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tt0044186 | Vengeance Valley | Fifteen years ago, wealthy but crippled Colorado cattleman Arch Strobie (Ray Collins), whose own son Lee (Robert Walker) is wild, took in young Owen Daybright (Burt Lancaster) as a foster son to help raise him. Now Owen is ranch foreman, but Lee, despite being married to Jen (Joanne Dru), is wilder than ever.
Unmarried... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1760967 | Ill Manors | Set in Forest Gate, London, the film begins with partners Ed (Ed Skrein) and Aaron (Riz Ahmed) drug-dealing. Undercover police chase the two to a closed gate – Aaron manages to climb over and Ed hands his phone over to let Aaron take care of it. Before Ed can climb over, he is caught and sent to jail. Aaron takes the p... | realism | train | wikipedia | Plan B is clearly not content with just being a famous rapper/singer/actor, as he has now tried his hand at directing, with his debut film ill Manors being released in cinemas today.
Set in East London, the film follows a series of characters from drug dealers to prostitutes to runaway single mothers as they all strugg... |
tt0120716 | Jakob the Liar | In Poland of early 1944, a Polish-Jewish shopkeeper named Jakob Heym is summoned to the German headquarters after being falsely accused of being out after curfew. While waiting for the commander, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast speaking about Soviet offensives. Returned to the ghetto, Jakob shares his informat... | murder | train | wikipedia | There were parts that didn't work for me, especially pieces where narration would have worked better than a character monologue (Jakob is a narrator as well as a character, so why does he talk to himself instead of us so much?) But on the whole, it was a good story, well performed by those involved.The ending, which I ... |
tt2465238 | Lego Batman: The Movie - DC Super Heroes Unite | Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor are both nominated for the Man of the Year award, and Wayne wins. As he is making his speech, the Joker breaks in with the Riddler, Harley Quinn, the Penguin, Two-Face and Catwoman, and steals the award, as well as money and gems. Batman arrives and stops everyone except the Joker, who escape... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Having never seen nor played any of the Lego movies or video games this was my first venture into their blocky incarnation of various franchises.
I was fully expecting nothing but a feature-length cut-scene but was surprised at how cinematic it actually is.Opening with Danny Elfman's brilliant Batman theme (no offense ... |
tt1754811 | InAPPropriate Comedy | The framing device has Vince Offer pressing buttons on his tablet computer that open offensive applications.
Psychology World
A psychologist (Rob Schneider) has a session with a sex-obsessed young woman (Noelle Kenney) who wants to change. She shows him the pills that make her wild. He takes them and passes out on the ... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2302966 | i | Lingesan (Vikram) is a bodybuilder from Chennai, whose main ambition is to become Mr. India. He wins the title of Mr. Tamil Nadu, which gives him direct entry to the Mr. India pageant. He is infatuated by Diya (Amy Jackson), a leading supermodel. Diya is soon blacklisted, with all her advertisement film contracts cance... | revenge, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0076709 | Si wang ta | After a recent amount of challenges, Billy Lo (Bruce Lee) and his friend Chin Ku (Huong Cheng Li) begin to suspect that someone wants them dead. Billy later visits his younger brother Bobby (Tong Lung), who is studying with Billy's former teacher, and leaves him a book on Jeet Kune Do. Chin is soon killed, and Billy go... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | If you have even half of a sense of humour, you'll be laughing for literally 80% of the film.Everything about the film is wrong: trying to resurrect Bruce Lee with scraps of footage and a guy that "kinda" looks like him; having a man dress up as a lion and go toe to toe with the lead character; having sets that belong ... |
tt1692486 | Carnage | When two grade-school boys get into a fight in the park that results in one boy, Zachary Cowan, hitting the other, Ethan Longstreet, in the face with a stick, their parents meet in a Brooklyn apartment to discuss the matter. Zachary's parents, Alan (Christoph Waltz) and Nancy Cowan (Kate Winslet), visit the home of Mic... | psychological, satire | train | wikipedia | That's the reason why I was very interested in watching Carnage, his most recent film; however, even though it ended up being an interesting experience, I didn't find it very memorable, and it's definitely very far from being among Polanski's best films.Even if it hadn't been mentioned during the initial credits, the f... |
tt1879032 | Rapture-Palooza | Lindsey Lewis and her boyfriend Ben House are left on Earth after the rapture. The souls of the worthy have been taken to Heaven while everyone else has been left behind. The people left on Earth must fend for themselves in a world now plagued by evil locusts that constantly yell "suffer!", talking crows that use profa... | good versus evil, satire, murder, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | I have to say that I thought this was very funny and I laughed throughout the whole movie, but it is my kind of humor.
Mainly a lot of random things happening and some really stupid jokes that make me laugh like a man getting killed by a huge flaming rock and the wife mad because he was holding the eggs when he died.
O... |
tt0067594 | Point of Terror | Lounge singer Tony Trelos is approached by a woman on a beach one afternoon. Her name is named Andrea Hilliard, and she is a wealthy woman whose crippled husband Martin owns a record label. That night, Andrea goes to watch Tony perform at his regular oceanside California club. She offers to cut him a record deal. Tony ... | murder | train | wikipedia | The film is, rather, a sexploitation melodrama about a ruthless, ladder-climbing lounge singer, Tony Trelos (Peter Carpenter) who gets involved both intimately and professionally with Andrea (Dyanne Thorne), the sex-starved, alcoholic wife of a wheelchair-bound music industry mogul.
Tempestuous blonde bombshell co-star... |
tt0210740 | I Zombie: The Chronicles of Pain | The film opens in mockumentary style with a woman, Sarah, talking about her boyfriend Mark in the past tense.
Mark skips Sarah's event for his research field trip, and she is very displeased with his decision. Mark travels out to the woods to collect moss samples when he stumbles across a rusty decaying station wagon. ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0107756 | Orlando | The film begins in the Elizabethan era shortly before the death of Queen Elizabeth I. On her deathbed, Elizabeth promises an androgynous young nobleman named Orlando a large tract of land and a castle built on it along with a generous monetary gift which she will only bequeath to him if he consents to her command, "Do ... | psychedelic, historical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0177769 | Fever | The movie starts with the protagonist, a man named Armin Salem (Rajeev Khandelwal), recovering in the hospital after a car accident and is diagnosed as suffering from retrograde amnesia. There are only a few things that he remembers - his name, that he is originally from Paris and furthermore that he might have committ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Extremely atmospheric thriller starts out great, as young artist (Thomas) living in hellish urban apartment grows more and more paranoid as other tenants end up dead.
