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tt0075888 | The Crater Lake Monster | In Crater Lake, Northern California, Dr. Richard Calkins (Hyman) is informed by his colleague Dan Turner (Garrison) that he and his girlfriend Susan Patterson (Cobb) have made an incredible discovery in a nearby cave system. The three head down and discover a system of cave drawings, including what appears to be a depi... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Will Steve let the dinosaur live?"The Crater Lake Monster" is a terrible and lame dinosaur film with awful story, screenplay, performances and special effects.
Best lake monster movie with top notch Stop-Motion Effects by David Allen!.
Anyway back to Crater Lake Dave was assisted by Jim Danforth & Randall William Cook ... |
tt0887892 | Dark Shadows | In 1760, the Collins family moves from Liverpool, England to Maine and establishes the fishing town Collinsport, where they built their estate, Collinwood.
When he first arrives, the young son Barnabas (Johnny Depp), meets the young Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green) who instantly falls in love with him. Angelique's witch ... | gothic | train | wikipedia | Halloween. Shown only in the 2005 Dark Shadows festival in Los Angeles, this remake of the 1960's Gothic day time series - yes, a Gothic soap and a deserved classic! - is surprisingly good. Sets of the Collinwood manor and the mausoleum where the vampire Barnabas Collins is found are wonderful and very atmospheric, so ... |
tt1837703 | The Fifth Estate | The story opens in 2010, with the release of the Afghan War Logs. It then flashes back to 2007, where journalist Daniel Domscheit-Berg meets Australian computer hacker Julian Assange for the first time, at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. Daniel's interest in online activism has led him to Assange, with whom... | cult, intrigue, murder, sci-fi, flashback | train | wikipedia | Nor that it plays just once per day, at 9pm, at my local Cineworld compared to five screenings per day for Captain Phillips, eight for Ender's Game and fourteen for Thor: The Dark World.But Bill Condon's (Gods and Monsters, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn) film about Wikileaks founder and hero/pariah (delete according... |
tt0367960 | The Legend of Johnny Lingo | Orphan boy named Tama bounced around between families and getting into trouble. He became friends with a girl named mahana who is considered ugly by the villagers. Even though she is ugly and ill treated by her father and the people around her, she remained kind and good. One day, the boy planned to explore and promise... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I simply love this movie..
That's not how I felt about it the first couple of times I watched it, but seeing it again recently, I realized: I really, really like this movie.Okay, so Alvin Fitisemanu's acting is awful in this film.Okay, so it's a rolling commercial for Tahitian Noni Juice.Okay, so it's weighed down by i... |
tt1800254 | Barbie: A Fairy Secret | Barbie is at the premiere of her latest movie when her rival and co-star, Raquelle, steps on her dress, ripping it. Her stylists, Carrie and Taylor, use magic to mend it. Crystal, a photographer, greets Carrie and Taylor and, taking one last picture of Ken, leaves to go back to Gloss Angeles. Crystal shows Princess Gra... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Ugh..
Bring back the old Barbie!.
These movies are getting worse and worse.
Bring back the old style and old Barbie.
They are also not entirely appropriate for a 3-5 year old.
Sad. They have attempted to modernize Barbie and taken away her sweetness and innocence and made her into an annoying teenager with a cell phone... |
tt1996207 | Call of Juarez: The Cartel | The offices of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are bombed by unknown assailants. Assistant Deputy Director Shane Dickson enlists LAPD detective Ben McCall, along with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Kimberly Evans and DEA agent Eddie Guerra to track down the culprits. She informs them of the late ... | violence | train | wikipedia | poor gameolay, clichéd story.. Wow! what a comedown from the first game..its now just a generic shoot-em-up derived from- and inferior to- so many others.Gameplay is awkward. I found the driving levels incredibly irritating and cumbersome.The story is clichéd, the characters are unlikable racial stereotypes and there a... |
tt0108473 | The Vanishing | A Dutch couple, Rex and Saskia, are on holiday in France. As they drive, Saskia shares a recurring dream in which she is drifting through space in a golden egg. In the most recent dream, another egg containing another person appeared; she feels the collision of the two eggs would signify the end of something.
Their car... | flashback | train | wikipedia | In this remake of the 1988 Dutch film 'Spoorloos' writer Jeff Harriman (Kiefer Sutherland) searches for his girlfriend Diane (Sandra Bullock) who disappeared from a gas station during a road trip they took 3 years earlier.His new girlfriend (Nancy Travis) tries to help him pick up the pieces of his life but gets increa... |
tt0070253 | Jugnu | Sooraj is from a wealthy household. He meets Jugnu when he's tried to commit suicide by jumpung off a cliff and jugnu tries to stop him. In reality it was a ply conceived by sooraj and his friends to distract jugnu and all the girls so that they can steal the food prepared by the girls. All of them study in the same co... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0984204 | Love Lies Bleeding | Duke (Brian Geraghty) and Amber (Jenna Dewan) are a financially strapped young couple, both working menial jobs to survive, while their gangster neighbors continue to steal Duke and Amber's things. One day Amber gets home and finds the neighbors in the house, stealing a few things. They beat her up and leave. Duke gets... | murder | train | wikipedia | Yes, this is an old storyline but I thought the story was credible, the actors did a good job and were believable and the locations were authentic.
Just remember folks, biggest isn't always best, just like this comment, I've said all I want to say but its not ten lines so I've got to fill it out!.
Christian Slater rele... |
tt0104706 | Lektionen in Finsternis | The film is a meditation on catastrophe, contextualised through the literary modes of religion and science fiction. It begins with a quotation, attributed to Blaise Pascal: "The collapse of the stellar universe will occur – like creation – in grandiose splendor." This attribution is anecdotal, as the text was in fact w... | anti war, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0312450 | Bells of Innocence | Jux Jonas (Mike Norris) is a man whose faith in God hangs by a thread. His daughter was hit and killed by a car, and he's spent the last few years "tearing through life", not wanting to face the pain and return to his faith. Reluctantly, he journeys with friends Conrad (David A.R. White) and Oren (Carey Scott) aboard a... | good versus evil, suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | One of the worst movies I've seen in my entire life.
OK, I'm 26 so I've been thru all the action heroes 80's hype, and Chuck Norris along with Seagal, Van Damme and the rest of the guys were my childhood heroes, fighting the bad guys, shooting dozens of bullets from one round only;) I saw the advert of this movie on TV... |
tt0120257 | Swept from the Sea | Yanko Góral (Vincent Perez), a Ukrainian peasant, is swept ashore on the coast of Cornwall, England, after his emigrant ship sinks on its way to America in 1888. The bodies of his fellow passengers wash ashore and are soon buried in a mass grave. Yanko makes his way to the Swaffer farm, where his dishevelled appearance... | flashback | train | wikipedia | The British have dedicated themselves lately to film their wonderful 19th century novels: Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, and have come now into the 20th for a Joseph Conrad short story with a strong 19th century flavor.
