Shiva Rindani), is captured by a team led by Colonel Rayappa (Nassar). In South India, 18-year old Roja (Madhoo) is a simple village girl born and brought up in Sundarapandiapuram in Tirunelveli district in southern Tamil Nadu. Roja fervently wishes that her sister Shenbag... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
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