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tt0106333 | Baazigar | A boy named Ajay asks a doctor to come see his mother Shobha (Rakhee), who is unconscious. Ajay promises Shobha that he will get revenge on the people, who are responsible for making them cry. The deaths of Ajay's father (Anant Mahadevan) and baby sister have made Shobha fall unconscious.
Years later, Ajay (Shah Rukh K... | murder, violence, revenge, flashback, tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0160394 | Ichi pondo no fukuin | The protagonist of the series is Kōsaku Hatanaka (畑中 耕作, Hatanaka Kōsaku), the pride of Mukōda Gym (向田ジム, Mukōda Jimu) for the most part. He went pro in only two bouts after leaving high school, and his strong punches are universally recognized by his opponents. While he is a natural at boxing, he can't control his vor... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1179794 | TiMER | The conceit of TiMER is that a wrist implant is available that counts down to the day when the user will meet his or her soulmate.
Oona, a Los Angeles orthodontist, has a blank timer, meaning her soulmate is not equipped with one. Searching for her soulmate, Oona brings her latest timerless boyfriend to get a timer ins... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0107665 | Needful Things | A new shop named "Needful Things" opens in the town of Castle Rock, Maine, sparking the curiosity of its citizens. The proprietor, Leland Gaunt, is a charming elderly gentleman who always seems to have an item in stock that is perfectly suited to any customer who comes through his door. The prices are surprisingly low,... | murder, paranormal, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0280233 | Beethoven | A group of puppies are stolen from a pet store by two thieves. The St. Bernard escapes and sneaks into the Newton's home. The workaholic father, George Newton, doesn't want the responsibility of owning a dog, but his wife, Alice, and their children, Ryce, Ted and Emily, convince him. Emily plays a portion of Ludwig van... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Excellent, underrated cartoon.. It's a shame not many people watch this cause it is EXCELLENT! I love the fact that Beethoven can talk and is shown as having a level-headed hero personality. But my favorite character is Sparky, his darker and more cynical sidekick who acts tough but has a heart of pure gold. I'm pretty... |
tt2386278 | Haunt | A distraught man, Frank, tries to speak to his dead children in the afterlife by using an EVP box; soon thereafter, he is mysteriously possessed by a ghost, which then apparently causes him to kill himself.
After this incident, a woman who will come to be known to the viewer as Dr. Morello begins narrating about her fa... | murder | train | wikipedia | Nothing really special here, a story about a haunted house, two characters that weren't quite exploited enough, scares that came so late and soft, a twist that didn't manage to stand tall.It wanted to be something, you can clearly see it tried, but somewhere, it failed, somewhere along the plot development, when they t... |
tt0106223 | The Adventures of Huck Finn | Huckleberry Finn (Elijah Wood) is a half-literate son of a drunk (Ron Perlman). One night, his father arrives and Huck is taken away to his father's home. Jealous of Huck's money being kept away, he attacks Huck, but eventually passes out from exhaustion.
Huck fakes his own death and runs away. He is accompanied by Jim... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | At the height of the popularity of Bart Simpson, Disney released another adaptation of the classic starring a new up-and-coming child actor named Elijah Wood as Huck and a Yale graduate named Courtney B.
The stars just keep on coming; Back-to-back Oscar-winner Jason Robards as the King, pre-Harry Potterized Robbie Colt... |
tt0022111 | The Maltese Falcon | In San Francisco in 1941, private investigators Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) and Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan) meet prospective client Ruth Wonderly (Mary Astor). She claims to be looking for her missing sister, who is involved with a man named Floyd Thursby, whom she is to meet. After receiving a substantial retainer, Ar... | romantic | train | wikipedia | What had proved effective on the silent screen suddenly seemed highly mannered when voices were added, and both directors and stars struggled to find new techniques--and DANGEROUS FEMALE offers a very vision of the issues involved.It is a myth that the advent of sound forced directors to lock down the camera, but it is... |
tt0065416 | Aradhana | Dr. Murali Krishna (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) loves Anuradha (Savitri) in college but keeps to himself. Anuradha becomes the victim of her classmate Sarala's (Rajasree) jealousy and trickery and complains about Murali to Principal. The event results in hatred between them and Murali losing scholarship. Murali gets help f... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0323073 | The Lion King | In the Pride Lands of Africa, a lion rules over the animal kingdom from Pride Rock. King Mufasa's newborn son, Simba, is presented to the assembled animals by Rafiki, a mandrill who serves as shaman and advisor. Mufasa shows young Simba the Pride Lands and explains to him the responsibilities of kingship and the "circl... | psychedelic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0034891 | In Which We Serve | The film opens with the narration: "This is the story of a ship" and the images of shipbuilding in a British dockyard. The action then moves forward in time showing the ship, HMS Torrin, engaging German transports in a night-time engagement during the Battle of Crete in 1941. However, when dawn breaks, the destroyer co... | flashback | train | wikipedia | The relationships between the men on HMS Torrin and the lives they lead at sea and at home (told through flashbacks) portray a wartime society ordered by class and intentionally defined by the traditional British virtues of duty and sacrifice.
Outdated though this vision may be - part of a world left far behind through... |
tt0094791 | The Bourne Identity | In the Mediterranean Sea, Italian fishermen rescue an unconscious American (Matt Damon) floating adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. They tend to his wounds, and when the man wakes, they find he suffers from dissociative amnesia. He has no memory of his own identity, while he retains his speech and finds himsel... | violence, suspenseful, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1314656 | Ninja Scroll | In Edo period-Japan, the Yamashiro clan mines gold in secret, and sends a shipment to the Toyotomi Shogun of the Dark as payment for his protection. The Shogun of the Dark intends to use the gold to buy advanced Spanish weaponry and overthrow the current government, the Tokugawa Shogunate. The ship runs aground onto Mo... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0076929 | Wizards | Earth has been devastated by a nuclear war instigated by five terrorists, and it has taken two million years for the radioactive clouds to once again allow sunlight to reach the surface. Only a handful of humans have survived, while the rest have changed into mutants who roam the radioactive wastelands. In the idyllic ... | fantasy, violence, cult, good versus evil, psychedelic, absurd, satire, romantic | train | wikipedia | Avatar rules the peaceful kingdom of Montagar with wisdom and magic, while the evil Blackwolf rules the dark land of Scortch with technology and war.It's a great combination of science fiction and fantasy set years into a strange post apocalyptic future where broken tanks, guns, and Nazi propaganda are regarded as anci... |
tt0049117 | D-Day the Sixth of June | A few hours before D-Day, Special Force Six embarks to destroy an especially well-defended German gun emplacement on the Normandy coast. As the ship steams towards it, the officers and men recall what circumstances brought them there, especially Wynter and Parker.
