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tt0179098 | Moonlight Mile | Following the murder of Diana Floss (Careena Melia) in a restaurant shooting in Cape Ann, Massachusetts in 1973, her fiancé Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal) elects to stay with her parents. Her father Ben Floss (Dustin Hoffman) is a realtor whose business partner has recently left. Ben and Joe go into business as Floss & Son... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | The dead person is the daughter of Ben (Dustin Hoffman) and Jojo (Susan Sarandon), her fiancé named Joe (Jake Gyllenhaal) is now living with them.
Joe befriends a girl named Bertie Knox (Ellen Pompeo) who also has lost someone.Like I said the subject is handled in a very good way.
Highlighted by phenomenal performances... |
tt0362270 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | While oceanographer Steve Zissou is working on his latest documentary at sea, his best friend and chief diver, Esteban du Plantier, is eaten by a creature Zissou describes as a "Jaguar shark." For his next project, Zissou is determined to document the shark's destruction.
The crew aboard Zissou's aging research vessel ... | comedy, dark, boring, murder, whimsical, cult, cute, plot twist, flashback, absurd, humor, psychedelic, tragedy, revenge, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0257322 | Storytime | The film begins with an animated version of director Terry Gilliam reading from a children's storybook. The story, "Don the Cockroach", opens with a palace high atop a mountain. Inside the wall of one of its rooms lives a cheerful cockroach named Don, who is shown frolicking and generally enjoying his life as a cockroa... | storytelling | train | wikipedia | Am I the only one who remembers this show?. So it would seem. It's got no reviews. It hasn't even gotten 5 votes yet for an average score on IMDb.But I have fond, vague memories of watching this on PBS when I was little. As I recall, the show was centered around a childish puppet named Kino who was cared for by his hum... |
tt0222024 | Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam | Dev Narayan (Alok Nath) lives with his widowed daughter Laxmi (Aruna Irani) and her children Radha and Prashant. Dev also looks after two orphaned children, Gopal and Nita. Laxmi believes that Dev is taking more care of Gopal and Nita, so she leaves the house with her children. Laxmi soon spots an orphaned boy on the s... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0816226 | It Takes Two | Two unrelated young girls who happen to look identical suddenly meet. Amanda Lemmon (Mary-Kate Olsen) is an orphan, and she is about to be adopted by the Butkises, a family whom she doesn't like. She actually wants her child-loving social worker, Diane Barrows (Kirstie Alley), to adopt her instead. Diane would like to ... | non fiction | train | wikipedia | God awful show.... Another feeble attempt by channel 7 to milk the popularity of celebrity reality TV shows. Of course the term "celebrity" is used quite loosely especially when they have such mega stars as Michael Bevan!I must say I admire the way channel 7 work, they find that one type of show is popular and they do ... |
tt0084208 | King Lear | King Lear of Britain, elderly and wanting to retire from the duties of the monarchy, decides to divide his realm among his three daughters, and declares he will offer the largest share to the one who loves him most. The eldest, Goneril, speaks first, declaring her love for her father in fulsome terms. Moved by her flat... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | Very Prickly and Uncomfortable for BBC Shakespeare.
This is a caustic, disturbing production by Jonathan Miller that belies the usual condemnation of BBC blandness.
Colors are deliberately desaturated, costumes are all black, interior sets have a plank-and-drape design and a Velasquez-like austerity, exteriors have lit... |
tt0126765 | 23 | In 1980s Germany at the height of the Cold War, 19-year-old Karl Koch (August Diehl) finds the world around him threatening and chaotic. Inspired by the fictitious character Hagbard Celine (from Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's Illuminatus! Trilogy), he starts investigating the backgrounds of political and economi... | cult, mystery | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0301543 | Lethal Weapon | LAPD Homicide Sergeant Roger Murtaugh, shortly after celebrating his 50th birthday, is partnered with Sergeant Martin Riggs, a transfer from narcotics. Riggs is a former Special Forces soldier who lost his wife in a car accident just three years prior, has turned suicidal, and has been taking his aggression out on susp... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0081283 | Ordinary People | The Jarretts are an upper-middle-class family in suburban Chicago trying to return to normal life after the death of one teenaged son and the attempted suicide of their surviving son, Conrad (Timothy Hutton). Conrad has recently returned home from a four-month stay in a psychiatric hospital. He feels alienated from his... | melodrama, romantic, depressing, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0175047 | Point Blank | Walker works with his friend Mal Reese to steal a large amount of cash from a courier transporting funds for a major gambling operation, with the deserted Alcatraz Island as a drop point. Reese then double-crosses Walker and shoots him, leaving him for dead. Reese also makes off with Walker's wife, Lynne.
Walker recove... | murder | train | wikipedia | This is a very bad movie.The actors seem to be on drugs, the action scenes are unspeakably clumsy and the plot virtually non-existent.
There is a lot of sadistic and unnecessary violence featuring weird slow-motion scenes, which could be intended to cover up Mickey Rourke's slow, bulky moves.
There are also terrible se... |
tt0028597 | The Awful Truth | Jerry Warriner (Cary Grant) returns home from a trip, which he falsely says was to Florida, to find that his wife, Lucy (Irene Dunne), is not at home. When she returns in the company of her handsome music teacher, Armand Duvalle (Alexander D'Arcy), Jerry learns that Lucy spent the night in the country with Armand, afte... | romantic, comedy | train | wikipedia | Each scene takes moment from the time-line established by the impending day and hour and minute at which a husband (Cary Grant) and wife (Irene Dunne) become legally divorced, and the movie ends at precisely the stroke of midnight which marks that moment.
It succeeds with its self-assured anarchy and the charm of its s... |
tt0180897 | Paradise Lost | The poem follows the epic tradition of starting in medias res (Latin for in the midst of things), the background story being recounted later.
Milton's story has two narrative arcs, one about Satan (Lucifer) and the other following Adam and Eve. It begins after Satan and the other rebel angels have been defeated and ban... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0112401 | Assassins | Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone) is a paid assassin who wants nothing more than to get out of 'the business', haunted by the memory of murdering his own mentor Nicolai years ago. Rath is a quiet, morose professional who is on an assignment to kill someone when someone else gets to the 'mark' (the target) before he does... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence, romantic, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0040843 | The Street with No Name | The opening credits include the following foreword:
The motion picture you are about to see was adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Wherever possible, it was photographed in the original locale and played by the actual FBI personnel involved.
