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tt0217680 | Nang Nak | In a rural village west of Bangkok, Mek (Winai Kraibutr) is conscripted and sent to fight in the Siamese-Vietnamese War (1831–1834). He has to leave behind his pregnant teenage wife, Nak (Intira Jaroenpura). Mek is wounded and barely survives. He eventually returns home to his beloved wife and their child.
A friend vis... | revenge | train | wikipedia | I had never heard the story of Nang Nak before, and up to that point, everything I knew about Thailand, I learned from the movie 'Ong Bak' (no offence to any Thai readers).'Nang Nak' turned out to be much better than I had anticipated.
The story of Nak, a pregnant woman whose husband Mak has been sent to war, wounded a... |
tt0305396 | The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course | In outer space, a United States-owned satellite blows up and one of the last remaining pieces, a beacon, is sent hurdling towards Earth where it lands in Australia, only to be swallowed by a crocodile. Back at the CIA, Agent Buckwhiler and Deputy Director Reynolds reveal that, in the wrong hands, the beacon can change ... | action, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0383353 | Evil Aliens | The film begins with the alien abduction on Scalleum, a remote island off the coast of Wales, of Cat Williams and her boyfriend. Cat's boyfriend is gorily killed through brutal anal probing, and Cat is (also gorily) implanted with an alien fetus. Cat's story attracts the attention of Michelle "Foxy" Fox (Emily Booth), ... | violence, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0064513 | John and Mary | The stories are set mainly in the Berkshire countryside, at the farmhouse home of the children's grandmother, a Scottish-born woman named Mrs Hawthorne. The farm is called Smockfarthing, and is near to an imaginary village called Smockfarthing Wick, which in turn is close to a town called Riverton. Although these place... | flashback | train | wikipedia | I know, this is just a small movie, but one that I'm able to see again and again, mainly because of little things as the bright blue sky upon Mia Farrow eating an apple or the original egg-cups in Dustin Hoffman's kitchen.
Well, if you long for those days or would just like to see what they were like, a good way to tel... |
tt1397497 | Carny | The Jersey Devil appears in quick flash glimpses in the very beginning of the film as it growls. After Cap (Alan C. Peterson) kills the man who sold him the Jersey Devil, Cap and his assistant attempted to bring the Jersey Devil into the carnival of the truck. Cap shoots it with a tranquilizer dart to calm the Jersey D... | violence | train | wikipedia | "It's another one of THOSE films where the creature is only shown in brief, shaky camera shots to avoid special effects costs." Luckily, I was wrong.Of course the creature escapes, just like you'd expect in a horror movie, beginning a fairly typical "monster on the loose" scenario--because really, you can't make a movi... |
tt4324302 | Justice League: Gods and Monsters | In an unspecified alternate universe, the Justice League is a brutal force that maintains order on Earth. This universe has its own versions of the League, Batman is Dr. Kirk Langstrom, Wonder Woman is Bekka, and Superman is Hernan Guerra. The Justice League's lack of accountability is ultimately challenged by the worl... | murder | train | wikipedia | As a result of the Justice League's savage tactics, their unaccountability is ultimately challenged by the world's governments following the suspicious deaths of renowned scientists.Admittedly, I was initially influenced by some of the negative reviews that lashed out at the concept of Justice League: Gods and Monsters... |
tt0203612 | Otoshiana | John "Johnny" Forbes (Powell) is a middle-class husband and father who is tired of his boring routine, working for the Olympic Mutual Insurance Company in downtown Los Angeles. Private investigator and former policeman J. B. "Mac" MacDonald (Burr) reports that Bill Smiley (Barr), an embezzler who had been bonded by Oly... | psychedelic, avant garde | train | wikipedia | It's the first collaboration between director Teshigahara, writer Kodo Abe, and composer Toru Takemitsu, who went on to make the more widely available WOMAN IN THE DUNES and FACE OF ANOTHER.