And they are catering to the older audiences, those who care more for story values and literary qualiti... |
tt0027390 | Bottles | On a dark and stormy night, an elderly pharmacist falls asleep at his stool while mixing poisonous chemicals in a glass bottle. After he falls asleep, the night takes a sudden fantastical turn as his poisonous bottle—topped with a "skull and crossbones" stopper as a warning label—suddenly springs to life, becoming a ma... | horror | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1894476 | How I Live Now | Daisy, a neurotic and anorexic American teenager, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with her Aunt Penn and her cousins, Eddie, Isaac, and Piper. She arrives at Heathrow Airport to tightened security and reports of a bombing in Paris, and Isaac drives to her cousins' farm, which she discovers to ... | comedy, realism, murder, anti war, violence, atmospheric, flashback | train | wikipedia | Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) is a young, broody, moody, American girl who is sent to stay with extended family in the English countryside.
In a World War III type scenario, she is taken away from those she now considers family in the first and with only the companionship of her young cousin Piper (Harley Bird), she must journ... |
tt0044863 | Macao | Three strangers arrive at the port of Macao on the same ship: Nick Cochran (Robert Mitchum), a cynical-but-honest ex-serviceman, Julie Benson (Jane Russell), an equally cynical, sultry night club singer, and Lawrence Trumble (William Bendix), a traveling salesman who deals in both silk stockings and contraband.
Corrupt... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0335473 | The Thing | In 1982, an alien spacecraft is discovered beneath the Antarctic ice by a team from a Norwegian research base: Edvard (Trond Espen Seim), Jonas (Kristofer Hivju), Olav (Jan Gunnar Røise), Karl (Carsten Bjørnlund), Juliette (Kim Bubbs), Lars (Jørgen Langhelle), Henrik (Jo Adrian Haavind), Colin (Jonathan Lloyd Walker), ... | insanity, violence | train | wikipedia | "We're Gonna Die Here!".
Great game but could have been better.
Set some time after the events of the movie, the game sees you as leader of a rescue team trying to work out what happened in the south poll.
After going solo to look for the other half of your team the action begins.
Finding guns and staying alive is only... |
tt1801096 | Sexy Evil Genius | Salesman Zach Newman sits alone in a bar when he meets Miranda Prague. After talking to her for a few minutes, they realize that they are ex-lovers of the same woman, Nikki Franklyn. They were both told to arrive at different times and wait for Nikki, who would be joining them later. Miranda reveals that Nikki just got... | romantic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | The second: Even absent a billion dollar budget, CGI, 3-D, spectacular shoot-outs, or gratuitous nude scenes, a decent script, coupled with impressive acting is, as always been, damn entertaining.I am content the above paragraph summed up my viewing experience of Sexy Evil Genius, however, the content gods of IMDb dema... |
tt1295021 | Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King | The Mystery, Inc. gang visit a Halloween carnival on Halloween night. When the magician "The Amazing Krudsky" (voiced by Wayne Knight) does not allow Scooby to see his show, he and Shaggy accidentally expose Krudsky as a fraud during one of his acts, resulting in the gang getting kicked out of the carnival. The rebelli... | psychedelic, horror, fantasy | train | wikipedia | An absolute delight for Scooby Doo fans.
I am 16 and I enjoyed it more than the other Scooby Doo movies.
It isn't as good as Witch's Ghost though, but I also really enjoyed Zombie Island and Alien Invaders.
The animation was way better than Shaggy and Scooby: Get a Clue, which is just atrocious in every aspect.
The son... |
tt0027938 | The Man Who Changed His Mind | Dr. Laurience (Karloff), a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origins of the mind and soul in an isolated manor house, aided only by the promising surgeon Clare Wyatt (Lee) and a wheelchair-using confederate named Clayton (Donald Calthrop). The scientific community rejects his theories and Laurience ris... | comedy, revenge, suspenseful, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | It may be shorter and far less grandiose than Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932), and especially Bride of Frankenstein (1935), but it touches on many of the same themes as the Frankenstein films while allowing his Karloff his turn in the role of a mad doctor.Karloff is Dr. Laurience, a well known neuroscientist who ... |
tt0478126 | Cthulhu | When young history professor Russ is called upon by his sister to execute their late mother's estate, he is reunited with boyhood friend Mike, and with his father, the charismatic leader of a New Age cult. While exploring his memories, Russ wanders into a warehouse where hundreds of names are listed on the walls. As he... | cult, flashback | train | wikipedia | I really wanted to like this, especially with the glut of direct to video adaptations of Lovecraft stories (Beyond the Wall of Sleep etc) that are essentially student project level non-movies.
It owes more to The Shadow Over Innsmouth than anything, and unfortunately that world was already realized in far better (yet s... |
tt0028505 | Wife vs. Secretary | Magazine publisher Van Stanhope (Clark Gable) and his wife, Linda, (Myrna Loy) are celebrating their third wedding anniversary. They are very much in love and Van gives Linda a diamond bracelet. However, Van's secretary, the beautiful Helen "Whitey" Wilson (Jean Harlow), is thought by Van's mother (May Robson) to be a ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt6263850 | Deadpool 3 | The film is presented in a nonlinear narrative, jumping between the present and past. This is a linear summary of the plot.
Wade Wilson, a former special forces operative working as a criminal enforcer, meets a prostitute named Vanessa at a bar. The two develop a relationship, and a year later Wilson proposes marriage.... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0067409 | Max et les ferrailleurs | Born into a wealthy family of French vintners, Max (Michel Piccoli) is a loner who devoted himself entirely to his obsession: the arrest of criminals. A former judge he is a police inspector and he sees a new band of burglars escape. This failure is still fresh in his mind when he meets Abel who has become a scrap thie... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Much more than yet another detective yarn..
Excellent crime drama, beautifully underplayed by Michel Piccoli and Romy Schneider.
Good story with a beginning, a middle and a surprise ending.
You'll think about this film for days afterwards and want to see it again.
If you love movies, you'll love this one.
It will make ... |
tt0074851 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth from a distant planet on a mission to take water back to his home planet, which is experiencing a catastrophic drought.
Newton uses the advanced technology of his home planet to patent many inventions on Earth, and acquires incredible wealth as the head of a t... | cult, psychedelic, murder, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | See it twice (I had to) and it will sink in, or read the IMDB reviews to get a taste before you digest it wholeheartedly.Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) lands, as surely all self respecting aliens would choose to do, in New Mexico.
