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tt0030775 | Spawn of the North | Jim Kimmerlee owns a salmon cannery. He is pleased to see old friend Tyler Dawson, who has been away hunting seal. Also glad to see Tyler is his sweetheart, hotel owner Nicky Duval.
Thieves have been stealing from fishing traps. Jim is determined to put a stop to it, engaging in a feud with Red Skain, a Russian fisherm... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0109484 | Corrina, Corrina | The film opens and a scene of black-heeled shoes are seen. Voices are discussing food and recipes when the search for Molly (Tina Majorino) ensues. She is located under the serving table, by her grandfather who joins her. It is then understood that Molly's mother, Annie, has suddenly died; this gathering is the post-fu... | home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0292852 | Switchback | The film opens on a quiet suburban home, where a babysitter is tending a young boy at night. A stranger comes to the door and asks to visit the boy, but the babysitter turns him away. While she secures the rest of the house, she is grabbed from behind and an unseen killer slices open her femoral artery. The killer goes... | comedy, non fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097007 | The Caller | When troubled divorcee Mary Kee sets up home in her new apartment, she stumbles across an old telephone which she quickly falls in love with. Struck by its antique charm, she gives it a place of pride in her home. Before long, Mary begins to receive strange phone calls from a mysterious, unknown caller. Over time, she ... | cult, neo noir | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0848587 | Halloween Night | The film follows Chris Vale (Scot Nery), who was admitted into an insane asylum at the age of 12 after witnessing how his mother was raped and killed by two thugs hired by his father(who subsequently committed suicide) and nearly killed by them with a headshot. Now a 22-year-old gross disfigured young man he escapes fr... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | For a low-budget DTV, it certainly isn't terrible...I have seen much worse.The BAD: A weak script, and sub-par acting are this films main faults.
That is probably because NOBODY was good in this movie, even Rebekah Kochon who gave a good performance in "When A Killer Calls." None of the actors seem to be really into th... |
tt0080646 | Don't Go in the House | Donald "Donny" Kohler is obsessed with fire and human combustion, an obsession that stems from the severe abuse he suffered at the hands of his mother, who would hold his bare arms over a gas stove in an effort to "burn the evil out of him". When his mother dies, he sets out to avenge himself on every woman who bears a... | dark, cruelty, murder, cult, violence, flashback, insanity, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | "Don't Go in the House" is an obscure early 80's horror film that seems to be forgotten by many horror fans.The film is well-made and slickly directed by Joseph Ellison,a talented musician and a screenwriter.Donny Kohler is a tormented young man.His mother tortured him by holding his bare arms over a gas burning stove.... |
tt1396557 | Winnebago Man | The documentary starts with Steinbauer's obsession with a widely circulated viral video featuring outtakes from an RV commercial shoot, centered on a cantankerous pitchman who regularly becomes outraged and flustered, cursing in colorful mannerisms. Steinbauer researches the video, and discovers that it had been circul... | depressing | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0274716 | Petualangan Sherina | Sherina is a little girl who is smart, energetic, and loves to sing. She lives in Jakarta with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Darmawan (Mathias Muchus and Ucy Nurul). However, Sherina has to leave her friends when her father accepts a job as an agronomist, at a plantation in Lembang owned by Ardiwilaga (Didi Petet). In her ... | prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0240900 | Slackers | Dave Goodman (Devon Sawa), Sam Schecter (Jason Segel), and Jeff Davis (Michael Maronna) are best friends who have spent almost four years at Holden University scamming their way through college. During one exam scam in their final semester Dave discovers Angela (Jaime King, credited as James King), and asks her out whi... | pornographic, romantic, prank | train | wikipedia | I found this very entertaining and surprising; quite subversive and original in actual fact, more likely to appeal to a greater intellect than that of a 13 year-old the jokes are more ironic and subtle in general, with a few obvious "gross-out" moments sprinkled in between.
If you like teenage/college humor and dirty j... |
tt0039230 | Bury Me Dead | When the remains of a woman's body are found after a fire consumes a barn on the estate of wealthy Barbara Carlin (June Lockhart), it is assumed to be her, especially since she was wearing Barbara's diamond necklace. However, after the funeral, Barbara secretly contacts Michael Dunn (Hugh Beaumont), the family lawyer. ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Surprising B-pic.
B-movie fans are constantly filtering amid the dross in search of hidden gems and eccentric oddities in which verve and creativity peek through the routine cracks of low-budget filmmaking.
Here's one really obscure title that fits the bill.With a great premise reminiscent of DOA, this could have been ... |
tt0228750 | Proof of Life | Alice Bowman (Meg Ryan) moves to the (fictional) South American country of Tecala because her engineer husband, Peter Bowman (David Morse), has been hired to help build a new dam for oil company Quad Carbon. Though Alice is unhappy at this most recent move, she agrees to stay. While driving one morning through the city... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0364621 | Qayamat: City Under Threat | The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has assigned the case of three terrorists to Akram Sheikh (Sunil Shetty). The three terrorists are two brothers Ali and Abbas Ramani (Sanjay Kapoor and Arbaaz Khan) and their common girlfriend Laila (Isha Koppikar). As a part of a plan hitched by a corrupt Pakistani general, Al... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0100663 | Sorority House Massacre II | Five women, Linda (Gail Harris), Jessica (Melissa Moore), Kimberly (Stacia Zhivago), Suzanne (Barbii) and Janey (Dana Bentley) buy the old Hokstedter place for their new sorority house. They get it cheap because of the bloody incidents from five years before committed by Hokstedter (Michael Villella). They decide to st... | violence, cult, murder, plot twist | train | wikipedia | There are flash backs, but not to the original Sorority House Massacre, but to the original Slumber Party Massacre, I guess even the film makers got confused, but who cares?
I liked and enjoyed "Sorority House Massacre II" because it goes directly to the point since minute 0 of running time.The movie's opening credits ... |
tt0229260 | Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 | The film begins with Jeff Patterson, a patient at a mental hospital in Maryland, receiving drugs through a feeding tube. Moments later, he is in a padded room with a straitjacket on, throwing his body against the padded walls.
The film cuts to November 1999, when a group of young tourists—Stephen and his pregnant wife,... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0061834 | Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult | Director Vilgot Sjöman plans to make a social film starring his lover Lena Nyman, a young theater student who has a strong interest in social issues.
