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tt0080437 | The Big Red One | The film begins in black and white in November 1918 at the end of World War I. A private (Marvin), using his trench knife, kills a German soldier who was approaching with his arms raised and speaking in German. When he returns to his company's headquarters, the private is told that the "war's been over for four hours."... | bleak, pornographic, suspenseful, historical, realism | train | wikipedia | For all the hoopla created by "Saving Private Ryan" (another excellent film, which, in my opinion, had a better understanding of it's subject than a lot of it's critics gave it credit for), it owed a great deal to what Sam Fuller did a decade and a half before.Lee Marvin, an actual WWII veteran himself, holds the film ... |
tt1757746 | Extracted | Tom, a scientist, invents a machine that can insert a person into the subconscious mind of another person. Desperate for funding to complete his prototype, he is forced to accept money from an anonymous investor. When the investor threatens to pull out, Tom reluctantly agrees to a demonstration a month ahead of schedul... | psychological, psychedelic, alternate reality, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0080161 | You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown | Charlie Brown decides to enter the Junior Olympics at his school after it is revealed he is not going on vacation after all. The decathlon is the only thing left open, and Charlie Brown accepts the challenge (of course after everyone else there refused to take on such a tough event before Charlie Brown showed up).
Pepp... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Rooting for Charlie Brown!. We had a little brown-bag luncheon at work and an employee decided to play this cartoon short for some fun and laughs. Even though there were just six to seven of us adults in the room, it appeared that we all enjoyed the cartoon (I could hear a lot of chuckles) for its innocence, family-fri... |
tt0029475 | Renfrew of the Royal Mounted | In the summer of 1937, a dangerous gang of counterfeiters are transporting illegal money from the United States into Canada concealed inside frozen trout. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police assures the United States Treasury officials that they will cooperate fully in helping to apprehend the criminals. RCMP Constable M... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Before Dudley.... Renfrew Of The Royal Mounted sure is a curious movie. I mean I'm not too sure who greenlighted the adventures of a singing Mountie, but here it is, and while it's entertaining, it sure makes some highly amusing factual errors. James Newill stars as Renfrew, the dashing figure in red, while not singing... |
tt0095122 | The Expendables | The Expendables—leader Barney Ross, knife specialist Lee Christmas, hand-to-hand combat specialist Yin Yang, heavy-weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitions expert Toll Road, the unstable Gunner Jensen, and sniper Billy the Kid, the team's newest recruit and Ross' protégé—are deployed to Nepal to rescue Dr. Zhou, a h... | cult | train | wikipedia | Utilization Of A Vivid Background Does Not Help A Scenario Having Flawed Logic.. This watchable melodrama, having a full share of fairly savage moments, avoids being one of Philippine schlockmeister Ciro Santiago's most flagrantly weak efforts, although it is recognized as a bald remake of the Robert Aldrich directed 1... |
tt1566637 | The Afflicted | Hours after his daughter Carla's sixteenth birthday, Hank attempts to run off in the middle of the night, but is caught by his mentally unstable wife, Maggie. The two argue and accuse each other of infidelity, and when Hank threatens to take their four children away from her, Maggie snaps and beats him to death with a ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0105612 | Tokyo Babiron | The plot is told in a series of substories, published monthly or as 2-3 per volume. While it begins with a monster of the week approach, with somewhat independent running chapters, the plot gradually becomes continuous and backstory is introduced. It focuses on the development of the characters and the relationships be... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | A Fascinating, if Limited, Side Story. This is a little-known gem from CLAMP (the superstar all-woman manga team) and (at the time) young director Kôichi Chigira. Chigira would later go on to work as an animator on the 'X Movie' (to which 'Tokyo Babylon' is a sort of prologue) and to direct 'Full Metal Panic!' and 'Las... |
tt0041374 | Flaxy Martin | The drama begins with a murder and a screaming witness. The witness to the crime tells the police that she can identify the murderer and will never forget his face. Mob attorney Walter Colby (Scott) is called by crime boss Hap Richie (Douglas Kennedy) in the middle of the night to arrange the release of Caesar (Jack Ov... | murder | train | wikipedia | Zachary Scott, Virginia Mayo give their best in often overlooked film noir.
Zachary Scott isn't a name on the tips of too many tongues these days, but in the late 40s he was a very busy boy.
However, in his best remembered movies, like Mildred Pierce and Flamingo Road, he had the misfortune to play second fiddle to th... |
tt0080009 | Tess | The story takes place in Thomas Hardy's Wessex during the Victorian period.
The events of the story are set in motion when a clergyman, Parson Tringham, has a chance conversation with John Durbeyfield, a simple farmer. Tringham is a local historian, and in the course of his research he has discovered the "Durbeyfields"... | tragedy, revenge, murder, romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0485288 | Queer Duck: The Movie | The film focuses on Queer Duck who wakes up from a late night party and watches a commercial for an amusement park called Happyland. Declaring it a gay day for the park ("Gay Day at Happyland"), they were closed down by the officials and were told to leave because they were gay. Soaking in bed, he realized that there's... | psychedelic, satire, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | Queer Duck Rules.
This film is the cartoon story of a gay duck, his life, his loves and his adventures.
He marries a diva, he tries sexual behavior modification therapy with a Christian fundamentalist, buys an amusement park, and generally lives it up.That's the general plot, but this film is an absolute riot.
Loaded w... |
tt0035659 | Background to Danger | In 1942, Nazi Germany attempts to bring neutral Turkey into the war on its side by staging an assassination attempt on Franz von Papen, its own ambassador to the country. Much to the annoyance of Colonel Robinson (Sydney Greenstreet), von Papen survives and the Russians that his agent provocateur was trying to frame ha... | murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0818692 | Pinocchio | The story begins with an inventor named Geppetto making a robot, Pinocchio, as his son. Meanwhile, an evil mayor named Scamboli is building a technological city called "Scamboville" to get rid of nature. He also hates all children, except for his beloved daughter, Marlene. When Marlene expresses concerns to Scamboli ab... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0045125 | Scaramouche | In France just prior to the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette (Nina Foch) asks her cousin Noel, the Marquis de Maynes (Mel Ferrer), to uncover the identity of "Marcus Brutus", a dangerous pamphleteer rousing hatred of the aristocracy.
