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tt0101026 | Átame! | Ricky, a 23-year-old psychiatric patient, has been deemed cured and is released from a mental institution. Until then he has been the lover of the woman director of the hospital. An orphan, free, and alone, his goal is to have a normal life with Marina Osorio, an actress, former porn star, and recovering drug addict, w... | comedy, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0078503 | Within the Woods | Two romantic couples, consisting of four teenagers, decide to spend a weekend together located in a remote cabin found in the woods. An unseen force stalks and watches the group without their knowledge. Ellen (Ellen Sandweiss) and her boyfriend Bruce (Bruce Campbell) enter the woods to have a picnic lunch. The other co... | violence | train | wikipedia | The same plot as Evil Dead, but really really old and simple compared to the first full-length production of Sam Raimi.
I enjoyed it, but if you didn't know anything about Evil Dead or Sam Raimi, you would just blow it off.
Great little horror film by a pre-Evil Dead Sam Raimi..
Bruce Campbell and Ellen Sandweiss go ou... |
tt0042804 | Los olvidados | The film is about a group of destitute children and their misfortunes in a Mexico City slum. El Jaibo escapes juvenile jail and reunites with the street gang that he leads. El Jaibo's gang attempts to rob a blind street musician. They fail at first, but later track him down, beat him, and destroy his instruments.
With ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | No matter that the production, photography, direction and even the performances of relatively unknown actors were most than good, no matter that for the first time in Mexico someone produced a film totally different, with the influence of the Italian Neo-realism, No matter that someone had the guts to film the reality ... |
tt0363891 | The Pirates of Penzance | Act I
On the coast of Cornwall, at the time of Queen Victoria's reign, Frederic celebrates the completion of his twenty-first year and the end of his apprenticeship to a gentlemanly band of pirates ("Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry"). The pirates' maid of all work, Ruth, appears and reveals that, as Frederic's nursemai... | action | train | wikipedia | PIRATES in the Park.
Let's straighten out a few points in previous comments first.
This is the video of the original stage production, which started at the Delacourte (outdoor) theatre in New York's Central Park (it was free!) and then moved to Broadway (indoors) with a slightly different cast and then was made into a ... |
tt0489212 | The Living Wake | The film follows the journey of K. Roth Binew, a self-proclaimed genius. After discovering that he has contracted a rare and unnamed terminal disease, he enlists his eccentric rickshaw-riding best and only friend Mills Joaquin (Jesse Eisenberg) to accompany him on his last day to live. Throughout the film, he attempts ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0039045 | Trap Happy | Jerry Mouse is being chased down the steps by Tom Cat. Jerry hides under a chair and Tom runs under it, but gets smacked on the bottom with a board from Jerry. Jerry's mouse hole is then mined with dynamite, but unknowingly for Tom, Jerry has lit another firework under him, and both explode. Tom angrily continues the p... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0101765 | La double vie de Veronique | In Poland in 1968, a little girl is shown the stars in the winter sky by her mother, who identifies the Christmas Eve star. In France, a little girl is shown one of the first leaves of spring by her mother, who points out the fine veins running through.
In Poland in 1990, a young Polish woman named Weronika (Irène Jaco... | psychedelic, mystery, depressing | train | wikipedia | There are rumors of a release in 2005, but for fans of movies like Amélie hungry for something with a little more depth, The Double Life of Véronique comes most highly recommended -- even if you have to search high and low for a copy on VHS..
Just like in Trois Couleurs Bleu, the music of La Double vie de Véronique is ... |
tt0112131 | Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders | === Premise ===
The show's action is set in the legendary island of Avalon, here portrayed as a fairy tale style utopia that keeps its magic in check by the seven Crown Jewels of the Kingdom, each representing an area of the realm. The series takes place after a thousand years passed since the good wizard Merlin's init... | good versus evil, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4047140 | Pooja | Ramachandra Rao/Ramu (Ramakrishna) falls in love with a beautiful girl, Lalitha (Manjula) who is also his cousin. He loves her so deeply that he wants to marry her at any cost. His father (Kanta Rao) is the Head of the village, his mother (Savitri) a housewife. Due to some internal disputes between Ramachandra Rao's pa... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3678782 | Badlapur | Misha (Yami Gautam) and her son Robin become the victims of a bank robbery getaway during a shopping trip. Liak (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and his friend Harman (Vinay Pathak) rob a bank and use Misha's car to flee. Robin falls out of the moving vehicle during the struggle, and Misha is shot by Liak. Harman jumps out of the... | revenge, neo noir, flashback | train | wikipedia | And he knows how to make a good thriller and keep his fans like me edge of their seats.Badlapur is the story of Raghu (Varun Dhawan) who is simmering in revenge after his wife and son are killed in a bank robbery all gone wrong.
It's a must watch movie who usually like Hollywood revenge kinda movie Badlapur Offers a ci... |
tt0119375 | Insomnia | In the small fishing town of Nightmute, Alaska, 17-year-old Kay Connell (Crystal Lowe) is found murdered. LAPD detectives Will Dormer (Al Pacino) and Hap Eckhart (Martin Donovan) are sent to assist the local police with their investigation, at the request of police chief Nyback (Paul Dooley), an old colleague of Dormer... | neo noir, murder, bleak, violence, cult, romantic, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0071216 | Big Bad Mama | In Texas in 1932, after stopping her youngest daughter's wedding, Wilma McClatchie (Dickinson) takes over her late lover's bootlegging business, but gets caught while doing the delivery route with her two daughters. After handing over all her money and her ring to the sheriff, they are let go and she begins her crime s... | neo noir, romantic, satire, depressing, violence | train | wikipedia | Finally saw it and while it is, as some suggest, "trashy," this is one of the most entertaining films I've seen in quite some time.I've always admired the talent of Mr Corman and his production of BBM is, for me, one of the highlights of his career.
Steve Carver takes a VERY low budget and gets the maximum out of it, t... |
tt0396592 | Fat Albert | The film opens with a traditionally animated sequence featuring Fat Albert performing the original series' theme song "Gonna Have a Good Time".
In real life, Doris Robertson is a depressed teenager still recovering from the death of her grandfather, and she is ignoring her foster sister Lauri's efforts to bring her a s... | romantic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | Dumb Donald, Mush Mouth, Fat Albert were all on target and delivered more to love in their human form.I also appreciated the movie's ability to laugh at itself.