This is followed by a message from FBI Director J.... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Most directors assigned these tasks in the noir cycle wrote off such idolatry as a cost of doing business, clearing it away quickly so as to get on with their moviemaking; William Keighley follows this sensible agenda.FBI agent Mark Stevens goes undercover to infiltrate the mob in that cesspool of crime, Center City, U... |
tt3149206 | The Vanished | Sara Collins vanishes from a dinner held in her honor. She was a teacher, and wife to Senator Jeffrey Collins. She had previously told her husband that she had a secret, but disappeared before she could reveal it to him.
The investigation into her kidnapping starts to probe secrets from the main characters. While Senat... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0099654 | Ghost Dad | Elliot Hopper (Bill Cosby) is a workaholic widower who is about to land the deal of a lifetime at work, which he hopes will win him a promotion and a company car. After he forgets his daughter Diane's birthday, he attempts to make it up to her by promising her she can have his car when he secures the deal at work on th... | cult | train | wikipedia | After the colossal artistic and commercial triumph of Leonard: Part 6, "The Cos" decided to make his next film a more organic, "Art-House" picture and proves once again that he has the cinematic midas touch.
In a premise that might seem silly in other hands, Cosby and director Sidney Portier deftly weave a tightly knit... |
tt0127396 | Toransufômâ: Chôjin masutâ fôsu | Several thousand years ago, the planet Cybertron was consumed by a civil war by the two Transformer factions, the Autobots led by Optimus Prime and the Decepticons led by Megatron. Optimus jettisoned the AllSpark, a mystical artifact that brings life to the planet, into space, but Megatron pursued it. Megatron crashed ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The best of the 1980s anime-Transformers shows.
That's saying a fair bit as Headmasters from personal perspective didn't hold up(despite saying that I remembered it being good) and I didn't care at all for Victory.
Masterforce was really well done though, the concept initially did seem a little shaky and as with a lot ... |
tt2654124 | Iron Man: Rise of Technovore | While racing in a desert with War Machine (James "Rhodey" Rhodes), Iron Man is ambushed by a mysterious new enemy who tries to destroy Tony Stark's new security satellite, "The Howard". War Machine is killed in the struggle and Iron Man sets out for revenge. He is intercepted by S.H.I.E.L.D. and Nick Fury who needs to ... | violence | train | wikipedia | The animation was good, like most Japanese animes.
And the story is pretty much crap.I see a pattern here: somewhere between the releases of big Hollywood productions, some low budget animation features appear, usually straight to video, and usually made by the Japanese.
Probably both.The problem with this idea is that... |
tt0340374 | Splinter Cell | The first game explains that "Splinter Cell" refers to an elite recon-type unit of single covert operatives (such as Sam Fisher) who are supported in the field by a high-tech remote team.
In the first three games (Splinter Cell, Pandora Tomorrow, Chaos Theory), terrorists are planning attacks, usually by use of informa... | violence | train | wikipedia | Coolest Stealth Game I've played yet..
This is the first Tom Clancy Video Game I've ever played.I'm familiar with his video games, but this one interested me the most.Splinter Cell is taken place in an alternate late 2004.
Including Terrisum, World in Crisis, and a war between the middle east and the USA.You play Sam F... |
tt0047706 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Richard the Lionheart (Ian Hunter), the King of England, is taken captive in 1191 by Leopold V, Duke of Austria while returning to England. Richard’s treacherous brother Prince John (Claude Rains) usurps the throne and proceeds to oppress the Saxons, raising taxes to secure his own position.
Only the Saxon nobleman Sir... | violence, action, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0758796 | The Violent Kind | Cody, Q, and Elroy are second-generation bikers and drug dealers who plan to visit Cody's family at a remote cabin for his mother's birthday party; Shade, Q's girlfriend and Cody's cousin, joins them. When they arrive, they meet Cody's ex-girlfriend, Michelle, and her younger sister, Megan, who has a crush on Cody. Aft... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0075784 | A Bridge Too Far | Operation Market Garden envisions 35,000 men being flown 300 miles from air bases in England and dropped behind enemy lines in the Netherlands. Two divisions of U.S. paratroopers, the 82nd and 101st Airborne, are responsible for securing the road and bridges as far as Nijmegen. A British division, the 1st Airborne, und... | dramatic, cult, historical, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0041263 | Cover Up | In a small Midwestern town, Roger Phillips is found dead. When insurance investigator Sam Donovan (O'Keefe) arrives looking into the apparent suicide, all clues lead him to suspect murder. The man was shot, but there are no powder burns on the body (which would indicate he was not shot at close range) nor was a pistol ... | murder | train | wikipedia | So why aren't small town locals cooperating with insurance investigator O'Keefe as he looks into a suicide or maybe murder.
Good thing the Weatherby's elder daughter (Britton) is there to brighten up his stay.The production does an excellent job blending the mystery ingredient with lighter moments and the romantic angl... |
tt0073240 | The Killer Elite | Mike Locken (James Caan) and George Hansen (Robert Duvall) are best friends and private contractors for a private intelligence agency, Communications Integrity or ComTeg, which handles covert assignments for the CIA. At the beginning of the film, Locken and Hansen are helping an East European defector, Vorodny (Helmut ... | comedy, suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback, humor, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0043914 | The People Against O'Hara | James Curtayne (Tracy) has retired from criminal law, but when Johnny O'Hara (Arness), a boy from the neighborhood, is accused of a murder, Curtayne takes the case. The boy's parents plead for Curtayne's help, even though they are too poor to pay him a fee.
A man Johnny knew was shot and killed during the night by two ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | An excellent performance by Spencer Tracy in "The People Against O'Hara" lifts this all too familiar plot line to a different level.
