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tt0234713 | Shenmue | In 1986 Yokosuka, Japan, teenage martial artist Ryo Hazuki returns to his family dojo to witness a confrontation between his father Iwao and a Chinese man, Lan Di. Ryo intervenes, but is easily incapacitated. Lan Di demands Iwao give him a mysterious stone artifact known as the dragon mirror. When he threatens to kill ... | revenge, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0062218 | Rough Night in Jericho | A stagecoach bound for the town of Jericho is ambushed by Alex Flood, a lawman gone bad. Sharpshooting from a safe distance, Flood wounds the coach's driver, Ben Hickman, who is brought to town by the only passenger, a gambler named Dolan.
Hickman is a former Santa Fe lawman and Dolan was once his deputy. They now are ... | violence | train | wikipedia | Passable Western about a rough confrontation with strong characterization.
Compelling tale of an ex-deputy and his nemesis who is hired by a widow to protect her from revenge-seeking outlaws .
In the Old west there are always the men who live breathe violence and the women who hold their breath .
A ¨town tamer¨ , ex-sh... |
tt0187173 | Iolanthe | Act I
Twenty-five years before the beginning of the opera, the fairy Iolanthe committed the capital crime (under fairy law) of marrying a mortal human. The Queen of the fairies commuted Iolanthe's sentence of death to banishment for life on the condition that Iolanthe left her husband and never communicated with him ag... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0065950 | The Kremlin Letter | Late in 1969, a brilliant young United States Navy intelligence officer named Charles Rone (Patrick O'Neal) finds his commission revoked so that he can be recruited into an espionage mission. Rone is told that the mission is being undertaken independently of governmental intelligence agencies, as was commonplace prior ... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | It might not be a first but I haven't seen it in any film since.Finally I must add that there is not one likeable character in this movie...
It seems to me that this one point raised by almost all of the movie anthologies indicates that none have seen the film but only copied one person's comment.
The Kremlin Letter is... |
tt0038032 | Road to Utopia | Sal and Chester Hooton (Lamour and Hope), an old married couple, are visited by their equally old friend Duke Johnson (Crosby), and the three reminisce about their previous adventure in the Klondike. The film flashes back to the turn of the century. A man is murdered and two thugs, McGurk (Nestor Paiva) and Sperry (Rob... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090915 | Dead End Drive-In | In the near future, the economy has collapsed and massive crime waves sweep the inner cities. The manufacturing industry has shrunk to the point where cars are a commodity and parts are fought over between salvage companies and roving gangs. In an attempt to control the crime-wave, a chain of drive-in theatres are turn... | tragedy, cult, psychedelic, satire, violence | train | wikipedia | While his work may not be of high quality (his two "Leprechaun" films are a good example of this), they are always creative as his wild imagination seems to be set loose every time he sits at the director's chair.
"Dead-End Drive In", probably his best film, is a perfect example of this: writer Peter Carey constructs a... |
tt0124312 | Cenizas del paraíso | The film opens with the fall of the respected judge Costa Makantasis (Héctor Alterio) from the Federal Courthouse. Next, his oldest son Pablo (Leonardo Sbaraglia) is seen dragging the body of young and beautiful Ana Muro (Leticia Brédice) through the house in which he lives with his two younger brothers.
Two different ... | revenge, intrigue, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Top notch criminal who-done-it.
This a top of the line police thriller, crossed with sibling/father rivalry drama, criminal who-done-it, and psychological character study.
Quite unique really, the film is worthy of its impressive Argentine pedigree: directed by one of the country's greatest, and starring an ensemble of... |
tt0092944 | Eat the Rich | The film begins in a high-class London restaurant named 'Bastards', staffed by the protagonist, waiter Alex (Alan Pellay). Alex is subject to the daily contempt and disgust of the upper-class customers, and is eventually fired for being obnoxious and rude to the clientele. After witnessing an act of terrorism on an emb... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Underrated, Well worth many viewings.
Dark, dark stuff from the British 'Comic Strip' school of movie/TV comedy making.
Robin Hood meets Motorhead.
And, yes indeed, 80's Yuppies are served meals of dead 80's Yuppies in a vile 80's Yuppie restaurant.This is a love/hate movie.
Most people will be offended.Oh, by the way,... |
tt1228953 | Big Fan | Paul Aufiero (Patton Oswalt) is a parking garage attendant who lives with his mother (Marcia Jean Kurtz) in Staten Island, New York. He relentlessly follows the New York Giants football team. He and his friend Sal (Kevin Corrigan) faithfully attend each Giants game; however, as they can't afford tickets, they must cont... | revenge, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0093831 | Red Riding Hood | Valerie is a young woman who lives in the village of Daggerhorn, on the edge of a forest plagued by a werewolf, with her parents, Cesaire and Suzette, and older sister Lucie. She is in love with the town woodcutter Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry Henry Lazar, son of the wealthy blacksmith Adrien L... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2929690 | Margarita with a Straw | Laila (Kalki Koechelin) is a teenager with cerebral palsy who uses a wheelchair. She is a student at Delhi University and an aspiring writer who writes lyrics and creates electronic sounds for an indie band at the university. Laila falls for the lead singer of the college band and is heartbroken when she is rejected.
S... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Demonstrating Kalki's extraordinary acting ability.The story was very precious and demonstrated how somebody with the lead characters challenges still strives to have a normal life.
And id doing so it became apparent that even with her physical disability she is able to lead a normal and filling life.Possibly even more... |
tt0462553 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | Three years after the start of the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, war has gripped the galaxy. During a space battle over the planet Coruscant, Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker lead a mission to rescue the kidnapped Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from S... | violence | train | wikipedia | Great game!!.
Hi all, This game is by far one of the best of star wars, it is very playable to all ages, requires a lot of thought and is most of all a lot of fun!
The graphics are good, but the clips in between levels are awesome as they are a combination between actual movie footage and made up game footage.Anakin tu... |
tt0278723 | The Skulls II | Picking up several years after the first film, Ryan Sommers (Robin Dunne) is a student at an unnamed university, believed to be Yale University by the sports teams logo and various New Haven, Connecticut, imagery seen throughout the film. He and lacrosse teammate, Jeff, are tapped for the elite "Skulls" society. Despit... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0069282 | Slither | A meteorite housing a malevolent, sentient extraterrestrial parasite crashes into the town of Wheelsy, South Carolina. While frolicking in the woods with Brenda, local car dealer Grant finds the parasite and is infected by it. The parasite takes over his body and absorbs his consciousness and memories. With the alien n... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2071645 | The Following | A struggling, unemployed young writer (credited as "The Young Man") takes to following strangers around the streets of London, ostensibly to find inspiration for his first novel. Initially, he sets strict rules for himself regarding whom he should follow and for how long, but he soon discards them as he focuses on a we... | violence, cult, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Unfortunately, this didn't last long and the plot turned out to be the main problem.As the first season unravels, the villains manage to outwit the FBI and the police on countless occasions.
