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tt2112293 | The Comedy | Swanson (Tim Heidecker) is an upper class New Yorker who alternately feels apathy and resentment to his surroundings. He lives on a boat and spends his time partying and wandering around the city with his hipster friends, humorlessly lampooning and mocking various strangers they encounter. As of the beginning of the fi... | comedy, depressing | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0058571 | Send Me No Flowers | George Kimball (Rock Hudson), a hypochondriac, lives with his wife Judy (Doris Day) in the suburbs. Judy learns from the milkman that their neighbors, the Bullards, are getting a divorce, and shares the news with George.
Over lunch, George is appalled as a bachelor acquaintance, Winston Burr (Hal March), gleefully desc... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0043480 | Droopy's Double Trouble | Droopy is presented here as a manservant working for an unseen master, who is going away for a few days with the head butler, Mr. Theeves. As they are packing the master's clothes, Mr. Theeves requests that Droopy acquire someone to help him around the house while they are away, and the first person to come to Droopy's... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | It's Enough To Drive An Irish Dog To Drink.
This is different in that we get two Droopy dogs: he and his twin brother "Drippy." In this story, Droopy is working for a butler in a big mansion and the butler is going to be away for a few days.
He needs a replacement and Droopy gets Drippy to handle the chores.
Drippy sou... |
tt0107692 | Jûbê ninpûchô | In Edo period-Japan, the Yamashiro clan mines gold in secret, and sends a shipment to the Toyotomi Shogun of the Dark as payment for his protection. The Shogun of the Dark intends to use the gold to buy advanced Spanish weaponry and overthrow the current government, the Tokugawa Shogunate. The ship runs aground onto Mo... | neo noir, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | Ninja Scroll is easily one of my favorite anime movies.
Great animation (the minimal movement in Japanimation far superior to the over-produced Disney cloned animation style), great story and characters, a decent running time - it all works for me.Recently here in Australia, the movie has thankfully been re-released in... |
tt0384908 | Deception | Timid accountant Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) is an auditor working in New York. One night while working late in a boardroom he meets a charismatic lawyer, Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), who befriends him over a joint. After a long conversation, Jonathan takes the subway home where he has a brief encounter with a blon... | murder | train | wikipedia | The viewer is not deceived most of the time. This is a fairly routine but still entertaining made for TV murder mystery movie. Much of it is predictable but the writers have left room in the script for a few surprises, especially toward the end when Erin (Dina Meyer) begins to see the truth, or thinks she sees the trut... |
tt0438575 | West Bank Story | The film begins with a scene in which the Palestinians and Jews are both snapping their fingers, similar to the opening scene of West Side Story. The two parties head to their own family-owned falafel stands (Hummus Hut and Kosher King) where they sing "Our People Must Be Fed/Our People Must Be Served". During the day,... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I saw West Bank Story yesterday at the opening of the Boston International Film Festival.
Despite being only 22 minutes in length, the director, Ari Sandel, brilliantly takes a parodistic approach to the movie-musical genre, but combines this with a satirical, yet poignant perspective on the Israeli/Palestinian dilemma... |
tt0088987 | Dance with a Stranger | A former nude model and prostitute, Ruth is manageress of a London drinking club frequented by racing drivers, living in a flat above with her illegitimate son Andy. Another child is in the custody of her estranged husband's family. In the club she meets David, an immature young man from a well-off family who wants to ... | tragedy, revenge, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0024844 | L'Atalante | Jean, the captain of the canal barge L'Atalante, marries Juliette in her village. They decide to live aboard L'Atalante along with Jean's crew, Père Jules and the cabin boy.
The couple travel to Paris to deliver cargo, enjoying a makeshift honeymoon en route. Jules and the cabin boy are not used to the presence of a wo... | whimsical, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0193166 | The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone | When Fred wins the big prize on the "Make A Deal or Don't" game show, he and Wilma plan a vacation with Barney and Betty to Count Rockula's spooky castle in Rocksylvania which has now been turned into a tourist resort. Unfortunately, during the trip, Fred and Barney accidentally stumble across Rockula's old laboratory,... | alternate history | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0129992 | High Voltage | The film begins with a bus driving along a snow-covered roadway in the Sierra Nevada between Nevada City, California, and Reno, Nevada. Soon the vehicle gets hopelessly stuck in deep snow forty miles from the nearest town. Needing shelter, the driver "Gus" (Billy Bevan) and his four passengers find refuge in an isolate... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | really good action.
Although the plot is really transparent action and cast made this movie look better.
Acrobatic fights and shooting are nicely done, you can watch them over and over again.
This is type of movie to relax after long day.I like this one and I recommend it to anyone who like well done action and tired f... |
tt0239395 | Cats & Dogs | Mrs. Carolyn Brody (Elizabeth Perkins) and her son Scotty (Alexander Pollock) return home, and the family's Bloodhound Buddy starts chasing a cat, a chase which ends with Buddy's capture by other cats in an ambush.
This is witnessed by an Anatolian Shepherd dog named Butch (voiced by Alec Baldwin) who reports Buddy's c... | stupid | train | wikipedia | The housekeeper/nurse makes Mr. Twiggles' life a horror by continually dressing him in feminine outfits which he hates.Another favorite is Lou, the beagle puppy who is adopted by the Brody family and is drafted as a secret agent in the war against cats.I gave this movie 8 stars..
This was a pretty clever film mixing li... |
tt1741273 | Secret in Their Eyes | In Los Angeles, in early 2002, not long after New York City's 9/11 attack, FBI counter-terrorism investigator Ray Kasten (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Los Angeles district attorney's investigator Jessica "Jess" Cobb (Julia Roberts) go about their day in the office.
Newly hired assistant DA Claire Sloan (Nicole Kidman), an att... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Especially in this case, I think that keeping some of the core material and turning other parts completely around could have made for a fascinating narrative, unfortunately the American remake, with the exception of maybe two or three ides, doesn't improve, explore or further the original in anyway and sometimes even e... |
tt0073045 | Giliap | A man arrives in a Swedish small town to work as a waiter at the run-down Hotel Busarewski (a play on the Swedish word "buse" - "crook"). He is installed in a small room, and soon begins to serve customers under the supervision of a strict, wheelchair-using manager suffering from an exaggerated self image.