The high production value and Thomas' performance maintain the interest, but the script -- reminiscent of other, better pictures -- goes nowhere fast, wi... |
tt0155110 | Ri¢hie Ri¢h's Christmas Wish | It's Christmas Eve and Richie Rich, the world's richest kid, is all excited to spend the day with his friends. While racing wildly with his friends in the snow, Richie's butler, Herbert Cadbury, controls the cars using a remote and guides the children back to Richie's house. He then reminds him about his responsibiliti... | alternate reality | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0388377 | River Queen | The film takes place in New Zealand in 1868 during Titokowaru's War between the Māori and New Zealand colonial forces. Sarah O'Brien (Samantha Morton) has grown up among soldiers in a frontier garrison on Te Awa Nui, the Great River. Pregnant at 16 by a young Maori boy, she gives birth to a son. When, 7 years later, he... | dramatic, romantic, action | train | wikipedia | I also found the first half hour or so really hard going, it seemed disjointed and felt more like a long short film.
Overall the film is worth a look I'm sure everyone will get something out of it.Note, If your a fan of Kiefer Sutherland.
River Queen was a beautiful movie.
The unique beauty of the NZ scenery was stunni... |
tt0098904 | Seinfeld | Many Seinfeld episodes are based on the writers' real-life experiences, with the experiences re-interpreted for the characters' storyline. For example, George's storyline, "The Revenge", is based on Larry David's experience at Saturday Night Live. "The Contest" is also based on David's experiences. "The Smelly Car" sto... | humor | train | wikipedia | I caught a few episodes of Seinfeld over it's final two seasons run on public channel, and made it a point to catch a lot more of Jerry and friends during it's reruns.
I found it very amusing on first viewings, but as time wore on, I began to like it more and more, and to eagerly borrow taped episodes from friends, and... |
tt0286598 | Doom | In the year 2046, a heavily populated research facility on Mars is suddenly attacked by an unknown assailant. Following a distress call sent by Dr. Todd Carmack, a group of marines, led by Asher "Sarge" Mahonin, is sent on a search-and-rescue mission. One of the marines, John "Reaper" Grimm, accompanies his sister, Dr.... | violence | train | wikipedia | Doom and its sequels are some of the greatest games ever created!
It has a good story, incredible action, great music, awesome enemies, very fun, really interesting levels, and more!
Below is an In-depth review of the game called Doom!The Story: The toughest marine that ever lived just arrived on the red planet Mars wh... |
tt0039768 | Ride the Pink Horse | Lucky Gagin (Robert Montgomery) arrives on a bus in San Pablo, a small rural town in New Mexico during its annual fiesta. He plans to confront and blackmail money from a mobster named Frank Hugo (Fred Clark) as retribution for the death of his best friend Shorty. He unpacks the Colt 45 pistol from his luggage, sticks i... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1016090 | The Cursed | Two high school students arrive at the Mitusya convenience store. One of the students, Yuko, proclaims she cannot enter the shop. However, she backs away too far and is killed by a truck.
Some time later, Ryouko Kagami, a representative of the Cosmo Mart chain, seeks to purchase the store on behalf of her boss, Tejima.... | murder | train | wikipedia | An old curse is killing people and our animal friends.
Bummer, I know..
After losing his job and his girlfriend Denny travels to Tennesee to spend some time with a friend and do some research on some of it's history; specifically matters concerning unsolved murders of people and animals.
Shortly after his arrival, more... |
tt0418455 | Adams æbler | Neo-Nazi gang leader Adam (Ulrich Thomsen) is granted parole from prison for participating in a rehabilitation program, where he joins the aggressive Saudi gas station robber Khalid (Ali Kazim) and the kleptomanic rapist Gunnar (Nicolas Bro). The community is headed by the priest Ivan (Mads Mikkelsen), who believes fir... | comedy, psychological, murder, allegory, violence, thought-provoking, cute, good versus evil, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | Anders Thomas Jensen has with his earlier films, "De grønne slagtere" and "Blinkende lygter", convinced the audience of his scriptwriting talents, especially his distinct sense of dark humour.
Indeed, the film's central theme questions our central notion of good and evil without giving definite conclusions: whether the... |
tt0076217 | It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown | It's homecoming at Charlie Brown's school, and Charlie Brown and Linus are among the escorts for the Homecoming Queen and her court. During the Homecoming Parade, Linus tells Charlie Brown that he (Charlie Brown) will be the escort for the Queen, but Charlie Brown is shocked when he sees the Queen is none other than th... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Lucy should be thrown off the team..
It makes the huge mistake of showing the Little Red-headed Girl.
She is supposed to be a figure of mystery, the object of Charlie Brown's unfulfilled desires.
Sparky should have made them change this.The most amazing aspect of this is that Charlie Brown gets all of the team's ire, w... |
tt0097493 | Heathers | 17-year-old Veronica Sawyer (Ryder) is one of the most popular girls at Westerburg High School in Sherwood, Ohio. In addition to Veronica, the popular clique consists of three wealthy and beautiful girls with the same first name: the leader, Heather Chandler (Walker); the bookish bulimic Heather Duke (Doherty), and the... | comedy, dark, murder, bleak, cult, psychedelic, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097926 | Mujrim | Shankar (Mithun Chakraborty) was jailed at the age of thirteen, when he killed his uncle, who tried to sell his mother Yashoda (Nutan) to a rich and powerful man called Khan (Amrish Puri). He was imprisoned for ten years. When he comes back home, he finds his mother and sister in poor conditions. He tries to keep appro... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0064350 | Fräulein Doktor | A woman spy and some male agents working for the Germans during World War I land at night near the British naval base at Scapa Flow, from a U-boat. The British, led by Col. Foreman, ambush the landing party, capturing two of the men, but the woman gets away. Foreman fakes the execution of one of the spies, thus trickin... | flashback | train | wikipedia | But this film shows for the first time a spy who sees first hand the results of her work.
Like others have mentioned, the battlefield scenes contain some of the most horrific scenes of war carnage ever shot.
This is also poignantly shown in a scene when a German general reluctantly pins a medal on "Fraulein Doktor" bec... |
tt0090930 | Dèmoni 2... l'incubo ritorna | The film opens as if the events of the first film took place in reality, but this is actually a film within a film, that the various residents of a high-rise apartment building are watching. Its story follows several teens trespass into a city that was deserted as a result of the outbreak. Finding the lifeless corpse o... | paranormal, violence, cult, cruelty, sadist | train | wikipedia | The early stuff with the group investigating the ruins of the city is pretty creepy but this all gives way to some hilarious dialogue, and a classic bout between demons and fitness buffs in the building's parking garage makes me smile every time.