Even the average viewer of TV shows would know some basic rules of police work: Secure the perimeter; Do not engage the fugitives... |
tt0278475 | Haunted Castle | The film opens with a large bat flying into a medieval castle. The bat circles the room, before suddenly changing into Mephistopheles, an incarnation of the Devil. Mephistopheles produces a cauldron and an assistant, who helps him conjure a woman from the cauldron.
The room is cleared shortly before two cavaliers enter... | haunting | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0289868 | Body & Soul | An escaped prisoner seeks refuge in the predominantly African-American town of Tatesville, Georgia, by passing himself off as the Rt. Reverend Isaiah T. Jenkins. He is joined in town by a fellow criminal, and the pair scheme to swindle the phony reverend's congregation of their offerings. Jenkins falls in love with a y... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | Amateur therapists. Carrie (Catalina Larranaga) owner of a women's `health club/retreat/spa/psychological clinic' goes on a business trip and hires Drake (Jack Lincoln) as a house-sitter. His only responsibility while he is there is to fax Carrie's weekly column on women's issues to the newspaper office on Monday morni... |
tt0270585 | The Prophecies of Nostradamus | In 1853, Genta Nishiyama begins preaching the prophecies of Michel de Nostradame using a copy of his book, "Centuries." When Nishiyama is executed by the Tokugawa Shogunate for supposed heresy (after discussing the arrival of "black ships" that will end Japan's long isolation), his wife and son flees with the book in h... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Accurate documenttary gives big picture of mysterious psychic Nostradamus.. French doctor's visio about wars and other big issues in the word has always seduced mystery seeking people. This documentary shows us how accurate and intelligent man saw the future 500 years ago. Some parts are quite scary and seems impossibl... |
tt0305357 | Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle | After rescuing U.S. Marshal Ray Carter (Robert Patrick) in Mongolia, the Angels: Natalie Cook (Cameron Diaz), Dylan Sanders (Drew Barrymore), and Alex Munday (Lucy Liu), together with John Bosley's adoptive brother Jimmy Bosley (Bernie Mac), are sent to recover H.A.L.O. (Hidden Alias List Operation) titanium rings stol... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0093818 | Radio Days | Joe (Woody Allen), the narrator, relates how two burglars got involved in a radio game after picking up the phone. He goes on to explain that he associates old radio songs with childhood memories.
During the late 1930s and early 1940s young Joe (Seth Green) lived in a modest Jewish-American family in Rockaway Beach. Hi... | boring, depressing, murder | train | wikipedia | Radio Days (1987)- written, directed, and narrated by Allen:What a beautiful, kind, gentle, ironic, warm, sentimental (in a very good way and yes, I am talking about Woody Allen's movie, that's right) yet perfectly balanced delight.
The film is a tribute to the magical radio days and the myths and legends about radio p... |
tt0052365 | The Vikings | The King of Northumbria is killed during a Viking raid led by the fearsome Ragnar (Ernest Borgnine). Because the king had died childless, his cousin Aella (Frank Thring) takes the throne. The king's widow, however, is pregnant with what she knows is Ragnar's child because he had raped her during that fateful raid, and ... | cult, action, murder, violence, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Call me a fool, but I feel strongly that the Richard Fleischer/ Kirk Douglas 1958 film THE VIKINGS is a waiting-to-be-rediscovered masterpiece.Of the costume drama spectaculars of the 1950s-1960s, it has the most coherent script and theme.
I saw this film at the pictures a long, long time ago.I was a kid and was as wid... |
tt4077768 | Amor eterno | At age 10, Carlos fled the interior of Minas Gerais, tired of the abuse of his stepfather Virgílio. Carlos had the special ability to tame animals with a gesture or look, which Virgílio exploited to make money. After running away, alone and lost on the road, the boy met Xavier, a charitable truck driver who took him to... | romantic, avant garde, queer | train | wikipedia | lugubrious student - teacher infatuation. This film from the director who made Animals (2012), replicates the same quietly brooding atmosphere as aforementioned film. A shy introvert teenage boy accidentally crosses paths with his teacher in a cruising area in the local woods, and thereafter attempts to strike up a lov... |
tt0089991 | Sense and Sensibility | On his deathbed, Mr. Dashwood tells his son from his first marriage, John, to take care of his second wife and three daughters, Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret, since they will inherit nothing. John's greedy and snobbish wife Fanny convinces him to give his half sisters practically nothing financially; John and Fanny im... | romantic | train | wikipedia | This 3-hr miniseries seems to me much more faithful to the novel than the 1995 film by Ang Lee and Emma Thompson.
I find Edward a credible character and the love affair between him and Elinor skilfully and sensitively portrayed.
(They make a much more convincing couple than stuttering Hugh Grant and Miss Thompson...) B... |
tt0212579 | Blackadder Back & Forth | The film opens at Blackadder Hall where the present day Lord Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) is entertaining guests on New Year's Eve, 1999. As a scam, Blackadder informs them he has invented a working time machine and wagers £10,000 each that he can bring back anything they ask for. His guests – Archbishop Melchett (Steph... | cult, comedy, psychedelic, entertaining, historical | train | wikipedia | Old BBC shows are lovely, so low-budget and witty and strange.To a lover of literature and history like myself, Blackadder stands as possibly the funniest sitcom of all time.
Can you image Blackadder WITHOUT this line?).Like the recent big-budget Doctor Who and Asterix films, this was criticized by fans who were disapp... |
tt0425027 | Flywheel | Jay Austin (Alex Kendrick) is a car salesman who consistently cheats his customers, even to the point of overcharging his own pastor. He teaches his rotund salesmen, Bernie Meyers (Tracy Goode) and Vince Berkeley (Treavor Lokey), to do likewise. Jay occasionally attends church, but only because his wife Judy (Janet Lee... | christian film | train | wikipedia | It warmed my heart and strengthened my already strong faith in God, and the way He works in our lives.We often think that God has too many big things to do and He doesn't have time for our tiny lives.
God works in big and little things, and brings blessings to our personal worlds when we are patient and have faith in H... |
tt0098536 | Turner & Hooch | Scott Turner (Tom Hanks), is a police investigator within the fictional town of Cypress Beach in Northern California whilst also being obsessively neat and routine. Bored with the lack of serious crime with his current work, Scott is set to transfer to a much better position in Sacramento, leaving fellow investigator D... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | We just may call this another typically silly Tom Hank's early age's movie that many have come to love at first sight.Simply put, this movie is all about funny situations and the comical performances of Tom Hanks and the dog (that dog was a great actor!).