The man befr... | psychedelic, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Pictures to remember. I was about 17 when I saw Giliap for the first time. Now I'm 41 years old and it have never left me. It's a poetic tale about dreams in a gray and joyless world. It's epic in a way you almost never see, a slow tempo and very carefully chosen pictures. Giliap is a forerunner for Roy Andersson's "Så... |
tt0142242 | Doragon bôru Z: Moetsukiro!! Nessen ressen chô-gekisen | Dragon Ball Z picks up five years after the end of the Dragon Ball anime, with Son Goku as a young adult and father to his son Gohan. A humanoid alien named Raditz arrives on Earth in a spacecraft and tracks down Goku, revealing to him that he is his long-lost big brother and that they are members of a nearly extinct e... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0045296 | Viva Zapata! | Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) is part of a delegation sent to complain about injustices to corrupt longtime President Porfirio Díaz (Fay Roope), but Díaz dismisses their concerns, and tries to bribe their leader, offering him some land which Zapata rejects. As a result, Zapata is driven to open rebellion, along with ... | violence, alternate history | train | wikipedia | For this portrayal in his third film Marlon Brando got a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, but lost to Gary Cooper for High Noon.And as a film concerning the turmoil in Mexico during the teen and twenty years of the last century Viva Zapata!
But even a few years earlier the overreaction against the church... |
tt0035970 | Happy Land | Act I
The fairies live in a lavish and art-filled Fairyland, floating on a cloud overlooking the mortal world. Three male fairies, Ethais, Phylion and Lutin, relate to the female fairies their "detestation" at their experiences below, in the "wicked" world. However, they note the conveniences of Victorian civilisation.... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0154129 | Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue | In Corey's bedroom, an unseen person steals her piggy bank from her dresser. The theft is witnessed by Papa Smurf, who emerges from a Smurfs comic book with the other Smurfs and alerts the other cartoon characters in the room (Garfield as a lamp, ALF from a framed picture, Baby Kermit as an alarm clock, Winnie the Pooh... | good versus evil, flashback | train | wikipedia | However, the plot and visuals are so insane that it seems more like the poster-child for LSD.Plot: The heroic struggle of Michael as he battles his drug addiction while being subjected to the humiliation brought on by the likes of Winnie the Pooh and Papa Smurf.Yea, yea, there's a good message, but it's obscured by th... |
tt0889573 | The Switch | 30-something Kassie Larson (Jennifer Aniston) is single, hasn't found love yet, and decides she wants to have a baby. Despite the objections of her neurotic long-time best friend Wally Mars (Jason Bateman), she chooses to do so alone because she can't wait any longer. She also wants a face-to-face sperm donor, disdaini... | comedy, romantic, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0058202 | Minnesota Clay | The year is 1883. Clay, a gunfighter with health problems, is interned in Drunner Labor Camp. He's determined to prove his innocence since he was framed by Fox, the current Sheriff of Clay's former home of Mesa Encantada. Fox has subsequently been hired by the townspeople to protect them from Ortiz and his bandits. Ins... | western, violence | train | wikipedia | Spaghetti with Chorizo Western filmed in Spanish location as La Pedriza ,Manzanares Del Real and Colmenar Viejo and interior scenes shot in usual Italian scenarios called Elios studios.
As Minnesota Clay (Cameron Michell) takes prisoner a lieutenant (Julio Peña) and seeks revenge on the man who withheld evidence at his... |
tt1745672 | Children of the Corn: Genesis | Tim and Allie's car breaks down and they attempt to find shelter in a remote desert farmhouse after becoming lost. A strange Charles Manson-like character, Preacher (Billy Drago), allows them inside to use the phone. The couple find out they won't be able to get tow service until the following day. Preacher and his Ukr... | flashback | train | wikipedia | 'Genesis', the 8th film in the series, is quite good for the first half.
Intriguing storyline involving a couple's car breaking down in the California desert, and they seek refuge from a weird preacher and his hottie Ukrainian wife.
There's a child locked up in a shed behind the house, and it seems like a bizarre entit... |
tt0102185 | Kamillions | Robins plays bumbling mad scientist Nathaniel Pickman Wingate, of the Miskatonic University. He works on opening a portal to another dimension while his wife, Nancy (Laura O'Malley) and family prepare his fiftieth birthday party. When he succeeds with contact with the new dimension, two triops-like creatures escape. Th... | psychedelic, alternate reality | train | wikipedia | a virtual smörgåsbord of film!.
this movie is AMAZING!!
Kamillions teeters so delicately between genres, and at times i am frightened by how good it is.
horror, romance, social satire and just enough comic relief to give this "frightfest" the perfect balance.
countless plot twists, a stellar cast, and elaborate, mind-b... |
tt0424939 | A Deadly Encounter | The film follows a group of teenagers living in a fictional planned community called New Granada. It begins with Carl Willat (Michael Kramer) and his friends, Richie White (Matt Dillon), Claude Zachary (Tom Fergus), and Johnny (Tiger Thompson) hanging out at "the Rec" (Recreation Center), which is the only place in the... | violence | train | wikipedia | Interesting Premise.
Pulling in 2.6 million viewers, one has to wonder what everyone's opinions on the storyline/plot is.Reading the run down over at lifetime, I was led to believe that this would be an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a single mother being stalked and finally confronting the stalker.
Sadly I was mista... |
tt4254242 | The Magicians | Harry Kane and Karl Allen are best friends who work together in a successful and popular magic double act, with Harry's wife Carol working as their assistant. After one show, however, Harry discovers Karl and Carol backstage in a magic box having sex (during an agreement between Harry and the theatre owner about lettin... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | A very good entertaining watch for anyone who enjoys adventure themed shows/movies or magic..
I feel like the writers are very much aware of how annoying the characters are (haven't read the books btw) and portrays them this way in order to create this very fast, quirky and weird plot.
There's simply not enough time to... |
tt0802821 | Pandemic | Lauren Chase, a doctor from New York, comes to Los Angeles to find survivors of a worldwide pandemic. She is assisted by her team, which includes Gunner, Denise, and Wheeler.