Tracy is an alcoholic who, for the sake of his health and sobriety, becomes a civil attorney, only to be drawn back into criminal work when neighborhood friends need him to defend their s... |
tt0346578 | Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman | A new heroine has arrived in Gotham whose identity is a mystery—even to Batman. During patrol, the Dynamic Duo spots her trying to stop one of Penguin's shipments on Gotham's interstate, using a plasma rifle to send the Penguin's truck with its driver off the bridge. Batman and Robin save the driver from falling to his... | comedy, mystery, gothic, suspenseful, violence, good versus evil, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077539 | Fedora | A reclusive foreign-born actress, one of the greatest movie stars of the century, has inexplicably retained her youthful beauty despite her advancing years. She commits suicide by throwing herself in front of a train, and among the mourners at her funeral is aging has-been Hollywood producer Barry "Dutch" Detweiler, wi... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0050665 | Madhumati | On a stormy night, Devendra (Dilip Kumar), an engineer, drives down a hill road with his friend to fetch his wife and child from the railway station. A landslide blocks their path and the friends take shelter in an old mansion off the road. Devendra finds the house uncannily familiar. In the large front room, he finds ... | revenge, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | One of the most beautiful Indian Films.
Simply beauty.
Vaijyanthimala is simply exceptional as a village girl.
deals efficiently with human relationship and love.
Great movie 10/10 one of the top movies of Indian cinema.
I saw a previous comment about excessive length and I disagree with that.
it is a well made film wi... |
tt2717860 | The Riot Club | Alistair (Sam Claflin) and Miles (Max Irons), both with aristocratic connections, start their first year at Oxford University. Though they are very different — Miles is friendly and level-headed who does not care that his girlfriend Lauren (Holliday Grainger) comes from a lower background, whilst Alistair is an insecur... | violence | train | wikipedia | The unofficial club, which still exists today, consists of a select group of male elites at Oxford University and is the inspiration behind the latest cinema release, "The Riot Club".The Riot Club begins with the group looking to recruit two new starters, as Alistair (Sam Claflin) and Miles (Max Irons) emerge as possib... |
tt0097937 | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | The film opens with Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis), who has cerebral palsy, being taken to a charity event, where he meets his handler, a nurse named Mary Carr. She begins reading his autobiography. Christy could not walk or talk, but still received love and support from his family, especially his mother. One day whe... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | When he finished writing that one word, we all knew that we had witnessed not one but three triumphs - the triumph of a human will and spirit, the triumph of the cinema which was able to capture the moment like this on the film, and the triumph of an actor who did not act but who became his character.Jim Sheridan's "My... |
tt0040192 | Bugs Bunny Rides Again | A hail of bullets flies down one street until a traffic light turns red and the bullets hover in mid-air while a second hail of bullets shoot by on the perpendicular street. Afterwards, Yosemite Sam walks into the saloon. All of the patrons are afraid of Sam, yelling his name in terror while the score plays Der Erlköni... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0052946 | John Paul Jones | The film begins with a United States Navy officer telling sailors the story of John Paul Jones.
By age 17, John Paul (Robert Stack), a native of Scotland, is an experienced ship's navigator. In 1773, nine years later, he is master of a ship in the West Indies, but after an incident that results in the governor of Tobag... | romantic, avant garde, murder | train | wikipedia | Colorful story of the Naval hero during the American Revolution....
JOHN PAUL JONES is certainly a colorful film to look at, but the script is rather stately and dull when it should be tense and exciting and a lot of this may be due to the casting of ROBERT STACK in the title role.
His outbursts of anger are sometimes ... |
tt0372532 | The Wedding Date | Kat Ellis (Debra Messing) is a single New Yorker who returns to her parents' house in London to be the maid of honor at her younger half sister Amy's (Amy Adams) wedding. The best man is none other than her former fiancé, who unexpectedly dumped her two years ago. Anxious about confronting him and eager to impress him,... | romantic, boring | train | wikipedia | It's a cute, mildly funny, sometimes sappy, story about a woman, Kat, played by Debra Messing, so wrecked from her last relationship that when she has to go to her sister's wedding where she knows that he ex will be she hires a male escort to go and make him jealous and her family get off her case.
It's a movie for wom... |
tt0016676 | Born to the West | On the vast mountainous Montana vista, to the soft strains of a "ride 'em" chorus, horned cattle are quietly herded until raiders divert them. Hearing shots, Dare (Wayne) "This is no time to think" in a tall white hat, and hungry dark-mustached wiry side-kick lightning-rod salesman Dink Hooley (an uncredited Syd Saylor... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0065360 | ...tick... tick... tick... | In a small Southern town, deputy Jim Price is elected sheriff over John Little, the incumbent. Racial tensions exist in the community, and Price gets little assistance from Little, leaving office, or from Mayor Parks, who insists he be consulted on any decision the new sheriff makes.
A white man, John Braddock, is arre... | blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | Film-critic Leonard Maltin called this "a poor man's In the Heat of the Night", which sounds like an easy way to dismiss a movie that is actually quite good on it's own terms, and not really anywhere close "In the Heat of the Night" story-wise (except for the part of white southerners learning to respect a black man).I... |
tt0821795 | The Last of the Mohicans | The story takes place in 1757 during the French and Indian War in the Adirondack Mountains in the British colony of New York. British Army Major Duncan Heyward arrives in Albany. He has been sent to serve under Colonel Edmund Munro, the commander of Fort William Henry. Heyward is given the task of escorting the colonel... | psychedelic, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Ideosyncratic but fun for kids. This is an Australian production - generally available at the $1.00 bin at Stop & Shop. Worth every penny, and more so.IT makes a good effort to tell the story without overly romanticizing it, but there are some questionable, even amusing errors that run through it.Natty Bumpo is dressed... |
tt0032209 | Angels Over Broadway | Bill O'Brien is a New York con man in search of a suitable gullible person to make some money on. In a fancy nightclub he finds Charles Engle, a man ridden by guilt and on the brink of committing suicide after embezzling a large sum of money that he has spent on his high-maintenance wife.
Charles has the appearance of ... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Popular writer Ben Hecht certainly was no stranger to the Broadway cornucopia of gangsters, molls, hoofers, & sharpies and mixes them all in a non-glamorous look at the Great White Way.Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in a bit of offbeat casting plays Bill O'Brien, Broadway sharpie who thinks he's latched on to a sure thing in s... |
tt0091276 | Invaders from Mars | Late one night, youngster David MacLean (Jimmy Hunt) is awakened by a loud thunderstorm. From his bedroom window, he sees a large flying saucer descend and disappear into the sandpit area behind his home. After rushing to tell his parents, his scientist father (Leif Erickson) goes to investigate David's claim. When his... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3322892 | XX | The anthology is framed by stop-motion-animated segments depicting a walking dollhouse, directed by Sofia Carrillo.