To get the maximum benefit from the film, you simply have to take these unexplained o... |
tt0097707 | The Lady and the Highwayman | The film begins with a narrator telling us that Cromwell's tyranny is coming to an end, when we see several men approaching on horseback. We learn that King Charles II and several of his Cavaliers have been on an exploratory tour in England, checking to see if the populace is ready to back his return. At the moment he ... | action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0060550 | It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown | With autumn in full swing, the Peanuts gang prepares for Halloween. In the cold open, Linus and Lucy go out to the local pumpkin patch to find a pumpkin. Lucy selects the largest one they could find, and poor Linus has to be the one getting it back to the house, only to be very distraught when it turns out Lucy is goin... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | From the pumpkin carving opener, the pumpkin patch, Snoopy's fantasy World War I adventures as he makes his way across the French countryside, to the beautiful musical score, it all adds up to one great Halloween experience.
The thing I loved most about this Charlie Brown Halloween special was the sheer simplicity of i... |
tt0263101 | Bangkok Dangerous | Joe (Cage) is a professional freelance contract killer who works strictly by the rules; never socializing outside his work, staying secluded in quiet spots, never interacting or meeting with his handlers and always leaving on time without a trace. He usually hires young pickpockets or small-time criminals as his local ... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0807737 | X-Men: The Official Game | Professor X asks the X-Men to return to Alkali Lake to retrieve irreplaceable parts to Cerebro. Nightcrawler infiltrates the remnants of William Stryker's base with his teleportation ability, since the weapons systems were somehow operational. Once inside, the X-Men discover a group of agents called HYDRA looting the b... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0024989 | The Clairvoyant | Rains plays Maximus, "King of the Mind Readers", who performs an English music hall mind-reading act with the help of his wife, Rene (Fay Wray), using a secret code. One night, he sees the beautiful Christine Shawn (Jane Baxter) in the audience, and his act becomes reality. He is able to tell what is in a sealed letter... | paranormal, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0062803 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Commander Caractacus Pott is an inventor who buys and renovates an old car after gaining money from inventing and selling whistle-like sweets to Lord Skrumshus, the wealthy owner of a local confectionery factory. The car, a "Paragon Panther", was the sole production of the Paragon motor-car company before it went bankr... | psychedelic, entertaining, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0282589 | I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus | Young Justin Carver (Dylan and Cole Sprouse) is having Thanksgiving dinner with his family, only for it to end with the news that his best friend Bobby's (Hannelius) bickering parents are finally deciding to divorce. When he overhears his own parents, Stephanie and David Carver (Sellecca and Bernsen) having a heated ar... | comedy | train | wikipedia | A movie for young kids.
Yes, it contains elements of themes seen in other movies, but it is a movie for kids with a "feel good" ending.
And kids up to age 9 will enjoy it.
Parents that are seeking to fine a way to introduce their kids to the concept that the parents are the Santa's will find this movie helpful in setti... |
tt0378918 | True Crime: Streets of LA | Note: This plot synopsis details the "good ending"
The game begins with Det. Nick Kang (voiced by Russell Wong) being recruited into the autonomous Elite Operations Division of the LAPD at the behest of Chief Wanda Parks (C. C. H. Pounder). Kang is the son of Henry Wilson, a detective whose disappearance twenty years p... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0034941 | Kid Glove Killer | Ambitious young attorney Gerald I. Latimer helps mayoral candidate Daniels and district attorney candidate Turnely to be elected; the pair had vowed to rid the city of its pernicious criminal rackets.
The two elected officials are unaware that Gerald has paired up with one of the city's biggest gangsters, Matty, to get... | murder | train | wikipedia | Van Heflin is a forensics man trying to solve a couple of murders in "Kid Glove Killer," a 1942 MGM film also starring Marsha Hunt and Lee Bowman.
As in "The Grand Central Murder," it's Heflin's performance that puts this film across, though this time he is aided by the lovely Marsha Hunt as his assistant, whom he call... |
tt0418460 | Aitraaz | Raj Malhotra (Akshay Kumar) is a product engineer for a telecommunications company, Air Voice. Priya Saxena (Kareena Kapoor), a junior lawyer goes to Raj's house for an interview, mistaking him for barrister Ram Chautrani (Annu Kapoor), a neighbour and Raj's friend. They fall in love, marry and are soon expecting a chi... | flashback | train | wikipedia | It is about a man named Raj who is accused of trying to molest his old manager's young wife Sonia, who actually happens to be his ex-girlfriend, while in fact, she was the one who tried to sexually harass him and he refused, being a married man.
This case is taken to court where Raj's wife Priya, who is a lawyer and wh... |
tt0142240 | Doragon bôru Z: Kono yo de ichiban tsuyoi yatsu | 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 | Excellent animation, but uncharacteristically science-fiction plot.
This is the second Dragon Ball Z movie released during the series' Japanese TV run.
This movie's plot, unlike the first DBZ movie, is not a re-telling of a particular moment in the TV series, but more of a side story.
While Gohan assists Oolong on a tr... |
tt0100143 | Miami Blues | Frederick Frenger, Jr. (who asks to be called "Junior"), a violent psychopath recently released from a California prison, starts a new life in Miami. Before leaving the airport, he steals luggage and kills a Hare Krishna after breaking his finger.
Junior checks into a hotel and hooks up with Susie Waggoner, a naive pro... | tragedy, cult, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | They're usually hysterical!!Anyway, there is some violence, some 'dark' comedy (e.g. Ravindra!), etc., but overall, I think this movie was very entertaining and a nice offbeat surprise with some great performances and lines.
"Miami Blues' is a pretty unusual film about a charming psychopath played by Alec Baldwin(in wh... |
tt0283987 | A Charlie Brown Valentine | This special begins with Charlie Brown sitting on a bench at lunch, trying to get the nerve to talk to the Little Red Haired Girl, but of course, chickening out. He says he feels silly to chicken out, because he knows he is the type of person she would like. He says "I may not be the greatest guy who ever lived, but af... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Is This the Future of Peanuts?.
Charles Schulz requested (though since he did not hold the copyright to Peanuts he could not demand) that no one create any new Peanuts stories after his death.
United Media, on the other hand, did not want to let a cash cow like Peanuts fade into the night.