They didn't need to sleep, eat, or go to the bathroom...because hey hey hey, they're cartoon characters.Lastly, the connection to the girl's grandfather Al was... |
tt0036523 | Western Cyclone | On a western land, a governor's daughter (Marjorie Manners) is kidnapped and held hostage. Billy the Kid (Buster Crabbe) and Fuzzy Q, Jones (Al St. John) try to rescue her and capture a lot of men known to work for the kidnapper and hold them for questioning. While out on the ranch, Billy and Fuzzy spot a cowboy (Kermi... | murder | train | wikipedia | Hobnobbing with the governor. This Billy the Kid film from PRC has Billy the Kid hobnobbing with no less than the governor of some western territory/state who is being blamed for a rash of outlawry. In real life the only connection that William Bonney had with a governor was with Lew Wallace in New Mexico when he was n... |
tt1832979 | Hart of Dixie | === Season 1 ===
Fast-talking New Yorker and brand new physician Zoe Hart has it all figured out—after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and become a cardio-thoracic surgeon. But when her dreams fall apart, Zoe decides to accept an offer from a stranger, Dr. Harley... | satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0024382 | Night of Terror | Police have been vainly searching the countryside for the knife-wielding Maniac, who has been on a murderous spree. The Maniac's victims are each found with a taunting newspaper clipping attached to their body. After the wealthy uncle of a young scientist is mysteriously murdered, people wonder if the Maniac is respons... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | All that cliche-ic stuff (secret panels, the "maniac", seances, etc) is what makes this film a GREAT "Old House" film!
Granted, Lugosi is wasted in this role, but the entire film builds up a creepy, sinister "atmosphere".Both Maltin and the other reviewer dismiss the end of the film, where the maniac speaks to the audi... |
tt0064962 | A Session with the Committee | The movie follows a man (Paul Jones) who is unnamed. The movie starts out with the central character in a car with a man (Tom Kempinski) who just picked him up. The victim talks to him, but he's uninterested. The victim decides to pull over because he doesn't like the sound of the engine. While he's looking under the b... | comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | Classic concert film from hilarious, influential comedy troupe!. This little-known film is actually an invaluable slice of classic comedy from one of the more influential comedy troupes of recent times, the Committee. Founded by a handful of ex-Second City writer/director/actors in San Francisco in the '60s, it was ... |
tt0227277 | Plata quemada | The setting is Argentina, 1965. El Nene (Leonardo Sbaraglia), a petty thief, and Angel (Eduardo Noriega), a drifter, meet in the bathroom of a Buenos Aires subway station, and from that moment they are inseparable. They become known as "the twins", but their relationship is in fact that of lovers and, soon, as partners... | violence, neo noir, murder, storytelling, romantic | train | wikipedia | Everything, the visuals, the literate script, with its sensitive, sensuous, heartbreaking dialogue, the suspense that does not leave you for a single minute, the violent finale that you expect and still keep hoping it will not happen, the exquisite acting of all the major players, it will all stay with me, forever, I a... |
tt0447257 | Little John | The film opens with an historical story in which the goddess Parvathi while performing dance with her husband Lord Shiva drops her nose stud (Mookuththi in Tamil) on the Earth and because of which a temple was raised named "Mookuththi Amman temple" in Tamil Nadu. The nose stud has many powers in it and so an evil power... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0826578 | Medea | The first half sums up the story of Jason and the Argonauts as they travel to Medea's barbarian land in search of the golden fleece. In fitting with the soundtrack (which features Iranian classic music, Japanese traditional music and other folklore pieces), Pasolini depicts Medea's people as a tribal people who perform... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038494 | Dressed to Kill | Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson) is a sexually frustrated housewife who is in therapy with New York City psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott (Michael Caine). During an appointment, Kate attempts to seduce him, but Elliott rejects her advances.
Kate goes to the Metropolitan Museum where she has an unexpected flirtation with a ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0435680 | Kidulthood | The setting of the film takes place in an area of West London, in 2002. At a local school, Student Katie is seen to suffer intense physical and emotional bullying by a group of girls, as well as Sam Peel (Noel Clarke). When her Father picks her up from school that day, Sam quietly threatens to kill her if she ever tell... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, cult, flashback, romantic, tragedy, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095241 | Gor | After being snubbed before a weekend-getaway by his teaching assistant, socially awkward professor of physics Tarl Cabot accidentally unlocks the magical properties of a ring which transports him to the planet Gor. After his arrival, Cabot encounters a village being attacked by the army of the tyrannical priest-king Sa... | good versus evil, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0033722 | Hold Back the Dawn | Georges Iscovescu (Boyer) recounts his story to a Hollywood film director at Paramount. He is a Romanian-born gigolo who arrived in a Mexican border town seeking entry to the US. He endures a waiting period to obtain a quota number of up to eight years with other hopeful immigrants in the Esperanza Hotel. After six mon... | romantic | train | wikipedia | First the lead is French;and in a small supporting part,there is Victor Francen,one of Julien Duvivier's ("La Fin Du Jour ",1939) and Abel Gance's ("J'accuse" 1918 and 1937) favorite actors.Plus "La Marseillaise " in the final sequences.Plus Olivia De Havilland who has been living in Paris for years.Except for Bertrand... |
tt0101635 | Curly Sue | Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the archetypal homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. After moving from Detroit to Chicago, the duo cons the rich divorce lawyer Grey Ellison into believing she backed her Mercedes into Bill, in h... | romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | James "Not Jim" Belushi, a hammy kid actress, and a cheesy title in a John Hughes formula.
It's pretty hard not to fall into the story, develop a crush on Kelly Lynch, identify with James Belushi, dislike the stiff bad guy boyfriend, and laugh at the Curley Sue lines.
Writer/Director John Hughes covered all bases (as u... |
tt1651062 | Christopher and His Kind | In Los Angeles in 1976, Christopher Isherwood begins writing his memoir. The film flashes back to 1931 as Christopher prepares to leave England for Germany, against the wishes of his mother Kathleen. On the train he meets Gerald Hamilton, an English ne'er-do-well of Irish descent, who suggests that Christopher take a r... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Inspired by Christopher Isherwood's 1976 autobiography of the same name Christopher and his Kind accomplishes it's greatest challenge in depicting the events and sights that would eventually inspire 1972's Cabaret, without actually imitating or reiterating the iconic Oscar-winner.
BBC2's first-class feature-length dram... |
tt0062151 | Preparati la bara! | Django is wounded and his wife is killed when the gold transport that he guards is attacked by the men of his ”friend” David Barry, who wants the gold to finance a political career.
Django pretends to be dead and starts working as a hangman, who spares the lives of the condemned victims of David Barry’s conspiracies. H... | western, revenge | train | wikipedia | "Viva Django" of 1968 with Terence Hill in the lead is a great Spaghetti Western, and, in my opinion, Baldi's second best film after "Blindman" of 1971.