=== The Box ===
Written and directed by Jovanka Vuckovic based on the short story by Jack Ketchum
While riding on a train with his mother Susan, a young boy, Danny, sees an old man with a red box; the old... | paranormal, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0023352 | Prestige | In 1890s London, magician Robert Angier performs his trick, 'The Real Transported Man,' to a sold out theater. Rival magician Alfred Borden, in disguise, sneaks under the stage. At the trick's culmination, Angier drops through a trap door and into a waiting water tank, where Borden watches him drown.
At Borden's murder... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1620719 | Dabangg | Chulbul Pandey, a young boy, lives with his younger half-brother, Makhanchan "Makkhi" Pandey, stepfather Prajapati Pandey (Vinod Khanna) and mother, Naina Devi (Dimple Kapadia) in Laalgunj, Uttar Pradesh. He has a troubled relationship with his stepfather and Makkhi. After 21 years, Chulbul (Salman Khan) becomes a poli... | murder, violence, revenge, flashback, good versus evil, romantic, sadist | train | wikipedia | The movie has great action sequences, fantastic music, an all-star cast, but more than anything it has Salman Khan, who totally delivers in a role that is a caricature of his own image.
This is strictly Bollywood entertainment and the king is entertainment is at his best.Salman is a corrupt but golden-hearted police of... |
tt0071675 | It's Alive | Lenore Harker leaves college to have a baby with her architect boyfriend, Frank. After discovering the baby has doubled in size in just a month, doctors extract the baby by Caesarian section. After the doctor cuts the umbilical cord, the newborn baby Daniel goes on a rampage and kills the surgical team in the operating... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0032520 | The Ghost Breakers | In a Manhattan radio studio, a broadcast is being made by crime reporter Lawrence Lawrence (Bob Hope)—"Larry" to his friends, as well as his enemies, who are many in number among the local underworld.
Listening in on the broadcast is pretty brunette Mary Carter (Paulette Goddard), whose high-rise hotel room goes dark a... | murder | train | wikipedia | Goddard is strikingly pretty and charming, Bob Hope seems fresh and energetic (and very effective in some of his straight moments) and Willy Best gets to shed his "scared darky" persona and play a funny and reasonably straight role.
Another able funny man Willie Best, who never got his due because of the racial stereot... |
tt0124595 | Return to Paradise | Three friends, Lewis McBride, Sheriff and Tony, are seen having a fun vacation in a Malaysian paradise. Their adventures include being almost run over by a car while riding a bicycle, and being pressured into buying some rhinoceros horn from Malaysian locals. They also purchase a large bag of hash from a drug dealer. T... | suspenseful, psychological, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0098623 | Warm Summer Rain | Kate is a depressed thirty-something who unsuccessfully attempts suicide by slitting her wrists. Reflecting briefly upon her circumstance in the hospital, she realizes that nothing has been solved, whereupon she vacates the premises, wearing nothing but a hospital gown, a black coat, and flimsy sandals. Shortly thereaf... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Precursor to American Beauty....
I disagree that this movie is strictly a gratuitous sex film.
I think it has a lot in common with American Beauty, in that it addresses how we choose to live our lives.
In this case, they choose to have sex a lot, but that is not the point.
The point is to deny the typical societal role... |
tt0210044 | Flowers for Algernon | The short story and the novel share many similar plot points, but the novel expands significantly on Charlie's developing emotional state as well as his intelligence, his memories of childhood, and the relationship with his family.
=== Short story ===
The story is told through a series of journal entries written by the... | tragedy, prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0058824 | Lost in Space | In October 1997, 32 years in the future from the perspective of viewers in 1965, the United States is about to launch one of history's great adventures: man's colonization of deep space. The Jupiter 2 (called Gemini 12 in the unaired pilot episode), a futuristic saucer-shaped spacecraft which owed its design to the Fif... | absurd, psychedelic, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | However the first season had action packed space adventure, a crash landing, jet packs, laser rifles, the chariot, scary monsters including the Cyclops and fantastic music by John Williams, (the best music ever created for TV in my opinion.) The Jupiter Two sets are still fantastic and believable today, including the f... |
tt0285823 | Once Upon a Time in Mexico | El Mariachi is recruited by CIA agent Sheldon Sands to kill General Emiliano Marquez, a corrupt Mexican Army officer who has been hired by Mexican drug lord Armando Barillo to assassinate the President of Mexico and overthrow the government. Many years before, El Mariachi and his wife Carolina confronted Marquez in a s... | comedy, neo noir, murder, dramatic, cult, violence, flashback, action, revenge, entertaining, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0126344 | I Went Down | After serving an eight month sentence for breaking and entering, Git Hynes, (Peter McDonald) walks into trouble on the day of his release from jail.
He goes to meet his ex-girlfriend Sabrina Bradley, (Antoine Byrne), who has dumped him for his best friend Anto (David Wilmot). When Git goes to confront Anto about this, ... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | I went to see this movie and was enjoying it, and then it came to the bit where they were rescuing the hostage from the house.
I do however think you need to have a certain understanding of the Irish psyche and way of life to get full value from the hilarious script.
One of the earlier set of well-made Irish films with... |
tt0104006 | Consenting Adults | Composer Richard Parker and his wife Priscilla live an ordinary suburban life until they meet their new neighbors Eddy and Kay Otis. The two couples became friends. Kay's talent for blues singing gets Richard's attention, and Eddy is attracted to Priscilla. It becomes clear that Eddy is a scam artist who fakes a neck i... | suspenseful, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0790665 | Flood | A devastating flood strikes London when the Thames Barrier is overwhelmed by a huge surge of water. A storm surge travels between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, raising sea levels and coinciding with the spring tide. Several parts of Scotland are devastated, including Wick.
The Met Office's head forecaster, Ke... | dramatic, mystery | train | wikipedia | The movie is based upon a really good and very topical idea but both the producers and the director simply applied the standard Hollywood 'disaster movie' formula and thereby ruined any potential value from the production.An unusually high tide and very strong gale conditions combine to produce a record high storm surg... |
tt0111149 | Shallow Grave | David Stephens (Christopher Eccleston), a chartered accountant, Juliet Miller (Kerry Fox), a physician, and Alex Law (Ewan McGregor), a journalist, share a flat in Edinburgh. Needing a new flatmate, they interview several applicants in a calculatedly cruel manner, amusing themselves at the applicants' expense before fi... | comedy, dark, cruelty, murder, violence, atmospheric, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, romantic, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0303678 | Armitage: Dual Matrix | === Armitage III: Poly-Matrix ===
In 2046, the overpopulation of Earth has led to the colonization of Mars—with the aid of the "first type" androids, men were able to begin terraforming the unfriendly environment of Mars and build the city Saint Lowell. Seventy years after the start of colonization, the city is complet... | violence | train | wikipedia | Digitally animated action-packed sequel to ARMITAGE III.
