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tt0105435 | Sneakers | In 1969, students Martin Brice and Cosmo are sneakers who hack into computer networks using university equipment, to redistribute conservative funds to various liberal causes. The police burst in and arrest Cosmo while Martin is out getting pizza, and Martin becomes a fugitive.
In the present day, Martin, now called Ma... | comedy, suspenseful, murder, stupid, cult, intrigue, flashback, psychedelic, revenge, entertaining | train | wikipedia | The soundtrack is arguably the best of James Horner's film scores pre-dating Braveheart, with an ethereal jazzy feel that sets the mood from the opening credits.For an early nineties movie, Sneakers was remarkably forward thinking in its script and plot.
It is, perhaps, the last good "hacker" film (well, 23 (1998) also... |
tt0083133 | Student Bodies | Student Bodies is about a serial killer who stalks female students at Lamab High School, while at the same time, voyeuristically watching them. The killer calls himself "The Breather," presumably because the killer is always breathing heavily.
The Breather enjoys stalking victims over the telephone and much like Jason ... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0104573 | Juice | Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Q (Omar Epps), Raheem (Khalil Kain), and Steel (Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins) are four friends growing up together in Harlem. They regularly skip school, instead spending their days hanging out at Steel's apartment, at a neighborhood arcade, and also a record store where they steal LPs for Q's DJ int... | comedy, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, flashback, revenge, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | Unfortunately respect came at a price, which the film was precisely able to convey, through strong performances by Tupac, and by Omar Epps, as the aspiring DJ, in their first featured roles.
Great Old School Hood Movie - Tupac and Omar Epps steal it.
Juice is a film about 4 friends growing up in Harlem, it tells the st... |
tt0173983 | Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown | Snoopy is lying on top of his doghouse when he hears music. He follows the music and finds a circus unloading. Among other animals, he sees three poodles, and immediately latches onto the white one (whom the audience later learns is named Fifi). He follows her to the entrance of the big top with his tongue hanging out ... | psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1111833 | Super High Me | Super High Me documents Benson avoiding cannabis for a cleansing period and then smoking and otherwise consuming cannabis every day for 30 days in a row. Benson says that Super High Me is "Super Size Me with cannabis instead of McDonald's". The film also includes interviews with marijuana activists, dispensary owners, ... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0093036 | Flowers in the Attic | In 1957, the Dollanganger family lives an idyllic life in Gladstone, Pennsylvania. After Christopher Sr., the children's father, dies in a car accident, his wife Corrine and their four children are left deep in debt. As Corrine has no work skills, the family is forced to move in with her estranged wealthy parents, who ... | claustrophobic, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0049547 | Never Say Goodbye | Dr. Mike Parker departs California to speak at a conference in New York. A widower, he and daughter Suzy have a deal with each other to never actually say goodbye. She remains behind with Miss Tucker, her governess.
Having a drink after the conference, a caricature artist, Victor, comes to Mike's table along with a wom... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Well Done, Sirk-Influenced Melodrama.
Although Jerry Hopper is the credited director of "Never Say Goodbye", Douglas Sirk oddly goes unrecognized as the co-director.
Though Sirk's presence can be felt at times, "Never Say Goodbye" lacks the visual irony and heaving drama of his greatest films.
Nonetheless, this is a be... |
tt0122541 | An Ideal Husband | The play opens during a dinner party at the home of Sir Robert Chiltern in London's fashionable Grosvenor Square. Sir Robert, a prestigious member of the House of Commons, and his wife, Lady Chiltern, are hosting a gathering that includes his friend Lord Goring, a dandified bachelor and close friend to the Chilterns, M... | historical, comedy, satire, romantic | train | wikipedia | In fact, with all the Oscar Wilde wit which sounds wonderfully fresh here, there are also rich moments of emotional depth throughout this amusing but also quite moving film.One theme here - touching in hindsight - is how little it can take to destroy a reputation - Wilde was later to have some of the most painful possi... |
tt0046731 | Attila | The story is set in 450 A.D. The Huns, a horde of barbarians from the distant plains of Asia, move toward the rich western lands of Germania, led by a savage chief, Attila.
Flavius Aetius, a Roman general, is the only person who knows Attila since he was in a continuation of legation with the Huns for years. Aetius and... | intrigue, murder | train | wikipedia | Quinn tries his best with a bad and unreasonable script....
Destroying towns and cities across the Alp to Italy, the mounted hordes led by Attila, King of the Huns, reached the gates of Rome where they were stopped by the Cross and turned back by Pope Leo I...Anthony Quinn is Attila, the infamous 5th Century barbarian ... |
tt0352830 | Sssshhh... | Late one night, Malini Gujral (Simone Singh) and her boyfriend Sunny are brutally murdered while playing Squash on their college campus by a killer in a clown mask.
Six months later in Shimla, Malini's younger sister Mahek (Tanishaa Mukerji) is shopping for art supplies and runs into police inspector Kamat Uncle. He te... | romantic, revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | 'Bollywood horror' or 'horror from Bollywood?'.
yeap, horror from India, or should we say thriller, since the murderscenes are not that explicit like in other movies.
However, it is a refreshing thing: though there are still some songs, they are really part of the movie, without disturbing anything in the story.I defin... |
tt0057970 | The Creeping Terror | A newlywed deputy, Martin Gordon (Vic Savage), encounters an alien spacecraft that has crash landed in fictional Angel County in California. A large, hairy, slug-like, omnivorous monster emerges from the side of an impacted spaceship. A second one, still tethered inside, kills a forest ranger and the sheriff (Byrd Holl... | cult | train | wikipedia | There are so many fantastically awful bits in the movie I could mention...the death of Fat Grandpa, the anti-tree rage attack said fat person's grandson has shortly before the slaying, the tootling music that replaces sound for most of the movie's last third, the scenes where the army guys pretend to fire their toy gun... |
tt0107894 | Psycho Cop Returns | In a coffeehouse, Officer Joe Vickers, a serial killer empowered by Satan, overhears Brian and Larry, a pair white-collar workers, discussing a bachelor party that they are planning to throw in their workplace for their friend Gary. Vickers follows the two to their office, and stakes it out in his car (which is full of... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Psycho Cop 2 is one of the best movies I've ever seen.
I have never seen a better bad guy than Officer Joe Vickers.
the name says it all Psycho cop, what kind of horror film do you think you are in for?
yeah the movie for the most part is bad but its pretty damn funny at the same time.