Captain Brad Parker, an American paratrooper invalided ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0497329 | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | The story is not linked to the first part of the series. Instead, it focuses on a fictional explanation for the Ryanggang explosion in 2004, in which an unexplained mushroom cloud occurred in North Korea.
After reconnaissance satellites detect a large, three-stage Topol intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a nuc... | cult, suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0076637 | Rolling Thunder | In 1973, Major Charles Rane (William Devane) returns home to San Antonio with Sergeant Johnny Vohden (Tommy Lee Jones), and two other soldiers, after spending seven years as a POW in Hanoi. He finds a home very different from the one he left when he meets his wife Janet (Lisa Richards), his son Mark (Jordan Gerler), an... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, anti war, cult, violence, flashback, humor, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0032903 | Phantom of Chinatown | After participating in an extensive archaeological expedition in the Mongolian desert, Dr. John Benton is in San Francisco to hold a presentation of the findings to his colleagues. The film material shows how the archaeological team discovered the long sought ancient tomb of an Emperor of the Ming dynasty.
In the tomb,... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3952108 | The Dead Room | After a ghost scares a family out of their house, an insurance company hires three ghost hunters to determine if it is haunted. They include Liam, who handles their technological tools, skeptic Scott, and psychic Holly. At first, Holly senses nothing in the house, and Scott's tools measure no electromagnetic disturbanc... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0056736 | L'eclisse | On a Monday of July 1961, at dawn, Vittoria (Monica Vitti), a young literary translator, breaks off her relationship with Riccardo (Francisco Rabal) in his apartment in the EUR residential district of Rome, following a long night of conversation. Riccardo tries to persuade her to stay, but she tells him she no longer l... | romantic | train | wikipedia | How intently he gets inside Vittoria's head, and at the same time maintains a detachment despite the varying emotional contexts, is extraordinary, if highly personal.Like Vittoria, Antonioni does something that's fascinating throughout the film - though one doesn't know what it is exactly that holds Vittoria, and for t... |
tt0013556 | Robin Hood | Alan-a-Dale introduces the story of Robin Hood and Little John, two outlaws living in Sherwood Forest, where they rob from the rich and give to the poor townsfolk of Nottingham, despite the efforts of the Sheriff of Nottingham to stop them. Meanwhile, Prince John and his assistant Sir Hiss arrive in Nottingham on a tou... | good versus evil, action, murder | train | wikipedia | A film like Robin Hood loses so much on the small tube.It was one of the most expensive films ever done during the silent era, the castle set for King Richard the Lion Hearted must have been cost a mint or two.
The producer being Fairbanks himself had infinite faith in his prowess at the box office.Alan Hale made the f... |
tt0065963 | The Landlord | Elgar Enders (Beau Bridges), a man who lives off his parents' wealth, buys himself an inner-city tenement, in the transitional neighborhood of 1970 Park Slope, Brooklyn, planning to evict all the occupants and construct a luxury home for himself. However, once he ventures into the tenement, he gradually grows fond of t... | satire, flashback | train | wikipedia | This story is about a young white entrepreneur named Elgar Enders (Beau Bridges) and he buys a New York tenement in a ghetto with plans on having the tenants move out so he can renovate it into his own place to live.
Elgar gets a lot of flack from his parents and his mother Joyce (Lee Grant) who doesn't understand him ... |
tt0119273 | Heavy Metal 2000 | In ages past, a malevolent race called the Arakacians discovered a place where space-time leaked a type of fluid. This fluid granted immortality to anyone who consumed it. The Arakacians built an empire and enslaved the known universe for centuries; they were unstoppable. The Arakacians were finally vanquished after th... | comedy, murder, violence, cult, insanity, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0851578 | Papurika | In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called dream therapy has been invented. A device called the "DC Mini" allows the user to view people's dreams. The head of the team working on this treatment, Doctor Atsuko Chiba, begins using the machine illegally to help psychiatric patients outside the ... | comedy, fantasy, boring, violence, alternate reality, atmospheric, flashback, psychedelic, philosophical, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Examples include a marching band of inanimate objects, dolls and animals, a giant aquatic leviathan with a man's face and humanoid toys that act as vessels for their dreamers bodies.But what makes the film necessary viewing is not the visuals alone, it's the core of the story and varied themes that it poses.
I won't gi... |
tt3824458 | Tangerine | Transgender sex worker Sin-Dee Rella, who has just finished a 28-day prison sentence, meets her friend Alexandra, another trans sex worker, at a donut shop in Hollywood on Christmas Eve. Alexandra accidentally reveals that Sin-Dee's boyfriend and pimp Chester has been cheating on her with a cisgender woman. Sin-Dee sto... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | Furthermore, maybe because of the unique film techniques, it feels very real, like you were just tagging along for the duration.The story takes place over the course of about 12 hours, following the lives of two transgender prostitutes on Christmas Eve. Sin-dee has just been released from jail, and her best friend Alex... |
tt0326704 | Ran | Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji, a powerful though now elderly warlord, decides to divide his territory among his three sons. Taro, the eldest, receives the First Castle and leadership of the Ichimonji clan, while Jiro and Saburo, as second and third sons, will be given the Second and Third Castles respectively; Hidetora... | non fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0233418 | Cavale | Most of the film is silent and there are just as few dialogue lines as necessary.
In the initial sequence during the opening credits, in a black screen the audience can hear different sounds of prison gates opening and someone walking down corridors, then shouts are heard and the audience is brought just outside the pr... | avant garde | train | wikipedia | "On the Run (Cavale)" is the first third of an engrossing experiment in story telling that crosses "Rashomon" with a television miniseries to show us an ensemble of intersecting characters over a couple of days to gradually reveal the complicated truth about each.