Nyman's character, also named Lena, lives with her father in a small apartment in Stockholm and is driven by a burning passion for social justice and a need to understand... | anti war, violence, avant garde, murder | train | wikipedia | At times Yellow appears to be an earnest social-political documentary, with Lena, the main character, and others interviewing both common people and politicians (e.g. Olaf Palme at home).
All the while, Yellow acts as a personal documentary exploring Lena's life - her home life, her loves, her political views, her view... |
tt0113041 | Father of the Bride Part II | The film begins five years after the events of the first one, with George Banks telling the audience his is ready for the empty nest he'll shortly receive with all of his children grown up. Shortly thereafter, Annie tells the family that she's pregnant, and George begins to mildly panic, insisting he is too young to be... | romantic, comedy, fantasy, sentimental | train | wikipedia | For example, it's unlikely that George Banks, a highly successful business owner who obviously must think through his decisions, would be so impetuous as to sell the house he loves and end up having to buy it back at a significant mark-up.
(George and Nina decide to sell following a rainstorm that caused their kitchen ... |
tt0046246 | Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue | The film begins in the early 18th century with Rob Roy leading his McGregor clansmen against King George I's forces commanded by the Scottish Duke of Argyll. While determined to establish order in the Highlands, Argyll is sympathetic to "the bonny blue bonnets" whom he is fighting, even refusing to unleash German merce... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | Probably the best FAMILY entertainment version of Rob Roy ever made..
This Walt Disney (early, when Walt Disney Production was synonymous with wholesome family fare - poor Walt!) film, was actually part of a trilogy contracted with British actors Richard Todd and James Robertson Justice (The Sword and the Rose & The St... |
tt0237993 | 101 Reykjavík | Geek Hlynur is approaching 30 years old, still lives with his mother who is divorced from his alcoholic father, downloads porn and wanders around Reykjavík half-heartedly searching for a job while spending lots of time in Kaffibarinn, the central Reykjavík bar (the bar is owned in real life by writer/director Baltasar ... | flashback, comedy, boring, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2477866 | Journey to the West | The novel has 100 chapters that can be divided into four unequal parts. The first part, which includes chapters 1–7, is a self-contained introduction to the main story. It deals entirely with the earlier exploits of Sun Wukong, a monkey born from a stone nourished by the Five Elements, who learns the art of the Tao, 72... | non fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0114733 | Tromeo and Juliet | Set in modern-day Manhattan, the film begins with the narrator (Lemmy of Motörhead) introducing two families: the Capulets and the Ques.
At the center of these families are Tromeo Que and Juliet Capulet. Tromeo lives in squalor with his alcoholic father Monty and works at a tattoo parlor with his cousin Benny and frien... | violence, cult, psychedelic, absurd, satire, humor, romantic | train | wikipedia | In the middle of all of this insanity are Tromeo and Juliet, literature's most famous "star crossed" lovers that fall for each other at first sight and problems arise when they realize whose family the other belongs to.The film follows the basic plot of the original play remarkably well and key scenes even use the orig... |
tt0028174 | Revolt of the Zombies | On the Franco-Austrian Frontier during World War I, an Oriental priest, chaplain of a French colonial regiment, is condemned to life imprisonment because he possesses the power to turn men into zombies. In his prison cell, the priest prepares to burn a parchment containing the location of the secret formula. Gen. Mazov... | revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0246134 | Lucky Break | James 'Jimmy' Hands (James Nesbitt) and Rudy 'Rud' Guscott (Lennie James) are two friends who used to play "Cops & Robbers" when they were young. Now adults, they plan to actually rob a Bank, but the robbery goes wrong and Hands flees the Bank leaving Guscott trapped behind the security shutters. Hands is caught and ar... | romantic, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0049755 | Showdown at Abilene | Charlie Mayeaux (Liam Neeson) is an undercover DEA agent suffering from anxiety and gastrointestinal problems after a bust gone wrong. During the aforementioned incident, his partner was killed and he found himself served up on a platter of watermelon with a gun shoved in his face just before back-up arrived. Charlie, ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Better than Average Western.
Couldn't quite give this film an 8, but I think it's a solid 7.
The cinematography takes advantage of a few great landscapes, and some solid lot work, and even dares to shoot dark at dusk and in the dark.
The depth of the film being pushed becomes really apparent, and it has a thick, rich, ... |
tt0068454 | Los amigos | The Republic of Texas has just gained its independence from Mexico. Erastus "Deaf" Smith, who is a deaf mute, and his partner Johnny Ears are sent by President Sam Houston to stop general Morton, who plots against the annexation of Texas by the USA.
They find their contact McDonald and his family massacred by Morton an... | western, cult, murder, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | Nero stands out in watchable western.
Set in 1830's Texas, Erastus 'Deaf' Smith (Anthony Quinn) is an ageing but trusted spy for the president, despite the obvious handicap of being a deaf mute.
His friend and companion is the sexually charged Spaniard Johnny Ears (Franco Nero), seemingly on a constant mission to obtai... |
tt1161418 | Gentlemen Broncos | Benjamin Purvis lives with his mother Judith, who designs tacky clothes and makes rock-hard popcorn balls. Judith and Benjamin make ends meet by working at a women's retail clothing store. Benjamin spends his spare time writing science fiction stories, and he has recently completed a story called Yeast Lords, which cen... | absurd, stupid | train | wikipedia | I saw the trailer for it some time ago, and was excited for it; "Napoleon Dynamite" and even Hess' follow-up "Nacho Libre" were two of the most off-kilter, refreshing comedies I've seen in the past decade.
"Broncos" is absolutely no exception, expanding on and arguably perfecting the "geekverse" that Hess started with ... |
tt0454879 | Journey to the End of the Night | The film is set in a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, Brazil, where the exiled Americans Sinatra and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted to cocaine. Sinatra is married to a former prostitute named Angie, with whom he has a son. A Russian client is killed by his wife in their establishm... | paranormal, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0060694 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | The play consists of four interconnecting plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which is set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon.
The play opens with Hermia, who is in love with Lysander, resistan... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0039725 | Possessed | A woman (Joan Crawford) is found wandering Los Angeles, unable to say anything other than "David". Admitted to a hospital, she is coaxed into recounting her life.
