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tt0112682 | La cité des enfants perdus | Krank (Daniel Emilfork), a highly intelligent but evil being created by a vanished scientist, is unable to dream, which causes him to age prematurely. At his lair on an abandoned oil-rig (which he shares with the scientist's other creations: six childish clones, a dwarf named Martha, and a brain in a vat named Irvin), ... | comedy, avant garde, neo noir, murder, dark, bleak, whimsical, violence, alternate reality, atmospheric, psychedelic, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | I can't think of a film that has such a concentration of memorable shots - time and again, especially watching on DVD with a freeze-frame facility, you realize how many beautiful compositions Jean-Pierre Jeunet gives us: though the cast of characters could easily fill a freak show, and the sets are dark and quite ungla... |
tt1680045 | 360 | 360 centers on the stories of a group of people from different social backgrounds through their intertwining relationships.
=== Vienna ===
Anna (Gabriela Marcinková) accompanies her sister to a photo-shoot, where her older sister Mirka (Lucia Siposová) is photographed nude by Rocco (Johannes Krisch), for an escort serv... | murder | train | wikipedia | Too bad, because in other parts of the movie the extremes--such as a prostitute getting started through sleazy photographer listing her on the web, even though she has zero experience--get pulled off with conviction.
Not that most of us know the ins and outs of that world.There are too many characters to make things cl... |
tt3956562 | Gangster Ka | The first part follows Káčko during his criminal career in the Czech Republic. Káčko is a gangster in Ostrava who is known for that he doesn't kill his rivals but has them shot in leg. He decides that Ostrava is too small for him and departs to Prague. Prague criminal world is dominated by Milota and Sivák. Káčko start... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0458253 | The Closer | In the opening scene, 24-year-old Alice Ayres (Natalie Portman) and Dan Woolf (Jude Law) see each other for the first time from opposite sides of a street as they are walking toward each other among many other rush hour pedestrians. Alice is a young American stripper who just arrived in London, and Dan is an unsuccessf... | murder | train | wikipedia | 2007), I feel it's time for me to commend every aspect of this series about an elite homicide squad.Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson (Kyra Segdewick) is consistently one of the most engaging television series characters I've seen in a very long time.
Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson is the head of a elite detective unit that... |
tt0110428 | The Madness of King George | The film depicts the ordeal of King George III whose bout of madness in 1788 touched off the Regency Crisis, triggering a power struggle between factions of parliament under the conservative William Pitt the Younger and the reform-minded Charles James Fox.
At first, the King's habits appear mildly eccentric, and are pu... | insanity, historical, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0790816 | Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud | The film begins with two men on their motorcycles driving away from Pumpkinhead. One of the men hits a tree branch in their path, falling from his motorcycle and allowing Pumpkinhead to catch up to him. As the man is being killed, the film cuts to a man in a log cabin who seems to share the pain inflicted by Pumpkinhea... | revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | As in previous sequels, there's nothing here to really connect the films except for the monster, the witch and Ed Harley (Lance Henriksen).
Part of the film is a Romeo And Juliet romance as a young McCoy boy and his Hatfield lover decide to run away to be together.
In spite of the long feud between the Hatfields and th... |
tt0314979 | Battlestar Galactica | In a distant star system, the Twelve Colonies Of Mankind were reaching the end of a thousand year war with the Cylons, warrior robots created by a reptilian race which expired long ago, presumably destroyed by their own creations. Humanity was ultimately defeated in a sneak attack on their homeworlds by the Cylons, car... | thought-provoking, violence, dramatic, good versus evil, tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | I read a lot of people saying "the new one doesn't have the humour of the original" or "it takes itself so seriously, the characters are too serious," or things to that effect.
Adama's ship is being turned into a museum, effectively ending a major chapter in his military career (which is his life), Apollo's having to f... |
tt0006780 | Hell's Hinges | Hell's Hinges tells the story of a weak-willed minister, Rev. Bob Henley (played by Standing), who comes to a wild and debauched frontier town with his sister, Faith (played by Williams). The owner of the saloon, Silk Miller (played by Hollingsworth), and his accomplices sense trouble and encourage the local rowdies to... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Hart, who had considerable experience as a stage actor, including the performance of a good deal of Shakespeare, clearly understood that in the movies, acting and personal presence were inseparable.
Once he is won over by the message of the church, he never cracks a smile, barely moves his face at all unless he's reall... |
tt0102598 | Only the Lonely | Danny Muldoon (John Candy), a 38-year-old Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing Irish mother, Rose Muldoon (Maureen O'Hara). A lonely bachelor, Danny falls in love with Theresa Luna (Ally Sheedy), an introverted, lonely girl who works in her father's funeral home as a cosmetician. On their first date, he ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A wonderfully light RomCom that stands as one of the best tributes to John Candy (alongside Uncle Buck).Though, this is a comedy, it still allows Candy to show his true acting skills, and many of the choicest comedy moments go to Maureen O'Hara as Candy's mother, who almost steals the film.It is a sad trait in Hollywoo... |
tt1206543 | Out of the Furnace | After getting off work at a North Braddock, Pennsylvania, steel mill, Russell Baze catches his brother Rodney at a horse racing simulcast, where Rodney had just bet on a losing horse. Rodney reveals John Petty loaned the money to him. Petty owns a bar and runs several illegal games. Russell visits Petty, pays off some ... | neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, melodrama, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0091767 | Playing for Keeps | George Dryer (Gerard Butler) is a former professional Scottish soccer player who played for Celtic, Liverpool, D.C. United and the Scotland national team, and is largely seen as a "has been". His attempts to raise money by selling his former game memorabilia and become a sports announcer are largely met with ambivalenc... | prank | train | wikipedia | I loved PLAYING FOR KEEPS when it was released in '86; I went to see it three times, and bought the soundtrack at least twice on cassette (I kept wearing it out).
It was, at the very least, my introduction to Pete Townshend and, eventually, The Who. Last year I found the CD for a dollar in a cutout bin, and I'm shamele... |
tt0416853 | Inhyeongsa | 60 years ago, a doll-maker and a woman in a red kimono (Jeong Yu-mi) fell in love in the Korean countryside, and the doll-maker made a doll in her image. Later, when the red kimono woman was found murdered, the blame was put on the doll-maker. He was arrested and killed by vigilantes in the woods. Not content to be wit... | romantic, cruelty, murder, haunting | train | wikipedia | She decided she wanted to watch Closer, which seemed like such a repellant idea that I had to rent another film for once she'd gone to bed.
