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tt0179458 | Savage Vengance | Katie Carter (Dallender) is an aspiring model from Missouri who works as a waitress in a New York City restaurant. Desperate to update her modeling portfolio, she answers an advertisement offering a free photography session. She then meets three Bulgarian brothers, photographer Ivan (Absolom) and his assistants Nikolai... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0040847 | The Stupor Salesman | Slug McSlug, a notorious criminal (and anthropomorphic dog), is chased by police after successfully robbing the Last National Bank. He reaches his country hideout, where he is promptly visited by an uninvited Daffy Duck, who is a door-to-door salesman of a variety of items. McSlug slams the door in Daffy's face, but Da... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | A Perfect Story For Our Never-Accept-No-For-An-Answer Duck!.
Daffy Duck, as a persistent door-to-door salesman trying to crack a tough case - sell something to a hard-nosed bank-robber trying to hide out in a remote wooded area - is pretty original premise and cartoon.
This really is wacky and a very good Daffy Duck ef... |
tt0058977 | Blindfold | A patient being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Bartholomew Snow is a government scientist who evidently has had a mental breakdown. General Pratt, a national security chief, hides the patient, Arthur Vicenti, in a remote place known only as "Base X," forcing Dr. Snow to wear a blindfold whenever he is taken there.
Enemy agents ... | brainwashing | train | wikipedia | This is a pleasant mystery thriller with some light comedic moments and as such is typical of a lot of movies made in the same period of the middle to late sixties, most with one word titles such as this one has.
Partly inspired by the popularity of the stylish "Charade" of a few years earlier, and more obviously influ... |
tt1031280 | Splinter | The film opens on a sleepy gas station, where the slack-jawed pump attendant (Charles Baker) is attacked by a seemingly rabid animal. Through a series of glimpses the attendant's body begins to contort after the attack. Meanwhile, a young couple, Seth Belzer (Paulo Costanzo) and Polly Watt (Jill Wagner), retreat to the... | violence | train | wikipedia | Apparently "Splinter" is an independent film, but it doesn't deserve to be lumped in the same category as the hundreds of "low budget" horror movies out there that are hardly more than a few friends with a camcorder and some ketchup packets.
The three main actors are great, and the characters are likable.This movie isn... |
tt1754920 | Yeh Saali Zindagi | Arun (Irrfan Khan) is a Chartered Accountant who works for Mr. Mehta (Saurabh Shukla) and helps him run his illegal business. Arun is in love with Priti (Chitrangada Singh), but she falls for Shyam (Vipul Gupta), who was introduced to her by Arun.
After Badey, a gangster of Delhi (Yashpal Sharma), falls out of favour o... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | With its many unpredictable twists and twirls and a climax that some might take with a pinch of salt, This movie is a delightfully different film that attempts to break all set formulas and leave you with a smile on the face in the end.Worth watching..
Sudhir Mishra has been making movies for some time now...
Sudhir Mi... |
tt0038669 | The Killers | The Killers is an adaptation of a short story by Ernest Hemingway. The story is divided into three scenes. The first and third scenes were directed by Beiku and Tarkovsky, the second by Gordon.
The first scene shows Nick Adams (Yuli Fait) observing two gangsters (Valentin Vinogradov and Boris Novikov) in black coats an... | realism, murder, bleak, violence, atmospheric, flashback | train | wikipedia | Along with Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity," this is the one that established what film noir was all about.Robert Siodmak's classic thriller, along with "Criss Cross" are two of his best pieces of work, proof positive that crime dramas could rise above the mundane and the clichéd.Based on one of Hemingway's Nick Adams... |
tt0109162 | Asterix in America | Upon learning that his army has once again been defeated by the one remaining village in Gaul that has yet to be conquered by the Romans, Julius Caesar, angry at how embarrassing this makes him appear before Rome's senators, begins thinking up of a new plan to defeat them once and for all. Knowing that the village's st... | romantic, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Good animation but has no wit or character of the books.
Knowing that the Druid Getafix is only one of the mighty Gauls capable of brewing the magic potion, the Romans plan to kidnap him and throw him over the edge of the world (the world, of course being flat).
The Romans carry out their plan but are pursued by Asteri... |
tt0066601 | Zabriskie Point | In a room at a university campus in 1970, white and black students argue about an impending student strike. Mark (Mark Frechette) leaves the meeting after saying he is "willing to die, but not of boredom" for the cause, which draws criticism from the young white radicals. Following a mass arrest at the campus protest, ... | avant garde, murder, anti war, cult, violence, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0028358 | Things to Come | In the British city of "Everytown", businessman John Cabal (Raymond Massey) cannot enjoy Christmas Day, 1940, with the news everywhere of possible war. His guest, Harding (Maurice Braddell), shares his worries, while his other friend, the over-optimistic Pippa Passworthy (Edward Chapman), believes it will not come to p... | anti war, philosophical | train | wikipedia | If the Chrysler Building really were a rocket ship and could fly past the moon and stars and comets of art deco friezes...if we could look into those naive mindsets, whose visions of man's destiny were being energized by the discoveries of relativity, atomic energy and deep space...we might indeed embrace the images of... |
tt0108162 | Sliver | Carly Norris (Sharon Stone) moves into an exclusive New York residential building, not long after the previous tenant, Naomi Singer, falls to her death from her balcony. She immediately crosses paths with other tenants including the handsome Zeke (William Baldwin).
Carly and Zeke soon start meeting quite often; Carly e... | suspenseful, mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | It may be true that Joe Eszterhas rehashes his basic formula one more time here - "Is the person with whom the hero/heroine gets sexually involved a murdered or an innocent victim, framed by someone else?" - but it's a formula that works, that grabs your attention instinctively.
Maybe this thriller would've been tighte... |
tt0120788 | Permanent Midnight | Approaching the end of a drug rehabilitation program, Jerry Stahl (Stiller) quits his job at a fast food restaurant on an impulse when an attractive woman named Kitty (Bello) pulls up at the drive-through window. The two check into a motel, where Jerry tells her about his life in between bouts of sex. A series of flash... | dramatic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Smart black comedy with Ben Stiller's best performance to date..
I think Ben Stiller is one of the most talented comic actors currently working, even though he is often in awful movies (e.g.
'Permanent Midnight' is one of the best movies he has been involved with and features what is arguably his single finest performa... |
tt5996120 | House of Spirits | Prologue
A young woman, Blanca Trueba (Winona Ryder), arrives at a house with an old man and the young woman starts remembering her life.