So they compromised with Schu... |
tt1241195 | Aamir | The film begins with Dr. Aamir Ali (Rajeev Khandelwal) returning to Mumbai on vacation. Upon arrival at the airport, an unknown person hands him a cellphone. The caller asks him to follow instructions. Though initially reluctant, he sees a video in the phone and realises that his family has been kidnapped. Not sure wha... | brainwashing | train | wikipedia | Or like proclaiming that since you are used to "Desi" ..champagne is as good as salt water.Aamir is one of the best films I have seen of late .
You might have seen many good Bollywood movies but I am sure you surely haven't seen something like this.
I will not tell anything about the plot because the less you know abou... |
tt0477252 | 36 China Town | Multimillionaire Sonia Chang (Isha Koppikar) finds out her only 2 year son is kidnapped. She lives in her huge mansion named "36 China Town" with a servant couple Mr.Lobo (Dinyar Contractor) and Mrs.Lobo (Roshan Tirandas) in Goa. Sonia is consoled by Rocky (Upen Patel), a local flirt. Sonia declares 25 lakh reward if a... | murder | train | wikipedia | The movie was quite good with many twists and turns although it's a comedy thriller and they both don't match.
I thought it was going to be rubbish but as usual Abbas-Mustan's films are always good.
Their films are always copies but they turn out to be better than the original especially Disclosure which was so rubbish... |
tt0971183 | August Underground's Penance | August Underground's Penance continues the series's narrative mode of showing the lives of serial killers (now just Peter, and his girlfriend Crusty) through their camera, though this installment abandons the "degraded footage" aspect employed by the first two films, being shot in high-definition.
After killing a man w... | violence, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | Four years after the over-the-top graphic spectacle of "Mordum", Toe Tog Pictures' "Penance" has finally seen the cold light of day.
Thankfully, the finished film is an accomplished offering that is actually better than its predecessors.Starting with a surprising scene in which things don't go quite as planned for Voge... |
tt0213611 | Dharam Veer | Maharani Meenakshi is a princess who one day while out hunting is rescued from a handful of attackers by a hunter-warrior Jwala Singh (Pran) who lives alone in the jungle, accompanied only by his pet falcon, Sheroo. She offers him a reward for saving her life but he only wants her hand in marriage which he had been den... | good versus evil, revenge | train | wikipedia | A Must Watch Classic. Dharam Veer is a period costume drama set in the midieval periods shot in grand colourful palaces and forts. While the storyline and screenplay are contemporary, its the special effects and poorly edited action sequences that make the film look a bit dated. The film is based on the "lost and found... |
tt0182320 | Mindgame | Mark Styler, a writer of "true crime" stories arrives at the Fairfields experimental hospital for the criminally insane, with the hope of interviewing serial killer Easterman for a new book. He meets Dr. Farquhar, the hospital director, however things don't seem quite right. The doctor is reluctant to let Styler see Ea... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0091138 | Good to Go | S.D. Blass (Art Garfunkel) is a beat journalist for the Washington Daily Tribune newspaper in Washington, D.C. His editor-in-chief pressures him to deliver more featured stories, as it's been too long since Blass has had a decent article printed. Blass reaches out to Matthew Harrigan (Harris Yulin), a detective for the... | murder | train | wikipedia | They got stoned on "angel dust" and then piled on this nurse at the Go-Go?. (There are Spoilers) Set in the crime and drug infested slums of Washington D.C just blocks away from the center of power of the United States Government, the Capital and the White House. "Short Fuse" or "Good to Go" takes place in the mid-1980... |
tt1050160 | Kataude mashin gâru | Ami Hyūga is an average high school girl whose world comes crashing down when her brother Yu and his friend Takeshi Sugihara are killed by bullies, led by Sho Kimura. As Ami tracks down Sho, she discovers that the bullies are associated with a ninja-yakuza family. She goes after the clan for revenge, but they brutally ... | revenge, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0367153 | Toolbox Murders | Daisy Rain goes to her apartment in the Lusman Arms, a former luxury hotel undergoing renovations, and is beaten to death with a hammer by a man wearing a balaclava. In another room, new tenants Nell and Steven Barrows, a teacher and a medical intern, are introduced to the amenities and a few of the residents by Byron,... | violence, horror, murder | train | wikipedia | Let's face it, with the legend of the Black Dahlia (mentioned in the film), the constant-battle for the control of the water-supply (an engineer once controlled L.A. His name was William Mulholland, and designed the Owens Valley Acqueduct), the Manson Family, gangs, poverty, the desert air, all the Hollywood deaths and... |
tt0404225 | Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon | The story centers around Max Havoc (Mickey Hardt), an ex-kickboxing champion known as "Mad Max", turned globetrotting sports photographer. Max quit kickboxing after accidentally killing a fellow boxer during an unlikely comeback in the ring, but still suffers from flashbacks to the fight. After a bar scuffle over a bik... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0920464 | Manorama Six Feet Under | The film opens with a narrative about a nondescript town called Lakhot in Rajasthan, India. The narrator is Satyaveer Singh Randhawa (Abhay Deol), a down-on-his-luck public works engineer. He compares Lakhot – dry, desolate and despondent – to the general downturn in his own life. As he returns to his irritable and nag... | plot twist, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0397312 | Anonymous Rex | In an alternate timeline, dinosaurs have managed to survive the KT Extinction Event and now live amongst humans using disguises. Vincent Rubio is a Velociraptor private investigator along with his partner, Ernie Watson, a Triceratops.
When Ernie's ex-girlfriend's brother is found dead, the incident is dismissed as suic... | cult, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2389182 | Cheap Thrills | Craig (Pat Healy) is an auto mechanic who loses his job. He is unable to pay his rent and after seeing the eviction sign, he goes to a dive bar, where he meets an old friend from high school, Vince (Ethan Embry). After their reunion, they meet a rich couple, Colin and Violet (David Koechner and Sara Paxton), who appear... | cult, comedy, satire, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Thankfully the director doesn't overdo it, which gives the violent scenes all the more impact.Acting, Cinematography, Script, and a sense of connection, makes Cheap Thrills another movie that proves that lower budget films are capable of matching it with the mega budget movies as far as enjoyment is concerned..
His cha... |
tt0411195 | Breakfast on Pluto | The film is divided in over 30 chapters. In the fictional Irish town of Tyrellin, near the border of Northern Ireland in the late 1940s, cartoon robins narrate as Patrick Braden's mother, Eily Bergin, abandons him on the doorstep of the local parochial house where his father, Father Liam, lives. He is then placed with ... | avant garde, fantasy, murder, violence, flashback, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | Just as the film is committed, so is Cillian Murphy committed to being the best Kitten he can, and he succeeds to an almost uncomfortable point, which I think is part of the storytellers goal.Who does not want to be loved?