The movie opens with Dr. Chase being given a tour of the facility that's being used to monitor, treat, and euthanize sufferers of the disease. Sh... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0076853 | The Uncanny | In 1977, in Montreal, writer Wilbur Gray (Peter Cushing) visits his publisher Frank Richards (Ray Milland) to discuss his new book about cats. Wilbur believes that felines are supernatural creatures, and that they are the devil in disguise. Wilbur tells three tales to illustrate his thoughts:
In 1912, in London, Miss M... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Oh, and there is a cat in it, but it doesn't do a lot, and seems pretty amiable really.Third story stars Donald Pleasence as a creepy little git, and is introduced by Cushing handing his publisher a stock photo from "You Only Live Twice" (Pleasence as Blofeld holding his fluffy white cat), which will probably amuse som... |
tt0088103 | Sheena | While investigating rumors of a mystical "healing earth" whose powers are said to flow forth from the sacred Gudjara Mountain, geologists Philip and Betsy Ames (Michael Shannon and Nancy Paul) are killed in a cave-in, leaving their young daughter Janet an orphan.
Janet is adopted by Shaman, a woman of the native Zambou... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Tanya Roberts was sooo worth watching in BEASTMASTER that the big wigs at the studio thought they'd give her another film to "show off" more of her special talents.
no ERA stuff for her!), big city reporter (reference to his view of the Towers), mystical shaman (imdb has the actress having a pretty interesting backstor... |
tt0037135 | None But the Lonely Heart | Ernie Mott (Cary Grant) is a restless, irresponsible, wandering Cockney with a good musical ear. On Armistice Day, Ernie visits the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, which memorializes those who died in World War I, including his father. Ernie wants a better life but does not want to settle down or work... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0896529 | Cairo Time | Juliette is a Canadian magazine editor who arrives in Cairo for a vacation with husband Mark, a UN official working at refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. Their children have grown and Juliette is looking forward to spending more time with Mark. Delayed, Mark asks his friend—a handsome Egyptian named Tareq—to watch over J... | romantic, intrigue | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0318761 | Thumbsucker | Justin Cobb is a shy 17-year-old in a family of four in suburban Oregon. He has a persistent thumb-sucking habit his father disapproves of, which has led to major orthodontic repair. He addresses his parents by their first names, Mike and Audrey, so as not to make his father feel old. Audrey, a registered nurse, is idl... | violence, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | This is no typical teenage coming of age as interpreted by Hollywood.The film is an intelligent account of Justin's life and what makes him act the way he does.
Keanu Reeves and Vince Vaughn make excellent appearances in roles that are different to what they usually play.The film work because the good ensemble Mike Mil... |
tt3037336 | Sedmero krkavcu | A peasant has seven sons and no daughter. Finally a daughter is born, but is sickly. The father sends his sons to fetch water for her, in the German version to be baptized, in the Greek version to take water from a healing spring. In their haste, they drop the jug in the well. When they do not return, their father thin... | intrigue, fantasy, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0325055 | Sylvia | (Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1932, Plath developed a precocious talent as a writer, publishing her first poem when she was only eight years old. That same year, tragedy introduced itself into her life as Plath was forced to confront the unexpected death of her father. In 1950, she began studying at Smith College o... | romantic, autobiographical | train | wikipedia | When poet and novelist Sylvia Plath committed suicide in 1963, she became the archetype of the tortured artist - particularly for sensitive young people who came to romanticize her end and her suffering in ways that lifted her and her work to iconic status.The biopic, entitled simply 'Sylvia,' gets the 'tortured' part ... |
tt0055992 | Follow That Dream | A vagabond family composed of Pop Kwimper (Arthur O'Connell), his son Toby (Elvis Presley), and various "adopted" children, including nineteen-year-old Holly Jones (Anne Helm), is traveling in Florida when Pop drives onto an as-yet-unopened section of highway. When the car runs out of gas, Holly persuades Toby to persu... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0069316 | The Stone Tape | Peter Brock (Michael Bryant) is the selfish and petulant head of a research team for Ryan Electrics. His team is developing a new recording medium that will give the company an edge over its Japanese competitors. They move into a new facility at Taskerlands, an old Victorian mansion that has been renovated for their us... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1780762 | Aftershock | Three travelers, Gringo, Ariel, and Pollo travel through Chile. They party in a club and meet three young women, sisters Monica and Kylie, and their Russian friend Irina. The two groups pair up and decide to travel down to Valparaiso together. They party at another club in Valparaiso when an earthquake strikes, killing... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Just bad, unoriginal, characters you have little reason to care about, in search of shocks the film continually seeks for escalations but most of them, right down to the ending are predictable.