Clara and Esteban
Blanca's mother, Clara del Valle (Meryl Streep) was a child with psychic power when Esteban Trueba (Jeremy Irons) came to propose to Clara's older sister, Rosa del ... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1451759 | Rapunzel | A lonely couple, who want a child, live next to a walled garden belonging to an evil witch named Dame Gothel. The wife, experiencing the cravings associated with the arrival of her long-awaited pregnancy, notices some rapunzel (or, in most translated-to-English versions of the story, rampion), growing in the garden and... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Underwhelming. This is "Rapunzel" and most people who know the name will immediately know the character in the title as well and perhaps also her story. Germany produced many fairy-tale films in the last years and this is one of them. It runs for slightly under an hour as most of them do and the director is Bodo Fürnei... |
tt0082912 | Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco | After a police round up of street children, Pixote is sent to a juvenile reformatory (FEBEM). The prison is a hellish school where Pixote uses glue sniffing as a means of emotional escape from the constant threats of abuse and rape.
It soon becomes clear that the young criminals are only pawns in the criminal, sadistic... | violence, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Perhaps the most brutal filmic portrait of youth ever made; Charles Dickens meets Hieronymous Bosch in this tale of a group of boys struggling to survive in the reformatories and mean streets of Brazil as the cycle of prey transformed into predators is documented.The saddest detail is to realize that this film, made al... |
tt0228246 | Duke Nukem 3D | === Setting ===
Duke Nukem 3D is set on Earth "sometime in the early 21st century". The levels of Duke Nukem 3D take players outdoors and indoors through rendered street scenes, military bases, deserts, a flooded city, space stations, moon bases, and a Japanese restaurant.
The game contains several humorous references ... | violence | train | wikipedia | Badass, but kicking and plain awesome..
The first time I played Duke Nukem 3D was at a friends place.
It has just been released and he was lucky enough to have a PC that could handle it, and the game itself.We spent several hours walking through just the first level, there was so much to see!
You got your explosive sce... |
tt0496328 | Itty Bitty Titty Committee | Anna has been rejected by her college, her girlfriend broke up with her, and her big sister is getting married. She meets Sadie, who invites her to join Clits In Action, or C(i)A, a radical Third-wave feminist group. Anna soon gets in touch with her political side. She takes part in illegal activism with the group and ... | prank | train | wikipedia | Some friends of mine recommended me the film Itty Bitty Titty Committee because they know the lesbian film Kissing Jessica Stein is one of my favorite romantic comedies.I did not like that film only for the lesbian subtext,but because I found it funny,honest and much more credible than most of the romantic comedies,in ... |
tt0359398 | Hellbreeder | English police are baffled after a number of children are brutally murdered. Alice (Uphill) takes a profound interest in the murders as her own son, Daniel, was killed years ago and she is haunted by recurring nightmares. The event replays in her mind, as she remembers walking her son home late one night when they stop... | insanity, revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | While watching "Hellbreeder" on DVD, I was really trying to understand what was happening on the screen.
I decided to stop the movie for a moment and read the cover of the DVD seeking a hint.
However, the only thing that I could notice is that the directors and writer apparently were under effect of acid or LSD when th... |
tt0095530 | Little Dorrit | The novel begins in Marseilles "thirty years ago" (i.e., c. 1826), with the notorious murderer Rigaud telling his cell mate how he killed his wife. Arthur Clennam is returning to London to see his mother after the death of his father, with whom he had lived for twenty years in China. On his deathbed, his father had giv... | romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Little Dorrit is thought by many critics to be Dickens most important book, a blistering attack on the evils of the Victorian world in which he lived.
Dickens' father had spent some time in the Marshalsea debtors prison, and several of the corrupt landlords and incompetent officials of the book were based on prominent ... |
tt1528718 | Born to Raise Hell | After 9/11, the United States government realized that narcotics were responsible for financing the majority of terrorist cells. That's why they created the International Drug Task Force (IDTF). The IDTF task forces are fully funded and overseen by the United States government. They took their top narcotics officers an... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | 'BORN TO RAISE HELL': Two and a Half Stars (Out of Five) Another generic Steven Seagal action film, in this one he plays an Interpol agent caught in the middle of a Russian and Gypsy street gang war in Eastern Europe.
When things get messy Axel is forced to resort to unconventional measures in order to get the job done... |
tt0066384 | Skullduggery | The film follows a group of young adults who come together to play a fantasy role playing game, while working at a costume rental store. One of the players is a young man named Adam (Thom Haverstock) who is the descendent of a long line of men who are all cursed by the devil. While working at the community college thea... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0047411 | Ride Clear of Diablo | Sheriff Fred (Paul Birch) and lawyer Tom (William Pullen) conspire to have dance hall girl Kate (Abbe Lane) entertain the hired hands of the O'Mara ranch whilst the Sheriff and the lawyer rustle the O'Mara's stock. Tom shoots both the father and teenage O'Mara son to leave no witnesses.
Surviving son Clay (Audie Murphy... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | one of the best Audie Murphy westerns.
Murphy is the guy looking for revenge,people tend to underestimate him, until he shows himself fast in the draw.
One of the best things here is the relationship between Murphy and Dan Duryea.
This film is very unpretentious and entertaining, and it´s a pity they don´t make western... |
tt0023236 | The Monster Walks | The film opens with Ruth Earlton and her fiance Dr. Ted Carver arriving at her father's house. She has been told that her father has died, and is returning to find out what will be done with the estate. They arrive on a stormy night, and are greeted by her invalid uncle Robert, the housekeeper Mrs. Krug and the houseke... | murder | train | wikipedia | The dead mans brother (Sheldon Lewis, the Clutching Hand himself in a surprisingly subdued performance) is confined to a wheelchair and the servants (Martha Mattox, best remembered from THE CAT AND THE CANARY, 1927 and Mischa Auer later to costar in CONDEMNED TO LIVE, 1935) are the creepiest characters you ever saw.
Wh... |
tt0060355 | Duel at Diablo | A frontier scout, Jess Remsberg (James Garner), is searching for the murderer of his Comanche wife. All he knows is that it was done by a white man. While crossing the desert he rescues Ellen Grange (Bibi Andersson) from a pursuing band of Apaches, and returns her to her businessman husband, Willard Grange (Dennis Weav... | cult, revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | James Garner plays Jess Remsberg, an Indian scout now out looking for the man or men that raped and killed his Indian wife.
