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tt0073864 | Le vieux fusil | In Montauban in 1944, during the German retreat from France, Julien Dandieu is an ageing, embittered surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, Dandieu asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter to the remote village where he owns a chateau. One week later, Dandieu... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0076100 | Grand Theft Auto | Two young lovers, Sam Freeman (Ron Howard) and Paula Powers (Nancy Morgan), want to get married in Las Vegas. When Paula introduces Sam to her parents they dispute their daughter's decision: they see Collins Hedgeworth (Paul Linke), the son of a wealthy family in the area, as her fiancée. Paula's parents are rich as we... | cult | train | wikipedia | The seventies, a time when, despite the depressingly high crime rate, people left their keys in the ignition without giving it a second thought; when cars were stolen so often we considered them communal property.(By the way, if you're ever the victim of a car theft, stand in the road shaking your fist as the car drive... |
tt0024915 | British Agent | In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke (Leslie Howard), a minor British diplomat, watches rioting in the streets. Revolutionary Elena Moura (Kay Francis) shoots it out with a Cossack soldier; when she retreats onto the grounds of the consulate, the soldier follows, forcing Stephen to intervene ... | murder | train | wikipedia | "never mix business with pleasure" - but this film is an exception to the rule.
"British Agent" succeeds in being both thought-provoking, and emotionally engaging.
It would've been easy to lose the characters in the history lesson, but, fortunately, even the supporting cast make an impression and make you care about wh... |
tt0388473 | Tokyo Goddofazazu | One Christmas Eve three people, a middle-aged alcoholic named Gin, a former drag queen Hana and a dependent runaway girl Miyuki, discover an abandoned newborn while looking through the garbage. Deposited with the unnamed baby is a note asking the finder to take good care of her and a bag containing clues to the parent'... | psychedelic, comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | The "miracles DO happen on Christmas" cliché is very boring and I typically don't enjoy movies that employ it, but this is a very different kind of Christmas movie.We are given three homeless characters with complex personalities and backgrounds, who are as endearing as they are repellent.
We learn the secrets that mad... |
tt0283160 | Extreme Ops | Commercial director Ian, Hollywood producer Will, three extreme sports enthusiasts Chloe, Kittie and Silo, cinematographer Mark, and Ian's boss, Jeffery, take their trip to the Alps for seasonal practice and stunt filming in preparation for filming a daring, yet dangerous big-league advertisement against an actual aval... | suspenseful, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070013 | Les démoniaques | At the end of the 19th century, on the north European coasts, live three shipwreckers simply nicknamed the "wreckers".
The Captain is their leader, followed by Le Bosco, Paul and the beautiful but perverted Tina.
When two young women accidentally stumble upon these wreckers, they brutally and violently rape them. The n... | paranormal, violence, revenge, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | Even worse, the supposed killing of the two girls (Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier).
The acting was atrocious.Now, if you want to see Joëlle Coeur (Fly Me the French Way, Seven Women for Satan) fully naked, and engaging in sex with John Rico, that's a whole other story.The Captain (Rico) hardly has time to enjoy the aft... |
tt0051524 | The Decks Ran Red | The SS Berwind is a rusty old ship chartered by the line to meet high demand. The captain of the Berwind has died and the coroner wants an autopsy due to the suspicious circumstances of the death, which has caused several crew members to leave the ship. In need of a captain, Vic (Harlan Warde) and Mr. Adams (Jonathan H... | murder | train | wikipedia | Brisk if uninspired old dark house story set aboard a freighter.
The Decks Ran Red flaps as the title under which sets sail a tense and focused movie that takes place aboard a freighter.
The Berwind sails into port in New Zealand because its captain has mysteriously died.
Awarded his first command, James Mason flies in... |
tt1496729 | Aaranya Kaandam | The film opens with the ageing gangster, Singaperumal, forcing himself on a young girl, Subbu. He is unable to perform, and vents his anger by slapping the helpless Subbu. Singaperumal is the grand don of crime in Madras. His lieutenant, Pasupathi, brings a proposal. A large stash of cocaine, worth about ₹ 2 crore, has... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0387719 | Astro Boy tetsuwan atomu | Astro Boy is a science fiction series set in a futuristic world where robots co-exist with humans. Its focus is on the adventures of the titular "Astro Boy" (sometimes called simply "Astro"): a powerful android created by the head of the Ministry of Science, Doctor Tenma (aka Dr. Astor Boyton II in the 1960 English dub... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Good update, unsure about English version.
Having good memories of the Astroboy series that aired in the 80's, I was excited to hear about a remake.
Overall I'd say the new crew has done a fine job.
There are some changes in the story line (Astro working at a circus, getting his trademark red boots, etc) but these may ... |
tt0120670 | Firestorm | A storm is heading to the city of Hong Kong, and with it comes another occurrence so destructive, it vows to bring down everything it touches.
A crew of seasoned criminals led by the notorious Cao Nam (Hu Jun), armed with high-powered weapons, pulls off another smooth and violent armored car heist in broad daylight in ... | suspenseful, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | This is kind of a Class B action film and it stars an ex-pro football player (Howie Long) making his debut in the movies.
It's actually a good adventure story and Long was capable in his acting.
He was aided by three fine actors who usually are interesting in whatever roles they play: Scott Glenn, Suzy Amis and William... |
tt0079588 | The Muppet Movie | The Muppets have gathered in a theatre, in a Hollywood film studio, to screen their new biographical film, The Muppet Movie.
In the film-within-a-film, Kermit the Frog enjoys a relaxing afternoon in a Florida swamp, strumming his banjo and singing "The Rainbow Connection", when he is approached by Bernie, a Hollywood a... | good versus evil, entertaining, sadist | train | wikipedia | Throughout the film, we are shown the down side of show business, even before the Muppets have 'made it': Piggy abandons Kermit without a second thought at a phone call from her agent, Gonzo expresses the loneliness and regret of a performer's life on the road in his haunting 'I'm Going to Go Back There Someday,' and, ... |
tt1476425 | Turnabout | Tim and Sally Willows (John Hubbard and Carole Landis) are a spoiled well-off couple who constantly bicker and cannot agree on anything.
Tim Willows is considered to be the main cog in the machinery of his own advertising company Manning, Willows, and Claire. His wife Sally is his exact opposite, pampering herself in t... | murder | train | wikipedia | Just a mediocre crime film..
"I can't believe you.
You haven't seen or heard from this guy in ages,and he calls out of the blue and you're off to his rescue?"Perry's (Waylon Payne) wife sounds surprised when he stops his nightly activities with her in bed to help his friend Billy (George Katt).
