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tt1227762 | Aladin | The film opens with the family of archeologist Arun Chatterjee, who lives with his wife, Riya, and baby son, Aladin. When out on a holiday, Arun is attacked by a gang searching for a magic lamp, which Chatterjee has found, but has hidden somewhere. Arun and Riya Chatterjee are murdered; Aladin is raised by his grandfat... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | aladin is a boy who fall in love with jasmine but he cant tell her then jasmine gives her a gift from local store that was a lamp when he rubs it here comes the genius MR AB who act really cool i think he watch all the cartoons for this act luv the story plot for kids,adults and family then Sanjay Dutt acted well his c... |
tt0056331 | Panic in Year Zero! | Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland), his wife Ann (Jean Hagen), their son Rick (Frankie Avalon), and daughter Karen (Mary Mitchell) leave suburban Los Angeles on a camping trip. The Baldwins notice unusually bright light flashes coming from a great distance. Sporadic news reports broadcast on CONELRAD hint at the start of an a... | murder | train | wikipedia | But this movie was a surprisingly well thought out & thought-provoking story.Just as a family has left LA for a vacation in the woods, the US suffers a massive nuclear attack on all its major cities from, uh, an unnamed enemy.
The father, well portrayed by Ray Milland, is grimly determined to protect his family at all ... |
tt1227789 | Rites of Spring | Rachel Adams and her friend Alyssa Miller work for Ryan Hayden. Rachel is responsible for losing an important client, but she allows Ben Geringer to take the fall. Feeling guilty, she goes out to drink with Alyssa and resolves to come clean. Before she can, she and Alyssa are kidnapped by a man known only as the Strang... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0203672 | Jung wa ying hong | The story begins in early Republican China. After passing a test, Hero Hua is accepted by Pride, a master swordsman, as his second apprentice. When he returns home, he is horrified to see that his parents have been murdered by foreigners for opposing the opium trade. That night, Hero breaks up the foreigners' party and... | romantic, comic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0089835 | Pray for Death | At the insistence of his American-born wife, Aiko (Donna Kei Benz), Yokohama salaryman Akira Saito (Sho Kosugi) decides to immigrate from Japan to the country of her birth to raise their two sons Takeshi (Kane Kosugi) and Tomoya (Shane Kosugi) and start their own business. Unbeknownst to his family, Akira is in fact a ... | cult, revenge, cruelty, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | It seems easy to forget that in the early days of Home Video, Sho Kosugi was very much a celebrity, making Ninja-themed movies like this.
The plot is a revenge story, but the idea of Kosugi as a ninja who has hidden away his identity as such brings the film to a super-hero level as we have this man who is, along with h... |
tt1242460 | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Eva's narration takes the form of letters written after the massacre to her presumably estranged husband, Franklin Plaskett. In these letters she details her relationship with her husband well before and leading up to their son's conception, followed by the events of Kevin's life up to the school massacre, and her thou... | psychological, cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, sentimental | train | wikipedia | Instead she focuses in on character and relationship development and breakdown.Tilda Swinton gives a truly great performance and even though the main thread of the story is clear almost from the start, she and the rest of the terrific cast manage to keep the viewer glued to the screen.One of the most interesting facets... |
tt0095298 | Hidden City | Infuriated by receiving the wrong piece of film, statistician James Richards (Dance) arranges for the researcher who made the mistake, Sharon Newton (Stuart), to be sacked. When she realizes that he is responsible, Sharon contacts James and demands his help. She has obtained a mysterious piece of film which, while supe... | intrigue | train | wikipedia | Hidden Gem. One of the better British films of the last 20 years and criminally neglected - it doesn't appear to be currently available on video let alone DVD.Intriguing (and somewhat unsettling) plot.
Sensible portrayals - no overacting, Unusual settings - a London rarely seen either in life or on screen.
Well constru... |
tt1283956 | Student No. 1 | Aditya (NTR Jr.) joins a law college in Vizag as a student. The college is notorious for its unruly students headed by Satya (Rajiv Kanakala). Aditya is shown as a mysterious young man, and throughout the first half there are flashbacks to his story. He makes the unruly students mend their ways. In the interval, we com... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0032277 | Boys of the City | To escape the heat of the city and a court sentence for malicious mischief, the East Side kids agree to visit a summer camp in the Adirondacks. En route, their car breaks down and they are reluctantly given accommodations in the home of Judge Malcolm Parker (Forrest Taylor).
The Judge, under indictment for bribery, has... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | The beginning of this film is VERY similar to "Spooks Run Wild" (another Bowery Boys film); the boys keep getting into trouble in the city and are sent "into the country".
They wind up in a "haunted house", containing secret panels, ghosts & a MURDERER!This film is unique in that it was probably Minerva Urecal's bigges... |
tt0010419 | The Man Hunter | Lady Jane Winston (Lane), heiress to a company called the West Africa Ivory and Rubber Co., travels to Africa because she believes that George Castle (Loder), the company's manager in Africa, is stealing from the company. Rin Tin Tin sails on the same ship that she does.
When the ships arrives near Africa, Rin Tin Tin ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0190374 | Dungeons & Dragons | The Empire of Izmir has long been a divided land, ruled by the Mages, an elite group of magic users. An evil mage named Profion (Jeremy Irons) attempts to create a sceptre that allows him to control Gold Dragons. His attempt to control a captive golden dragon fails, and he is forced to kill it. The dragon bleeds into t... | fantasy, murder, violence, cult, good versus evil, revenge | train | wikipedia | I cried every time he appeared on the screen.Thora Birch was also far, far below her level in 'American Beauty', obviously unable to tell how one should put a little life into her bad dialogue and flat character, and somehow even thinking that that was her own fault.If at all, the thief Snails (Marlon Wayans from Scary... |
tt0271972 | Arachnid | A plane crashes on an island, and the pilot comes across a giant spider, which kills both him and an alien. One year later, Mercer (Alex Reid), the sister of the pilot, accompanies Valentine (Chris Potter) to the same island to locate her brother. On the way to a native village to examine several natives who are dying ... | violence | train | wikipedia | A plane driven by a pilot(Alex Reid) and transporting ex-marines(Chris Potter, Luis Lorenzo), a scientist(Ravil Isyanov) and doctors(Jose Sancho, Neus Asensi) crashes on a tropical island that contains a lethal carnivorous alien spider.
Utterly arachnophobia people must flee this film.Other movies about those bugs are ... |
tt0455596 | The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines | Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle), a year after his first mission as the Librarian, has been on many more death-defying missions to protect the world from evildoers, including a trip to Utah to recover a mystical crystal skull. Upon his return to the Library, the audience is introduced to more mythic artifacts stored there: The... | violence, action, flashback | train | wikipedia | Noah Wyle returns as the Librarian Flynn.