She reveals herself as Louise Howell, an emotionally unstable woman who had worked as a nurse to the invalid wife of Dean Graham (Raymond Massey) in the Grah... | psychological, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | In the film she plays Louise Howell, a woman who begins to suffer a mental breakdown after the man (Van Heflin) she loves walks away from her.
Before "Play Misty For Me" (1971) and "Fatal Attraction" (1987), comes this story of a nurse (Joan Crawford) who's attached to a man (Van Heflin), who eventually finds her too p... |
tt0041634 | Manon | Place: France
Time: the reign of Louis XV
=== Act 1 ===
The courtyard of an inn at Amiens
De Brétigny, a nobleman, has just arrived, in the company of Guillot, an aging rake who is the Minister of Finance, along with three flirtatious young actresses. While the innkeeper is serving dinner to the party, the townspeople ... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Nothing is dirty when we love each other......
"Manon" might well be Clouzot's masterpiece ,surpassing even "diabolique " " le salaire de la peur" or "le corbeau".It's an adaptation of "l'histoire de Manon Lescault et du chevalier des Grieux" by L'Abbé Prévost, a novel from the XVIIIth century ,but never mind.When HGC ... |
tt0076890 | Viva Knievel! | Daredevil motorcycle rider Evel Knievel stars as himself in this fictional story. The film opens with Knievel sneaking into an orphanage late at night to deliver presents: Evel Knievel action figures. One of the boys casts away his crutches, telling Knievel that he'll walk after his accident just as Knievel had.
Knieve... | cult | train | wikipedia | First of all, just consider this plot: a mob boss, played straight by Leslie Nielson of all people, wants to assassinate good ol' Evel in Mexico so he can use his stunt trucks to smuggle drugs back to the U.S., because no one is going to stop a "funeral procession for a hero." Try to follow THAT logic!!
Another pricele... |
tt0314123 | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | In 1986, Tommy Vercetti (Ray Liotta), a loyal former member of the Forelli Family, is released from prison after a 15-year sentence. His former boss, Sonny Forelli (Tom Sizemore), ostensibly promotes Tommy to a caporegime and sends him to Vice City to act as the Forelli's buyer for a series of cocaine deals. When Tommy... | violence, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090310 | Wetherby | Set in the town of Wetherby in West Yorkshire, the film focuses on Jean Travers, a middle-aged spinster schoolteacher. One evening, she invites married friends for a dinner party, only to have some terrible repressions and past traumas dredged up when guest John Morgan expresses his emotional pain. The strange young ma... | murder, violence, revenge, flashback, humor, romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | David Hare's quiet masterpiece conveys a genuine sense of alienation and dislocation while covering a great deal of social and political ground.
It never loses sight of the human story, though; the loneliness of the characters comes through in this startlingly intelligent drama which unfolds slowly, like a flower under... |
tt0495034 | Golmaal: Fun Unlimited | The storyline was inspired from the 2001 Malayalam film Kakkakuyil. The story revolves around the lives of Gopal (Ajay Devgn), Lucky (Tusshar Kapoor), Madhav (Arshad Warsi) and Laxman (Sharman Joshi) (hence the name GoLMaL).
Laxman is an intelligent student who is diverted from doing well in college by his mischievous ... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | After a string of pathetic comedy films in 2006 (Tom,Dick and Harry , Malamaal Weekly, ChupChupke, Pyare-Mohan, etc.), Golmaal comes as a pleasant surprise.
Howver, it is not the storyline that clinches it for the film - it is the amazing chemistry that the four male lead actors (Devgan, Kapoor, Warsi and Sharman Joshi... |
tt0424890 | The Choke | Victor Mancini is a sex addict who works as a reenactor of life in Colonial America. He works with his best friend, Denny, who is also a reformed sex addict. To support his hospitalized mother, Ida, Victor cons others by intentionally choking at restaurants to get money from his rescuers.
When he visits his mother one ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | I'd rather choke to death than watch this again....
At the time of writing this review it would seem that over 50% of IMDb voters had given this film a rating of either a 10 or a 1.
They say that given enough monkeys and enough time and enough typewriters, those monkeys, just by random proddings at the keyboard, would ... |
tt0443649 | 10,000 BC | At about 10,000 BC, a tribe of hunter-gatherers called the Yagahl live in a remote mountain range in the Urals and survive by killing woolly mammoths. The camp is led by a hunter who has proven his bravery by killing a mammoth single-handedly, and taking the White Spear. The people also strongly venerate an elderly wom... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0778661 | Daddy's Little Girls | Monty James is a mechanic with three daughters: 5- year old China, 7 - year old Lauryn and 12 - year old Sierra, who dreams of owning his own shop. His children have been cared for by their maternal grandmother Kat Jackson for years, but she dies of lung cancer. His ex-wife, Jennifer, disrupts the service, demands her ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | And lets be real here - your typical 14 year old freshman in high school kid is not gonna spend $6.75 on a movie called "Daddy's Little Girls", am I right?
But Tyler Perry's movie's are known for real life day-to-day struggles and how to overcome hard times.
I liked the fact that Tyler Perry omitted the Madea character... |
tt0152139 | Ram Teri Ganga Maili | Ganga lives in Gangotri with her brother, Karam. One day she comes to the assistance of a young man, Narendra Sahay, who has come with a group of Calcutta-based college students to study the source of the holy river Ganga, and to get some holy water for his wheelchair-bound paternal grandmother. Both are attracted to e... | allegory, romantic | train | wikipedia | Raj Kapoor at his best.
Naren is a simple man and son of an influential businessman in Calcutta.
He goes to Himalayas on vacations and meets Ganga a local Himalayan girl.
They fall in love and get married.
Naren decides to go home and gain his family's confidence before he can take Ganga home.
Naren comes back home and... |
tt0226919 | Krocodylus | The film opens with John's vision of screaming people in the water and being killed by something under the water. A plane full of people getting psyched up to try Blood Surfing at some remote island known for its sea surfing locale lands on water. A documentary is planned on the blood surfing exploits of Bog (Dax Mille... | violence | train | wikipedia | I enjoy monster movies as much as the next guy,and 'Blood Surf' is one of those movies that I enjoyed.But I have seen other movies about a giant man-eating crocodile that were slightly better.Examples of these would be 'Crocodile' and 'Lake Placid.'And there are some croc movies that are worse,such as 'Supercroc.'Anywa... |
tt0041796 | Reign of Terror | Already the most powerful man in France, Maximilien Robespierre (Richard Basehart) wants to become the nation's dictator. He summons François Barras (Richard Hart), the only man who can nominate him before the National Convention. Barras refuses to do so and goes into hiding.