Apparently somebody made a movie about the first incident, and it is this... |
tt0439289 | Running with Scissors | The film is a semi-autobiographical account of Augusten Burroughs' (Joseph Cross) childhood. His mother, Deirdre (Annette Bening), who wishes to become a famous poet, suffers from severe mood swings and erratic behavior. Augusten's alcoholic father, Norman (Alec Baldwin), proves to be of no help. By the time he is a te... | romantic, comedy, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Jill Claybourgh, Joseph Finnes, Brian Cox, Gwynneth Paltrow, Evan Rachel Wood and Joseph Cross with his literary future and his thing for hair, they all transform this stranger than fiction real life tale into something memorable, yes, memorable.
The Finch family seems to be no upgrade though, as Agnes (Jill Clayburgh)... |
tt1118697 | Eleventh Hour | While Clark Kent and Lois Lane are kept under house arrest as prisoners of war in Japan, Superman becomes a saboteur.
In the Japanese City of Yokohama the Eleventh Hour strikes and a ship is turned over. Superman escapes searchlights while sirens go off and goes through a window, putting a barred grille back in place. ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0087344 | Gojira | The Japanese fishing vessel Yahata Maru is trying to find its way to shore in a horrible storm while near an uninhabited island, when a giant monster appears out of the island and attacks the boat. A day later, reporter Goro Maki finds the vessel intact, along with its sole survivor Hiroshi "Kenny" Okumura.
In Tokyo, t... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0103671 | American Me | The film depicts 30 years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles. It focuses on Montoya Santana, a teen who, with his friends, J.D. (Steve Wilcox) and Mundo (Richard Coca), form their own gang. They soon find themselves at the wrong place at the wrong time and are arrested.
In juvenile hall, Santana murders a fellow inmat... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | First, this actor's capacity to convey a complicated range of emotions without words is absolutely staggering and has been seen to great effect in many great films including "Blade Runner." Additionally, he is inarguably the premiere Latino / Chicano filmmaker and actor of all time.
If you look at the films he has been... |
tt0758755 | Immortally Yours | During a night at the opera, Estelle Henderson is embarrassed by her drunken fiance, John, but also attracted by a dark and mysterious young man in the audience. After the performance, John attacks Estelle's father, Dr. George Henderson, but is stopped by the young man, who introduces himself as Alex Stone. Alex and Es... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0027455 | Colleen | Colleen is the manager of a dress shop named "The Ames Company", owned by Donald Ames. They try to keep Uncle Cedric from working, because he will ruin the company. Troubles start when he hires schemer Joe as his personal assistant. He later also hires Minnie, a woman who has a great passion for fashion. When he buys t... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1002567 | Henjel gwa Geuretel | Eun-soo, a salesman, is driving his car along Highway 69 while talking on the phone with his four-weeks pregnant girlfriend, Hae-young. She tells him to stay by her side for the remainder of her pregnancy, but he replies that his mother is ill and he has to visit her, leading to a quarrel as Eun-soo is driving and caus... | fantasy, cruelty, gothic, murder, haunting, flashback, psychedelic, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Maybe I've been ignoring Korean films for too long because I've seen some good things coming from those regions lately.
Some similar elements to Korean(/Asian) horror films are definitely present but in the end the film presents itself more like a darker fantasy.Comparing this film to others is not an easy thing.
It's ... |
tt0045943 | Julius Caesar | The play opens with the commoners of Rome celebrating Caesar's triumphant return from defeating Pompey's sons at the battle of Munda. Two tribunes, Flavius and Marrullus, discover the commoners celebrating, insult them for their change in loyalty from Pompey to Caesar, and break up the crowd. There are some jokes made ... | tragedy, revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | His performance of the famous "Friends, Romans, countrymen" speech is a marvel of clarity, and is the linchpin that makes all of the other action of the play make sense.James Mason is, I think, perfect as Brutus.
No less than five Hollywood stars - Marlon Brando, James Mason, Deborah Kerr, Greer Garson, and Edmond O'Br... |
tt1523372 | Wild Things: Foursome | In this fourth installment of the erotic mystery-thriller series and set once again in the fictional south Florida city of Blue Bay, Carson Wheetly (Ashley Parker Angel) is the wealthy and spoiled 20-year-old son of millionaire NASCAR car racer Ted Wheetly (Cameron Daddo). Carson hates his father who he thinks might ha... | murder | train | wikipedia | An Entertaining Sequel.
Let's face it.
The "Wild Things" films are never going to be confused with serious, art house cinema.
They are lots of fun to watch though and if you are in a mood for escapist fare, they fit the bill just fine.
The latest entry "Wild Things: Foursome" follows the formula of drop dead gorgeous w... |
tt0039029 | Three Strangers | Crystal Shackleford (Geraldine Fitzgerald) lures two strangers, solicitor Jerome K. Arbutny (Sydney Greenstreet) and charming and erudite drunkard Johnny West (Peter Lorre) to her London flat on Chinese New Year in 1938 because of her belief that if three strangers make the same wish to an idol of Kwan Yin, Chinese god... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | "Three Strangers" has long been a favorite film of mine, with its fascinating reference to the statue of the goddess Kwan Yin, who, in Chinese legend, opens her eyes and grants a wish to three strangers on the Chinese New Year.
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre are the above-mentioned strangers,... |
tt0081515 | The Silent Scream | Scotty Parker, a college student in Southern California, is seeking a room for the fall semester at the last-minute. She is directed to a boarding house run by the standoffish Mrs. Engels; a Victorian mansion on a cliffside overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Mrs. Engels lives in the house along with her teenage son, Mason,... | grindhouse film, murder, cult, horror, violence, insanity | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0082314 | Ek Duuje Ke Liye | The movie is about the love between a Tamil man, Vasu (Kamal Haasan), and a North Indian woman, Sapna (Rati Agnihotri), who are neighbours in Goa. They come from totally different backgrounds and can hardly speak the other's language. Their parents despise each other and they have regular skirmishes. When Vasu and Sapn... | tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt5165344 | Rustom | The story dates back to the late 1950s and revolves around an Indian Naval Officer Rustom Pavri (Akshay Kumar), who is happily married to Cynthia Pavri (Ileana D'Cruz). Their marriage hits the rocks when Rustom discovers about his wife's affair with his friend Vikram Makhija (Arjan Bajwa). After returning early from hi... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Prolonged periods of absence on official duty brought Officer Rustom Pavri's (Akshay Kumar) wife closer to Preeti (Esha Gupta) and her brother Vikram (Arjan Bajwa).