Bill Travers and Bibi Anderson provide the international flavor in the cast, and Dennis Weaver gives the viewer a chance both to detest him and feel some sorrow for his warped prejudices toward th... |
tt1548296 | Love Letters | Alan Quinton (Joseph Cotten), an American soldier in Italy during World War II, has been writing letters for his friend, Roger Morland (Robert Sully), a man who admits he "never had any standards, manners or taste." Alan has never met Victoria Remington, but regards her as a "pin-up girl of the spirit," to whom he can ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0100332 | Paris Is Burning | Shortly after the failed 1944 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler (Billy Frick), he appoints General Dietrich von Choltitz (Gert Fröbe) as military governor of occupied Paris. Hitler believes Choltitz will obey his order that the Allies should not be allowed to capture Paris without the Germans destroying it compl... | queer | train | wikipedia | "Paris is Burning" is a documentary about gay black and Hispanic men who are tranvestites or transsexuals.The miracle of "Paris is Burning" is that director Jennie Livingston takes a subject that could have very easily become a freak show and allows the people in it their humanity.
But if you do see this movie you'll r... |
tt2339741 | The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death | Forty years after the events of the first film, during the London Blitz, Eve Parkins joins some of her schoolchildren and the school's headmistress, Jean Hogg, to evacuate them to the isolated market town of Crythin Gifford. On the train journey there, Eve meets dashing pilot Harry Burnstow, who is stationed at an airf... | paranormal, dark, horror, gothic, haunting | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0265662 | The Rookie | The film tells the story of Jim Morris, the son of a career Navy man, who moves the family from Jacksonville, Florida to Big Lake, Texas, in order to maintain job security. Jim is shown to be a very skilled pitcher, though his father disapproves of Jim's dream of making it to Major League Baseball. It is later mentione... | inspiring, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0267905 | Sangram | The story of the film is set in a village named Shimulpur village. Satyaprakash, a popular schoolmaster in the village teaching in the Shimulpur High School, is an honorable person in the village. An election campaign was held at the school, Raghav Choudhury and Mohan Roy being the two opponent candidates. Out of them,... | romantic | train | wikipedia | One of Ajay's earlier films. Ajay just fresh after PHOOL AUR KAANTE(1991) and JIGAR(92) successes got to face many failures from 1993 till DILWALE(1994) which was a hitIn 1993 he had many flops like PLATFORM, DIVYASHAKTI SANGRAM is one of those filmsThough not a complete bad film, it's an average filmThe film is a stor... |
tt0106980 | Full Eclipse | Max Dire is a Los Angeles detective who is feeling the strain that his profession entails when his wife of two years, Liza, accuses him of bringing his work home and leaves him to ponder her future, while his partner, Jim Sheldon, commits suicide by shooting himself in the head. Realising that Max is experiencing probl... | violence | train | wikipedia | A good sense of humor, some snacks and some suspension of disbelief will help make this movie more enjoyable.There is some sex,plenty of gore, fangs, claws and guns...The cast seemed to have had a blast in this movie.
Sleek, sexy, and kind of like X-Men. Full Eclipse was a cool werewolf film.
Mario Van Peebles is great... |
tt0310254 | Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge | Veer Thakur (Salman Khan) is an eligible young bachelor living in a small community with his parents, Thakur Kunal Singh (Sharat Saxena), and mom Thakurain Geeta (Nishigandha Wad). He is in love with Muskaan (Dia Mirza), his friend & daughter of another Thakur. Their parents give their support to the union, but Veer su... | flashback | train | wikipedia | One of Salman Khan's best ones.
Lets start off with the cast.
Salman Khan is great as usual, and nothing more needs to be said about him.
Dia Mirza is good in her role as is Sushmita Sen. Sharat Saxena and Rajpal Yadav are also good.
It has something for everyone: romance (a lot), action ( a lot), humour (some) and goo... |
tt0465657 | Highlander: The Search for Vengeance | The story centers on characters who are immortal.
The lead character, Colin MacLeod, became an Immortal after his first death in 125 AD in Roman Britain, when his village was attacked by the conquering Romans. Another Immortal, Marcus Octavius, was leading the Roman Empire's military forces in hopes of creating his dre... | violence, revenge, historical fiction, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | First things first, this is a typical Kawajiri film, as you may or may not know, Kawajiri is like a Japanese Frank Miller, meaning all his work share a distinctive feel to them, and follow a similar path story-wise.
If you haven't guessed it yet, I really liked the film.Lets start reviewing it part by part.Story: It fi... |
tt0110971 | Renaissance Man | Bill Rago (DeVito) is a divorced advertising executive down on his luck. When he loses his job in Detroit, the unemployment agency finds him a temporary job: teaching a class at a nearby U.S. Army training base, Fort McClane.
Initially unenthusiastic, Rago finds that he has only six weeks to teach a group of "squeakers... | autobiographical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0154587 | Hey There, It's Yogi Bear | Boo-Boo Bear wakes up from winter hibernation, excited about the new Spring. Then Yogi Bear wakes up, his only interest finding some food to eat. Cindy Bear unsuccessfully tries to woo Yogi. After Ranger Smith thwarts Yogi's latest attempts to grab some food, Yogi gets angry and convinces Ranger to transfer him out of ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0029322 | Nothing Sacred | New York newspaper reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) is blamed for passing off Harlem bootblack Ernest Walker (Troy Brown) as an African nobleman hosting a charity event (despite his claims of not knowing this was false). Cook is demoted to writing obituaries. He begs his boss Oliver Stone (Walter Connolly) for anoth... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0040571 | Mark of the Lash | The movie broke into the following chapters:
Love's Young Dream.
An Insult. The Traitor.
The Secret Marriage. Arrest of Dennis Blake.
Transported for Life.
Botany Bay Settlement.
On the Triangle. The Recognition.
The Mark of the Lash.
The Confession. Kind-Hearted Warder.
A Sensational Escape.
A Cold Bath. The Police Ba... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0107130 | A Home of Our Own | Frances Lacey, a widow, works at a factory that produces potato chips. She is fired when one of the men gropes her, and she hits him in return. The same day, her son is brought home by the police, for stealing change from payphones, but they don't press charges. Shortly after this, Frances decides that Los Angeles is n... | autobiographical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0104940 | The Muppet Christmas Carol | On Christmas Eve, in 19th Century London, Charles Dickens (played by Gonzo the Great) and his friend Rizzo act as narrators throughout the film. Ebenezer Scrooge, a surly money-lender, does not share the merriment of Christmas. Scrooge rejects his nephew Fred's invitation to Christmas dinner, dismisses two gentlemen's ... | cult, horror, entertaining, romantic | train | wikipedia | Paul Williams' music score and songs are eminently singable and leave the viewer with a lasting memory.A Muppet Christmas Carol has joined the pantheon of classic holiday films, easily ranking alongside Holiday Inn, White Christmas and A Christmas Story.