I was also as much surpr... |
tt0103241 | What About Bob? | Bob Wiley (Bill Murray) is a good-natured man with great work ethic, but he suffers from multiple phobias and is divorced. He feels good about the results of an initial session with Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss), a New York psychoanalytical psychiatrist with a huge ego, but is immediately left on his own with a cop... | psychedelic, psychological, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0101698 | Defending Your Life | Daniel Miller (Albert Brooks), a Los Angeles advertising executive, dies in a car accident on his 39th birthday and is sent to the afterlife. He arrives in Judgment City, a Purgatory-like waiting area populated by the recently deceased of the western half of the United States, where he is to undergo the process of havi... | alternate reality | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0455663 | Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana | Santosh (Siddharth) is a rich, city boy, born to billionaire parents and brought up in London. On the other hand, Siri (Trisha) is a traditional, simple, rural girl from Andhra Pradesh who is brought up by her only brother, Sivaramakrishna (Srihari). He is heartbroken when their father marries another woman and throws ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0027214 | The Whole Town's Talking | Arthur Ferguson Jones (Edward G. Robinson) and Wilhelmina "Bill" Clark (Jean Arthur) work at the same advertising firm. Jones turns out to look exactly like the notorious bank robber "Killer" Mannion (also Robinson) and is apprehended by the police.
After his true identity is confirmed, the district attorney gives Jone... | murder | train | wikipedia | Jean Arthur is funny as Eddie's wise cracking co-worker(check her out playing the "gangster moll"!) The other supporting characters are good too.
The movie boasts an assortment of caricature like characters like no other movie I know, beside Robinson I would like to mention Jean Arthur, of course, and the two funny lit... |
tt2535470 | Wyrmwood | Mechanic Barry lives in the Australian outback with his wife Annie and daughter Meganne. During a meteor shower, Barry's sister Brooke is attacked in her Bulla, Victoria studio by her model and her assistant, who have suddenly become zombies. She calls Barry and warns him to get out of the city. He, Annie, and Meganne ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Some of these work better than others, though to be fair the film has a somewhat playful dynamic so the unorthodox creative liberties will be appreciated fans who enjoy a bit of silliness.The bizarre plot devices and comically stoic characters like Frank (Keith Agius) contrast well with the always sombre lead Barry (Ja... |
tt0071733 | Lacombe Lucien | In June 1944, as the Allies are fighting the Germans in Normandy, Lucien Lacombe, a 17-year-old country boy, tries to join the Resistance. The local Resistance leader, the village schoolteacher, turns him down on grounds of age. Arrested by chance, Lucien is taken to the local headquarters of the Carlingue, the French ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Based on the childhood memories of Louis Malle, Lacombe Lucien tells the story of Lucien (Pierre Blaise) a rural French teenager who, having been rejected by the French resistance in 1944, joins with the German occupiers and becomes an enforcer.
Though the film implies that Lucien is attracted to the Gestapo as a means... |
tt0113870 | Murder in the First | As a 17-year-old orphan, Henri Young (Kevin Bacon), steals $5.00 from a grocery store to feed himself and his little sister, both of whom are destitute. He is apprehended by the store clerk, and his sister is sent to an orphanage. Because that grocery store also housed a U.S. Post Office his crime becomes a federal off... | insanity, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | But i have to say it's not an easy watch, and the violence is relentless, it reminds me of the time i once witnessed a boy get bullied at school, it just never ended and i remember feeling awful for the poor chap, the fact that it's a true story just makes me shudder.
Gary Oldman gives one of the most hateful performan... |
tt0039111 | The Yearling | Young Jody Baxter lives with his parents, Ora and Ezra "Penny" Baxter, in the animal-filled central Florida backwoods in the 1870s. His parents had six other children prior to Jody, but they died in infancy which makes it difficult for Ma Baxter to bond with him. Jody loves the outdoors and loves his family. He has wan... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | The essence of the main characters is perfectly portrayed by the main leads of Gregory Peck and Jayne Wyman, but Claude Jarman Jnr as Jody has a special place in my childhood.
But then, four years later, MGM decided to start again with Gregory Peck as the kindly father, Jane Wyman as his embittered wife and Claude Jarm... |
tt0804452 | Bratz | Four teenage friends named Cloe, Yasmin, Sasha and Jade are about to start high school. Self-centered Meredith wants everyone to belong to a clique, and goes about organizing students. She does not like the independent spirit of the four girls and plots to destroy their friendship and make them conform to her pre-fabri... | romantic | train | wikipedia | (Note to script writers: If you really have to put "OMG" as an actual spoken line, then I think it's time to rethink your career) After this monstrosity finally ended, I looked to my friend and we looked to her sister, who then informed us that the movie was horrible.
But don't worry, when she really needs it (for a dr... |
tt0392009 | A Flintstone Family Christmas | Fred Flintstone gets into the Christmas spirit by hanging up decorations and being altogether joyful while awaiting the arrival of his daughter Pebbles, her husband Bamm-Bamm and their twin children, daughter Roxy and son Chip. After learning that they will arrive at 4pm, Fred and Barney leave to get their turkeysaurus... | psychedelic, alternate history | train | wikipedia | Deck the halls with yabba dabba doo.. There seems to be a lot of sarcastic comments on this (and the other two Flintstone Xmas specials) referring to the fact that even a modern stone age family cannot celebrate. I might have been one of them, but if you are the type of person who is going to seriously judge a satirica... |
tt0084633 | Savannah Smiles | The story begins at a prison work site where Boots "Bootsie" McGaffey (Donovan Scott) attempts to help his old friend, Alvie Gibbs (Mark Miller), escape by causing a diversion and getting away in a crudely disguised vehicle. Surprisingly, Bootsie's efforts were unnecessary, as Alvie was scheduled for parole later that ... | storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0419373 | Supernova | Supernova chronicles the search-and-rescue patrol of a medical ship in deep space in the early 22nd century and its six-member crew, which includes captain and pilot A.J. Marley (Robert Forster), co-pilot Nick Vanzant (James Spader), medical officer Kaela Evers (Angela Bassett), medical technician Yerzy Penalosa (Lou D... | flashback | train | wikipedia | It's the middle of the day in Sydney at the same time as the Sahara, India and what I presume to be Central America, when they're all meant to be in Australia they keep changing the side of the road that they're driving on, the number plates are not Australian (the cars either), half the street signs don't even exist h... |
tt3442990 | Lila & Eve | Lila, a single mother living in Atlanta, struggles after the murder of her son Stephon in a drive-by shooting. Faced with indifference from the police force and barely able to take care of herself and her younger son Justin, Lila joins a support group for mothers of murdered children. There, she meets Eve, whose daught... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | And Lopez, considering the substance of her character that you come to realize later during the film, I think plays adequately, though people don't find her convincing.