Writer/director Lucas Belvaux uses a clever technique t... |
tt0054167 | Peeping Tom | Mark Lewis meets Dora, a prostitute, covertly filming her with a camera hidden under his coat. Shown from the point of view of the camera viewfinder, tension builds as he follows the woman into her home, murders her and later watches the film in his den as the credits roll on the screen.
Lewis is a member of a film cre... | insanity, suspenseful, atmospheric, home movie | train | wikipedia | The abrupt death of Powell's career can virtually be pinned down to one film, his most uncompromising portrait of madness, 1960's Peeping Tom. Powell's infamous shocker opens with a movie camera-wielding Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) following a prostitute to her boarding house room.
Mark's own experiment of filming his murd... |
tt0218619 | Soul Survivors | Cassie and Sean, as well as ex-boyfriend Matt and good friend Annabel, go to a club situated in an old church. There Cassie sees a man with a clear, plastic mask (Carl Paoli) and an imposing man with a scarred face (Ken Moreno). Deathmask tries to grab her on the dance floor, but she pushes him away and steps outside t... | alternate reality | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3263614 | Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter | Kumiko is a twenty-nine year old office lady who lives in utter solitude in Tokyo. She works a dreadful, dead-end job under a boss she hates, is intimidated by her well-off peers, and nagged by her overbearing mother to find a man and get married. The only joys in her life come from her pet rabbit, Bunzo, and a VHS cop... | dark | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0229557 | Manuelita | The story begins with an old bird named the Patriarch of the Birds, who tells many other animals something that happened many years ago: The story of Manuela turtle. Manuela's story is told since she was in the egg had not hatched, her parents and grandfather were preparing the house and preparing for the arrival of Ma... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Emotional movie, perfect for all family members. Manuelita is a proof of animated Disney movies aren't the only good ones, with such a sweet story about a little turtle who wants to fly and travel the world, this film will surprise you with the lovely songs, characters, scenarios, and an atmosphere of tenderness that l... |
tt2355495 | Barefoot | Jay Wheeler, the "black sheep" son of a rich family meets Daisy, a young psychiatric patient who has been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naïve young woman home for his brother's wedding to convince his family that he has finally straightened out his life. She impresses the family with her genuine, if... | cute, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0050562 | Jet Pilot | A Russian defector lands a jet fighter aircraft on an American airstrip. The base commander, Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon (John Wayne) is surprised to find that the pilot is an attractive woman, Lieutenant Anna Marladovna (Janet Leigh). When she asks for asylum, but refuses to disclose any military information, Shanno... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | Howard Hughes produced this ahead-of-its-time film in the late 1940's, but couldn't get it released until US Air Force clearance was approved in 1957.
John Wayne is his usual macho self, an American flyer, ladies man, infatuated with a Russian pilot who treats him like a spy.
A very young Janet Leigh is the pilot who f... |
tt0098691 | Ying hung boon sik III: Zik yeung ji gor | In 1974, during the final days of the Vietnam War, Mark Lee arrives in Saigon, intending to bring his uncle and cousin Michael Cheung Chi-mun back to Hong Kong with him. After arriving at the airport, Mark is confined by corrupt security guards who strip and attempt to rob him, but he is saved by Chow Ying-kit, who see... | tragedy, violence | train | wikipedia | While loyal John Woo fans (like myself) may feel offended that a sequel was done without his involvement, this film stands alone as a true masterpiece of Tsui Hark's.
Anita Mui is fantastic and lends real credibility and sensitivity to this film as the woman who teaches Yun Fat's "Mark" how to both "be cool" and use 2 ... |
tt0063240 | The Lost Continent | The film begins with a ship slowly moving through mist and a pan shot down the vessel reveals an odd collection of people – Spanish conquistadores, priests, pirates, seamen and finally to the captain of ship who is reading the burial rites over a coffin. The coffin is subsequently ditched overboard and the captain asks... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0465188 | Nuovomondo | The first major segment of the film introduces the poor Mancuso family (headed by the widowed Salvatore, Vincenzo Amato), from Sicily, Italy,at the turn of the 20th century residing in a rural mountainous region, who decide to emigrate to the United States after receiving a sign from God in the form of American postcar... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0342735 | Manderlay | The film is told in eight straight chapters:
In which we happen upon Manderlay and meet the people there
"The freed enterprise of Manderlay"
"The Old Lady's Garden"
In which Grace means business
"Shoulder to Shoulder"
Hard times at Manderlay
"Harvest"
In which Grace settles with Manderlay and the film ends
Set in the 1... | thought-provoking, melodrama, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0072417 | A Woman Under the Influence | Los Angeles housewife and mother Mabel loves her construction worker husband Nick and desperately wants to please him, but the strange mannerisms and increasingly odd behavior she displays while in the company of others has him concerned. Convinced she has become a threat to herself and others, he reluctantly commits h... | suspenseful, depressing, bleak, insanity, claustrophobic, melodrama, romantic | train | wikipedia | Gena Rowlands' portrayal of the likable but frail Mabel is nothing short of incredible, and Peter Falk gives an equally remarkable performance as Mabel's husband Nick.
This is just another confirmation that Cassavetes, along with Dreyer and Tarkovsky, is one of the very small number of geniuses in film, whose every fil... |
tt0022074 | The Smiling Lieutenant | In Vienna, Lieutenant Nikolaus "Niki" von Preyn (Maurice Chevalier) meets Franzi (Claudette Colbert), the leader of an all-female-orchestra. They soon fall in love with each other. While standing in formation before a parade honoring the visiting royal family of Flausenthurm, Niki takes the opportunity to wink at Franz... | romantic | train | wikipedia | There is more real sexuality between male and female in five minutes of a Lubitsch musical than in two and a half hours of any average film you're likely to see today.
A fabulous show-case for the talents of three new Paramount stars - Maurice Chevalier has never been better, Claudette Colbert is buoyant - and Miriam H... |
tt0157616 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Gabriel Oak is a young shepherd. With the savings of a frugal life, and a loan, he has leased and stocked a sheep farm. He falls in love with a newcomer six years his junior, Bathsheba Everdene, a proud beauty who arrives to live with her aunt, Mrs. Hurst. Over time, Bathsheba and Gabriel grow to like each other well e... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | As a native of 'Hardy country', I feel I have a duty to comment on this production.