That question pretty much sums up my reaction to "The Muppet Chri... |
tt1592503 | Alien vs. Ninja | A band of ninja warriors, led by an Iga Ninja named Yamata and his comrades Jinnai and Nezumi, are assigned to investigate the crash of a mysterious object from the sky. Upon arriving at the crash site, they discover the remains of other ninjas that have been brutally torn apart. Shortly after joining forces with anoth... | comedy, neo noir, cult, violence, good versus evil, psychedelic, sadist, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0113538 | A Kid in King Arthur's Court | Calvin Fuller is a nerdy young boy living in the Los Angeles suburb of Reseda. The gangly, unsure youth is first seen at a baseball game, standing at bat for his team, the Knights, ready for yet another strike out. Suddenly an earthquake hits; as the others run for safety, the ground opens up under Calvin's shoes and h... | comic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0032181 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Abe Lincoln (Raymond Massey) leaves home for the first time, having been hired along with two of his friends by Denton Offut (Harlan Briggs) to take a load of pigs by water to New Orleans. When the boat gets stuck at a dam at the settlement of New Salem, Abe first sees and loses his heart to Ann Rutledge (Mary Howard),... | historical | train | wikipedia | Good performances by Ruth Gordon, Alan Baxter, Howard DaSilva, Clem Bevans.Massey is the definitive movie Lincoln.
Includes two of Lincoln's best speeches from that period, with Massey's performance very close to Lincoln's 19th century oratorical style.Highly recommended to students of American history and fans of old ... |
tt0041113 | All the King's Men | All the King's Men portrays the dramatic political rise and governorship of Willie Stark, a cynical populist in the American South during the 1930s. The novel is narrated by Jack Burden, a political reporter who comes to work as Governor Stark's right-hand man. The trajectory of Stark's career is interwoven with Jack B... | cult, depressing, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | At any rate, Broderick Crawford does an outstanding job portraying the self- proclaimed "hick" Willie Starks, who rises from nothing to become governor of a state and then gets carried away with power and ego.Mercedes McCambridge is equally riveting as one of his aides.
But when I saw the remake, I was kinda scared to ... |
tt0099623 | Funny About Love | New York cartoonist Duffy Bergman marries gourmet chef Meg Lloyd. Meg wants to have a baby. Duffy agrees, but after unsuccessful attempts, Duffy encourages her to focus on her career and come back to the child issue later. After his mother's death, however, Duffy becomes fixated on wanting to have a child. Meg no longe... | dark | train | wikipedia | Funny How Love Isn't Funny In This Movie.
Cartoonist Gene Wilder's marriage to Christine Lahti falls apart after they fail to conceive a child, but they manage to get back together after Gene has lots of sex with a younger woman.
Love might be funny, but this film is something else entirely.
Sure, there are a few laugh... |
tt0268146 | Anurodh | Arun (Rajesh Khanna) was the only son of a rich businessman Mr. Chaudhury. He was an upcoming singer, sings in local radio, mostly the songs written by his friend Srikant (Vinod Mehra). His father wants him to look after their family business and thinks singing is not the kind of job for people of their status. This al... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0041332 | El Paso | Clay Fletcher (John Payne) is leaving South Carolina and heading west. A rebel officer during the Civil War and also a lawyer, he wants to ease back into law practice with something not too difficult, so he travels to El Paso, Texas with estate documents to get the signature of an attorney there, Henry Jeffers (Henry H... | murder | train | wikipedia | Long Arm of the Law !.
This Cinecolor Western from 1949 boasts a terrific cast and an interesting storyline.
John Payne stars as a gun-toting attorney who takes on the so-called "lawmen" of El Paso.
Sterling Haytden and former singin'cowpoke Dick Foran have fun roles as the bad-guys running the town.
With the help of a... |
tt0072962 | F for Fake | The film opens with Welles performing magic tricks for some children while Kodar watches nearby. Welles quotes Robert-Houdin to the effect that a magician is just an actor. Welles promises that for the next hour everything in the film will be based on solid fact. Kodar is then shown strolling around a street in a minis... | alternate history | train | wikipedia | "F for fake" stands for the last movie Orson Welles really directed and, as for many artistic legacies it's the final demonstration of the genius of the artist, becoming some kind of briefing of his entire career.It's hard to explain this movie and why I really enjoyed because, as many other Welles's movies, it's full ... |
tt0372832 | Skeleton Man | The film opens with an archaeologist looking at some artifacts he has dug up from an Indian burial ground. Among these items is the skull of an Indian chief, Skeleton Man appears through a portal and kills the archaeologist. Skeleton Man then chases the archaeologist's assistant to a power plant, killing her and the tw... | humor | train | wikipedia | There was barely a plot, unless "Shaggy dog story with a guy in a rain poncho and skeleton mask instead of a dog" counts.The editing was was all over the place, and the slow-mo shots of the "gore" (red corn syrup flying through the air--doubtless flung using a spoon) got irritating after the tenth time, and infuriating... |
tt0113845 | Money Train | On Christmas, we meet foster brothers John and Charlie. They work as transit cops patrolling the New York City subway. When a mugging occurs, John and Charlie chase the mugger into a subway tunnel, and all trains traveling in their direction are halted. But their harsh transit captain Donald Patterson, allows the money... | comedy, humor, murder, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | The Money Train tries to be more than a lot of the action films that came out and simply disappeared in the early 90s, but falls a little short.
While the film certainly isn't bad, it isn't considered a classic of the genre, and, while not a financial failure, relatively few people saw it and even fewer remember it.The... |
tt0039251 | The Cat Concerto | A stage is set in an auditorium. In a formal concert, Tom in a tuxedo, a piano virtuoso, is giving a piano recital of "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" by Franz Liszt. Jerry, who is sleeping inside the piano, is rudely awakened by the hammers, then sits on top of the piano to mock the cat by "conducting" him. Tom flicks Jerry... | comic | train | wikipedia | Tom, complete with a tuxedo, is a pianist performing a concerto (Hungarian Rhapsody #2) for the audience.
Things are going well until Jerry, peacefully asleep inside the piano, is rudely woken up.The rest of the cartoon slows various ways these two guys torment each other.