Viola Davis, as usual, gives a wonderful performance in this film along side Jennifer Lopez.
Although Jennifer Lopez's performance isn't as high calibe... |
tt0013257 | Häxan | === Part 1 ===
A scholarly dissertation on the appearances of demons and witches in primitive and medieval culture, a number of photographs of statuary, paintings, and woodcuts are used as demonstrative pieces. In addition, several large scale models are employed to demonstrate medieval concepts of the structure of the... | cult | train | wikipedia | Haxan delivers in spades.This 1922 Danish silent film about black magic, witches, satanism, and the persecution of said subjects during the middle-ages, which attempts to make a connection between the ancient phenomena and the modern study of hysteria (modern in 1922), has been wonderfully presented by The Criterion Co... |
tt0278500 | The Importance of Being Earnest | The play is set in "The Present" (i.e. 1895).
=== Act I ===
=== Algernon Moncrieff's flat in Half Moon Street, W ===
The play opens with Algernon Moncrieff, an idle young gentleman, receiving his best friend, John Worthing, whom he knows as Ernest. Ernest has come from the country to propose to Algernon's cousin, Gwend... | romantic, satire, flashback | train | wikipedia | He focused on the "dashing young bachelors" when the real focus of the play is Lady Bracknell, the absurd and beautifully ironic representation of the Victorian mind who was then and has been for over a hundred years Wilde's singular creation and one of the great characters of English literature.
Compared to Dane Edith... |
tt0029431 | Porky's Romance | The cartoon opens with an introduction of Petunia Pig; Petunia is shown as nervous, tripping on her lines and being unable to pronounce them correctly while on stage, leading an off-screen announcer to quietly tell her not to get excited. This causes her to go into an explosive rant and then the curtain closes on her a... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | A Mostly Sad & Cruel Story.
This has an odd introduction as we see a stuttering "Petunia Pink" being introduced as a new star for Looney Tunes.
She doesn't do well, let's just leave it at that.
After that minute bit with her, the opening credits suddenly appear.Then we see an obviously-in-love Porky buying diamond ring... |
tt0011841 | Way Down East | The rich, typified by the handsome man-about-town Lennox (Lowell Sherman), are exceptionally selfish and think only of their own pleasure.
Anna (Lillian Gish) is a poor country girl whom Lennox tricks into a fake wedding. When she becomes pregnant, he leaves her. She has the baby, named Trust Lennox, on her own.
When t... | romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | It's the kind of story that leaves itself open for spoofing, but Griffith approaches the story of a "mock marriage" and its aftermath with earnestness and a great eye for detail.Aiding Griffith in bringing this story to life are three great stars: Lillian Gish as Anna, Richard Barthelmess as David, and Lowell Sherman a... |
tt0067224 | The Hunting Party | The film begins with a disclaimer: Only the most ridiculous parts of this story are true.
After years of covering one armed conflict after another, American journalist Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) is in Bosnia and Herzegovina in early 1994 reporting on the Bosnian War. In parallel, he has managed to romance a local Muslim... | violence, revenge, murder, sadist, romantic | train | wikipedia | One of those "lost" films that only shows up on cable once in a while, THE HUNTING PARTY is a blood soaked western that is an obvious response to Sam Peckinpah's THE WILD BUNCH.
Made in 1971 by Don Medford and starring a young Candice Bergen, a vicious Gene Hackman, and Oliver Reed with an American accent.
But when you... |
tt0054446 | Visit to a Small Planet | Kreton (Jerry Lewis) is an alien from outer space who is fascinated by human beings. Against the wishes of his teacher, he repeatedly visits Earth. During his latest visit, his teacher reluctantly agrees to allow him to stay and study the humans. Kreton becomes friends with a suburban family and stays with them after t... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The idea of Jerry Lewis popping in from 8 million light years away in his saucer to help Gen. Lee's troops fight the "damn yankees" should be enough incentive for anyone to make time for this and it doesnt disappoint.
Unfortunately Jerry miscalculated and landed on Earth 100 years later-he's a student, not a very smart... |
tt1274295 | Kaminey | Charlie and Guddu are twins who were raised in Mumbai. Charlie lisps while Guddu stutters. Charlie likes to take shortcuts to fulfill his dream of becoming a bookmaker at the racecourse where he works for three criminal brothers who fix races. He is closer to the youngest brother Mikhail than to Guddu, to whom he is ho... | cult, neo noir, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Shahid Kapoor has always been a good actor in the simpleton Guddu type roles,but here he literally burns the screen as the whacko race-bookie Charlie.The tremendous passion which he brings to screen really keeps the viewers riveted to this scintillating saga of twin brothers.
Special mention would go to Priyanka Chopra... |
tt0425132 | Inside | The film opens with gloomy footage of night-time Dublin and a female radio DJ talking about three girls who recently went missing in the city centre. While in a pawnshop a young man (Eoin Macken) pawns his ring for cash, offered €50 he demands €200, and eventually accepts €75 and a second hand camcorder. He discovers a... | insanity | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0096866 | The BFG | As the book starts, a young girl named Sophie lies in bed in an orphanage. She can’t sleep, and sees a strange sight in the street. A giant man is walking in the street, carrying a suitcase and what looks like a trumpet. He sees Sophie, who runs to her bed and tries to hide. This doesn’t work, and the giant picks her u... | good versus evil, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | I had just finished reading the original Roald Dahl novel (which I thought was brilliant), and at the video store I found the DVD of an animated version.
Curious to see if it would be as good as the book, I checked it out.I can't say I wasn't a little let down with it.
The animation bothered me a little in some scenes ... |
tt1291465 | Raajneeti | The film begins with the life of Bharti Rai the daughter of chief minister Ramnath Rai. Influenced by leftist ideology, she rebels against her father and joins the rival party of leftist leader Bhaskar Sanyal . Bharti develops an illicit relationship with Bhaskar, who, guilt-ridden over taking advantage of the younger ... | allegory, violence, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | An ensemble cast comprising of Nana Patekar, Ajay Devgan, Manoj Bajpai, Arjun Rampal, Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Naseeruddin Shah and an impressive lot of others play today's warriors in the great battlefield of Indian politics.