After Sergio Corbucci's 1966 masterpiece "Django", quite a bunch of Spaghetti Westerns were given a 'Django'-title, although most of these cash-ins had little to nothi... |
tt0067778 | Le souffle au coeur | Laurent Chevalier is a nearly 15-year-old boy living in Dijon in 1954, who loves jazz, always receives the highest grades in his class and who opposes the First Indochina War. He has an unloving father who is a gynecologist, an affectionate Italian mother, Clara, and two older brothers, Thomas and Marc. One night, Thom... | anti war, romantic, prank | train | wikipedia | I wonder what Freudians would think of the relationship between Laurent (Benoit Ferreux) and Clara Chevalier (Lea Massari), son and mother, who for half the film are basically on their own as the son gets treatment for a heart ailment.
And it all leads up to Bastille day.Murmur of the Heart is not a picture really bent... |
tt0093164 | Heat | FBI agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is an expert and effective investigator in New York City, but is despised by her allied agents for her egotistical & vicious personality. When her manager assigns her to a mission in Boston, she meets a detective named Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), a skilled but loudmouthe... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Even though it came out a few months earlier, this great Burt Reynold's obscurity, "Heat," could have easily been a sequel to his other great 80s obscurity, "Malone." Once you changed a couple of small plot points to make the films consistent, you'd still have exactly the same character at the center of each.
Burt acts... |
tt0140620 | La Tierra Prometida | Steve Butler (Damon) has caught the eyes of top management at his employer, Global Crosspower Solutions, an energy company that specializes in obtaining natural gas trapped underground through a process known as fracking. Butler has an excellent track record for quickly and cheaply persuading land owners to sign minera... | allegory, avant garde | train | wikipedia | Excellent.. This is an excellent movie about the peasant struggle for land in Chile. I saw it in Rome, Italy in 1975. I can't remember all the details of the movie but I was blown away by the cinematography, the colorful costumes and the Chilean "Nueva Cancion" sound-track (I think by Inti Illimani or Quilapayun whose ... |
tt0108308 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III | In feudal Japan, a young man is being chased by four samurai on horseback. As they go into the woods, a mysterious woman emerges from the underbrush and watches closely. However, the samurai eventually capture and take the youth, revealed to be a prince named Kenshin, with them.
In the present, April O'Neil has been sh... | cult, psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III in my opinion it is a underrated solid good sequel to the original flick.
It is the second sequel to the 1990 live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film.
STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All CostsA magic sceptor transports ... |
tt0119227 | Snow White: A Tale of Terror | At the beginning of the story, a queen sits sewing at an open window during a winter snowfall when she pricks her finger with her needle, causing three drops of red blood to drip onto the freshly fallen white snow on the black windowsill. Then, she says to herself, "How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as whi... | dark, fantasy, gothic, murder, cult, flashback, good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0057916 | A Carol for Another Christmas | On Christmas Eve, Daniel Grudge (Hayden), a rich American industrialist, sits alone in a dark room of his mansion playing a record of a World War II-era popular song, "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)" by The Andrews Sisters. He looks at a framed display of war medals on the wall and seems about... | anti war | train | wikipedia | Part of its financing came from the United Nations and the theme of the film is more about international cooperation than simply being anti-war.Sterling Hayden portrays a wealthy man who served in the Navy during World War II and is now a lonely bitter man upset over his son's death in a war he described as needless, p... |
tt0096341 | Uninvited | Kang Jung-won (Park Shin-yang), an interior decorator, is overcome with inexplicable anxiety as his long-overdue wedding with Hee-eun (Yoo Sun) approaches. One evening, Jung-won falls asleep on the subway on his way home. He is barely able to wake up at the last station. As he comes round, he sees two young girls aslee... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | This film virtually evades falling into any type of horror genre you could think of: it's part sci-fi, part slasher, part comedy!!!A fluffy house cat escapes from some random laboratory and is adopted by two bimbos who've been invited to cruise down to the Bahamas with mobster Alex Cord and take the cat with them for g... |
tt0117357 | The Pompatus of Love | The film revolves around four friends and their relationships with women. Set to the background of upscale Manhattan bars, lofts and apartments, the guys engage in sharp banter and one-upsmanship. The characters, Mark, a therapist (Jon Cryer); Runyon, a playwright (Tim Guinee); Josh, a playboy (Adrian Pasdar) and Phil,... | romantic, satire | train | wikipedia | The X Factor. I saw this when it first was released on video, and now, 5 years later, got to watch it again from a different perspective.Character development - there's not much with the exception of Josh.Plot - sort of vague, it goes from one situation to the next with aside comments and monologues spliced together an... |
tt0074553 | From Noon Till Three | The setting is the American West, late 19th century. A gang of bank robbers, including Graham Dorsey (Charles Bronson), is off to rob a small-town bank, but Graham is having second thoughts: he's had a nightmare in which the gang was wiped out during the robbery attempt. Worse, Graham's horse broke down and the gang me... | tragedy, comedy, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0081259 | The Octagon | A martial artist (Chuck Norris) must stop a group of terrorists trained in the ninja style by his half-brother (Tadashi Yamashita).
The film opens with a short scene at a terrorist training camp. The main instructor, Katsumoto (Yuki Shimoda) tells the graduating class that all of their actions and whereabouts will be k... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Can you go wrong with ninjas, Chuck Norris and Lee Van Cleef?.
Scott James a retired martial arts champion gets caught up in a complicated web involving a wealthy heiress trying to hire him for an assassination job that includes an international terrorist group of ninjas and their training ground called 'The Octagon'.
... |
tt0034812 | The Great Man's Lady | A statue is being dedicated to the late founder of Hoyt City, and reporters from around the country have gathered, speculating that "the old lady's going to talk." When the anticipated "old lady" does not appear at the event, they rush to her home. She is centenarian Hannah Sempler (Barbara Stanwyck), who lives in an o... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | For Business Reasons?.
Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck made six films together, the most they did respectively with other leads.
The Great Man's Lady while not the best example of their joint work is certainly one interesting if somewhat incredible film.I can certainly see what attracted Stanwyck to a role that was pa... |
tt0291311 | Lil' Pimp | A little redhead, freckled 9-year-old boy (whose name is not mentioned during the movie, but is revealed in the very end of the movie, as well as in the credits, to be Lil' Pimp) is unable to adapt to suburban life, as his only friend is a foul mouthed gerbil and faces constant rejection by his peers. He accidentally m... | comedy | train | wikipedia | I thought "Lil' Pimp" was pretty funny.
Who cares if it is offensive because it's just a movie.
It's about a little white kid who decides to live with the ho's and pimps.
He wants to become a pimp after seeing their lifestyle.