After viewing the first Psycho Co... |
tt0065597 | Cry of the Banshee | The film is set in Elizabethan England and revolves around a wicked magistrate who tries to kill all the members of a coven of witches. It opens, like many Vincent Price movies, with a quote from Edgar Allan Poe—in this case, The Bells.
Lord Edward Whitman (Vincent Price), as magistrate presides over the trial of a you... | revenge, gothic, murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | There is horror to be had here however, and the film still does more or less what it promises."Cry Of The Banshee" is set during the height of Middle Ages England, where rampant ignorance and superstition meant anyone could be condemned and burned for alleged witchcraft, and anyone you didn't like could be targeted.
'W... |
tt4123430 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2 | In 1926 the British wizard and "magizoologist" Newt Scamander arrives by ship to New York en route to Arizona. He encounters Mary Lou Barebone, a non-magical woman ("No-Maj" or "Muggle") who heads the New Salem Philanthropic Society, which claims that witches and wizards are real and dangerous. As Newt listens to her s... | murder | train | wikipedia | Let me start off by saying that I am a big Harry Potter fan; I loved all 8 HP movies, and really liked the 1st installment of Newt's adventures as well.
And as many other people have mentioned, as a Harry Potter fan, you just can't hate this movie.
Where Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them only contained a handful ... |
tt0058091 | Fate Is the Hunter | A bird strike on one of its two engines shortly after takeoff downs a Consolidated Airlines passenger jet, killing all 53 passengers aboard and all but one of the crew. Pilot Jack Savage (Rod Taylor) is suspected of drinking and causing the crash that leaves flight attendant Martha Webster (Susanne Pleshette) the sole ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Ford plays Sam McBane, a VP with an airline which has just lost a plane in a crash.
A film whose story is told in flashback, during the investigation of an airline accident.
Sam McBane (Glenn Ford) is an executive of Continental Airlines who is desperate to prove that his old Army-Air Corps buddy Capt.
Through them, Mc... |
tt0242733 | The Chronicle | In February 2012, Seattle teenager Andrew Detmer starts videotaping his life; his mother Karen is dying of cancer and his alcoholic father Richard, who is a former firefighter, is verbally and physically abusive. At school, Andrew is frequently bullied by his classmates.
Andrew's cousin Matt Garetty invites him to a pa... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | What were they thinking?.
I was disturbed greatly when I realized (I had no idea the show was canceled until I watched the final episode) and later learned for a fact that Sci-Fi Channel was canceling this show.
I found this show to be well thought out, light-hearted, and just a plain good show - the cheese to cool rat... |
tt0284978 | Cypher | Morgan Sullivan (Northam), a recently unemployed accountant, is bored with his suburban life. Pressured by his wife to take a job with her father's company, he instead pursues a position in corporate espionage. Digicorp's Head of Security, Finster (Bennett), inducts Morgan and assigns him a new identity. As Jack Thursb... | flashback, brainwashing, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | On his flights and during his sleep he is bothered by vivid dreams and voices in his head; he thinks nothing of it but then his next meeting with Rita reveals something much more sinister than the basic assignments he thought he was getting and he soon finds himself in deep.I had never heard of this film at all before ... |
tt0348914 | Deadwood | === Season 1 (2004) ===
The first season takes place six months after the founding of the camp, soon after Custer's Last Stand.
In 1876, Seth Bullock leaves his job as a marshal in Montana to establish a hardware business in the gold-mining camp of Deadwood, along with his friend and business partner, Sol Star. Wild Bi... | good versus evil, violence | train | wikipedia | Yet this is not a history lesson; it's an immensely entertaining western-show blessed with some of the best writers and actors working in television and film today – and especially the cast of 'Deadwood' really can't get enough praise: there is not a single performance here that isn't excellent.
His Al Swearengen is on... |
tt0038958 | So Dark the Night | So Dark the Night is the story of a detective, Henri Cassin (Steven Geray) from Paris, who falls in love with an innkeeper's daughter Nanette (Micheline Cheirel) while on a long overdue vacation. She is a country girl with a jealous boyfriend. Nonetheless, the detective becomes engaged to her. Then the girl vanishes th... | murder | train | wikipedia | Music is by Hugo Friedhofer and cinematography by Burnett Guffey.Henri Cassin (Geray) is a well regarded Parisian detective who while on a much earned vacation falls in love with innkeeper's daughter Nanette Michaud.
However, with Nanette already having a boyfriend, and a tempestuous one at that, true love does not run... |
tt1244093 | Hisss | The story begins in Natchi, a small town in Kerala, India. American George States (Jeff Doucette) is suffering from the last stage of brain cancer and has only six months to live. To prevent death and gain immortality, he decides to extract the 'Nagmani' from a nagin, a shape-shifting snake that can morph into a human.... | revenge | train | wikipedia | The film has got nothing but Mallika shows her amazing daring guts to do this..
But the name remains the only foreign touch in an otherwise totally Indian movie, which is more like a B class Bollywood film packaged and promoted well.Secondly, yes the film is based on a HIT and interesting topic of an Ichhadhari Nagin b... |
tt1618450 | Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure | During a party at Alfea, the Trix crash it and take the Compass of Revealed Secrets for the Ancestral Witches. Despite the Winx's efforts, Icy, Stormy and Darcy escape with the compass. Meanwhile, on Domino, Sky proposes to Bloom, but a secret between King Erendor and the destruction of Domino forces Sky to call off th... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0115319 | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Zeo begins immediately after the events of Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, where Tommy and the other Rangers (Adam, Rocky, Tanya, Katherine and Billy) witness the destruction of the Command Center. After recovering, the powerless Rangers discover the Zeo Crystal intact in the rubble—apparently dropped by Go... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0080472 | Bronco Billy | "Bronco Billy's Wild West Show" is a rundown traveling circus, the star of which is Bronco Billy McCoy (Clint Eastwood), the "fastest gun in the West." For the show's finale, a blindfolded Bronco Billy shoots balloons around a female assistant on a revolving wooden disc, and for the last balloon, he throws a knife. How... | cult, suicidal, violence, comic | train | wikipedia | When I read where Clint Eastwood said it was a personal favorite of his I smiled, because it's mine, too.....and I like a lot of Eastwood's movies.This isn't just my favorite Eastwood film.