The accents, one of the major stumbling blocks to American acceptance, are accurate enough to satisfy English viewers (including those with the same accent!), while at the same time allowing American viewers to understand the dialogue.
... |
tt2017561 | Xi you: Xiang mo pian | The novel has 100 chapters that can be divided into four unequal parts. The first part, which includes chapters 1–7, is a self-contained introduction to the main story. It deals entirely with the earlier exploits of Sun Wukong, a monkey born from a stone nourished by the Five Elements, who learns the art of the Tao, 72... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0113967 | New Jersey Drive | Jason Petty (Sharron Corley) is a young teenage boy living with his working-class family in the violent and poverty-ridden housing projects of Newark, New Jersey. He and his troublemaking friends have a hobby of stealing cars and joyriding. Soon some of the teens, including Jason, begin to convert their hobby into a pa... | cult, dark, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Best True-to-Life Movie, even still...
Being from eastern PA, right on the border of Northern New Jersey, I still get a feeling like this was a documentary more so than a movie.
I have friends from New York and New Jersey and this film represents the kind of lifestyle that "still" exists today in lower income area's ou... |
tt1758692 | Like Crazy | Anna Gardner (Felicity Jones), a British exchange student attending college in Los Angeles, meets and falls in love with Jacob Helm (Anton Yelchin), an American student who returns her affections. After graduation, Anna decides to spend the summer with Jacob rather than return to the United Kingdom, unaware of the cons... | boring | train | wikipedia | Just saw it at the Sundance Film Festival here in Park City, Utah.'Like Crazy' is a love story about the ups and the downs, the euphoria, the heartache, and the sacrifices.
Like Crazy is a nostalgic love story of people who know what they want but don't know how to get it.The acting is superb.
Jennifer Lawrence and Cha... |
tt0097883 | Millennium | A U.S. passenger airliner in 1989 is about to be struck from above by another airliner on a landing approach. The pilot handles the airplane as well as he can while the flight engineer goes back to check on the passenger cabin. He comes back in the cockpit screaming, "They're dead! All of them! They're burned up!"
Bill... | alternate history | train | wikipedia | Millennium is one the few movies about time travel that stays true to the original source material.
They're an effective device for showing the parallel but very different points of view of the key characters.In sum, Millennium is a reasonably good but not great movie.
Good premise and a few comedic touches enhance thi... |
tt0042552 | High Lonesome | A young drifter is found stealing food at Horse Davis' ranch by Boatwhistle, the cook. Another rancher, Pat Farrell, who is engaged to Horse's daughter Abby, believes the boy to also be a horse thief and possibly worse.
Given the nickname Cooncat by the cook, the boy explains that he was wrongfully accused of murdering... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Oddball Western.
Oddball Western drama.
There's no commanding central character to hang your hat on.
Barrymore Jr. headlines, but his "Cooncat" stands more for misunderstood youth than as a force for good.
Actually, several characters alternate in the spotlight, crippled old Davis (Ruysdael) being the most commanding, ... |
tt0441782 | Restraint | Two fugitives from justice, Dale (Teresa Palmer) and Ron (Travis Fimmel), take hostage Andrew (Stephen Moyer), an agoraphobic art dealer who might have a dark past of his own. All three soon find themselves participants in a game of survival.
Before the narrative begins, Ron has killed Dale's boss, the owner of a strip... | murder | train | wikipedia | The acting was top-notch, although I agree with the other posters that Travis Fimmel who plays bad boy Ron was definitely channeling Brad Pitt, especially in the opening scene.
Stephen Moyer, who now appears on the HBO series True Blood, was very convincing as an agoraphobic with a past.Teresa Palmer was an excellent c... |
tt0404204 | The Little Mermaid | Ariel, a sixteen-year-old mermaid princess, is dissatisfied with underwater life in the kingdom of Atlantica and is curious about the human world. With her best friend Flounder, Ariel collects human artifacts in her grotto and often goes to the surface of the ocean to visit Scuttle, a seagull who offers very inaccurate... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0084786 | They Call Me Bruce? | The movie opens with a young boy running to meet his grandfather (played by Yune), who lies dying on his bed. The young boy sadly explains that he could not find the medicine required to cure his grandfather's ailment and wonders aloud who will take care of him after his grandfather dies. His dying grandfather attempts... | cult, flashback | train | wikipedia | Surprisingly good B-movie!.
I had read the short review of this movie in "The Video Movie Guide" over and over, thinking it would be bad; but by luck, it was on T.V. one summer afternoon, so I watched it.
Well, they were wrong (again).This movie was good.
It at least did its job in making me laugh like crazy at times, ... |
tt0066603 | Zatôichi to Yôjinbô | In the middle of a rainstorm, Zatoichi witnesses (more likely, overhears) a man being killed by a group and then dragged off into the brush. Tired of wandering, he decides to visit his hometown not noticing until later that the townspeople are living in fear of a local yakuza gang. At a teahouse, he meets Umeno, a form... | cult | train | wikipedia | 1st of two films that unite Katsu and Mifune - worth the watch.
Of course Mifune and Katsu together were guaranteed to draw a lot of attention when the film was released in 1970.Zatoichi is tired of killing and remembers a beautiful, peaceful village up in the mountains.
The village is not the same and several bad char... |
tt0041967 | Tokyo Joe | After World War II, ex-serviceman Joe Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) returns to Tokyo to see if there is anything left of his pre-war bar and gambling joint ("Tokyo Joe's") after all the bombing. Amazingly, it is more or less intact and being run by his old friend Ito (Teru Shimada). Joe is shocked to learn from Ito that hi... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0283426 | The Jungle Book 2 | Mowgli is living in the Man Village with the girl who lured him in, Shanti, his adopted brother Ranjan, and their parents. However, Mowgli longs to return to the fun of the jungle, and after nearly leading the other children of the village into the jungle, is punished by his adopted father for trying to lead them into ... | good versus evil, revenge, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | Though it had a few scary parts (Shere Khan close ups), overall it was pleasant and didn't contain the violence that has characterized a number of other childrens videos that we've rented.The above experience not withstanding, as I watched the film I kept thinking that this movie should not have gone to the theaters, ... |
tt0451262 | Within | The film is set in the Kyzyl Kum Desert, Kazakhstan. The opening scenes of the movie sets up the various alliances and tensions between a group of cavers. Five of them - Bailey (Sybil Temtchine), Gannon (Mustafa Shakir), Domingo (Andres Saenz-Hudson), Miranda (Ogy Durham), and Ori (Andrew Caple-Shaw) - are part of a te... | suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | The Cavern: 2 out of 10: Blair Witch meets The Cave and gives me a headache.I have something to ask all film schools, could you please teach future directors how to hold a camera steady.