In terms of storyline of 'Turner & Hooch' is not developed from ... |
tt0068768 | Joe Kidd | Set in the early 1900s, Clint Eastwood stars as Joe Kidd, a former bounty hunter who is in jail for hunting on Indian land and disturbing the peace in the New Mexican town of Sinola. Mexican bandito/revolutionary Luis Chama (John Saxon) has organized a peasant revolt against the local landowners, who are throwing the p... | cult, humor, violence | train | wikipedia | This is a pretty good though very simple Western and I am sure that the somewhat low ratings are due, in part, to the movie not being exactly what Clint Eastwood fans expected.
In this film, he plays Joe Kidd--a decent sort of guy but not exactly as super-human as "the man with no name" in his Spaghetti Westerns.
The c... |
tt0047191 | The Long, Long Trailer | As Nicholas Collini (Desi Arnaz) takes a new job as a civil engineer, his new bride Tacy (Lucille Ball) comes up with an idea to buy a trailer to travel around the USA to various work projects on which Nicky is employed, as well as to save money that would otherwise be spent on a house. Tacy also hopes to haul the trai... | satire, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090555 | Crocodile Dundee | Sue Charlton is a feature writer for Newsday (which her father owns) and is dating her editor, Richard Mason. She travels to Walkabout Creek, a small hamlet in the Northern Territory of Australia, to meet Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee, a bushman reported to have lost half a leg to a saltwater crocodile before crawling ... | humor, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0195945 | Next Friday | After Craig Jones' successful fight against the neighborhood bully Deebo in the previous film, rumors spread that Deebo will be breaking out of jail soon and will be looking to enact revenge on Craig. As a result, Craig's father Willie decides to have him stay with his uncle Elroy and cousin Day-Day in Rancho Cucamonga... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Next Friday is actually pretty funny even though it lacks the film's first scene stealer Chris Tucker.
Ice Cube makes a funny script with the help of new scene stealer Mike Epps who plays his cousin Day-Day. All in all if you just want a good time check this one out..
Rated R for Language,Drug Use and Sexual Content.Ne... |
tt2799166 | The Pyramid | During the 2012–13 uprisings in Egypt, an archaeological team discovers a vast pyramid buried 600 feet (180 m) below the surface. Further examinations of the pyramid's apex reveals that the structure is three-sided, unlike any pyramid previously discovered. They locate a tunnel leading into the apex of the pyramid. Whi... | paranormal, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070068 | 40 Carats | Ann Stanley, who sells real estate in New York City, is on vacation with her mother in Greece when her car breaks down. To her rescue comes a young man on a motorbike, Peter Latham, who has a difficult time persuading Ann to accept a ride. They become better acquainted, drink ouzo, and ultimately consummate the relatio... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Liv Ullmann in a comedy:.
"40 Carats" - a light and cheerful comedy is the only comedy I've seen Liv Ullmann in.
She plays Ann Stanley, forty years old Manhattan Real Estate agent divorcée who lives with her mother and 16 years old daughter.
On her vacation in Greece, she meets 22 years old Peter Latham (Edward Albert)... |
tt0807832 | Mushishi | Mushishi is set in an imaginary time between the Edo and Meiji periods, featuring some 19th-century technology but with Japan still as a "closed country". The story features ubiquitous creatures called Mushi (蟲) that often display what appear as supernatural powers. It is implied that there are many more lifeforms more... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Mushi-Shi (2005) from Japan is a brilliantly written and thought-provoking anime series, with lots of surprises in store for you if you are patient and open minded.With Mushi-Shi you will refreshingly NOT see your typical anime cutesy big-eyed girls having crushes on boys, shallow harem sex stories that get old fast, o... |
tt0823671 | Tinker Bell | Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) is born from the first laugh of a baby, and is brought by the winds to Pixie Hollow (which is part of the island of Never Land). She learns that her talent is to be one of the tinkers, the fairies who make and fix things. Two other tinker fairies, Bobble (Rob Paulsen) and Clank (Jeff Bennett),... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | This was much better than some of the theatrically released Disney animated films I've seen (notably "Atlantis"), making it among the best of the Mouse's direct-to-video titles.
I've seen some trailers and clips from this movie and the animation looked quite good, so although my expectations weren't the highest, I stil... |
tt0061791 | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | J. Pierpont Finch buys a book, How to Succeed in Business, describing in step-by-step fashion how to rise in the business world. The ambitious young window cleaner follows its advice carefully. He joins the "World-Wide Wicket Company" and begins work in the mailroom. Soon, thanks to the ethically questionable advice in... | comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0494716 | Read It and Weep | Read It and Weep begins with freshman Jameson "Jamie" Bartlett (Kay Panabaker), who has three best friends named Connor (who has a crush on her) (Jason Dolley), Lindsay (Marquise Brown), and Harmony (Alexandra Krosney), a brother named Lenny Bartlett (Nick Whitaker) and a very mean enemy named Sawyer Sullivan (Allison ... | cute, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Okay, so I just watched this movie on Disney channel and I think it was pretty awesome.
Normally, I don't like Disney channel movies, but this one is the best I've seen.
Though I cannot pin-point exactly when it started happening but slowly Disney Channel movies began taking a turn for the worst and I stopped watching ... |
tt2042692 | The Unseen | After a hotel reservation mix up, two sisters Karen and Jennifer, and their friend Vicki Thompson, meet a friendly, but shady character named Ernest Keller who is the owner of a small town museum. Ernest convinces the three women into accepting an invitation for cheap room and board at his large farmhouse outside of to... | tragedy, plot twist, haunting | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070379 | Mean Streets | Charlie (Harvey Keitel) is a young Italian-American man who is trying to move up in the local New York Mafia but is hampered by his feeling of responsibility towards his reckless younger friend Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro), a small-time gambler who owes money to many loan sharks. Charlie works for his uncle Giovanni (Ce... | cult, comedy, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0074042 | Quincy M.E. | The series starred Jack Klugman as Dr. Quincy, a strong-willed, very principled Medical Examiner (forensic pathologist) for the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, working to ascertain facts about and reasons for possible suspicious deaths. His colleagues, friends and wife all address him by his surname or the shorten... | murder | train | wikipedia | At least once an episode, Sam (Quincy's Asiatic sidekick) has to say 'I don't like it Quince'3.
In fact, many of the episodes dealt with forensic methods which were just coming into being in the 70's, and for the first time let the audience of the series see these new techniques and research, including the build-up of ... |
tt0802999 | Grand Theft Auto IV | === Setting ===
Grand Theft Auto IV takes place in 2008, in a redesigned version of Liberty City consisting of four boroughs, based on four of the boroughs of New York City: Broker (based on Brooklyn), Dukes (Queens), Bohan (The Bronx), and Algonquin (Manhattan). Adjacent to the city is the independent state of Alderne... | violence, comedy | train | wikipedia | Fantastic acting, worthy of film awards, breathtaking graphics, beyond realistic physics, and just enthralling game-play make this the first truly next-gen game that goes beyond just better graphics, pushing the limits of what I thought was possible.