Meanwhile, André Moreau (Stewart Granger), a nobleman's bastard, kidnaps his ... | revenge, action, murder | train | wikipedia | An 18th century nobleman (Stewart Granger) avenging the death of a friend sets in motion the action-filled plot of this Rafael Sabatini tale filmed in gorgeous technicolor and done in rollicking tongue-in-cheek style by an able cast.
Eleanor Parker and Janet Leigh both look beautiful as the women in love with Granger's... |
tt0120598 | Barney's Great Adventure | Cody (Trevor Morgan), his sister Abby (Diana Rice), their best friend Marcella (Kyla Pratt), and their baby brother Fig are dropped off by their parents for a visit at their grandparents' farm. As Cody is believing that there may be nothing to do at the farm, Abby and Marcella rub a Barney doll in his face. Cody loses ... | cute, entertaining | train | wikipedia | I know it's cool to hate Barney, but this really is a bad movie.
I'm just sort of guessing that human beings have an instinctive fear of fire so the credit of a child waking her family should be down to her basic instinct - Not something she saw on a television show As you imagine this feature length film starts with a... |
tt1319708 | Deus Ex: Human Revolution | === Setting ===
Human Revolution takes place in the year 2027, 25 years prior to the original Deus Ex. The Deus Ex series is set in a cyberpunk future rife with secret organizations and conspiracies: among these forces is the Illuminati. Leading up to Human Revolution, there have been marked improvements in human socie... | neo noir, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0382806 | Look Both Ways | The film charts the stories of several people over a hot summer weekend in Adelaide. Photojournalist Nick (William McInnes) discovers he has testicular cancer that has spread to his lungs. On his way home he goes to the site of a train accident to report on it, and meets Meryl (Justine Clarke) an emotionally vulnerable... | boring, flashback | train | wikipedia | It's not just the use of animation to convey a character's thought and feelings; every scene has something in it that's part of the story, but this picture show is never intrusive.
Sarah Watt, the animator whose first feature this is would have been a natural in the silent movie era.The action in the film covers a hot ... |
tt0120481 | Washington Square | A prologue introduces us to Dr. Austin Sloper (Albert Finney), a New York City doctor and resident of a large house on Washington Square whose wife dies in childbirth, leaving a daughter, Catherine (Jennifer Jason Leigh), to be raised by her father. As a child, Catherine is overweight, clumsy, and untalented; however, ... | cruelty | train | wikipedia | It is unfair to compare the 1997 film "Washington Square" to the 1949 film "The Heiress." "Washington Square" is a faithful adaptation of Henry James' eponymous classic novel; "The Heiress" is based on the stage adaptation of the James novel by Augustus and Ruth Goetz.Hence, the two most dramatic scenes in "The Heires... |
tt0891527 | Lions for Lambs | Two determined students at a West Coast university, Arian (Derek Luke) and Ernest (Michael Peña), at the urging of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley (Redford), attempt to do something important with their lives. They make the bold decision to enlist in the army to fight in Afghanistan after graduating from college... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | It could be a Sunday-morning panel discussion, but the cast consists of a bevy of stars, performing magnificently, with a script that seems to be formed by headlines from today's newspapers.At the center of the film is a lengthy, unlikely, but brilliant duet of a an interview between a veteran, nobody's-fool political ... |
tt0117891 | A Thin Line Between Love and Hate | Nightclub manager Darnell Wright is a perpetual playboy and hopeless male chauvinist. He works for a nightclub called Chocolate City and aspires to be its owner. He trades VIP privileges at the club for favors from women. Though he is an expert at conning women, he sometimes worries about what his childhood sweetheart ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0112655 | Chain of Command | New Secret Service agent Mike Connelly, assigned to protect President-elect Jack Cahill, becomes uneasy having to protect a person who is having an affair with a friend's wife. Connelly feels even worse about it after preventing an assassination attempt aboard Cahill's plane where a flight attendant is accidentally kil... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0016230 | The Pleasure Garden | Jill, a young dancer, arrives in London with a letter of introduction to Mr. Hamilton, proprietor of the Pleasure Garden Theatre. The letter and all her money are stolen from her handbag as she waits to see him. Patsy, a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden, sees her difficulty and offers to take her to her own lodgings ... | murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | The Pleasure Garden is the first film that Alfred Hitchcock directed to completion.
I enjoyed some of the point of view shots early in the film with the blurred view of the man looking through his monocle as well as the gentleman looking through the binoculars at the show girls legs.
Not that it was used like the stair... |
tt0202908 | Hokusai manga | Tetsuzō (Ken Ogata) is an unsuccessful ukiyo-e painter who lives with his young daughter Ōei (Yūko Tanaka) in poverty over a geta shop owned by Ōyaku (Nobuko Otowa), the older wife of the aspirant writer Sashichi (Toshiyuki Nishida) who is a childhood friend of Tetsuzō.
Tetsuzō lives by borrowing money from his adoptiv... | pornographic, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | Eccentric Portrait of an Eccentric Artist. I first noticed this film amongst the more popular Japanese films on Hulu, but I didn't pay much mind to it, cause I figured I could guess how it got there (being titled "Edo Porn" and all). But when I realized that this was a film by Kaneto Shindô (Onibaba, Kuroneko, The Nake... |
tt1580426 | Repeaters | Kyle Halsted, Sonia Logan, and Michael Weeks are inmates at a rehabilitation facility. Bob Simpson, the administrator, tasks them with apologizing to those they have hurt with their addiction. When Kyle attempts to apologize to his younger sister Charlotte, she angrily blows him off, and the principal kicks him off sch... | violence | train | wikipedia | Yes, it is impossible to talk about Repeaters without mentioning Groundhog Day - a charming family film where a sardonic Bill Murray has to relive the same dull day again and again until he can find a way of somehow - literally - moving his life forwards.Groundhog Day was a happy-go-lucky sort of affair, filled with li... |
tt1139319 | A Film with Me in It | Mark (Doherty) is an actor living in a basement flat below his writer friend Pierce (Moran). Residing with his girlfriend, Sally (Huberman), Mark struggles to find work whilst caring for his paralysed brother, David (O'Doherty). Desperate to avoid paying overdue rent, Mark continually eludes landlord Jack (Allen), mean... | dark | train | wikipedia | This black comedy is a story of Pierce (Dylan Moran) and Mark (Mark Doherty), two jobless Irish friends sharing a run down apartment with Mark's girlfriend Sally (Amy Huberman), and Mark's disabled brother David (David O'Doherty).