I know it is a cave movie but there is absolutely nothing frightening about watching pitch blackness for minutes at a time.For that m... |
tt0042224 | Bandit Queen | The film opens in the summer of 1968 at a small village in Uttar Pradesh. Phoolan is married to a twenty-something fellow called Puttilal (Aditya Shrivastava). Though child marriages are customary during that time, Phoolan's mother Moola (Savitri Raekwar) objects to the timing of the match. Phoolan's aging father Devid... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2098627 | Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader | Cassie Stratford is a plain science nerd, whose mother was captain of the cheersquad at Iron Coast University and president of Zeta Mu Sorority, so she's pressured to join both cheerleading and the sorority. However, Brittany Andrews, Zeta President and Cheer Captain (who has a Napoleon complex), rejects her.
Cassie wo... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | Giant amounts of fun....
Ahh - here's another flick - that (much like "Girls Gone Dead") some people can't seem to enjoy for whatever reason.
Is today's generation too serious?
Not every movie needs to deliver a deep philosophical undertone and dark punch-line.Growing up on things like Joe Bob Briggs and all things 80'... |
tt0066492 | Trog | Set in contemporary England, the film follows Doctor Brockton (Joan Crawford) who learns that in the caves of the countryside, a troglodyte is alive and might be able to be helped and even domesticated. In the interest of science and the potential groundbreaking discovery of the missing link, she gets the creature to t... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0100747 | Tatie Danielle | Danielle Billard, aged 82, is a childless widow of an army colonel. She lives in a small-town home in Auxerre with her faithful housekeeper, Odile. Quiet life? Things are not as they appear. Danielle is mean, cruel and malicious. When Odile "accidentally" dies, Danielle divides her estate between her grand-niece and gr... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0107148 | House of Cards | Reno Davis (George Peppard) is an American writer who has recently retired from boxing. Now unemployed and broke in France, he finds the wealthy widow of a French general. Anne de Villemont (Inger Stevens) is attracted to Reno's stoicism and they become lovers. She also hires him to tutor her eight-year-old son Paul (B... | fantasy, psychological | train | wikipedia | I agree that Tommy Lee Jones has been better in other movies but the story is excellent and the portrayal of the story is very well done.
And this movie deals with taking us to a different world of a child going into a different world.
This movie is very interesting to watch and the characters are well-acted by Kathlee... |
tt0068332 | Cancel My Reservation | Television personality Dan Bartlett, having difficulties with his wife and TV co-star Sheila, retreats to his Arizona ranch. When the body of Mary Little Cloud is found in his car trunk, Dan is placed under arrest.
Freed for lack of evidence, Dan returns home to find attractive, scantily clad Crazy Hollister there. Her... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0230670 | Pyar Ka Mausam | Seema is the only child of widowed Mohan, who is adopted by Mohan's boss, Sardar Ranjit Singh, who has no heir to his estate, as his daughter, Jamuna, eloped with a poor peasant, Gopal. Ranjit does not get along with his step-brother, Shankar. Jamuna manages to placate her dad, & he goes to her house, only to find it i... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Pyar Ka Mausam the turning point. Pyar Ka Mausam was the first ever Hindi movie that I watched. It was screened in Malaysia in 1971. I was then 15 years old. Many of my friends at that time were already Hindi movie fans and persuaded me to watch. They told me about good songs, handsome heroes and beautiful heroines. Fi... |
tt1618430 | Dum Maaro Dum | The film starts with a footballer, Lorry (Prateik Babbar), who gets admission into an American college. Due to insufficient funds, he is unable to fulfill his dream. On the other hand, his girlfriend Tani (Anaitha Nair) got a scholarship to US. Though he is happy for his girlfriend's achievement, he becomes depressed f... | revenge, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0102813 | Rover Dangerfield | Rover lives a life of fun in Las Vegas with his owner Connie, a showgirl. He gambles and chase girls with his best friend Eddie. One night, he sees Connie's boyfriend, Rocky, in a transaction with a pair of gangsters, and accidentally disrupts it. Thinking that Rocky is an undercover cop setting them up, the gangsters ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0100816 | Tridev | Bhujang (Amrish Puri) is powerful crime Boss who wants to rule India. After the Assassisnation of an honest politician the police department comes under huge pressure. Inspector Karan Saxena (Sunny Deol) manages to catch an arms dealer Ramesh Tejani who helps him arrest Don who supplies firearms for Bhujang. Karan is e... | good versus evil, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | truly is a volcanic saga best movie of 1989.
Tridev is one of my favourite movie of all time, Its one of those films that you cannot get over it, at the end of the film you feel as though reaching for the rewind button, anyway this movie is absolutely awesome, I watched it on Max television in 2005, I am really out of ... |
tt0323642 | Piglet's Big Movie | Eeyore, Rabbit, Tigger, and Pooh are working on a plan to get honey from a beehive. Piglet wants to help, but his friends tell him that he is too small. When the plan goes awry, Piglet saves the day by trapping the bees in a decoy hive; but nobody notices what Piglet has done. Feeling ignored and unappreciated, Piglet ... | cute, entertaining | train | wikipedia | This movie has captivated not only my almost three-year-old's attention, but the hearts of our entire family!
This movie is sweet, charming, and chock-full of reminders of how we should value and treat our precious friendships!
Being the "tiny voice" in the group, Piglet and his kindnesses are often overlooked, leaving... |
tt4019560 | Exposed | A police detective investigates the circumstances behind his partner's death. The mysterious case leads to an attempted police cover-up and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman. The two parallel story lines initially appear to have little in common, but as events gradually unfold in the two separate urb... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097971 | Night Game | A number of young women are found dead on or around the beaches of Galveston and the one thing they all have in common is that they were murdered when Houston Astros ace pitcher Silvio Baretto (an amalgamation of real-life pitchers Bob Knepper and Juan Agosto) pitches and wins a night game at the Astrodome. Additionall... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Before "Silence of the Lambs" and "Seven.