Was I surprised!Even though everyone knows this movie is broadly based on the infamous Nanavaty incident, it was well made and riveting till the last scene... |
tt0040823 | Sorry, Wrong Number | Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck) is the spoiled, bedridden daughter of wealthy businessman James Cotterell (Ed Begley). One day, while listening to what seems to be a crossed telephone connection, she hears two men planning a woman's murder. The call cuts off without Leona learning very much other than it is schedule... | suspenseful, murder, violence, horror, flashback, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0380787 | The Elizabeth Smart Story | Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart is part of a large and loving Mormon family. Her father, Ed hires a handyman, a self-styled prophet named Emmanuel, to help him with a remodeling job. Months later, Emmanuel returns and kidnaps Elizabeth one night at knifepoint. Her sister, Mary Katherine, who is in the bed with her, i... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0072231 | Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh | The setting is post-Russian Civil War, during the reconstruction of the young Soviet republic. During the war, Shilov, Sarichev, Kungorov, Zabelin and Lipyagin had become great friends.
There are two main plots in the film, the first involving the theft of gold by outlaws just after the Russian civil war. Though the ca... | murder | train | wikipedia | "At Home Among The Strangers".
One of the best Nikita Mikhalkov's pictures.
A gripping, rather confusing adventurous plot, fragmentary editing, mysterious look of heroes - all this became a fresh breeze in the soviet cinematography of the 70th.
The excellent crew including a big number of greatest russian actors in the... |
tt0036399 | Sufferin' Cats! | The cartoon opens with Jerry running with a fishing line tied to his tail, which proceeds to retreat; Jerry is pulled under the radiator, through a mousehole, and towards Tom at the end of the line. When Jerry reaches Tom, the cat makes a face and scares Jerry, causing him to run away. Tom starts to reel in Jerry again... | psychedelic, comic | train | wikipedia | Two-Against-One.....Sort Of. Two cats fighting over Jerry?
Yup, that's the case here.
Tom is just tormenting his buddy but some stray outside means to have Jerry as part of a submarine sandwich.
Jerry tries to smooch up to each cat, playing up to one to stay away from other.
That only works once for each cat.
After tha... |
tt2017486 | Closer to the Moon | Post-war Communist Romania: In 1959 Bucharest, members of Romania's high society Max Rosenthal (Mark Strong), Alice Bercovich (Vera Farmiga), Dumi Dorneanu (Tim Plester), Răzvan Orodel (Joe Armstrong) and Iorgu Ristea (Christian McKay), known collectively as Ioanid Gang, announce to a crowd that they are shooting a fil... | comedy | train | wikipedia | A group of Romanian communists robs the National Bank.
Unless you have at least some basic knowledge about Communist Romania, this movie might seem very far away from a rating of 10.
As the story unraveled, it sucked us into an atmosphere that most of us feel is long gone, and nevertheless, so close to us.
Robbing a ba... |
tt0383216 | The Pink Panther | As a child in Lugash, Princess Dala receives a gift from her father, the Maharajah: the "Pink Panther," the largest diamond in the world. This huge pink gem has an unusual flaw: looking deeply into the stone, one perceives a tiny discoloration resembling a leaping panther. 20 years later, Dala has been forced into exil... | cult, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | I mean this was the kind of movie I would expect to see Steve martin in but not Jean Reno or Kevin Kline.
The trouble is, it's pretty BAD slapstick, rendering this "re-imagining" (with thanks to Tim Burton's problematic but slightly underrated "Planet of the Apes") somewhat pointless, and another misstep on the CV of i... |
tt0086101 | The Phantom of the Opera | === Prologue ===
On the stage of the fictional Opéra Populaire in 1905, an auction of old theatrical props is underway. Lot 665, purchased by the elderly Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, is a papier-mâché music box in the shape of a barrel organ attached to the figure of a monkey in Persian robes playing the cymbals. He eyes ... | revenge, gothic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | There is a reason this was only aired on television once!!!.
Jane Seymour and "Phantom" fans beware!!!
V. movie has to be the worst adaptation of the famous Gaston Leroux story filmed to date.
Ms. Seymour plays two roles: Elena, a suicidal soprano, and Maria, a bitchy soprano.
Maria (the Christine Daae character) hasn'... |
tt0032304 | Captain Caution | In the 1840s, Captain Michael Fury (Brian Aherne) is an Irish patriot transported to New South Wales for his political involvement. He is farmed out as an servant to Arnold Trist, a cruel land owner who uses whipping to keep discipline. He is accompanied by fellow convicts Blackie, Coughy and Bertie.
Fury escapes from ... | revenge, action, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073519 | Dieci bianchi uccisi da un piccolo indiano | Clark and Summer, a young married couple, are on their way to see Summer's parents. Their car has a blowout and, as they do not have a spare tire, the couple decides to walk onwards and find help. Upon arriving at a small collection of buildings, they realise that the town is abandoned. It isn't long before a drifter i... | western, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0233422 | Chachi 420 | Jaiprakash Paswan a.k.a. Jai (Kamal Haasan) and Janki Paswan (Tabu) are fighting a divorce case. Janki is the only daughter of Durgaprasad Bhardwaj (Amrish Puri), a staunch Brahmin businessman. Jaiprakash, a Dusadh, is an assistant dance director in films. The duo fall in love and married against the will of Durgaprasa... | adult comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | Indian Mrs. Doubtfire...only funnier!.
I LOVED this movie!
I have just recently discovered Bollywood films and this one was on TV recently.
It was much funnier than Mrs. Doubtfire with less goofiness and none of that hit-you-over-the head type of audience pandering.
Even as a Black girl sitting at home I was able to un... |
tt0170107 | History Is Made at Night | Irene Vail (Jean Arthur) decides to divorce her husband, the rich ship owner Bruce Vail (Colin Clive), after he falsely accuses her of having an affair. Bitterly jealous and possessive of Irene, Vail learns that he can prevent the divorce from being finalized if he can provide evidence that she has been involved with a... | suspenseful, romantic | train | wikipedia | Good Night, Irene!.