The acting and dialogue weren't altogether bad but I'm really not sure whether in the end this was a bad comedy or a truly awf... |
tt0058694 | Two Thousand Maniacs! | Six Yankee tourists whom make up two married couples, John and Bea Miller, David and Beverly Wells, plus an unmarried couple of Tom White and Terry Adams, are lured via detour signs placed in the road into the fictional small Southern town of Pleasant Valley by "redneck" citizens, to be the "guests of honor" for the Ap... | violence, revenge, horror, cruelty, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0108341 | Time Indefinite | In the film, director Ross McElwee gets married, finally putting an end to his family's worrying; his grandmother dies; his wife Marilyn has a miscarriage; and his father, a medical doctor, dies suddenly within a week of McElwee's wife's miscarriage. His mother had died of cancer ten years earlier and so McElwee return... | autobiographical | train | wikipedia | Captures the interior/exterior dialogue of life clearly and beautifully. In the head of every human runs a dialogue with oneself. We are thinking about the perception our eyes are scanning every moment. In the head of a filmmaker, these processes are twice as complex, as he is examining the world as if it were life imi... |
tt0042360 | Cue Ball Cat | Tom is playing pool in a pool hall, pocketing two balls by physically moving the table and a side pocket. Tom then wakes Jerry up by pocketing the 10-ball, which rolls Jerry to the ball return before the 10 and 13 balls squash Jerry between each other. Jerry walks up through the pocket, but spots Tom perched behind it.... | comic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0092549 | Miami Connection | A cocaine deal in Miami is interrupted by a group of motorcycle-riding ninjas led by Yashito, who steal the drugs and ride back to Orlando to party. At a club, Yashito's close associate, Jeff, sees his sister Jane onstage. She has become romantically involved with John, the bassist of the club's band, Dragon Sound, whi... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0322420 | Zivot je cudo | The film opens just as construction has been completed on a railway connecting a mountainous regions of eastern Bosnia and western Serbia in 1992. Luka, a Serbian engineer, has moved to Bosnia from Belgrade with his mentally unstable wife, Jadranka, and his football-playing son, Miloš, to run a railway station and act ... | romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0052937 | J'irai cracher sur vos tombes | Manhattan short story writer Jennifer Hills (Camille Keaton) rents an isolated cottage in Kent, Connecticut near the Housatonic River in the Litchfield County countryside to write her first novel. The arrival of the attractive and independent young woman attracts the attention of Johnny, the gas station manager, and St... | revenge, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Boris Vian disowned it reportedly.... I've not read his novel,so I will not argue,but all that I can say is that the film is a complete disaster ;today in France everybody's forgotten all about the movie .Director Michel Gast has made only four movies in total.The leads ,Antonella Lualdi and Christian Marquand ,had tea... |
tt0024238 | Ladies They Talk About | Nan Taylor (Barbara Stanwyck) is a member of a gang of bank robbers, posing as an regular customer to distract the security guard while her accomplices take the money. Her cover is blown by a policeman who had arrested her before, and she is arrested. Reform-minded radio star David Slade (Preston Foster) falls in love ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1135084 | Takers | Two detectives, Jack Welles (Matt Dillon) and Eddie Hatcher (Jay Hernandez), investigate a daring heist by a group of well-organized bank robbers. The crew, led by Gordon Cozier (Idris Elba), consists of John (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and brothers Jake (Michael Ealy) and Jesse (Chris Brown) Attica. The ... | revenge, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3543634 | Ängelby | Vera Fors lives an ordinary life with her husband, two children, her job and their home. Her husband has an affair with another woman, then she loses the job that she only got because of him. Desperately seeking a new job Vera immediately gets an answer about a job vacancy in Ängelby, a small remote city she's unfamili... | paranormal, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0251127 | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson) is a writer who works for a magazine called Composure as the "How to..." girl. She is bored and wishes she could write more about important things, such as politics, economics, religion, poverty; stuff she actually cares about. She soon finds herself writing an article called "How to Lose a... | bleak, comedy, entertaining, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0109010 | 1942: A Love Story | The film is set in 1942, when the British Raj was declining. It was a time when many Indians were either working for the British or rallying in underground meetings and protests against them. In this atmosphere, Naren Singh (Anil Kapoor) falls in love with Rajeshwari "Rajjo" Pathak (Manisha Koirala). Their romance is s... | violence, avant garde, cruelty | train | wikipedia | An absolute masterpiece.
"1942 A Love story" is a portray of a beautiful love story with the backdrop of the Indian struggle for freedom.The plot is still the same of a love story but unlike other Bollywood movies the villains are not the parents but the political turmoil of 1942.Vidhu Vinod who was just three movie ol... |
tt2621414 | Dead Reckoning | Leaving a church, Father Logan, a well known ex-paratrooper padre, is approached by Captain "Rip" Murdock (Humphrey Bogart). Murdock needs to tell someone what has happened to him in the past few days in case his enemies get to him. A flashback follows.
Just after World War II, paratroopers and close friends Captain Mu... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0064045 | The Assassination Bureau | In London, during the early 1900s, aspiring journalist and women's rights campaigner Sonia Winter (Diana Rigg) uncovers an organisation that specialises in killing for money, the Assassination Bureau, Limited. To bring about its destruction, she commissions the assassination of the bureau's own chairman, Ivan Dragomilo... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0110076 | Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! | Prem (Salman Khan) lost his parents at an early age. He lives with his elder brother Rajesh (Mohnish Bahl) and uncle Kailashnath (Alok Nath). Rajesh manages the family business and his family is on the look-out for a suitable bride for him. Professor Siddharth Chaudhary (Anupam Kher) and Mrs. Chaudhary (Reema Lagoo) ha... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0108734 | The Critic | Simple, abstract, geometric shapes move and morph on the screen to harpsichord music, from a French Suite (BWV 816) by J. S. Bach. The voice of an audience member, who claims to be 71, complains throughout the film despite being told repeatedly by other audience members to keep quiet.
The onscreen images feature geomet... | absurd, satire | train | wikipedia | Like most Simpsons watching fanatics that are also latched tightly to the Family Guy, I couldn't help but walk (never run) to buy this series when it came out.
He is a God among Gods in my book!Created by the same team that did The Simpsons, Sherman great to life through not only the witty banter that leapt from his mo... |
tt0083000 | Roadgames | The film opens on truck driver Patrick Quid (Stacy Keach) as he pulls into a motel for the night. Quid notices a man in a green van checking in with a female hitchhiker he had passed earlier because the trucking company policy forbids it. Nevertheless, Quid is upset at the man for taking the last room in the motel and ... | insanity, violence, grindhouse film, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0088891 | Cavegirl | The main characters are Cavegirl herself and her family Dad, Mum, Big Sis, Gran and Little Bro. Other tribe members feature prominently. Cavegirl is a pretty, feisty individual and a bit of a tomboy although during the series she begins to become interested in boys and many of the storylines involve her becoming more m... | cult | train | wikipedia | Cave Girl is a humorous tongue in cheek romantic comedy that follows the romantic relationship of bumbling modern day Rex and beautiful and sexy pre-historic cave girl Eba.
The movie follows the bumbling Rex through a series of slapstick pranks and mishaps that culminate in his transport 25,000 years back in time to me... |
tt0255195 | The Goddess of 1967 | The storyline opens in Tokyo where JM (Rikiya Kurokawa), a rich young IT worker and sometime computer hacker, is attempting to purchase a 1967 model Citroën DS, or Goddess, as it is known to French car aficionados. JM lives in a pristine but unfriendly hi-tech apartment. The smog filled city is blue-grey and bleak. He ... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | I loved it.The movie starts with a computer screen that says: I want to buy GOD.The Prologue doesn't have any human voices.