. this what the serial killer movie looked like.
The plot is leaky to say the least: someone would have picked up on the fact that the murders only occur when the local team plays, and when a certain player scores.
The fact that he kills with a hook would get out, and someone w... |
tt2334896 | The Dirties | The film opens with the main characters, Matt and Owen, making a movie about a gang of bullies and the revenge that two victimized students take on them. This project, “The Dirties”, contains references to a score of other movies such as Being John Malkovich, Pulp Fiction, and The Usual Suspects. Matt is shown being bu... | comedy, cruelty, murder, violence, humor, revenge, sadist, prank | train | wikipedia | The Dirties premiered in Park City Utah this year, and it was clear from the beginning that it was one of the best films at either Sundance or Slamdance.This film is quite possibly the most real and engaging exploration of what it means to be bullied and what it can drive people to.
Part of the high rating (by my stand... |
tt1092016 | Meu Nome Não É Johnny | The film narrates the true story of João Guilherme Estrella, an upper-middle-class man from the State of Rio de Janeiro that would become the head of the drug traffic in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
João is a young boy from an upper-middle-class family of the city of Niterói, the second wealthiest city in the state ... | home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0081229 | Night of the Demon | In England, Professor Harrington (Maurice Denham) visits his rival, Dr. Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis). Harrington promises to cancel an investigation of Karswell's involvement in Satanism if Karswell will rescind a threat he has made against Harrington. After learning that a parchment given to Harrington has disint... | violence, murder, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | They find a backwoods woman who had a child with this creature (actually a somewhat interesting subplot) and end up trapped in her house when the Bigfoot finally attacks the hapless campers.Lots of blood.
Night of the Demon boasts some of the most atrocious production values in the scenes with it's human characters - y... |
tt0329691 | Torque | The film begins with two cars racing in the middle of the desert. Biker Cary Ford (Martin Henderson) pulls up on his motorcycle and tries to pass them. He finally does so and stops at a diner which his old girlfriend Shane (Monet Mazur) owns. There are pictures all over the wall of Ford and Shane back when they were to... | revenge, comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | After years of watching 'serious' films with ridiculously over the top chase sequences (especially lately), finally a movie comes along and puts them all in their place.
I have waited a long time for a racing-movie to recognize its own lameness and just (knowingly) go for all the over-the-top stunts it can possibly col... |
tt3212904 | Curve | Mallory (Julianne Hough) is a young bride-to-be on her way to Denver for her wedding rehearsal. She video chats with her sister, Ella (Penelope Mitchell), on her way there. Ella tells her that she hasn't bought her plane tickets yet because she wants to make sure Mallory is actually in love and happy with her decisions... | murder | train | wikipedia | It is exactly what it looks like, a survival type movie with some horror mixed in.
With that said though it's not terrible, it held my attention throughout, the acting was good enough, and the ending was fairly thrilling.I didn't hate the film, however it is one of those movies that I will eventually forget about.
If y... |
tt0069002 | The Night Strangler | In 1973, reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin), now in Seattle, Washington (having been run out of Las Vegas at the end of the last film), is hired by his former editor, Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland) to cover a series of killings in which the victims, all exotic dancers, are strangled, have their necks crushed and are... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0112744 | The Crossing Guard | Freddy Gale (Nicholson) has been tormented for the five years following the death of his daughter Emily. Once a devoted husband and father, he is now an alcoholic who spends his nights hanging out in strip clubs and sleeping with prostitutes. Now the drunk driver who killed her, John Booth (Morse), is released from pri... | revenge, murder, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | A powerful and compelling story, filmed well and with some great performances.Sean Penn seems to have managed to level the actors here, with David Morse, Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson putting in great performances and none of them stealing the scenes from the other.
I found this very surprising as I expected Nicho... |
tt0069228 | Der scharlachrote Buchstabe | 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 | Nontraditional but wondrous version of "Scarlet Letter" with magnificent Senta Berger performance.
This version of "The Scarlet Letter" is no more faithful to Hawthorne's novel than most of the others, but in its own way it's utterly magnificent.Hawthorne's gloomy?
Well, Wenders makes Hawthorne look positively cheerful... |
tt0094006 | Some Kind of Wonderful | The film is set against the strict social hierarchy of an American public high school. Blue collar mechanic Keith Nelson (Eric Stoltz) and his tomboyish friend Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson) aspire to improve their social standing. When Keith asks out the most popular and attractive girl in school, Amanda Jones (Lea Tho... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Mary Stuart's kissing scene is one of the most wonderfully romantic and intense kissing scenes on film that I've seen, yet it has an innocent quality that makes it all the more special.Eric Stoltz and Lea Thompson give excellent performances as well, with good acting and both are able to highlight dialogue with subtle ... |
tt0027690 | The Gorgeous Hussy | In 1823 Washington D.C., Major O'Neal (Gene Lockhart) and his daughter Margaret "Peggy" O'Neal (Joan Crawford) run an inn that is frequented by politicians. Peggy is outspoken for a woman of her time, and when Tennessee senator Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) visits, she affectionately refers to him as "Uncle Andy."
... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | MGM in trying to expand Joan Crawford's repertoire into period costume pieces spared no expense and gave her one all star cast in this drama about the Peggy O'Neal Eaton affair.
The basic facts are true, Peggy O'Neal, daughter of a Washington, DC tavern-keeper and widow of a young Navy Lieutenant, marries the Senator f... |
tt0094321 | Who's That Girl | Nikki Finn is a carefree young woman, who is always dressed in a leather jacket and skirt, with fire-red lips, platinum bob hair and speaking in a high-pitched voice. One day, her boyfriend Johnny uncovers two men stealing money out of a trust fund and takes pictures of the theft. Johnny puts the pictures in a safety d... | revenge, cult, comedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0322918 | Seinto Seiya: Kamigami no atsuki tatakai | 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 | aka as Knigths of the zodiac. Hello this appears to be and ova a pretty common thing in japan where when some anime is skyrocketing in popularity with the fans and O.V.A might be made which it means that its not an series episode nor a full feature film with usually with about 90mim or so its just some sort of special ... |
tt3787590 | We Are Your Friends | Cole Carter (Zac Efron), a former track star and struggling 23-year-old DJ in the electronic dance music (EDM) scene, dreams of becoming a major record producer. He constantly reminds himself that his plan to rise to the top consists of three things: a laptop, some talent, and one track. Cole lives with his friend, Mas... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1727816 | Screwed | Willard (Norm Macdonald) is an overworked, underpaid chauffeur who works for a mean-spirited pie heiress named Mrs. Crock (Elaine Stritch), just as his father did before him. All Willard wants for Christmas is a new uniform, as the one he currently wears is the one his father was buried in, but Crock gives him a cheap ... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Yes, it's very British.