ARMITAGE: DUAL MATRIX (2001) is a sequel to ARMITAGE III (1994), a four-part made-for-video Japanese animated series that was also re-edited as a two-hour feature (ARMITAGE: POLY-MATRIX) and shown in the U.S. on the Sci-Fi Channel.
(The III in the earlier title i... |
tt0780534 | My Mom's New Boyfriend | The film begins with Tommy Lucero (Antonio Banderas) being caught by French police following a foiled robbery at a museum. Tommy seems confident he will not remain in police custody very long.
The film then shifts its focus to Henry Durand (Colin Hanks). Henry had to care for his mother, Marty (Meg Ryan), when his fath... | romantic | train | wikipedia | (And insulting their looks just makes YOU look petty and stupid.)That said, this movie was mildly entertaining, not offensive, and had a few chuckles.
Past the time quite nicely, but what with it being something of a comeback for Meg Ryan I guess people will be expecting quite a lot ...Well, Ryan is good, but she's sti... |
tt1612611 | Phoonk 2 | Phoonk is based upon the concept of black magic. Civil engineer and atheist Rajiv (Sudeep) lives in Mumbai with his wife Aarti (Amruta Khanvilkar) two kids, Raksha (Ahsaas Channa) and Rohan (Shrey Bawa), Rajiv's mother and the housemaid Laxmi(Anu Ansari). Rajiv's most trusted colleagues are Anshuman (Kenny Desai) and M... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0433442 | The Return | In contemporary Russia, Ivan and his older brother Andrei have grown a deep attachment to each other to make up for their fatherless childhood. Both their mother and grandmother live with them. After running home after a fight with each other, the boys are shocked to discover their father has returned after a 12-year a... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0379306 | A Good Woman | Set in 1930, the film opens in New York City, where femme fatale Mrs. Erlynne finds that she is no longer welcomed by either the high-ranking men she has seduced or the society wives she has betrayed. Selling her jewelry, she buys passage on a liner bound for Amalfi, Italy, where she apparently sets her sights on newly... | romantic, depressing | train | wikipedia | Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson are both very good (as is most of the cast), but Wilkinson is so endearingly silly that you can't help but care for him more than the others.
But have no fear - if you like films that have a good and witty screenplay, high production values, wonderful scenery, excellent actors, beautif... |
tt0040427 | He Walked by Night | On a Los Angeles street, Officer Rawlins, a patrolman on his way home from work, stops a man he suspects of being a burglar and is shot and mortally wounded. The minor clues lead nowhere. Two police detectives, Sergeants Marty Brennan (Scott Brady) and Chuck Jones (James Cardwell), are assigned to catch the killer, Roy... | murder | train | wikipedia | "He Walked By Night" is a turning point in the detective movie, displaying the real-life police procedures used in searching for a criminal, which include teamwork and technology, and showing far more realistic characters than other flicks did.
Though Scott Brady was probably too young (24) as the lead detective in thi... |
tt0023992 | Ever in My Heart | In 1909 in the town of Archedale, Mary Archer (Barbara Stanwyck), an American girl from the prominent Archer family, meets Hugo Wilbrandt (Otto Kruger), a German chemist who knows her childhood friend Jeff (Ralph Bellamy). It had been assumed for years that Mary and Jeff would marry someday, but Mary falls in love with... | murder | train | wikipedia | To get the American public in the proper fighting spirit for their inevitable entry into the war, the authorities deliberately and uncritically passed along British propaganda which wildly exaggerated or just plain fabricated German atrocities.
(Sadly for all concerned, real German acts of brutality, especially in the ... |
tt2230051 | High School DxD | Kuoh Academy (駒王学園, Kuō Gakuen, alt. Kuou Academy) is a former all-girls school that has recently turned co-ed, but it has a secret. Unknown to normal humans, angels (天使, Tenshi), fallen angels (堕天使, Datenshi) and devils (悪魔, Akuma) comprise part of the student population. One of these students, Issei Hyodo, is a leche... | sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0063571 | Secret Ceremony | Leonora, a prostitute, is despondent over the death of her daughter. Cenci, a lonely young woman, follows Leonora to the cemetery and strikes up a conversation with her, inviting her home.
A resemblance to Cenci's late mother becomes obvious once Leonora notices a portrait. Cenci, who is 22 but looks and acts much youn... | murder | train | wikipedia | Elizabeth Taylor as a prostitute that takes advantage of a peculiar girl, played with real zest by Mia Farrow who mistakes her for her mother, and Robert Mitchum, as the disruptor.
The one thing that made people talk about Secret Ceremony at the time was an infamous still with Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow in a batht... |
tt0083693 | Brimstone & Treacle | For two years, Tom and Amy Bates have been struggling to cope with their altered lives, after their daughter Pattie (or Patricia) was severely injured in a hit-and-run accident. Pattie is unable to walk, completely dependent upon others for the activities of daily living, and seemingly unable to communicate beyond maki... | whimsical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077614 | The Glove | Sam Kellog (John Saxon) is an ex-cop who works as a modern day bounty hunter in Los Angeles. He works for bailbondsman Bill Schwartz (Keenan Wynn) and is assigned to bring in ex-convicts and criminals who have skipped bail. Kellog is frustrated over the low amount of money he receives from his jobs. Recently divorced, ... | grindhouse film, murder, realism, violence, horror, insanity, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0203408 | The Omega Code | In Jerusalem, a rabbi named Rostenburg is using software he designed to decode seventy eschatological prophecies hidden within the Torah. Rostenburg has handwritten each one in a journal, to be entered into the program for deciphering. The program deciphers a prophecy which says that he is about to die; immediately, he... | good versus evil, christian film, murder | train | wikipedia | The idea that someone would use the Bible Code to try and conquer the world is an idea that has not been utilized before, at least to my knowledge.The characters definitely could have used some refinement, as they never really are fully developed during the movie.