There's also the sub-plot of corrupt mayor Tony Gold (Voiced by William Shatner) who wants to... |
tt0076686 | The Serpent's Egg | Abel Rosenberg, an American-born Jew is an unemployed alcoholic and former trapeze artist, who uses alcohol to help him deal with the horrific nature and uncertainties of life in 1920's post war Germany as poverty and inflation have destroyed the German economy at the time. He returns home one night to discover that hi... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1629391 | Tere Bin Laden | Ali Hassan (Ali Zafar) is a reporter with Danka TV, a downmarket local TV channel in Karachi, Pakistan. He is keen to migrate to the US for a better life and wants to work for an American news channel. He gets a chance to fly to the US, but ruins it on board while filming his own audition. He recites the words "Hijack"... | comedy, humor, satire | train | wikipedia | Its good news for all Comedy genre lovers as here comes a fine tuned comic flick with some great performances after a long time.
Out of all the genres of film-making I consider Comedy as the toughest one since each individual viewer has his own kind of sense of humor and it's really tough to make everyone laugh at the ... |
tt0032273 | Boom Town | "Big John" McMasters (Clark Gable) and "Square John" Sand (Spencer Tracy) are two down-on-their-luck oil wildcatters who join forces. Without enough money, they steal drilling equipment from a skeptical Luther Aldrich (Frank Morgan). Their well proves a bust and they have to hastily depart when Aldrich shows up with th... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | As one who has worked in the "oil patch" for 25 years, I feel that 'Boom Town' is the most realistic portrait of the industry (during that period) that has ever been put on film.
Claudette Colbert is fine as the woman both men love and Hedy Lamarr was her usual alluring self.Great entertainment all around..
This film h... |
tt0045208 | The Super Snooper | Daffy Duck is Duck Drake, a "Private Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat". He receives a call that summons him to the J. Cleaver Axe-Handle Estate, where somebody supposedly has been murdered. He arrives at the house and suspects a shapely female duck with red hair and a curve hugging red dress of committing the crime. The woma... | psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | Gumshoe Daffy And The 'Inevitable Babe'.
Daffy Duck starring in a film-noir cartoon?
I love it!Daffy is "Duck Drake: private eye, ear, nose and throat" who narrates this crime tale, a la film noirs of the period.
His takeoff on a Sam Spade or Mike Hammer-type investigator is hilarious and a good spoof of those type of ... |
tt0065677 | Le foto proibite di una signora per bene | Minou is a wealthy housewife, who yearns for the attention of her husband Peter. However, Peter is frequently busy at work and is rarely at home. Minou is out one night when she is attacked by a strange man, who cuts open her clothes and warns her that her husband is a killer.
Minou ignores what she has been told until... | cult, horror, murder, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | A society woman (played by Dagmar Lassender) is nearly raped on the beach by a sinister man who tells her that her industrialist husband has murdered one of his colleagues.
The husband meanwhile is himself involved with her sexually voracious best friend (played by Nieves Navarro aka Susan Scott), and the whole thing m... |
tt2181831 | Shahid | The film opens with murder of Shahid Azmi (Rajkummar Rao) and goes into flashback to the violence during the Bombay Riots. There Shahid witnesses cold-blooded murders and in anger runs away to Pakistan-administered Kashmir, where he spends a brief period at a militant training camp. He soon returns. In Mumbai, he is ar... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Watched this movie recently and i was simply too much impressed with its script, acting, and direction all were just too natural, real and perfect, hardly i realized in 150 minutes that i am watching a movie.The story was very sensitive as it was based on real life of Late lawyer Shahid Azmi who known for his high acqu... |
tt0976238 | Old Dogs | Dan Rayburn (Robin Williams) and Charlie Reed (John Travolta) are best friends and co-owners of a successful sports marketing firm. Seven years prior, Dan, recently divorced, married Vicki (Kelly Preston) after being whisked away by Charlie for a tropical vacation. The marriage, however, is short lived. Seven years lat... | comic | train | wikipedia | I refuse to admit I live in a world where those who enjoy this dreck actually know how to read."Old Dogs" is an ugly artless stupid film that has been created only to keep your kids quiet for a couple hours; although making them sit through this should legally be on the same level as child abuse.
Like an old dog that n... |
tt0048976 | Backlash | Jim Slater (Richard Widmark) meets Karyl Orton (Donna Reed) in Gila Valley, Arizona. She thinks that he is searching for a gold cache believed to hidden somewhere in the valley. When a man with a rifle starts shooting at him, Jim wonders if she can be trusted. After Jim kills his foe, he discovers the dead man was a de... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | Donna Reed comes upon Richard Widmark at a place called Gila Valley where five men were massacred by Indians and one man escaped with $60,000.00.
Three of the five men were identified, but none of the deceased is either Widmark's father or Reed's husband.
But both seek and find support and comfort in the other.Backlash... |
tt0446667 | Che Guevara | === Part 1: The Argentine ===
In Havana 1964, Che Guevara is interviewed by Lisa Howard who asks him if reform throughout Latin America might not blunt the "message of the Cuban Revolution."
In 1955, at a gathering in Mexico City, Guevara first meets Fidel Castro. He listens to Castro’s plans and signs on as a member o... | violence, avant garde, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | An Embarrassingly Poor Film.
CHE as written, directed, and produced by Josh Evans is an amateurish attempt to present the life of one of the more interesting revolutionary figures of the 20th century - Ernesto 'Che' Guevarade la Serna, the Argentinean physician who searched for meaning in his view of the world and join... |
tt1606339 | Sushi Girl | Fish (Noah Hathaway) has been recently released from prison where he was serving time for his part in a diamond heist. He refused to give the authorities any information on his partners in crime nor reveal to them the location of the stolen diamonds. In order to locate and divide the stolen diamonds, crime boss Duke (T... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0057779 | Peyton Place | In April 1941, in the seemingly idyllic New England town of Peyton Place, drunkard Lucas Cross (Arthur Kennedy) stumbles out of his house as his step-son Paul - fed up with Lucas' alcoholism - leaves town. Lucas's downtrodden wife, Nellie (Betty Field) goes to work as the housekeeper for Constance "Connie" MacKenzie (L... | murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Before "Dynasty" and "Dallas" there was "Peyton Place" the 50th Anniversary.
This show was without a doubt one of the first prime time soap operas in the history of television.
The series upon its original broadcast was the first to aired twice a week during its entire five-year run.