The movie suddenly takes a turn for the worse one day in their uneventful and eroding liv... |
tt3064298 | Man Up | Nancy is 34 years old and single. Her sister hopes that Nancy can find love and encourages her to "put herself out there." Nancy has a failed blind date at her friend's engagement party.
Later, Nancy's parents are celebrating their 40th anniversary, so Nancy takes the train to London. On the train, Nancy sits across fr... | comedy, humor | train | wikipedia | The greatest asset of this movie is its success of making you feel happy, energized and with a positive look at life.Has many awkwardly cringy/funny moments, time passes by in a heartbeat, though the screen time is fairly short too.
Unbelievable situations could often (at least in the movies) lead to great romances...l... |
tt0071913 | The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat | It is the 1970s; Fritz the Cat is now married, on welfare, and has a child named Ralphie, who casually masturbates. As his wife screams at him for being an irresponsible father and husband, Fritz sits on the couch, staring off into space, smoking a joint. Tired of listening to his wife nag at him, he fades off into his... | pornographic, adult comedy, cult, violence, flashback, psychedelic, humor, satire | train | wikipedia | If you know me at all, you'll know that I was not a fan of Ralph Bakshi's FRITZ THE CAT.
Well, I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to see THE NINE LIVES OF FRITZ THE CAT.
By some stroke of good luck or divine intervention, it happens to be better than the original.The film, made without Bakshi's involvement, (wh... |
tt1712561 | Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands | === Setting ===
The Forgotten Sands returns to the storyline established by Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and concluded by Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. On December 14, 2009, Ubisoft UK released the first details of the story on their official video portal.
The game takes place in the seven-year gap between... | violence | train | wikipedia | Wait, what is this grainy stuff I'm walking on, again?. At some point(I have no idea where this fits into the Sands of Time trilogy, since it has none of the titular time powers, but it must be after the first and before the second, and that makes no sense as there's no mention of the Dahaka... anyway, it's the same du... |
tt0210075 | Girlfight | Diana Guzman is a Brooklyn teenager whose hot temper gets her into trouble at school as she repeatedly starts fights with other students. Her frustration stems from her unhappy home life; she lives in a public housing estate with her brother Tiny and their single father, Sandro. Sandro pays for Tiny's boxing training i... | dramatic, violence, inspiring | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0143068 | Toonsylvania | A typical episode of Toonsylvania starts with a cartoon series called "Frankenstein" (a parody of Mary Shelley's novel of the same name), about the adventures of Dr. Frankenstein (voiced by David Warner), his assistant Igor (voiced by Wayne Knight) who always sets out to prove that he's an genius like his master, and t... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4935334 | Southbound | Five interlocking tales of terror follow the fates of a group of weary travellers who confront their worst nightmares and darkest secrets on a desolate stretch of desert highway.
The film unfolds in an endless loop through purgatory that plays out chronologically over the course of one never-ending day.
=== The Way Out... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037206 | Raiders of Ghost City | At the height of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel, raid all gold shipments from Oro Grande, California, bound for Washington. Captain Steve Clark is recognized as a Union Secret Service agent by Morel's accomplice Trina Dessard, along with his friend Idaho Jones, is ambushed in the b... | violence, mystery | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0057952 | Circus World | Matt Masters (John Wayne), a Wild West circus star in the mold of Buffalo Bill Cody, bought a bankrupt circus in 1885 and successfully rebuilt it into a combination three ring and Wild West extravaganza, mixing Wild West Show acts with conventional circus acts in a winning combination. He has successfully toured the Un... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Too bad the old champ wasn't there that day or it would have been a perfect Sunday.Seeing it now on a formatted VHS the awesomeness of the spectacle during the scenes of the circus fires and the capsized ship in the harbor is really lost.
It's quite an eyeful and should only be scene in theaters.And the film would be r... |
tt2404499 | Kingdom | During a softball game at an American oil company housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, al-Qaeda terrorists set off a bomb, killing Americans and Saudis. While one team hijacks a car and shoots residents, a suicide bomber wearing a fake police uniform blows himself up, killing everyone near him. Sergeant Haytham of... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0080724 | Fatso | Luca Lucchesi is a single man who lives in his late grandmother's house. He keeps himself busy by translating instruction manuals from German into his native Norwegian. He occasionally phones his German clients to tell them "Ya gotta Eat", but apart from that his social contacts are reduced to a friendship with a show-... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I still tell stories from the movie - the support group intervention is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
I have to admit that I didn't even remember that the lead was played by Dom Deloise, as it is a very different role than the Burt Reynolds films I know him for.
Anne Bancroft, a multi-talented lady sorel... |
tt0120094 | Selena | The film begins on February 26, 1995, with American Tejano music singer Selena (Jennifer Lopez) performing to a sold out concert at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. Flashing back to Corpus Christi, Texas in 1961, a young Abraham Quintanilla Jr. (Edward James Olmos) and his band, Los Dinos, are rejected for an audition ... | tragedy, romantic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | The supporting cast that includes Edward James Olmos, Jon Seda and Constance Marie are all very good too.I loved the way the soundtrack was used in the film and it brings a lot of energy to the story.
The cinematography is quite good but I did not like the 3 split screen.Even though we know the tragic fate of Selena, t... |
tt0104073 | Deep Cover | In Cleveland, 1972, Russell Stevens Jr. is the son of a drug addicted, alcoholic man, who tells his son never to be like him. Stevens then witnesses his father getting shot and killed while robbing a liquor store. He swears that he will never end up like him.
In 1991, Stevens is a police officer. He is recruited by DEA... | neo noir, murder, blaxploitation, flashback | train | wikipedia | Laurence Fishburne (Boyz in the Hood, What's Love Got To Do With It) stars as a cop who has avoided drugs and the crime life because of his father's involvement and death in it.
Jeff Goldblum (who I have never seen in such a deep role) is also strong delivering a surprisingly good performance.