This time he sets out to find King Solomon's Mine together with the help of fellow "nerd" Emily Davenport (Gabrielle Anwar).
I think the character Flynn makes this movie.
I also enjoyed the addition of Gabrielle Anwar, whose love/hate relationship with Flynn creates some nice l... |
tt0031207 | Daredevils of the Red Circle | An escaped criminal, known as Harry Crowl, but preferring to be called by his prison number 39013 (pronounced Thirty Nine - Oh - Thirteen), seeks revenge on the man who sent him to prison, millionaire philanthropist Horace Granville. He kidnaps Granville, imprisoning him within his own house, and disguises himself to t... | revenge, mystery | train | wikipedia | 39013, an escaped convict, carries out his revenge on the man who put him in prison, by imprisoning Granville and impersonating him, with the aid of Granville's traitorous aides.
When destroying all of Granville's holdings in order to ruin him, he burns down the Granville Amusement Center, which claims the life of the ... |
tt0048606 | Sh-h-h-h-h-h | A short, mild-mannered man, Mr. Twiddle, plays the congas in a nightclub jazz combo; the incessant noise (the horn players point their instruments directly at Twiddle's head) cause him to have nervous tremors, and he leaves in the middle of the act while the rest of the band continues to play. Later, his psychiatrist D... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Tex Avery's bizarre masterpiece.
As we all know Tex Avery has made more than his share of great animated works.
From "Symphony In Slang" to "Who Killed Who?" to one of the best of the Droopy cartoons "Three Little Pups".
But those were all with MGM.
Avery was canned after MGM's animation department was shut down, so he... |
tt0076123 | Handle with Care | Paul Le Mat plays "Spider," a young man who makes a meager living repairing CB radios and spends his spare time volunteering with REACT International. He lives with his father, an irascible retired truck driver (Roberts Blossom) whose CB handle is "Papa Thermodyne."
"Chrome Angel" (played by Charles Napier) is an inter... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0300028 | Indian | Chandra Bose a.k.a. Chandru (Kamal Haasan) is a small-time middle man stationed outside Regional Transport Office, who aids people in greasing the right officials inside the RTO for getting permits and licenses. His assistant Subbaiah (Goundamani), and Paneerselvam (Senthil), a RTO official, are engaged regular tiffs w... | good versus evil, murder | train | wikipedia | Still njoying!. I've seen this movie umpteen times.But i still njoy the tricks used by our hero sunny deol to vanish the wrongdoers. script is wondrful in all respects incl. story,screenplay and dialogues.Story is truly wonderful.Screenplay is quite good to make u sit and njoy for 3 hrs.Dialogues mouthed by sunny deol ... |
tt0102343 | Love Potion No. 9 | Paul Matthews (Tate Donovan) is a lonely biochemist with a crush on his unavailable co-worker, biologist Diane Farrow (Sandra Bullock). His friends take him to a gypsy on 34th and Vine named Madame Ruth (Anne Bancroft). After reading his palm and seeing absolutely no romance in his life, Ruth gives him a small amount o... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0093854 | Return to Horror High | In 1982, the southern California town of Crippen was rocked by a series of murders at Crippen High School. The killer was never caught.
Several years later, Cosmic Pictures, headed by sleazy producer Harry Sleerik, has come to Crippen to make a movie about the murders, setting up shop in the high school. However, it se... | violence, cult, murder, romantic, prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0039208 | Boomerang! | Father Lambert (Wyrley Birch), a priest, is shot dead on a Bridgeport, Connecticut street at night. The police, led by Chief Robinson (Lee J. Cobb), fail to immediately find the murderer. It soon becomes a political hot potato, with the police accused of incompetence, and the city's reform-minded administration comes u... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | But Boomerang is the story of how the man who eventually became United States Attorney General, Homer Cummings, used his prosecutorial office to prove the INNOCENCE of an arrested murder suspect.
Today poor Arthur Kennedy who plays the veteran accused of murdering a priest in cold blood might have lawyered up and never... |
tt0039887 | Tarzan and the Huntress | Due to a shortage of animals in American zoos following World War II, Tanya Rawlins (Patricia Morison), a big-game "huntress," Carl Marley (John Warburton), her financial backer and Paul Weir (Barton MacLane), a cruel trail boss, are given permission by King Farrod (Charles Trowbridge), to capture a male and female of ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Edgar Rice Burrough's TARZAN AND THE HUNTRESS (RKO Radio, 1947), directed by Kurt Neumann, being Johnny Weissmuller's 11th portrayal as the king of the jungle, and fifth under Sol Lesser's unit distributed by RKO, can be summed up by this time in saying, "If you've seen one Tarzan movie, you've seen them all," however ... |
tt0080568 | The Crucible | === Act One ===
Betty Parris, the ten-year-old daughter of Salem preacher Reverend Samuel Parris, lies motionless. The previous evening, Reverend Parris discovered Betty, some other girls, and his Barbadian slave, Tituba, engaged in some sort of ritual in the woods. The village is rife with rumors of witchcraft and a c... | allegory | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0425413 | Run Fatboy Run | Dennis Doyle (Simon Pegg) is about to marry Libby (Thandie Newton), his pregnant fiancée. However, he gets cold feet and runs away on the day of the wedding. Five years later, Dennis discovers that Libby, who has their son, Jake, has started seeing successful but arrogant Whit (Hank Azaria) and realizes that he has tru... | comedy, boring | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0159193 | Shin kidô senki Gundam W | In the distant future, Mankind has colonized space, with clusters of space colonies at each of the five Earth-Moon Lagrange points. Down on the Earth, the nations have come together to form the United Earth Sphere Alliance. This Alliance oppresses the colonies with its vast military might. The colonies wishing to be fr... | psychedelic, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Soon after, the Gundam pilots, their civilian allies, and like-minded members of OZ join forces to take down the warring factions and bring real peace.With the characters, we have a group of young people who are highly misunderstood by the anime community.
Aiding Heero in his battles are the other four Gundam pilots: t... |
tt0107027 | Gojira vs. Mekagojira | Strange events are taking place in Okinawa. An Azumi priestess has a terrifying vision of a city being destroyed by a giant monster. A type of metal not found on earth is discovered in a cave by a spelunker, Masahiko Shimizu, who takes it to Professor Miyajima for examination. An excavation led by Masahiko's brother Ke... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Godzilla has a really busy time again: fighting the winged Radon, trashing a huge tin can named Mechagodzilla, and looking for his baby.
One novelty in the 90s Godzilla movies is the creation of a special group of experts called `G Force' who try not to let Godzilla wreck Japan as badly again as he did in the 60s.
Firs... |
tt0062136 | Playtime | Playtime is structured in six sequences, linked by two characters who repeatedly encounter one another in the course of a day: Barbara, a young American tourist visiting Paris with a group composed primarily of middle-aged American women, and Monsieur Hulot, a befuddled Frenchman lost in the new modernity of Paris. The... | psychedelic, humor, boring | train | wikipedia | It wasn't and "Play Time" bankrupted Tati, forcing him to sell the rights of all his films for little more than a fee.