Overall, this is an interesting film that has good spec... |
tt0268437 | The Man Who Sued God | Advocate Steve Myers (Billy Connolly) is a disillusioned lawyer who becomes fed-up with the perceived corruption within the judicial system. He quits the law business and buys a small fishing boat and takes up fishing for a living. His fishing boat is struck by lightning and explodes into pieces, burns and sinks. He in... | satire, philosophical | train | wikipedia | When a freak of lightning wipes out his small fishing boat and the insurance companies refuse to pay (as it's an act of God') he takes up law again to take on the system, the legal fiction, the churches and the big insurance companies.
Although it's title and trailer maybe suggest a mindless slapstick (and it contains... |
tt0120679 | Frida | Frida begins just before the traumatic accident Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) suffered at the age of 18 when a trolley bus collided with a motor bus she was riding. She is impaled by a metal pole and the injuries she sustained plague her for the rest of her life. To help her through convalescence, her father brings her a c... | avant garde, murder, flashback, psychedelic, romantic, historical, queer | train | wikipedia | Salma Hayek (uni-brow and all) gives a genuinely great performance as `Frida,' the Mexican artist who is more famous, perhaps, as the wife of Diego Rivera than as a painter in her own right - although Rivera himself always insisted that it was Frida who had the greater talent.Frida Kahlo was a woman who endured a life ... |
tt0057634 | The V.I.P.s | The film is set within Terminal 3 of London Heathrow Airport during a fog. As flights are delayed, the VIPs (very important people) of the title play out the drama of their lives in a number of slightly interconnected stories. The delays have caused serious hardship for most of the characters and have plunged some of t... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0109858 | Funny Man | When Max Taylor (Benny Young) wins the ancestral home of Callum Chance (Christopher Lee) in a game of poker, little does he realise that the game is far from over. After moving into the ancestral home with his family the nightmare begins after Max spins a wheel of chance, (a wheel with four parts, two saying win, and t... | paranormal, psychedelic, comedy, cult, violence | train | wikipedia | The story is about a man who wins a card game against Christopher Lee, who then gives him his large old house.
The man moves into the house with his family, and they soon discover a sinister jester who resides there, the Funnyman.This pesky little guy kills people in different ways; some of them are outrageously gory a... |
tt1121977 | Mother and Child | When she was 14, Karen (Annette Bening) became pregnant and gave her daughter up for adoption. The decision to give up her child has always haunted her. Upon meeting laid-back Paco (Jimmy Smits) at work, Karen allows her anxiety and mistrust to get the best of her. She gradually calms her anxiety through her growing re... | dramatic, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1602611 | Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance | === Setting and characters ===
The events of Metal Gear Rising are set in the year 2018, four years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 4. The Patriots, a powerful shadow organization running the world's war economy, have been destroyed and Private Military Companies (PMC) have splintered into numerous factions. With ... | revenge, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | In The Name Of Metal Gear. Story: As far as Metal Gear games go there has always been some sort of story, usually a convoluted one involving Nukes and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (From here on MGR) is no exception to this.Taking place four years after the events of MGS4, the game revolves around Raiden and his retur... |
tt1051981 | Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! | Dorky Andy (Jake Mosser), flamboyant Nico (Jonah Blechman), jock Jarod (Jimmy Clabots), and nerdy Griff (Aaron Michael Davies) reunite in Fort Lauderdale for spring break. The plot revolves around a contest—"Gays Gone Wild!"—to see who can have sex with the most guys during the duration of spring break. The winner will... | prank | train | wikipedia | And finally the promise of yet another sequel "Gays in Space" sounds atrocious..
Gee, I need to write at least ten lines but can sum it up nicely: THIS MOVIE IS A PIECE JUNK AND NOT WORTH YOUR TIME.
As impossible as it many seem, this film makes "Justin Loves Kelly" seem like a work of art.
Finally a movie that makes a... |
tt0478024 | SPL: Sha po lang | The movie is set before 1997, prior to the return of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China. Chan Kwok-chung (Simon Yam), a Hong Kong police inspector, has dedicated his career to putting Wong Po (Sammo Hung), a notorious triad boss, behind bars. While escorting a witness with damning evidence of Wong's wrongdoing... | dark, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, melodrama, revenge | train | wikipedia | Donnie's character repeatedly goes for takedowns, armbars, chokes, and all the moves that you might see in a UFC or Pride match (with Sammo countering attacks exactly how the big fighters do it in a real bout), while seamlessly combining them with the incredibly fast, complex punching and kicking exchanges you'd expect... |
tt1104806 | One Week | Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) is a young elementary school English teacher living in Toronto, Ontario. Ben is told that he has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer in its fourth and final stage.
On the way home, he encounters an elderly man Marc Strange selling his 1973 Norton Commando motorcycle. The narrator... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0067989 | Wild Rovers | An aging cowboy, Ross Bodine, and a younger one, Frank Post, work on cattleman Walt Buckman's ranch in Montana. A neighboring sheepman, Hansen, is in a long-running feud with Buckman.
Ross has a dream of riding off to Mexico to retire from the hard work of the range, but he doesn't have much money saved up. Frank sugge... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0427309 | The Great Debaters | Based on a true story, the plot revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) at Wiley College, a Historically Black College, to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American South during the 1930s, when Jim Crow laws were common and lynch mobs were a pervasive fear for ... | violence, home movie | train | wikipedia | "The Great Debaters" is a very fine film.It reminds us of what it means to be excellent, to stand for something good, to love with all our hearts, and to shine.The performances, or the cinematography, historical care, or directorship all lift it out of the ordinary.And in its difficult subject: racial tension and the e... |
tt0337692 | On the Road | The two main characters of the book are the narrator, Sal Paradise, and his friend Dean Moriarty, much admired for his carefree attitude and sense of adventure, a free-spirited maverick eager to explore all kicks and an inspiration and catalyst for Sal's travels. The novel contains five parts, three of them describing ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Whilst the book takes the reader on an exuberant, spirited journey full of life, the film puzzlingly slows the pace right down and presents a muted, almost depressed version of the same story.This is best illustrated by the presentation of the character of Dean Moriarty.