Murphy oozes sensual vitality and is a world class flirt, but he's also genuinely kind and compas... |
tt2211173 | Yevadu | Satya and Deepthi are lovers living in Visakhapatnam. A dreaded don, Veeru Bhai, lusts for her. When Deepthi's parents are killed, she and Satya escape. They board a bus on route to Hyderabad, but the bus is stopped unexpectedly and boarded by three men: Veeru's henchman Deva, Veeru's brother Ajay, and a corrupt police... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Story-Satya(Alluarjun)and Deepthi(Kajal)they both are in love Veerubhai(Rahuldev)who likes Deepthi comes to know they are in love and kills them Dr.Shylaja(Jayashuda)will save Satya Ram(Ram Charan)comes and kills Veerubhai and his gang with the help of Brahamnandam and Amy Jackson and finishes his revenge.Dhrama(Sai Ku... |
tt0969647 | The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning | King Triton and his wife, Queen Athena, rule over the underwater kingdom of Atlantica, filled with music and laughter. They have seven young daughters: Aquata, Andrina, Arista, Attina, Adella, Alana, and the youngest of whom is Ariel. One day, the merpeople relax in a lagoon above water, and Triton gives Athena a music... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | There have only been two animated releases so far, Cinderella III and The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning.
Disney did the right thing for this film by keeping songs short and to a minimum.This film highly deserves a chance to be seen by many, unlike the rushed and horrible Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea..
I don... |
tt0046480 | Un acte d'amour | Robert Teller (Kirk Douglas) visits a seaport in the south of France in the early 1950s. He reflects back to his time in the army shortly after Paris has been liberated.
Years earlier, to get away from the barracks and the other soldiers, Robert rents a room in a hotel-restaurant. Lise (Dany Robin), an orphan without m... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0048937 | Alexander the Great | Saikumar plays the role of Prathapa Verma, a rich man in Dubai who has a son Manu (Bala) but also has an adulterous relation with a lady in Mumbai, Janet, with whom he has another son named Alexander (Mohanlal). In his will, he has bequeathed all his wealth to his son Alexander. If Alexander dies, then 40% of Prathapa ... | cult, historical, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0078999 | Coriolanus | The play opens in Rome shortly after the expulsion of the Tarquin kings. There are riots in progress, after stores of grain were withheld from ordinary citizens. The rioters are particularly angry at Caius Marcius, a brilliant Roman general whom they blame for the grain being taken away. The rioters encounter a patrici... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0138967 | Hercules | Hercules is the leader of a band of mercenaries composed of the spear-wielding prophet Amphiaraus of Argos, the knife-throwing thief Autolycus of Sparta, the feral warrior Tydeus of Thebes, the Amazon archer Atalanta of Scythia and his nephew storyteller Iolaus of Athens. Hercules is said to be the demigod son of Zeus,... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Playing with Greek Myths, what fun!.
I wish I had watched this series in it's first run, but I figured "Oh great, another badly done TV series" (I was still bitter about Aladdin and Gargoyles being cancelled).
Then, directly before it went off the air I found these sound clips from the show that were so funny that I de... |
tt1682940 | Playback | On October 21, 1994, Harlan Diehl (Luke Bonczyk) murders his family at their farmhouse and he is shot by the police, as he kills his sister. The tragedy leaves behind video footage (which he had taped) and his sister's baby, who lives. Fifteen years later in Marshall, Michigan, an ambitious high school student Julian M... | paranormal, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Ill start off by saying,if your the kind of person that's always looking for connections in movies(Most people on IMDb who think their intelligent, but just young) then you may not like this one, but if your old school like me and have seen everything already and don't care too much if movies draw slim similarities to ... |
tt0089461 | The Last Dragon | Set in New York City, the movie follows a martial artist named Leroy Green (a/k/a Bruce Leroy), who has dreams of becoming a great martial artist like his idol Bruce Lee. His master (Thomas Ikeda) explains that he has reached the final level of martial arts accomplishment known as "The Last Dragon". Martial artists who... | cult, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | null |
tt5882278 | Mughal-E-Azam | Emperor Akbar (Prithviraj Kapoor), who does not have a male heir, undertakes a pilgrimage to a shrine to pray that his wife Jodhabai (Durga Khote) give birth to a son. Later, a maid brings the emperor news of his son's birth. Overjoyed at his prayers being answered, Akbar gives the maid his ring, and promises to grant ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2992854 | Julia | In California, an alcoholic named Julia (Tilda Swinton) is out of control, partying every night, and waking up in unknown homes with no memory of the previous night. Her reckless behavior costs her her job and she begins to go broke. She soon meets a mother, Elena (Kate del Castillo), at an AA meeting. Elena takes Juli... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | Plagiarism. The film was never completed for a wide range of reasons but a work print is available to the public that has been scored. Sadly I cannot be lenient on the movie for that reason. The film is such a pretentious piece of plagiarism it's almost funny. Anyone familiar Nicolas Winding Refn's work should find it ... |
tt0235137 | Son of the Beach | The show centered on the adventures of Shore Patrol Force 30 (SPF 30, a pun on the term Sun Protection Factor), led by the pasty, out-of-shape, clueless lifeguard Notch Johnson (Timothy Stack). The rest of his patrol consists of B.J. Cummings (the dumb, Caucasian, big-buff lifeguard in season 3 becomes big chested blon... | absurd, satire, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | For now, networks serve up assembly line Punch & Judy shows.Every tired cliche of beach movies, police shows, crime dramas, soap operas, and sitcoms is crammed into this BAYWATCH satire.
Faces get mugged along with characters.I love a delicious satire -- and that's what SON OF THE BEACH delivers.
What other show dares ... |
tt0103617 | Aces: Iron Eagle III | U.S. Air Force Colonel Charles "Chappy" Sinclair and his friends Leichmann, Palmer and Horikoshi run a classic World War II aircraft exhibition at an air show, where they stage dogfights by shooting each other with paint pellets and are "shot down" by landing with smoke emissions. Then, upon hearing that an old friend ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090799 | Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation | Aboard their boat, a yellow bear and a purple horse look after the baby animals known as the Care Bear Cubs and Care Bear Cousin Cubs. On the way, a red sea serpent threatens them—one of the many forms of Dark Heart, an evil spirit. They escape by following a rainbow up to the sky, while the boat transforms into the Cl... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | For the longest time, I liked this movie better than the original Care Bears movie.
The first one is a better Care Bears movie (as you may have guessed if you read my review for it).