Something you might find difficult especially if you have it on the P... |
tt0113149 | Gazon maudit | Laurent (Alain Chabat) and Loli (Victoria Abril) are a thirty-ish married couple living in southern France with their young children. He is an estate agent; she is a housewife. Laurent has extramarital affairs.
Loli is unaware that her husband is unfaithful. Then one day, a campervan breaks down in front of their house... | queer | train | wikipedia | This is a delightful light comedy about a married couple whose life change upon the arrival of a butch lesbian to their lives.
Nevertheless, the movie is funny, it's done with great taste and sensibility, and even though the characters are not 100% belivable, they are not stereotypical.
Victoria Abril is delicious, pla... |
tt0108609 | Heung Gong kei on: Keung gaan | Kitty (Chingmy Yau) is a vicious young woman who has no qualms about stabbing girlfriend-bullying men in the genitals. Tinam (Simon Yam) is a cop who is undergoing a rather traumatic period: he shot his own brother by accident and as a result vomits every time he handles his gun.
When Kitty severely injures a man by st... | revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | Worthy but altogether different follow-up to NAKED KILLER.
Advertised in some places as a sequel to NAKED KILLER, this is a much different film in style and tone but using some of the same principal cast members.
NAKED KILLER had a joyful exuberance in its blackly comic tale of rival lesbian hitwomen.
RAPED BY AN ANGEL... |
tt4386242 | R.L. Stine's Monsterville: The Cabinet of Souls | A small town Halloween festival finds itself intruded upon by an evil carnival with designs upon imprisoning and feeding off the souls of unwary teenagers. Targeted are four high school friends, whose two leaders, Kellen and Beth (not quite a dating couple), suddenly find themselves with alternate romantic choices (nam... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Enjoyable light horror with likable characters.
I'm a big horror nut but sometimes I like the soft stuff.
I've read a few R.L. Stine's "Goosebumps" novels and they're always an enjoyable read.
I feel like he captures teenage life quite nicely and he creates likable characters who you root for.
He's been well served by ... |
tt0069795 | Blackenstein | Big and burly African-American soldier Eddie Turner (Joe De Sue) stepped on a land mine while serving in Vietnam and lost both arms and legs. His physicist fiancée Doctor Winifred Walker (Ivory Stone) thinks she's found help for him in her white former teacher and colleague Doctor Stein (John Hart) who has recently won... | violence, murder, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | Watching Blackenstein the Black Frankenstein (what a title!) is a one of a kind experience.
I can truly say that I've never seen a film quite like it.
Watch this one with your Z Grade movie loving friends and plenty of cold beverages.
This kitschy blaxploitation film was originally intended as a serious movie, which (u... |
tt0119843 | Oscar and Lucinda | As a child living in Australia, Lucinda Leplastrier is given a Prince Rupert's Drop which sparks a lifelong obsession with glass.
Lucinda's parents die and she is left a wealthy heiress after her guardians sell off the vast farmland that was her family's home. She buys a glass factory with her money and takes to gambli... | murder | train | wikipedia | The film had to do with love and gambling, yes, but there were elements of faith, guilt, family, destiny and survival that were wholly ignored in the press.
Like her minor role in _Paradise Road_, she steals scenes and breaks hearts with an undeniable charisma and resolve.Set in Australia, the story is surprising, and ... |
tt0114489 | Soldier Boyz | The film shows a scene of a girl being kidnapped from a charity plane by Vietnamese rebels (a U.N. supplies [as in food and medicine] plane) in Vietnam. Then we are taken to the United States to a detention center in Los Angeles where the warden of the center and 6 of the toughest prisoners are hired to rescue the girl... | violence | train | wikipedia | I saw this movie late night on HBO or something like that several years ago.
The sheer stupidity of the concept just hit me several days ago.A group of misfits from school get taken to vietnam for a covert operation?
Ho hum.What amazes me is that someone wrote this script, someone looked at this script, and said you kn... |
tt0901686 | Mater and the Ghostlight | The short film opens with Mater playing pranks on the other residents of Radiator Springs. This sequence culminates with Mater teasing Lightning McQueen as if he had seen "the Ghostlight," a Route 66 legend recounted to Pixar by Dean Walker of the Kansas Historic Route 66 Association.
Sheriff admonishes him for mocking... | revenge, horror, psychedelic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0970462 | Tunnel Rats | A group of US Army soldiers, trained in underground warfare, arrive at base camp in the jungle of Vietnam. The soldiers spend the first day and night getting to know each other. The next morning they begin to explore the Viet Cong's underground tunnel network at Củ Chi. Led by Lieutenant Vic Hollowborn (Michael Pare) a... | violence | train | wikipedia | Another unfortunate film meeting "we hate the director because the internet told us to" preconceptions, 1968 Tunnel Rats is a complete success in what it sets out to do - create an overwhelming sense of fear and claustrophobia.There are war movies, and there are horror movies.
In Uwe Boll's stunning "Tunnel Rats," the ... |
tt0047688 | Young at Heart | When songwriter Alex Burke (Gig Young) enters the lives of the musical Tuttle family, each of the three daughters falls for him. The family lives in the fictional town of Strafford, Connecticut. Alex's personality is a match for Laurie Tuttle (Doris Day), as both she and Alex are seemingly made for each other. When a f... | romantic | train | wikipedia | This is a very re-watchable movie with a fine cast - Doris Day, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Brian Keith etc.The standard songs are joined by some new ones written for the production - and they too are a total delight.
He quietly falls in love with kindhearted, upbeat Laurie Tuttle (Doris Day) who lives in a small town ... |
tt0264415 | Bhairava Dweepam | Jayachandra Maharaja (Vijay Kumar) of the Chandraprabha Dynasty deserts Vasundhara (K. R. Vijaya), a woman who gives birth to his son. Vasundhara, loses the child in a cyclone while crossing a river. She is found the hermitage revives her. Vasundhara, on learning the loss of her son attempts suicide. Concerned, Jamadag... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0087291 | Frankenweenie | Young filmmaker and scientist Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan) lives with his parents, Edward (Martin Short) and Susan Frankenstein (Catherine O'Hara), and his beloved Bull Terrier dog, Sparky, in the quiet town of New Holland. Victor's intelligence is recognized by his classmates at school, his somber next-door nei... | cult, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | You'll especially enjoy it if you've seen (a) James Whale's "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein," and (b) Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas."The plot is basically the Frankenstein legend.
Charming complications ensue.This was Tim Burton's first film, and it's a great harbinger of things to come.
The film d... |
tt0031322 | The Flying Deuces | While on holiday in Paris, Ollie falls so much in love with Georgette, the beautiful daughter of an innkeeper, he intends to marry her. Unfortunately, she turns down his marriage proposal because there is someone else, "very much so". (Unbeknownst to him at the moment, a Foreign Legion officer named Francois is her hus... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Stan Laurel won a special Oscar in 1960; Oliver Hardy died in 1957 and remains one of the most underrated comics in film history.