I know this film from the title "Spy Games."It is one of those man versus woman films, that also is West (American) versus East (Russian) and has the familiar James Bond-type scenario in which spies working on opposite sides are still lovers at the same time.Bill Pullman and Irene Jacob play those t... |
tt0052270 | A Tale of Two Cities | === Book the First: Recalled to Life ===
Dickens's famous opening sentence introduces the universal approach of the book, the French Revolution, and the drama depicted within:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was... | romantic | train | wikipedia | "A Tale of Two Cities" is based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
The story is not focused on the plight of the poor in Victorian England as with many of Dickens' novels, but rather an exploration of France prior to and in the wake of the French Revolution.The nice thing about this film is that it has a sense of the sco... |
tt0213105 | Nagina | Rajiv (Rishi Kapoor) comes from a wealthy land-owning family, and lives in a palatial home with his mother (Sushma Seth), who would like him to get married to a beautiful young woman named Vijaya Singh, the only daughter of Thakur Ajay Singh (Prem Chopra). Rajiv, however, is in love with Rajni (Sridevi), who is an orph... | gothic | train | wikipedia | Worth watching for fans of the golden age. Nutan shows much promise (if not the depth and nuance of her later roles) and of course exceptional beauty in one of her earliest films. The music by Shanker & Jaikishen is typically great: for me, this if nothing else makes the film worth watching. A couple of musical numbers... |
tt0046435 | Titanic | In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team aboard the research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh search the wreck of RMS Titanic for a necklace with a rare diamond, the Heart of the Ocean. They recover a safe containing a drawing of a young woman wearing only the necklace dated April 14, 1912, the day the ship s... | historical, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Holds Its Own. Although not as honored as the 1997 Leonardo DiCaprio-Kate Winslet story about the Titanic disaster, this version of Titanic starring Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck can definitely hold its own.
Also look for good performances by Thelma Ritter as the Molly Brown in all but name role, Richard Basehart a... |
tt0093489 | Man on Fire | In 2003, burnt-out ex-CIA(SAD/SOG) Paramilitary operations officer and former U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance officer John Creasy (Denzel Washington) visits his old comrade Paul Rayburn (Christopher Walken), who runs a security firm in Mexico. Because of the extremely high rate of kidnappings in Mexico City for ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Scott Glenn gives a suitably haunted and melancholic performance, despite his dorky 80s wardrobe; no man can look cool with puffy shoulder pads like Joan Crawford and his coat-sleeves pushed up past his elbows.
Seems to me that the reason why this movie isn't liked and known any better is because the world was not real... |
tt1541718 | Dragon Age: Origins | === Setting ===
The game is set in Ferelden, one of several countries in the fictional world of Thedas. Demonic creatures called the Darkspawn dwell within the Deep Roads, an underground highway system created by the dwarves long ago, deep beneath the surface of Thedas. Every few hundred years, the Darkspawn swarm the ... | revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038908 | A Scandal in Paris | The rogue (George Sanders) who would later call himself Eugène François Vidocq is born in a prison cell, the twelfth child of a woman who steals a loaf of bread each time she needs shelter to give birth. As the boy grows into a man, he is constantly in and out of jail. As the story begins, he and his cutpurse cellmate ... | murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0114419 | She Fought Alone | Caitlin Rose is a shy 17-year-old in the new town of Lockhart, Illinois. She is not very well known at her school, but with the help of her best friend, she is accepted into the popular group at school, known as The Crew. While partying one night, she bonds with Ethan, and eventually she's sleeping with him while being... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0032779 | Melody Ranch | Gene Autry (Gene Autry) returns to his hometown of Torpedo as guest of honor at the Frontier Days Celebration, where he meets his childhood enemies, the Wildhack brothers—Mark (Barton MacLane), Jasper (Joe Sawyer), and Bud (Horace McMahon)—who are now local gangsters. The Wildhacks own a saloon next door to the school,... | murder | train | wikipedia | Gene Autry cleans up his hometown Torpedo.
This is my favorite western film.
I would gladly recommend it to anyone who enjoys clean entertainment.
It features 2 great actors Gene Autry and Jimmy Durante.
It provides the family with great entertainment that even young children can enjoy.
This film features some very nic... |
tt3250032 | Sex, Death and Bowling | Sean McAllister (Adrian Grenier) is a successful fashion designer who returns home to Arizona when he learns his brother, Rick (Bailey Chase), has cancer. Sean has been gone for a while ever since getting into an argument with his father. Rick lives at home with his wife, Glenn (Selma Blair), and his live-in nurse Ana ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Class Treatment of Difficult Material. I'm not a fan of narration. Especially that of precocious, pre-pubescent boys with grown-up wisdom. But that was the only thing that annoyed me here. The rest was excellent.I really like the way they treated the concept of dying at home. Get some friends and family together and so... |
tt0059221 | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken | Luther Heggs is a typesetter at the Rachel Courier Express the local newspaper in Rachel, Kansas, but he aspires to be a reporter. One night, observing what he believes to be a murder outside of an old, supposedly haunted house known as the Simmons Mansion, Heggs rushes to the police station with his scoop. Unfortunate... | murder | train | wikipedia | Pretty much every scene is a classic of comedy, from the malfunctioning elevator operator to the repeated motifs of 'Atta boy, Luther/Carlyle/Judge' and 'And they used Bon Ami!' It's also a treasure trove of fine performances, from Burt Mustin to Jesslyn Fax, not to mention Don K., of course.
The first film Don Knotts ... |
tt0231448 | Deuces Wild | Leon (Stephen Dorff) and Bobby (Brad Renfro) are brothers and members of the Deuces, a Brooklyn street gang. Ever since the death of their other brother Alphonse "Allie Boy" from a drug overdose at the hands of Marco (Norman Reedus), they keep drugs off their block. This puts them in opposition to the Vipers, another l... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | With the limited funds to make this film, the scenes were filmed with very few takes - giving it a 'play' feel.The story reminds me of "The Outsiders" and "West Side Story" - which I found to be one of the down sides of the movie, but I still liked it overall.Stephen Dorff gives a great performance as Leon, the Deuces ... |
tt0081491 | Shaan | DCP (Deputy Commissioner of Police) Shiv Kumar (Sunil Dutt), returns home to his wife Sheetal (Rakhee Gulzar) and their young daughter and announces that he has been transferred to Bombay. He has two brothers, Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi (Shashi Kapoor), who live in Bombay. They are intelligent, capable guys but ... | good versus evil, revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | 5 years after the breakthrough success of SHOLAY, director Ramesh Sippy once again teamed up with Amitabh Bachchan - and this time they're taking no prisoners.
SHAAN is a grandly conceived epic of action, adventure, comedy, romance, drama and a bald supervillain who keeps a man-eating crocodile in his underground lair.... |
tt0121802 | Thank You Mask Man | After years of saving a small town, its population is angered that The Lone Ranger never stays long enough to receive gratitude for his deeds. After being pressed on the issue, the Lone Ranger explains why with a hypothetical situation: a little boy tells the Ranger “Thank you, mask man.” The simple phrase resonates wi... | cult, comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | Unnatural acts with Tonto.
Easily the best thing about the Lenny Bruce: Performance Film video.
While the performance portion is one of Bruce's worst, this short shows him at his satirical best.