I can't think of another sequel that contradicts the original so blatantly (especially with the genders of some characters and how they a... |
tt0106500 | CB4 | Three young friends and aspiring rappers, Albert (Chris Rock), Euripides (Allen Payne), and Otis (Deezer D) want to make their big break. The trio have talent, but no marketable image. In order to get their name heard, they appeal to local crime kingpin and nightclub owner Gusto (Charlie Murphy) along with his sidekick... | comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | This is by far one of Chris Rock's best works to date, and it's his first starring role!
This movie has tons of talent, a tight plot (okay - you need a good ability to suspend your disbelief), and a palpable message.It quickly became something of an underground classic as the early 90s launched the careers of many gang... |
tt0255305 | Khiladi 420 | Shyam Prasad Bhardwaj (Alok Nath) is a multi-millionaire industrialist, and his business is spread worldwide. He has a daughter, Ritu (Mahima Chaudhry), who is of marriageable age. He hires Dev Kumar (Akshay Kumar) to work for him, and is impressed with the way Dev handles himself. Shyam would like Ritu and Dev to get ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Amazing action film.
This movie was brilliant and entertaining but it's really good to be able and enjoyable I love the songs I love the movie so entertaining but I am always happy with it because it was enjoyable to play and I enjoyed watching it too many movie stars because it is really interesting but it's entertain... |
tt0066579 | Women in Love | The film takes place in 1920, in the Midlands mining town of Beldover. Two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, discuss marriage on their way to the wedding of Laura Crich, daughter of the town's wealthy mine owner, Thomas Crich, to Tibby Lupton, a naval officer. At the village's church, each sister is fascinated by a ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073042 | The Ghoul | In 1920s England, a group of upper-class people take part in an automobile race to Land's End. One couple, Billy and Daphne, get lost in heavy fog and run out of petrol. Billy goes to look for fuel, but takes so long that Daphne strikes out on her own. She eventually locates a rural estate owned by Dr. Lawrence, a form... | murder | train | wikipedia | I have noticed a lot of rubbish written about this movie: its NOT a Hammer production (it's from Tyburn) although a lot of Hammer-regulars are involved in it; director Freddie Francis is NOT the brother of producer Kevin Francis, but his father; the only similarities between Alfred Hitchock's Psycho and this movie are ... |
tt0100112 | Le mari de la coiffeuse | The film begins in a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. Though Antoine tells Mathilde that 'the past is dead', his life is evidence... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0109447 | Clifford | At a Catholic school in 2050, a troublesome boy named Roger (Ben Savage) is running away after blowing up the gym due to not being allowed to play on the basketball team—he was accepted onto the team but his parents have forbidden contact sports. He is stopped by Father Clifford Daniels (Martin Short), an old priest, w... | revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | In this funny, but slightly crude film, Martin Short uses his young face and tricky camera angles, I think, to play the part of a ten year old boy.
The only way a goofy plot like the one in this film could possibly work is if the lead actor was a true genius of comedy, a man among Canadians, a charming elf-like creatur... |
tt2125423 | Five Broken Cameras | There are five cameras — each with its own story. When his fourth son, Gibreel, is born in 2005, self-taught cameraman Emad Burnat, a Palestinian villager, gets his first camera. At the same time in his village of Bil’in, the Israelis begin bulldozing village olive groves to build a barrier to separate Bil'in from the ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Hundreds of villages were ethnically cleansed, and several of them today have Israeli Jews living in the old houses owned by Palestinians (not having paid for them of course).
The film shows the Israeli occupation through the eyes of a small village and its people from 2005 to 2010.
It's a very honest film that depicts... |
tt0067168 | A Gunfight | Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Cross rides into town, having failed as a gold prospector. His reputation is such that everyone expects him to shoot it out with Tenneray, who capitalizes on his legend by working at the saloon to "sucker fools into buying drinks." To... | violence | train | wikipedia | A Gunfight is directed by Lamont Johnson and written by Harold Jack Bloom.
It stars Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander, Karen Black and Raf Vallone.
Will Tenneray (Douglas) and Abe Cross (Cash) are two ageing gunfighters who after meeting each other in town hit it of straight away and actually like and respect e... |
tt0116345 | The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders | Moll is born in Newgate to a convict woman, who is transported immediately after giving birth. After being passed around, the child ends up with gypsies, from whom she runs away when about seven years old. She is taken in by the Mayor of Colchester and brought up in his household as "almost" one of the family. When the... | intrigue, satire | train | wikipedia | One of the best I've seen.
Alex Kingston IS Moll Flanders.
Please, forget the cotton-candy version that has Morgan Freeman in the cast (though, I _adore_ Stockard Channing).
This is the real thing!
We get to see the real, harsh struggles of Moll in this adaptation, and how out of the muck and grime Moll finds herself.
... |
tt0024100 | Hell Below | When the commander of the United States Navy submarine AL-14 is wounded on its last cruise, Lieutenant Thomas Knowlton (Robert Montgomery), the second in command, hopes to be promoted and take his place. However, Lieutenant Commander T. J. Toler (Walter Huston) shows up and takes over.
Toler orders his officers to atte... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077742 | Interiors | The film centers around the three children of Arthur (E. G. Marshall), a corporate attorney, and Eve (Geraldine Page), an interior decorator. Renata (Diane Keaton) is a poet whose husband Frederick, a struggling writer, feels eclipsed by her success. Flyn (Kristin Griffith) is a vain actress who is away most of the tim... | depressing | train | wikipedia | "Interiors" gets slammed as a forced, awkward, heavy-handed and cheapened imitation of Bergman (most noticeably "Cries and Whispers") and usually discussed in context of "Annie Hall" that preceded it and "Manhattan" that followed.Well, "Annie Hall" was funny as hell and I love "Manhattan" - it's directed with an author... |
tt0063483 | Rachel, Rachel | Rachel Cameron (Joanne Woodward) is a shy, 35-year-old spinster schoolteacher living with her widowed mother in an apartment above the funeral home once owned by her father in a small town in Connecticut. School is out for summer vacation and Rachel figures it will just be another lonely and boring summer for her. (It'... | tragedy, psychedelic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Newman's Own. Both the camera and the man behind it were obviously in love with the actress on screen, and, that actress, Joanne Woodward, was arguably never better than she was in "Rachel, Rachel," husband-Paul-Newman's first directing effort.