Every 514 telecasts were original e... |
tt1758795 | The To Do List | Brandy Klark (Aubrey Plaza), from Boise, Idaho, is an overachieving but socially awkward teenager who graduates as the valedictorian of her high school in 1993. After the ceremony, Brandy's two best friends, Wendy (Sarah Steele) and Fiona (Alia Shawkat), take Brandy to a party, where she gets drunk for the first time. ... | adult comedy, prank | train | wikipedia | After watching "Bridesmaids" earlier this year, I was actually quite surprised to see a film that I usually would have flagged as a "chick flick" make me laugh and leave the theatre thinking I just watched an overall quality comedy.
Think of a cross between "American Pie" and "Superbad", with even dirtier dialogue, mor... |
tt5892746 | Ezra | The last person of Malabar Jews residing in Kochi dies. Eyeing on precious antique possessions of the person an antiques seller steals a box with inscriptions and is later sold to Priya Raghuram (Priya Anand). Priya is the wife of Ranjan Mathew (Prithviraj Sukumaran) a nuclear waste management specialist, their's is a ... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Hi i watched the whole movie, this film gives the illusion to people who have no understanding of Judaism that jews practice blood sacrifice and magic.
This isn't the issue.The issue is the fact they make the jews look like human sacrificing evil magicians.thinly veiled blood libel c- horror film.
It is indeed a very g... |
tt4381236 | The Greasy Strangler | Big Ronnie runs a disco-themed walking location tour in his town, alongside his son Big Brayden. Ronnie allows Brayden to live with him on the condition that Brayden prepares excessively greasy food for him. Ronnie is a pathological liar who fabricates stories about disco groups like the Bee Gees, as well as his suppos... | violence, humor | train | wikipedia | This is one of those movies that if I sat down and explained the whole thing from start to finish you would either say "Eww that sounds terrible" or "I need to see that now because I can't believe a movie like that exists." Everything about "Greasy Strangler" is just so strange and stupid, but at the same time it's har... |
tt0037481 | Zorro's Black Whip | In Zorro's Black Whip the word Zorro never occurs, but a female who behaves like Don Diego in Idaho fights a cabal of corrupt politicians as "The Black Whip" after her brother (the original Black Whip) is killed.
Hammond, owner of the town's stagecoach line and a leading citizen on the council, is secretly opposed to I... | action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0388944 | Fainaru fantajî XII | === Setting ===
Final Fantasy XII is set within the land of Ivalice during an age when "magic was commonplace" and "airships plied the skies, crowding out the heavens". At this time, magicite, a magic-rich mineral, is commonly used in magic spells and in powering airships—a popular form of transportation in Ivalice. Iv... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Final Fantasy XII is a really great game with a lot of extras to keep you busy for a long time.
Any fan of World of Warcraft or other MMORPGs will adapt to this game in two seconds, as it's basically the same fighting system.I found the weakest link was the story, which is odd because Final Fantasy is known for great s... |
tt0077318 | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Jimmie Blacksmith, a half-caste child of an Aboriginal mother and a white father, is raised to adulthood by the Reverend Neville and his wife Martha, hoping their influence will civilize him and provide him greater opportunities in early twentieth century Australia. With a letter of recommendation from his foster famil... | tragedy, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | This is a fine example of the breed of excellent Australian films released in the 1970s during the Australian film renaissance (it's interesting to note that virtually all of the directors of these films, including director Fred Schepisi, later moved to the U.S. to make big budget Hollywood films).
This tale of a young... |
tt0048641 | Sommarnattens leende | The film takes place in Sweden around the turn of the twentieth century. Fredrik Egerman is a middle-aged lawyer married to a 19-year-old beauty, Anne. Their two-year marriage is still unconsummated, due to Anne's reluctance. Fredrik has a son, Henrik, from his marriage to his late first wife. Henrik is in his early tw... | comedy | train | wikipedia | "Smiles of a Summer Night" is one of the most elegant and charming carnal comedies ever filmed.
"Smiles of a Summer Night" was a great success with both the critics and the audiences and was submitted for the Cannes film festival
without its creator's knowledge.
And then I read the title, "Smiles of a Summer Night" by ... |
tt0105592 | Tiger Claws | The police investigate a serial killer Bolo Yeung who seems to target only martial arts masters. One after another is killed in the same brutal fashion. This may be a chance for detective Linda Masterson to work on her first murder case. She is assigned the job and to assist her is another martial arts specialist, Sgt.... | violence | train | wikipedia | Pretty decent.
Rothrock was the best in this with her fights,acting and outfit alongside with Bolo Yeung , but she wasn't the lead, Merhi was.
The problem with that was, Rothrock had all the experience and was better equipped to lead a movie and at the end of the movie it was more than OK if Rothrock had been finished ... |
tt1266029 | Nowhere Boy | The drama tells the story of John Lennon's teenage years from 1955 to 1960.
John was separated from his mother, Julia Lennon, when he was five. He was brought up by his aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith, as their own son. He learns the truth at George's funeral, becomes curious and seeks out his mother. John become... | tragedy, adult comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0065777 | Il giardino dei Finzi Contini | In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, a group of young friends get together for afternoons of tennis and happy times. Some of them are Jewish and a rising tide of Fascism has imposed increasingly anti-Semitic restrictions in their lives. Barred from regular tennis clubs, they go to play at the grand, walled estate owned by th... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Chances are, if you are only casually aware of the world that you live in, your life imitates that of the Finzi-Continis, one of two families depicted in this film.
The beginning of de Sica's film follows the state of affairs in Italy shortly after the Fascist government of Mussolini has declared the ordinary tennis cl... |
tt2885364 | Willow Creek | Set in Humboldt County, California, Jim is a Bigfoot believer whose idea of a romantic getaway is to head deep into Six Rivers National Forest in Northern California, video camera in tow, trying to shoot his own Bigfoot footage at the site of the Patterson–Gimlin film. That 1967 fragment of footage purporting to show a... | boring | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1986770 | Anger Management | In 1978, a young Dave Buznik is about to kiss the girl of his dreams, when a local bully, Arnie Shankman, pulls down his pants and underwear, embarrassing him in front of everybody. This leaves Dave with lasting trauma about public affection, as well as repressing his emotions. Twenty five years later, Dave Buznik live... | comedy, psychological, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | Charlie's new show is not a masterpiece, nor is it trying to be, but it is better then Two and Half Men's current offering.
I'm a huge fan of Two and a Half Men and dearly wished that Kutcher would hold the show, but it transpires that Alan's character is the only thing keeping the show remotely amusing anymore.