If you're familiar with Hiroshi Teshigahara's work, especially the notorious "Woman In The Dunes", you will understand the starkn... |
tt0071717 | Killdozer | A meteorite crashes onto the Earth's surface, an island off the coast of Africa. Some hundreds or thousands of years later, after natural forces have buried it and restored the local environment, six construction workers are boated to the island to begin work building an airstrip for an oil drilling company at the cras... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0025124 | Flirtation Walk | Richard Palmer Grant Dorcy Jr. (Powell), a.k.a. "the Canary" and "the singing bird of the tropics," is an enlisted man in the United States Army. Stationed in the Hawaiian Islands, he has a contentious but friendly relationship with his sergeant, Scrapper Thornhill (Pat O'Brien). When General Fitts (Henry O'Neill) visi... | romantic | train | wikipedia | FLIRTATION WALK (First National, 1934) directed by Frank Borzage, teams Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler for the fifth time, and the first to present their names above the title.
When released in November 1934, this sentimental musical-comedy was so successful that it was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture, alo... |
tt0057263 | Love with the Proper Stranger | The film tells the story of Angie Rossini (Natalie Wood), a salesclerk at Macy's department store who finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with musician Rocky Papasano (Steve McQueen). When she tracks him down, he doesn't remember her. She does not expect him to marry her; all she wants is enough money to pay... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | Watching this film today, it's easy to forget how daring it was for its day (1963) -focusing on an illegal abortion.It's also an fascinating mix of conventional romantic comedy mixed with real grit and passion - and the fact it starts off as unconventional as possible; girl meets boy, girl gets pregnant, girl and boy t... |
tt0047434 | The Runaway Bus | When heavy fog wreaks havoc among air travellers throughout southern England, outspoken Cynthia Beeston (Margaret Rutherford) - a forceful proponent of "Positive Thought" - insists on being taken from London Airport to Blackbushe Airport, where she might be able to fly to Dublin. Harassed airline employees find emergen... | satire | train | wikipedia | runaway fun in the fog.
This is a great comedy film,with a large number of British stars on their way up including later pop star Petula Clarke who these days lives in france.
The whole set up hinges on the fact that a fog covers the south east England and a Gold bullion robeery has been waiting for this very thing to ... |
tt0310154 | In This World | Jamal and Enayatullah are Afghan refugees in a camp in Peshawar, Pakistan. They travel to Quetta, and thence to Taftan on the Iranian border. They pay people smugglers to assist them over the border; on their first attempt they are stopped by Iranian police and returned to Pakistan, but their second attempt is successf... | sentimental | train | wikipedia | Eclectic English film-maker Michael Winterbottom has produced his finest work to date with 'In this World', a pseudo-documentary account of the attempted journey of two Afghani refugees to London.
Their journey, of course, is no sort of holiday.Winterbottom steers clear of direct politics, but we see (along with great ... |
tt3831810 | Big Driver | Tess is a cozy mystery writer who has a speaking engagement at a library in Chicopee, Massachusetts. After the event, the librarian who had invited her, Ramona Norville, tells Tess to avoid Interstate 84. She gives Tess the directions to Stagg Road, a presumably safer shortcut to Tess' home in Connecticut. However, on ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0106873 | Fatal Instinct | Ned Ravine, who's both a police officer and a lawyer (who often defends the people he arrests), believes that he knows everything about women, and says that he'll throw away his badge if anyone ever proves him wrong. While on a stakeout, he encounters a seductive woman named Lola Cain; the next day, Lola shows up at hi... | revenge, neo noir, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Boy was I wrong, I didn't think I'd like it because I thought Armand Assanti was a real serious actor and he wouldn't be funny but 5 minutes in to it when he put that hot dog in his jacket pocket I didn't stop laughing.