He is the muse for the writer character of Sal, ... |
tt0046415 | Le comte de Monte-Cristo | === Summary ===
On the day of his wedding to Mercédès, Edmond Dantès, first mate of the Pharaon, is accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trial in the Château d'If, a grim island fortress off Marseilles. A fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, correctly deduces that his jealous rival, Fernand Mondego, envious cre... | revenge | train | wikipedia | The Dantès redemption. How many versions of the famous novel are there in the world?Even the "best movie of all time "(sic) ,according to the IMDb users ,"Shawshank redemption", owes a lot to Alexandre Dumas and his count: Andy is Dantès and Red is Faria.Robert Vernay loved this novel so much he filmed two versions of ... |
tt0066156 | Rebel | The setting is 1922, in French-occupied Vietnam, and anti-French rebellions by peasants have emerged all over the country. In response, the French have activated units of Vietnamese secret agents to track and destroy the rebels. One agent is Le Van Cuong. Although he has a perfect track record, Cuong's conscience is tr... | cult | train | wikipedia | Vintage Sly at his best.
First of all, when i saw it listed in the TV guide, the year was listed as 1973.
But the movie was re-released in 1980, with some extra footage added.
However, the extra footage mostly covers the FBI office scenes.
This movie had all unknown actors, including an unknown Sylvester Stallone.
Sly ... |
tt0054279 | School for Scoundrels | Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) is a failure in sport and love, and the easy victim of conmen and employees alike. So he enrolls at the "School of Lifemanship" in Yeovil, run by Dr. Potter (Alastair Sim). Late for his appointment, he overhears Potter explaining the principles of lifemanship to the new intake:
Well, gent... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Ian Carmichael is, of course excellent, but my all-time hero, Terry-Thomas, is on the toppest of forms delivering the "Look's like a Polish stomach pump" and "Oh I say, smashing cricket stroke" lines with his unshakeable aplomb.
The quintessential role for Terry-Thomas (tho' "Magnificent Men" is a close second).But als... |
tt0463948 | Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York | A volcano beneath New York City seems unlikely, yet nothing else can explain the bizarre tremors and terrifying explosions wreaking havoc on the city. Tunnel digger Matt MacLachlan (Costas Mandylor), head of the team of "Sandhogs", has witnessed lava seeping into the city's aqueduct system and knows the unimaginable tr... | violence | train | wikipedia | This is about a group of underground tunnel workers in NY who come across some molten lava while digging a new sewer.
The woman who comes to investigate for the government just happens to be the ex-wife of the tunnel digger, and of course we run through the usual cliché of them disliking each other and then getting bac... |
tt2365946 | Bitten | Jack, a paramedic, is frustrated with his life after he breaks up with his girlfriend. He discovers a girl (Danika) in an alleyway covered in blood, clinging to life. Jack takes Danika in and soon discovers that she is a vampire.
Jack and Danika try to find a way to feed her cravings to drink blood while killing as lit... | paranormal, murder | train | wikipedia | I originally read the Kelley Armstrong Book "Bitten - Otherworld 1" about 5 years ago and was impressed with the way the characters unfolded in the book.And as with anyone who reads a good book you try to visualize what you read, and because of this you tend to be disappointed with the transition between book and scree... |
tt0378417 | Die Nacht der lebenden Loser | The film begins in Haiti, where a zombie attacks a small family, only to be quickly killed by being set on fire. The zombie's ashes are gathered in an urn, which is promptly stolen and sold before it can be buried.
Three months later, Philip Fleischhacker (Tino Mewes) is left to watch his parents' house as they go on a... | gothic | train | wikipedia | The film's underlying connection is obviously the lot of zombie films which have filled the last decades since Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" (1968).
And in this it's pretty funny, because there are many scenes in which the teenage actors are reacting unexpected, but never miss the point to be what they are: a bun... |
tt0435631 | Demon Hunter | The movie begins in the middle of an exorcism, while demon hunter Jake Greyman waits downstairs in case the exorcism does not end well. It's quickly seen that Jake has a dark personality and is more than human. He is solely focused on killing demons regardless of what he must do to accomplish his task. He is a half-dem... | good versus evil, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | I am normally quite easy to please when it comes to Sci-Fi and paranormal movies, if the story is good.
The beginning of the movie is actually good, and has a new approach, but after those 5-10 minutes it is down hill.
If you like exorcist movies you get very disappointed, but if you have absolutely nothing to do and w... |
tt0055601 | Viridiana | A novice named Viridiana (Silvia Pinal) is about to take her vows when her uncle, Don Jaime (Fernando Rey), invites her to visit him. Her only living relative, she has met him only once and is reluctant to comply. Her mother superior pressures her into accepting.
Don Jaime is a recluse, living on a neglected farm with ... | comedy, murder, atmospheric, psychedelic, satire, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0021303 | River's End | In remote northern Canada, Sergeant Conniston (Bickford) seeks to capture escaped convicted murderer Keith (also played by Bickford). He is accompanied by O'Toole (J. Farrell MacDonald), a guide who is constantly drunk. When he finally catches his quarry, he is shocked to find that they look exactly alike.
On their way... | murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Pretty impressive for an early talkie. You can enjoy Charles Bickford in a rare (dual) leading role and watch Michael Curtiz learning to master talkies in this rugged melodrama, an improbability about a Mountie who gets his man and lives, though not for long, to regret it. Unusual for this period, it has refreshingly a... |
tt1132285 | The Factory | In Buffalo, New York, a man named Carl picks up a prostitute and takes her to his home. When he spots that she is transsexual, he angrily murders her, cuts up the body, and places the pieces in a freezer. Meanwhile, Mike Fletcher, a detective, becomes obsessed with the case, which is under threat of being shut down due... | murder | train | wikipedia | I really had to think about how I would rate this one because MANY times I read horrible reviews of films that are made very well, but the 'reviewer' just didn't like it so obviously it's just crap.