I neve... |
tt0155060 | Prophet | Kamila, a widowed mother, works as the housekeeper for Mustafa, a foreign poet, painter, and political activist being held under house arrest. Mustafa is guarded by the soldier Halim, who has a secret crush on Kamila. Kamila's daughter, Almitra, has stopped talking due to her father's death, and has become a troublemak... | violence | train | wikipedia | not a bad little movie.
i would like to see don teamed up with a hong kong movie crew that way we would all see his potential instead of van damn of the late eighties style...
the only other thing that struck me about this movie is that it appears to be quite similar to a certain television series.
But apart from that ... |
tt0085724 | Independence Day | On July 2, 1996, an enormous alien mothership that has one fourth the mass of the Moon enters orbit around Earth, deploying 36 smaller spacecraft, each 15 miles (24 km) wide, that take positions over some of Earth's major cities and military bases. David Levinson, an MIT-trained satellite technician, decodes a signal e... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3421844 | Batman: Arkham Knight | === Characters ===
Arkham Knight features a large ensemble cast of characters from the history of Batman comics. The main character is Batman (Kevin Conroy)—a superhero trained to the peak of human physical and mental perfection and an expert in martial arts. He is supported by his allies, Robin (Matthew Mercer), Night... | violence | train | wikipedia | Batman Arkham Knight: Clueless, mindless, foolish. Recently I've seen some great fan made Batman films, this one however has brought me crashing back down to earth to what I expected these things to be.Made on a $15k budget this isn't so much a story as a clip from a movie, and a poorly made one at that.Featuring Black... |
tt0115378 | Superman | On the planet Krypton, using evidence provided by scientist Jor-El, the Council sentences attempted insurrectionists General Zod, Ursa, and Non to the Phantom Zone. For this, Zod swears revenge on Jor-El and his family. Jor-El, despite his eminence, is unable to convince the Council that Krypton will soon be destroyed ... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | If it wasn't for the success of Batman the animated series..
If it wasn't for the success of Batman the animated series, it is likely that this series wouldn't have been made.
There was a cartoon Superman series in the early 1940's which is in a class of it's own.
Excluding the 1940's series, the other Superman cartoon... |
tt0031650 | The Mikado | === Act I ===
Courtyard of Ko-Ko's Official Residence
Gentlemen of the fictitious Japanese town of Titipu are gathered ("If you want to know who we are"). A handsome but poor trombonist, Nanki-Poo, arrives and introduces himself ("A wand'ring minstrel I"). He inquires about his beloved, a schoolgirl called Yum-Yum, who... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Suffers from cuts, but makes up in the quality of the performers--Modified rapture!.
In the 1930s the decision was made to do a movie of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta as a star vehicle for Kenny Baker.
They decided to do "The Yeomen of the Guard" with Baker as Fairfax and engage members of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Comp... |
tt0047029 | Romeo and Juliet | The play, set in Verona, Italy, begins with a street brawl between Montague and Capulet servants who, like their masters, are sworn enemies. Prince Escalus of Verona intervenes and declares that further breach of the peace will be punishable by death. Later, Count Paris talks to Capulet about marrying his daughter Juli... | tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | Renato Castellani's ROMEO AND JULIET has somehow fallen into a hole in film history.
Despite a handsome production with some worthy performances, it is overshadowed by Franco Zefferelli's 1966 film and even the 1936 MGM movie with Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Basil Rathbone, and John Barrymore.
One has to wonder why -... |
tt0270480 | Juana la Loca | Tordesillas, 1554. Seventy four years old, Queen Joanna of Castile, called Juana La Loca (Joanna the Madwoman), is still mourning the loss of her husband who died a half century before. Joanna remembers with emotion the man she loved passionately, but who brought her ruin. She does not fear death, she says, because dea... | insanity, gothic, historical, flashback | train | wikipedia | Unable to control with whom she spends her life or make basic choices, Juana is confined in a woman's role, yet has sexual passion fit only for men in her time.
This is the historic tale with a politic fight behind , concerning a deep love story who transformed Juana, Queen of Spain, into Juana "The mad" in which Pilar... |
tt3689910 | Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai | The manga story consists of episodes which are not necessarily connected to each other. They feature Ō-Ei and her life in Edo, as she works in the studio of her father. The younger sister appears in one of the episodes.
The anime story begins in Edo in 1814, during the Edo period. Ō-Ei is one of the four daughters of t... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Beautiful Anime.
In 1814 Edo, Japan, a master artist Katsushika Hokusai, known as Tetsuzo, and his daughter O-Ei spend their time creating splendid paintings, some on commission and some just because.
Tetsuzo lives away from his wife and younger daughter, who is blind, and he tends to have little to do with them, perha... |
tt1869416 | Faroeste Caboclo | The music starts with the introduction of João do Santo Cristo and his twisted childhood. João lost his father, murdered by a soldier (it is unclear if it was the Military Police or the Brazilian Army, since the music was written during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship) and, while growing up, he got himself flirting... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3139072 | Son of Batman | At the headquarters of the League of Assassins, Ra's al Ghul grooms Damian Wayne (son of his daughter, Talia, and Batman) to succeed him as head of the league. The league is attacked by a group of assassins led by Slade Wilson, Ra's al Ghul's initial choice for successor before meeting Batman; Feeling betrayed, Slade d... | violence, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Unrealistic in various aspects, not how the typical Batman movies are suppose to be.Part of why Batman is so popular is because viewers enjoy watching a man using his intellect and natural resources to solve crimes and ultimately capture the villains.The almighty "trailer" makes any movie look hype and all the rave.
Sl... |
tt2954474 | Visions | David Maddox consoles his wife Eveleigh as she regains consciousness in a hospital. Eveleigh recalls being in a fatal car accident that killed a child in the other vehicle.
One Year Later – Now three months pregnant, Eveleigh and David prepare to reopen a vineyard they purchased in Paso Robles, California. Top area win... | paranormal, revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0279077 | FLCL | FLCL is a coming-of-age story and revolves around Naota Nandaba, a 12-year-old, working-class boy living with his widowed father and grandfather. His life in the city of Mabase is interrupted by the arrival of Haruko Haruhara, who runs over Naota with her yellow Vespa 180 SS scooter, gives him CPR, then hits him on the... | cult, absurd, psychedelic, action, satire, romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | this is what dreams are made of.FLCL is a 6-episode japanese anime production that impresses and entertains beyond explanation.
those who find their way through it's layering of bizarre beauty will realize what it truly is: the greatest thing ever.FLCL, also known as Fooly Cooly or Furi-Kuri in Japan, centers around Na... |
tt0015400 | The Thief of Bagdad | Ahmed (Douglas Fairbanks) robs as he pleases in the city of Baghdad. Wandering into a mosque, he tells the holy man (Charles Belcher) he disdains his religion; his philosophy is, "What I want, I take."