Because of that movie I can't let go of that.She succeeds in showing us her own vision of The Goddess of 1967 because she stays consequent by creating a contemporary and postmodern feeling.
Afterw... |
tt0238414 | Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas | === Donald Duck Stuck On Christmas ===
Inspired by Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells. Huey, Dewey and Louie wake up one Christmas morning and open their presents, even though they are supposed to wait first for Aunt Daisy, Uncle Scrooge and Aunt Gertie to arrive. After the boys take their new sleds from their... | revenge, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0298856 | Evelyn | Nine-year-old Evelyn Doyle's (Sophie Vavasseur) mother has abandoned the family, leaving her out-of-work father Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan) to bring up Evelyn and her two brothers, Maurice (Hugh MacDonagh) and Dermot (Niall Beagan) on his own. Matters are only made worse when Desmond's mother-in-law (Claire Mullan) ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070291 | The Last of Sheila | On a one-week Mediterranean pleasure cruise aboard the yacht of movie producer Clinton Greene (Coburn), the guests include actress Alice Wood (Welch), her talent-manager husband Anthony (McShane), talent agent Christine (Cannon), screenwriter Tom Parkman (Benjamin), Tom's wife Lee (Hackett), and film director Philip De... | revenge, comedy, murder, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038882 | Rigoletto | Place: Mantua
Time: the Sixteenth century
=== Act 1 ===
Scene 1: A room in the palace of Duke of Mantua
At a ball in his palace, the Duke sings of a life of pleasure with as many women as possible: "Questa o quella" ("This woman or that"). He has seen an unknown beauty in church and desires to possess her, but he also ... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | Opera as it used to be.. This film was actually shot at the Rome opera house. It was originally made in black and white but may have been coloured later on. The only singer not acting her own part is Lina Pagliughi, at that time dealing with quite severe weight problems. The cast is very good, Tito Gobbi's interpretati... |
tt1178663 | Whatever Works | Boris Yelnikoff (Larry David) is a cynical chess teacher and former Columbia professor in quantum mechanics. Divorced, he avoids human contact except for his friends (Michael McKean, Adam Brooks, Lyle Kanouse) and students, patronising everyone he meets for not matching him intellectually. He spends much of the film wa... | romantic, philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1264074 | Le chant des mariées | Myriam (Lizzie Brocheré) and Nour (Olympe Borval) are two young Tunisian girls who live in the same poor tenement building. Jewish Myriam is allowed to go to school and was given certain privileges while Nour, a native Tunisian is banned from being educated. At sixteen Nour becomes engaged to one of her cousins, Khaled... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The Wedding Song.
I saw this last month at the 2009 Palm Springs International film Festival.
This is the second feature film of writer/director/actress Karin Albou who received critical acclaim for her debut film La Petite Jersalem.
As as writer and director Albou seems to have a promising career ahead of her as she k... |
tt0070000 | Double Indemnity | Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), a successful insurance salesman, returns to his office building in downtown Los Angeles late one night. Visibly in pain and sporting a gunshot wound on his shoulder, he begins dictating a confession into a Dictaphone for his friend and colleague, Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilli... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | This 1973 remake of the classic 1944 Billy Wilder film, "Double Indemnity," is a textbook example of how to destroy a great script.
While Hollywood has gone after greedy executives that colorize black-and-white films and sought disclaimers on wide-screen movies that are shown in pan-and-scan versions, the industry has ... |
tt3863552 | Bajrangi Bhaijaan | In Sultanpur, a picturesque village in Azad Kashmir, villagers gather to watch a televised cricket match between India and Pakistan. Among them is a pregnant woman (Meher Vij) who, after giving birth, names her daughter Shahida after Shahid Afridi, the player who wins the game for Pakistan. One afternoon, Shahida (Hars... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt5142214 | Il trovatore | Place: Biscay and Aragon (Spain)
Time: Fifteenth century.
=== Act 1: The Duel ===
Scene 1: The guard room in the castle of Luna (The Palace of Aljafería, Zaragoza, Spain)
Ferrando, the captain of the guards, orders his men to keep watch while Count di Luna wanders restlessly beneath the windows of Leonora, lady-in-wait... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Dmitri Tcherniakov deconstructs 'Il Trovatore' to musically impressive but often dramatically puzzling effect. 'Il Trovatore' is not one of Verdi's best operas. The story is very convoluted (still in a muddle trying to sum up the whole business with Azucena and her given circumstances), and it has also been criticised ... |
tt4847546 | Blood Feast | In the midst of a series of gruesome murders, a young woman is killed inside her suburban Miami house by a grey-haired, wild-eyed man. He stabs her in the eye and hacks her leg off with a machete, bagging the leg before he leaves. At the police station the next day, detective Pete Thornton investigates the killing, not... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Horrible.
One of the worst pieces of garbage I have ever seen..
I've seen some terrible movies in my lifetime, and this one is no different.
Talent-less actors, weak special effects, the movie takes forever to get going and when it does it looks like a bad porn film.
Really, this movie is just terrible and everyone inv... |
tt0823463 | Gears of War | === Setting ===
Gears of War 2 takes place six months after the detonation of the Lightmass Bomb at the end of the first game. Though most of the underground army of the Locust Horde was destroyed, the explosion also caused much of the liquid Imulsion underground to vaporize, causing a fatal disease called Rustlung to ... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | In GEARS OF WAR you control Marcus Fenix, a disgraced squad leader of the forces of the Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG).
An optional second player can join in and control comrade Dominic.In this third-person shooter, you must make judicious use of all available cover in order to succeed without being wiped out v... |
tt0041275 | Daffy Duck Hunt | Continuing from Porky's Duck Hunt, Porky with Barnyard Dawg (from the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons) are hunting ducks. Daffy sneaks up behind them in a giant fake duck and empties the shot from their shells, then walks off with a silly laugh and the phrase "Duck hunters is the cwaziest peoples!" (a reference to Lew Lehr's ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | First Four Minutes As Funny As I've Ever Seen In A Cartoon.
Porky is in the blinds duck hunting.