This was Laurel and Hardy's first feature film away from producer extraordinaire Hal Roach.
While this is in no way Laurel and Hardy's best work, it still contains enough gags and silliness ... |
tt0089756 | Out of Control | Jaswinder (Ritesh Deshmukh) goes to the United States of America promising his parents that he will return soon and his sister's marriage will be set. In America, he meets an American girl named Sally (Brande Roderick) and marries her for his visa.
He obviously forgets the promise he made to his parents. Meanwhile, in ... | violence | train | wikipedia | Group of Teenagers are stranded on island, play around, then fight smugglers to survive.
This movie stars Martin Hewitt (Endless Love) and Betsy Russell(Private School)as boyfriend and girlfriend who with a group of friends are traveling to Hewitt's father's island in the Pacific Northwest for a party after their high ... |
tt0056967 | Cry of Battle | The film begins on December 8, 1941 with the Japanese attacking the Philippines. Dave McVey Jr., the son of a rich American businessman with extensive holdings in the Philippines, is attacked by murderous bandits. He is rescued by Careo, a Filipino patriot who has put together a group of anti-Japanese Filipino guerrill... | violence | train | wikipedia | Corrections in film and trivia..
I was the producer of "Cry of Battle".
The production name, Petramonte,is Stein(stone)berg(mountain) in Spanish.
The rape scene was with Van Heflin trying to rape Pinang, played by the Phillipina actress, Marilou Munoz, not Rita Morena.
For Trivia: I shot around Rita Morena so that she ... |
tt0290057 | Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase | In a college computer lab run by Professor Kaufman, two of his students; Eric Staufer and Bill McLemore are working when a virtual creature - the Phantom Virus - comes out of a new game based on the Mystery Gang's past adventures and tries to attack. The next day, Mystery, Inc. themselves come to the college and learn ... | psychedelic, horror, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0467506 | Zhai bian | The film begins with the description of an obscure occult practice in which people feed aborted fetuses blood to raise 'young ghosts'. These ghosts become powerful and bring fortune to families but at the same time can be commanded to bring death. We then see an entire family hanging in a room and a young woman crawlin... | suspenseful, flashback | train | wikipedia | The overall rating is terrible (though 11 votes is not representative of anything), and the film definitely deserves more.To me, it has a good story, for once.
It avoids Asiatic horror movie clichés and creates a mood of its own.
Under a seemingly classic form and approach lie lots of elements that makes this movie muc... |
tt0102371 | The Magic Riddle | Cindy, short for Cinderella, lives with her widowed stepmother and two stepsisters, Bertha and Ertha. Cindy is forced to do all of the housework and is effectively a servant. The widow hates Cindy because when her late Grandfather died, he hid his will which the widow knows passes all the family inheritance to Cindy. T... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | A less than magical fairy tale hodge-podge. Let's just get this off the bat. Love animation, some are among my favourite films ever. Love fairy tales and have done since childhood. Loved the idea of mixing fairy tale characters together. Love musicals, always have done despite it being a maligned genre on IMDb.So part ... |
tt0087237 | Fanny Hill | Frances "Fanny" Hill is a rich Englishwoman in her middle age, who leads a life of contentment with her loving husband Charles and their children. The novel consists of two long letters (which appear as volumes I and II of the original edition) addressed by Fanny to an unnamed acquaintance, who is only identified as ‘M... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | I got myself the John Cleland book, and the DVD with Lisa Foster, expecting the worse.
The storyline is good, it was very well filmed with lots of good period pieces, quite authentic as well, and follows quite well the book.
Let's put aside the over acting by big names like Oliver Reed and Shelley Winters, they were go... |
tt0471030 | Red Road | Jackie Morrison (Kate Dickie) works in Glasgow as a CCTV operator, monitoring the Red Road Flats. She lives alone and engages in occasional sex with married man Avery (Paul Higgins).
Jackie recognises a man she sees on the CCTV monitor and begins inquiring about him. It is revealed that he is Clyde Henderson (Tony Curr... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073600 | Race with the Devil | Roger Marsh and Frank Stewart own a successful motorcycle dealership in San Antonio, Texas. Together, with their wives Kelly and Alice, along with Roger and Kelly’s small dog, they leave San Antonio in a recreational vehicle (RV) for a much anticipated ski vacation in Aspen, Colorado.
Along the way, they set up camp in... | cult, gothic | train | wikipedia | We sit back to watch Race With the Devil, an obvious B-grade horror flick we've heard great things about from friends.I haven't seen Jack Starrett's RWD since that night in the summer of '75, but I distinctly remember how good it was, how merrily hell-bent-for-leather the action was, and the way it tied into our goofy ... |
tt0091889 | Samson og Sally | The film revolves around a young albino male Sperm whale named Samson who strongly believes the legendary tales of Moby Dick. The legends say that Moby Dick was a hero for all whales, and that he will someday return. He meets Sally, a young black-and-white female sperm whale who is orphaned after her pod is slaughtered... | psychedelic, dark | train | wikipedia | delightful,thoughtful,sad.
This animated movie is one of the best ones I've seen.
Forget Disney movies - although the animation may not match that of Disney cartoons, this one has much more to offer otherwise: messages of love and unity, of loneliness and contentedness and much more.
It also points to man's folly of wh... |
tt0071517 | Foxy Brown | Foxy Brown (Pam Grier) seeks revenge when her government agent boyfriend is shot down by members of a drug syndicate at her doorstep. She links her boyfriend's murderers to a "modeling agency" run by Steve Elias (Peter Brown) and Miss Kathryn (Kathryn Loder) that services local judges, congressmen, and police in the ar... | suspenseful, cruelty, neo noir, realism, violence, cult, sadist, tragedy, revenge, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | Let's just see how Halle does.One thing more: I'm not a Tarantino fan, but this film provided a lot of insight into a) Why he would want to make Jackie Brown, and b) a lot of the form and conventions (including the rape) that he followed in Kill Bill.
Writer and director of "Coffy", Jack Hill, had finished a script for... |
tt0093176 | Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II | In 1957, seventeen-year-old Mary Lou Maloney (Lisa Schrage) enters a church, where she confesses her sins to the priest (Jay Smith), claiming to have disobeyed her parents, used the Lord's name in vain and had sinful relations with various boys. The pastor tells her that "these are great sins and she should prepare her... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | There seems to be a weird religious edge to it as well, as the girl possessed by Mary Lou asks the priest: "Will you pray for me?...Will you f**k me?" There's a hilarious line from the priest during a funeral, when he comments that the death should remind everyone of violence seen every day in life, on TV, and in films... |
tt1129412 | Circle | The story follows the exploits of Chichikov, a middle-aged gentleman of middling social class and means. Chichikov arrives in a small town and turns on the charm to woo key local officials and landowners. He reveals little about his past, or his purpose, as he sets about carrying out his bizarre and mysterious plan to ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0145505 | Susan's Plan | Susan Holland is a suburbanite woman who plots to kill her wealthy husband Paul in order to collect his life insurance policy. Though Susan's adultrous lover, Sam Meyers, she hires two incompetent criminals, named Bill and Steve, to kill Paul and make it look like a mugging gone wrong. However, when Bill and Steve show... | comedy | train | wikipedia | We picked up the DVD and thought, "Hey, with a cast like this and with John Landis directing, it's got to be worth at least a look.