Meanwhile, patriot Charles D'Aubigny (Rober... | action, murder | train | wikipedia | This exciting and very interesting period drama makes very good use of its setting in the French Revolution, blending history and fiction together in a believable fashion.
The atmosphere is particularly effective, with the dark photography and claustrophobic settings helping to establish the rampant fear, uncertainty, ... |
tt0216487 | Invincible | During the 1970s decade, chaos reigns in the city of Philadelphia as southern portions of the city protest the shutdown of several job sites while their NFL team, the Philadelphia Eagles, endures a string of losing seasons, along with irate fans.
In 1976, Vince Papale goes to a sandlot one night and joins his friends p... | humor | train | wikipedia | They were only producers, but you wouldn't know it by the extent to which their names were featured.I thought the film looked good back then - some kind of "Matrix"/"Highlander" clone, maybe, but it still looked kinda interesting.
Well, I was wrong.From the opening - with this angelic warrior being pursued by, and then... |
tt0954914 | Athidhi | An orphan boy, wanders through Delhi looking for a job. When selling balloons, he sees a girl whose name is Amrita and gives her a free balloon. A few days later, during a storm, Amrita finds the boy getting soaked and gives him an umbrella. The umbrella blows into a place nearby, where the Amrita's parents are headed.... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | cute couple, messy story. Manesh was looking gorgeous in this movie, but unfortunately it was a bit lame. I found the plot a little hard to catch on to, but it had some interesting twists. It was fast paced but I thought it was more exaggerated than the usual Telugu films - Telugu movies are already exaggerated (especi... |
tt1816705 | Vanished | Sara Collins vanishes from a dinner held in her honor. She was a teacher, and wife to Senator Jeffrey Collins. She had previously told her husband that she had a secret, but disappeared before she could reveal it to him.
The investigation into her kidnapping starts to probe secrets from the main characters. While Senat... | suspenseful, murder, paranormal, flashback, psychedelic, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0091642 | Nobody's Fool | Donald "Sully" Sullivan (Newman) is a worn yet spry hustler living in the peaceful, snowy northern New York state village of North Bath. He free-lances in the construction business, usually with his dim-witted friend Rub (Vince) by his side. He is often at odds with Carl Roebuck (Willis), a local contractor, suing him ... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1374992 | Upside Down | The film starts with Adam telling the story of his two-planet home world, unique from other planets or planetary systems as it is the only one that has "dual gravity". This phenomenon of dual gravity allows the two planets to orbit each other in what would otherwise be impossibly close proximity. There are three immuta... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Since it's main point of drama was in the romance and even THAT was awfully put together, all in all, it was flop.However, it was an okay watch and again, the visuals of such a disorientating world totally threw me off whack.
For the next ten minutes after the movie, I felt like things should be floating upward and I s... |
tt0215023 | Padayottam | The Kolathiri Raja (Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair) is a prosperous ruler of Northern Kerala. Prince Udayan (Prem Nazir), Raja's nephew, is handsome, brave and intelligent than Devan (Madhu), Raja's elder nephew. The King named Udayan as his successor to the throne along with marriage of his daughter Princess Parvathi (Laks... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0382810 | Little Fish | Little Fish is about Tracy Heart (Cate Blanchett), a former heroin addict who is desperately trying to escape her past and achieve her goals and dreams. Tracy lives with her mother (Noni Hazlehurst) and brother in the Little Saigon area (Cabramatta) in Sydney, Australia, where heroin is readily available.
She is in nee... | murder, violence, flashback, insanity, melodrama, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | Tracy (Cate Blanchett) lives with the legacy of her former addiction, faced with temptation to fall back to her old ways, and constantly hitting a brick wall in her attempts to start her own business and escape her stagnant existence.
Rowan Woods' previous film, "The Boys" (1997) had a certain detachment as he examined... |
tt0338135 | Les invasions barbares | Seventeen years after the events of The Decline of the American Empire, Sébastien is enjoying a successful career in quantitative finance in London when he receives a call from his mother, Louise, that his father and Louise's ex-husband Rémy is terminally ill with cancer. Sébastien is not enthused about seeing Rémy, wh... | psychological, satire, philosophical, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0837791 | The Devil's Chair | The film begins with Nick West lighting a cigarette in the dark and introducing himself to some unknown audience. He proceeds to recount the events he allegedly witnessed, claiming to be a "victim". It is implied that the whole story is told exclusively through his point of view.
Nick brings the easy and filthy Sammy t... | insanity, violence, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | The cinematography in this film is interesting and the sound effects give the movie a lot more edge considering the gore is minimal aside from the liberal use of blood.
Dying ?We've already seen it all before, and this time, although the production and cast are decent (the overall sound design is actually quite good de... |
tt0023856 | Bureau of Missing Persons | Brash detective Butch Saunders is demoted from the robbery division to the bureau of missing persons. Captain Webb, his new boss, is unsure whether Butch will fit in or is on his way out of the police department. Webb assigns Joe Musik to show Butch around. Gradually, Butch earns Webb's respect and trust.
Cases the bur... | suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0272283 | The Safe House | In Cape Town, South Africa, ex-CIA NOC operative turned international criminal Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) acquires a data storage device from rogue MI6 agent Alec Wade (Liam Cunningham). After the pair is attacked by a team of mercenaries led by Vargas (Fares Fares), Wade is killed and Frost is cornered by the gun... | murder | train | wikipedia | One of the best novel-adaptations I've ever seen.
At first I was very sceptical about this movie, I'm a big fan of Nicci French and I wondered if the movie would capture the tension that makes the book so great.