The scenes between Larry ... |
tt0066413 | Strategia del ragno | Athos Magnani arrives by train, at the request of his father's mistress, Draifa, in the (fictional) town of Tara, where his father—also named Athos Magnani—was killed before his birth. The father, remembered as a resistance hero and looking exactly like his son, was killed by unknown fascists in 1936—or so says Draifa,... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Quite a film, combining lush photography with brilliantly realized scenes, one after another in fact, from the beginning arrival of the train to the ending, set on the waiting platform of the train station, with a story that weaves in and out of the present (1970) and past (1936) about fascism and the difficult and amb... |
tt0053198 | Les quatre cents coups | Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a young boy growing up in Paris during the 1950s. Misunderstood by his parents for playing truant from school and stealing, and tormented in school for discipline problems by his teacher (Guy Decomble), (Antoine falsely explains his being away from school was due to his mother's de... | neo noir, cult, cute, sentimental | train | wikipedia | Francois Truffaut's 'The 400 Blows' is one of the most well-known films of this movement, and has been embraced and hailed as one of the greatest films of all time.After viewing Truffaut's 'The 400 Blows', I have been ruminating over the deeper meaning behind his story of Antoine Doinel, a 14 year old boy in Paris who ... |
tt0097481 | Harlem Nights | In Harlem, New York, 1918, Sugar Ray has a dice game. Nearly killed by an angry customer, Ray is saved by seven-year-old errand boy Vernest Brown, who shoots the man. After being told that his parents are dead, Ray decides to raise the boy as his own. And because of the boy's savvy, he is nicknamed "Quick."
Twenty year... | violence, cult, humor, comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0041776 | The Queen of Spades | As described in a film magazine, Hermann, a Russian military officer with a small fortune, is fascinated when he hears a story of Countess Fedotovna, who won her fortune by playing three certain cards, the identity of which she refuses to reveal. Hermann gains entrance to the house through a flirtation with Lizaveta, w... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Anchor Bay's new DVD set includes a beautiful presentation of it, along with the 1945 anthology horror film "Dead of Night." I've read nothing but good things about "Dead of Night," but haven't gotten around to seeing it yet.
Once seen, it's hard to forget.Anton Walbrook may have played more multi-dimensional characte... |
tt0117534 | Sabrina the Teenage Witch | The movie centers around Sabrina Sawyer, who is sent to live with her eccentric aunts in Riverdale. On her 16th birthday, Sabrina discovers that she is a witch. Sabrina then develops a crush on Seth, the cutest boy in school who happens to be dating Katie La More, the school's "queen bee." Sabrina has to find a way to ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I don't know why everyone's being so hard on this movie.
No it's not like the TV series, but come on, this was made BEFORE the TV series as a movie all on its own, of course it's different.
Instead of endlessly comparing it to the TV show and complaining, why not try letting it stand on it's own?I actually really like ... |
tt0805184 | Bhagam Bhag | Champak Chaturvedi (Paresh Rawal) the director of a theatre group, is offered a chance to perform a show in London. Babla (Govinda) and Bunty (Akshay Kumar) are two derps and flirts in his group, always fighting with each other to get the role of the hero. Their behaviour causes the actress (Tanushree Dutta) to run awa... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0032194 | All This, and Heaven Too | Mademoiselle Henriette Deluzy-Desportes (Bette Davis), a French woman, starts teaching at an American girls school. She is confronted by the tales and gossip about her that circulate among her pupils and, thus provoked, she decides to tell them her life story.
Deluzy-Desportes is governess to the four children of the D... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2064647 | The Rundown | Beck (Dwayne Johnson) is a "retrieval expert", a bounty hunter who collects debts for a man named Billy Walker (William Lucking). He is dispatched to a nightclub to retrieve a championship ring from a football player, and after doing so is assaulted by one of Walker's other collectors. Angry, he confronts Walker and te... | non fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0245024 | Brother | In the autumn of 1997, Danila Bagrov (Sergei Bodrov Jr.) returns to his small hometown of Priozersk following his demobilization from the Russian Army after the First Chechen War. Before he reaches home, he ends up in a fight with security guards, after he accidentally walks onto the set of a music video for the band N... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Humorous, Yet Touching.
This a simple story told in narration by a brother, who describes growing up and his odd family.
It is both humorous and tragic.
Most of all, it was captivating and very touching.
It's very quiet, and you have to give it your full attention.The narrator describes everyone in his family, all of w... |
tt0068131 | Search | The film begins and ends on October 16th, 1999, with 20-year-old Kolia, (Maksim Emelyanov), a Russian army recruit, recording and narrating with a handheld video camera, as young, drunken Russian soldiers taunt, terrorize, and finally execute a civilian Chechen couple in front of their teenage daughter Raissa (Zukhra D... | intrigue | train | wikipedia | "Search" is a series that failed to find its audience mainly because most of that audience was already in bed (time slot 9 or 10 PM on a school night; it was the first series I got to stay up late for!).
It's also a series that could not have existed before the world watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon, since t... |
tt0498465 | Arashi no yoru ni | A goat named Mei wanders into a barn one night, seeking shelter from a storm. In the barn, the goat meets another refugee. The two can neither see nor smell each other, but nevertheless they huddle together, fending off the cold, and begin to talk. Eventually, they establish a friendship. The two decide to meet later a... | allegory | train | wikipedia | There really hasn't been a movie like this that can capture the hearts of those who watch it so easily and yet almost 5 years after release it still hasn't been seen by most of the world officially outside of Asia.But when the time comes where the movie will be officially available worldwide, I'm certain this will be a... |
tt0156130 | Thazhvaram | Balan (Mohanlal) is in search of Raju (Salim Ghouse) and the search takes him to a hillside. Balan reaches a house, where he is welcomed whole-heartedly by both Nanu (Sankaradi), the house owner, and Kochutty (Sumalatha), his daughter. Balan realizes that Raju stays with them as Raghavan. Balan comes to know that Nanu ... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Classic Movie !.
I was a child when the film was released and didn't get anything when watched it first time.
But after years i was so much excited watching this beautiful movie which was picturised with perfect mix of everything needed for a classic movie.
Director Bharathan did his own style to tell the story of a re... |
tt0057259 | The Long Ships | The first book covers the years 982 to 990. While still a youth, Orm is abducted by a Viking party led by Krok and they sail south. They fall captive to Andalusian Muslims and serve as galley slaves for more than two years, later becoming members of Almanzor's bodyguard for four years. They return to Denmark to King Ha... | violence, action | train | wikipedia | "The Long Ships" is the story of a mighty gold bell "as tall as three tall men," the one people call the Mother of Voices, cast long ago by the monks of Byzantium
Prince Aly Mansuh had searched from the mountains to the sea for the bell
Now he must know what lies beyond the horizon until Allah's divine guidance leads... |
tt0037055 | The Mask of Dimitrios | The year is 1938. Dutch mystery writer Cornelius Leyden (Peter Lorre) is visiting Istanbul. A fan of his, Colonel Haki (Kurt Katch) of the Turkish police, believes Leyden would be interested in the story of Dimitrios Makropoulos (Zachary Scott), whose body was just washed up on the beach. Leyden is so fascinated by wha... | revenge, cruelty, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | It's wartime and Warners is short of those hot, young leading men, so they bring on one of the all-time great screen odd couples - Sydney and Peter - to work their magic.