Just based on the cover sleeve (A woman with a doll-like face crying tears of blood) I thought this would be interesting enough to rent.As for the film itself, watching it in an al... |
tt0376080 | Platform | The film starts in 1979 in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. A theatre troupe of young adults in Fenyang performs state-approved material. The troupe includes Cui Minliang and his friends, Yin Ruijuan, Zhang Jun, and Zhong Ping. Zhang and Zhong are together. Cui asks Yin if she is his girlfriend, but she replies tha... | murder | train | wikipedia | One of Ajay's turkeys from 1993. Ajay Devgan debuted with superhit Phool Aur Kaante(1991) and continued his success with hit action film Jigar(1992). However, this two hit streak lost as all of Ajay Devgan's releases from 1993 were flops. From these list of flops, the only decent one had to be Divya Shakti(1993) in whi... |
tt0038787 | Notorious | In April 1946, Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman), the American daughter of a convicted Nazi spy, is recruited by government agent T. R. Devlin (Cary Grant) to infiltrate an organization of Nazis who have moved to Brazil after World War II. When Alicia refuses to help the police, Devlin plays recordings of her fighting w... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Notorious has everything...inimitable Hitchcock moments, mystery, suspense, personal drama, high romance, passion, great character development, international espionage, nuanced acting, a visually stunning foreign locale, post-war period mystique, patriotism, fine supporting cast, a charmingly evil Claude Rains, a most ... |
tt0037576 | Captain Kidd | In 1699, pirate William Kidd (Charles Laughton) loots and destroys the London galleon The Twelve Apostles. He and three confederates bury the stolen treasure on a remote island. He then presents himself at the court of King William III (Henry Daniell) as an honest shipmaster seeking a royal commission as a privateer af... | cult, action, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0103262 | Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken | Sonora Webster is living with her emotionally abusive aunt during the Great Depression. Sonora learns that because of the family's financial difficulties, her treasured horse Lightning will be sold and she will be placed in an orphanage. Instead, Sonora slips out of the house during the night.
Sonora ends up at a count... | romantic, depressing | train | wikipedia | My absolute favorite movie of all time.
Getting back to the movie, I feel so connected to the characters every time I watch it.
While some people like it because of the horses, or because of the moral of the story, I just like the movie itself!
I admire every aspect of it: the casting, filming, the set, and the true ro... |
tt0106527 | Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story | Set on Long Island, the film opens with Joey Buttafuoco (Jack Scalia) playing drums, driving under influence of cocaine, fleeing from the cops and visiting his mother's grave. At home, his wife Mary Jo (Phyllis Lyons) awaits his return, disappointed in his drug back lapse. After she threatens to leave him if he does no... | tragedy, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | A True American Tragedy.
The story about an event that shook up a quiet Long Island community back in 1992 and became front page and headline news in all the tabloid newspapers and TV shows not just in the USA but all over the world as well.
The movie "Casualties of Love" tries to portray Joey "Butterfingers" Buttafuoc... |
tt0447166 | The Gamers: Dorkness Rising | The film opens with a trio of Dungeons & Dragons characters facing the final villain. However, they are quickly killed and after blaming each other, the players (Cass, Leo, and Gary) blame the game master, Lodge, claiming he did not follow the rules and plotted against them. While Leo and Gary wish to play a different ... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0080731 | The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu | The opening titles announce it is set "possibly around 1933." The story concerns the 168-year-old Fu Manchu, who must duplicate the ingredients to the elixir vitae (which gives him extended life) after the original is accidentally destroyed by one of Fu's minions.
When the diamond "The Star of Leningrad" is stolen by a... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2828996 | A Haunted House 2 | Malcolm Johnson and his cousin Ray-Ray are driving Malcolm's possessed girlfriend Kisha to the hospital after he beat her senseless for trying to attack him. Kisha starts making a fuss and fights Malcolm, then breathes into Ray's face. He passes out at the wheel and collides with a truck. Somehow, everybody is okay, bu... | paranormal, flashback, humor, home movie | train | wikipedia | I have not seen the first "A Haunted House" film, but after sitting through this dreadful sequel I don't think I would like to.
A Haunted House 2 is an American 'comedy' 'horror' film directed by Michael Tiddes and starring Marlon Wayans.
If you however have seen this movie i hope you ask for a refund or entrance to a ... |
tt0099506 | Enid Is Sleeping | Kate and Henry are a happy couple. Henry proposed to Kate and they are about to be married, but on the day of their wedding, Kate is accidentally killed by an ice sculpture angel, because of the actions of an ice sculptor (Stephen Root). Unaware that she has died and her soul left her body, Kate awakens in Purgatory, a... | cult, comedy | train | wikipedia | Great Cast + Great Script = Great Comedy!.
Let me first say that I am not by any means a lover of dark comedies.
In fact, I have the tendency to hate that sub-genre more than almost any other (there are exceptions).
I rented this rare movie, which I was surprised to even find, because of the cast.
I kept my eyes off of... |
tt0053740 | The Criminal | After witnessing the unfortunate death of a woman, who was unable to afford hospital treatment, Dr. Ajay Kumar (Akkineni Nagarjuna) cancels his U.S. immigration and instead sets out to work a plan to open a hospital that will be accessible to people who cannot afford treatment in regular hospitals, called "Amma Hospita... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | The Criminal (AKA: The Concrete Jungle) is directed by Joseph Losey and written by Alun Owen.
It stars Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Margrit Saad, Patrick Magee, Grégoire Aslan, Rupert Davies and Laurence Naismith.
Music is by John Dankworth and cinematography by Robert Krasker.Johnny Bannion (Baker) is an ex-con who's... |
tt0381503 | Power Rangers: Ninja Storm | Shane, Tori and Dustin are three students at the Wind Ninja Academy. Their less than stellar performance and tardiness gets them the occasional lecture from their Sensei, Kanoi Watanabe. One day, the academy is attacked by Lothor, a banished ninja master who has returned to capture all ninja students. Shane, Tori and D... | violence | train | wikipedia | hey;. I think everyone that power rangers ninja storm was awful is wrong there series was really good I use to watch every episode and it was always interesting all of the power rangers were great they always had me interested in the next episode; I wish we could still see re runs on TV tho because the power rangers ca... |
tt0082727 | Meantime | The film unfolds in brief episodes, detailing the travails of the working-class Pollock family, who live in a shabby flat in a tower block in London's East End. They are struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the nagging, put-upon mother Mavis (Pam Ferr... | realism | train | wikipedia | This is Mike Leigh's finest film.It's a shame, but inevitable given the climate of the film world, that he has become celebrated for lesser works such as "Secrets And Lies" and the odious "Vera Drake" which I found almost unwatchably patronising.