The answer is, it did.Geraldine Somerville did a great job as Samantha, she's exactly like I had pictured he... |
tt1655607 | Singam | Durai Singam (Suriya) is the honest police sub-inspector of Nallur, a small village in Thoothukudi district in southern Tamil Nadu, assisted by his bumbling colleague Erimalai (Vivek). He belongs to Nallur with his father, Soundara Pandi (Radha Ravi) having a respectable status in the village. His family business is pr... | good versus evil, murder | train | wikipedia | Ideal plot for "Dabbang" sequel.
Cop-stories seem to be order of the day.
One-man army.
One honest cop against the corruption and the evils in the society.
It started with "Pokiri", "Dabbang" stamped it and now there are cop-stories are being churned out in plenty.
Just like "Dabbang", the plot is the "Ssssh" word.
Its... |
tt0282171 | Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice | 25 years after the events of the first film, the Charlestown Chiefs are still languishing in Pennsylvania. Sean Linden, a former NHL player whose name has been disgraced for betting on games, has replaced Reggie Dunlop as the main protagonist — initially a player-coach, just like Dunlop, Linden also serves as the team'... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0029445 | Public Cowboy No. 1 | A rash of strange cattle rustlings have occurred in which cattle are slaughtered on the range and their carcasses taken away. Sheriff Matt Doniphon (William Farnum) and his deputies, Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette), watch over one rancher's cattle as they are driven to Box Canyon. After the... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0042338 | Colt .45 | In the town of Red Rock, gun salesman Steve Farrell (Randolph Scott) demonstrates the new Colt .45 repeating pistols to the sheriff who is impressed that the United States government just ordered two thousand of these powerful weapons for the army. The demonstration is interrupted when men arrive to transfer one of the... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0271111 | Perfect Dark | Perfect Dark is set in 2023 against the backdrop of an interstellar war between two races: the Maians, who resemble the archetypal grey alien, and the Skedar, reptile-like extraterrestrials who use a holographic disguise to appear as Scandinavian humans, bearing similarities to Nordic aliens. Using this disguise, they ... | violence | train | wikipedia | Special Agent Joanna Dark works with the Carrington Institute.
With the lives of earth and other planets in the balance Joanna works to stop the alliance.This "sequel" to Goldeneye uses the same engine to drive it and looks similar in style - the controls being identical in fact.
However the graphics are considerably b... |
tt0113362 | Le hussard sur le toit | In July 1832, Italian patriots hiding out in Aix, France, are betrayed by one of their own, and Austrian agents are on their trail. One patriot, Giacomo, is dragged away and executed. His wife runs off to warn their friend, Angelo Pardi (Olivier Martinez), a young Italian nobleman in France raising money for the Italia... | violence, avant garde, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0033836 | The Little Foxes | The play's focus is Southerner Regina Hubbard Giddens, who struggles for wealth and freedom within the confines of an early 20th-century society where fathers considered only sons as their legal heirs. As a result of this practice, while her two avaricious brothers Benjamin and Oscar have wielded the family inheritance... | murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Bette Davis stars as Regina Giddens in this film version of Lillian Hellman's smash hit play (which starred Tallulah Bankhead).
Great performances here from Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson, Charles Dingle, Patricia Collinge, Dan Duryea, Jessie Grayson, and Carl Benton Reid.
Wyler wanted Davis to... |
tt0050547 | The Iron Sheriff | A stagecoach is robbed in South Dakota and its driver is killed. A dying man, Gene Walden, tells the sheriff, Sam Galt, that it was Sam's son Benjie who shot the driver. Benjie is engaged to be married to Walden's daughter.
Benjie is placed under arrest. Newspaper publisher Phil Quincy demands to know what Walden said,... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0044392 | Baiju Bawra | Tansen is known to be the greatest classical vocalist ever to have existed in India, and was one of the nine jewels (Navaratnas) of Emperor Akbar's court. Nobody could sing in the city unless he or she could sing better than Tansen. If this was not the case, he or she was executed. Baiju Bawra is the story of an unknow... | revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0065233 | Yuke yuke nidome no shojo | Poppo, a teenage girl, is raped by four boys on the roof of a seven-story apartment building. She asks them to kill her, but they mock her and leave. Tsukio, a teenage boy, has been watching the rape passively. Over the course of a day and a night, Poppo and Tsukio begin a relationship, telling each other of their trou... | revenge | train | wikipedia | In beautifully shot black and white with some gory color sequences this film takes you on a compelling, nihilistic trip through the claustrophobic existence of two teenagers living on the edge of society.
Koji Wakamtsu's "Go,Go Second Time Virgin" is a classic pinku eiga film.Wakamatsu was raised to be a farmer but mad... |
tt0046532 | War Arrow | Major Howell Brady (Jeff Chandler), a cavalry officer, is sent from Washington D.C. to Fort Clark, Texas, to subdue a Kiowa uprising that has been raiding both white settlements and villages on Seminole reservations. Brady requests that the post commander Colonel Meade (John McIntire) send his troops out in fast moving... | violence | train | wikipedia | Maureen O' Hara & Jeff Chandler are the stars here, in this otherwise average western.
He's a cavalry major who over- rides the opposition of fort commander John McIntire and recruits friendly native American Seminoles to help defeat hostile Kiowas.O'Hara plays a fiery wife of a captain who's gone missing and she's a h... |
tt0116707 | Joe's Apartment | Penniless and straight out of the University of Iowa, Joe (Jerry O'Connell) moves to New York needing an apartment and a job. With the fortuitous death of Mrs. Grotowski, an artist named Walter Shit (Jim Turner) helps Joe to take over the last rent controlled apartment in a building slated for demolition. If Senator Do... | romantic | train | wikipedia | "Joe's Apartment" has more creativity and originality in it than most of the films I've seen in 1999.
I remember it was pretty funny but then I was maybe 7 years old so now I was expecting this film to be stupid.
I also liked that Walter Sh!t character (played by Jim Turner), actually he was the reason why this comedy ... |
tt4009278 | Shut In | Steven (Charlie Heaton), is a troubled kid who is being sent to boarding school. While his father, Richard Portman (Peter Outerbridge), is driving him to school, Steven and his father get into a bad argument, and the car swerves into the other lane, causing a head on collision with an eighteen wheeler.
Six months later... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Just finished watching Intruders or Shut In. I don't know what the real title is and I don't get why you have to have two different titles for one movie.