That night, he sneaks into the palace of the caliph (Brandon Hurst) using a magic rope he stole during ritual prayers.... | action, entertaining, fantasy | train | wikipedia | THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (United Artists, 1924), directed by Raoul Walsh, is an original Arabian Nights fantasy that remains one of the most visually stunning of all silent films with trick photography and lavish sets (compliments of William Cameron Menzies) taking top form over anything else.
Then again, this is 1924, runn... |
tt1763316 | The Theatre Bizarre | The film contain six stories, each inspired by Paris’ legendary Grand Guignol theatre.
The six stories are presented within a connecting framework, "Theatre Guignol": Enola Penny is intrigued by an abandoned theatre in her neighborhood. One night the theatre door mysteriously opens and she enters. A puppet host (or Gui... | romantic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Some of them like the "Vision Stains" are really hard to watch.I absolutely do love "The Accident".
Mother of Toads is a great B-movie throwback, I Love You is like a violent version of The Room, Wet Dreams has Tom Savini, therefore it is automatically gold, The Accident is harrowing and haunting, Vision Stains is inte... |
tt0104107 | Diggstown | Gabriel Caine (James Woods), a con man, is released from prison in Winfield, Georgia and immediately gets to work on his next scam. Caine and his partner, Fitz (Oliver Platt), travel to a small town not far from the prison: Diggstown, a city obsessed with boxing.
A mean-spirited man named John Gillon (Bruce Dern) owns ... | cult, revenge, murder, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2210463 | Battle of the Damned | A group of mercenaries led by Maj. Max Gatling are fleeing from a failed rescue attempt, having been hired by a rich industrialist to enter a zombie-infested city to rescue his daughter Jude. At the extraction point, Gatling tells Smiley that he is staying to find Jude and complete the mission. After searching through ... | violence | train | wikipedia | Although the zombie attacks are less and lees in the middle of the film, they come back with a running vengeance that overwhelms most of the survivors.The plot is thin and basic, but the added adventures when the robots come into the picture change the course of their actions quickly.
There was some sketchy dialog part... |
tt0049477 | Manfish | Inspector Warren of Scotland Yard flies into Jamaica and is taken to the headquarters of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. Exchanging credentials with a Jamaican Inspector, Warren reveals he has come to seek the extradition of a wanted criminal known as "The Professor". Surprised when the Inspector refuses to extradite t... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0096531 | Alien Nation | The year is 1991; one year since an unidentified flying object bearing 300,000 enslaved aliens, the Newcomers, landed in the Mojave Desert on planet Earth. Los Angeles later becomes their new home.
Matthew Sykes (Caan), a police detective, loses his partner Bill Tuggle (Brown) in a shootout; the detectives had been try... | murder | train | wikipedia | Why did this Series only last One Season???.
This series is fantastic!
I do not understand why it only lasted one season.
It gave us so many insights into the relationships between people of all "races".
It allowed us to see the pain of "inter-species" relationships and the acceptance of beings "different" from us.
As ... |
tt0066126 | The Losers | The Losers are an elite black ops team of United States Special Forces operatives, led by Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and formed by Roque (Idris Elba), Pooch (Columbus Short), Jensen (Chris Evans), and Cougar (Óscar Jaenada), who are sent to Bolivia in a search and destroy mission on a compound run by a drug lord. While... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | William Smith is the Man. William Smith is my all time favorite B-Movie actor- a truly talented individual whose list of lifelong accomplishments is extraordinary.
He single handedly made movies like "The Losers" watchable and even enjoyable if you don't take them too seriously.
The film centers around the U.S. Army hi... |
tt0126810 | Bedrooms and Hallways | The film opens as Leo (Kevin McKidd), an openly gay man celebrating his 30th birthday, arrives home and is very unhappy to find a surprise-party organised by his roommates Darren (Tom Hollander) and Angie (Julie Graham) in full swing. Leo has a complicated personal history with some of the guests and hides in his bedro... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Often hilarious look at an atypical gay love life.
OK, I don't kid myself that this is the typical gay love life but since when are straight romances in real life as they are on the screen?
It was a riot to see Hugo Weaving play a sex-obsessed gay real estate salesman who uses his clients' houses for his trysts with th... |
tt0810892 | The Haunted Airman | During the Second World War, young pilot RAF Flight Lieutenant Toby Jugg (Robert Pattinson) suffers a serious spinal wound during a bombing raid on the city of Dresden. This injury consigns him to a wheelchair, facing a life as a paralysed recluse. In the hope that he can recover, his aunt-in-law, Julia (Rachael Stirli... | insanity | train | wikipedia | If you watch it as a stand-alone movie it quite well portrays the story it is supposed to tell.
I knew already when I saw the length, that it couldn't be close to the book, so I decided to NOT compare and therefore liked the movie, regardless.One thing is for certain - Robert Pattinson shows an excellent range!
In the ... |
tt1121628 | Power Rangers Jungle Fury | For over 10,000 years, a spirit of pure evil known as Dai Shi has been locked away and safely guarded by the Pai Zhua - The Order of the Claw - a secretive Kung Fu clan. The Pai Zhua select their three top members, Jarrod, Theo, and Lily, to become the new guardians of Dai Shi. Unfortunately, Jarrod's arrogant and bull... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3110960 | Jimmy's Hall | In 1932, after ten years in the United States, Jimmy Gralton returns to his native Ireland to help his mother run the family farm. A new government is in power in Ireland ten years after the end of the Civil War. To meet the needs of the young people of County Leitrim, Jimmy, in spite of his reluctance to cause upset t... | flashback | train | wikipedia | This movie opposes two different and opposed views of the world: that of Jimmy Gralton, who apart from wanting to open a dance hall, is also a left-wing idealist.
In fact the heart of the movie is the confrontation between Jimmy Gralton and Father Sheridan, which despite the depth of conflict, is fundamentally based on... |
tt0094869 | The Chocolate War | Jerry Renault is a freshman attending an all-boys Catholic high school called Trinity, while coping with depressive feelings and existential questions that stem largely from his mother's recent death and his father's enduring grief. Jerry is quickly recruited onto Trinity's football team, where he meets "The Goober," a... | psychedelic, prank, cruelty, flashback | train | wikipedia | Our young protagonist, Renault, still agonizing over the death of his mother, is given a right-of-passage style task by his school's secret society, run by the calculating and elagantly power-hungry Archie : To refuse to sell chocolates to boost school income for 10 days (an activity Brother Leon, the equally power-hun... |
tt0062047 | Wanted | Radhe (Salman Khan), a gangster with a mysterious past, kills others for money. He meets Jhanvi (Ayesha Takia) while she's doing fitness training and instantly falls in love with her. Even though their first meeting leads Jhanvi to think negatively about Radhe, she later begins to reciprocate his feelings. However, Tal... | western, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0379217 | Coffee and Cigarettes | The eleven segments that make up the film are as follows:
=== Strange to Meet You ===
This is the original 1986 short Coffee and Cigarettes with Roberto Benigni and Steven Wright having a conversation about coffee and cigarettes.