Anyone can turn against anyone or may be kill each other just for greed of votes.5) Publi... |
tt0763840 | Home of the Brave | Shortly after learning their unit will soon return home, American soldiers Lt. Col. William Marsh (Samuel L. Jackson), SGT Vanessa Price (Jessica Biel), SPC Tommy Yates (Brian Presley), SPC Jamal Aiken (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) and PVT Jordan Owens (Chad Michael Murray) are sent on a final humanitarian mission to brin... | thought-provoking, violence, boring, action, flashback | train | wikipedia | It is, without question, an important, thought- and emotion-provoking film, certain to be controversial.Regardless of its merits, "Home" is brave, worthwhile, even admirable in its pioneering coverage of 150,000 soldiers "over there," and roughly the same number of returnees, who are trying to return in fact, not only ... |
tt0045468 | Abbott and Costello Go to Mars | Orville (Lou Costello) is the oldest orphan at the Hideaway Orphans Home. He accidentally winds up inside a truck heading to a top-secret laboratory, where he is placed under the guidance of lab worker Lester (Bud Abbott) to help load supplies onto a rocketship. While on board with Lester, Orville hits the ignition but... | bleak | train | wikipedia | The early 1950's saw the start of the atomic age rocket ship film genre with ROCKET X-M and DESTINATION MOON in 1950 and WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE and FLIGHT TO MARS in 1951.
Abbott and Costello start off toward Mars but end up back on Earth during New Orleans Mardi Gras.
Eventually they flee to Venus populated by beautiful ... |
tt0117437 | Raja Hindustani | Raja Hindustani (Aamir Khan) is a young man who works as a taxi-driver/tourist guide. He lives by his own simple code and is prone to violence when that code is violated. Aarti Sehgal (Karisma Kapoor) is a wealthy debutante who is seeking to connect with her past. Standing in the way of their love are a disapproving fa... | romantic | train | wikipedia | In my top 10 , my top ten most overrated Bollywood movies that is.
I saw Raja Hindustani way way back in 96 when it first came out.
It was a huge blockbuster and made Karisma Kapoor a major star.
In my opinion the songs are the only reason the movie became such a huge blockbuster because the story is pretty appalling a... |
tt0389860 | Click | Avi is an ace photographer who is in a live-in relationship with Sonia, a model. One night while returning from a party, the couple accidentally knocks down a young girl with their speeding car. As Sonia was driving the car, to avoid further complications, Avi insists on them fleeing from the accident scene. But troubl... | comedy, depressing, allegory, flashback, philosophical, romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2133326 | South Park: The Stick of Truth | === Setting ===
South Park: The Stick of Truth is set in the fictional town South Park in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The main character, whom the player controls, is the New Kid—nicknamed "Douchebag"—a silent protagonist who has recently moved to the town. Befriending the local boys, he becomes involved in an epic r... | violence | train | wikipedia | If you are a South Park fan, there is no way you won't love this game.
It uses the same humor as the TV show, and had me laughing throughout the entire story.The storyline was well thought out and very fun to play.
The graphics are the exact same as the TV show, so it feels like you are actually in a TV episode.
I abso... |
tt0485774 | Heartstopper | Sara Wexler is a lonely teenager who attempts to commit suicide by running in front of a car. However, she is only injured before being discovered by Sheriff Berger. He takes her to hospital, where the notorious serial killer Jonathan Chambers, whom Berger captured, is being detained. Chambers is then executed in the e... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070155 | The Harder They Come | Ivanhoe "Ivan" Martin is a poor Jamaican man in search of a job. He leaves his rural home, after his grandmother dies, to live with his impoverished mother in Kingston. He meets Jose, who takes him to see Django, a Spaghetti Western. Excited by urban life, he tries to get work but fails. He finally gets a job after tak... | suspenseful, grindhouse film, realism, murder, bleak, cult, atmospheric, revenge, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0358349 | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | Agent Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) attends summer camp, actually a secret facility for training CIA teenage agents. When a group of CIA soldiers attempt to abduct head counselor Victor Diaz (Keith Allen), Cody helps him escape, mistaking the CIA operation for a training exercise. The director informs Cody that Diaz stole... | violence | train | wikipedia | I only with that I could say the same for the sequel, Agent Cody Banks: Destination London.
I understand that perhaps Hillary Duff's paycheck had risen since the original film, but she did bring something (as embarrassing as it is to say) to Agent Cody Banks that kept the spark alive.
The first film carried with it som... |
tt0104527 | Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers | The cartoon opens with a voice-over by Bugs Bunny explaining that strange carrots have traveled from outer space to Earth. Afterwards, Bugs goes to "work"—performing comedy routines with Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Daffy Duck. During the routines, Bugs takes notice of a strange pile of glowing carrots, but ignores th... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0079366 | The Jericho Mile | Larry Murphy was convicted of first degree murder and is serving a life term in Folsom Prison for shooting his father, which he feels was justified because his father was raping his stepsister. In prison he is nicknamed "Lickety Split" by the other inmates, but remains a loner who has only one person he calls a friend:... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | I watch a lot of movies - DVD, features, and classics, you name it.
The night I watched JERICHO MILE, my wife (who had ordered it on the internet) said she remembered it from when she was in high school, that it had stayed with her all of these years.
She, who remembered the original, and our kids (18 and 16) who had n... |
tt1288571 | Shank | The film is set in Bristol (several shots feature the Clifton Suspension Bridge, and one appears to show the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta). Cal (Wayne Virgo) is a 19-year-old closeted gay gang member who has nothing in his life except drugs, sex, random acts of violence and a secret that he keeps hidden from hi... | violence | train | wikipedia | Shank tells the story of a closeted gang member Cal (Wayne Virgo) who is deeply in love with his best friend Jonno (Tom Bott).
Their anger grows and tragic consequences ensue when they discover Cal's secret.Shank is set in a world not usually explored in gay cinema and as a coming out story there is a lot to be admired... |
tt0120483 | The Man Who Knew Too Little | Wallace Ritchie (Murray) flies from Des Moines, Iowa, to London, United Kingdom, to spend his birthday with his brother, James (Peter Gallagher). As James hosts a business dinner, he sets Wallace up with an interactive improv theatre business, the "Theatre of Life", which promises to treat the participant as a characte... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0094680 | As Time Goes by | Second Lieutenant Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and Middlesex Hospital nurse Jean Pargetter (Judi Dench) met in the summer of 1953 and fell head over heels in love, calling her "Pooh", but then Lionel was posted to Korea. He wrote, but Jean didn't receive his letter (it becomes a topic in a later episode). Becaus... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | A forgotten classic in the low-budget S.F. genre. "As Time Goes By" is an interesting, memorable film that I think any fan of Science Fiction would enjoy. I saw it in the late '80s at the Mill Valley Film Festival and I made a point to remember the name, because I suspected that this film might not get the publicity i... |
tt0077792 | Kasme Vaade | Suman (Raakhee) and Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) love each other and plan to marry soon. Amit lives with his younger brother, Raju (Randhir Kapoor), and Raju already calls Suman "Bhabhi". Amit is a teacher in a college, but Raju is unemployed and a little bit spoiled by Amit and Suman's pamperings.