And as always, they deliver, in "The Mask of Dimitrios" starring Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Faye Emerson.
Though never leavi... |
tt0067402 | Mary, Queen of Scots | Mary, Queen of Scots, awaits her execution by order of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Mary composes a letter to Elizabeth, to whom she feels a close kinship as her cousin and a fellow female monarch. Through flashback, Mary narrates to Elizabeth the events of her life, starting from her birth in Scotland to the French M... | historical, murder | train | wikipedia | The casting gets better with Trevor Howard as William Cecil, Ian Holm as David Rizzio and Patrick McGoohan as the half-brother James Stuart.
It's been quite some time since I saw this movie, so have forgotten many of the details, but quite enjoyed this portrait of the clash between Mary Queen of Scots and her rival Tud... |
tt0064373 | Gojira-Minira-Gabara: Oru kaijû daishingeki | Ichiro Miki (Tomonori Yazaki) is a highly imaginative but lonely latchkey kid growing up in urban (and at that time, polluted) Kawasaki. Every day he comes home to his family's empty apartment. His only friends are a toymaker named Shinpei Inami (Eisei Amamoto) and a young girl named Sachiko (Hidemi Ito). Every day aft... | comedy, prank | train | wikipedia | Godzilla's Revenge is often regarded as one of the worst Godzilla films,and it's reputation was not helped by coming after the terrifically entertaining Destroy All Monsters.
However,look closer and the film is actually quite interesting,especially if you remember it was aimed at very young children.Having all of the m... |
tt0244479 | Tmavomodrý svet | In 1950, during the Cold War, František (Franta) Sláma (Ondřej Vetchý) is incarcerated in Czechoslovakia, because of his prior service in the RAF. His recollections of the war begin in 1939, just days prior to the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. After the invasion, the Czechoslovakian military is disbanded and has t... | melodrama, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0100438 | Puppet Master II | The film begins in 1991, when Andre Toulon's grave is being excavated in Shady Oaks, a cemetery in the backyard of the Bodega Bay Inn. We see Pinhead digging Andre’ Toulon's grave. Pinhead opens up the coffin, climbs out, and pours a vial of the potion on the skeleton, with Tunneler, Leech Woman, Blade and Jester watch... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | The murderous puppets from part one (plus a new, fire-jetting doll named Torch) resurrect the long-dead corpse of their original puppet master, Andre Toulon.
The puppets return, this time they hunt down some locals and paranormal researchers to assist their master in his evil plan.Charles Band's story and David Pabian'... |
tt0059447 | Mickey One | After incurring the wrath of the Mafia, a stand-up comic (Warren Beatty) flees Detroit for Chicago, taking the name Mickey One (from the Greek ethnic name Mikolas Ongeoffery on a Social Security card he steals off a homeless bum). He uses the card to get a job at a seedy diner hauling garbage. Eventually he returns to ... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0995036 | Einstein and Eddington | The prelude is set in 1919 on Eddington's expedition in Príncipe to observe the solar eclipse that year, before moving back in time to 1914. At the outbreak of the First World War, Eddington is appointed chief astronomer at Cambridge by Sir Oliver Lodge and instructed to research Einstein's work and defend the Newtonia... | historical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0220608 | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | After her husband's death, Elizabeth (Dench) decides to return to her musical roots and begins busking with young guitarist Paul (Chapman) in a plaza overlooking a London ice rink, much to the dismay of her daughter Patricia (Dean) and son Edward (Palliser). One day she is spotted by Patrick (Holm), who attempted to av... | romantic, fantasy, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0427969 | Hollywoodland | In June 1959, Louis Simo (Adrien Brody), a Los Angeles private investigator more interested in generating an income than in devotion to his clients, is spying on the wife of a man named Chester Sinclair to find if she is cheating. On a visit to his own ex-wife Laurie, Simo learns that his son is upset over the recent d... | flashback, romantic, neo noir, murder, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119870 | Paws | Alex, a computer programmer from a cold place very far away, receives a visit from an intruder named Anja but before she breaks in he writes an important message to a colleague named Susie, transfers it to a floppy disk and gives it to his dog PC, warning him that he should give it only to Susie and trust no one. He hi... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Has a lot of problems but it is bright, breezy and good natured.
This flawed but watchable family comedy means well and essentially it is bright, breezy and good natured.
The script has its weak spots, Nathan Cavaleri is rather bland as Zac, the story is rather standard and the pace is uneven a little too rushed for my... |
tt0926110 | Missionary Man | A lone stranger named Ryder (Dolph Lundgren) comes into a small Texas town on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle for the funeral of his good friend J.J., a local Native American carpenter. Ryder spends his time in town reading the Bible while drinking straight tequila sans salt and lime. Ryder talks to J.J.'s sister Nancy ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0245378 | Quarantine | On the evening of March 11, 2008, news reporter and cameraman, Angela Vidal and Scott Percival, are assigned to follow firefighters Jake and Fletcher during their nightshift. They are given a department tour, but an emergency call dispatches them. Arriving, screams from a self-barricaded apartment block room were heard... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | MINIMAL MATTER TO DIGEST HERE.. Canadian Charles Wilkinson, who wrote and directed this banal affair, seems inadequately prepared to handle his subject: autocratic control of a populace, as a feature film. Made in British Columbia with a Canadian cast, some of whom have done good work elsewhither, this piece stars Bea... |
tt0080754 | The Formula | The film opens in the final days of World War II as the Russians are on the outskirts of Berlin. A German army Panzer Korps general (Richard Lynch) is dispatched to the Swiss border with top secret materials, with orders to hide them from the Allies.
In contemporary Los Angeles, Lt. Barney Caine (George C. Scott) is as... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0072732 | Brannigan | Tough Chicago Police Lieutenant Jim Brannigan (John Wayne) is sent to London to extradite a notorious American gangster, Ben Larkin (John Vernon). Brannigan is assigned a local officer, Jennifer (Judy Geeson), to help while he is in London. But before Brannigan can collect his man, Larkin is kidnapped.