Trapped in a small apartment above a funeral parlor with her whining posses... |
tt2056659 | My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part 3 | Two years after the events of the previous film, Skye Rotter (Lauren McKnight) is moving out of her boyfriend, Brigg (Chris Zylka), and his family's house to New York City for college with her new friend, the free spirited Sienna, (Jillian Rose Reed), whom she met on Craigslist. As she is on the road, Skye receives a c... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Bogeyman's gone and the party is smaller. With Charlie Rotter dead, Skye (Lauren McKnight) has lived a peaceful life with Brigg's parents. Sister Alex Bell (Kirsten Prout) has stopped communicating with her. She is going to college and hitching a ride with Sienna (Jillian Rose Reed) after answering an ad on Craigslist.... |
tt0469263 | The Astronaut Farmer | Charles Farmer is a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and astronaut-in-training who reluctantly resigned from the space program and was discharged from the military before he could fulfill his dream of becoming a vital part of NASA. He did so in order to take over his family's failing ranch in Texas after his financi... | satire | train | wikipedia | Of course you'll need to suspend your disbelief for a story that seems so far fetched, a man launching himself into space, although I have read of 2 rocket men who have attempted this same idea-- but every time you walk into a movie theater you have to surrender some logic.
When I first heard there was a movie in which... |
tt0303785 | Bollywood/Hollywood | Bollywood/Hollywood centres on the character of Rahul Seth (Rahul Khanna), a young, rich, Indo-Canadian living in Toronto whose widowed mother (Moushumi Chatterjee) is eager to get him married after the freak-accidental death of his white pop singer girlfriend, Kimberly (Jessica Paré). Furthermore, the mother proclaims... | satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0248271 | Our Friend, Martin | Miles (Robert Ri'chard) is a wisecracking African American boy who is an avid fan of sports, particularly baseball icon Hank Aaron, but is failing at school. His teacher Miss Clark (Susan Sarandon) threatens Miles that she will make him repeat 6th grade should his grades not improve. He and his class, including his fri... | alternate reality | train | wikipedia | Great movie!.
I just showed this movie to my 5th Grade classes as part of a series of Social Studies lessons on Martin Luther King, Jr.
We had just finished reading a book in which many of MLK's accomplishments and honors were explained, so the movie really helped tie it all together for them.
They were absolutely entr... |
tt0119832 | One Night Stand | The movie starts off with a flashback that's being narrated by Urvil (Tanuj Virwani). It is the flashback and a series of events from his past that has defined his today. The flashback starts off with a fashion show organised by his event management agency in Phuket, Thailand. And after completing the event successfull... | romantic | train | wikipedia | This movie at least provokes that kind of thought, though in a very simple way.Ming-Na Wen and Wesley Snipes were over-acting on some occasions.
However, Robert Downey Jr.'s part was superb, though his character was not directly related to the movie's main story.
One suggestion for all the people who give it a bad revi... |
tt0091635 | Nine 1/2 Weeks | The title of the film refers to the duration of a relationship between Wall Street arbitrageur John Gray and divorced SoHo art gallery employee Elizabeth McGraw. John initiates and controls the various experimental sexual practices of this volatile relationship to push Elizabeth's boundaries. In doing so, Elizabeth exp... | violence, cult, sadist | train | wikipedia | All people seem to talk about when it comes to this movie is about the sex scenes and the nudity in the film.
Rourke and Basinger make a steamy couple and the ending and the events that unfolded in the film lingered with me long afterwards and left me thinking for a while.
For an established actress like Kim Basinger t... |
tt4108170 | 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 | null |
tt0129111 | The Gambler | Axel Freed is a New York City Harvard University–educated English professor and author with a gambling addiction that begins to spiral out of control. In the classroom, Freed inspires his college students with his interpretations of Fyodor Dostoevsky's work. In his personal life, Axel has the affection of the beautiful... | romantic, autobiographical, flashback | train | wikipedia | an entertaining period piece & biography.
I do not know how close to Dostoyevsky's real life this setting was, but I do know that he was jailed as a political activist in his youth, flung in with the struggles & downtrodden lives of anyone from petty criminals to hardened murderers, in extremely oppressive jails that w... |
tt0104466 | Husbands and Wives | The film is about two couples: Jack (Pollack) and Sally (Davis), and Gabe (Allen) and Judy (Farrow). The film starts when Jack and Sally arrive at Gabe and Judy's apartment and announce their separation. Gabe is shocked, but Judy takes the news personally and is very hurt. Still confused, they go out for dinner at a Ch... | satire, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0041592 | The Little Orphan | Nibbles arrives at Jerry's mousehole, and as he tries to snatch cheese from a trap, Jerry discovers he has been asked to have Nibbles as a guest for Thanksgiving, with a note attached saying "he's always hungry." Jerry's cupboards are empty, so he leads Nibbles to a bowl of cream where Tom is sleeping. After Nibbles si... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | A classic cartoon with Tom, Jerry and Nibbles.
This classic, Oscar-winning cartoon has the little grey orphan mouse Nibbles visit Jerry.
Nibbles has a little note asking Jerry to feed him, as he's always hungry.
A veritable banquet has just been prepared by Mammy Two Shoes, the black maid, and Nibbles starts to go into... |
tt0098725 | Sweetie | The film focuses on Kay's relationships with her boyfriend Louis, her parents and her emotionally unhealthy sister, Sweetie. Kay is quiet and superstitious, loving Louis because of the words of a fortune teller and experiencing deep foreboding towards a tree he attempted to plant in their yard. Sweetie, from Kay's pers... | insanity, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Saw this film a long time ago, but remember it like it was yesterday.
This film left a lasting impression on me from when I saw it aged about 15.
The super-ego is fraught with a sense of place in the world, and trying to make the best of the values it finds directly around it, and the id is a tangle of senses and memor... |
tt0406977 | Masti | Masti revolves around three bachelors, Meet (Vivek Oberoi), Prem (Aftab Shivdasani) and Amar (Ritesh Deshmukh). Their lives are carefree until they each get married and turn into bitter, unsatisfied husbands. Meet marries Anchal (Amrita Rao) who is obsessively possessive about her husband. Prem marries Geeta (Tara Shar... | humor, murder, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2178470 | Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani | Naina Talwar (Deepika Padukone) is a shy and nerdy medical student. She studies constantly and always tops her classes, but she feels like an outcast due to her introverted nature. An encounter with an old classmate, Aditi Mehra (Kalki Koechlin), makes her realize that she wants more from life than high marks. Thus, sh... | romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Like all rom-coms, YEH JAWAANI HAI DEEWANI sparkles with romance, merriment and heartache, is brightly glossy and boasts of crackling chemistry between its lead actors, but Ayan makes sure the heady concoction never waters down.
YJHD does through the typical roller coaster of a Bollywood romance, but where it differs f... |
tt0430912 | Basic Instinct 2 | Set in London, the film opens with American best-selling author Catherine Tramell in a speeding car with her companion, Kevin Franks, a famous English football star. Tramell takes the man's hand and begins masturbating with it, all the while increasing her vehicle's speed. At the point of orgasm, Tramell veers off the ... | psychological, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | In my opinion, this sequel is not nearly as good as the original film, but is not as bad as most comments pretend.