The riff on homophobia isn't even the best part...the commentary on accepting thank-yous and the resultant egotism and self-a... |
tt0043544 | Flaming Feather | A mysterious outlaw, known only as The Sidewinder (Victor Jory), is terrorizing Arizona settlers. A rancher whose property was raided, Tex McCloud (Sterling Hayden), and a U.S. Cavalry officer named Blaine (Forrest Tucker) both decide to seek justice. They even make a friendly wager over which one will get to The Sidew... | revenge | train | wikipedia | This a good picture for what it is.
This a good picture for what it is.
It seems to start out as a formula western with an age old plot, white man running with Indians doing bad things, lone hero sets out to stop him, etc.
However the script is pretty good, there is some suspense, though we sort of know from the get-go... |
tt0065737 | Fragment of Fear | Tim Brett (Hemmings) is a former drug addict who has written a book about his experience and has been published. He has been clean for about a year. He had recently become acquainted with his aunt (Robson), a philanthropist who expresses interest in helping some of Tim's former acquaintances. She is found murdered soon... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0041790 | Red Light | Bookkeeper Nick Cherney is sent to jail for embezzling from Johnny Torno's trucking company. In a California prison, he sees a newsreel showing Johnny welcoming home his brother Jess, a heroic Catholic chaplain just returned from a World War II prisoner-of-war camp. Just before his release four years later (and to give... | revenge | train | wikipedia | The Lord may say: "Vengeance is mine," but Georgie says "the heck with that noise -- this one's MY baby!" He rampages through a multi-state search-and-destroy mission in his quest to find the message hidden in the Gideon Bible that was in his brother's room when he was killed.
One man (Raymond Burr) avenges being sent ... |
tt0365183 | Falling Angels | The year is 1969, the place is an Ontario suburb, and the Field family's fragile domestic peace is coming to an end. The story is told in loops and flashbacks. With the opening and final scenes at Niagara Falls, the bulk of the film depicts the events leading to the funeral scene shown at the beginning. In the backgrou... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Learning to survive your family.
Another Canadian offering at the film festival from director Scott Smith who also did indie film `rollercoaster' a few years ago.
It's based on a book by Barbara Gowdy and was filmed in Saskatchewan though it takes place in Ontario.
The story centers around 3 sisters in their late teens... |
tt0084843 | Une chambre en ville | The story is set during a workers' strike in Nantes in 1955. Young shipyard worker François Guilbaud is one of the strikers, and he rents a room from Madame Langlois, a widow who sympathizes with the strikers although she is herself upper-class, born a baroness. His girlfriend Violette Pelletier, who works in a shop an... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A Highly Underrated Film Musical.
'Une chambre en ville' was thoroughly underrated from the start.
In 1982 audiences no longer favoured tragic movies.
A generation earlier television had strongly reduced the audience of the cinemas.
A group is watching a video which may evoke strong emotions in some of the spectators.
... |
tt0039700 | A Pest in the House | The cartoon starts with a brief narration describing a labor shortage that "became so bad" that compels employers to hire "anybody or anything". Daffy is a hotel bellboy and Elmer Fudd is the manager. Elmer tells Daffy to take a customer to room 666. The customer (voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan, in his natural voice) asks f... | psychedelic, comic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1204340 | Tyrannosaur | One night, unemployed widower Joseph (Peter Mullan) drunkenly kicks his dog Bluey to death. He buries the dog and goes to the post office, where he mocks some Asian workers then throws a brick through the window when they tell him to leave. At the pub, Joseph attacks two young men playing pool one of whom threatened an... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3800010 | Fidelio, l'odyssée d'Alice | Two years prior to the opening scene, the Spanish nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes of a rival nobleman, Pizarro. In revenge, Pizarro has secretly imprisoned Florestan in the prison over which he is governor. Simultaneously, Pizarro has spread false rumors about Florestan's death.
The... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Sentimental voyage.
Lucie Borleteau's first feature-length movie is a strange one.
It has an interesting premise (few are the movies that revolve around a woman...
working as an engineer on a freighter) but its development is - to say the least - surprising.
You might expect a documentary on the theme : 'the everyday l... |
tt2308773 | Ishaqzaade | The Chauhans and the Qureshis are two political families whose rivalry and mutual hatred for one another goes back generations. Parma (Arjun Kapoor) is a good-for-nothing local thug, grandson of the patriarch chauvinist, Grandfather Chauhan. His grandfather often takes digs at Parma for being the useless son of his wid... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | A story that has been repeated many times is given a fresh look with new comers Parineeti Chopra and Arjun Kapoor.
Arjun Kapoor, while I think, doing the role he did, is slightly easier than how Parineeti did justice to so many shades of her character, but still did a stupendous job.The other technicalities of the movi... |
tt0120390 | Turbulence | After Ryan Weaver is arrested in New York City for a murder that he says he did not commit, he must be transported to Los Angeles to face trial. He and another prisoner (Stubbs) are escorted by four US marshals on a Boeing 747-200 on a commercial flight. Even though it is Christmas Eve, the 747 is nearly empty, with on... | suspenseful, comedy, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Many people are very critical of this movie-but it does have some fans,including me!Okay,the whole thing is full of absurdities-but so what!Butler takes the old "stewardess flies the plane" cliche,runs with it,and delivers an enormously entertaining slice of hokum.The formula is paired down to basics,as mad serial kill... |
tt0092626 | Beauty and the Beast | A widower merchant lives in a mansion with his six children, three sons and three daughters. All his daughters are very beautiful, but the youngest, Beauty, is the most lovely, as well as kind, well-read, and pure of heart; while the two elder sisters, in contrast, are wicked, selfish, vain, and spoiled. They secretly ... | romantic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | Charles Perrault's classic French fairy tale "Beauty And The Beast" has been filmed several times.
The well-known French version with Jean Marias and Josette Day, was filmed in 1946.
But Cannon Films beat them to the punch, producing their live-action musical rendition in 1987.
Starring Rebecca De Mornay as Beauty, and... |
tt0914372 | Hallowed Ground | After becoming stranded in a small town called Hope, Elizabeth "Liz" Chambers, (Jaimie Alexander) discovers her arrival was foretold a century earlier by the town's founding preacher Jonas Hathaway (Nick Chinlund) and that she is an integral part of his impending—and terrifying—rebirth. Forced to stay overnight in the ... | insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | A Really Earnest Try. HALLOWED GROUND is a peculiar little movie.
The object is to make people's pulses race, not to put the audience to sleep.Elizabeth's car breaks down in a strange (and underpopulated) little town.