Larkin's finger ... | comedy, revenge, humor, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | A year after looking silly starring in the Dirty Harry clone "McQ," John Wayne gave the modern-day cop thriller another try to much better effect in "Brannigan," a fine vehicle for the aging legend.
Brannigan also spends a great deal of the film dodging a hit man whom Larkin hired prior to his kidnapping.What follows i... |
tt0061758 | Hells Angels on Wheels | The Angels first take note of "Poet" (Jack Nicholson) after one of them inadvertently damages his motorcycle and breaks its headlight. Poet, with far more guts than brains, challenges the Angel that hit his motorcycle. This is an act that would traditionally result in every Angel present participating in a group beatin... | cult, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | This is a pretty good biker exploitation flick although I would recommend Russ Meyer's Motorpsycho if you're in the mood for motorcycle chaos..
Hell's Angels on Wheels, if you're into the biker genre, is not a second-rate vehicle for its promoters, the Hell's Angels (Sonny Barger, reportedly at the time, said it was th... |
tt0117968 | Trois vies et une seule mort | Pierre Bellemare, a French radio personality appears to recount four strange, seemingly non-coexisting, tales that make up the complex narrative structure of Three Lives and Only One Death. In the first tale we are introduced to Andre Parisi, a family man who has woken up with a terrible headache. Andre leaves to a loc... | psychedelic, avant garde, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Weird and Wild.
Chilean director Raul Ruiz created a weird, wild, fantastic world with Three Lives and Only One Death.
Marcello Mastroianni plays four different characters in as many different stories that at first seem completely separate, but by the films end are wholly intertwined.
It is beautifully, almost mystical... |
tt1176416 | Tetsuo: The Bullet Man | Anthony is a man with an American father and a deceased Japanese mother living and working in Tokyo. One day his son is run over and killed by Yatsu, this film's version of "The Metal Fetishist". Shortly afterward Anthony begins to transform into metal. He discovers that the work of his scientist father may be the key ... | absurd, psychedelic, violence, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Shinya Tsukamoto's original Tetsuo: The Ironman is most certainly one of my formative cinematic experiences.
I remember watching it for the first time one night with a friend in his parents' basement the summer after my freshman year at college.
The film was just blowing us away, and we were very loud about how awesome... |
tt4337414 | Gopala Gopala | Kanneganti Gopala Rao is an atheist who owns a shop selling Hindu idols alongside his wife Meenakshi and son Moksha as well as his assistant Otthu. He obstructs a holy ritual involving his family, conducted by Siddheswar Maharaj, a fake godman. A sudden earthquake destroys his shop.
Rao approaches his insurance company... | satire | train | wikipedia | Victory Venkatesh is apt in his role of an atheist, and carries off a mature character quite convincingly.
The way he has performed in all the courtroom scenes is quite good.
He brings in a lot of simplicity to the film, and all his scenes with Pawan Kalyan have been designed exceptionally well.
Yet another major highl... |
tt0848537 | Epic | 17-year-old Mary Katherine, or M.K., moves in with her eccentric scientist father Professor Bomba who has been searching for tiny humanoid soldiers called Leafmen. They protect the forest that Bomba lives near from wicked creatures called Boggans and their malevolent leader Mandrake. An independent young soldier named ... | good versus evil, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0033029 | Second Chorus | Danny O'Neill (Fred Astaire), and Hank Taylor (Burgess Meredith) are friends and rival trumpeters with "O'Neill's Perennials," a college band. Both have managed to prolong their college careers by failing seven years in a row. At a performance, Ellen Miller (Paulette Goddard) catches Danny's and Hank's eyes. She serves... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A couple of good dance sequences - one with Paulette Goddard, who is not impressive on the floor, and one where he's tap-dancing while conducting Artie Shaw's orchestra.
The plot is dismal, Burgess Meredith as comic relief is faintly amusing at best, though in his defense the script gave him very little to work with.Fa... |
tt0093578 | Mr. India | Mogambo (Amrish Puri) is a brilliant yet insane General whose goal is to conquer India. From his island, he monitors the evil-doings perpetrated by his henchmen. All of his subordinates know the formal salute "Hail Mogambo!", emphasising his complete authority over his minions.
Arun Verma (Anil Kapoor) is an orphan and... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Superb classic.
This Classic from the eighties is one of the few sci fi films to be produced in India incidentally it is also one of the best.
Directed by shekhar kapur of "Elizabeth" fame Mr India is one of his earlier works.
The cinematography may not be great but the rest sure is!
An interesting and intelligent stor... |
tt0023238 | The Most Dangerous Game | Sanger Rainsford and his friend, Whitney, are traveling to Rio de Janeiro to hunt the region's big cat: the jaguar. After a discussion about how they are "the hunters" instead of "the hunted", Whitney goes to bed and Rainsford remains on deck. While Whitney returns to his quarters Rainsford hears gunshots and climbs on... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2245003 | Miss You Already | Milly and Jess are best friends who met in grade school and do everything together. As they grow older, Milly settles down and marries her rocker boyfriend Kit while Jess becomes an environmentalist and marries her long-time boyfriend Jago.
Milly, busy with her career and her young family, learns that she has breast ca... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0280605 | Dirty Deeds | High school student Zach Harper (Milo Ventimiglia) sets out to complete the "Dirty Deeds" - an outrageous list of ten challenges that must be completed between dusk and dawn on the Friday night of his high school's homecoming weekend. The only student to complete the entire list, Duncan Rime (Todd Zeile), did so in 198... | comedy, cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | As all the comments here are Australian and a year old, the film has obviously been leaked late to the rest of the world in advance of its video or dvd release.
Bryan Brown and Sam Neill stand out, inevitably, but John Goodman and Toni Colette are sound in support.I smiled from the moment this started to the closing cr... |
tt0097100 | Communion | In 1985, New York based author Whitley Strieber (Walken) lives with his wife and child in Manhattan and seems to be successful. However he is woken at night by paranoid dreams that someone else is in the room.
On a trip to the family cottage in the woods, on the first night the intruder alarm is triggered and Strieber ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | In "Communion," Whitley Strieber's autobiographical book comes to life...sort of.