Our homemade 'Brit-flicks' do try to do their best to be labelled as 'gritty.' Seeing as we haven't got the budget, the stars or the special effects of Hollywood, we have to try and be a bit more true to life in order to stand out.
Screwed does its best to achieve this.An ex serviceman takes on ... |
tt0045592 | Call Me Madam | A wealthy Washington, D.C., socialite, Sally Adams (Ethel Merman), has political connections and is appointed U.S. ambassador to the tiny country of Lichtenburg, even though nothing in her background qualifies her for the job. A young journalist, Kenneth Gibson (Donald O'Connor), persuades her to let him tag along as h... | romantic, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0250690 | Refugee | Bihar-based Manzur Ahmad and his family was migrated to East Pakistan after the partitioning of India in 1947. However, after the formation of the state of Bangladesh in 1971, he and several other people were forced to relocate to the western part of Pakistan. To do this by land, they will have to cross India. The rout... | romantic, cruelty | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0396690 | Kisna: The Warrior Poet | Lady Catherine, a wealthy British woman, arrives in India to donate Rs 3500 Crores to charity as part of India's Republic Day Celebrations. Before she can hand over the money, she requests a visit to Devprayag, where India's 2 great rivers Bhagirithi and Alaknanda meet to form the mighty Ganges River. At Devprayag, Lad... | romantic, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0026868 | The Phantom Light | Sam Higgins alights at the train station for the Welsh village of Tan-Y-Bwlch to take over the North Stack lighthouse, which is believed by the locals to be haunted. There, he meets Alice Bright. She asks him to take her along to the lighthouse, explaining that she belongs to a "psychic society" and wants to investigat... | haunting | train | wikipedia | In '30's British films I've always liked the mix of pithy Music Hall humour, mild ghostliness, a frisson of sex, and manly London chaps saving the day, all displayed perfectly in the Phantom Light.
Director Michael Powell's best stuff was yet to come of course, but this can be seen as him still learning his craft pract... |
tt0176422 | Alice et Martin | At age ten, Martin is living in Cahors with Jeanine, his hairdresser mother and her taxi-driver lover, Said. Martin is the illegitimate child of a successful business man, Victor Sauvagnac. Against the child’s wishes his mother sends Martin to live with his father, who until then he does not know. Victor is married and... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0075669 | Amar Akbar Anthony | A chaffeur named Kishanlal (Pran) takes the blame for a fatal hit-and-run accident committed by his employer, the notorious mob boss Robert (Jeevan), on the assurance that his family's income will be tripled and their welfare looked after. He returns from prison to find his wife Bharati (Nirupa Roy) suffering from tube... | revenge, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Amar, Akbar and Anthony are separated from their family and from each other as small children, and each is raised separately and in a different faith.
Amar is raised a Hindu and grows up to become a police officer, Akbar is raised a Muslim and grows up to become a Qawaali singer whilst Anthony is raised Christian and g... |
tt0038990 | The Strange Woman | In Bangor, Maine in 1824, a cruel young girl named Jenny Hager (Hedy Lamarr) pushes a terrified Ephraim Poster (Louis Hayward) into a river knowing he cannot swim. She is prepared to let him drown until Judge Saladine (Alan Napier) happens by, at which point Jenny jumps into the water and takes credit for saving the bo... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | With a rich and older husband with a weak and easily led son, you can see where this is going, and with people like George Sanders and Louis Hayward supporting her in the cast, Hedy shines in the title role.A beautifully shot, tightly written film which may have been low budget but has a definite sheen of polish..
She ... |
tt0083500 | Voyagers! | Phineas Bogg (Jon-Erik Hexum) was one of a society of time travelers called Voyagers who, with the help of a young boy named Jeffrey Jones (played by Meeno Peluce) from 1982, used a hand-held device called an Omni (which looked much like a large pocket watch) to travel in time and ensured that history unfolded as we kn... | psychedelic, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | was a time travel series that aired Sunday nights on NBC from 1982-'83.
The lighthearted fantasy concept involved a kid, a pirate and cool watch like time machine (the Omni) that was worn on the belt.
The show was about a recently orphaned 12 year old named Jeffrey Jones (Meeno Pulce).
Jeff is living a dreary life in h... |
tt0088255 | They're Playing with Fire | Beautiful English professor, Diane Stevens (Sybil Danning) relaxes on her yacht, the Lillian, before heading off to the Ocean View College. She gives a lesson on Macbeth and his murder for ambition. After the lesson she asks Jay Richard (Eric Brown) if he's looking for work to which Jay confirms. Later that day, Jay va... | murder | train | wikipedia | Since her start in the late 1960's, Sybil Danning has been called upon to use her sensuality and statuesque physique to bail out many a "B" movie.
No exception here, as the stunning Danning plays a college professor/seductress.
The victim is gullible Eric Brown (who's acting abilities resemble those of a 4th grader).
T... |
tt0246937 | Something to Sing About | "Terry Rooney" (James Cagney) is the stage name of Thaddeus McGillicuddy, a popular New York band leader and hoofer with a radio show, who gets an offer to go to Hollywood to make movies. He leaves behind his fiancee, the band's singer, Rita Wyatt (Evelyn Daw), and finds himself in the hands of studio boss B.O. Regan (... | christian film | train | wikipedia | I love this movie!!
It has a great cast & shows the need for forgiveness & love.
I really like the older woman character!
This movie really makes you look over your life.
Love makes the world go around.
:) I recommend this movie to everyone!.
Excellent, feel good movie!.
This movie was wonderful!!