But the acting in "Meantime" is in many ways even more impressive, as the... |
tt1410051 | Retreat | London architect Martin Kennedy (Cillian Murphy) and his journalist wife Kate (Thandie Newton) often visit a small, remote, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland called Blackholme Island, for their holiday retreats. The only dwelling on the island, Fairweather Cottage, is seasonally operated by the owner Do... | murder | train | wikipedia | The acting was good and it keeps you guessing to the very end.Worth your time to watch.
"Retreat" is a three-hander, starring Thandie Newton, Cillian Murphy and Jamie Bell (although there is one other character with a brief speaking part).
The journalist Kate (Thandie Newton) and her estranged husband, the architect Ma... |
tt0053290 | Solomon and Sheba | The film's theme differs substantially from Biblical sources and is highly fictionalized, most notably in representing the Queen of Sheba as an ally of ancient Egypt in opposition to King Solomon of Israel, and in her having a love affair with Solomon.
Under the rule of King David, Israel is united and prosperous, alth... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | It is very Biblically inaccurate (there was NOTHING between Solomon and the queen of Sheba, just a conversation!), but a lot of fun!Yul Brynner is one of my favorite actors to watch on screen; he is sexy, charismatic, over the top, and has that whacked out ambiguous accent.
She and Brynner look very good together, and ... |
tt0059776 | Szegénylegények | Following the quelling of Lajos Kossuth's 1848 revolution against Habsburg rule in Hungary, prison camps were set up for people suspected of being Kossuth's supporters. Around 20 years later, some members of highwayman Sándor Rózsa's guerrilla band, believed to be some of Kossuth's last supporters, are known to be inte... | psychedelic, avant garde | train | wikipedia | With these early films of Miklós Jancsó (people don't realise he's still making films, with one slated for 2009, and his technique is now totally different) where he shows dehumanised power systems, there's always a dual interest for me.
You get the kind of political comment, but you also get the love of nature as a co... |
tt0104040 | The Cutting Edge | Kate Moseley is a world-class figure skater representing the United States in the pairs event at the 1988 Winter Olympics. She has genuine talent, but years of being spoiled by her wealthy father Jack have made her all but impossible to work with.
Doug Dorsey is captain of the U.S. ice hockey team at the same Winter Ol... | dramatic, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0259046 | Tekken 2 | Two years after the events of the King of Iron Fist Tournament 1, the Mishima Zaibatsu, under the leadership of Kazuya Mishima, has become even more corrupt and powerful than ever before and involved in many illegal operations. These include kidnapping, extortion and smuggling endangered animal species for illegal expe... | violence | train | wikipedia | My favorite fighting-game is back!. You might think that it is not worth getting Tekken 2 of you already got the first game, since the sequel has only got 2 new characters, but Tekken 2 is a much better game than the original.The FMV`s(movie-sequences) is as always a trademark in the series and the FMV is much cooler a... |
tt3735246 | Bajirao Mastani | In the early 18th century, the court of Maratha King, Chhattrapati Shahu (Mahesh Manjrekar) needs a new Peshwa, the equivalent of a modern-day prime minister. In spite of Shripad Rao's (Aditya Pancholi) self-nomination as the Pant Pratinidhi, Ambaji Pant (Milind Soman) chooses to nominate a young Bajirao (Ranveer Singh... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Its A Well-Made, Well-Acted Motion-Picture, that holds your attention at most times.'Bajirao Mastani' narrates the story of the Maratha warrior Peshwa Bajirao I of the Maratha Empire (Ranveer Singh) and his second wife Mastani (Deepika Padukone).
Priyanka acting was superb Bajirao Mastani a watch movie.
Ranveer acting ... |
tt1183946 | The Stoneman Murders | The serial killer dubbed 'Stoneman' ,'pattharmaar' by the media has just claimed his fifth victim and the case is still of little interest to the Bombay police. But to suspended sub-inspector Sanjay Shelar (Kay Kay Menon) (for a custodial death of a gangster) this killer poses an opportunity to recover his job from sus... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0104265 | Final Analysis | Isaac Barr (Richard Gere) is a top-notch, San Francisco-based Freudian psychiatrist, who has Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman) on the patient's couch. He is treating her for frightening and horrific childhood memories, which include images of her drunken father and his death in a fire for which she wasn't blamed.
One night, H... | murder | train | wikipedia | Now this fella in all his psychotherapeutic wisdom acts like a 5 year old and takes this film literally and passes judgment on Gere's character's psychiatric practices.
And then you have the main trio, Richard Gere and Kim Basinger in their prime, and Uma Thurman in one of her budding roles.
She plays a very complex ch... |
tt0040066 | A-Lad-in His Lamp | Bugs finds Aladdin's lamp while digging a rabbit hole; believing it was junk, he starts to clean it so he could use it for an ashtray, and a genie appears and tells him to make a wish. Calling him "Smokey", Bugs reluctantly starts to make multiple wishes, only to be interrupted by the genie each time; Bugs ultimately r... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | One of Bugs' Best.
Robert McKimson is an often overlooked Warner Brothers Cartoon director, but he created some of their funniest hits, such as "Ham in a Role", "A Fractured Leghorn" (easily the best of the Foghorn Leghorn series), "It's Hummer Time", and "Early to Bet".
McKimson's use of Bugs Bunny was sometimes disap... |
tt2162707 | Rayman Origins | Bubble Dreamer, Rayman, his best friend Globox, and some Teensy friends are chilling out at the Bubble Dreamer's resting grounds, the Snoring Tree. However, their snoring disturbs an old granny from the Land of the Livid Dead, who retaliates by sending an evil army of horrendous creatures and the Darktoons across the w... | psychedelic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0295319 | Home Alone 2: Lost in New York | In Chicago, Illinois, the McCallister family is preparing for a Christmas vacation in Miami. On the night before their departure, the entire family gathers at Peter and Kate's home, where their 10-year-old son Kevin sees Florida as contradictory to Christmas because he thinks there are no Christmas trees in Florida. Du... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1464580 | Stake Land | When a pandemic of vampirism strikes, humans find themselves on the run from vicious, feral beasts. Large cities are left as tombs and survivors cling together in rural pockets, fearing nightfall. When his family is slaughtered, young Martin (Paolo) is taken under the wing of a grizzled, wayward vampire hunter, called ... | horror, violence, action, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | If you enjoyed The Road you will love this as it makes you think, you find yourself putting yourself in the characters shoes and there are lots of subtle things in the movie where actions not words set the scene.