Daffy sneaks up from behind and empties his shotgun shells, saying, "Duck hunters is the cwaziest people."The cocky Daffy then flies overhead and announces, "Here I am, fat boy.
Here's your target!" Then, even more of an ou... |
tt0453533 | Unrest | The film revolves around a cadaver who seems to bring misfortune on those who come in contact with it.
Although there is very little corporeal manifestation of the ghosts, people seem to die when they enrage the spirit which is linked with a special cadaver—by disrespecting it or otherwise. The story takes place mostly... | insanity, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038190 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | The film covers several months in the life of the Nolans, an Irish American family living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1912. The film is much shorter than the book, which covers the time from before Francie is born until after she turns 16. The film focuses on the time when Francie is around 13 years... | autobiographical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0083779 | Cymbeline | Cymbeline, the Roman Empire's vassal king of Britain, once had two sons, Guiderius and Arvirargus, but they were stolen twenty years earlier as infants by an exiled traitor named Belarius. Cymbeline now discovers that his only child left, his daughter Imogen (or Innogen), has secretly married her lover Posthumus Leonat... | tragedy, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1457765 | The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia | The film is set in 1993. Andy and Lisa Wyrick, along with their daughter Heidi, move into a rural home after receiving a deal from the bank. They are told that no one had previously lived on the land, which is why they are getting such a great deal. Shortly after moving in, Heidi begins to experience visions. After a v... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Research into the Wyrick hauntings won't ruin the film for you however as the only comparison to recorded events are the names of the characters.As with any horror movie these days there are plenty of stock thrills: ghosts in white dresses, waking from a dream to find you are still in a dream, swings that move by thems... |
tt0427954 | Tom yum goong | Kham is the last of a family line of guards who once watched over the King of Thailand's war elephants. Traditionally, only the most perfect elephants could successfully defend the throne, and very great care was taken in raising them. Kham grows up forming close relations to his elephant, Por Yai and his calf, Kohrn. ... | cult, revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Several other IMDb members commented on the repetitiveness of the movie, comparisons to Jackie Chan/Jet Li and its use of Kung Fu.First of all martial arts flicks will always be redundant to some extent since there are only so many ways to pick a fight, but stories do vary as does the quality of action.
Anyway, if you ... |
tt0090073 | Stick | Ernest "Stick" Stickley, a former car thief, has just been released from prison. He meets up with an old friend, Rainy, whose "quick stop" near the Florida Everglades before they go home is an illegal drug deal that goes sour. With his friend dead, Stick needs to hide out for a while to elude the killers who must elimi... | revenge, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0033477 | Come Live with Me | Johnny Jones (Lamarr), a native of Vienna, Austria who escaped after its annexation by Nazi Germany, is having an affair with the married Barton Kendrick (Ian Hunter), a publisher. One night an officer from the Department of Immigration finds her and tells her that she will be deported because her temporary passport ex... | romantic | train | wikipedia | This is a wonderful Jimmy Stewart and Hedy Lamarr movie.
I loved every frame of this 1941 light romantic comedy when Hedy Lamarr is paired with Jimmy Stewart.It has been said so many times before but Hedy had such beauty both in body and spirit that it is almost worth seeing a film with her in it just to gape in awe at... |
tt0023396 | Ride Him, Cowboy | John Drury (John Wayne) is passing through when townsfolk are about to kill Duke, a horse they believe to be dangerous. He convinces them to reprieve the animal if he can ride it. He does, earning the gratitude of Ruth Gaunt (Ruth Hall).
He then volunteers to deal with an outlaw known as the Hawk who has been terrorizi... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | It was a very interesting short film that was done very well.It had action, comedy, romance and suspense all packed into a movie less that lasted only 55 minutes.
It had a convincing nasty villain, a pretty girl, a talented horse named "Duke," and a crooked-but-funny judge.
The horse was able to untie rope and acted al... |
tt0042609 | The Jackie Robinson Story | The film begins with Robinson as a boy. He is given a worn-out baseball glove by a stranger impressed by his fielding skills. As a young man, he becomes a multi-sport star at UCLA, but as he nears graduation, he worries about his future. His older brother Mack was also an outstanding college athlete and graduate, but t... | autobiographical | train | wikipedia | Too much exposition by characters who should have more interesting stories (wouldn't you want to know more about the USC athletic director who said the only color he cares about is "blue and gold?" Also, Louise Beavers gave a very subdued performance considering it was one of her few roles where she wasn't playing some... |
tt0039243 | Captain from Castile | In the spring of 1518, near Jaén, Spain, Pedro de Vargas (Tyrone Power), a Castilian caballero, helps a runaway Aztec slave, Coatl (Jay Silverheels), escape his cruel master, Diego de Silva (John Sutton). De Silva is el supremo of the Santa Hermandad, charged with enforcing the Inquisition, and Pedro's rival for the af... | revenge, murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Shellabarger reads very much like Bernal Diaz, a common soldier under Cortez who wrote a history of the Conquest of Mexico.
Of course, there will never be another Tyrone Power, Jean Peters or Cesar Romero, but do it anyway -- and use Alfred Newman's original music score (adopted by the USC Trojans as their own "Conques... |
tt0007361 | Snow White | 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... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0337592 | Love Don't Cost a Thing | Alvin Johnson (Nick Cannon) is an extremely intelligent nerd under consideration for a General Motors scholarship, as he is skilled in designing engines. He has also taken up a job as a pool cleaner, to raise money to buy an expensive car part. He's always dreamed of hanging out with the popular kids, especially Paris ... | blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037650 | Doll Face | "Doll Face" Carroll is an entertainer looking to expand her reportoire. After a failed audition, where she is recognized as a burlesque performer from the Gaiety Theatre, her manager and fiancé Mike Hannegan suggest she writes an autobiography to project a more literate image and he hires Frederick Manly Gerard as a gh... | autobiographical | train | wikipedia | A wartime soufflé from a play by Gypsy Rose Lee (as Louise Hovick), DOLL FACE features a lightweight plot with some snappy dialogue and delivery among the clichés, while director Lewis Seiler's vision is properly focused upon contemporary swing music, highlighting the vocal skill of Vivian Blaine, Perry Como, Carmen Mi... |
tt0004972 | The Birth of a Nation | === Part 1: Civil War of United States ===
The film follows two juxtaposed families. One is the Northern Stonemans: abolitionist U.S. Representative Austin Stoneman (based on the Reconstruction-era Representative Thaddeus Stevens), his daughter, and two sons. The other is the Southern Camerons: Dr. Cameron is married t... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | The second part, set in the reconstruction era, contains almost all of the disturbing material, and it also is really not all that great in terms of cinematic quality.Then also, the degree to which "The Birth of a Nation" may have influenced the development of cinema has very likely been overstated .