In fact, you could probably turn your head awa... |
tt0027876 | The Lawless Nineties | In the 1890s, undercover federal agents John Tipton (Wayne) and Bridger (Chandler) head for Crocket City, Wyoming to supervise the vote on whether to join the Union. One group of local outlaws organized by Charles Plummer (Harry Woods) is using dynamite to terrorize the populace and ensure that the vote fails. In the c... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0498120 | Coeurs | When the play begins, Nicola is being guided through an unoccupied flat by Stewart, her estate agent, keen to make a sale. Stewart is unable to get Nicola's approval, chiefly because there is no suitable room to be used as a "study" for her fiancé, Dan. However, when Nicola returns to her current flat, she expresses fr... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0024779 | The Wizard of Oz | The film begins in Kansas, which is depicted in a sepia tone. Dorothy Gale lives with her dog Toto on the farm of her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Dorothy's dog gets in trouble with a mean neighbor, Miss Almira Gulch, when Toto bites her. However, Dorothy's family and the farmhands are all too busy to pay her any attention... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The Cowardly Lion skipped this version, but he didn't miss much. Among the special features included with the recent 3-disc DVD release of MGM's 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz is this obscure 9-minute cartoon, produced in Canada and directed by Ted Eshbaugh, whose best- known work is that old time TV perennial The Sunsh... |
tt0446059 | Huo yuanjia | The film begins with Huo Yuanjia fighting and defeating three Westerners: a British boxer, a Belgian lancer and a Spanish fencer. While waiting for the fourth match to begin, Huo remembers his father Huo Endi teaching martial arts. The story is then told in an extended flashback. Watching his father fight, the young Yu... | murder, cult, violence, action, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090503 | Pound Puppies | The Pound Puppies is a group of dogs who spend most of their time at Shelter 17. Together with a group of squirrels recruited by Strudel, an incredibly smart Dachshund, they operate a secret and highly sophisticated underground facility beneath the pound, aimed at finding new owners for puppies or even grown up dogs th... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0063141 | Isadora | In 1927, Isadora Duncan has become a legend as the innovator of modern dance, a temperamental bohemian, and an outspoken advocate of free love. Now past 40, she lives in poverty in a small hotel on the French Riviera with her companion Mary Estelle Dempsey/Mary Desti (named only as Mary in the film) and her secretary R... | romantic, avant garde, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0060453 | Georgy Girl | Georgina Parkin (Lynn Redgrave) is a 22-year-old Londoner who has considerable musical talent, is well educated, and has an engaging if shameless manner. On the other hand, she believes herself to be plain, slightly overweight, dresses haphazardly, and is incredibly naïve on the subjects of love and flirtation; she has... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0243164 | Carmen on Ice | The story of Carmen on Ice is very similar to the opera Carmen. Analogous to the four-act opera libretto the screenplay has four parts:
A Square in Sevilla in front of a cigarette factory: Micaela, a village maiden, brings a letter to the Corporal of Dragoons Don José, which was written by his mother. The cigarette gir... | tragedy, murder | train | wikipedia | An exciting skating movie with fantastic music!. This is one of the best versions of Carmen I have ever seen. The music is incredible. Katrina Witt is beautiful and plays the vamp to perfection. The skating is some of the best I have seen with every move adding to the story.. Wow, please let me know how to get one fr... |
tt0117718 | The Spitfire Grill | The story centers on a young woman named Percy (Alison Elliott) who was recently released from prison. She arrives in a small town in Maine with hopes of beginning a new life. She lands a job as a waitress in the Spitfire Grill, owned by Hannah (Ellen Burstyn), whose gruff exterior conceals a kind heart and little tole... | murder, storytelling | train | wikipedia | I'm sure the only people who would NOT enjoy this movie are the ones who grew up in Hollywood and believe everyone is like them.
Spitfire Grill does a wonderful job capturing the small town New England landscape.
At times, Alison Elliott resembles a young Jodie Foster as she plays this innocent, yet troubled youngster ... |
tt0049872 | Town on Trial | While playing tennis at a posh club in a town near London called Oakley Park, young and flirty Molly Stevens attracts considerable interest. The men ogle her and the women detest her. She is later found dead, strangled with a stocking. The local police chief requests the help of Scotland Yard, so Detective Superintende... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0062472 | The War Wagon | Rancher Taw Jackson (John Wayne) returns to his hometown to settle a score. Three years earlier, he was framed by corrupt businessman Frank Pierce (Bruce Cabot) and wrongfully imprisoned. Pierce confiscates Jackson's land, where he discovers gold. After his prison sentence was cut short for good behavior, Jackson retur... | good versus evil, revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | But, make it an old time western, then cast John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Bruce Cabot, Bruce Dern, Keenan Wynn and Howard Keel as a Jewish Indian and you have the makings of a classic.The War Wagon, complete with catchy title tune, is another notch in the Duke's gun for being dead on target for what his fans crave: A solid... |
tt0488749 | 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 | null |
tt2085930 | Starship Troopers: Invasion | On an asteroid, the Terran Federation's Fort Casey is crawling with bugs. The starship Alesia begins to deploy its Mobile Infantry troopers, by dropship, to seize and control the hangar and rescue any survivors. Lieutenant Daugherty's 'Alpha' team lands and immediately engages bugs, fighting through to rendezvous with ... | paranormal, violence | train | wikipedia | Hope this will reboot the franchise in a good way (forgetting the sequels and the bad animated series).But it is like entering in a big video game demo with non-stop action scenes.Very entertaining, popcorn in a bucket, and sit tight to watch it with friends.
The movie seems rushed in some parts, the plot was nothing t... |
tt0110054 | Hung Hei Kwun: Siu Lam ng zou | Hung Hei-kwun arrives in his village after a raid by government soldiers, only to find his whole village destroyed. Hung Hei-kwun quickly finds his infant son and gives him a choice between death and joining him in the rebellion. Upon leaving his village he encounters Ma Ling-yee, who is also supposed to be involved in... | good versus evil, cult, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1359554 | High Noon | In Hadleyville, a small town in New Mexico Territory, Marshal Will Kane (Cooper), newly married to Amy Fowler (Grace Kelly), is preparing to retire. The happy couple is departing for a new life, raising a family and running a store in another town; but word arrives that Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald), a vicious outlaw wh... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Please don't forsake me O' my Darlin'. **SPOILERS** When hostage negotiator Lt. Phoebe McNamara got under the skin of fellow cop Arnie Meeks on showing him up in how to do his job things started to get hot an heavy between the two flatfoots. This happened when Officer Meeks was on the scene when a hostage taker ended u... |
tt0249047 | Namukku Parkkan Munthiri Thoppukal | The story is centered around a Malayali Syrian Christian-Nasrani ("Nazarene") family. Throughout the film, there are references to the Biblical book Song of Songs. However the film story doesn't follow the same line and differs in many ways. It also has additional meanings added to make it a different story. In Song of... | romantic | train | wikipedia | All time classic.