I mean, Landis did 'Blues Brothers', didn't he?" I also need to point out that we are big Dan Ackroyd fans and will watch, at least once, anything the man puts on film.
Man, were we disap... |
tt0383385 | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | === Setting ===
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas takes place in 1992 within the state of San Andreas, which is based on sections of California and Nevada. It comprises three major fictional cities: Los Santos corresponds to Los Angeles, San Fierro corresponds to San Francisco, and Las Venturas corresponds to Las Vegas. Th... | violence, satire, flashback | train | wikipedia | That goes to show you just HOW MUCH thought and detail was put into its production.While this "GTA" title is a massive improvement over the previous two, it doesn't just surpass them in terms of graphics and gameplay, it surpasses them by building on the many things that made them great in the first place, and then som... |
tt2011971 | Monsieur Lazhar | In Montreal, an elementary school teacher hangs herself. Bashir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant, then offers his services to replace her, claiming to have taught in his home country. Desperate to fill the position, the principal takes him at his word and gives him the job. He gets to know his students despite the culture... | tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | An Algerian immigrant, Monsieur Lazhar brings such a deep humanity to his job, that the traumatized kids are able to come to terms in some ways with what has happened.
I have grown tired of this plot line and subsequent variations, but Monsieur Lazhar is a shining example of the inspirational teacher film and the poign... |
tt0092585 | Assassination | In 1911, during Japan's rule over Korea, a resistance fighter named Yem Sek-jin tries but fails to murder the governor-general and a pro-Japanese businessman named Kang In-guk. That evening, Kang discovers that his own wife was helping Yem. Kang kills his wife but a wet nurse runs off with one of his twin daughters. By... | violence, cult, humor, comedy, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Bronson plays Jay Killian, a secret service agent who has been transferred from guarding the newly elected President of the U.S. to now guarding the new first lady.
Eventually, Bronson learns that the first lady is being targeted for assassination (hence the title), the film for the most part deals with Bronson keeping... |
tt0195462 | G vs E | Chandler Smythe (Clayton Rohner), is murdered on his 35th birthday. He is then recruited as an agent of the Corps and becomes a partner to Henry McNeil (Richard Brooks). Henry was killed in the 1970s and still dresses like Shaft. The Corps, best described as God's police force on Earth, has the mission of locating citi... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Hip, funny, dramatic, and brilliant..
The Pate brothers have created a brilliantly entertaining show in GvsE.Chandler Smythe is a reporter who gets killed after witnessing a murder.
He is apparently too bad for Heaven, but too good for Hell so he's given a chance to work for the Almighty as an agent in the Corps.
As an... |
tt0240736 | Moonstalker | A family's mountain vacation is interrupted by the arrival of a disheveled man hauling a trailer behind an ancient Cadillac. Pop, as he calls himself, tells the family a tall tale about the son he lost to illness. The family feels sorry for him and befriends him . . . not knowing the danger that is soon to come to them... | murder | train | wikipedia | A fun low-budget horror film.
It's a shame that this film is not currently available on any video format because it is actually an enjoyable piece of '80's horror.
The night winter forest locations look great and the cast appears to be having a fun time making the film.
The gore effects are primitive but serviceable, a... |
tt0040806 | The Snake Pit | Virginia Cunningham (Olivia de Havilland) is an apparently schizophrenic inmate at a mental institution called the Juniper Hill State Hospital (which treats only female patients). She hears voices and seems so out of touch with reality that she doesn’t recognize her husband Robert (Mark Stevens).
Dr. Kik (Leo Genn; as ... | insanity, flashback | train | wikipedia | "The Snake Pit" is based on a true story written by Mary Jane Ward in the hopes it would bring to the attention of the people, the horrors that a person faced in a mental institution at the time, pre-1948.
Olivia deHavilland acted the character of Virginia brilliantly as did everyone else in the film and Betsy Blair in... |
tt0062886 | The Devil's Brigade | American Lieutenant Colonel Robert T. Frederick is summoned to Britain where he is authorized by Admiral Louis Mountbatten to raise a commando force comprising both American and Canadian personnel for operations in Norway.
Back in the U.S. Frederick receives his American troops — all are Army convicts. When the Canadia... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | REVIEW OF THE MGM REGION 1 DVDWith the huge success of "The Dirty Dozen", a popular theme began to appear in war movies: instead of focusing on good, clean-cut heroes, the main characters became misfits thrown into situations which made them heroes, whether they wanted to be or not.
The story of the Devil's Brigade is ... |
tt0051806 | Kala Pani | Karan comes to know that his father, Shankarlal, is in jail. And that his mother has been pretending from his childhood that his father has died. On meeting his father, Karan comes to know that he has been jailed for a murder that he did not commit. Karan sets out to gather proof of his father's innocence so that he ca... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | You have to love Madhubala!. And Dev and Nalini Jaywant. This was a classic tale of a young man who discovers his father has been sentenced to life imprisonment (Kala Pani) for a murder he did not commit, and vows to get justice for his family. There is a mysterious murderer, a secret that has been hidden for 15 years,... |
tt0844894 | Species: The Awakening | Miranda Hollander (Helena Mattsson) is a beautiful and smart young woman. She is a college professor and lives with her "uncle", Tom Hollander (Ben Cross) who works in a museum; he adopted her after a car crash killed her parents. Miranda can read books just by touching them, without even needing to open them. Miranda ... | murder | train | wikipedia | One would expect a low-budget sequel to revel in sleaze and gore, but since 2004, when the concept was resurrected, 6 years after the cinema release of the disastrous Species 2 (1998), for the direct-to-DVD market, there has been a surprising resistance to the gratuitous ingredients of sex and violence.