Tough task...it's easy to see why the film seems diluted and without chemistry.However, this also provides the film with an atmosphere that can also help enhance the whole point, which is not "was Whitley Strieber abducted by aliens," but... |
tt0140348 | Mahanadi | Krishnaswamy (Kamal Hassan) is a widower living happily along with his mother-in-law Saraswathi (S. N. Lakshmi), daughter Kaveri (Mahanadi Shobana) and son Bharani (Mahanadhi Dinesh) in a village near Trichy. Dhanush (Cochin Haneefa); a con from the city has an eye on Krishnaswamy's prosperity and asks him to join his ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0102411 | The Marrying Man | Charley Pearl is the heir to a toothpaste empire's fortune. He is a playboy who doesn't work for a living, spending his time indulging in hobbies like speedboats and fast cars. Charley is engaged to be married to the daughter of Lew Horner, a foul-mouthed, hot-tempered Hollywood studio mogul. Horner is concerned that C... | humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0066871 | Burke & Hare | The film opens in Edinburgh. Narration by Angus the Hangman explains how the corpses of the hanged are transported to Dr Robert Knox for dissection. Knox's rival, Dr Alexander Monro, wants the steady supply of cadavers but is forced to rely on severed limbs for dissection. Monro's assistant Charles Darwin arrives with ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0764662 | 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 | null |
tt0374308 | United | On the morning of September 11, 2001, passengers board United Airlines Flight 93, bound for San Francisco, at Newark Liberty International Airport, including Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham, Todd Beamer, Jeremy Glick, Richard Guadagno, Louis J. Nacke, II, William Joseph Cashman and Patrick Joseph Driscoll. Four al-Qaeda terr... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0331632 | Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed | Mystery Inc. (Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo) attend the opening of an exhibition at the Coolsonian Criminology Museum commemorating their past solved cases with monster costumes on display. However, the celebrations are interrupted by a masked man known as the Evil Masked Figure who steals two costumes usi... | good versus evil, psychedelic, horror, flashback | train | wikipedia | The film concerns about our friends ¨the Mystery Inc.¨ group with Scooby Doo , Shaggy ( Matthew Lillard ) and the remaining group (Sara Michelle Gellar , Freddie Prince Jr, Linda Cardellini )and takes place an eerie museum of criminology where are robbed some stuffed monsters for nefarious purposes .
This movie was a f... |
tt0092699 | Broadcast News | The film revolves around three characters who work in television news. Jane Craig (Hunter) is a talented, neurotic producer whose life revolves around her work. Jane's best friend and frequent collaborator, Aaron Altman (Brooks), is a gifted writer and reporter ambitious for on-camera exposure who is secretly in love w... | romantic, satire | train | wikipedia | William Hurt is the affable but dumb new kid on the block, news anchor.The classical love triangle emerges with the stunningly witty and self deprecating Brookes in love with Hunter but she of course is attracted to Hurt.This film works on many levels.
This is personified by the meteoric career success of the Hurt char... |
tt0300195 | Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse | After a successful Christmas Eve show, Mickey wishes the guests a safe trip home. However, Goofy points out that they and the guests cannot leave the House of Mouse as a snowstorm has blocked up all the exits. The guests are worried, but Mickey decides to hold a free-of-charge Christmas party for them until the conditi... | fantasy, flashback | train | wikipedia | Some Good Moments.
First off, I thought all the animated shorts they played throughout this movie were great.
'Mickey's Christmas Carol' is one of my childhood favorites.
'Pluto's Christmas Tree' is another oldie and goodie.
The two new cartoons were great too.
It was pretty funny to see Donald being chased by an ice c... |
tt0472205 | Watching the Detectives | The film opens on a dark film noir black and white scene where a 1940s style detective shoots a villain—for trying to return a late video. The lights come up, revealing that we are watching a commercial for Gumshoe Video, and the detective is Neil (Cillian Murphy), the store's owner, who is premiering the ad for friend... | cult, prank, flashback | train | wikipedia | Like the summary says - Watching The Detectives is strange, quirky, cute fluff.
Watching The Detectives knows that so it veers off in a different direction and has some fun with the Romantic Comedy formula.
Think of Watching The Detectives as a well made Indie film and you'll be pleased.
It's already dated as the idea ... |
tt1579932 | Bayonetta | === Setting and characters ===
Bayonetta takes place in Vigrid, a fictional city in Europe. The title character (voiced by Hellena Taylor) is a witch who shapeshifts and uses various firearms, along with magical attacks she performs with her own hair by summoning demons to dispatch her foes. She awakens after a 500-yea... | pornographic, murder | train | wikipedia | Best Action game in years. I'm not usually one to play action games, more of an rpg fan, but there was something about this title that simply drew me in. Bayonetta isn't just another hottie with weapons, she knows how to use them and this game proves that over and over again.I'll admit the plot is a bit simplistic. You... |
tt0304142 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | === Plot ===
The most evil and powerful dark wizard in history, Lord Voldemort, murders James and Lily Potter but mysteriously disappears after failing to kill their infant son, Harry. While the wizarding world celebrates Voldemort's apparent downfall, Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall and half-giant Rubeus Ha... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Excellent Game.
This game, where you control Harry Potter, is set at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
I liked it a lot because it is like you are actually taking a tour of Hogwarts.
It was also fun because there are so many secret passages with surprises that it makes the game always a challenge.
Finally, I ... |
tt0960152 | Acorralada | The background for the novela is that Octavia Irazabel is the owner of a giant perfume factory, has an amazing mansion, and an enormous fortune, however none of it is hers. Years ago, she stole everything she now owns from Fedora or La Gavoita. As well as stealing her fortune, she also stole Fedora's two daughters and ... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, sadist, romantic | train | wikipedia | I don't recommend this soap opera.... (Sorry, my English is not that good but here goes) Seriously, this has to be one of the MOST DUMB and WORST ACTED soap operas of our time. Uff, I don't even know how they can air this. Even the song is so mediocre. Not only is the acting HORRIBLE but the storyline is of the worst t... |
tt0109134 | Anjaam | Shivani (Madhuri Dixit) is an air hostess for Air India. She meets Vijay Agnihotri (Shahrukh Khan), the son of a wealthy industrialist in a disco club. He tries to get friendly but without any success. Later he meets Shivani in an airplane and instantly falls in love but she shows no interest in him. This does not stop... | tragedy, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0094118 | Teen Wolf Too | Todd Howard (Jason Bateman), the cousin of Scott Howard, has recently been accepted into Hamilton University on a full athletic scholarship on the recommendation of Coach Bobby Finstock (Paul Sand), who was Scott's basketball coach at Beacontown High. Finstock's hope is that Todd has the family genes to become a werewo... | cult | train | wikipedia | I am going to start out by admitting that even though I think the original Teen Wolf is a pretty stupid movie, I actually like it quite a bit.