Raju gets into bad compan... | revenge | train | wikipedia | ONE OF AMITABH'S BEST FILMS. THIS MOVIE HAS SOME REALLY NICE SONGS, SUNG BY KISHORE KUMAR.AMITABH HAS PLAYED THE DOUBLE ROLE EXCELLENTLY |
tt0847150 | Sense & Sensibility | Because of primogeniture, when Mr Henry Dashwood dies, his house, Norland Park, passes directly to his son John, the child of his first wife. His second wife, Mrs Dashwood, and their daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, inherit only a small income. On his deathbed, Mr Dashwood extracts a promise from his son, to t... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0034878 | Hurricane Smith | Billy "Hurricane" Smith (Carl Weathers) is a construction worker in Marshall, Texas. Mourning his mother's death, Billy goes to Australia to find his missing sister. His search takes him to the swank pad of a pimp, Shanks (David Argue), and one of his hookers, Julie (Cassandra Delaney), who both knew Billy's sister.
Bi... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | I liked it. I must admit I saw it when it first hit the theaters in 1942 or so. I had a crush on Ray Middleton (being just out of high school) and saw it four or five times. It was very much a romantic comedy as well as a 'western'. You could take the plot and turn it into a romance novel. It was typical of "b" movies,... |
tt0098051 | The Package | The film follows Tommy Wick (Steve Austin), a man tasked with delivering a mysterious package to "The German" (Dolph Lundgren), a dangerous crime lord. Along the way Wick is attacked repeatedly by a rival gang that wants what he is carrying, eventually he discovers that his cargo is not what he was initially thought it... | suspenseful, intrigue, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0332712 | My Baby's Daddy | Childhood friends Lonnie (Eddie Griffin), Dominic (Michael Imperioli), and G (Anthony Anderson) have a rude awakening when they find out their girlfriends are pregnant. Lonnie and G have sons, Carver and Bruce-Leroy, and Dominic has a daughter, Jasmine.
Each have their own unique set of problems; Lonnie's girlfriend Ro... | mystery | train | wikipedia | Eddie Griffin saves this movie.
This movie isn't laugh out loud funny, but it is short and entertaining.
I've liked Griffin in about all his films, and I think he's the one that makes this movie OK.
It's about 3 single guys whose girlfriends become pregnant at the same time, and even have the babies on the same day.
So... |
tt0120764 | My Favorite Martian | News producer Tim O'Hara (Jeff Daniels) is fired for unwillingly "compromising" his boss's daughter, reporter Brace Channing (Elizabeth Hurley), during a live broadcast of the first Space Shuttle launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base. His assistant, Lizzie (Daryl Hannah), tries to comfort him, and it is apparent she ha... | absurd, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | Boy, I can hear those producers right now: "That's great, a movie-version of My Favorite Martian...
KIDS WILL LOVE IT!!!"And thus yet another charming 60's TV-show was mutilated by Hollywood.This movie version is so loaded with pointless F/X they left no room for a story, not to mention comedy!
All though Jeff Daniels ... |
tt0268579 | Ripper | Molly Keller (A. J. Cook) narrowly avoids being murdered by a serial killer, after managing to escape an island. Five years later, she takes a forensic psychology class taught by Marshall Kane (Bruce Payne), a world-renowned expert on deviant violent offenders. Also taking the class are Jason Korda (Ryan Northcott), Ch... | murder | train | wikipedia | Straight on the heels of above average (or well above average) direct-to-video horror movie such as, Cube, Ginger Snaps, Cut, and The Truth About Demons, comes the latest DTV installment, Ripper: Letter From Hell.
When the people around her begin to die, she believes a new serial killer is hunting them down, imitating ... |
tt0039011 | Tarzan and the Leopard Woman | Travelers near Zambezi are being killed, apparently by leopards. The commissioner (Dennis Hoey) asks Tarzan to look into the matter. Tarzan immediately doubts that leopards are the problem. At the same time, Tarzan, Jane, and Boy take in Kimba, a boy who claims to have become lost in the jungle. Kimba (Tommy Cook) is t... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0443533 | The History of Love | Approximately 70 years before the present, the 10-year-old Polish-Jewish Leopold (Leo) Gursky falls in love with his neighbor Alma Mereminski. The two begin a relationship that develops over the course of 10 years. In this time, Leo writes three books that he gives to Alma, since she is the only person he deeply cares ... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | romantic epic.
In the old world, country girl Alma (Gemma Arterton) is loved by three boys; Leo, Bruno, and Zvi. She makes Leo promise to write about his love for her.
In 2006 NYC, Léo Gursky (Derek Jacobi) is a grumpy old retired locksmith.
He is trying to contact his estranged author son over his autobiography and de... |
tt1260570 | Die-ner (Get It?) | Ken arrives in a small diner and makes small talk with the waitress, Rose. After listening to Rose's story, Ken reveals that he's a serial killer, and he quickly kills her and the cook, Fred. Ken cleans up and hides the bodies, but before he can leave the diner, he hears Kathy and Rob, an unhappily married couple, pull... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Die(ner) is a simple little horror film made for very, very little money.
When accepting that, one can find quite a lot of enjoyment out of it.It's about a serial killer who murders a waitress and short-order cook during the graveyard shift of a roadside diner, only to run into some problems.
The first is an arguing co... |
tt0367478 | Wake of Death | After being a gangster for many years, Ben Archer (Jean-Claude Van Damme) moves from Marseille to Los Angeles and decides to become legit to spend more time with his wife, Cynthia (Lisa King), and his child, Nicholas (Pierre Marais).
Cynthia is a social worker with the INS, helping to process illegal Chinese immigrants... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Unlike his co-action hero's Steven Seagal who can't even be bothered hanging around to loop his on voice on his movies- VAN DAMME is making a comeback.
The action is great, Van Damme is in it, and the story is pretty good.
If your looking for a great action film with Van Damme and this movie is not at your local Blockb... |
tt0035211 | The Pride of the Yankees | Lou Gehrig (Cooper) is a young Columbia University student whose old-fashioned mother (Elsa Janssen) wants him to study hard and become an engineer. But the young man has a gift for baseball. A sportswriter (Brennan) befriends Gehrig and persuades a scout to come see him play. Before long Gehrig signs with the team he ... | prank | train | wikipedia | The only reason I don't give this film a perfect 10 is that I think Gary Cooper was a bit too old to be playing Lou Gehrig as a youth.