I encourage all peopl... |
tt0053815 | Fastest with the Mostest | Wile E. Coyote (Carnivorous - Slobbius) lights a firework, hoping for it to explode when Road Runner (Velocitus - Incalcublii) passes over it, but it explodes instantly. Wile catches up to Road Runner and passes him, but fails to spot the end of the cliff and falls off. Wile climbs the cliff in sections and pulls himse... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Very solid Roadrunner and Wile E Coyote cartoon.
While not one of Roadrunner and Wile E Coyote's best cartoons, with a quite basic and routine story and slightly too overpowering sound effects, 'Fastest with the Mostest' is still very entertaining and nowhere near one of the worst.The animation is bright, colourful and... |
tt0110759 | PCU | Preppy pre-freshman (pre-frosh) Tom Lawrence (Chris Young) visits PCU (Port Chester University), a college where fraternities have been outlawed and political correctness is rampant on campus. During his visit, accident-prone Tom manages to make enemies with nearly every group of students, and thus spends much of his v... | satire | train | wikipedia | The appearance of George Clinton makes the movie worth watching if only for the party scene.
David Spade should not be overlooked in his role as a preppy frat boy wanna-be and his rant about all of the PC sects at the end of the movie is completely priceless.
The unfortunate thing about a movie like "PCU" is that the "... |
tt0369281 | Bionicle: Mask of Light | The Mask of Light takes place on a tropical island in the Bionicle universe. According to legend, the Great Spirit Mata Nui created the island's masked Matoran inhabitants. Mata Nui was sent into a coma by his envious spirit brother Makuta, who began a reign of terror on the island until six guardians known as Toa free... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0796302 | The Babysitters | The movie begins with a voice over by Shirley Lyner (Waterston) as we are shown her babysitting service, a cabin with middle-aged men and teenage girls. A flashback takes us to Shirley being picked up by Michael Beltran (Leguizamo) for a babysitting job. After she is finished, they dine together and flirt with each oth... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Well drawn characters, competent movie making, and a pleasing ambiguity that a big studio wouldn't dare leave in, lest the audience actually decide how to feel for themselves.
To be fair: things unfold a little quickly, people accept their situations a little easier than they might in real life, but this is a pretty sh... |
tt0078500 | Witch's Night Out | The Story takes place in ANYTOWN. The plot involves a depressed witch who is 'summoned' by a pair of children, named Small and Tender, who are upset at not being able to scare anyone on Halloween. The witch turns them into a werewolf and ghost (previously their Halloween costumes), and their babysitter Bazooey into a F... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Charming..
Now many people may not know but Leach and Rankin , the husband and wife team, was one of the earlier Canadian animation studio's.
The backgrounds are gently rendered by Jean Rankin and the animation is drawn by JohnLeach and a small crew.
The voice of Gilda Radner supplies a beautiful Gloria Swanson , S... |
tt1813609 | A Haunting at Silver Falls | The movie starts with a young girl running through a dark wood from a shadowy figure. The scene becomes bleak as a severed hand is seen next to the girls dead body and the body is dragged away. On the hand is a silver ring. Jordan (Alix Elizabeth Gitter) is a teenager that has been orphaned after her father dies of Leu... | revenge, horror | train | wikipedia | Now she must uncover the truth behind this haunting...First off I was quite surprised at how well this film was made and the low rating received considering the budget.
Not to mention that according to the film this is based on a true story and that always leaves you thinking of the possibilities.
Young Jordan (Alix El... |
tt1734703 | Imortal | === Prequel ===
Imortal is a sequel to the 2008 ABS-CBN fantasy series, Lobo. The previous series also starred Angel Locsin opposite Piolo Pascual. However, Lobo story-wise only included werewolves without any reference to vampires. Locsin's character in Imortal will be the daughter of her character in Lobo.
=== Synops... | gothic, cruelty, murder, paranormal, romantic, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1177191 | Strait Jacket | Strait Jacket is set an alternate history where magic was proven to exist in the year 1899. The use of sorcery spread throughout all facets of society and changed the social and technological development of the world. The location is Tristan, an urban metropolis that appears to be an amalgamation at the turn of the 20t... | alternate history, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Weird Anime with some original ideas but way too many flaws. It was an OK movie to watch and it could have been a good movie if it didn't have that many weird flaws. The animation itself was great, no minus on that one, the music was also nice. The scenario was original, it is set about 100 years ago in an alternative ... |
tt0279570 | Rabu Hina | The story is a shōnen comedy that takes place in the Kanagawa Prefecture, and centers on Keitarō Urashima and his attempts to fulfill a childhood promise that he made with a girl to enter Tokyo University together. However, he has forgotten the name of the girl he made the promise to and hopes to be accepted into Tokyo... | psychedelic, comedy, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | I've read several Japanese manga's but none has managed to capture my heart like 'Love Hina' did.
The story is as follows: Keitaro is about to become a third year Ronin and wants to get into a high class university called Tokyo U, but he has failed so many times before he doesn't think he has a chance...
However, he ne... |
tt0053901 | Hell to Eternity | In Depression-era Los Angeles, Guy Gabaldon gets into a fight at school when another boy snitches about his breaking into a grocery store. After Japanese-American Kaz Uni (the brother of Guy's friend George) finds out Guy's mother is in the hospital and his father is dead, he invites Guy to stay with his family. As Kaz... | revenge, depressing | train | wikipedia | World War II hero Guy Gabaldon's story could hardly have been entrusted to a more suitable director than Phil Karlson.
Operating as usual on a less-than-A budget, Karlson nonetheless makes the most out of every scene and elicits excellent performances from his cast.Hell to Eternity is by far the most violent war film m... |
tt0114231 | Ram Jaane | A nameless boy, who was abandoned at a very young age faces taunts from the other children in his village. He asks the priest what his name is to which the priest answers Ram Jaane (God knows) which the boy accepts as his name. Ram Jaane and his friend Murli are caught stealing from a train by corrupt police officer, I... | tragedy, romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Heroic effort!.
This movie has an intriguing story.
Two foundling orphans are childhood friends: one turns his misfortune into an opportunity to help others, while the other is unable to rise above his sad beginning and turns to crime.
Murli, the good orphan (Vivek Mushran) now runs an orphanage himself, while Ram Jaan... |
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