=== Twins ===
Originally the 1989 short Coffee and Cigarettes, Memphis Version – aka Coffe... | cult, psychedelic, atmospheric, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0380366 | Ae Fond Kiss... | Set in Glasgow, the film tells the story of the Khan family. Casim is the only son of Pakistani Muslim immigrants to Scotland. He has a younger sister, Tahara, and an older sister Rukshana. Casim's parents, Tariq and Sadia, have arranged for him to marry his first cousin, Jasmine, and Casim is more or less happy with t... | romantic, psychological | train | wikipedia | In this case, it's Casim Khan (Atta Yaqub), a second-generation Pakistani immigrant, and Irishwoman Roisin Hanlon (Eva Birthistle) in Glasgow, Scotland.
It's so easy for us to sympathize and empathize with her because she draws us in with a wonderfully subtle, nuanced and open performance.There's also a superb cameo fr... |
tt0056552 | Tales of Terror | The film uses an anthology format, presenting three short sequences based on the following Poe tales: "Morella", "The Black Cat" (which is combined with another Poe tale, "The Cask of Amontillado"), and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar". Each sequence is introduced via voiceover narration by Vincent Price, who als... | gothic, murder | train | wikipedia | This one ends on a note of pure horror, and is nearest to Poe in its mood and ideas.Screenwriter Richard Matheson did a reasonable job of adapting Poe, and Corman was probably wise to emphasize jokes in the middle tale, as Poe was one grim, death-haunted writer, and each of these stories is a meditation on death and th... |
tt1494829 | Unnatural History | In London during the year 2002, the dark-haired Sam Jones is living a normal life, though struggling with a drug addiction, when the Eighth Doctor arrives in the shop she works in and tells her that she should have blonde hair and be travelling with him. Shocked by this, she runs out onto the street to get away from hi... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0084267 | Long zhi ren zhe | In Japan of the Tokugawa Ieyasu period, a young ninja named Genbu wantonly kills samurai and other government officials, leaving his clan to face the blame. When they hunt him down, Genbu and his wife Akane sail to China both to escape their wrathful kinsmen and for Genbu to complete revenge by finding the last man he ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0053719 | The City of the Dead | Jim finds Danny alive as the book opens but the living dead soon converge on their location. Frankie and Martin join Jim in the house and they are soon trapped in the attic. As they see Danny's neighbor in his panic room across the way the zombies set fire to the house. They rig a ladder between the two houses and ever... | good versus evil, cult, gothic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | I have now seen it 6 or 7 times over the years including twice in the last few months with the VCI Entertainment version of the dvd.The movie doesn't scare me like it used to, but it still amazes me how it transports me into it's own world of the fog shrouded town of Whitewood, Massachusetts.
Her professor, Alan Drisco... |
tt0066561 | When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth | A tribe on a cliff are about to sacrifice three blonde women. Three priests, wearing dinosaur hides, are about to kill them for their Sun God, but one of them, Sanna, escapes and jumps off the cliff. She is rescued by Tara and some men on a raft.
Tara takes Sanna to his seaside tribe, who also worship the Sun God. Afte... | absurd | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0278017 | Perlasca: Un eroe italiano | The film starts in a Budapest Hotel with a narrative introduction by Perlasca. His chambermaid warns him of a raid of Hungarian Arrow Cross storm troopers coming to arrest him. He escapes and manages gets to the railway station, where he tries to sneak onto a sheep transport wagon. Discovered by a local officer named G... | good versus evil, murder, tragedy | train | wikipedia | People who care.
Perlasca.Un eroe italiano (2002) tells about Giorgio Perlasca, a man who once lived and did something most people were afraid to do or just didn't care.He saved many Hungarian Jews from concentration camp in 1944.He did care and actually do something while the rest of the world stood still and did noth... |
tt0066033 | Macho Callahan | Placed behind bars during the war, Diego Callahan (David Janssen), also known as "Macho," travels to Texas looking for the man responsible for his imprisonment.
He quarrels with a one-armed Confederate Army colonel named Mountford (David Carradine) over a bottle of champagne and kills him in front of Alexandra (Jean Se... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Was impressed with the movie..
I thought David Janssen was excellent and made a really convincing cowboy/gunfighter/escaped POW from a Confederate prison.
After escaping, he goes after the man who got him sent to prison in a round about way and then lynches the hombre (Lee J.
Jean Seberg, who does an excellent job also... |
tt1951216 | The Look of Love | The story opens in London in 1992. Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan) returns to his flat after attending the funeral of his daughter Debbie (Imogen Poots). Raymond plays a videotape of a TV programme he and Debbie took part in and reflects on their lives.
In a flashback to the late 1950s, Raymond is an impresario on the seas... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | Michael Winterbottom is reunited with Steve Coogan in this watchable tale of one time richest man in Britain, porn and property entrepreneur Paul Raymond.
Coogan puts in a well rounded performance playing Raymond (it would have been easy to make the character either too likable, too bolshy or too obnoxious, credit to C... |
tt0292515 | Flatland | The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square named A Square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications ... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0365289 | Grimm | A brother and sister, Jacob and Marie, live with their father and mother. The family is in a situation where living becomes difficult for them. One day Jacob and Marie's father abandons the two of them in woods while they go collecting firewood. From that moment on, the two teens must fend for themselves, fighting off ... | murder | train | wikipedia | This film has a rather impressive billing, with the version I rented stated "siblings Jacob and Marie embark on a surreal, often night-marrish odyssey." The movie starts out Hansel and Gretel-esquire in that regard, but doesn't move much further.
There is a journey to be had, if one is interested in following two chara... |
tt0131400 | Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale | Wal Footrot (John Clarke) and Cooch Windgrass (Peter Hayden) are shearing sheep on Wal's farm. Cheeky Hobson (Fiona Samuel), Wal's girlfriend, is driving on the highway when she is driven off the road by the Murphy brothers, Spit (Brian Sergent) and Hunk (Marshall Napier), flying in a helicopter. The Murphys then terro... | romantic | train | wikipedia | An animated classic.
One of the few non-disney animation films that are truly great.
This story of rural New Zealand follows the adventures of a farmer, the local kids and a dog- Dog. The only animated feature new zealand has ever produced is a classic.
Exciting, hilarious, scary it has everything.
The unique style of ... |
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