The controversy th... |
tt0442632 | Bleak House | Sir Leicester Dedlock and his wife Lady Honoria live on his estate at Chesney Wold. Unknown to Sir Leicester, Lady Dedlock had a lover, Captain Hawdon, before she married and had a daughter by him. Lady Dedlock believes her daughter is dead.
The daughter, Esther, is in fact alive and being raised by Miss Barbary, Lady ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock is maybe a bit too icy (frozen solid?), but that's what the role calls for, I suppose.Another excellent feature is the period atmosphere.
Half-way through this version of Charles Dickens' weighty novel seems a good time to comment on it.
The BBC have taken the view that, as Bleak House ... |
tt1180329 | Antoine et Colette | Antoine and Colette catches up with Antoine as a solitary 20-year-old who works at Phillips manufacturing LPs to support himself. He lives in a furnished room by himself in Place Clichy, listening to opera and classical music and spending time with René (Patrick Auffay), his school friend from The 400 Blows.
One day, w... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0067976 | When Eight Bells Toll | British Treasury secret agent Phillip Calvert (Anthony Hopkins) is sent to investigate the hijacking of five cargo ships in the Irish Sea, tracking the latest hijacked ship—the Nantesville, carrying £8 million in gold bullion—to the Scottish Highlands and the sleepy port town of "Torbay" on the "Isle of Torbay" (patter... | comedy, revenge, intrigue, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | The cast perform their roles well, Anthony Hopkins and Robert Morley particularly playing mutual antagonism with some nice comic touches.One reviewer mentioned that Charles Gray's dubbing of Jack Hawkins's voice seemed a bit slapdash.
It seems that the whole world and their dogs know of Commander Bond, who takes his ma... |
tt0071502 | Il fiore delle mille e una notte | The story starts at a harem in Persia, where the elderly overseer bids his young charges to read the story of Haroun al-Rashid (Hall) and his wife Sherazade (Montez), unfolding the film's plot in the process.
Sherazade, a dancer in a wandering circus owned by Ahmad (Billy Gilbert) - whose troupe also includes Sinbad th... | fantasy, murder, violence, flashback, psychedelic, tragedy, romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036780 | Duck Soup to Nuts | Daffy is relaxing in a pond with a group of mallards. Suddenly a gunshot goes off and all the ducks dunk their heads underwater for cover (Daffy puts a swimming cap on his head before similarly dunking his head). Porky enters and lets off another shot, which sends the other ducks flying away.
Porky then takes aim at Da... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0460665 | Night Stalker | In the opening, Kolchak is sitting on the bed of a sleazy hotel room, listening to a replay of his dictation on his portable tape recorder. The notes are about a series of murders that have plagued the Las Vegas Strip, and a cover up of those events by the authorities. All of the victims had their bodies drained of blo... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | When the show was first announced it sounded promising, mostly because producer Frank Spotnitz was a veteran of "The X Files"...and as we all know, several "X Files" veterans were big fans of the original "Night Stalker" movies and series.Now, whenever a cultural icon is reinvented for a new era, one always expects a f... |
tt0390073 | The Halfway House | During the Second World War, various people converge on the Halfway House, an inn in the Welsh countryside. In Cardiff, the famous orchestra conductor David Davies is advised by his doctor to cancel a tour and rest, otherwise he will live only about three months more. In London, Richard and Jill French argue about the ... | good versus evil, violence, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | The tide turned again in the Bush, Sr. era as politically correct movie makers like Wes Craven cleaned house, ditching gratuitous nudity and sleaze to appeal to the more conservative leaning Gen X American teens.THE HALFWAY HOUSE, made in 2004, is a welcome leap back in time, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the bad ole da... |
tt3398048 | Tevar | Pintoo (Arjun Kapoor) is a young Kabbadi player who goes to factionism-hit Mathura to take part in practice. There, in a twist of fate, he saves Radhika (Sonakshi Sinha) from Gajendar Singh (Manoj Bajpayee), a dangerous faction leader, who is in love with Radhika and wants to marry her against her wishes. Pintoo tries ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0014107 | The Gunfighter | A young, reckless cowboy named Eddie (Richard Jaeckel) deliberately provokes an argument with the notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo (Gregory Peck). Ringo is widely known as the fastest draw in the West, making him the perpetual target of every young gunslinger eager to become famous as "the man who shot Ringo". When Edd... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0096246 | The Terror Within | In a post-apocalyptic future, human survivors are fighting a group of mutant monsters they refer to as "Gargoyles".
Two of these survivors Michael and John are out surveying the world after a chemical or biological attack which left a large portion of the population mutated or dead. The survivors are part of the Mojave... | violence | train | wikipedia | But what else would expect from the likes of Roger Corman?Chemical warfare experiment kills of most of the world's population.