And of course as ALWAYS Cusack's performance was good (although, quite honestly he DID look like he was kinda sleepwalkin... |
tt3581920 | The Last of Us | In September 2013, an outbreak of a mutant Cordyceps fungus ravages the United States, transforming its human hosts into cannibalistic monsters known as infected. In the suburbs of Austin, Texas, Joel (Troy Baker) flees the chaos with his brother Tommy (Jeffrey Pierce) and daughter Sarah (Hana Hayes). As they flee, Sar... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0973816 | Kane & Lynch: Dead Men | The game opens with a voiceover of Adam 'Kane' Marcus, reading a letter addressed to his daughter Jenny. Kane is traveling to death row after being convicted of manslaughter. Another death row inmate, James Seth Lynch, lets on there will be a breakout. Their truck is involved in a head-on collision by a group of mercen... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | Mainly because it has a genuine human drama, you mostly feel this is the character Kane because of the backstory of the death of his son.A great feature of the game is when your dying the screen goes into negative and you can hear voices of past events which is a clever addition as it builds up the emotion.The online i... |
tt0075203 | Shao Lin Si shi ba tong ren | The much-reviled Qing government decide to eradicate any opposition to their rulership by attacking pro-Ming families in the kingdom. One such attack sees an influential official killed, though his wife and son manage to escape thanks to the intervention of a close ally. While on the run, the son, Shaolung, is aided by... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | Carter Wong and the Shaolin Monks fight THE 18 BRONZEMEN.
THE 18 BRONZEMEN is a celebrated 1976 kung fu film from the prolific hand of producer/director Joseph Kuo who operated in Taiwan in the 1970s.
It stars Carter Wong, Tien Peng, and Polly Shang Kwan in a tale of Shaolin training, lifelong friendship, and a mission... |
tt0804505 | Married Life | Set in 1949, the film focuses on successful middle-aged businessman Harry Allen (Chris Cooper), who is having an affair with considerably younger war widow Kay Nesbitt (Rachel McAdams). Feeling rejuvenated by his emotional reawakening, he confides in his best friend Richard Langley (Pierce Brosnan) and encourages him t... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1137996 | Anaconda: Offspring | Sometime after the events of the previous film in Romania, a female anaconda and a male anaconda are being held in a genetic research facility owned by Wexel Hall, for experimentation. The research project is led by Dr. Amanda Hayes (Crystal Allen) and funded by J.D. Murdoch (John Rhys-Davies), a well-known industriali... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0116772 | The Killing Jar | Several people are gathered at a diner—Noreen, a friendly and talkative waitress; Lonnie, a dim-witted cop; Jimmy, the short-tempered owner; Billy and Starr, a young couple on their way to elope; John, a meek salesman on his way to New York City; and Hank, a quiet regular. A radio is playing, and the group hears of an ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Contrary To What Others Might Have Said. I enjoyed this film a lot! I thought that the story and the direction were fine, and this is a much better film than I ever imagined. I enjoyed it enough that I bought it, after renting it.The biggest problem with the film lies in the fact that two of the victims appear to survi... |
tt0386669 | Nouvelle-France | Trapper Francois returns to his hometown to visit his father. Unfortunately his father has just died and Francois is clueless in regards to the business he's just inherited. He trusts his father's lawyer will take care of everything including the claims of creditors who have demanded an investigation.
Like his friend X... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1068961 | Midnight Son | Jacob (Zak Kilberg) is a young man in Los Angeles, California who lives a life of isolation by day and works as a security guard by night. This is due to a rare skin disorder developed in his youth that prevents him from being exposed to sunlight. His world opens up when he meets and falls in love with a local bartende... | realism, dark, gothic, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1748179 | Red Lights | The film opens with two primary characters: university academic Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver), who investigates claims of paranormal phenomena, and her assistant Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy), a physicist. The audience is provided with an insight into the world of the opening section's primary characters while co... | paranormal, mystery, flashback | train | wikipedia | Psychologist and paranormal investigator Dr. Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and her assistant Dr. Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy) a physicist travel around debunking supposed paranormal activity from bumps in the night to stage psychics.
With actors such as Signourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy, Toby Jones, Joely Richar... |
tt0239548 | Lady Stay Dead | Gordon Mason (Chard Hayward) works as a handyman at the Rocky Beach Motel. Mason proceeds to spy on Marie Coleby (Deborah Coulls), who is bad tempered, bossy and constantly barks orders at and berates Mason all day. Later that day, when she packs up to drive to the airport to pick up her sister, Jenny (Louise Howitt), ... | violence, cult, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | Deranged Sweaty Sleazy Forgotten Gem that turns into a good movie halfway!.
They just don't make em like this anymore- Like I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, HOUSE BY THE LAKE, MANIAC, THE FAN (81) etc this film delves right into a psychopaths fantasies and allows the actor to fully rip roar and indulge in the character without re... |
tt0068286 | Bless the Beasts & Children | The central characters in Bless the Beasts and Children are six adolescent boys, whose preoccupied parents send them off to the Arizona Box Canyon Boys Camp for the summer. John Cotton leads this bunch of “misfits” who are all, to varying degrees, emotionally or psychologically disturbed. Cotton’s group, composed of re... | satire, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Many of the comments written about this film do not even recognize the multitude of symbolic layers this movie encompasses.
Of course it is clear that the killing of the buffalo and the killing of the human spirit of children is an apparent theme throughout the movie.
My other brother, however, would be, "Cotton", the ... |
tt0363666 | Hatya | Govinda stars as Sagar, a wealthy but idle young man. Following a night of consuming much alcohol he finds a homeless and parentless young boy. He takes the boy home and learns that he is deaf and attempts to nurture him and names him Raja. He tries to get information out of him but does not understand anything. Raja's... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0194622 | RoboCop | In the near future, Detroit, Michigan is a dystopia and on the verge of total collapse due to financial ruin and a high crime rate. The mayor signs a deal with the mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP), giving it complete control of the underfunded Detroit Police Department. In exchange, OCP will be allowed to ... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Almost had it.... Back in the 80's, it was perfectly acceptable to adapt an extremely violent, R-Rated movie into a kid-friendly cartoon, and Robocop was no exception.The stories couldn't carry over the violence so instead they relied on the whole "is he a man or a machine?" plot threads. While those aspects stories w... |
tt0037791 | Hotel Berlin | The lives of various desperate people intersect at the Hotel Berlin, a hotbed of Nazis, officers, spies and ordinary Germans trying to weather the inevitable defeat. Martin Richter, a leader of the German underground who has escaped from Dachau concentration camp, is hiding there, aided by some of the staff. He is hunt... | murder | train | wikipedia | Warner Brothers used none of their box office stars in making Hotel Berlin.
What they did do is use a whole lot of second line character players who had been playing Nazis throughout the World War II years.
The only two who didn't get into this film were Bobby Watson who played Hitler several times and Martin Kosleck w... |
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