Alas there is l... |
tt0083739 | Class of 1984 | Andrew Norris (Perry King) is the new music teacher at a troubled inner city school. As he arrives on his first day, he meets fellow teacher Terry Corrigan (Roddy McDowall) who is carrying a gun. When Norris asks about the firearm, Corrigan assures the new teacher that he will soon know why such protection is necessary... | violence, cult, revenge, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | This movie has got it all - a cheesy theme sung by Alice Cooper, a high school terrorized by drug dealing punks, a classic sequence where a square student, high on something or other, decides to salute the flag...
when new teacher andy norris (perry king) arrives at lincoln high, he unwittingly pits himself against a g... |
tt0118301 | Dead Man on Campus | Josh (Tom Everett Scott) gets into college on a scholarship, and Cooper (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) is assigned as his roommate. Cooper does little work and instead spends all the time partying and consistently fails his courses, but his father continues to pay his tuition. The normally studious Josh is led astray by Cooper'... | suicidal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0054353 | The Sundowners | Irish-Australian Paddy Carmody (Robert Mitchum) is a sheep drover and shearer, roving the sparsely-populated back country with his wife Ida (Deborah Kerr) and son Sean (Michael Anderson, Jr.). They are sundowners, constantly moving, pitching their tent whenever the sun goes down. Ida and Sean want to settle down, but P... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0084988 | The Black Adder | Set in the Middle Ages, the series is written as an alternate history. It opens on 21 August 1485, the eve of the Battle of Bosworth Field, which in the series is won not by Henry Tudor (as in reality) but by Richard III. Richard III, played by Peter Cook, is presented as a good king who doted on his nephews, contrary ... | comedy, satire, alternate history | train | wikipedia | This comparison unfortunately causes the viewer to miss what makes this series such an excellent piece of comedy writing and production.The whole series centres on Edmund (Rowan Atkinson), the son of the younger of the two princes who in history were murdered in the Tower of London, allegedly by Richard III.
The first ... |
tt2258345 | Fading Gigolo | Dr. Parker (Sharon Stone), a wealthy dermatologist, mentions to her patient Murray (Woody Allen) that she and a woman friend, Robbie, wish to experience a ménage à trois and asks if he knows a willing man. Murray, whose used bookstore has failed, convinces his friend and former employee Fioravante (John Turturro) to ta... | pornographic, romantic | train | wikipedia | So it's odd and potentially exciting that he agreed to take a rather key role in Fading Gigolo, a passion project for actor-turned-writer-and-director John Turturro.
Even when it doesn't work, the cheeky byplay between Allen and Turturro's characters remains a selling point.The story goes like this: bookseller Murray (... |
tt0036060 | Jungle Drums | Deep in the jungle, a tribe of aboriginal warriors are having a celebration. Their leader is a tall man in a white cloak. Secretly, he's a Nazi commander, and the tribe's sacred temple is actually an underground Nazi outpost. The Nazis eagerly await the arrival of an American convoy with information about an Allied att... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Another WWII Superman cartoon.
For reasons never explained Lois Lane is flying with some man over a jungle with top secret American war secrets.
Unknown to them the Nazis have taken over the native tribe in the jungle (for some reason the Nazis dress like the Ku Klux Klan!).
They shot down the plane--the man dies but L... |
tt0236640 | Prozac Nation | Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wurtzel is a 19-year-old accepted into Harvard with a scholarship in journalism. She has been raised by her divorced mother since she was two years old and hasn't seen her father at all in the last four years. Despite his lack of interest and involvement, Lizzie still misses her father, a contributin... | psychological, flashback | train | wikipedia | I think I should start by stating that I was hungry for this film, the book Prozac Nation, which chronicles Elizabeth Wurtzel's battle with depression, meant so much to me and each delay to the film (and there were many) only served to increase my desire to see it.
The performances, from a cast that includes Jessica La... |
tt5756242 | Marudhu | Maruthu (Vishal) is a labourer from Rajapalayam who personally does not tolerate injustice anywhere. He leads a happy life with his grandmother Appathaa (Kulappulli Leela) and his younger brother Kokkarako (Soori). One day, he encounters Bhagyalakshmi alias Bhagyam (Sri Divya), a bold young woman, at a temple, but thei... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Family Entertainer !!!. Director Muthaiah of Kutti Puli and Komban fame teams with macho Vishal for one more flick, which again is a village based subject which the director is known for.Marudhu checks in right in all the boxes that such films are known to have in them as ingredients. There is a lot of sentiment in Mar... |
tt0031747 | The Oklahoma Kid | President Cleveland signs the bill allowing the sale of the Cherokee Strip (actually, the Cherokee Outlet) in the future state of Oklahoma. After the money arrives by train, it is then loaded onto a stagecoach which subsequently gets robbed by Whip McCord (Humphrey Bogart) and his gang. Jim Kincaid, also known as "The ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Same goes for Bogey.Humphrey Bogart, as he so often was before he became a mega-star with Casablanca, played the bad guy.
It is a western with James Cagney as a cowboy and Humphrey Bogart his black-clad nemesis.
There is some humor in it, but it was made too early to be consciously campy; and as it was produced by Warn... |
tt0117826 | Bordello of Blood | Vincent (Phil Fondacaro) and his associates explore a forest, until they find a cave containing a coffin with the skeleton of Lilith, mother of all vampires. Vincent takes a box out of his pocket, which contains the four sections of her heart. He puts it in her body, and she rapidly begins reanimating. Revived, she rip... | violence, dark, humor, comedy, cult | train | wikipedia | How can you go wrong?"Bordello of Blood," the second "Tales From The Crypt" feature film, supplies the viewer with ample amounts of all of the above, leaving room for little else.
Armed with super-soakers full of holy water and with the help of a guitar-slinging reverend (Chris Sarandon), the two set out to put the joi... |
tt0243255 | À ma soeur! | Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux) and her older sister, Elena (Roxane Mesquida) are vacationing with their parents on the French seaside. Bored of staying in their vacation home, the two walk into town while discussing relationships and their virginity. Although the highly attractive Elena has been promiscuous, she is saving hersel... | bleak, violence, suspenseful, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Written and directed by Catherine Breillat, whose other controversial movies about girls and sex I've somehow missed and will now catch up on, the original title of "A ma soeur!" (to, or maybe colloquially for, my sister) makes a lot more sense.But not since the very scary "Smooth Talk" have I seen the seduction of a p... |
tt0091338 | Killer Party | Three friends, Vivia, Jennifer, and Phoebe, decide to pledge a sorority. The night of the initiation, Vivia (Sherry Willis-Burch) plays an elaborate prank on the sorority sisters as the three girls are being initiated through a hazing ritual. Subsequently, all three girls are chosen to join the sorority, and Vivia lear... | paranormal, revenge, murder, prank | train | wikipedia | What I will say is that this fraternity is one that people figuratively and literally "die for!"If I were to compare it to the 1978 comedy fraternity phenom of Animal House, I actually enjoyed Killer Party much more because it does not rely solely on gross humor to satisfy its college and younger audience.
Killer Party... |
tt0780126 | Re-Animated | Jimmy Roberts (Dominic Janes) is a 12-year-old boy who can't seem to say "no" to anybody, and as a result, ends up getting taken advantage of on a regular basis, even by his best friend Craig (Micah Karns). This problem continues during his class trip to Gollyworld, where he misses out on many of the rides because Crai... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1017464 | The Tortured | The film tells the story of a couple, Elise Landry (Erika Christensen) and her husband, Craig Landry (Jesse Metcalfe), whose lives are shattered when a serial killer named Kozlowski (Bill Moseley), kidnaps, tortures, and kills their only son, Benjamin.