Synopsis: Orphaned Martin is taken under the wing of bad-ass Mister as they travel across vampire-ravaged A... |
tt0163988 | Bringing Out the Dead | In Manhattan in the early 1990s, Frank Pierce is a burned-out paramedic who works the graveyard shift in a two-man ambulance team with various different partners. Usually exhausted and depressed, he has not saved any patients in months and begins to see the ghosts of those lost, especially a homeless adolescent girl na... | dramatic, violence, comedy, gothic, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0137386 | Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss | Billy Collier (Sean P. Hayes) is an aspiring photographer in Los Angeles who has had little artistic success and much romantic frustration. He comes up with the idea of recreating iconic screen kisses from Hollywood movies (such as Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr's in From Here to Eternity) using drag queens in the fem... | romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | If you watch this movie expecting Sean Hayes to play a Jack McFarland ("Will & Grace") type character, you'll be disappointed.
He comes across a waiter/bass player (Brad Rowe as Gabriel, a character I'm not too crazy about) working in a coffee shop, who becomes his model & the object of his affection.
The sexual tensio... |
tt0046000 | Lili | Naive country girl Lili (Leslie Caron) arrives in a provincial town in hopes of locating an old friend of her late father, only to find that he has died. A local shopkeeper offers her employment, then tries to take advantage of her. She is rescued by a handsome, smooth-talking, womanizing carnival magician, Marc, whose... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The most telling line in the film is spoken by Paul's partner, who chides Paul for slapping Lili and says, "She is realizing that there is cruelty in the world, and she is learning to protect herself from it." Like Eve in the Garden of Eden, Lili's loss of innocence comes with her knowledge of evil, not her loss of vir... |
tt0065542 | The Cheyenne Social Club | In 1867, John O'Hanlan (Stewart) and Harley Sullivan (Fonda) are aging cowboys working on open cattle ranges in Texas. O'Hanlan gets a letter from an attorney in Cheyenne, Wyoming, that his disreputable and now deceased brother, DJ, left him something called The Cheyenne Social Club in his will.
After they make the 1,0... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | "The Cheyenne Social Club" is a delightful easy going comedy western produced and directed by screen legend Gene Kelly.
Given the subject matter, Kelly manages to stick handle around the double entendres and present a comedy that is tastefully done and probably offended no one.Two drifters, John O'Hanlan (James Stewart... |
tt0133189 | SLC Punk! | The film outlines the daily lives of two punks in Salt Lake City, Utah in the fall of 1985: Stevo and his best friend, "Heroin" Bob; Stevo narrates the film. The nickname "Heroin" is ironic, as Bob is afraid of needles and actually believes that any drug (with the notable exception of alcohol and cigarettes) is inheren... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, flashback, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0092718 | Can't Buy Me Love | Ronald Miller (Dempsey) is a typical high school nerd living in Tucson, Arizona. He has spent all summer mowing lawns to save up for a telescope. At an opportune moment, he makes a deal with popular cheerleader Cynthia "Cindy" Mancini (Peterson). Cindy had borrowed an expensive suede outfit belonging to her mother, wit... | romantic, cult | train | wikipedia | The difference is that the stars, Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson, are not so stereotypical in their roles as lonely nerd and ultra-popular head cheerleader.Patrick Dempsey has always been underrated as an actor with style, and it is unfortunate that his character, Ronald, is so unlikable after the film's premise k... |
tt0246772 | Bella Martha | Martha Klein (Martina Gedeck) is a chef at Lido, a gourmet restaurant in Hamburg, Germany. A perfectionist who lives only for her work, Martha has difficulty relating to the world other than through food. Her single-minded obsession with her culinary craft occasionally leads to unpleasant confrontations with customers.... | romantic, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2514338 | Jauja | In the 1880s, Danish Captain Gunnar Dinesen (Viggo Mortensen) is in Argentina with his teenage daughter Ingeborg (Viilbjørk Malling Agger) who asks him if she can have a dog. He is propositioned by Lieutenant Pittaluga (Adrián Fondari) who asks him for permission to take Inge to a dance in exchange for one of his horse... | boring, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2153963 | Tabu | Prologue
A narrator, Miguel Gomes himself, reads in voice-over a poetic and philosophical text that invokes a legend in which the Creator orders, but the heart commands: the suicide of an intrepid explorer who, somewhere in Africa, long ago, plunges into a turbid river after a frustrated love affair and is devoured by ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | A vinyl recording of 60s rock 'n' roll echoing over time through generations suggest a nostalgic remembrance of a distant land, which later plays a greater significance in a saga of unrequited love, regret and (literally) life and death.Initially, Tabu is a love story in disguise, a unfinished love story sprawling over... |
tt1989475 | Chained | Eager to marry his devoted secretary, Diane Lovering (Joan Crawford), New York City shipping magnate Richard Field (Otto Kruger) asks his wife Louise (Marjorie Gateson) for a divorce. Louise, however, refuses to give up her social position and denies Richard's request. Although Diane insists that she will continue to l... | brainwashing, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | The story is very good too, I was watching wanting to know what happens with Tim. And then there's the huge plot twist at the end, you do not see it coming!
Bob, a cab-driving serial killer who stalks his prey on the city streets alongside his reluctant protégé Tim, who must make a life or death choice between followin... |
tt0290937 | Yodha | In an unknown location in the Nepalese Himalayas, a young monk (played by Siddharth) is about to be crowned the Rinpoche of the monastery, when a gang of black magicians led by an unnamed character (played by Puneet Issar) kidnap him. It is revealed that the leader of the black magicians wishes to make a human sacrific... | good versus evil, cult | train | wikipedia | Awesome Movie; A Must Watch.
The first time i watched this awesome movie was when i was 11 yrs and even after another 11, i still consider this movie as my personal favorite.
Mohanlal has shown clearly how versatile he is as an actor and the flawless performance of the duo, Mohanlal and Jagathy makes it a perfect blend... |
tt0161941 | Biohazard 2 | The game is set two months after the events of the first Resident Evil, in the Midwestern American mountain community of Raccoon City. Nearly all of its citizens have been transformed into zombies by an outbreak of the T-virus, a new type of biological weapon secretly developed by the pharmaceutical company Umbrella. T... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0055524 | A Thunder of Drums | In 1870 1st Lt. Curtis McQuade (Hamilton), a cavalry officer without field experience, arrives from the East at Fort Canby, the remote, understaffed post where he was born as the son of the then-post commander. He attempts to adjust to this new life under the once-disgraced Captain Maddocks (Boone), a wily but embitter... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0460989 | The Wind That Shakes the Barley | County Cork, Ireland, 1920. Dr. Damien O'Donovan is about to leave his native village to practise medicine in a London hospital. Meanwhile, his brother Teddy commands the local flying column of the Irish Republican Army. After a hurling match, Damien witnesses the summary execution of his friend, Micheál Ó Súilleabháin... | dramatic, violence, cruelty, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3398066 | Christian Mingle | Busy ad executive Gwyneth Hayden (Lacey Chabert) has been unsuccessful in love. Seeing that a friend has become engaged leaving her as the last single woman in her group, and after seeing an advert for the dating website Christian Mingle, she signs up. She confesses to her co-worker Pam (Saidah Arrika Ekulona) that she... | christian film | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2568760 | Theevram | The Movie opens with a crime where a young man is beaten to death with a club in front of his fiance. Then comes an investigation officer Alexander (Sreenivasan), and an assistant Ramachandran (Vinay Forrt). Alexander unlike the assistant, is an officer who doesn't believe in torturing the accused people to prove crime... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | one movie that i think that the producer talked about the charter to all those actors ..