However, it's not a violent story, just a tale of a modern-day man and his little troupe who want to be cowboys and Indians, and g... |
tt0039345 | Easter Yeggs | Bugs Bunny finds the Easter Bunny (also called the "Easter Rabbit" throughout this cartoon) sitting on a rock, crying. The Easter Bunny tells Bugs that his feet are sore, so he cannot deliver the Easter eggs. Bugs takes up the job, not knowing that, every year, the Easter Bunny gets some "dumb bunny" to do his work for... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0115676 | Big Bully | Growing up in Hastings, Minnesota, young David Leary was bullied by Roscoe Bigger, nicknamed "Fang" because of a pointed tooth. David is ecstatic when his parents announce they're moving to Oakland. David informs teachers about Fang stealing a moon rock and Fang is arrested.
Twenty-six years later, David is divorced an... | revenge, prank, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037469 | The Woman in the Window | After criminology professor Richard Wanley sends his wife and two children off on vacation, he goes to his club to meet friends. Next door, Wanley sees a striking oil portrait of Alice Reed (Joan Bennett) in a storefront window. He and his friends talk about the beautiful painting and its subject. Wanley stays at the c... | suspenseful, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0048216 | It's Always Fair Weather | Three ex-G.I.s, Ted Riley (Kelly), Doug Hallerton (Dailey) and Angie Valentine (Kidd) have served in World War II together and become best friends. At the beginning of the film, set in October 1945, they dance through the street celebrating their upcoming release from the service ("The Binge") and meet at their favorit... | romantic, satire | train | wikipedia | The movie also teams Dan Daily and Michael Kyd with Kelly, a Grade A, winning combination for the few, but excellent numbers, they perform.However, this movie should be seen for one and one reason only: Gene Kelly's dance on roller skates to one of the most beautiful tunes ever written by Comden and Green.
the wonderfu... |
tt1440345 | This Must Be the Place | Cheyenne is a wealthy former rock star, now bored and jaded in his 20-year retirement in Dublin. He retired after two of his teenaged fans committed suicide. He travels to New York to reconcile with his estranged father during his final hours, only to arrive too late. The reason he gives for not communicating with his ... | revenge, psychedelic, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | In Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's English-language debut following his 2008 Cannes hit 'Il Divo', the two-time Academy Award winner takes on an unlikely comedic role as an over-the-hill pop star named Cheyenne and pulls it off with aplomb.
As is typical of such characters, Cheyenne suffers from depression, and bes... |
tt0183306 | Jinnah | The film opens with the words of Professor Stanley Wolpert:
The film begins with the events surrounding the death of Jinnah. On 11 September 1948, the ailing Jinnah's plane lands at Karachi Airport from Quetta where he was retreating at higher altitude in Ziarat. Jinnah's deteriorating health had led doctors to urge hi... | psychedelic, historical | train | wikipedia | Christopher Lee's excellent performance goes a long way towards making Jinnah a sympathetic character despite the controversial decisions he takes; I would say that this is some of his finest acting and I found the final scenes very moving indeed.The flashback technique works well most of the time, although it's not al... |
tt0097570 | In Country | Recent high school graduate Samantha Hughes, 17, lives in fictional Hopewell, Kentucky. Her uncle Emmett Smith, a laid-back Vietnam veteran, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Samantha's father, Dwayne, was killed in Vietnam at 21 after marrying and impregnating Samantha's mother, Irene. Samantha finds some o... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0329355 | Marion Bridge | Agnes (Molly Parker), an alcoholic and drug-user who is struggling to overcome her self-destructive behaviour, returns from Toronto, Ontario, to her Cape Breton Island hometown of Sydney, Nova Scotia, because of the failing health of her mother Rose (Marguerite McNeil). Rose, an Irish-Canadian who is also an alcoholic,... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0035015 | The Magnificent Ambersons | The Ambersons are by far the wealthiest family in the small midwestern city of Indianapolis at the beginning of the 20th century. Eugene Morgan is a young man who is courting Isabel Amberson, but she rejects him after he publicly embarasses her. Isabel instead marries Wilbur Minafer, a passionless man she does not love... | romantic | train | wikipedia | (For an excellent account of this truly remarkable story behind the film, read Joseph McBride's bio "Orson Welles") 50 minutes of film were burned, however, the 88 minutes left for us to see contain some incredible, even revolutionary moments.Joseph Cotten plays his consummate "2nd place" character, a man unable to ha... |
tt0462335 | High-Rise | Following his divorce, doctor and medical school lecturer Robert Laing moves into his new apartment on the 25th floor of a recently completed high-rise building on the outskirts of London. The tower block provides its affluent tenants all the conveniences and commodities that modern life has to offer: a supermarket, ba... | murder, violence, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036037 | Immortal Sergeant | In North Africa, experienced Sergeant Kelly (Thomas Mitchell) leads out a British patrol, accompanied by Corporal Colin Spence (Henry Fonda), an unassertive Canadian. When they are attacked by Italian airplanes, they manage to shoot one down, but it crashes on one of their vehicles, killing eight men. Later, Kelly lead... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0110979 | Return to Two Moon Junction | Savannah Delongpre (Melinda Clarke) is a wealthy runway fashion model living in New York City who returns to her small town in Alabama in order to get away from her stressful and demanding spotlight life and to visit her wealthy grandmother, Belle (Louise Fletcher; the only actress to appear in this and the previous Tw... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt5548284 | Lego Scooby-Doo!: Haunted Hollywood | While trying to solve the mystery of a sea creature haunting a lighthouse, Shaggy complains to Scooby about how Fred, Daphne and Velma always bribe them into being monster bait with Scooby Snacks. As a result, Shaggy and Scooby decide to not eat Scooby Snacks again. After they solve the mystery, the gang goes to the ma... | horror | train | wikipedia | Nice Homage to Classic Horror Films. Lego Scooby-Doo: Haunted Hollywood (2016) ** 1/2 (out of 4)After bringing down the Sea Creature, Scooby and the gang head to Hollywood for a vacation. They end up at a famous movie studio known for their classic horror movies and before long a zombie, a mummy and a headless horseman... |
tt0241985 | Star Fox 64 | === Characters ===
The game's protagonist and playable character is Fox McCloud, a red fox and leader of the Star Fox team, who defends the Lylat system. His father, James, was part of the original Star Fox team, who disappeared before the start of the game. The main antagonist is Andross, a scientist from Corneria who... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0067633 | Punishment Park | The film takes place in 1970. The Vietnam War is escalating and United States President Richard Nixon has just decided on a "secret" bombing campaign in Cambodia. Faced with a growing anti-war movement, President Nixon decrees a state of emergency based on the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950, which authorises fe... | avant garde, murder, allegory, cult, anti war, violence, brainwashing, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0317640 | The Hebrew Hammer | The film begins with a flashback to a young Mordechai Jefferson Carver. At school, Mordechai is tormented by his fellow students and his teacher for being a Jewish child in a public school predominantly attended by Christians, and for celebrating Hanukkah while everyone else celebrates Christmas. He feels further alien... | cult, clever, absurd, humor, satire, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0335559 | Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! | The film opens with a soldier and nurse getting out of two 1940-style cars in the middle of night. The nurse runs up to the soldier and the camera switches to reveal this to be a scene from a film. Three Piggly Wiggly store workers in Fraziers Bottom, West Virginia—Rosalee, Cathy, and Pete—are watching and as the nurse... | romantic, comedy, cute, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Kate Bosworth stars as Rosalee Futch, a small town girl from West Virginia who has a mad crush on a hot Hollywood stud named Tad Hamilton.