Stranded.She goes to a diner and gets into a conversation with a tabloid reporter conveniently in town... |
tt0085743 | Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro | Professional photographers Vinod Chopra (Naseeruddin Shah) and Sudhir Mishra (Ravi Baswani) open a photo studio in the prestigious Haji Ali area in Mumbai, and hope to make enough money to keep it running. After a disastrous start, they are given some work by the editor of "Khabardar", a publication that exposes the sc... | cult, comedy, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | A lot of comments about this movie have centered on the apparently slapstick comedy, ignoring its usage to lend a sense of the grotesque in what is a essentially a masterful farce, and beneath the surface, more of a tragedy.This movie centers around the two young protagonists, full of ideals and the will to win against... |
tt1288499 | La La Land | While stuck in traffic on a Los Angeles highway ("Another Day of Sun"), Mia Dolan, an aspiring actress, has a moment of road rage with Sebastian Wilder, a struggling jazz pianist. Her subsequent audition goes poorly, where the casting director takes a call in the middle of an emotional scene. That night, Mia's roommate... | satire | train | wikipedia | New Star of Comedy = Marc Wootton. Upon Watching this show for the first time I had not heard of Marc Wootton nor seen any prior advertising about it. However this show proved to be a masterclass in clever, witty, improvised comedy.La La Land has a simple premise with Wootton letting loose his three comedy creations (a... |
tt0118785 | Budbringeren | Jerry's childhood friend Frankie Merman (Dana Gould) promises to get Jerry a new car as a thank you for a show he did for Frankie's car dealership. George prepares for his weekly call to his parents. Kramer plans his revenge on Pottery Barn because of the overabundance of catalogs they've sent him in the past month. El... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Once we rented this movie just to see what it was about.
It focuses on Oslo mailman Roy Amundsen, who is sort of down on his luck.
When she leaves her key in a mailbox, he has it copied, gets locked in her apartment, and gets a little (or a lot) more than he bargained for!
Some of the world's most interesting movies ha... |
tt0464106 | Manmadhan | Madhankumar (Silambarasan) is a chartered accountant by profession. He also learns music as part-time in a college. Mythili (Jyothika) also learns music from the same college. Mythili gets scared seeing Madhan because once she had a dream of getting raped by Madhan. Later on she realizes Madhan’s kind nature and the bo... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0043643 | His Kind of Woman | Down on his luck, professional gambler Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) accepts a mysterious job that will take him out of the country for a year but pays $50,000. He accepts a $5,000 down payment and tickets that will take him to an isolated Mexican resort, Morro's Lodge, where he will receive further instructions. Milner ... | murder | train | wikipedia | HIS KIND OF WOMAN, the first of two pairings of RKO's resident 'tough guy', Robert Mitchum, and it's major sex symbol, Jane Russell (the near-classic MACAO would follow, a year later), is such a wonderful, convoluted 'film noir' spoof that it is amazing that it has never appeared on video.
Broadly funny, and a more tha... |
tt0050993 | Something of Value | Kikuyu tribal members work on Henry McKenzie's farm in 1940s Kenya. Two young men, Kenyan native Kimani and Henry's son Peter, have grown up together, almost like brothers.
Prejudices surface when Peter's brother-in-law Jeff Newton slaps the face of Kimani after his request to use a rifle. Kimani leaves the farm, but i... | revenge, avant garde, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | And, although at the time this film was made Kenyan independence was only six years away, it is clear that, to almost all the whites, independence and black majority rule are still unthinkable.
Although it's clear that all the whites in the film are British, Hudson just moves right along with his American accent, quite... |
tt0412253 | Veronica Mars | Nine years after the events of the show's third season, former teenage sleuth Veronica Mars has left the fictional town of Neptune, California and moved to New York City, where she is in a stable relationship with Stosh "Piz" Piznarski and has a job offer from the prestigious law firm Truman-Mann and Associates. She is... | neo noir, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0421206 | Gridiron Gang | Sean Porter (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) works at Kilpatrick Detention Center in Los Angeles. He becomes frustrated at not being able to help the kids get away from their problems in life when they are released from the center, such as street gangs and drug dealings. He decides to create a football team so the kids can ... | murder | train | wikipedia | (Synopsis) The movie is based on a true story of a juvenile detention camp probation officer Sean Porter (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson), who is frustrated by the 75% recidivism rate of the teenage felons that he is responsible for at Camp Kilpatrick.
The juveniles must give up their gang rivalries on the gridiron to unite... |
tt0049621 | Please Murder Me! | Defense lawyer Craig Carlson (Raymond Burr) buys a pistol at a pawn shop and travels to his office, where he deposits the gun in a desk drawer with a file folder, then begins to dictate into a tape recorder. Directing his message to District Attorney Ray Willis (John Dehner), he reveals that he anticipates being murder... | murder | train | wikipedia | The movie starts with Attorney Craig Carlson dictating the circumstances of his own upcoming murder into a tape recorder.
Through a series of flashbacks we find out that he has a problem - his best friend's wife (Lansbury) comes to him for help in a divorce.
It takes a while to find out that Lansbury's performance is m... |
tt4335650 | Carnage Park | In 1978, two thieves, "Scorpion Joe" and Lenny, escape into the desert with a hostage, Vivian, after a failed heist. Lenny dies of a gunshot wound suffered during their escape, and Joe forces Vivian to help him dispose of Lenny's body. After a failed escape attempt, Vivian explains that she was at the bank to seek a lo... | murder | train | wikipedia | "Brothers burn faster when they're burning together." The only positive thing about this film was Pat Healy as the crazy ex-marine Wyatt Moss, who set up his own personal amusement park somewhere in the bone-dry desert in California where he lures lost backpackers and hunts them down as a real psychotic hunter.
Just be... |
tt0061204 | The Wrong Box | In Victorian London, elderly brothers Masterman (Mills) and Joseph Finsbury (Richardson), who live next to each other, are the surviving members of a tontine, an investment scheme set up 63 years before, in which the last member stands to receive a fortune. Masterman is attended by his unpromising medical student grand... | comedy, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Masterman (John Mills) lives with his grandson Michael (Michael Caine), and Joseph with his two greedy nephews (Morris and John - Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) and his niece Julia (Nanette Newman).