In fact Gallico wrote himself into the film as sportswriter Sam Blake as played by Walter Brennan.Gary Cooper and Lou Gehrig and Teresa Wright as Eleanor Twitchell Gehrig both received ... |
tt0062407 | Two for the Road | Now a successful and wealthy architect, Mark Wallace (Albert Finney) and his wife Joanna (Jo) Wallace (Audrey Hepburn) fly their white 1965 Mercedes 230SL roadster to Northern France in order to drive to Saint-Tropez to celebrate the completion of a building project for a client, Maurice. Tensions between the couple ar... | flashback | train | wikipedia | From the opening notes of Henry Mancini's evocative score (personally I think it's his best work) to the end where the main characters drive off into Italy after some verbal sparring, this movie still provides the same pleasure it did when I first saw it on TV in the early seventies.
"Two for the Road" is a time capsul... |
tt0029087 | Knight Without Armour | Englishman A. J. Fothergill (Robert Donat) is recruited by Colonel Forrester (Laurence Hanray) to spy on Russia for the British government because he can speak the language fluently. As "Peter Ouranoff", he infiltrates a revolutionary group led by Axelstein (Basil Gill). The radicals try to blow up General Gregor Vladi... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0103486 | Mann & Machine | Created by Dick Wolf and Robert De Laurentis, the series starred Yancy Butler as Sgt. Eve Edison, a beautiful police officer who is also a sophisticated gynoid robot capable of learning and emotion. She is partnered with Det. Bobby Mann (David Andrews), a human officer who holds disdain for robots. Rounding out the reg... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Canceled too early.
I remember watching this back in the early 1990's when, aside from the Star Trek franchise, there was very little in good sci-fi on TV.
This show had some good potential that, unfortunately, never got explored.
The vision of the future was well done (one of the better semi-dystopian interpretations ... |
tt0455805 | Then She Found Me | Deeply religious April Epner, a 39-year-old Brooklyn elementary school teacher, finds her life derailed by a series of events over which she has no control. Her husband Ben abruptly leaves her, her abrasive adoptive mother Trudy passes away the following day, and shortly after she is contacted by Alan, a representative... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The talent here is undeniable: Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler.
You're not thinking about April Epner, you're thinking, "Hmm
how could Helen Hunt change her look?" Similarly, Bette Midler is never convincing as the character she is playing.
This film ignored all of those real questions and just... |
tt0026007 | Wonder Bar | Wonder Bar is set in a Parisian nightclub, with the stars playing the ‘regulars’ at the club. The movie revolves around two main story points, a romance and a more serious conflict with death, and several minor plots. All of the stories are enlivened from time to time by extravagant musical numbers. The more serious st... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0368909 | Ong-bak | The film begins in 1431 feudal Siam. It is a time of political upheaval, treachery and danger. The opening scene explains how during the reign of Boromarajatiraj II of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, the Ayutthaya royal court became more powerful than the Sukhothai kingdom and expanded to the east. The Ayutthaya army besieged t... | cruelty, violence, cult, good versus evil, action, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0102532 | Night Visions | The film opens with Ray sitting in a club angrily watching Aura dancing provocatively with other men in the club. Ray angrily removes her from the dance floor and after a short fight she storms out to take the car home. In the parking lot she is choked to death with a hose then left on the ground with her legs spread a... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | The first version was very good!. I have a DVD of the first version of Night Visions and it's pretty damn good! I purchased the DVD after seeing the picture on local cable. I don't know why, but my version times out at 60 minutes. The newer version was 82 minutes. The 60 minute version is a beautiful film. It has a sta... |
tt0100813 | Treasure Island | Young Jim Hawkins Jackie Cooper) and his mother (Dorothy Peterson) run the Admiral Benbow, a tavern near Bristol, England. One dark and stormy night, during a birthday celebration, the mysterious Billy Bones (Lionel Barrymore) arrives and drunkenly talks about treasure. Soon after, Bones is visited by Black Dog (Charle... | violence, action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0054782 | Daffy's Inn Trouble | Daffy Duck and Porky Pig work in the hotel business on the western frontier. At the start of the cartoon we see Daffy sweeping the floor, and exclaiming his dissatisfaction for his job. When Porky calls Daffy over, and gives him a new broom as a present, Daffy throws his hat on the floor in disgust and quits the job.
D... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Not Daffy's best, but a lot of fun.
Daffy's Inn Trouble isn't absolutely outstanding, but it is a lot of fun.
I also think it isn't Daffy's best, Duck Amuck and Duck Dodgers in the 24.5th Century were better.
While a tad predictable, and some of the jokes are reliant on slapstick, there are plenty of amusing moments an... |
tt3560148 | Fear, Inc. | A young woman, Jennifer Adams (Abigail Breslin) is seemingly chased by an attacker in a parking garage. She grabs her phone and attempts to end the attack by insisting that "it" wasn't part of the plan. The person on the other end of the line puts her on hold. Jennifer then spots the man robed and masked approaching he... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0765447 | Evening | The film alternates between two time periods, the 1950s and the present, in which a dying Ann Grant Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) reflects on her past. Her confusing comments about people she never mentioned before leave her daughters, reserved Constance (Natasha Richardson) and restless Nina (Toni Collette), wondering if th... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Claire Danes is beautiful (appearing to be really, really tall, though just 5' 5" in reality), and is absolutely captivating in one climactic scene where her singing talents are finally put to the test.You can't really talk trash about the cast, which leads off with Claire Danes and doesn't let up from there: Vanessa R... |
tt0094578 | War of the Worlds | Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
=== The Coming of the Martians ===
The narrative opens in an astronomical observ... | satire | train | wikipedia | "War of the Worlds: The Series" continues the storyline from the original movie while giving it a new twist, with the Martians, or the "alien invaders" as they are called now, taking over people's bodies to prevent them from succumbing to the bacteria that "killed" them in the original movie.
Also seen were their war m... |
tt0293741 | Mashuranbo | In the distant past, the Guardian of the Milky Way galaxy named Lanancuras began to harbor a desire for more power. Because of his connection to the galaxy, he was able to absorb parts of planets and add them to his strength. As a result, he began invading the worlds he was assigned to protect. In the wake of his destr... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0329390 | Monte Walsh | Montelius "Monte" Walsh (Tom Selleck) is an aging cowboy facing the final days of the Wild West era. He and his friend Chet Rollins (Keith Carradine), another long-time cowhand, work at whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse". Their lives are divided between months on the range and... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | The film starts at the ending XIX century when appears railway , big companies buy ranches and new technologies put difficult things for traditional cowboys who lost their jobs .