The result is a bewildering pastiche of people on their daily do-abouts in modern Paris (the old Paris, like the Eiffel Tower, is only seen through reflections in the glass facades) amidst flickering n... |
tt0415947 | The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age | Although the main narrative of the game runs parallel to the narrative in the film trilogy, the plot is not intended as an original canonical story to fit into the plot as developed in the films. This is primarily seen insofar as the party are present during certain battles which in the films are solo fights, such as w... | good versus evil, violence, action, romantic | train | wikipedia | Doesn't break the LOTR licence trend one bit. In other words, the game is based around unbalanced play, annoying repetition, an over-reliance on the power of recognition, and little else. This is especially sad, given that the game had so much potential to be more. Unfortunately, EA Games has long had the attitude of "... |
tt0042395 | Devil's Doorway | The Civil War may be over back East, but prejudice still rules the West. A full-blooded Shoshone Indian named Lance Poole distinguished himself in the war, winning the Congressional Medal of Honor, only to return home to Medicine Bow, Wyoming, to something a far cry from a hero's welcome.
Townspeople resent the fact th... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | In Wyoming, Native American Indian and Civil War hero Robert Taylor (as Broken Lance Poole) faces discrimination.
White lawyer Louis Calhern (as Verne Coolan) wants to take away the land Taylor inherits.
Sheepherding homesteader Marshall Thompson (as Rod MacDougall) moves in, and the conflict gets violent..."Devil's Do... |
tt0062153 | The President's Analyst | Dr. Sidney Schaefer (James Coburn), a psychiatrist, is chosen by the U.S. Government to act as the President’s top-secret personal psychoanalyst, through Don Masters (Godfrey Cambridge), a Central Enquiries Agency (CEA) assassin who vetted Dr. Schaefer while undergoing psychoanalysis. The decision to choose Schaefer is... | psychological, satire | train | wikipedia | It genuinely is of its age - all swinging Sixties and cultural revolution - but it also sends all that up.Read the plot elsewhere but suffice to say that those numb-nuts who believe it to be shambolic clearly don't know a carefully structured film when they see one.
It's a comedy thriller that zips along whilst never m... |
tt0079891 | Shao Lin si | The film opens with the chief Shaolin Monks realizing that time is not on their side and they must train more fighters to fight the Qings. The monk Hai Hsien (Shan Mao) opposes this as he is secretly working for the court. Outside many men are sitting in front of the temple waiting to be accepted in, Fang Shih Yu (Alex... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | "The Shaolin Temple" is the first Chinese martial arts film to use gongfu artists instead of actors.
Initially, the Japanese investors hired actors, but didn't like the results, so they hired regional and national wushu champions.
Although Jet Li is the main character and his wushu is exceptional, don't underestimate t... |
tt0042664 | A Lady Without Passport | After World War II, immigrants in Cuba who are refused visas for various reasons try to sneak into the U.S. illegally with the help of a human smuggling ring run by Palinov (George Macready), a Levantine café owner. Following the death of one immigrant, U.S. Immigration operative Pete Karczag (John Hodiak) is sent to H... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0810056 | Ichigo mashimaro | === Themes ===
According to the manga, Strawberry Marshmallow is set in Hamamatsu, Japan. Seasons play an important role throughout Strawberry Marshmallow as the characters are involved in many normal seasonal activities. The series is speckled with many small, music-related allusions, such as Ana's dog Frusciante bein... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Sweet little series. This show revolves around college student and borderline pervert Nobue, her 12 year old sister Chika and Chika's three friends; Miu, Matsuri and Ana. It's basically about four cute little girls doing things in a cute manner. If you don't want to see four cute little girls being cute while one of th... |
tt0064487 | Injun Trouble | Cool Cat is driving to the town of Hotfoot one day, when his route happens to take him through an Indian reservation. Two scouts spot him and one of them gives chase, only to fall into a chasm when the weight of him and his horse causes the makeshift bridge to collapse (even though it had carried Cool Cat and his car w... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | An undignified end for the original Looney Tunes.
The Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes series is known for its excellent slapstick and witty wordplay, but you won't find either quality in the final Looney Tune, Injun Trouble (1969).Outside of its historical importance as the final entry in a great, long-running series, the... |
tt0052610 | The Beat Generation | In the opening scene, a "beatnik" named Stan Hess (Ray Danton) sits at a table in a coffee house with a woman who begs him for his affection. He scorns her, then encounters his father at another table, who announces his engagement to a younger woman who had also pursued Stan. He insults his stepmother-to-be and departs... | violence | train | wikipedia | Stereotyped and clichéd exploitation film about a serial rapist known as the Aspirin Kid (Ray Danton), who hangs out with a group of beatniks while continuing to victimize attractive suburban housewives.
Set in beatnik bars and on the beaches of LA, with some humorous dialog and a misogynistic cop played by Steve Cochr... |
tt0029843 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Richard the Lionheart (Ian Hunter), the King of England, is taken captive in 1191 by Leopold V, Duke of Austria while returning to England. Richard’s treacherous brother Prince John (Claude Rains) usurps the throne and proceeds to oppress the Saxons, raising taxes to secure his own position.
Only the Saxon nobleman Sir... | good versus evil, action, murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | But several years back she attended a revival of both The Adventures of Robin Hood and Dodge City two very different type films she did with Errol Flynn.As she watched it she saw the reverence and respect the audience had for both of these classics.
Michael Curtiz received only a single Academy Award for directing the ... |
tt0113114 | Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home | It's been two years since Jesse saved and freed his orca friend, Willy. Jesse, now a teenager, has since been adopted by his foster parents, Glen and Annie Greenwood. Jesse and his adoptive parents are preparing to go on a family camping trip to the Pacific Northwest. Glen has been trying to teach Jesse to drive their ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | First of all, I have to say what I liked original Free Willy movie.
For some reasons Simon Wincer, who directed the first movie didn't return for making this sequel, though we can see again all major characters from Free Willy.
Our main hero, Jesse is now fourteen years old and he finds out that his mother passed away ... |
tt1486670 | F | Felix O'Neil (Cameron Dallas) is a mischievous prankster who believes that school is a waste of time. He gets expelled after receiving his third suspension from the principal, Truman.
For several days, Felix covers up his expulsion with the help of his best friend, Danny. A week before report cards are supposed to be m... | murder | train | wikipedia | If you go by the start, they are also supposed to be 'F' grade students taking revenge (although this isn't clear), but they must have 'A' grades in Athletics because they run about on large bookcases in the library, fall from the ceiling at every opportunity, they act like stealth ninjas from start to finish.The endin... |
tt0116684 | Jane Eyre | === Introduction ===
The novel is a first-person narrative from the perspective of the title character. The novel's setting is somewhere in the north of England, late in the reign of George III (1760–1820). It goes through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically... | romantic, cruelty | train | wikipedia | I love the story of Jane Eyre so much, to insult anything that has to do with this beloved character is not easy to say.