Complicating matters is the fact that Rosalee's long time friend and boss, Pete, is secretly, madly in love with her and isn't about to give her up without a fight to this fancy, fl... |
tt0066390 | Soldier Blue | A young woman, Cresta Lee (Bergen), and young U.S. private Honus Gant (Strauss) are joined together by fate when they are the only two survivors after their group is massacred by the Cheyenne. Gant is devoted to his country and duty; Lee, who has lived with the Cheyenne for two years, declares that in this conflict she... | anti war, violence, revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Olsen's novel "Arrow In The Sun", SOLDIER BLUE, directed by Ralph Nelson (of CHARLY and LILIES OF THE FIELD fame), stars Candice Bergen and Peter Strauss as, respectively, a Cheyenne-raised white woman and a disenfranchised U.S. Cavalry officer who have survived a savage attack by Cheyenne Indians on an Army payroll wa... |
tt0083117 | St. Helens | The film opens up with an image of Central Oregon's Mount Bachelor and the Central Oregon Cascades, which is the fictional setting for Mount St. Helens itself. On March 20, 1980 an earthquake of 4.1 on the Richter Scale strikes Mount St. Helens, signalling the first signs of volcanic activity in 123 years.
During the f... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | First I must take issue with the reviewer who found this film boring because he classed it as a disaster movie, and felt there was not the suspense necessary for a good disaster movie.
Personally I would question whether disaster movies really comprise a distinct category - they are dramas in the thriller category whe... |
tt1522835 | Sherlock Holmes | The film begins during the German air raids in London in 1940. An elderly Dr. John Watson tells his nurse the tale of an unrecorded case he shared with his friend Sherlock Holmes. In 1882, Holmes and Watson investigate the shipwreck of a royal treasury ship which was destroyed by a monstrous giant octopus on the coast ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0110668 | Night of the Running Man | Jerry Logan, a cab driver in Las Vegas, picks up a nervous passenger who offers him $100 to get to the airport as quickly as possible. Unknown to Jerry, the man has stolen $1 million from Al Chambers, a mob-connected casino owner. Chambers himself skimmed the money from mob boss August Gurino. Knowing that Gurino will ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | It is one of the fastest-moving films I've seen.Usually, I like to see at least one good person in the film but this is an exception but this is a notch above the average low-life affair because of the performances of Scott Glenn and John Glover.
Both are also fascinating to watch with Glenn having the bigger role as t... |
tt0096000 | Robowar - Robot da guerra | Major Murphy Black (Reb Brown) leads a group of commandos through the jungles of an unnamed island, but unknown to all involved but Mascher (Mel Davidson), they are being stalked by Mascher's robot invention, Omega-1. Over the protests of Mascher, the group first saves a volunteer hospital worker, Virginia (Catherine H... | violence | train | wikipedia | Ah, leave it to the directorial talent (or lack thereof) of Bruno Mattei to make me yearn for the Citizen Kane Reb Brown classics such as Space Mutiny or Yor the Hunter from the Future.Think of this outing as a prolonged hike in the nature preserve.
Herr Mattei also had access to bio lab skeletons and you're bloody sur... |
tt0376591 | Empire Falls | Set in the decaying, nearly bankrupt, small town of Empire Falls, Maine, this is the story of the unassuming manager of the Empire Grill, Miles Roby, who has spent his life in the town. The town, and Miles' life to a large degree, is controlled by the Whitings, a rich family that owns the local factories and much prope... | plot twist, revenge, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Richard Russo's 483-page novel offers a multi-faceted story and a fascinating array of characters in a small town in Maine who are burdened by the weight of the past.
The story resonated with American readers, and Russo was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.For a film version of Russo's novel, it would be dif... |
tt0110300 | The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure | A short time after the events of the first film, Littlefoot and his friends are living happily in their new home in the Great Valley, under their families' watchful eyes. One day, the gang attempts to get to the sheltering grass to play, but land in the sinking sand surrounding it. The grownups come and save them, and ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0158375 | Yakeen | Rajesh is a scientist. He is injured following instructions of Dr Sharma in a secret experiment & granted leave. Rajesh lives with his dog, cook Bhola and loves Rita. Rajesh goes to meet Rita & asks for her hand from her mother who agrees. He finds his things spread on bed on returning to his hotel room. Shetty fools B... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Gripping spy film with lovely music!!. Good film starring Dharmendra as the scientist on a secret mission, and lots of international twists and turns which are rare for films of 1969... The action and suspense keeps heightening , the hallmarks of Brij the director who went onto make thrillers like Victoria 203 etc late... |
tt4428124 | Wicked City | The existence of the "Black World" - an alternate dimension populated by supernatural demons - is known to very few humans. For centuries, a pact between the Black World and the world of humans has been observed to maintain peace, and terms must be negotiated and renewed every few hundred years to continue relative har... | murder | train | wikipedia | There's an odd critic backlash against "Wicked City" because of "violence against women".
it's a show about a detective pursuing a serial killer similar to Hillside Strangler, who targeted women.
And when it comes to actual graphic scenes, they're tame compared to a show like "CSI" or "Bones", never even mind "Dexter".... |
tt0039536 | Kiss of Death | Jimmy Kilmartin is an ex-con living in Astoria in the New York City borough of Queens, trying to stay clean and raising a daughter with his wife Bev. They are both recovering alcoholics. Bev leaves Jimmy alone to go to an AA meeting. While she is gone, Jimmy is awoken by his cousin Ronnie who is in desperate need of a ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0062820 | The Committee | The movie follows a man (Paul Jones) who is unnamed. The movie starts out with the central character in a car with a man (Tom Kempinski) who just picked him up. The victim talks to him, but he's uninterested. The victim decides to pull over because he doesn't like the sound of the engine. While he's looking under the b... | allegory, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Market research run amok...a real head trip.