A sensitive portrayal of a mature love story which is lyrical and poetic as the music of the film.
It is the most influential films of its era and still is called the greatest love story told in malayalam.
Mohanlal takes acting to a greater level with his riveting performance and débutante Shari is fr... |
tt3540564 | Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number | Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number takes place in a heavily anachronic order before and after the events of the original, focusing more on the latter between October and December 1991. During the events of Hotline Miami, the player's character, "Jacket," is unwittingly manipulated into killing off the leadership of the Russ... | violence | train | wikipedia | An Excellent Continuation To A Master Piece. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the last installment on the "Hotline Miami" franchise and is also the conclusion to the story from the first game. In this review I'll not reveal any spoiler. The main story revolves mainly on the acts after the events of the first game.On th... |
tt2369396 | Bounty Killer | Two of the highest ranked bounty killers in the Thrice Burned Lands, Drifter (Matthew Marsden) and Mary Death (Christian Pitre) team up to exterminate a party full of yellow-tied corporate criminals. Drifter’s explosive killing style is in stark contrast to Mary’s graceful way of delivering death to white collar scum. ... | violence | train | wikipedia | Everything is fine until "drifter" has a bounty put out on him and he has to make it across " the badlands " and gangs of crazed killers out for his blood to clear his name.What follows is a frenetic, comic book style, sci fi, action flick with ass kicking women, dressed in next to nothing, some toting guns.
While not ... |
tt0032356 | Contraband | Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) is an ex-smuggler who now has a peaceful life with his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and their two sons in New Orleans. They learn that Kate's brother Andy (Caleb Landry Jones) was smuggling drugs, but dropped them into the Mississippi River during a surprise inspection by U.S. Customs an... | violence, intrigue | train | wikipedia | But, Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson are the hidden pleasures in this film.
Above all, Contraband demonstrates how film makers (outside of Powell and Pressberger) missed the boat in not taking advantage of Veidt's sophisticated persona, understated acting skills, and comedic flair..
Veidt and Hobson encounter one anoth... |
tt5304086 | Dictator | For years, the Republic of Wadiya has been ruled by Admiral General Haffaz Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen), a childish, tyrannical, sexist, anti-western, and antisemitic despot who surrounds himself with female bodyguards, sponsors al-Qaeda (specially giving shelter to Osama Bin Laden after "they killed his double one year... | murder | train | wikipedia | Senseless movie which has a lot of wasted efforts. This is one of those movies where you would feel like you just wasted your time and energy by watching this. The movie has the same storyline that is getting repeated since ages. None of the actors had the chance of proving their best. Most of them including character ... |
tt0203082 | Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Tsuioku Hen | In the early Meiji era, after participating in the Bakumatsu war as the assassin "Hitokiri Battōsai", Himura Kenshin wanders the countryside of Japan offering protection and aid to those in need as atonement for the murders he once committed. When arriving in Tokyo in the 11th year of Meiji (1878), he meets a young wom... | neo noir, gothic, anti war, violence, flashback, psychedelic, tragedy | train | wikipedia | But at least I knew what I was looking at (and I suggest that people considering to watch this should familiarize themselves with the TV series first).Although the violence is very graphic and the dialog can be a bit of a drag if you lose track, everything else perfectly makes up for it.
Although the plot doesn't suffe... |
tt0058382 | Murder Ahoy | The action takes place mainly on board an old wooden-walled battleship, HMS Battledore, which has been purchased by a Trust for the rehabilitation of young criminals, and intended by the founder to put backbone into young jellyfish.
Shortly after joining the board of management of the Trust, Miss Marple (Margaret Ruthe... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2394099 | Young Rebels | The Young Rebels was the story of a group of youthful guerrillas fighting on the Patriot side in the American Revolutionary War. They were part of the fictional "Yankee Doodle Society", based in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1777. Their goal was to harass the British forces however they could and serve as spies for the reb... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0118698 | Bent | Max (Clive Owen) is a promiscuous gay man living in 1930s Berlin. He is at odds with his wealthy family because of his homosexuality. One evening, much to the resentment of his boyfriend, Rudy (Brian Webber II), Max brings home a handsome SA man (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). Unfortunately, he does so on the Night of the Lon... | murder, flashback, insanity, romantic, sadist, sentimental | train | wikipedia | When Martin Sherman's play first appeared (with Ian McKellen as Max and Tom Bell as Horst) it caused outrage and much discussion with its sympathetic and frank treatment of forbidden love in the age of the SS.Here it has undergone a few changes but retains its stark power.
Clive Owen (probably not my first choice for t... |
tt0457572 | Fido | The film takes place in a 1950s-esque alternate universe where radiation from space has turned the dead into zombies. This resulted in the "Zombie Wars", where humanity battled zombies to prevent a zombie apocalypse, with humanity the ultimate victor. The radiation still plagues humanity, as all those who die after the... | comedy, cruelty, murder, cult, violence, clever, satire | train | wikipedia | Fido is a cute comedy that deserves wider recognition, especially considering the mainstream crap that is supposed to entertain us these days.As has already been pointed out, this is hardly a real zombie film, but rather a sweet satire that employs the undead to point fingers.
While there are necessarily some bloody sc... |
tt0155306 | Ultime grida dalla savana | The film is a depiction of various scenes, usually violent or bizarre, that somehow relate to hunting. Each scenario is presented one after the other with little regard for narrative continuity. The opening scene introduces a Patagonian hunter who hunts stags to survive. The opening credits play over as he chases after... | violence, cruelty, murder | train | wikipedia | WANNA SEE LIONS MAUL A MAN...
The scene where a man is mauled by three hungry lions is very graphic.
There are also some scenes where a hippie is breast feeding a goat.
There are no human death scenes in this, or any Faces of Death for that matter.
It's all staged, and all psychological.They show you a dead body in a m... |
tt0089385 | The Journey of Natty Gann | Set in 1935, the movie tells the story of a 15-year-old tomboy girl, Natty Gann (Meredith Salenger). Out of work because of Depression-era unemployment, Natty's widowed father Sol (Ray Wise) parlays his surefootedness into getting a job as a lumberjack. To take the job he must leave on almost no notice on a company bus... | depressing | train | wikipedia | Considering all the costume jewelry Disney released in the aforementioned decades, you would think they would have more respect for this gem.I'm sure parents who took their children to see Natty Gann when it was released were surprised and shocked to discover that it was not a film for younger children.