Intruders (or "Shut In", as it was when I saw it at the European Premiere) begins as a fairly tame drama about a woman with agoraphobia but takes a sudden and welcome... |
tt0110913 | Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings | In 1958 in Ferren Woods, a small backwater town, an old blind witch, Ms. Osie, feeds a deformed orphan named Tommy; he is the offspring of Pumpkinhead. As Tommy eats, a car of six teens pull up and notice him. Convinced that he is some demonic monster, they chase him with switchblade knives and baseball bats; eventuall... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0101866 | Femme Fatale | Mercenary thief Laure Ash (Rebecca Romijn) participates in a diamond heist in Cannes. The plan is for Laure to steal valuable diamonds from the ensemble of a female attendant named Veronica (Rie Rasmussen) while in the middle of seducing her, during which her accomplices "Black Tie" (Eriq Ebouaney) and Racine (Édouard ... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | Awful script ruins a clever idea.
As I sat in front of the TV watching this movie, I thought, "Oh, what Alfred Hitchcock, or even Brian DePalma, could have done with this!" Chances are, you will too.
It does start out intrigueing.
A British park ranger living in Los Angeles (Collin Firth) marries a pretty, demure brun... |
tt0046902 | Design for Leaving | Reprising a salesman role that Daffy previously played in Daffy Dilly (1948), The Stupor Salesman (1948) and Fool Coverage (1952), Design for Leaving opens with Daffy as a fast-talking door-to-door salesman from the Acme Future-Antic Push-Button Home of Tomorrow Household Appliance Company, Inc. Daffy visits Elmer Fudd... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2402101 | Dark Places | Libby Day, the novel's narrator and protagonist, is the sole survivor of a massacre in Kinnakee, Kansas, a fictional rural town. After witnessing the murders of her two sisters and mother, in what appears to be a Satanic cult ritual, she escapes through a window and later testifies in court against her teenage brother.... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | I actually liked Dark Places better, so when I found out they were making it into a movie, I was of course skeptical about whether or not it'd be good.
The sets were also very accurate - it's been YEARS since I read the book, but while watching the movie everything came back to me...the layout of the farm house, the cr... |
tt0168156 | Saint Maybe | Tyler's plot explores the ways ordinary people react to disastrous events with quietly heroic behavior. When seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe confronts his older brother Danny with his belief that the latter's wife, Lucy, is having an affair, Danny commits suicide. Shortly after, Lucy dies of an overdose of sleeping pills... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | Made me want to read the book.
This is a story of a man's search for forgiveness.
A young man gives up his plans for the future in order to raise his orphaned nieces and nephew.
Mary-Louise Parker is wonderful(as usual).
She is the reason to watch this movie.
Blythe Danner and Edward Herrman are also two of my favorite... |
tt1653690 | Ong-bak 3 | In the year 1431 in Thailand, Tien (Tony Jaa) is held captive being beaten with wooden staves. On the orders of Lord Rajasena (Sarunyu Wongkrajang), his elbows and knees are snapped. As Lord Rajasena sleeps, Tien's guerilla fighters attempt to free Tien, but Bhuti Sangkha (Dan Chupong) appears and kills them. Lord Raja... | violence | train | wikipedia | Especially the final fight is very disappointing and if you've watched the previous Tony Jaa movies you know all his moves by now.
While I appreciate the effort to make a "real" film instead of an action flick, it was done horribly as the cinematics are awful: numerous completely pointless close-ups and weak special ef... |
tt0029602 | Springtime in the Rockies | During the thirty-fourth week of their hit Broadway show, dancer Vicky Lane (Betty Grable) awaits the arrival of her partner, Dan Christy (John Payne), but as usual, he is late. Vicky thinks that Dan is buying her an engagement ring and is infuriated to discover that he has been on a date with socialite Marilyn Crother... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0116531 | High School High | Richard Clark (Jon Lovitz) is an unsatisfied prep school teacher at the fictional Wellington Academy, who accepts a job at inner city Marion Barry High School, much to the chagrin of his boss and father, Wellington headmaster Thaddeus Clark (John Neville). Richard arrives to find the school in a state of disarray and d... | absurd, comedy | train | wikipedia | I've seen the movie about nine or ten times, so naturally many of the jokes--which I found hysterical at first--aren't that funny anymore.
But I don't think they could've done a much better job at spoofing high school flicks like "Dangerous Minds," "Lean on Me," "The Blackboard Jungle" and "To Sir, With Love." There a... |
tt0192071 | Get Over It | Berke Landers (Ben Foster) and his girlfriend Allison (Melissa Sagemiller) were the quintessential high-school couple who grew up together and eventually fell in love, but she breaks up with him immediately after the film begins. This leads to an opening musical number of "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain & Tenni... | romantic, humor, comedy, fantasy | train | wikipedia | I often find myself fast-forwarding to these scenes when I don't have the time to watch the whole thing.Good movie for when you want to shut off your brain and just enjoy mindless entertainment..
OK, i picked this film to watch on a night in with the girls because it looked funny and it had Kirsten Dunst in it, and let... |
tt0029662 | This Is My Affair | US President William McKinley (Frank Conroy) is put under great pressure by everyone, even US Bank Examiner Henry Maxwell, to do something about a gang of bank robbers nobody has been able to bring to justice. He sends U.S. Navy Lieutenant Richard L. Perry (Robert Taylor) undercover without notifying anyone, not even t... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0165710 | Detroit Rock City | In Cleveland, Ohio, fall of 1978, a middle-aged woman (Lin Shaye) is relaxing at home and puts on a vinyl record to listen to. While sipping a red wine and reading while humming The Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun", she becomes agitated as rock music plays. When she discovers the record being Kiss' Love Gun album an... | cult, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0230804 | Sonic Underground | The show takes place in a separate canon and continuity than any other Sonic the Hedgehog media. Queen Aleena, the former ruler of Mobius, was overthrown by Dr. Robotnik and his lackeys Sleet and Dingo. Robotnik seized control of the planet and forced Queen Aleena into hiding. To preserve the dynasty, Queen Aleena sepa... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Sonic Underground was a little bit like the SatAM series but not a whole lot because all the other freedom fighters from the SatAM are left out and so is Snively and the power rings.
Another thing is that Sonic's Uncle Chuck was only in the first episode and they never see each other again.