This British film recently played at the Hollywood Cinematheque.
I don't think that it's available on tape, but obviously a print still exists.
It was in pretty good shape, too.It's a great film, combining magical realism and psychological absurdism.
It's short == 60 minutes... |
tt0092603 | Babettes gæstebud | The elderly and pious Protestant sisters Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) and Philippa (Bodil Kjer) live in a small village on the remote western coast of Jutland in 19th-century Denmark. Their father was a pastor who founded his own Pietistic conventicle. With their father now dead and the austere sect drawing no new con... | romantic, cute, flashback | train | wikipedia | Babette will give everything she has, and in the process, will teach the sisters and their flock about grace, about sacrifice, about how sensual experience (as in the bread and wine of the Eucharist) can change lives, and about why true art moves us so deeply.
Flawlessly directed, written, performed, and filmed, this q... |
tt0068291 | Blood of Ghastly Horror | Dr. Howard Vanard (John Carradine) implants a strange electronic brain component into the brain of returning soldier Joe Corey (Roy Morton) who becomes a psychotic killer. After a robbery, the money is thrown into the back of a car belonging to David Clarke. Corey returns to Dr. Vanards' lab and kills him and then foll... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | [Also released as: "The Fiend with the Atom Brain", "Fiend with the Electronic Brain", "The Love Maniac", "The Man with the Synthetic Brain", and "Psycho A Go-Go"].The Film that Wouldn't Die: a movie which has endured more surgical alterations than the Frankenstein monster.
Behold:In 1965 Al Adamson produced and direct... |
tt1259299 | G.I. Joe: Resolute | After repeated attempts to seize power through brute force have failed, Cobra Commander comes up with a new plan to recover Cobra's financial investments, and seize control of world power at the same time. The plan begins with the seizure of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program array (HAARP), which superh... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0062936 | Si wang mo ta | There's a mysterious Chinese document that's hidden in the Tower of Death, and evil Japanese occupiers want to get their hands on it. Meanwhile, a Chinese fighter named Mr. An (Bruce Le) is training in the forest, only to be challenged by several Japanese fighters as well as one of the main Japanese henchmen Bolo (Bolo... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0799987 | Circle of Friends | Set in 1950s Ireland, the film focuses on the experiences of Bernadette "Benny" Hogan and her two friends, Eve Malone and Nan Mahon. They are characterised early on in childhood, during their First Communion: Benny is the beloved and well-fed only child, Eve the orphan raised by nuns and Nan is destined to be defined b... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0115640 | Beautiful Thing | The story is set and filmed on Thamesmead, a working class area of South East London dominated by post-war council estates.
Jamie (Glen Berry), a teenager who is infatuated with his classmate, Ste, has to deal with his single mother Sandra (Linda Henry), who is pre-occupied with ambitious plans to run her own pub and w... | queer, feel-good | train | wikipedia | The young actors that play Jamie and Ste do an extraordinary job sometimes forgetting how well they pull off such complex characters throughout the movie.
This movie makes me smile on every level...from the way the two boys discover their affection for one another, the wonderful comedy relief from the next door neighbo... |
tt0158534 | The Burning Train | The plot is an intricately woven one. It starts from childhood with the story of Ashok (also called Shoki by his childhood friend Vinod) (Neil Mohan) who is a wealthy industrialist's only son. He is passionate about cars from childhood befriends Vinod (Vinod Khanna) who is passionate about trains; it's his dream to mak... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Now, this is what I call good Bollywood action!.
A very slick, very action-oriented movie with a non-standard theme that promised to change Bollywood movie-making standards of the early 80s (Ramesh Sippy's "Shaan" was another one in the same genre).
Quite surprising that Bollywood took so long to pay a fitting tribute ... |
tt0091129 | The Golden Child | In a temple in an unknown location in northeastern Nepal, a young boy with mystical abilities — the Golden Child — receives badges of station and demonstrates his power to the monks of the temple by reviving a dead eastern rosella, which becomes a constant companion. A band of villains led by a mysterious man, Sardo Nu... | good versus evil, cult, comedy | train | wikipedia | "The Golden Child" was Eddie Murphy's first film since his megahit "Beverly Hills Cop".
Without doubt it's one of Eddie Murphy's finer films; it's impossible to not have a good time while watching this movie...
This Film Offers A Good Mix, But Eddie Is Too Loud For Me Now. Like most people, I enjoyed Eddie Murphy in th... |
tt2494376 | Justice League Dark | All over the world, people suddenly begin panicking as they start to see everyone around them as demonic monsters and end up killing innocents before members of the Justice League stop them. Deliberating about this strange outbreak, most of the League's members come to the conclusion that magic must be involved in this... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | You have probably wandered into this review expecting some kind words about a "good effort" from Warner Animation but, of course, compared to the concurrent zillion-dollar Dr. Strange epic from Marvel, "no cigar." Well, you would be wrong.For two reasons.First, in spite of the big budget, and the big Benedict, Dr. Stra... |
tt0120627 | Carnival of Souls | Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) is riding in a car with two other young women when some men challenge them to a drag race. As they speed across a bridge, the women's car plunges over the side into the river. The police spend three hours dragging the murky, fast-running water without success. Mary miraculously surfaces, ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0102984 | Stone Cold | Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) is the police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts, a small coastal town north of Boston. A former homicide detective in Los Angeles, Jesse was fired from the LAPD because of a drinking problem that began following his divorce. He was hired for the Paradise position by the corrupt president of the... | violence, revenge, humor, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | STONE COLD was such a big bomb in theaters, it not only put an end to the Stone Group film company, but derailed Brian Bosworth's chance of a post-football career in theatrical movies - it was several years later when Bosworth made his next movie, which went straight to video.
Black roots juxtaposed with platinum blond... |
tt1675161 | Guns, Girls and Gambling | John Smith (Christian Slater) is down on his luck. His girlfriend left him for a doctor. He headed to an Indian Reservation casino only to have his wallet stolen by a hooker. His money was in a security wallet though, so he enters an Elvis Impersonation contest and loses but then proceeds to plays cards with four other... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | This happens so many goddamn times though, that eventually I felt like I was watching Mel Brooks's attempt at a heist flick.