Since he has more screen time and is the axis of the movie, he can keep your attention from beginning to end.I am not recommending "Basic Instinct 2" as a great movie; I am just expressing my disagreement ... |
tt1028550 | Love Machine | Robin Stone, a handsome, ambitious newsman for a New York television station, attracts the attention of Judith Austin, wife of Gregory Austin, the head of the IBC network. Concerned about ratings, Greg is encouraged by Judith to hire Robin as IBC's new anchorman. Although he opposes Greg's decision, Danton Miller, the ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | great material for analyses of robots, AI, and ethics. I saw this movie last week, hosted by Peter Asaro, one of the film makers. Much more than just a "gee-whiz" description of current developments in robotics and artificial intelligence, the film provides really rich material for thinking about the delegation of all ... |
tt0037001 | Lady in the Death House | Mary Kirk Logan is led from her cell to the electric chair, to be "killed by the hand of the man I love."
A psychologist and criminologist, Charles Finch, tells her story. They first meet in a bar when Mary's dress catches fire. Dr. Bradford, having drinks with Finch, helps extinguish the fire. He takes Mary home and t... | murder | train | wikipedia | This tautly constructed little movie should serve as a model for those modern film authors who cannot unfold the simplest story line in less than two hours.The movie opens with Mary Kirk being led from her cell to walk to the death chamber.
Half way into the movie he has reached the point at which Mary was convicted an... |
tt0059460 | The Money Trap | Joe Baron (Glenn Ford) is an under-appreciated, under paid cop who lives a life of luxury because of his very wealthy, beautiful and much younger wife, Lisa Baron (Elke Sommer), and the stock that her father left behind. Unfortunately for the happy couple, when their stock's dividends stop coming in, Joe finds himself ... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | Ford, Hayworth paired for last time in last-ditch noir.
The noir cycle had run its course by the early 60s, but a few stragglers made it through the gates before the 70s changed the way movies were made and viewed.
The Money Trap is one of them, and could have been made, in terms of technique and sensibility, in 1956 r... |
tt0104756 | Lorenzo's Oil | Lorenzo (Zack O'Malley Greenburg) is a bright and vibrant young boy living in the Comoro Islands, as his father Augusto (Nick Nolte) works for the World Bank and is stationed there. However, when his parents relocate to the United States, he begins to show neurological problems (such as loss of hearing, tantrums, etc.)... | inspiring, romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Nick is convincing in every way in this movie, even though he has a very hard part playing an Italian(Augusto Odone).Susan Sarandon plays the mother of Lorenzo.
It's incredible how she plays the part of a mother near the end of her powers pushing away everybody that does not share the same faith in saving the life of ... |
tt0376784 | My Brother's Keeper | Handcuffed together, George Martin (Jack Warner) and Willie Stannard (George Cole) are two newly convicted criminals being transported to prison. Martin is a hardened, cynical career criminal, while Stannard is a naïve, rather dull-witted youth who has never previously been in trouble with the law, maintains his innoce... | flashback | train | wikipedia | AWESOME!. Thrilling!The director on this one really kicks ass! (hard to believe it's his first feature!) The ashmore brothers are stellar.
Check it out! Well worth it!. Great family movie. Someone recommended this to me and I was pleasantly surprised. Great story, heartwarming and fun for the whole family. I am not a ... |
tt1385956 | Particle Fever | The film is composed of two narrative threads. One follows the large team of experimental physicists at CERN as they try to get the LHC running properly. After a promising initial test run, the LHC suffers a liquid helium leak in 2007 that damages its electromagnets. Fabiola Gianotti, Martin Aleksa, and Monica Dunford ... | historical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0499570 | Slipstream | Slipstream is set in a dystopian future, following a global environmental disaster. A voice over at the beginning of the film explains that a doomsday event, the "Convergence, has destroyed the balance of the world's weather systems, with the result that the jet stream has expanded to the planet's surface, with the sur... | psychedelic, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Hopkins has his own meaning for the film, but we're expected to form our own.This will doubtlessly be a divisive movie.
Don't go into Slipstream expecting a typical Anthony Hopkins film (if there is such a thing), don't go into it expecting any kind conventional narrative, and don't go into it expecting another Muholla... |
tt0056943 | The Comedy of Terrors | Set in a late 19th century in a New England town, the film tells of unscrupulous undertaker Waldo Trumbull (Price) and his assistant, Felix Gillie (Lorre), who make a habit of re-using the coffins of the people they are supposed to bury. Also a part of the household are Trumball's old (and senile) business partner Mr. ... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | Fun horror /comedy with an exceptional quartet who provides much fun : Price , Karloff , Lorre and Rathbone .
This supreme adventure in terror and humor based on the novel and screenplay by Richard Matheson deals with two deranged undertakers (Vincent Price and Peter Lorre) who take bad ways to insuring their continued... |
tt0113483 | Joseph | Joseph, a Hebrew, is an Egyptian slave to Potiphar, chief of Pharaoh's palace guard. When Joseph is placed under the charge of Ednan, Potiphar's overseer, Ednan torments Joseph for his refusal to show deference for the Egyptian god Amun. But Joseph eventually earns Ednan's respect when he reveals that he knows how to r... | revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | I happened to catch the TV movie Joseph a few weeks ago.
Throughout he portrays the slave role with quiet dignity; his faith and belief in God absolutely marvelous, convincing, pure.
The scene where he reveals himself as Joseph, not as second in command of all Egypt, to his brothers tearfully, poignantly is one of the... |
tt0387877 | The Black Dahlia | On January 15, 1947, LAPD Detectives Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard investigate the murder and dismemberment of Elizabeth Short, soon dubbed "The Black Dahlia" by the press. Bucky learns that Elizabeth was an aspiring actress who appeared in a pornographic film. Through his investigation, Bucky learns that ... | comedy, mystery, neo noir, murder, boring, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Hitchcock or even Lynch could have shot the same scene, with the same events and dialogue, and made it menacing and creepy, which it needed to be to function in the mystery.Other problems: De Palma uses the lesbian angle of the movie (never a part of the case) to full exploitative advantage, and the actresses seem unab... |
tt0075946 | Dites-lui que je l'aime | Scientist David Kelsey is infatuated with Annabelle, who has married another man, Gerald. Unable to move on from his first love, he labors in the vain hope that she will leave her new husband. He sends her letters and visits her home and asks her to leave her husband even after she has had a son by him. Under the assum... | insanity, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
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