I've seen 3 versions of this movie after having read Charlotte Bronte's book.
I've seen this particular film adaptation of Jane Eyre four times, and I'm still not tired of it.
As a faithful fan of th... |
tt0038462 | Decoy | The story picks up in Margot Shelby's apartment, as she is dying from a gunshot wound. Police detective Joe Portugal arrives at the scene to hear her last moments and possible confession. Margot recounts all the events that lead to Dr. Lloyd Craig shooting her shortly after arriving at her apartment. Via flash-back, we... | plot twist, cult, murder, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | A knockout film noir with no frills, save Methylene Blue and Jean Gillie as Margot Shelby..
Like her compatriot Peggy Cummins (Annie Laurie Starr in Gun Crazy), she makes no attempt, as Margot Shelby, to Americanize her origins; in explanation, Decoy lets her spit out her contempt for poverty in an eloquent aria abou... |
tt0087555 | The Clairvoyant | Rains plays Maximus, "King of the Mind Readers", who performs an English music hall mind-reading act with the help of his wife, Rene (Fay Wray), using a secret code. One night, he sees the beautiful Christine Shawn (Jane Baxter) in the audience, and his act becomes reality. He is able to tell what is in a sealed letter... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0382330 | Så som i himmelen | Daniel Daréus (Michael Nyqvist) is a successful and renowned international conductor whose life aspiration is to create music that will open people's hearts. His own heart, however, is in bad shape. After suffering a heart attack on stage at the end of a performance, he retires indefinitely to Norrland in the far north... | violence, feel-good, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | A famous conductor, forced to retire by illness, returns to the small village of his birth to become the leader of the church choir, and finally find fulfillment in his music.
Firstly, small films about strangers bringing new life to rural Christian communities provide plenty of scope for the exposure of hypocrisy whil... |
tt0817910 | Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron | In a series of flashbacks played in reverse chronological order it is related that in 1939, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm investigated a series of murders in Eastern Europe. Erzebet Ondrushko, a vampire who bathed in the blood of innocents to stay young, was responsible. She had sold her soul to the Queen of Witches, th... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1684915 | My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part 2 | Following the events of the first film, Skye Rotter has a nightmare that following the memorial for the teens murdered at the Roller-Dome (Madison, Olivia, Chloe, Lily and Kevin), Brigg and Derek have a run-in with her father, Charlie Rotter. In the dream, Rotter stabs Derek repeatedly in the neck and Brigg, seeing Sky... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0045684 | Devil's Canyon | Arizona, 1897: A female outlaw, Abby Nixon, warns a lawman, Billy Reynolds, that her accomplices Bud and Cole Gorman are nearby. Reynolds manages to kill both in a gunfight, but finds himself arrested for murder, convicted and sentenced to a desert prison known as Devil's Canyon.
One of the prisoners there is a third G... | revenge | train | wikipedia | How hard is it for a good man to go bad?.
This grim sagebrush drama is about a clash between inmates at a 1890s Arizona prison.
Dale Robertson is the ex-marshal that finds himself behind bars for killing two men in self defense.
Virgina Mayo is the love interest and maybe best thing about the movie.
Also in the cast ar... |
tt0118601 | American Dragons | Detective Tony Luca (Michael Biehn) is sent on a homicide investigation of a Yakuza leader after a bungled undercover sting to capture notorious gangster Rocco (Don Stark). After finding a folded origami lotus with the black lotus insignia Tony is assigned a partner, Detective Kim (Park Joong-hoon) from Seoul, South Ko... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0089424 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | The film tells of two very different men who share a prison cell in Brazil during the Brazilian military government: Valentin Arregui, who is imprisoned (and has been tortured) due to his activities on behalf of a leftist revolutionary group, and Luis Molina, a pederast in prison for having sex with an underage boy.
Mo... | avant garde | train | wikipedia | William Hurt and Raul Julia play cell mates, one gay, the other straight, rotting away in a Latin American prison under the iron thumb of a tyrannical dictatorship.
At first, Julia's Latin machismo makes him repelled by Hurt's flamboyant femininity, but the two gradually bond, thrown together as they are, and discover ... |
tt0118927 | Dangerous Ground | The film opens in South Africa, during 1983. A young Vusi (Thokozani Nkosi) organizes a radical student protest that is soon put down by police, Vusi is captured and forced to leave for the United States where he settles down in the San Francisco Bay Area.
14 years later, Vusi (Ice Cube) returns to South Africa to atte... | revenge | train | wikipedia | A horrible waste of time....
``Everything was like, y'know, separated.''With this comically clumsy explanation of apartheid, an actual line from this unfortunate film, any meager hope for ``Dangerous Ground'' evaporated like a Transkei rain shower.How flawed is this film?Consider that its star, Ice Cube, utters that cl... |
tt0099726 | Hamlet | === Act I ===
The protagonist of Hamlet is Prince Hamlet of Denmark, son of the recently deceased King Hamlet, and nephew of King Claudius, his father's brother and successor. Claudius hastily married King Hamlet's widow, Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, and took the throne for himself. Denmark has a long-standing feud with ... | gothic, murder, action, romantic, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0258523 | Diablo II | Diablo II takes place after the end of the previous game, Diablo, in the world of Sanctuary. In Diablo, an unnamed warrior defeated Diablo and attempted to contain the Lord of Terror's essence within his own body. Since then, the hero has become corrupted by the demon's spirit, causing demons to enter the world around ... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Got a spare 3 months??.
At least I think that's how long I spent playing Diablo II in every spare moment I could find, I'm not sure, I kinda lost track of time for a bit.The concept behind making Diablo II so popular is ridiculously simple.
Make an engine that can generate nearly infinite numbers of uniquely different ... |
tt0355987 | Salem's Lot | Ben Mears, a writer who spent part of his childhood in Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, has returned after twenty-five years. He quickly becomes friends with high school teacher Matt Burke and strikes up a passionate romantic relationship with Susan Norton, a young college graduate.
Ben starts writing a book about the Marsten H... | good versus evil, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0075164 | Satan's Slave | A young girl, Catherine Yorke (Candace Glendenning), shares a ride with her parents to visit her uncle Alexander (Michael Gough), that no one had met before. But the drive ends in tragedy when Catherine's parents die in a car accident.