There's gay Elvis (Chris Kattan), midget Elvis (Tony Cox), Asian Elvis (Anthony Wong) and Gary Oldman Elvis, played by Gary Oldman who looks like he was dared into taking the role at a frat party... |
tt0082257 | Demonoid: Messenger of Death | 300 years ago, in a mine located in Guanajuato, Mexico. A satanic cult built a temple where they sacrificed humans to the Devil by cutting off the left hand of their victims. In the present day, couple Mark and Jennifer Baines explore the temple where they find a small casket containing a severed hand which they take b... | paranormal, murder | train | wikipedia | Ghastly high-camp Mexican horrors with Stuart Whitman as a Priest attempting to help Samantha Eggar in her battle against a murderous demon which possesses people's left hands.
Russ Meyer starlet Haji has a small role as a gangster's moll while Mexican superstar Erika Carlsson receives prominent billing for her challen... |
tt0043665 | I Was a Communist for the FBI | Matt Cvetic (Frank Lovejoy), who works in a Pittsburgh steel mill, has been infiltrating the Communist Party for the FBI in Pittsburgh for nine years. During this time he has been unable to tell his family about his dual role, so they believe he is a Communist and despise him.
He becomes emotionally involved with a Com... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090466 | L.A. Law | The show often combined humor and drama in the same episode. In the pilot episode of the series, only the back and hand of law partner Chaney, gripping the pages of a tax manual while seated at his desk, are seen after he succumbed to a fatal heart attack. One of Chaney's final acts was to hire a new secretary, who beg... | murder | train | wikipedia | Tall gorgeous handsome sexy six figure prominent attorney with an incredibly great personality and a command on the world that respects him as well as loves the fact that he is young and good looking!!
Steven Eckhold plays the gorgeous hunk attorney who is just too good to be true...This is why he is a television chara... |
tt0108281 | Tai ji: Zhang San Feng | Junbao and Tienbo grow up together in a Shaolin Temple as monks, studying the martial arts and generally getting into trouble. They are both expelled from the temple after Tienbo almost kills a fellow student who cheats in a fight against him. Aided in their escape by their sympathetic teacher, they receive final instr... | revenge, entertaining, violence | train | wikipedia | There are some minor flaws, like a times you can see wires, or things just look really fake, but it doesn't really take anything away from the film and is very entertaining.
"Twin Warriors" is one of the best martial arts films I have seen, there are at least 20 different fight scenes all of them spectacular.
Jet Li do... |
tt0465624 | My Super Ex-Girlfriend | After foiling a purse snatcher who tries to steal Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman)'s purse on the subway, Matthew Saunders (Luke Wilson) becomes Jenny's "hero" and starts dating this shy stranger. After several dates, Jenny displays increasingly neurotic and aggressive behavior, becoming more demanding and ultimately injuri... | revenge, entertaining, violence, stupid | train | wikipedia | It's funny, but it's not pretty ..It's a delightful premise, hell hath no fury like a super-heroine scorned, and those involved don't altogether carry it off, but it has its moments, and I think I'll get the DVD.I liked this movie ...
However, director Ivan Reitman and writer Don Payne (of the "Simpson's") almost fatal... |
tt0063643 | Stay Away, Joe | Elvis Presley stars as Native American rodeo rider Joe Lightcloud, a Navajo whose family still lives on the reservation. He returns to the reservation in a white Cadillac convertible with which he proceeds to drive cattle.
Joe persuades his Congressman (Douglas Henderson) to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he a... | cult, violence, comic | train | wikipedia | As An Elvis Fan, I Loved It. Pretty much everybody who ever talks about this film says it's horrible and stupid.
Three of his friends (Charlie Hodge, Joe Esposito, and Sonny West) join him on this movie, and it only adds to the fun.Say what you want about this movie, but as an Elvis fan...I was just happy to get to spe... |
tt0105150 | The Playboys | In a small Irish village in 1957, Tara Maguire, a young resolute woman, is the talk of the town because she is having a baby out of wedlock, and refuses to name the father. During Sunday mass she goes into labour giving birth to a baby boy. Sergeant Brendan Hegarty, the local police officer of An Garda Síochána, and Mi... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A very beautiful Irish setting, a most somber Irish tale.
It's 1957 and the setting is a small village in Ireland.
Tara (Robin Wright Penn) lives with her sister and runs a tailoring/dressmaking shop.
She has recently set the local tongues to wagging by having a baby out of wedlock and not naming the father.
The town p... |
tt2125666 | The Queen of Versailles | David Siegel is the wealthy owner of Westgate Resorts, a timeshare company in Florida. His wife Jackie Siegel, thirty years his junior, was the winner of the Mrs. Florida pageant in 1993. They begin construction on the Versailles house, a mansion modeled on the Palace of Versailles. Located on the outskirts of Orlando,... | home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0075754 | Billy Jack Goes to Washington | Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) is appointed a United States Senator to fill out the remaining term of another senator. It is hoped that he will quietly vote the party line, but his term in the Senate runs into trouble when he proposes a bill to fund a national youth camp which happens to be on the property where a nuclear p... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Having seen the original Billy Jack a few years back I figured it might be worth a few laughs if it was anything like the original.
It had some decent scripting and Laughlin is not that bad an actor, especially when working with a seasoned veteran like E.G. Marshall.
Despite a somewhat contrived plot the movie did get ... |
tt0357529 | Catch-22 | The plotline follows the airmen of the 256th Squadron while in action over Italy, and their repeated attempts to avoid combat missions that appear to lead to certain death. Their attempts are almost always comical: when an officer refers to the string on a map representing the front line and states that they won't be a... | anti war, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | More of a curiosity than anything else. Since 20th Century Fox found some success with a TV version of its 1970 military black comedy film "MASH", Paramount tried to find similar success with a TV version of its own 1970 military black comedy film, "Catch 22".Richard Dreyfuss stars as Captain Yossarian, a bombardier wh... |
tt0108243 | The Substitute | Jonathan Shale (Berenger) is a mercenary and a Vietnam veteran who returns home to Miami after a botched covert operation in Cuba in which three men from his platoon were killed. He surprises his girlfriend, Jane Hetzko (Diane Venora) at her apartment and is warmly welcomed. On the outside, Jane is a schoolteacher at i... | murder | train | wikipedia | Amanda Donohoe as Bette Davis.
Amanda Donohoe is exceptional in a character tailor made for Bette Davis.