facts - no charters are important the only thing that is important is what's going on in the movie.
completely beats some of the old American thrillers given music in the movie at all shots will confuse you with other thoughts you ... |
tt0094320 | White of the Eye | A series of murders of rich young women throughout Arizona bears distinctive signatures of a serial killer. Clues lead Detective Charles Mendoza to visit Paul White, a sound expert installing hi-fi systems in wealthy people's homes. His special talent is to make a noise which echoes through the air cavities in his head... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Shamefully neglected thriller from director Donald Cammell is an outstanding and disturbing character study!Arizonia family man becomes the chief suspect when some local women are violently murdered, but is this charming man the real killer?White of the Eye is a bizarre trip of a thriller that's quite unlike any other ... |
tt1405403 | T2 | The movie begins with Claire (Maricel Soriano) with Elias (Eric Fructuoso) picking up a child as an assignment. Her mission is to give her to her adoptive family. After picking up the child Angeli (Mika Dela Cruz); strange things start to occur. When they arrived at the Tenement 2, where Angeli's new parents are stayin... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Supernatural stupor. "Hindi kita maintindihan (I can't understand you)!" screams Maricel Soriano at child co-star Mika Dela Cruz when the latter starts acting weird. Such sentiment may be had of audiences of "T2" (for "Tenement 2"), a limp horror film about "engkantos" (environmental spirits) from the otherwise dependa... |
tt0245803 | Bulletproof Monk | In 1943 Tibet, a Tibetan monk is informed that he has fulfilled the prophecies made of him (fighting for justice while cranes circled overhead, fighting for love under a palace of jade, and rescuing friends he never met with family he never knew he had) which include forgoing his name. He is then entrusted by his maste... | suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | The film revolves around The Monk with No Name (Chow) trying to find a new chosen one (Scott) while avoiding a nazi super-villain that he incountered 60 years ago.The film is more of a comedy than an action film and Sean William Scott and Chow Yun Fat play off each other well in a world where they are chased by nazis a... |
tt0162760 | Wanted: Dead or Alive | Josh Randall (McQueen) is a Confederate veteran and bounty hunter with a soft heart. He often donates his earnings to the needy and helps his prisoners if they have been wrongly accused.
Randall carries a shortened Winchester Model 1892 carbine called the "Mare's Leg" in a holster patterned after "gunslinger" rigs then... | murder | train | wikipedia | Another recycled western plot rides again.. U.S. Marshals Whip Wilson, Jim Bannon and "Texas" set out to capture a gang that has been collecting on wanted men, "Dead or Alive." The latter are all bought in dead...after the gang has helped them escape prison and a reward has been posted on them. Bringing them in alive w... |
tt0300532 | Blue Crush | Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth), Eden (Michelle Rodriguez) and Lena (Sanoe Lake) are best friends. They raised Anne Marie's 14-year-old sister, Penny (Mika Boorem), ever since their mother took off to Las Vegas with a boyfriend who was uncomfortable with the idea of having the two girls come along. While Penny is at school,... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1295085 | Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story | In 1987, Dr. Ben Carson travels to Germany to meet a couple, Peter and Augusta Rausch, who have twins conjoined at the back of their heads. Dr. Carson believes he might be able to successfully separate them, but realizes that he also risks losing one or both of them. After explaining the risk, and despite that fact, Be... | inspiring, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0430239 | It Waits | In a remote national forest, five archaeology students discover a cave associated with an ancient Native American legend. Using explosives to gain entrance, they find prehistoric drawings and bones strewn across the cave floor. Suddenly from the shadows, a creature emerges and slaughters the students.
Two months later,... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | The good news, however, is that "IT" (which is this time a mythological Indian demon instead of Pennywise the Clown) only waits for a good half hour until the inevitable dramatic sub plot and dull character drawings are over and done with before going on its outrageous murderous rampage.
There's a terribly lame sub... |
tt3817950 | Dr. Prakash Baba Amte: The Real Hero | This movie showcases the life of Dr. Prakash Baba Amte, a man whose contribution to society is immeasurable. He was unaware of his destination but became an inspiration to the world by teaching the epitome of self-actualization.
After finishing his doctor degree, Prakash's father Baba Amte, took him on a picnic to Hema... | romantic, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0035440 | Thunder Rock | The Dramatists Play Service gives the following synopsis of Thunder Rock:
The action passes in a lighthouse on Lake Michigan. Charleston, the keeper, has taken a job there to flee from a detestable world. Opposing Charleston's pessimism, Streeter, his friend, says he is giving up his job to become an active member of s... | allegory, philosophical, flashback | train | wikipedia | Based on a play, "Thunder Rock" is a 1942 film that follows the fascination with ghosts that seems prevalent at the time, just as it is prevalent in ours.
The war caused people to think about death and the afterlife a great deal."Thunder Rock" is about a newspaperman David Charleston, (Michael Redgrave) who saw the ris... |
tt1441326 | Martha Marcy May Marlene | Early one morning, Martha flees from an abusive cult on a farm in the Catskill Mountains led by their enigmatic leader, Patrick and his subordinates Watts and Katie. After escaping pursuers, Martha is caught at a diner by Watts, who attempts to take her back, but she refuses and not wanting to cause a scene, Watts leav... | cult, mystery, philosophical, murder | train | wikipedia | After attending a screening last evening, I find myself at a loss to adequately describe not just her stunning turn, but also this unusual film from writer/director Sean Durkin.On the surface, this sounds like just another movie peeking inside a creepy cult that brainwashes, and psychologically and physically abuses wo... |
tt0328880 | Brother Bear | The film is set in a post-ice age North America, where the local tribesmen believe all creatures are created through the Spirits, who are said to appear in the form of an aurora. Three brothers (Kenai, the youngest brother; Denahi, the middle brother; and Sitka, the eldest brother) return to their tribe in order for Ke... | revenge, satire | train | wikipedia | BROTHER BEAR has many strengths to recommend it, and I hope it eventually finds an audience on video.I'll admit a bias: I live in the Yukon Territory, and the story obviously takes place in next-door Alaska (with characters named "Sitka", "Kenai", and "Tanana", it's pretty obvious).