This is not onl... |
tt0273799 | Max Keeble's Big Move | Seventh grader Max Keeble (Alex D. Linz) is a paperboy who has a huge crush on Jenna (Brooke Anne Smith), the daughter of one of his paper recipients. Max is antagonized by the corrupt megalomaniacal school principal, Elliot T. Jindrake (Larry Miller), resident bullies Troy McGinty and Dobbs (Noel Fisher and Orlando Br... | revenge, prank | train | wikipedia | And Max earns respect not because he's the toughest, but because his turnabout beats the bullies at their own game, and because he won't let his buddies take the rap alone.This movie, and Shrek, See Spot Run, Cats & Dogs, and Spy Kids, are some of the most enjoyable movies I have seen in the last 10 months.
Amusing for... |
tt0068503 | Dr. Phibes Rises Again | The story begins by recapping the events of the previous film, following Dr. Anton Phibes' murderous quest for vengeance against the doctors he blamed for the death of his wife, Victoria. Phibes eluded capture by placing himself in suspended animation in a sarcophagus he shares with the body of his wife, where he would... | comedy, revenge, cult, dark, murder | train | wikipedia | Some feel that this sequel to 1970's The Abominable Dr. Phibes surpassed the original film with its all-out camp elan, wild-and-woolly murder sequences (it's hard to imagine anything more skin-crawlingly gruesome than the Scorpion Throne sequence in this film), exquisite Deco Egyptienne sets and scenery-chewing perform... |
tt0053045 | The Man in the Net | Commercial artist John Hamilton (Alan Ladd) and wife Linda (Carolyn Jones) leave New York and move to Stoneville, Connecticut, in the New England countryside, to escape the bustle of the city and because of John's growing concern about Linda's alcoholism.
John quickly befriends the town's children, but he's treated lik... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Alan Ladd gives up the city life and rat race for himself and also for dipsomaniac and nymphomaniac wife Carolyn Jones.
Where Ladd paints out in the woods with his only true friends the town children.
Jones on the other hand gets an affair going with one of the town movers and shakers.Jones winds up very dead when Ladd... |
tt2577172 | GirlHouse | In Rehobeth, Alabama, 1988, two little girls trick an overweight child they have nicknamed “Loverboy” into dropping his pants and preparing for a kiss, only to tease and humiliate him. When one of the girls rides home alone afterwards, Loverboy knocks her from her bicycle and throws her off a bridge, making the girl’s ... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | I was expecting your average, run-of-the-mill slasher film that didn't offer anything more than I've seen a hundred and one times before...but I was okay with that because I'm a dedicated horror fanatic.
I've only watched a handful of films that I feel are without fault.The great opening sequence set the movie up nicel... |
tt0284741 | 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 ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | one of the early scenes in the movie involving the pirates is so ignorant of history as to make the viewer throw up their hands in disgust and say 'why was the primary text ignored?' the story of Caesar and the pirates is one of the best stories of his life and it was not given any justice.
in the end this movie was in... |
tt0169516 | Young Hercules | The show features the efforts of Ares, the god of war, played by Kevin Tod Smith, who attempts often to destroy his younger half-brother to win over Zeus' good graces. Among his group is his nephew Strife (Joel Tobeck), who is the rather weaker member of the team. Strife's mother is Discord, goddess of retribution (Mei... | violence | train | wikipedia | Entertaining for Children.
The television series of "Young Hercules" was not a useless one.
From my perspective, it was a good show for the younger audience, especially considering it was called YOUNG Hercules.
The actors did well in their roles and the show was great for kids.
The show was not meant to be as fantastic... |
tt0226873 | Joshû sasori: 701-gô urami-bushi | Nami Matsushima (Meiko Kaji) is set up by her boyfriend, a crooked police detective named Sugimi (Isao Natsuyagi) to win favor with the Yakuza. She is raped by several drug dealers. She makes a failed attempt to stab Sugimi on the steps of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters. She is sentenced to do hard time in ... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | Fourth and final Sasori film featuring Meiko Kaji.
Yasuharu Hasebe (Black Tight Killers) took over for director Shunya Ito for this, the last Female Convict Scorpion picture starring Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood).
The film opens with Nami Matsushima (a.k.a. Matsu, a.k.a. Scorpion) once again on the lam.
Badly injured, sh... |
tt0085253 | Blood Rage | Todd and Terry are blond and identical twins. In 1974, one night at a drive-in theater, Terry sees his parents kissing inside the car and escapes from the backseat with Todd. Deep inside, Terry soon becomes violent from always seeing people, including his parents, having sex. Taking a carpenter's hatchet, he murders a ... | murder, violence, horror, cult, insanity, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0057401 | Paranoiac | The wealthy Ashby family has been damaged by the death of Mr. and Mrs. Ashby in a plane crash when their three children were very young. The children were left in the care of their Aunt Harriet. The oldest son, Anthony, committed suicide by jumping off a cliff into the sea when he was 15. The second son, Simon, (Reed) ... | intrigue | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0430334 | Mansquito | Dr. Jennifer Allen (Musetta Vander) in Baltimore, Maryland wants to find a cure for a disease known as the Gillen virus, a disease similar yet more deadly than the "Fire Rising virus." She and a colleague capture infected mosquitoes and give them small doses of radiation. She explains that the levels have to be exact b... | violence | train | wikipedia | undoubtedly you've seen the previews on sci-fi which show the sexy scientist tearing off her blouse-- that and the title tell you all you need to know about how cheesy and ridiculous this picture is-- but I hate to admit I found it strangely watchable.
Look: obviously no one watches a teevee movie called "Mansquito!"(i... |
tt1343703 | Brestskaya krepost | The film opens on Saturday, June 21, 1941. Sasha Akimov, a 15-year-old musician, and his older brother, Andrey, whose parents were killed in the Spanish Civil War, are serving in the 333rd Rifle Regiment of the Red Army at the Brest Fortress. Elsewhere, a commissar, Yefim Fomin, discovers he is unable to bring his fami... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | In case you've come upon this movie by accident, I'd suggest you go ahead and watch it, and then return return back to read the reviews.The Brest Fortress pushes war movies to a completely different level of realism, poetry and emotional force.