This movie by the enigmatic Martin Donovan is a mix of extraordinary moments - cinematic, surprising, beautiful, frightening and funny as well a downright bad, amateurish moments - I'm trying to find everything Dono... |
tt2321502 | Uncanny | In 1977, in Montreal, writer Wilbur Gray (Peter Cushing) visits his publisher Frank Richards (Ray Milland) to discuss his new book about cats. Wilbur believes that felines are supernatural creatures, and that they are the devil in disguise. Wilbur tells three tales to illustrate his thoughts:
In 1912, in London, Miss M... | dark | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1869152 | Titanic | In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team aboard the research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh search the wreck of RMS Titanic for a necklace with a rare diamond, the Heart of the Ocean. They recover a safe containing a drawing of a young woman wearing only the necklace dated April 14, 1912, the day the ship s... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | I highly recommend the "play all" option, it has a running time of 187 minutes which will be long for some, but I find you are more aware and drawn into the stories, and because it is a drama it is much more of an emotional experience if you watch them consecutively because you are still in that mindset.
Julian Fellowe... |
tt6460664 | Kido Senshi Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Sora No Kagero | === Season 1 ===
The series is set in 2307 AD. As a result of the depletion of fossil fuels, humanity had to search for a new source of power. The power was found in the form of multiple Dyson rings (massive arrays of solar power collectors) orbiting Earth, and supported by three orbital elevators, each one serving one... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0091949 | Short Circuit | Number 5 is part of a series of prototype U.S. military S.A.I.N.T. (Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport) robots built for the Cold War by NOVA Laboratories. The series' inventors, Newton Graham Crosby and Ben Jabituya, are more interested in peaceful applications including music and social aid. After a... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | This film is wonderfully life-affirming through the character of robot Jonny 5 (the scene where he realises what it means to be alive through crushing a grass hopper is beautifully portrayed), Ally Sheedy brings a bucket load of positive energy to the character of the naive but loving Stephanie, and to top it all there... |
tt0045563 | Blowing Wild | After the bandit El Gavilan and his men blow up their South American oil rig, broke wildcatters Jeff Dawson and "Dutch" Peterson head back to town, looking for work. Sal Donnelly, an American down on her luck, tries to use her charms to get Jeff to buy her a ticket to get home; Jeff offers his oil lease as payment, but... | murder | train | wikipedia | Good Cast in a Watchable Product.
Blowing Wild is some sort of modern times western, unpretentious but interesting.Ruined friends Jeff Dawson (Gary Coooper) and Dutch Peterson (Ward Bond) are stuck in a small South American city after bandits blow to pieces their only oil well.
As they wonder around they run into wealt... |
tt0286112 | Siu Lam juk kau | Sing (Stephen Chow) is a master of Shaolin Kung Fu, whose goal in life is to promote the spiritual and practical benefits of the art to modern society. He experiments with various methods, but none bear positive results. He then meets "Golden Foot" Fung (Ng Man-tat), a legendary Hong Kong soccer star in his day, who is... | cruelty, murder, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, absurd, romantic, revenge, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0116778 | Kingpin | Flashy young bowler Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) wins the 1979 Iowa state bowling championship and leaves home to turn professional. In his professional bowling tour debut, he defeats established pro Ernie McCracken (Bill Murray), who takes the loss poorly and seeks revenge. McCracken convinces Roy to join him in hustl... | cult, comedy, humor | train | wikipedia | Along the journey they are great supporting comedic performances given by Bill Murray and Vanessa Angel who certainly makes the look of the film more appealing.The Farrelly brothers in my opinion give their best direction they've yet to have.
The Farrellys had a good screen play by Barry Fanaro and Mort Nathan to work ... |
tt0076845 | Twilight's Last Gleaming | After escaping from a military prison, the rogue Air Force General Lawrence Dell and accomplices Powell, Garvas, and Hoxey infiltrate a Montana ICBM complex that Dell helped design. Their goal is to gain launch control over its nine Titan nuclear missiles. The infiltration does not go as planned, as the impulsive Hoxey... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4326444 | Julieta | Julieta lives in Madrid and is about to move to Portugal with her boyfriend Lorenzo. In a chance encounter on the street with her daughter Antía's childhood friend Beatriz, she learns that Antía, from whom she has long been estranged, is living in Switzerland and has three children. Overcome by her desire to reestablis... | flashback | train | wikipedia | In one of the first scenes, director Almodovar presents the question that is central to the rest of the film: what happened to the daughter of lead character Julieta?
This is Pedro is a very serious mode, perhaps too serious; maybe a little bit of humor might not have gone amiss.Julieta is played by two different actre... |
tt0047163 | The Law vs. Billy the Kid | Cheated out of a day's pay, William Bonney takes his money anyway and rides off. He kills one of the men who pursues him and soon becomes better known in the territory as Billy the Kid.
Pat Garrett, a cowboy who considers Billy a friend, finds him a job at British land baron John Tunstall's giant ranch in New Mexico. R... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Colorful and low-budgeted chronicle of Billy the Kid with B-actors and regularly direced by the peculiar director William Castle.
Biographic movie about the real-life of Billy of Kid (Scott Brady) who is forced to kill for the girl he loves as well as becomes embroiled in Lincoln County war .
This is an interesting loo... |
tt1323932 | Left 4 Dead | Pennsylvania suffers an outbreak of "Green Flu"; a highly contagious pathogen causing extreme aggression, mutation to the body cells, and loss of higher brain functions. Two weeks after the first infection four immune survivors—William "Bill" Overbeck, a Vietnam veteran; Zoey, a college student; Louis (voiced by Earl A... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0096925 | Big Man on Campus | The film opens with a news broadcast on the apparent sighting of a "mysterious creature" on the UCLA campus. Among those interviewed are underachieving student Alex Kominski (Corey Parker) and his girlfriend Cathy Adams (Melora Hardin). Although neither claim to believe in the creature's existence, a hunchbacked figure... | romantic | train | wikipedia | 10 out of 10 doesn't go far enough to tell you how good this film is.
i can't believe you didn't get a laugh a minute out of this film.
we, my friends and family found, it hilarious,we have all watched it several times.
it's laugh out loud, belly clutching, plain funny.
long live the hairball.....you must judge for you... |
tt1462635 | The Boy Who Drew Cats | A farmer has many children, who are all hard-working, except for his youngest, who is small and weak and only interested in drawing pictures of cats. He decides his son is not cut out to be a farmer, and sends him to a temple to study with a priest. The boy spends all his time drawing cats instead of studying. The prie... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0059909 | Who Killed Teddy Bear | Norah Dain (Juliet Prowse), a nightclub disc jockey and aspiring actress living alone in a Manhattan apartment, receives a series of obscene phone calls from someone who seems to be watching her on a daily basis. She also finds a decapitated teddy bear in her apartment. At first it is not clear to either the viewer or ... | neo noir, murder, cult, violence, flashback, melodrama | train | wikipedia | So I consider myself fortunate to have been exposed to this sleaze-ball of a movie.The highlight for me was in one of the final scenes where Sal Mineo and Juliet Prowse shimmy to one of the sassiest, silliest 60s dance tunes ever invented.