A wild spoof of suspense and film noirs, I appreciated this silly film a little more than most being... |
tt0089034 | The Doctor and the Devils | Dr. Thomas Rock (Timothy Dalton) is a respected 19th-century anatomist lecturing at a prominent medical school. He is deeply passionate about improving medical knowledge, a pursuit for which he believes "the ends justify the means." Unfortunately, due to the laws of the time very few cadavers are legally available to t... | violence, dark, gothic, murder, historical | train | wikipedia | Things take a turn for the worst when the slum of Robert Fallon and Timothy Broom find out there's good money in the job, and go one step further by providing on every occasion a 'fresh' corpse for the unconcerned doctor.
I couldn't help but be slightly disappointed by this Mel Brooks produced Gothic take on the true e... |
tt2770480 | Remember Sunday | The story follows the characters of Molly (Bledel), a struggling waitress, and Gus (Levi), a jewelry store employee. Gus and Molly meet through a chance encounter when Gus is at Molly's diner waiting for his best friend. Molly sees Gus reciting notes into his pen recorder and when he goes to take a phone call she leave... | romantic | train | wikipedia | if you like romantic movies that keep a serious tone, but don't try to make you cry at every opportunity, then you may like this one.Give it a 8 out of 10, but has king of an open ending which is not my favorite way of finishing a movie..
The struggle of a family or a person with a mental illness is a real difficult is... |
tt0089841 | Prizzi's Honor | Charley Partanna is a hit man for a New York crime organization headed by the elderly Don Corrado Prizzi, whose business is generally handled by his sons Dominic and Eduardo and by his longtime right-hand man, Angelo, who is Charley's father.
At a family wedding, Charley is quickly infatuated with a beautiful woman he ... | romantic, comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0071129 | Amarcord | A young woman hanging clothes on a line happily points out the arrival of "manine" or puffballs floating on the wind. The old man pottering beside her replies, "When puffballs come, cold winter’s done." In the village square, schoolboys jump around trying to pluck puffballs out of the air. Giudizio (Aristide Caporale),... | cult, flashback, psychedelic, humor, satire, prank | train | wikipedia | Like life itself, the movie can be perplexing and enigmatic, sometimes magical, sometimes, in the face of the political climate and history, frightening as "simple people just trying to live get caught up in the times they were themselves creating".
I don't think any film I've ever seen has so completely captured with ... |
tt0110442 | Major League II | In the previous season, the Cleveland Indians won the division title by beating the New York Yankees in a one-game playoff, but were defeated in the ALCS by the Chicago White Sox.
The success of last season has changed the attitudes of the Indians. Pitching sensation Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn has become a media sensatio... | comedy | train | wikipedia | I don't know why the harsh rating, I mean, despite the fact that a few actors were replaced, I thought that Major League 2 was a decent comedy.
I liked how they showed that most of the guys changed, it was so human and added a real story.The boys are back for the next season, this time Rachel has sold the team to Roger... |
tt0066835 | Black Killer | James Webb arrives to town with a casket full of books. He discovers that the judge co-operates with the wanted O'Hara brothers, who make farmers sign over their land deeds and then kill them. The deeds are then deposited with the judge. Webb, who has presented himself to the judge as a lawyer, finds that since these d... | western | train | wikipedia | a fairly good spaghetti western.
This spaghetti western has a very good music score and a great performance by Klaus Kinski as a strange lawyer who kills with books that have guns inside of them.