The girl is then hosted by the mysterious Alexander, who lives in a beautiful house ... | paranormal, violence, cult, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0261725 | Harpya | A mustachioed Belle Époque-styled man (Spoor) is walking down a dark street, when he hears the cries of a woman (Waller Zeper) as she is being strangled in a fountain. The man knocks out her assailant (Schwibethus), only to discover that she is in fact a Harpy, a winged white bird, larger than an eagle, having the (bal... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0109903 | Girls in Prison | Anne Carson (Joan Taylor) is sent to a women's prison for allegedly participating in a bank robbery with two others, one, Paul Anderson (Lance Fuller) who is still at large. The money was never recovered and all eyes are on Anne who denies knowing about the money.
On arrival in prison, Anne meets the outwardly tough ma... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Very Watchable.
A film doesn't have to be good to be entertaining and GIRLS IN PRISON is a case in point .
The intelligence of the script starts and ends with a discussion of The Korean War " It's supposed to be a police action " " Yeah ?
Then why the hell didn't they send cops " Which is dialogue that will be forever ... |
tt0057191 | It Happened at the World's Fair | Pilot Mike Edwards finds himself in a dilemma, his partner and friend Danny, gambles away the money Mike had set aside to pay their debts. Since they lost their money and a $1,200 debt, the local sheriff takes possession of their plane, Bessie, a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 cropduster. If they cannot come up with the mone... | cult | train | wikipedia | As someone else mentioned, 1963 is still early enough that Elvis Presley looks like he's enjoying himself in "It Happened at the World's Fair," which also stars Gary Lockwood, Joan O'Brien and Vicky Tiu. Pilots Mike (Elvis) and Danny (Lockwood) find themselves without a plane after it's confiscated for debts due to Loc... |
tt0451192 | Scarface: The World Is Yours | The game begins during the final scene of the film, with the mansion of Tony Montana (voiced by André Sogliuzzo) under attack from assassins sent by Alejandro Sosa (Robert Davi). Unlike in the film, however, Montana is able to evade Sosa's men and escape the grounds, just as the DEA and Miami-Dade police arrive. Sosa t... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | The licecned games tend to be pretty poor as the developers know it will sell purely on the fact it's based on a popular film/TV show.
Then adding to that the dreaded "GTA clone", cos let's be honest here NO ONE can pull off a GTA -esque game other than Rockstar North.
So it already has a lot to live up to.Quick, the b... |
tt0041760 | Porky Chops | The Hipster Squirrel is on vacation in the north woods, and decides to get some sleep, but his sleep is disturbed by what he thinks is a woodpecker, but finds out that "lumberjackson" Porky Pig is chopping his own tree. The squirrel zips open a door at the base of the tree and removes the blade off of Porky's axe then ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Porky Upstaged By The 'Hipster' Squirrel.
A city-wise squirrel is resting comfortably in his new vacation-type room in the middle of a big tree trunk in the Northwest.
He's from Flatbush and has his "Brooklyn Dodgers"pennant tacked on the wall.
As he is getting ready for his first long nap, he hears what he thinks is a... |
tt0050271 | Crime of Passion | Kathy Ferguson (Stanwyck) is a San Francisco newspaper advice columnist. One day, Lieutenant Bill Doyle (Hayden), a Los Angeles police detective, and his partner, Captain Charlie Alidos (Royal Dano), track a fugitive wanted for murder to San Francisco. He meets Kathy and they fall in love. She manages to gain the femal... | murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Stanwyck's slow descent into middle-class torpor and madness (she's a sharp, witty, intelligent woman who saddles herself with a maddeningly boring and conventional cop husband, played nicely against type by Sterling Hayden) lays bare the social nightmare presented to women desiring anything but the conventional patria... |
tt0055304 | Pit and the Pendulum | In sixteenth century Spain, Englishman Francis Barnard (John Kerr) visits the castle of his brother-in-law Nicholas Medina (Vincent Price) to investigate the mysterious death of his sister Elizabeth (Barbara Steele). Nicholas and his younger sister Catherine (Luana Anders) offer a vague explanation that Elizabeth died ... | insanity, cult, gothic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | 'Pit And The Pendulum' sees b-grade legend Roger Corman ('Little Shop Of Horrors'), talented suspense writer Richard Matheson ('The Incredible Shrinking Man'), and horror master Vincent Price ('The Tingler') try and recreate the success of their first Poe adaptation 'House Of Usher'.
'Pit And The Pendulum' is one of C... |
tt0116897 | Little Witches | Faith (Mimi Rose) is a relatively shy young teenager that is heartbroken when her mother informs her that she must spend Easter break at her Catholic girls' school as opposed to coming home. She's roomed with the rebellious Jamie (Sheeri Rappaport), who initially scandalizes Faith with her wild antics. Despite her init... | psychedelic, comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0165581 | The King of Queens | Doug and Carrie Heffernan are a working class couple living at "3121 Aberdeen Street" in Rego Park, Queens, New York, along with Carrie's eccentric father, Arthur Spooner. Doug works for the fictional International Parcel Service (IPS) as a delivery driver, while Carrie works as a secretary in Manhattan, first for a la... | humor | train | wikipedia | This show has two things that other great sitcoms don't or didn't, Kevin James and Jerry Stiller.
Kevin must be one of the most underrated comedy actors there is, his comedy timing is perfect, he is insensitive yet endearing and basically just damn funny, the scenes between him and Leah Remini are just fantastic.
Sense... |
tt0116493 | Harriet the Spy | Eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch is an aspiring writer who lives in New York City's Upper East Side. A precocious and enthusiastic girl, Harriet enjoys writing and hopes to become a writer. Encouraged by her nanny, Catherine "Ole Golly," Harriet carefully observes others and writes her thoughts down in a notebook as p... | flashback | train | wikipedia | I think this movie has a great plot and a great message to young children.
In totality, this is a cute movie with a good message, and if you liked the movie, read the book too..
I saw Harriet the Spy when it first came out and bought the video about a year ago.
I always thought that it would make a good film (along wit... |
tt1596345 | Pawn Sacrifice | The film starts with an adult Bobby Fischer in a paranoid state, worried he is being spied upon by the Soviets. The film flashes back to when Fischer is 6 years old, the late 1940s, and he is shown even then feeling a general sense of paranoia. His mother, a Russian immigrant, supports his general fears, telling him sh... | flashback | train | wikipedia | The film picks up with the arrival of three characters played by brilliant actors: Michael Stahlbarg as Paul Marshall, a sort of fixer / hand-holder, Peter Sarsgaard as Father William Lombardy, a chess master, and Liev Schreiber as Boris Spassky.
So don't assume that this is a boring movie because of its theme.This is ... |
tt0051198 | The Wings of Eagles | Soon after World War I is over, "Spig" Wead (John Wayne), along with John Dale Price (Ken Curtis), tries to prove to the Navy the value of aviation in combat. To do this, Wead pushes the Navy to compete in racing and endurance competitions. Several races are against the US Army aviation team led by Captain Herbert Alle... | violence | train | wikipedia | He rarely did characters with flaws, either physical or mental.But he does a great job.Did anyone catch a wonderful comment made by Wayne while he and the naval staff were watching films of the carriers being bombed?