It deals about a veteran cowboy( Tom Selleck in Lee Marvin's role) and his colleague (Keith Carradine) , they see declining the ending days o... |
tt0091981 | Solarbabies | In a bleak post-apocalyptic future, most of Earth's water has been controlled. The Eco Protectorate, a para-military organization, governs the planet's new order. Orphan children, mostly teenagers, live in orphanages created by the Protectorate, designed to indoctrinate new recruits into their service. The orphans play... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0111271 | Squanto: A Warrior's Tale | Set in the early 17th century, a Patuxet tribesman named Squanto (Adam Beach) is captured by English settlers. He is then taken to England but escapes with a group of men, along with Epenow (Eric Schweig), a Nauset from Martha's Vineyard who was also captured by the English.
When the English ship arrives in Plymouth En... | romantic, action, cruelty, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0148583 | Passion | Christine, an advertising executive, is attempting to gain professional and romantic power over her up-and-coming subordinate, Isabelle, as revenge for her affair with Christine's lover, Dirk. Christine does everything in her power to ruin Isabelle's reputation and relationships. She also tries to fire Isabelle's secre... | sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0387914 | Voces inocentes | In 1986, Chava is a young 11-year-old boy from El Salvador. His father escaped to the United States at the start of the civil war when he was only 5. His family lives in a small town of Cuscatancingo that is currently heavily fought over between the Salvadoran army and the El Salvador guerrillas. His mother makes a liv... | murder | train | wikipedia | I remember visiting during war time, seeing soldiers with their guns, though i was a very young child unaware of the true situation.This movie brought to light the horrible scenes and awful truths of the atrocities that occurred during the war, and that still happen in warfare today.
The film depicts the story of Chava... |
tt0477078 | Rocket Science | Hal Hefner is a fifteen-year-old student of Plainsboro, New Jersey with a pronounced stutter. His older brother Earl is an obsessive-compulsive kleptomaniac, his father Doyle has recently walked out on the family after a heated argument, and his mother Juliet has begun to date the father of his school friend, Heston.
H... | revenge, psychedelic, cruelty, romantic | train | wikipedia | The film's mood pushes the limit of tongue- in-cheek, and it is certainly felt as a comedy because after all, the premise is a stuttering boy joining a debate team, but despite all the hilarious non sequiturs and plot-driven laughs, I take that essential theme to heart.
Hal Heffner is an innocently gawky young high sch... |
tt0186241 | Iolanthe | Act I
Twenty-five years before the beginning of the opera, the fairy Iolanthe committed the capital crime (under fairy law) of marrying a mortal human. The Queen of the fairies commuted Iolanthe's sentence of death to banishment for life on the condition that Iolanthe left her husband and never communicated with him ag... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Wonderful performance with a few minor glitches. When I bought this video, I had no idea what this opera was about, not to mention no idea what the music was like. I bought it because I was, and still am, a big fanatic of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. So this video was my first exposure to this particular opera. ... |
tt1674775 | Keyhole | The gang of Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) shoots its way into his former home, which the police have surrounded, with a hostage and a stuffed wolverine (named "Crispy") in tow. Big Ed, the gang's second-in-command, then evicts the dead gangsters (who seem otherwise alive), after asking them to identify themselves: "Those... | psychedelic, violence, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Expectations are Key. Before viewing, I saw this film referred to as a '30s Gangster homage' or noir-styled 'drama'.
For anyone expecting a throwback film or conventional narrative, Keyhole will confuse and then, probably, disappoint.
In fact, Keyhole is a very abstract take on the memories and emotions harboured insid... |
tt0343663 | Eros | The Hand
Miss Hua, a 1960s high-end call girl is visited by a shy dressmaker's assistant Zhang, to take her measure. He hears the sounds of sex, as he waits in her living room. He is drawn towards her but there is no meeting ground between the two individuals from completely different classes. She summons him when her ... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | Most seem to think that none of it is erotic enough and few "like" the Soderbergh and Antonioni projects.But you, dear viewer, you will know this as three explorations into how the eye creates the seductive impulse.
The Tale Tail And Wong Kar-Wai. Antonioni is not able to direct a 30 min film.
The Dangerous Thread of T... |
tt0057579 | The Three Lives of Thomasina | The story takes place in fictional Inveranoch, Scotland in the year 1912. It centres on Andrew MacDhui (Patrick McGoohan) a coldly scientific, atheist veterinarian, his seven-year-old daughter Mary (Karen Dotrice), and her cat Thomasina (voiced by Elspeth March), who narrates the film. (Thomasina was originally called ... | allegory, romantic | train | wikipedia | It's superior to the current family movies in a number of reasons; lovely color, the realism of a vet's life, delightful Scots Highlands locations, a fine dramatic structure bolstered by that underrated actor Patrick Macgoohan and by a pretty, startlingly black-eyed starlet named Susan Hampshire (the two represent scie... |
tt0054594 | The Absent Minded Professor | Professor Brainard (Fred MacMurray) (pronounced BRAY-nard) is an absent-minded professor of physical chemistry at Medfield College who invents a substance that gains energy when it strikes a hard surface. This discovery follows some blackboard scribbling in which he reverses a sign in the equation for enthalpy to energ... | romantic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | The Absentminded Professor was the second film that Fred MacMurray in his second career rebirth with Walt Disney as the midwife.
He scored an enormous success in The Shaggy Dog and Disney films together with his My Three Sons TV series established MacMurray as the quintessential family father figure which would endure ... |
tt0100519 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | The play concerns the misadventures and musings of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters from William Shakespeare's Hamlet who are childhood friends of the prince, focusing on their actions with the events of Hamlet as background. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is structured as the inverse of Hamlet... | boring, stupid, cult, clever, absurd, humor, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Shakespeare didn't provide any detailed character development of either Rosencrantz or Guildenstern, and as such, they are left confused as to the purpose of their own existence.The film also looks at the concept of a predetermined destiny.
This clever screenplay by Tom Stoppard challenges the viewer to listen and watc... |
tt0034622 | Crossroads | Lucy (Britney Spears), Kit (Zoë Saldana), and Mimi (Taryn Manning) are three friends who live in a small Georgia town. While as young children, they bury a "wish box" and vow to dig it up on the night of their high school graduation, also pledging to stay best friends forever. However, as they grow up, their friendship... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0045679 | The Desert Rats | During mid-April 1941 in North Africa, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (James Mason) and his Afrika Korps have driven the British Army into headlong retreat toward Egypt and the vital Suez Canal. Standing in Rommel's way is Tobruk, a constant threat to his supply lines. The 9th Australian Division are charged with ho... | violence | train | wikipedia | Before Australia and New Zealand were threatened with attack on the home front, they sent as they did in the First World War, an expeditionary force to help Great Britain protect the Suez Canal, the lifeline of the British Empire.