It also makes novel use of the movie... |
tt3859980 | Mohenjo Daro | The film opens in 2016 B.C. with Sarman, a young man from the ancient village of Amri, who lost his parents when young. Sarman's uncle gives him an amulet that contains an inscription of a unicorn Sarman sees in his dreams. This animal is also the emblem of the city of Mohenjo Daro.
Arriving in Mohenjo Daro to sell his... | romantic, revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Is this directed by the same director who directed the movies like Lagaan and Swades?This film is such a travesty that I hesitate to honor it by calling it a film (a student from one of the slow learners class could have written a much better story), and the acting is so bad that it could almost be mistaken for a spoof... |
tt0034808 | Grand Central Murder | Convicted murderer "Turk" (Stephen McNally) escapes from police custody, crashing through a washroom window as a train pulls into Grand Central Station in New York. He telephones his former girlfriend, Broadway star Mida King (Patricia Dane), and threatens to kill her. She leaves her show between acts and hides in a pr... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070337 | Lost Horizon | It is 1935. Before returning to England to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer, soldier, and diplomat Robert Conway (Ronald Colman) has one last task in China: to rescue 90 white Westerners in the city of Baskul. He flies out with the last few evacuees, just ahead of armed revolutionaries.
Unbeknownst to the passe... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Mr. Van took his role of Harry Lovett just after closing a 2 year Tony nominated (for best actor) run of the Broadway revival, "No, No, Nanette." He is a song-and-dance-man from way back and, honestly, the only one in the cast that was truly talented and experienced for musicals.
Other pleasant numbers are done by Oliv... |
tt0096380 | Vice Versa | In Thailand, a pair of thieves steal an ancient skull from a Buddhist monastery.
Marshall Seymour (Judge Reinhold) is Vice President of a Chicago department store, in charge of buying. He is divorced and has a son named Charlie (Fred Savage) whom he has little time for. He, and his girlfriend Sam (Corinne Bohrer) are o... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1886493 | Catch .44 | Drug boss Mel tasks his associates Tes, Dawn, and Kara with intercepting a truck driver bringing rival drugs to a diner at night. The women wait for the driver at the diner, but when they fail to see him, they draw guns on the occupants of the diner and demand to know if anyone knows who the driver is. However, a shoot... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0288441 | Barbie in the Nutcracker | The frame story is of Barbie's young friend, Kelly, having trouble performing a ballet move and her fears of going onstage. Barbie tells her a story of The Nutcracker to cheer her up.
A girl named Clara lives with Drosselmeyer, her stern grandfather, and Tommy, her younger brother. On Christmas Eve, they receive a surp... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0169858 | Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Air/Magokoro wo, kimi ni | In 2015, fifteen years after a global cataclysm known as the Second Impact, teenager Shinji Ikari is summoned to the futuristic city of Tokyo-3 by his estranged father Gendo Ikari, the director of the special paramilitary force Nerv. Shinji witnesses the United Nations forces battling an Angel: one of a race of giant m... | psychological, cult, violence, horror, insanity, psychedelic, action, philosophical | train | wikipedia | These scenes, however, serve to underscore the themes of the movie for the most part.The animation is excellent and the music is great (and features a number of nice works by Bach) and the symbolism is truly rich and elaborate, involving many elements of Christianity and Judaism as the entire series is sort of a take o... |
tt1815862 | After Earth | In the 21st century, an environmental cataclysm forces the human race to abandon Earth and to settle on a new world, Nova Prime.
One thousand years later, the Ranger Corps, a peacekeeping organization commanded by General Cypher Raige (Will Smith), comes into conflict with the S'krell, alien creatures who intend to con... | boring, flashback | train | wikipedia | Night Shyamalan's big-budget vanity project for father and son team Will and Jaden Smith turns out to be much worse than the trailer.
In the film, the father and son crash land on the planet Earth a thousand years after the people were forced to leave it.
Father doesn't always know best, the latest result being After E... |
tt0120531 | Woo | Woo (Smith) is an extroverted woman living in New York City, and she has a notorious knack for turning men into mush. When Woo's psychic friend Celestrial (Girlina) predicts that the man of her dreams is about to enter her life, Woo doesn't believe it is true. Celestrial, however, is convinced that Woo is destined to m... | paranormal, romantic | train | wikipedia | Very basic film with few laughs but plenty of racial clichés.
Woo is a woman who is looking for her perfect man but has been played once too often.
When a friend hooks them both up on a date things go wrong from the start when Woo feels that Tim is only after one thing.
After that she drags him through a series of misa... |
tt0060165 | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | The five richest men in the territory gather in Laredo for their annual high-stakes poker game. The high rollers let nothing get in the way of their yearly showdown. When undertaker Tropp (Charles Bickford) calls for them in his horse-drawn hearse, cattleman Henry Drummond (Jason Robards) forces a postponement of his d... | revenge, plot twist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0088207 | Surf II | Long ago in "The Good Old Days", surfers ruled. It was bitchin'! That was before the threat of chemical pollution, nuclear waste and the horror of Buzzz Cola.
Menlo Schwartzer was a high school genius who hated surfers. He invented a weird soft drink, involved local businessmen and set out to rule the coast. He nearly ... | revenge, cult, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1260567 | Dark House | Dark House tells the story of the Old Darrode House, where Janet Darrode ran a foster home for children and then murdered all of them and killed herself. The film opens with a young girl who walks into the house on the day of the massacre and discovers the bloody scene of the crime.
Fourteen years later, local girl and... | violence | train | wikipedia | That's the good thing: they're clearly having a good time, giving their movie a fair bit of energy and pace and going to town with the visual effects and splatter.
In the end, one is likely to forget this pretty quickly, but enjoy themselves while the movie plays out.Meghan Ory stars as Claire, who as a seven year old ... |
tt0058265 | Kiss Me, Stupid | While driving his Dual-Ghia from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, lecherous, heavy-drinking pop singer Dino (Dean Martin) is forced to detour through Climax, Nevada. There he meets the amateur songwriting team of Barney Millsap (Cliff Osmond), a gas station attendant, and piano teacher Orville J. Spooner (Ray Walston), a man ... | satire | train | wikipedia | Orville and buddy Barney (Cliff Osmond) write songs in their spare time one is called `I'm Taking Mom to the Junior Prom Cuz She's a Better Twister Than My Sister,' and another begins, `I'm a poached egg without a piece of toast/Yorkshire Pudding without a beef to roast' and they're excited when singing sensation ... |
tt0049437 | Liane, das Mädchen aus dem Urwald | A German expedition is in the jungles somewhere in Africa doing an unidentified mission there. During this mission, Thoren (Hardy Krüger) is attacked and captured by the local natives called the Botos. Before they can kill him at their village, the Botos then notice the arrival of a long-haired, topless wild woman (Mar... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Topless Jungle Girls, Cute German Division.