Sal Mineo plays a busboy obsessed with aspiring actress/club DJ Juliet Prowse (a... |
tt0110647 | Die unendliche Geschichte III: Rettung aus Phantasien | In a prologue, the Old Man of Wandering Mountain (Freddie Jones) reads from a large book; begins to record a prophecy of a day when 'The Nasty' will arrive in Fantasia; and describes the savior of "Extraordinary Courage".
Bastian Balthazar Bux (Jason James Richter) grown older, and his father Barney (Kevin McNulty) has... | good versus evil, fantasy, flashback | train | wikipedia | Besides, I knew that it could not possibly be worse than "The NeverEnding Story II."Boy, was I wrong."The NeverEnding Story III" has rightly earned its place among IMDb voters as the 79th worst movie of all time.
It is so bad that, in writing this review, I risk making it sound like it's worth watching, sort of like "P... |
tt0109327 | Brainscan | A lonely boy named Michael Brower (Edward Furlong) lives an isolated existence in his absent father's mansion. Michael's mother was killed in a car accident, which also permanently injured his leg. He spends his spare time stalking his crush, a typical girl-next-door named Kimberly. A huge fan of horror films and video... | allegory, cult, comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | Instead, I found myself simply feeling uneasy while watching it.I recently decided to rent it for the nostalgia factor and give it another watch, fully expecting it to be horrible and downright laughable, but I was surprised to find that this movie still has the power to make me feel uneasy and even uncomfortable while... |
tt0291777 | A Bug's Life | A colony of ants living in the middle of a dry creek led by Princess Atta and her mother, the Queen, is oppressed by a gang of marauding grasshoppers that arrive every season demanding food from the ants. One day, after Flik, an individualist and would-be inventor, accidentally knocks the annual offering into a stream ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1814621 | Admission | Straight-laced Princeton University Admissions Officer Portia Nathan (Tina Fey) is caught off guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by a former college classmate, the free-wheeling John Pressman (Paul Rudd). With vast experience in the coaching, consoling, and criticism involvin... | comedy, boring, plot twist | train | wikipedia | Tina Fey as Portia and Paul Rudd as John turn in pleasant performances as an admissions executive and a progressive school teacher respectively.
Rudd is amiable here and usually successful in his film career, while Fey's efforts up to now have been mediocre (Date Night, Baby Mama).As an Alumni Admissions interviewer fo... |
tt0049443 | The Lieutenant Wore Skirts | TV writer Greg Whitcomb did his military service heroically but now has settled into everyday life with a young wife, Katy. A letter from the war department arrives that Katy believes is calling Greg back to active duty from the Air Force reserve, but she hides it during a party celebrating their wedding anniversary.
A... | insanity, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0103466 | The Larry Sanders Show | The show follows the production of a fictional late night talk show The Larry Sanders Show. It chronicles the daily life of host Larry (Garry Shandling), producer Arthur "Artie" (Rip Torn), sidekick Hank Kingsley (Jeffrey Tambor) and their interaction with celebrity guests, the network and others. Episodes focus on the... | humor, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0058279 | Kaidan | === The Black Hair ===
"The Black Hair" (黒髪, Kurokami) was adapted from "The Reconciliation", which appeared in Hearn's collection Shadowings (1900). An impoverished swordsman living in Kyoto divorces his wife, a weaver, and leaves her for a woman of a wealthy family to attain greater social status. He takes his new wi... | cruelty, murder, horror, haunting, flashback, atmospheric, insanity, psychedelic, romantic, historical, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0088146 | A Soldier's Story | The time is 1944 during World War II. Vernon Waters (Adolph Caesar), a master sergeant in a company of black soldiers, is very drunk and staggering along a road along Fort Neal, a segregated Army base in Louisiana. Waters' last words amidst his raucous laughter were "They still hate you! They still hate you!" before he... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | It is equally puzzling and disturbing and will leave you thinking about it for a long time to come.The story takes place at a military base in the American South during the last full year of the Second World War, in 1944.
The White officers all want to see this matter brought to a swift and tidy conclusion in order to ... |
tt0039484 | I'll Be Yours | Louise Ginglebusher (Deanna Durbin) is a young woman from the small town of Cobbleskill who comes to New York City to make it in show business. In a café, she's befriended by a kindhearted but ornery waiter, Wechsberg (William Bendix), and meets a bearded struggling attorney, George Prescott (Tom Drake). She gets a job... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0115994 | Curdled | Gabriela (Jones) is a Colombian immigrant living in Miami who has been fascinated with violent death ever since she saw a falling corpse pass by her mother's bakery window as a child. With many television shows and films feeding her obsession, she believes that after someone is decapitated, they still talk for a short ... | violence, comedy, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | Tarantino presents this little gem, which he caught at an Italian genre festival while promoting Reservoir Dogs (he relates the fateful anecdote in an epilogue after the movie on video.) It shares with that director the nervy, hip black-comedy attitude, an absolute command of cinematic techniques, and a post-modern app... |
tt0035639 | Apache Trail | Tom Folliard (William Lundigan) is released from jail and seeks work at his prior employer, a stagecoach line. He is sent to manage a stagecoach rest stop in a remote area. Upon arrival, he meets a woman, Señora Martinez (Connie Gilchrist) and her daughter Rosalia (Donna Reed) who cook and clean at the rest stop. When ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Lloyd Nolan Opposes Law, Order, and Decency With Charm.
Lloyd Nolan, cheerful black-hearted villain, shows up at his brother's stagecoach way-station, and menaces everybody there so he can get his hands on some loot.
Will the denizens of the way-station force Lloyd outside the walls of the station, when justifiably ira... |
tt1433562 | Vertige | Young adults Fred (Nicolas Giraud), his girlfriend Karine and their friends Chloé (Fanny Valette), a nurse grappling with guilt after accidentally killing a young patient; Guillaume (Raphaël Lenglet), who harbors feelings for Chloé; and Loïc (Johan Libéreau), Chloé's unpopular boyfriend, travel to Croatia to climb and ... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
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