Craig feels immense guilt, as he saw Benjamin being kidnapped, but ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0080464 | The Boogey Man | The film opens with Willy and Lacey as children watching their mother and her boyfriend preparing to make out. When the mother notices them, she has her boyfriend tie Willy to his headboard before sending Lacey to her room. She frees Willy from his bed and Willy enters their room and repeatedly stabs his mother's boyfr... | revenge, cult, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | What's odd, though, is that THE BOOGEYMAN is also an amalgamation of several other horror films, like THE EXORCIST, AMITYVILLE HORROR and slashers in general.The story is about two kids, Willy and Lacey, who kill their mother's kinky lover, who is abusive to them.
Terrified, Lacey breaks the mirror and basically "relea... |
tt1127896 | Taking Woodstock | Set in 1969, the film follows the true story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin), an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents, Jake (Henry Goodman) and Sonia (Imelda Staunton), own the small dilapidated El Monaco Resort in White Lake, in the town of Bethel, New York. A hippie theater troupe, The Earthlig... | anti war | train | wikipedia | It's all there, the music, the rain and mud, the buzz on the soundtrack replicating the buzz on the sound system at Yasgur's Farm.But if you want to get a feeling of what Woodstock meant on a personal level, then Ang Lee's your man and you've come to the right place.How Lee managed to film this recreation without using... |
tt0900357 | Boogeyman 2 | As young children, Laura Porter and her brother Henry witness their parents' brutal murder by a hooded man, whom they believe to be the Boogeyman. As an adult, Henry has attended group therapy, improving such that he is instead currently looking for work. Laura joins this group as he leaves, meeting the other members: ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | The setting of the movie is somewhat your typical horror film (a hospital/clinic), but doesn't take back anything.
However, I liked the idea behind it and I'm a big fan of supernatural horror movies so, when I heard there was a "Boogeyman 2" I thought I'd check it out.This is not the movie I expected.
As well as findin... |
tt0108275 | (Sökarna) | The story is about three friends growing up in Stockholm in the early 1990s. The youths are rebellious with a passion for money and crime. They dream about having money and living the life of superstars. To achieve this lifestyle they commit certain misdemeanors, property crimes, and various violent crimes; especially ... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | Memorable.
Undoubtedly "Sökarna" is a Swedish classic.
For all it's awful quality it influenced a whole genre of Swedish film.
Loads of movies like this one were made, with actors who try hard and fail miserably and with enthusiastic film-makers that have no grasp of the art of film-making but won't let that stop them.... |
tt0046202 | Powder River | In 1875, ex-lawman Chino Bull puts away his guns and heads for the Powder River with old pal Johnny Slater to pan for gold. Ambushed by outlaws Loney Logan and Will Horn, he gets away safely thanks to Johnny and rides to town for supplies.
At a saloon run by beautiful Frenchie Dumont, he meets Loney's brother, Harvey, ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | A great oater.
Rory Calhoun was a staple hero in all kinds of films during the 50s.
His performances were always great, abetted by his handsome, rugged looks and the ease into which he fit into a number of hero roles.
In this one, a kind of standard western, he plays an ex-lawman who returns to the trade when his partn... |
tt0115644 | Bed of Roses | Lisa Walker (Mary Stuart Masterson) is a business executive who has gotten used to being alone but doesn't like it very much. She was abandoned by her birth parents and then spent most of her childhood being raised by Stanley (S.A. Griffin), a foster father who never really loves Lisa after her adopted mother died.
One... | romantic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0457802 | The Blue Umbrella | A city scene is brought to life by a rainstorm. Many objects along the street – signs, lights, awnings, mailboxes, buildings, drains, drain pipes, rain gutters, windows, doors – appear to come to life and develop faces and expressions of their own, enjoying the shower. People pass on the street under their umbrellas, a... | satire, storytelling | train | wikipedia | A Brilliant Blue Umbrella.
Who could have thought that an umbrella would turn out to be one of the most compelling characters seen on the cinema screen in 2007?
The music director turned filmmaker is a force to reckon with- one of the finest directors seen in a long time- churning out masterpieces with alarming versati... |
tt0078241 | Shalimar | On the run from the police, S.S. Kumar, a thief, comes across a private invitation to the island of Sir John Locksley addressed to Raja Bahadur Singh. When the Raja is shot, Kumar takes him to a nearby hospital, dons a Sikh's turban, poses as the Raja's son and goes to the private island of Sir John. Also attending are... | cult | train | wikipedia | I would start saying, it was a film too ahead of it's times, when released in India.
For the fact it flopped in India, is because the majority of the audience saw it go over the top and there was no connectivity with this film.Caper films have never been a forte in 'bollywood', so shah's western influenced ideas did no... |
tt0092534 | Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold | After surviving their expedition to King Solomon's Mines, Allan and Jesse have settled down in colonial Africa. They are engaged to be married and Jesse plans that they will travel to America for the wedding. But Allan is restless.
A man chased by two strange masked men emerges from the jungle, and is recognised as one... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone reprise their roles as Alan Quatermain and Jesse Huston in "KING SOLOMON'S MINES".This time around, the quest is on to seek out a 'Utopian' society that has only been talked about, but never seen, hidden within a 'lost city of gold'.
The 'lost city' is in fact just a small white-stu... |
tt0022428 | The Squaw Man | James Wynnegate (Dustin Farnum) and his cousin, Henry (Monroe Salisbury), are upper class Englishmen and have been made trustees for an orphans’ fund. Henry loses money in a bet at a derby and embezzles money from “the fund” to pay off his debts. When war office officials are informed of the money missing from “the fun... | murder | train | wikipedia | As all film buffs know Cecil B.
DeMille's first version of The Squaw Man was the very first film done in what we now call Hollywood.
He did a second silent version and for his third film on his MGM hiatus from Paramount he did it once again.Third time was not the charm.
Although the actors, especially Warner Baxter as ... |
tt0094737 | Big | Twelve-year-old Josh Baskin, who lives with his parents and infant sister in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, is told he is too short for a carnival ride called the Ring of Fire, while attempting to impress Cynthia Benson, an older girl. He puts a coin into an unusual antique arcade fortune teller machine called Zoltar Spea... | comedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0083619 | Barbarosa | Young Karl Westover (Gary Busey), a pre-Civil War Texas farm boy, accidentally kills his brother-in-law and must flee to Mexico. Early into his flight he is met by the outlaw Barbarosa (Willie Nelson) who, seconds later, kills a man who was following him. It is apparent that Barbarosa knows him, but doesn't say. Despit... | revenge, comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | From the quirky opening scenes in this film (a photographer, a dead guy propped up in a pine box & various family members posing w/same)you are taken to an intriguing and rather unsettling place.
The cinematography in the film suggests one of those cool(albeit weird) 'spaghetti westerns'.
The director's vision comes th... |
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