Sonic Underground is the 3rd... |
tt0049038 | Bus Stop | A naive, rambunctious, overly enthusiastic and socially inept cowboy, Beauregard Decker, and his friend and father-figure Virgil Blessing take the bus from Timber Hill, Montana to Phoenix, Arizona, to participate in a rodeo. Virgil has encouraged the 21-year-old virgin, Beau, to take an interest in "girls". Initially r... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Whether acting or if it's the real Marilyn Monroe, she conveys loneliness in front of a packed saloon; the feeling of recognition and appreciation when the Don Murray (Bo)character berates the patrons to show respect to her while she sings; and the out-and-out sexiness of her when she is lit up in red flames.
Alternate... |
tt1700844 | The Deep Blue Sea | In 1950, Hester Collyer, the younger wife of High Court judge Sir William Collyer, has embarked on a passionate affair with Freddie Page, a handsome young former RAF pilot troubled by his memories of the Second World War. Freddie throws Hester's life in turmoil, as their erotic relationship leaves her emotionally stran... | dramatic, suicidal, flashback | train | wikipedia | Thus, Hester (played by a wonderful Rachel Weisz) can fascinate those of us who care about the inner working and emotional vicissitudes of a self destructive woman and who will learn about the human condition by considering her behavior.
In this film, she gives in my opinion the best female acting performance in the la... |
tt0105810 | Where the Day Takes You | Fleeing abusive families, a group of teenage runaways form a protective family on their own, with King as their leader. King is a man in his early twenties who has been living on the street for more than six years. In and out of jail, he spends most of his nights with Little J and Greg. Having spent two months in jail ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I pretty much rented this movie because the cast on the cover was rather impressive, and one of the people I work for told me it was really good.
All I can say is, those people that raved about Kids have no idea what they are talking about, this is a much more realistic and true look at life on the street than Kids eve... |
tt0049031 | The Broken Star | A deputy marshall (Smeed) kills a ranch hand and steals a sack of gold. He claims it was a fair fight but the marshal of Arizona's Southern Territory (Forrester) has his doubts. Unknown to Smeed, there was a witness to the murder (Nachez). While the investigation unfolds, Smeed tries to cover up the evidence and elimin... | murder | train | wikipedia | Under Cover Of The Badge.
Every now and then TCM runs these obscure films that turn out to be real finds.
The Broken Star, a black and white B western, certainly is a find with Howard Duff as a deputy sheriff gone bad.Right up front we see Howard Duff shoot down an unarmed man and steal something from his house.
It's $... |
tt0058063 | Ercole contro i tiranni di Babilonia | Asparia, Queen of the Hellenes, has been captured by the Babylonians, but she manage to hide her identity and lives as a common slave in Babylon. Hercules, played by Peter Lupus (credited as Rock Stevens), is sent to free her. The Babylonian slavers begin to hear rumors and stories of a single man who can overcome any ... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0034428 | Across the Pacific | In late 1941, Captain Rick Leland (Humphrey Bogart) is court-martialed and discharged from the U.S. Coast Artillery after he is caught stealing. He tries to join the Canadian Army, but is coldly rebuffed. He subsequently boards a Japanese ship, the Genoa Maru, in Halifax, apparently to make his way to China via the Pan... | murder | train | wikipedia | A good spy caper starring Humphrey Bogart as Rick Leland, a court-martialled US Army officer who finds himself in the middle of a nifty little bit of espionage work on board a Japanese freighter bound from Halifax to Yokohama via the Panama Canal just before the attack on Pearl Harbour.
Surrounded by a rather suspiciou... |
tt0280653 | Amen. | During World War II, Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur), a Waffen-SS officer employed in the SS Hygiene Institute, designs programs for the purification of water and the destruction of vermin. He is shocked to learn that the process he has developed to eradicate typhus, by using a hydrogen cyanide mixture called Zyklon B, is... | murder | train | wikipedia | Costa-Gavras has made an important movie with 'Amen.' which looks at the holocaust-tragedy from another point of view which is seldom showed.
But when you take on the large institutions of society, when you make them accountable and demand that they fess up to their inadequacies, and that they not allow it to happen ag... |
tt0356159 | Hellbent | The night before Halloween, a gay couple are making out in a car when a bare-chested killer in a devil mask appears and decapitates them with a sickle.
Halloween, finds Eddie at his job as a police technician talking with his police officer sister. He distributes flyers about the murders and dresses in his father's pol... | violence, horror, murder | train | wikipedia | Four gay men are out for a night of fun at the infamous West Hollywood Halloween Carnival but make the big mistake to moon at a muscular fella wearing a horny mask.
They are fun loving young men celebrating who they are (as opposed to so many miserable gay characters of the past struggling with their sexuality) and wit... |
tt0053848 | G.I. Blues | U.S. Army Specialist 5 (SP5) Tulsa McLean (Elvis Presley) is a tank crewman with a singing career. Serving with the 3rd Armored "Spearhead" Division in West Germany, McLean dreams of running his own nightclub when he leaves the army, but such dreams don't come cheap. Tulsa and his buddies have formed a band and perform... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1567432 | Teen Wolf | Scott Howard is a seventeen-year-old high school student who is sick of being average. Living in a small town, his only claim to popularity is playing on the Beavers; his school's basketball team (which is very unsuccessful) and fawning after his crush Pamela Wells, who is dating his rival Mick. Mick plays for the Drag... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | In Twilight, the story surrounds Edward and Bella's relationship; In Teen Wolf, I think the story is more about Scott's transformation into being a werewolf and the challenges it brings him.