Along the way we meet other characters who are colorful: Dr. Pratt (Peter Sellers) - who at the drop of a hat will tell you... |
tt0046187 | Pickup on South Street | On a crowded New York City subway train, pickpocket Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) steals Candy's (Jean Peters) wallet. Unbeknownst to Skip or Candy, in the wallet is microfilm of top-secret government information. Candy was delivering an envelope as a final favor to her ex-boyfriend, Joey (Richard Kiley). Joey has told ... | realism, violence, suspenseful, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | It's not cartoon-like -- it's subtly woven into the background in a way that strikes you on a subconscious level until you've seen the film a few times and it just "clicks" that there's an alarm bell going off when she starts frantically going through her bag.Richard Widmark is way on top of his game as a smart-alec --... |
tt0317950 | Nola | After fleeing from her abusive stepfather, Nola (Emmy Rossum) travels to New York City searching for her biological father. She spends her first night sleeping in Central Park, but her luck changes when she is hired by the owner of a small diner. She ends up staying with the frycook/law school student Ben (James Badge ... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0085266 | Revenge of the Boogeyman | As young children, Laura Porter and her brother Henry witness their parents' brutal murder by a hooded man, whom they believe to be the Boogeyman. As an adult, Henry has attended group therapy, improving such that he is instead currently looking for work. Laura joins this group as he leaves, meeting the other members: ... | violence, dark, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Bizarre, pretentious, idiotic sequel starts off with 40 minutes of flashback footage of the first movie.
So much footage is used from part one, that when the end credits roll, they actually credit both the cast of this movie AND the first one!When the flashbacks mercifully end, the rest of this movie is pretty much Ull... |
tt0104114 | The Distinguished Gentleman | A Florida con man named Thomas Jefferson Johnson uses the passing of the longtime Congressman from his district, Jeff Johnson (who died of a heart attack while having sex with his secretary), to get elected to the United States Congress as a freshman Congressman, where the money flows from lobbyists. Omitting his first... | revenge, satire | train | wikipedia | Normally, I dont like Eddie Murphy films.
Also, it is not as scathing about the American political system as it could be, giving out the impression that apart from a few bad apples, the majority of politicians do have the publics best interests at heart.Anyone who enjoyed this should try and check out the English tv se... |
tt0139465 | The Minion | The film's plot revolves around the coming of the Apocalypse, heralded by the imminent liberation of the Antichrist from the depths of Hell through a certain gateway at the close of one full millennium. This gate can only be opened by a special key, which has been kept guarded by the order of the Templars (who in this ... | good versus evil, cult, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | Worst portrayal of archaeology in a movie EVER.
Please believe me when I tell you, dear ones, archaeologists don't go about their business acting like obsessive, `I work alone,' TV criminologists gasping (made-up) historical trivia into a dictaphone while diving straight for the shiny things without any sort of support... |
tt1351186 | Luster | Luster takes place over a weekend in Los Angeles.
=== Friday ===
Jackson wakes up in the aftermath of an orgy and heads to his job at his friend Sam's alternative record store. At the store he gets a call from Sonny Spike. On his way out the door, Jackson runs into customer Derek, who professes his love at first sight.... | murder | train | wikipedia | Mason does a good job straddling the line between the gritty indie style he's become known for, and mainstream marketability..
One of the most underrated directors working today is Adam Mason.
Mason made waves in the indie scene when Dimension Extreme picked up his feature debut "Broken".
When his follow-up, "The Devil... |
tt0040789 | Silver River | During the American Civil War, soldier Mike McComb is cashiered from the army when he disobeys orders in order to prevent the Confederates from stealing the one million dollars he is guarding by burning the money. After being publicly humiliated by the townspeople, he and his friend 'Pistol' Porter confiscate gambling ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1629701 | Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions | === Setting ===
An artifact known as the "Tablet of Order and Chaos" is shattered into 17 pieces during a brief battle between Spider-Man and Mysterio, who promptly escapes with a piece. Madame Web reveals this blunder sent 12 of the fragments to three different realities across the multiverse, including "a past unlike... | violence, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | my experience from the game !. well the game play is OK i would give it 5/10 because sometime the camera is annoying . and the concept is very good as you can play as four avatars at 1 game . and graphic are disgusting as compare to Web of shadows this game is damn boring and the controls are very much bad well game's ... |
tt0196499 | Diaries Notes and Sketches | I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless... | avant garde, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0051636 | From Hell to Texas | Tod Lohman is on the run from a posse. The ruthless land baron Hunter Boyd has sent men, including sons Otis and Tom, in pursuit of Tod for having killed another son.
Otis Boyd stampedes horses toward Tod, but gunshots drive them in the opposite direction and Otis is trampled instead. Tod then gets the drop on Tom Boyd... | revenge | train | wikipedia | It is fast paced and full of action, has interesting characters you care about and romance but not too much and good plotting.
The casting is excellent especially with Murray in the lead and one has to wonder why it is sitting on a shelf somewhere while lesser films are on video and TV and shown repeatedly.
On his trav... |
tt3368222 | Angry Indian Goddesses | Freida (Sarah-Jane Dias) is a fashion photographer who invites a group of friends to her family's home to announce that she is getting married. The group consists of Madhurita or Mad (Anushka Manchanda), a Bollywood singer, Pamela Jaswal or Pammy (Pavleen Gujral), a trophy wife, Suranjana or Su (Sandhya Mridul), a busi... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0035958 | 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders | The local auto plant in fictional Hadleyville, Pennsylvania, which supplied most of the town's jobs, has been closed for nine months. The former foreman Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) goes to Tokyo to try to convince the Assan Motors Corporation to reopen the plant. The Japanese company agrees and, upon their arrival ... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0057919 | Carry On Jack | Carry On Jack starts with the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson (Jimmy Thompson), whose last words are that Britain needs a bigger navy with more men, followed by his famous request for a kiss to Hardy (Anton Rodgers). In the main story, Albert Poop-Decker (Bernard Cribbins) has taken 8 1⁄2 years and still not qualified ... | historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Many would say if the Name "Carry On Jack" was mentioned, "I haven't seen that one" or "That was terrible wasn't it." To many Carry On Fans..the film is often very underrated.This is due to a very large lack of regulars within it.Sid James is not in it, nor is anyone common from the Hudis films such as Liz Fraser or Te... |
tt0119239 | Gupt: The Hidden Truth | Governor Jaisingh Sinha (Raj Babbar) is a prominent political figure, who is known as an upright person. Sinha presides over a meeting attended by influential industrialist Meghnad Chaudhry (Dalip Tahil), Vilas Rao (Sharat Saxena) and minister Mantriji (Prem Chopra), among others.
Sahil Sinha (Bobby Deol) is step son o... | insanity, romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0826031 | Arang | A veteran detective So-young and her rookie partner Hyun-ki come across an incendiary homicide case. They discover that the present case is related to the mysterious death of a girl ten years prior. So-young becomes plagued with nightmares in which the girl appears, and the killings continue.
The girl is actually Min-j... | suspenseful, murder, horror, haunting, flashback, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | Arang is a copycat, but it's different enough to be entertaining.
So-Young is a seasoned female detective who is investigated a series of brutal and unexplainable deaths.
Assigned a new partner to take on the case, So-Young unleashes terrifying secrets from the past, which involve a mysterious salt house, and a stereot... |
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