John Ford+John Wayne+Maureen O' Hara= Film Film Biopic.
The iconic director and his usual cast of playe... |
tt0307213 | Nabbeun namja | A power linesman by trade, Lucky Walden owes gambling debts, plus interest, to crooked gamblers. When they come to make him pay, Lucky hits one with a wrench, killing him. He goes to jail and is sentenced to death.
Lucky's one chance is for his brother Steve to find an eyewitness who can testify that Lucky killed the m... | psychological | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0410332 | August Underground's Mordum | Like its predecessor, Mordum is presented as a degraded home movie shot by serial killers. This one includes the returning character Peter, his sadomasochistic girlfriend Crusty, and depraved man-child brother Maggot. Also, the status of the cameraman from the first film is revealed.
After Peter walks in on Crusty and ... | violence, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | I thought this genre of hand-held shock began and ended with Blair Witch Project.The movie is mindless, self-indulgent porn-gore, poorly "acted" by people simply reveling in attempting to give a shock-effect, while uttering the F*-word in nearly every line.Sure, the movie apparently meets its attempted goal, of desecra... |
tt0073941 | Aloha, Bobby and Rose | In 1970s Hollywood, Bobby (Paul Le Mat) works as an auto mechanic by day, and shoots pool and races his red 1968 Chevrolet Camaro by night. His friend Moxey (Robert Carradine) is excited to be accepted to transmission school and build his skills for a better paying job. The less responsible Bobby seems to have no such ... | prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0043903 | Parsifal | Place: Near the seat of the Grail
=== Act 1 ===
In a forest near the home of the Grail and its Knights, Gurnemanz, eldest Knight of the Grail, wakes his young squires and leads them in prayer. He sees Amfortas, King of the Grail Knights, and his entourage approaching. Amfortas has been injured by his own Holy Spear, an... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0068786 | Junior Bonner | Junior "JR" Bonner is a rodeo rider who is slightly "over the hill". Junior is first seen taping up his injuries after an unsuccessful ride on an ornery bull named Sunshine.
He returns home to Prescott, Arizona, for the Independence Day parade and rodeo. When he arrives, the Bonner family home is being bulldozed by his... | cult, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0045323 | What Price Glory | Upon the United States entry into World War I, the first American units to arrive at the front in France are veteran Marine companies, one of which is commanded by Captain Flagg, along with his lieutenants, Moore and Aldrich. Flagg has developed a romantic relationship with the daughter of the local innkeeper, Charmain... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0052218 | Some Came Running | Dave Hirsh is a cynical Army veteran and an occasionally published but generally unsuccessful pre-war writer, who winds up in his hometown of Parkman after being put on a bus in Chicago while intoxicated. Ginnie Moorehead, a woman of seemingly loose morals and poor education, has taken the same bus.
Hirsh had left Park... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037954 | Objective, Burma! | A group of United States Army paratroopers led by Captain Nelson (Errol Flynn) are dropped into Burma to locate and destroy a camouflaged Japanese Army radar station that is detecting Allied aircraft flying into China. For their mission, they are assigned Gurkha guides, a Chinese Army Captain and an older war correspon... | violence | train | wikipedia | A solidly entertaining film that follows the exploits of a small group of American paratroopers dropped behind Japanese lines to destroy an enemy radar installation, it was quite gritty for a 1940's era war picture.
It's also one of Errol Flynn's best roles, as the captain of a parachute squad sent to blow up a Japanes... |
tt1023500 | Doghouse | Vince (Stephen Graham) is depressed over his recent divorce. Six of his friends—Neil (Danny Dyer), Mikey (Noel Clarke), Graham (Emil Marwa), Matt (Lee Ingleby), Patrick (Keith-Lee Castle) and Banksy (Neil Maskell), all of whom have their own women problems—decide to take him on a "boys' weekend". They hire a minibus dr... | absurd, cult, comedy, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Vince (Stephen Graham) is going through the final stages of his divorce and to help him through this period his friends Mikey (Noel Clarke) and Neil (Danny Dyer) decide to take him and a few of the other boys to a remote village outside the humdrum of their London lives to get, in Dyer's own words; 's**tfaced'.
However... |
tt0227538 | Spy Kids | Ingrid and Gregorio Cortez are rival spies who fall in love. They retire and have two children, twelve-year-old Carmen and nine-year-old Juni. They work for the Organization of Super Spies (OSS) doing desk work. The children have no idea of their parents' previous career. Ingrid and Gregorio are called back into the fi... | violence, atmospheric, clever, good versus evil, action, entertaining, storytelling | train | wikipedia | The Floop creations are too silly to appeal to adults but will probably provide some laughs for kids but generally the film gets the tone right for both groups.Rodriguez directs with his usual approach and I quite enjoyed the effect it had here because it does suit the silly, hyper material (which he also wrote).
The e... |
tt0093891 | Rumpelstiltskin | In order to make himself appear superior, a miller lies to the king, telling him that his daughter can spin straw into gold. (Some versions make the miller's daughter blonde and describe the "straw-into-gold" claim as a careless boast the miller makes about the way his daughter's straw-like blond hair takes on a gold-l... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Another Winner From Cannon!.
"Rumpelstiltskin" is another Cannon Movie Tale that does a fine job with it's classic material.
Few film versions of "Rumpelstiltskin" have been made, so it's lucky they did right by the story.
Amy Irving as Katie, the miller's daughter is lovely, and sings well, too.
Billy Barty is a suita... |
tt0074670 | Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks | Three crates arrive to the harem. Inside are tied up, gagged, chastity belt-wearing, unconscious, kidnapped, western women. The first woman is the sole heir of a "chain store king of the United States". The second is a large-breasted film actress, whom the western press dubbed "the new Scandinavian love goddess". The t... | violence, pornographic, revenge, cult, sadist | train | wikipedia | HAREM KEEPER OF THE OIL SHEIKS, is a relatively decent follow-up to the classic SHE WOLF OF THE SS.
Ilsa trains the girls to be good little sluts, and the expected sleaze begins...Not as powerful as the aforementioned SHE WOLF, HAREM KEEPER has a "lighter" tone and was obviously an attempt to cash-in on the probably un... |
tt1555126 | The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | Anne Lister (Maxine Peake) is a young unmarried woman living in 19th century Yorkshire, at Shibden Hall, with her aunt (Gemma Jones) and uncle (Alan David). The one thing she wants from life is to have someone to love and to share her life with. The person she has in mind is Mariana Belcombe (Anna Madeley), with whom s... | romantic | train | wikipedia | "I love and only love the fairer sex .