I am no fan of that film franchise that everyone seems to overrate, thus, I thought it would not appeal to me and grew annoyed wi... |
tt0057406 | Pent-House Mouse | Tom is relaxing in a penthouse, while Jerry is struggling looking for food, being forced to tie his tail around his waist to stop his stomach growling. Suddenly Jerry sees a lunchbox at a construction site and jumps into it, eating through to it. However, the steel beam on which the lunchbox is sitting is lifted into t... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | A huge improvement over what was seen with Gene Deitch, but a long way from being one of the classics. Tom and Jerry always has been one of my favourites. A vast majority of the cartoons of the 40s up to about 1956 are classics or very, very good. The ones made when Fred Quimby was no longer in charge were not quite as... |
tt0083564 | Annie | In 1933, during The Great Depression, a young orphan named Annie is living in the Hudson Street Orphanage in New York City. One night, Annie comforts one of the youngest orphans by singing to her. The orphanage's cruel and alcoholic supervisor Agatha Hannigan hears the singing and punishes the orphans by making them cl... | cult, cruelty, depressing | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0076578 | Pumping Iron | In 1975, bodybuilders are preparing for the upcoming Mr. Universe amateur competition and Mr. Olympia professional competition in Pretoria, South Africa. The first part of the film documents the life of Mike Katz, a hopeful for the title of Mr. Universe. Katz was bullied in his youth for being Jewish and wearing glasse... | boring, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0290095 | The Tuxedo | Jimmy Tong (Jackie Chan) is a taxi driver notorious for his speed and ability to get his customers anywhere in the least amount of time. His reputation lands him a job as the personal chauffeur of the mysterious but wealthy Clark Devlin (Jason Isaacs). Jimmy does not really know what his new boss' job is, but Devlin's ... | violence, comedy, action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0273300 | Jump Tomorrow | Three days before his wedding, George meets two intriguing people: Alicia (Verbeke), a Spanish woman who invites him to a party that night, and Gerard (Girardot), an unlucky-in-love Frenchman who has just been turned down for a marriage proposal. To cheer him up, George takes him to Alicia's party. There, George finds ... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0004022 | Cajus Julius Caesar | The play opens with the commoners of Rome celebrating Caesar's triumphant return from defeating Pompey's sons at the battle of Munda. Two tribunes, Flavius and Marrullus, discover the commoners celebrating, insult them for their change in loyalty from Pompey to Caesar, and break up the crowd. There are some jokes made ... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | Both Sides Of A Human And Historical Man. Herr Enrico Guazzoni's artistic ambition never had limits; since his early kolossal silent epics, he approached what seemed the most difficult and complicated film projects in a successful way. That's to the joy of silent film fans, which have, after so many years, the opportun... |
tt0057586 | To Beep or Not to Beep | Introduction: The opening scene shows Wile E. Coyote reading a "Western Cookery" recipe book in total peace. Completely unaware that his prey has zoomed up behind him to sneak a peek at his book, he slurps at the prospect of a road-runner banquet featuring "Road Runner Surprise," and gets answered by another slurp. Tur... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Longer Gags Help Make This Fabulous.
First of all, I agree with others here: this is an outstanding Road Runner cartoon, maybe the best I've ever seen.
It combines great color, great "camera" angles, clever stunts and a very funny Wile (at least his "yeeeeeowwwws!)It begins peacefully with Wile reading a book.
No wonde... |
tt0057547 | Lancelot and Guinevere | Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls in love with Queen Guinevere. A sub-plot concerns Arthur's effort to forestall a challenge from a rival king, a problem that will inevitably catch Lancelot up in a personal conflict... | cult, violence, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | In and around the castle Camelot, brave Cornel Wilde (as Lancelot) and virtuous Brian Aherne (as King Arthur) vie for the affections of lovely Jean Wallace (as Guinevere).
Clearly, "Lancelot and Guinevere" was meant as a more realistic, for the times, "Knights of the Round Table" film.
**** Lancelot and Guinevere (6/2/... |
tt0053320 | A Summer Place | Alcoholic Bart Hunter (Arthur Kennedy), his long-suffering wife Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), and their teenage son Johnny (Troy Donahue) operate a crumbling inn on Pine Island off the Maine coast. The inn was previously Bart's elegant family mansion in an exclusive resort, but as his family fortunes have dwindled, the Hun... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0111708 | Wicked Games | Mike Strauber, a businessman with a history of mental illness, walks in on his wife, Sharon, having sex with Jerry, his best friend. Mike storms off, and wanders aimlessly as he contemplates suicide while flashing back to his time with Sharon, and a childhood incident where he cut himself with a razor while playing Tru... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1867091 | The Reconstruction of William Zero | After accidentally causing the death of his son, geneticist William Blakely wakes in a house tended by a man who introduces himself as his twin brother. His brother explains that William was involved in a car crash. William can remember nothing of his life and must be taught basic concepts, such as how to walk and resp... | home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1322269 | August: Osage County | The action takes place over the course of several weeks in August inside the three-story home of Beverly and Violet Weston outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
Prologue
The play opens with Beverly Weston, a once-famous poet, interviewing Johnna, a young Cheyenne woman, for a position as live-in cook and caregiver for his wife V... | boring, storytelling | train | wikipedia | But the acting is so terrific, the roles so strong, that you don't want to miss it.It's the story of the Weston family: Violet, a drug-addicted cancer patient (Meryl Streep); her husband Beverley, a well-known poet (Sam Shepard); their daughters Barbara (Julia Roberts), Karen (Juliette Lewis), and Ivy (Julianne Nichols... |
tt1741684 | Bitmeyen sarki | Feraye (Berguzar Korel) doesn't believe in beautiful days, people & Miracles. Her ultimate aim is to find her son who was taken away from her by force 8 years ago. Although, she works as a singer in a night club, she manages to maintain her innocence. She is beautiful, young & decent girl in her difficult and dark worl... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0265730 | Sethu | Sethu aka Chiyaan (Vikram) is a rough and macho college rowdy and also The Students Union Chairman of the college, who uses violence as the only way to deal with people. He lives with his brother, a Magistrate (Sivakumar), and his sister-in-law, who is the only person who seems to understand him properly.
The movie ope... | tragedy, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | Awesome if you have heart. This movie will definitely leave a tear on our eyes at the end.The way the characters are depicted in the movie is excellent. The story, characters and the feeling they give to the viewers is something you cant forget in your life.You should have watched many a LOVE movies/stories in your lif... |
tt1521197 | Anonymous | After a monologue delivered by Derek Jacobi, the film opens in 1603, with Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, ordering a desperate search for a trove of manuscripts. Ben Jonson, who has the manuscripts, flees down the streets of London and into the theatre known as The Rose. Hot on his heels, the soldiers who have been se... | romantic, intrigue, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | In his film of the same name, director Roland Emmerich seems to be suggesting that this idea is not exactly new, and that the plays and poems attributed to William Shakespeare were essentially motivated by the same desire.
He takes the age-old mystery of "Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays?" and turns it into a polit... |
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