And The Brest Fortress pays homage to that great movie in many ways.Russian... |
tt0081071 | The Long Riders | During the years following the Civil War, banks and trains become the targets of the James-Younger gang, outlaws who terrorize the Midwestern United States. The band of robbers is led by Jesse James and Cole Younger, along with several of their brothers.
A detective, Mr. Rixley from the Pinkerton's agency, is assigned ... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Over the length of his career, he would return to the genre again and again, giving us offerings that ranged from the large-scale excess of Geronimo: an American legend, to the smaller, but just as historically accurate Wild Bill.By far the best of his Western work, The Long Riders tells the tale of the James/Younger l... |
tt0080671 | The Earthling | Patrick Foley (Holden) is dying of cancer and decides to return to the outback where he was born. He has stopped taking his medicine and is at peace with his decision to die alone in the woods. On his journey, he notices a family camping. From a neighbouring peak, Foley watches as Shawn (Schroder), a 10-year-old boy, b... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | And William Holden, far from being one to "add to" a list of modern man-and-boy bonding stories, in this 1980 film virtually founded the category.I've seen this excellent film three times -- always on late-nite TV.
Why on earth hasn't it received wider public acclaim??!At 62 (this was his next-to-last film), Holden loo... |
tt0035417 | The Talk of the Town | Mill worker and political activist Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant) is accused of burning down a mill and causing the death of a foreman in the fire. In the middle of his trial, Dilg escapes from jail and seeks shelter in a house owned by former schoolmate Nora Shelley (Jean Arthur), now a schoolteacher on whom he has had a c... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0103116 | Trancers II | Los Angeles, 1991. Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson) has gotten used to life with his wife Lena (Helen Hunt) in the six years since they killed Whistler. Hap Ashby (Biff Manard) has made a fortune investing and has moved from the streets to a palatial estate, sharing it with Jack and Lena. But life is about to get difficult fo... | cult, humor, neo noir | train | wikipedia | I really enjoyed this movie, it had action, plot and some funny one-liners, what I liked the best was the amazing cast: HELEN HUNT, JEFFREY COMBS, BARBARA CRAMPTON, MEGAN WARD, MARTINE BESWICKE, and TIM THOMERSON.
The original Trancers is not by any means a great movie.
However, it was entertaining, better done than mo... |
tt0053083 | The Mouse That Jack Built | Somewhere in Beverly Hills, in the house of Jack Benny (a sign out front proclaims, "Star of Stage * Screen * Radio * Television...also cartoons"), a mouse version of Jack is practicing his violin—off-key—and saying to himself, "Who is this guy Isaac Stern?" (In real life Benny and Stern were good friends.) Outside Jac... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0096142 | Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama | Three nerdy frat boys, Calvin, Jimmie, and Keith, follow and spy on the Tri-Delta sorority group, where they are having an initiation. Sorority members Babs, Rhonda, and Frankie prepare for the ritual while newcomers Taffy and Lisa await. Watched by the frat boys outside their house, the two initiates get spanked from ... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0087901 | Perfect Strangers | === Development ===
The series was the brainchild of Dale McRaven (co-creator of Mork & Mindy) and producers Tom Miller and Robert Boyett. Miller claimed that the series' inspiration came in the wake of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, when America experienced a wave of renewed patriotic sentiment. Their idea f... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0078349 | Sekai meisaku dôwa: Hakuchô no mizûmi | Below is a synopsis based on the 1895 libretto. Swan Lake is generally presented in either four Acts, four Scenes (primarily outside Russia and Eastern Europe) or three Acts, four Scenes (primarily in Russia and Eastern Europe). Some productions in the West include a prologue that shows the actual transformation by whi... | psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0047878 | The Big Combo | Police Lt. Leonard Diamond is on a personal crusade to bring down sadistic gangster Mr. Brown. He's also dangerously obsessed with Brown's girlfriend, the suicidal Susan Lowell. His main objective as a detective is to uncover what happened to a woman called "Alicia" from the crime boss's past.
Mr. Brown, his second-in-... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Wilde, meantime, has tracked down elusive Alicia, Conte's supposedly murdered wife (Helen Walker, the duplicitous psychiatrist in Nightmare Alley, in her last screen appearance); only she knows where the bodies are buried and can write her husband's death warrant....The Big Combo counts as one of the more sadistic inst... |
tt0096880 | Balance | The film depicts five individuals living on a small platform floating in space. These men are all identical apart from a number at the back of their coats: 23, 35, 51, 75, and 77. Whenever one of them moves, the platform tilts and the others must move as well to ensure that the platform does not tip over. They all move... | philosophical, psychedelic, dark, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1028576 | Secretariat | In 1969, Denver housewife and mother Penny Chenery (Diane Lane) agrees to take over her ailing father, Christopher Chenery's Meadow Stables in Doswell, Virginia, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. With the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin (Malkovich), Chenery navigates the male-dominated business, ultimat... | inspiring | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0301199 | Dirty Pretty Things | Okwe is an illegal Nigerian immigrant to the United Kingdom who drives a cab in London during the day and works at the front desk of a hotel at night. The hotel is staffed with many immigrants, both legal and illegal. Okwe keeps himself awake by chewing khat, an herbal stimulant. A doctor in his home country, he was fo... | suspenseful, neo noir, realism, romantic | train | wikipedia | Much buzz, fortunately all merited, preceded it: an amazing Nigerian actor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, already acclaimed for his stage performances, makes his big-screen debut, while Audrey Tatou, the impossibly wide-eyed kook from 2001's `Amelie', tackles her first English-language movie role.Frears' film details the story of ... |
tt0087451 | The Ice Pirates | The film takes place in a distant future where water is so scarce and rationed that it is considered an immensely valuable substance, both as a commodity and as a currency in ice cubes. The Templars of Mithra control the water and they destroyed worlds that had natural water leaving the galaxy virtually dry. Pirates de... | cult, comedy | train | wikipedia | The scene where the captured ice pirates are being prepared for slave duty alone is worth the price of admission!Then there's the robot that was purchased for an inexplicably good price.
This is the movie that killed Mary Crosby's career and nearly derailed Robert Urich's, Angelica Houston's and Ron Perlman's.
and Buck... |
tt4394374 | The Roommate | Sara Matthews (Minka Kelly) is starting her freshman year of college. She meets Tracy (Aly Michalka), Stephen (Cam Gigandet) – her love interest, and Rebecca (Leighton Meester) – her college roommate. The girls begin to bond and Rebecca learns that Sara had an older sister, Emily, who died when Sara was nine, and an ex... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
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