"I love and only love the fairer sex, and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love but theirs." - Anne Lister, Journals, Oct 29, 1820The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010) (TV) was written by Jane English and directed by James Kent.
This film is a biogra... |
tt2112124 | Chennai Express | Rahul Mithaiwala (Shah Rukh Khan) is a forty-year-old bachelor living in Mumbai. His parents died in a car accident when he was eight years old, so his grandparents raised him. Rahul's grandfather (Lekh Tandon) owns a chain of confectionery shops. Before his grandfather's 100th birthday celebration, two of Rahul's frie... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Is it the director who does not bring out the best in her, or is it the Indian audience who just wants " Time Pass " movies with just a couple of beautiful faces, stupid story line and making fun of dwarfs!!
Coming to acting, SRK's comic timing was impeccable even when he was hamming through the scenes, it was done wit... |
tt0298388 | Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie | Bob the Tomato and Dad Asparagus are driving Junior Asparagus, Laura Carrot, and other Veggie children to see the popular singer "Twippo" in concert. During the drive, Laura taunts the other children because she won a backstage pass; much to the annoyance of Junior. Circumstances unfold and soon Bob loses control of th... | cult | train | wikipedia | The movie certainly works for children, but those familiar with the Veggie franchise understand that much in the same way as Bugs Bunny, The Flintstones, and the Muppets that much of the humor is for the adults.The movie works on a number of levels:1) It tells a cohesive story for both the Veghead and the Veggie novice... |
tt0060818 | Penelope | Penelope Wilhern (Christina Ricci) is a pretty young woman from a wealthy family with all the qualities to make an excellent match for any other well-bred man of her status. What sets her apart is that she has the ears and nose of a pig.
Generations ago, an embittered and vengeful witch (Michael Feast) placed a curse o... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0057093 | Gay Purr-ee | The story is set in 1895 France and takes place predominantly in Paris. However, it begins on a farm in rural Provence. The lovely housecat Mewsette and the accomplished but shy mouser Jaune Tom are in love ("Mewsette"), until the former is frustrated with his plebeian ways (and those of the farm), to the point of call... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | But it does manage a certain kind of epic magic, more akin to the impressionist style it emulates than to the "MTV video feel" behind most of today's standard animation works.Gay Pur-ree (which aired in my country as "La Fair Mewsette", to my mind a MUCH better title) is a throwback to an age of innocence (corny as thi... |
tt0485601 | The Secret of Kells | Brendan, a young, curious, and idealistic boy living in the tightly knit community at the Abbey of Kells, is under the strict care of his stern uncle, Abbot Cellach. Cellach is obsessed with building a wall around the Abbey, in order to prevent Viking attacks.
Brendan is apprenticed in the scriptorium of the monastery.... | psychedelic, fantasy, magical realism, atmospheric, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Thankfully, it came to pass that I was able to watch this animated little treasure.The story is about the child Brendan who was the nephew of the imposing and overprotective Abbot of the township of Kells.
Along the way, Brendan befriended the white forest sprite Aisling, as he sought to recover an ancient crystal inva... |
tt0117108 | Multiplicity | Doug Kinney (Michael Keaton) is a Los Angeles construction worker whose job is constantly getting in the way of his family. On one job to build a new wing of a scientific facility, Doug meets up with Dr. Leeds (Harris Yulin), a friendly scientist who has developed a successful method for cloning humans. Doug is introdu... | stupid | train | wikipedia | Though nowhere near as good as Groundhog Day (director Harold Ramis's previous movie) this is still a solid comedy with several big laughs.
Multiplicity represents his funniest film work in years, and perhaps his best ever.A couple of scenes in particular stand out as howlingly funny set pieces - such as the one in the... |
tt0437437 | Prince of Persia: Warrior Within | Seven years after the events of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the Prince finds himself constantly hunted by a terrible beast known as the Dahaka. The Prince seeks counsel from an old wise man who explains that whoever releases The Sands of Time must die. Because the Prince escaped his fate, it is the Dahaka's mi... | violence, dark | train | wikipedia | I had very little idea about the game, a couple of years before I watched the Two Thrones announce but still it didn't appeal to me.When I got to play this since it worked very well on my computer I got instantly dragged into the world of Prince of Persia again (I used to play the first installment of this series a lon... |
tt0067750 | Shoot Out | Clay Lomax is released from prison after serving nearly eight years. He goes looking for Sam Foley, a bank robber who shot Lomax in the back and left him to be arrested. Learning of his release, Foley hires a trio of young thugs—Pepe, Skeeter, and Bobby Jay Jones—to track Lomax's movements. Lomax locates an old friend,... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Plot has Peck playing Clay Lomax, who is out of prison after 7 years and seeking revenge on the partner who shot him in the back during a robbery.
But Lomax soon finds he has company in the young child form of Decky Ortega (Lyn), who has been sent to him by his one time lover Teresa, sadly now deceased.Just do your lit... |
tt0368530 | One Tree Hill | The main storyline in the early seasons is the relationship between two half-brothers, Lucas and Nathan Scott, who start out as enemies but bond as the show progresses. In the pilot episode, Lucas obtains a place in the Tree Hill Ravens (the high school basketball team) with the help of his uncle Keith. Nathan, the hea... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | I didn't have the time to catch the tv spots when by any reason a finished watching the first episode just a few weeks after the beginning of The O.C., but there's a great difference between both, even when they have a great cast, good scripts, One tree hill feels like something fresh and at the same time more emotiona... |
tt0019946 | The Great Gabbo | The movie follows brilliant ventriloquist "The Great Gabbo" (Stroheim), who increasingly uses his dummy "Otto" as his only means of self-expression—an artist driven insane by his work.
Gabbo's gimmick is his astonishing ability to make Otto talk—and even sing—while Gabbo himself smokes, drinks and eats. Gabbo's girlfri... | insanity, romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | THE GREAT GABBO (Sono-Art, 1929), directed by James Cruze, adapted from the story "The Rival Dummy" by Ben Hecht, stars famed director and actor Erich Von Stroheim in his talkie debut as an egotistical ventriloquist named Gabbo, or should I say, THE GREAAAT GABBO.
As time passes, Gabbo increases his fame by becoming a ... |
tt1641385 | 96 Minutes | The film is set against 96 minutes in one night. The events of the night unfold in real time and the film intercuts the beginning and the end of that day. It follows four separate stories and the seemingly innocuous decisions that lead them towards a terrifying and life changing conclusion.