German expedition to Africa's darkest jungle region stumbles upon topless blonde girl whom natives revere as a goddess.
Is she possibly the long-lost granddaughter of wealthy Hamburg industrialist?
(Would there be a movie if she wasn't?) Well, then, let's take her back to the... |
tt0045708 | Duck Amuck | The cartoon's title sequence and opening scene suggest Daffy Duck is to star as a musketeer, who boldly acts out an action scene with a fencing foil. As he thrusts the foil and advances, the background abruptly disappears, leaving a plain white screen. Confused by this, Daffy turns to the animator and asks him to compl... | revenge, comedy, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck is his most abstract and funniest cartoon short.
Duck Amuck is Daffy's frustrations of being trapped in an animated short that keeps changing scenery, has him playing a guitar with shooting sounds, fighting with himself in another frame, gets drawn in different sizes and colors, and basically is... |
tt0120831 | Slums of Beverly Hills | Fourteen-year-old Vivian Abromowitz's family are penniless nomads, moving from one cheap apartment to another in Beverly Hills in 1976, so that Vivian (Natasha Lyonne) and her brothers can attend the city's prestigious schools. Their father, Murray (Alan Arkin), is a divorced 65-year-old who refuses to retire, working ... | comedy, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | Fortunately, we weren't as hapless as the Abramowitz family, who throughout this film are trying desperately to hang onto the ragged edge of the good life.This is one "coming of age" story that you don't need to be a teenage girl to enjoy..
THE SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS (3 outta 5 stars) I figured this was going to be jus... |
tt1646114 | Schaste moe | It is summer, and young driver Georgy takes his light truck on a trip to another town with a cargo of flour. He is stopped at a road police post by a pair of rude and corrupt policemen. While they are flirting with the woman they stopped earlier, Georgy manages to grab his papers and leave unnoticed. There he picks up ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0000230 | Cendrillon | A prologue in front of the curtain, suppressed before the premiere, introduced the characters and invited the audience to enjoy the fairy-tale "to escape from dark realities (pour échapper à des réalités sombres)" and to believe in the "fabulous (fabuleux)". The final words of the prologue are repeated at the end of th... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Bibbety Bobbety Boo. This is the earliest surviving of Melies super-productions -- the best known one, of course, is his Trip to the Moon -- and the story begins right where Melies can strut his stuff with the appearance of the Fairy Godmother.
Some of the earliest sequences are beautifully hand-tinted.Of greater techn... |
tt0439630 | Tau man ji D | The protagonist, Takumi Fujiwara, is a gas station attendant working with his friend Itsuki to buy a car, which they plan to drift on the twisting roads surrounding nearby Mount Akina. Unbeknownst to his colleagues, Takumi moonlights as a tofu delivery driver for his father's store before sunrise each morning, passivel... | atmospheric | train | wikipedia | Therefore this review's point of view will be from the cinematic experience, and there will be no comparison on how true it stays to the manga/anime.Despite all the star power in the film, from teeny boppers Edison Chen and Shawn Yue, to veterans Kenny Bee and Anthony Wong, this still remains a Jay Chou vehicle (pardon... |
tt0438097 | Ice Age: The Meltdown | In the opening scene, Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel climbs a glacier to bury his acorn, but accidentally opens a hole in it, causing water to spurt out. The world of ice is slowly melting. The creatures of the Ice Age are all shown enjoying themselves on slides and pools made by the melting ice; among them the thre... | romantic, comedy, entertaining, flashback | train | wikipedia | Similar to the first Ice Age, the promotional material for the sequel was out in the theatres way in advance, and courtesy of the Scrat character too, up to its usual antics of getting to that elusive acorn.
Here, Scrat opens the movie, and emulating the style of the first, he provides most of the laughs, also as an in... |
tt0387575 | Seed of Chucky | Six years after the events of the previous film, Glen, the kind and benevolent son of Chucky and Tiffany, has a nightmare in which he murders a little girl's parents. In reality, he is living a life of embarrassment and abuse as a ventriloquist's dummy. After being forced to perform and locked inside a cage, Glen sees ... | violence, comedy, gothic, murder, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | He not only makes the fifth take on Chucky feel fresh- a major accomplishment in itself for any series that has gone on this long- but shows a flair for satirizing movie clichés (a certain object flies upwards towards the camera at one point and it's a gas considering how overused that shot has been in action movies of... |
tt0219519 | Auggie Rose | Life insurance salesman John Nolan (Jeff Goldblum) goes to the liquor store where he witnesses the fatal shooting of Auggie Rose (Kim Coates), an ex-convict on his second day as a stock boy. Auggie was returning from the back of the store with a bottle of wine John had requested – since the only bottle out front had a ... | neo noir, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0035360 | Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake | The story is set during the reign of King George III, in Bristol, England, where young Benjamin Blake (Roddy McDowall), son of the deceased Baronet of Breetholm is taken from his commoner grandfather, gunsmith Amos Kidder (Harry Davenport), and forced to serve his vengeful uncle, Sir Arthur Blake (George Sanders). Arth... | revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | Those who claim Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift were the screen's all-time most beautiful couple apparently have never seen Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney.
George Sanders (looking amazingly like John Wayne in the early scenes) has one of his most brutally villainous roles and he plays it without flinching, this is... |
tt0419843 | In the Land of Women | Carter Webb (Adam Brody) is a young, soft-core writer living in Los Angeles whose young, starlet girlfriend Sofia (Elena Anaya) breaks up with him. Carter pleads with her to stay, but she leaves.
When Carter goes to his mother's home in order to reclaim an item, he sees his mother crying in the living room. She explain... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | This film is getting a 9 based soley on the completely misleading promotion.I went into this expecting a love story between Carter Webb (Adam Brody) and Lucy Hardwicke (Kristen Stewart).
So he decides to go to Michigan to live with his grandmother (who is by far the best and most interesting character) and ends up beco... |
tt3687310 | Criminal Activities | Four young men invest borrowed money in a company guaranteed to return their venture capital tenfold or more. It does not seem to trouble them that the privileged information on which they are acting was derived from insider trading. Two little things go wrong. The company suddenly folds under the pressure of federal s... | murder | train | wikipedia | It's the small things that can make an average movie turn in to a good one and this did that for me.