There are a few 'normal' people left like our protagonists (Andrew Stevens, George Kennedy, Teri Treas, etc..) and then there are the gargoyle-like creatures who impregnate female humans in ord... |
tt1724555 | Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days | === Setting and characters ===
Dog Days has players control James Seth Lynch for most of the game (the second player in co-op is Adam "Kane" Marcus). After the end of the first game the pair part ways. Lynch starts a new life in Shanghai with a girlfriend named Xiu, working for a crime organization led by English-born ... | violence, revenge, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1334722 | Baccano! | Aboard the ship Advenna Avis in 1711, a group of alchemists summon a demon in the hopes of gaining eternal life. The demon gives them an elixir of immortality and the method of ending their existence, by "devouring" one another, and grants the summoner Maiza Avaro the formula of the elixir. Maiza and most of the alchem... | violence, comedy, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | Intelligent premises, with a little bit of the fantastic but not enough to feel inauthentic in the 30's prohibition underworld setting.At first it's difficult to follow because of the anachronistic order and sheer loads of characters, but as you get used to the pacing and familiar with the faces, the pieces begin to fi... |
tt0058123 | Les félins | The episode opens with a single father, Jerry, repeatedly pouring himself a mug of coffee and then dumping it in the sink. The clock shows just before 8:30 am. He then speaks to his daughter, Samantha, who leaves the house for school. Overall, the father and daughter's interactions are listless and unemotional, and alm... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0455965 | Jade Empire | === Setting ===
Jade Empire takes place in a fictional kingdom inspired by ancient China. The game developers had a constructed language, Tho Fan, created for the game by Canadian linguist Wolf Wikeley. The language has been designed to sound ancient and distinctly Asian. Tho Fan does without the verb "to be"; instead,... | good versus evil, violence, action, flashback | train | wikipedia | Every gamer and I mean everybody should play this game, especially RPG and action/adventure fans.It has a brilliant, wonderfully crafted story, great voice acting, fantastic characters (and development), great dialogue, shocking plot twists and surprises, cool and easy to learn battle system, gameplay that is so well d... |
tt0105859 | Sun lung moon hak chan | This is a period film set during the Ming Dynasty in the desert region of China.
Tsao Siu-yan is a power-crazed eunuch who rules his sector of China as if he were the Emperor and not a mere official. He is the leader of the Emperor's ruthless security agency known as the Eastern Depot (東廠 Dong Chang). He has built up a... | violence | train | wikipedia | Tsui Hark produces this historical affair, a costume drama detailing the plight of resistance fighter Zhou Huaian (Leung) and partner Qiu Moyan (Lin), relentlessly headhunted by evil eunuch Cao Shao-qiu (Yen), a powerful so-and-so and hottest contender for supreme control of the Imperial court.
Zhou is his latest obsta... |
tt0120108 | The Proposition | Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, the movie follows a series of events following the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family, likely committed by the infamous Burns brothers gang.
The film opens in a remote wood building with a violent gunfight between the police and Charlie Burns' (Guy Pearce) gang, w... | romantic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | But it kept me watching, fascinated, for two hours (including commercials), and at the end I felt like I wanted to spend more time with it.
It has romance, elegant atmosphere, a surprising plot, intriguing themes, and good actors...so, while the pacing and direction sometimes seem a touch stilted, I'd definitely watch... |
tt0159090 | Vanity Fair | This film adaptation's storyline begins around 1920 and concludes in 1933. In its opening scene a limousine is traveling down a road outside London. In the car are two passengers, Amelia Sedley (Barbara Kent) and her friend Becky Sharp (Myrna Loy), young ladies who agewise are in their twenties. Amelia is from a rich, ... | romantic, satire | train | wikipedia | This is a marvellous retelling of William Thackeray's 19th century novel, successful in almost every possible way.
But what makes this so good, particularly for those familiar with the novel, are two things: its total commitment to the spirit of 'Vanity Fair', and joyously perfect casting and acting.As readers of VF wi... |
tt0097965 | New York Stories | === Life Lessons ===
In a story loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's short novel The Gambler, Nick Nolte plays Lionel Dobie, an acclaimed abstract artist who finds himself unable to paint during the days before the scheduled beginning of a major gallery exhibition of his new work. Rosanna Arquette is Paulette, his appr... | paranormal, satire, storytelling | train | wikipedia | The anthology that include three short films that take place in New York City was made by three great American directors, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, and Francis Ford Coppola."Life Lessons" directed by Martin Scorsese, literally took my breath away - it made me want to rewatch all Scorsese's films (with the one excep... |
tt0027421 | Captain January | Captain January (Baby Peggy) is a young girl who lives in a lighthouse in Maine with her guardian, Jeremiah "Daddy" Judkins (Hobart Bosworth). Judkins, who is the lighthouse keeper, rescued January from a shipwreck when she was an infant. The only clue to the baby's identity was a locket with a photograph of a woman ar... | romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Typical Temple Movie - Which Means Feel-Good Fun. Here's another "cute" Shirley Temple movie with interesting characters and a decent share of good song-and-dance numbers.
The story is similar to a few other Temple films in which a nasty person takes Shirley away from the good people but the good guys prevail in the en... |
tt0319495 | Detour | Piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) is drinking coffee at a roadside diner in Reno, hitchhiking east from California, when a fellow patron plays a song on the jukebox that reminds him of his former life in New York City. At the time, Al was bitter about squandering his talent working in a cheap nightclub. After his girl... | violence | train | wikipedia | My favorite bit was the scene where King Freak (T.C. Davidson) is carrying Tara (Ashley Elizabeth) like a sack of potatoes away from the Freak residence seemingly intent on getting her alone and doing God only knows what to her, only to be interrupted when Queen Freak (Micky Levy) calls to him from the second floor win... |
tt0284482 | Shenmue II | In 1987, teenage martial artist Ryo Hazuki arrives from Japan in Wan Chai, Hong Kong on the trail of his father's killer, Lan Di, of the criminal Chi You Men organization. He searches for Master Lishao Tao, the only link to the whereabouts of Yuanda Zhu, a martial arts expert who sent Ryo's father a letter warning him ... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | The opening is fantastic, with beautiful real-time graphic scenes, but is not revolutionary.
Even with some mistakes and graphic failures, the graphic is excellent with a high grade of details.
Women, main characters, motos and children are well designed, with good texture.
Can not be said about the men characters.
It ... |
tt0069996 | Don't Play Us Cheap | Trinity and Brother Dave are a pair of devil-bats looking for a party to break up. They come across a party in Harlem. Although Trinity is eager, Dave warns him not to touch it. "When black folks throw a party, they don't play!" Trinity joins the party, already in progress, thrown by Miss Maybell in honor of her niece ... | cult, blaxploitation, romantic | train | wikipedia | The best of the Bizzare.
Wow what an odd film.
This is one of those films that only a mother could love.
And then 30 years later a whole new audience sees it.
What may have looked too strange then can now be seen with new eyes.
This movie is thick.
The colors and aesthetic,the textures and flow are so different from ot... |
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