At first we see the four mai... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0034240 | Sullivan's Travels | John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) is a popular young Hollywood director of profitable but shallow comedies (e.g. Ants in Your Plants). Sullivan is dissatisfied despite his success and tells his studio boss, Mr. Lebrand (Robert Warwick) that he wants his next project to be a serious exploration of the plight of the downtro... | comedy, satire, depressing | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0171768 | Sometimes They Come Back... for More | The U.S. military has a secret illegal mining operation in Antarctica. When one of the personnel stationed at the base goes on a rampage, two military operatives, Capt. Sam Cage (Clayton Rohner) and Maj. Callie O'Grady (Chase Masterson) drop in to search the base. They discover two survivors, medical officer Capt. Jenn... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0378661 | Les revenants | The recently deceased of an anonymous French town suddenly return to life, calmly streaming forth from a cemetery in a silent procession. The town council, led by the mayor (Victor Garrivier), makes plans to house the returned and help reintroduce them to society. The mayor informs the council that the event has lasted... | flashback | train | wikipedia | If the purpose of film is to generate thought and reflection as much as to entertain, 'Les Revenants' succeeds by virtue of it's creepy essence and the personal and social problems we'd encounter as individuals if faced with the reality of having our dead loved ones come back to us.
The misty night scenes, serene almos... |
tt0465316 | Afro Samurai | In a feudal yet futuristic Japan, it is said that the one who wields the Number 1 headband is the fiercest fighter in the world and shall possess god-like powers. The only way to obtain the Number 1 headband is to challenge and defeat the current wearer in combat. However, only the Number 2 can challenge the Number 1 w... | revenge, psychedelic, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Well kids, i'm going to defend this show, because there's a lot too it you guys are missing out on.Afro Samurai is the new anime produced by and starring Mr. Samuel L.
Jackson, as well as high end voice talent like Phil LaMarr of Samurai Jack fame, and Ron Perlman, the man who is and will always be Hellboy.Like the gre... |
tt0118643 | The Prophecy II | Lucifer (Guri Weinberg) ejects Gabriel from Hell, claiming the War of Heaven isn't his to fight and Hell isn't big enough for Gabriel and he. Gabriel's new mission is to prevent the birth of a child, a nephilim, the offspring of an angel and a human. The coming of this child, said to precede reconciliation between the ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0058610 | The Spy with My Face | Mr. Waverly (Leo G. Carroll) gives U.N.C.L.E. agents Solo, Kuryakin, Arsene Coria (Fabrizio Mioni) from Italy, and Namana (Bill Gunn) from Liberia their assignment: they are to take a top secret code to a hidden location. After they leave, Waverly sends another agent, Australian Kitt Kittridge (Donald Harron), to follo... | good versus evil, violence | train | wikipedia | "A time capsule of the 1960's.".
POSSIBLE SPOILERS THRUSH kidnaps Napoleon Solo (Vaughn) and replaces him with a double in order to infiltrate a secret UNCLE operation called 'The August Affair', which will enable them to get their hands on 'Project Earthsave', an intense energy force that is being stored for use in th... |
tt0176236 | Titanic: Adventure Out of Time | Players assume the role of Frank Carlson, a former British secret agent who failed a mission aboard the RMS Titanic; he now lives in an apartment. On 14 April 1942, Carlson is caught in an air raid during the London Blitz and his apartment is bombed. Carlson blacks out, before awakening in a ship quarters, as his young... | murder | train | wikipedia | Rich and complex, many different possible endings.
This is a game you can really immerse (whoops) yourself in.
The story, like the Cameron movie, is fictional, set on the factual Titanic.
You have the chance to change history, but beware!
You may unwittingly make things worse!
The two CD set also features a walk-around... |
tt0479722 | Mulawin: The Movie | Aguiluz and Alwina's plan for a peaceful life as mortals unravels when their boat to Tierra Fuego (the realm of man) is caught in a violent storm. They wash up on separate shores, a young man and woman living without memories and living separate lives. Aguiluz is adopted by a humble farmer and Alwina becomes the surrog... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | the long-running soap opera squeezed into 2 hours. So what will happen if an epic story which should take about many months to be presented properly is squeezed into two hours? Enter 'Mulawin: The Movie', GMA films latest fantasy motion picture to date. 'Mulawin: the Movie' continues the story where 'Mulawin the Soap O... |
tt0031506 | Jeepers Creepers | Three days after the events of the first film, the Creeper, disguised as a scarecrow, abducts young Billy Taggart in front of Taggart Sr. and Billy's older brother, Jack Jr. The following day, a school bus carrying a high school basketball team and cheerleaders suffers a blowout, after one of the wheels is hit by a han... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | One of The Best Loony Tunes Funnies.
No collection of old time cartoons would be complete without this one.
If I were going to select my all-time favorite Warner Brother Loony Tunes cartoon, it would be a tie between this nutty ghost story and the nuttier "Porky in Wackyland" (1939) aka "Dough for the Do-Do".
I first s... |
tt0042771 | Mystery Street | Blonde B-girl Vivian (played by Jan Sterling) is pregnant and tries to contact the father to seek financial help. He refuses to meet and stops taking her calls. She goes to "The Grass Skirt" bar in Boston where she works and picks up a drunk (Marshall Thompson) so she can use his car to drive to Cape Cod, where she can... | murder | train | wikipedia | In the unusually large cast besides Montalban as Pete Morales were Sally Forrest, Marshall Thompson, Elsa Lanchester, Edmon Ryan as the villain, Bruce Bennet as a forensics professor, Betsy Blair, Jan Sterling and many others.
A "B" girl being told to get lost by her rich married boyfriend has to hijack a car driven by... |
tt0112431 | Babe | Babe, an orphaned piglet, is chosen for a "guess the weight" contest at a county fair. The winning farmer, Arthur Hoggett, brings him home and allows him to stay with a Border Collie named Fly, her mate Rex and their puppies, in the barn.
A duck named Ferdinand, who poses as a rooster to spare himself from being eaten,... | cute, fantasy, entertaining, boring | train | wikipedia | It is a fantasy world where animals speak just like humans do.....albeit not in Australian accents, which is where the film is meant to be set.The hero of this tale is a young pig named Babe, who is transfered from the pig pen, to the village fête, to the hands of Farmer Hoggett who wins the little fellow in a prize ra... |
tt0043140 | The Woman in Question | Agnes Huston, an English widow, is found murdered at her house. Superintendent Lodge, the detective on the case, and Inspector Butler start questioning people closely associated with her. Her neighbour Mrs. Finch, tells Lodge that Agnes is a gentlewoman, and throughout her rendition Agnes is shown in a pleasant looking... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | 'The Woman in Question' shows the same person, the fairground fortune-teller Astra (real name: Agnes) as five different people saw her.
Astra has been found strangled and the police chief tries to put together what has happened to her.Jean Kent is excellent - for me, she was at her best in sleazy, tarty roles and the e... |
tt0071268 | The California Kid | The story takes place in 1958, and involves a town, Clarksburg, California, with a famous speed trap, in which a disturbed Sheriff Roy Childress (Vic Morrow), whose wife and daughter were killed by a speeder, turns bad, with a habit of deliberately punishing speeders by pushing their cars off the mountain highway in hi... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
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