The writing and characters have clear influences from Tarantinos Pulp Fiction, Guy Ritchie's Snatch(and others) and the ending is quite "Usual Suspect's" type but so what if we've seen it before, it still works.
For it'... |
tt0040613 | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | Jim Blandings (Cary Grant), a bright account executive in the advertising business, lives with his wife Muriel (Myrna Loy) and two daughters, Betsy (Connie Marshall) and Joan (Sharyn Moffett), in a cramped New York apartment. Muriel secretly plans to remodel their apartment. After rejecting this idea, Jim Blandings com... | satire | train | wikipedia | The perils of buying and building a house have not changed (although the prices certainly have!)It's a delight to watch three seasoned professionals (Grant,Loy and Douglas)play against each other so well.
The Blandings, a 'typical New York family, on about 15,000 a year', decide to leave their four room apartment in th... |
tt0025981 | When a Man Sees Red | As described in a film magazine, after a long sea voyage, Larry Smith (Farnum) comes home to find his sister (Bower) dead, the victim of some unknown person. Shortly after his mother (Drew) dies of a broken heart, Smith sets sail with a determination to wreck vengeance upon the murderer. Unknowingly he has become a mat... | romantic, depressing | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0265651 | Ripley's Game | Tom Ripley is involved in an art scam in Berlin, partnered with Reeves, a thuggish British gangster whom he orders to remain out on the street as the deal takes place. A violent argument breaks out in which Ripley kills one of his "customers". He gives the money to Reeves but keeps the artwork for himself, curtly infor... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1318516 | The Jailhouse | Small town, the American dream. A blue-collar family living the idyllic rural lifestyle. Nothing is out of place except for the lack of white picket fences and the old jail that occupies the second floor of their century old home. Seth Delray (C. Thomas Howell) knew the possibilities before he moved his wife and two ki... | haunting | train | wikipedia | Not all that spectacular and pretty unremarkable.
While his new house is repaired after a storm, a cop is forced to live below a haunted jail with inmates of the overcrowded nearby prison but slowly becomes possessed by the former guards and begins to torment and brutalize the inmates, forcing them to rise up against h... |
tt0028709 | Charlie Chan on Broadway | While Charlie Chan and his number one son, Lee, are aboard a New York-bound transatlantic liner returning from Germany in their previous adventure (Charlie Chan at the Olympics), they have a run-in with a mysterious woman, named Billie Bronson, who secretes a package in the trunk of the Chans. After the liner docks, Ch... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | This time out, Charlie and #1 son, played as affably as ever by Keye Luke, are aboard a ship soon to dock in New York.
A woman aboard stows something in #1's luggage and tries getting it later in Chan hotel room.
Anyway, you get the usual good stuff you would find in most Chan films: a good mystery(I didn't figure this... |
tt3025994 | Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright | The Mystery Inc. crew head to Chicago for a talent show, called Talent Star, hosted by Brick Pimiento, where songwriting duo Fred and Daphne are finalists with some high hopes. Upon arrival, they learn that the opera house which the show will be held in is being terrorized by a Phantom, who is intensely lauding one of ... | horror, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0244870 | Uzumaki | Uzumaki follows a high-school teenager Kirie Goshima (五島桐絵), her boyfriend Shuichi Saito (斎藤秀一), and the citizens of the small, fictional Japanese town of Kurôzu-cho (黒渦町, Black Vortex Town), which is cursed by supernatural events involving spirals. As the story progresses, Kirie and Shuichi witness how the spiral curs... | dark, cult, violence, horror, flashback, insanity, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0234805 | Die Stille nach dem Schuß | In a letter left for her friend Tatjana, fugitive Red Army Faction terrorist Rita Vogt (Bibiana Beglau) relates the story of her life.
During the 1970s, Rita and her fellow urban guerrillas carried out armed robberies, kidnappings, and various other attacks in West Germany, as part of their campaign of armed struggle a... | avant garde, murder | train | wikipedia | Volker Schlondorff reminds us that he's still a terrific director and really has gone back to his roots with this film.
Hollywood would have ruined this film by making Rita sympathetic.
Schlondorff's film and its portrayal of Rita is unflinching.
Very strong film by a great director and acted by a great talent in Begla... |
tt0054190 | The Plunderers | Unruly cowboys Rondo, Jeb, Mule and Davy ride into town. They can't pay for their drinks, so Sheriff McCauley jails them for a night. Then they refuse to pay clerk Ellie Walters at the general store, and take rooms at Kate Miller's hotel.
The rancher Sam Christy is asked for help. He is an American Civil War hero, but ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Juvenile Delinquents!.
Juvenile delinquency was a very hot topic in the late fifties and early sixties.
The new scourge of civilization, rock and roll, had transformed the younger generation into rebels who wanted to cast off the repressive rules by which they were expected to conduct themselves.
The burgeoning post-wa... |
tt0024481 | Queen Christina | Queen Christina of Sweden (Greta Garbo) is very devoted to her country and the welfare of her people. As queen, Christina favors peace for Sweden. At one point in the film, she argues for an end to the Thirty Years' War, saying:
Spoils, glory, flags and trumpets! What is behind these high-sounding words? Death and dest... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Greta Garbo is the controversial "Queen Christina" in this beautiful 1933 film directed by the great Rouben Mamoulian, responsible for the resplendent 1941 "Blood and Sand" and many other films.
Queen Christina was educated as a man at her father's directive so she could take over the throne, and she supposedly, as in ... |
tt0090567 | 52 Pick-Up | Harry Mitchell (Roy Scheider) is a successful industrialist living in the suburbs of Los Angeles whose wife Barbara (Ann-Margret) is running for city council while he is having an affair. Harry is confronted by three blackmailers demanding $105,000 for a videotape of him and his mistress, Cini (Kelly Preston).
Because ... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Who could forget the wake-up call he gives Vanity with the giant teddy bear?After dealing with the initial shock of realizing what he's up against, Scheider turns the tables on these creeps and takes control of the situation, that is until Glover goes after his wife!
It's scary to think that the adult film industry pro... |
tt0283139 | White Oleander | 15 year-old Astrid Magnussen (Alison Lohman) is living in Los Angeles with her mother, the free-spirited artist Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer). Since her father left before she was old enough to remember him, Astrid depends heavily upon the care of her passionate but largely self-centered mother.
Ingrid's current relations... | cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, melodrama, romantic | train | wikipedia | Ingrid Magnussen (Michelle Pfeiffer) puts her daughter, Astrid (Alison Lohman), in the center of her artwork but pushes her to the perimeter of her reality.
Janet Fitch won rave reviews in 2000 for this novel; screenwriter Mary Agnes Donoghue did not match Fitch's brilliance, but turned a weighty narrative-both in term... |
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