When not focusing on the battle sequences, The Desert Rats is about the relationship betw... |
tt0129712 | Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs | The series is set in the distant future. Humans have spread beyond living on Earth and have colonized planets across the universe, creating a New Frontier of man. In order to protect these new settlers and maintain law and order in the New Frontier, Earth's Cavalry Command was created. Cavalry Command is a military org... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Man, how I used to love this series!!!.
A few hours ago me and some friends of mine had a talk about the cartoons we were watching when we were kids...
And Saber Rider was one of those everyone agreed was really AWESOME!!
Here in Greece, this series used to be EXTREMELY popular when I was a kid back in the late 80's - ... |
tt0072235 | Sweet Movie | One narrative follows Miss Monde 1984/Miss Canada, who wins a contest of the "most virgin"; her prize is the marriage to a milk industry tycoon. However, following his degrading puritanical introduction to intercourse, she vents her intention to leave to her mother-in-law who, at that point, nearly has her killed. The ... | avant garde, murder, cult, violence, absurd, psychedelic, satire, philosophical, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0053182 | Porgy and Bess | Place: Catfish Row, a fictitious black tenement (once, a mansion of the aristocracy) on the waterfront of Charleston, South Carolina.
Time: The "recent past" (c. 1930).
=== Act 1 ===
Scene 1: Catfish Row, a summer evening
The opera begins with a short introduction which segues into an evening in Catfish Row. Jasbo Brow... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0055035 | Junglee | Chandrashekhar/Shekhar (Shammi Kapoor) belongs to an aristocratic family, run by Shekhar's domineering mother (Lalita Pawar). He completes his education in London and comes back to run his business. In his family people shouldn't talk more than needed and laughter is completely prohibited. Shekhar follows all those rul... | romantic | train | wikipedia | An excellent example of the Bollywood genre.
This film possess all the qualities of the classic Bollywood film as it has developed since the 1950s.
It has romantic love triumphing over social convention and the caste system; the stifling oppressive family with a dominant matriarch: the scheming, grasping enemy, seeki... |
tt3336428 | The Dead Reckoning | Leaving a church, Father Logan, a well known ex-paratrooper padre, is approached by Captain "Rip" Murdock (Humphrey Bogart). Murdock needs to tell someone what has happened to him in the past few days in case his enemies get to him. A flashback follows.
Just after World War II, paratroopers and close friends Captain Mu... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0043885 | Only the Valiant | Gregory Peck, in a role he considered a low-point of his career, plays Captain Richard Lance, a by-the-book West Point graduate who is not very popular with the men under his command.
Following the American Civil War, peace is maintained in the New Mexico Territory by Fort Invicible, a fortification set up outside a mo... | romantic | train | wikipedia | This film, released in 1951, has the usual elements typical of the westerns released during the 50's; the cavalry needing to protect the territory from a murderous band of Indians, an officer determined to see that task through, and the men with him with various character flaws that he has to merge together into a cohe... |
tt0041162 | Batman and Robin | In Gotham, one year after the defeat of Two-Face and the Riddler in the previous film, Batman and Robin attempt to thwart Mr. Freeze from robbing diamonds, but he steals one and flees. In South America, Pamela Isley is working under Dr. Jason Woodrue, experimenting with the Venom drug. She witnesses Woodrue use the for... | good versus evil, suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | Just as before the United States got into the War, the villains country could be implied, but not specifically stated.The second Batman chapter-play did follow all of the above mentioned, using a large number of common underworld types and a secret leader of unknown origin and identity (until the end), who was bent on,... |
tt0044868 | Magical Maestro | Mysto the Magician appeals to a snobbish opera singer, the Great Poochini (a pun on opera composer Giacomo Puccini), to let him perform an opening act at the show that night. Mysto's tricks primarily come from his magic wand, which can summon flowers and rabbits. After Mysto dances and asks him if he gets the job, Pooc... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0295318 | Home Alone | The McCallister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Paris, gathering at Peter and Kate's home outside of Chicago on the night before their departure. Peter and Kate's youngest son, eight-year-old Kevin, is being ridiculed by his siblings and cousins. A fight with his older brother, Buzz, results in Kevin getting ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Cute and fun little game. In the wake of the success of Home Alone, this fun little game came to be. Focusing on what is arguably the most entertaining scene in the film(or the only entertaining one, as some cynics will undoubtedly say; I should know, I used to be one), this pits you against Harry and Marv, in the role... |
tt0023814 | The Bitter Tea of General Yen | In the late 1920s in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War, as throngs of refugees flee the rainswept city, a couple of elderly missionaries welcomes guests to their home for the wedding of Dr. Robert Strike (Gavin Gordon), a fellow missionary, and Megan Davis (Barbara Stanwyck), his childhood sweetheart whom he has no... | cruelty, murder | train | wikipedia | Frank Capra made a sort of "little" film in 1933, little in that it starred then up-and-coming Barbara Stanwyck (the future iconic star of Double Indemnity and The Furies had only been in a few films before) and that it dealt with a topic that was very touchy to attempt for in 1933; only Griffith before had tried to de... |
tt0226875 | Joshuu sasori: Kemono-beya | Nami Matsushima (Meiko Kaji) is set up by her boyfriend, a crooked police detective named Sugimi (Isao Natsuyagi) to win favor with the Yakuza. She is raped by several drug dealers. She makes a failed attempt to stab Sugimi on the steps of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters. She is sentenced to do hard time in ... | revenge, cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | I have been looking forward to the release of this DVD (and it's follow-up {Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song}) for some time.
All three of these movies were directed by Shunya Ito. What is great about them, though, is that, even though they all feature the same lead character (wonderfully played by Meiko Ka... |
tt0113987 | Nixon | The movie starts in 1972 with the “plumbers” breaking into The Watergate and subsequently getting arrested. 18 months later (Dec.1973). Nixon's’ Chief Of Staff, General Alexander “Al” Haig (Powers Boothe) brings Pres. Richard “Dick” M. Nixon (Anthony Hopkins) tapes to listen to. The two men talk about The Watergate Sca... | dramatic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0042397 | Dial 1119 | Homicidal escaped mental patient Gunther Wyckoff (Marshall Thompson) arrives by bus in Terminal City. As he gets off, he is confronted by the bus driver for stealing his Colt pistol. Wyckoff uses it to kill the driver.
Wyckoff tries to locate a man named Dr. Faron, at both his office and then at his home address - an a... | insanity, suspenseful, murder, claustrophobic | train | wikipedia | After killing a bus driver, the baby faced young man seeks refuge in a bar and holds its patrons hostage.
The film is also notable as it was one of the first movies put out by MGM under new management which turned the company away from solely making big budget events.
A deranged young man, Gunther Wyckoff (whacko with ... |
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