The first film wasn't especially good or commercially successful, so it seems pointless to have even considered making another chapter in the Teen Wolf saga.
Stiles, who was cor... |
tt0456144 | Lage Raho Munna Bhai | Murli Prasad Sharma alias Munna Bhai (Sanjay Dutt), a gangster who is in love with the voice of Janhavi (Vidya Balan), a radio jockey, devises a plan to meet her when she announces a quiz contest featuring the life and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi, to be aired on 2 October, the birthday of Gandhi. To prepare for the conte... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095169 | For Keeps? | In Kenosha, Wisconsin, Darcy, editor at her high school paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their final year of high school and already have been accepted at good colleges; before Darcy goes to the University of Wisconsin to study journalism, she will go on a trip to Paris with her mother for her graduation ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0091795 | Promise | Mikael (Oscar Isaac) is an apothecary who lives in the small Armenian village of Sirun in the southeast part of the Ottoman Empire. In order to help pay the expenses for medical school, he promises himself to the daughter of an affluent neighbor, receiving 400 gold coins as a dowry. This allows him to travel to Constan... | violence, romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0452681 | The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause | Carol/Mrs. Claus is teaching a class of young elves and begins telling them a story of her life with Scott Calvin/Santa Claus. The couple are expecting their first child as Christmas Eve approached. Scott invites his in-laws, Sylvia and Bud Newman, to the North Pole, along with Scott's former wife, Laura, her husband, ... | satire | train | wikipedia | All and all, a good way to kick off the holiday movie season.Other notes of interest: The actress playing Mrs. Clause is on the T.V. show Lost now.
The story is fine, a nice pleasant easy to follow plot with help from some nice additions to the cast, especially Alan Arkin as Santa's father-in-law.Tim Allen continues to... |
tt0287351 | Un burattino di nome Pinocchio | The story begins with an inventor named Geppetto making a robot, Pinocchio, as his son. Meanwhile, an evil mayor named Scamboli is building a technological city called "Scamboville" to get rid of nature. He also hates all children, except for his beloved daughter, Marlene. When Marlene expresses concerns to Scamboli ab... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Best adaptation of Collodi's masterpiece.. Of all the many animated and live action adaptations of Carlo Collodi's timeless masterwork on the mischievous puppet, this is by far the best. It is the most faithful to the book showing Pinocchio not as an innocent passive child like in Disneys version but as a spoiled lazy ... |
tt0395802 | Veergati | Hawaldar finds an abandoned new born baby boy in the gutter of Kamathipura, a red light area of Bombay. A prostitute, meanwhile gave birth to another baby boy. She decides to educate him and requests Hawaldar to give him a father's name. Hawaldar's wife does not accept the child and leaves for her parents home. Hawalda... | murder | train | wikipedia | An Underrated Gem in Salmans career. I never quite understood the sheer indifference by majority of viewers to this film. its an excellent dramatic action film in the mould of Krantiveer and Agneepath with its cynical take on the societal corruption in the 90s.Smart and hard hitting dialogues.superb performances from t... |
tt4044464 | Avouterie | Samuel (Sean Faris) returns home to find his wife Ashley (Danielle Savre) cheating on him with Damien (Mehcad Brooks) on their anniversary, holding them captive at gunpoint on a hot New Orleans day, while he decides their fates.
At first, Samuel shoots both of them, but then finds himself re-experiencing the events in ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | You can feel the anguish in this film....
The film begins with Sammy returning home early from work to surprise his wife with gifts on their anniversary.
He finds her home early and she is "getting busy" with another man.
He quietly closes the door, goes and grabs his guns then comes back up stairs...The question that ... |
tt0060668 | Marat/Sade | Set in the historical Charenton Asylum, Marat/Sade is almost entirely a "play within a play". The main story takes place on 13 July 1808, after the French Revolution; the play directed by the Marquis de Sade within the story takes place during the Revolution, in the middle of 1793, culminating in the assassination of J... | avant garde, violence, atmospheric, insanity, philosophical, claustrophobic | train | wikipedia | Because I show this film to classes, I've seen it dozens of times and I'm continually intrigued by it because each viewing reveals new meanings as it seems to weirdly comment on the current day's events that occurred long after it was written and filmed.
The first viewing is often disorienting because it piles so much ... |
tt0804492 | The Hottie & the Nottie | Nate Cooper is unable to get it together with women. But he also cannot forget his first crush: The tall, attractive, blonde Cristabel Abbott, from their time in elementary school. Nate sets out for the beaches of California and meets up with his geeky best friend Arno, whose mother has an unnatural amount of informati... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | OK, I'm not going to bash this film based on Paris Hilton, I admit, I don't like the girl, but I'm not going to base my comment on that alone, I think it's unfair.
I love how Paris Hilton isn't even the main character and yet she is first billed, you know that she paid good money for that or wouldn't be in it, big woop... |
tt0074564 | Gator | Following the events of White Lightning, Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) has just been released from prison and is living in the Okefenokee Swamp with his father and daughter. In New York, a federal agent named Irving Greenfield (Jack Weston) is conferring with the governor of Georgia (Mike Douglas) about problems in th... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0105594 | Till Death Us Do Part | The film begins in September 1939 shortly before World War II begins. Alf Garnett, a dockyard worker, and his wife Else have been married for only a few weeks, and are already weary of one another. Alf gets called up for military duty but is turned down because he's in a reserved occupation. The film depicts their live... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0093267 | Intervista | Interviewed by a Japanese TV crew for a news report on his latest film, Fellini takes the viewer behind the scenes at Cinecittà. A nighttime set is prepared for a sequence that Fellini defines as “the prisoner’s dream” in which his hands grope for a way out of a dark tunnel. With advancing age and weight, Fellini is fi... | psychedelic, autobiographical, flashback | train | wikipedia | Elegiac "rememberance" of times past, great companion piece to "Amarcord".
An elegiac look-back by the Maestro on where his films were shot (Cinecitta), Intervista has the most meta-fictional plot devices Fellini's used yet.
--It features Fellini himself, shooting a film "recounting" a location (as in "Roma") but here ... |
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