His look and mannerisms fit the character perfectly.Not only does this western have Kinski, it also has a family of Mexican ... |
tt1727358 | Panic Button | Four young people win the competition of a lifetime; Jo (Scarlett Alice Johnson), Max (Jack Gordon), Gwen (Elen Rhys) and Dave (Michael Jibson) head off on an all expenses paid trip to New York, courtesy of the social network All2gethr.com. As they board the private jet, they are asked to relinquish their mobile phones... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3070502 | Unstoppable | While moving a train pulled by AWVR AC4400CW's #777 and #767 at the Veteran Allegheny and West Virginia Railroad (AWVR) trainyard in the fictional city of Fuller, Pennsylvania, the two hostlers, Dewey and Gilleece, take ill-advised shortcuts and accidentally allow the engine to leave the train-yard on its own power wit... | christian film | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0105450 | South Central | Bobby Johnson (Glenn Plummer) is a young black gang member of Hoover Street Deuces, or simply "Deuce". He gets paroled from the Youth Authority and he meets up with his best friend/fellow gang member Ray Ray (Byron Minns), Loco and Bear. As it turns out, Bobby's girlfriend Carole (LaRita Shelby) gave birth to his son J... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0424176 | Icon | During the 1999 Russian Presidential elections, the two leading candidates are Igor Komarov (Patrick Bergin), a former Colonel of the KGB, and a retired General Nikolai Nikolayev (Joss Ackland). When a car bomb explodes outside one of Komarov’s pharmaceutical companies, and a virus is stolen from inside, an investigati... | suspenseful, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | I'd like to point out some positive things about ICON - the lead review here at IMDb pounded this telefilm pretty hard!
Looked realistic to me, not unlike the sequence in the recent 'Quiet American'.There were good actors: Barry Morse (still alive?) and Ben Cross.
I liked 'the Saint', 'Hunt for Red October' and 'Russia... |
tt0105130 | Peter's Friends | It is New Year's weekend and the friends of Peter (Fry) gather at his newly inherited country house. Ten years ago, they all acted together in a Cambridge University student comedy troupe. Since then they have gone in different directions and career paths.
Peter's friends are Andrew (Branagh), now a writer in Hollywood... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Roger and Mary have just lost a child,Maggie is trying to find a man and has her eye on Peter, who is definitely not interested,Sarah is involved with a married man and seems to have trouble getting involved with anyone who's available,Andrew and his Hollywood actress wife are having marriage problems.This movie is wel... |
tt1314741 | Far Cry 2 | Jason Brody is on vacation with a group of friends in the Rook Islands, celebrating his younger brother Riley getting a pilot license. However, on a skydiving trip, they land on a pirate-infested island and are kidnapped by a pirate lord named Vaas, who plans to extort ransom money from their parents, and then sell the... | violence | train | wikipedia | Fans of the FPS genre of gaming will probably have mixed feelings towards this game.
In many respects, Far Cry 2 shows the true potential available to users of the current generation of console platforms, but at the same time, many of the functions break no new ground, and serve no great purpose.The game is mission-bas... |
tt0037932 | My Name Is Julia Ross | In London, Julia Ross (Nina Foch) goes to a new employment agency, desperate for work. When Mrs. Sparkes (Anita Sharp-Bolster) learns that she has no near relations, she recommends Julia for a job as a live-in personal secretary to a wealthy widow, Mrs. Hughes (May Whitty). Mrs. Hughes approves and insists that she mov... | insanity | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090098 | Summer Rental | Overworked air traffic controller Jack Chester (Candy) is given four paid weeks off as an alternative to being fired after nearly causing a mid-air collision on the job and having an outburst over what turned out to be a fly covering a radar blip. He uses this time off to take his wife Sandy and children Jennifer, Bobb... | comedy, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | "Summer Rental" is a very pleasant comedy vehicle from director Carl Reiner and star John Candy.
Candy stars as Jack Chester, an air traffic controller under alot of stress.
The funniest part of "Summer Rental" is the opening 5 minutes, with Candy exhibiting the kind of stress that causes his superiors to suggest a vac... |
tt0063663 | The Swimmer | On a sunny day in an affluent suburb in Connecticut, a fit and tanned middle-aged man in a bathing suit, Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster), drops by a pool party being held by old friends, the Westerhazys. They offer him a cocktail while nursing their own hangovers from the night before. As they share stories, Ned realizes ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0215132 | Rocky | In late 1975, the heavyweight boxing world champion, Apollo Creed, announces plans to hold a title bout in Philadelphia during the upcoming United States Bicentennial. However, he is informed five weeks from the fight date that his scheduled opponent is unable to compete due to an injured hand. With all other potential... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0384444 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | The story is set in Persia during the 9th century AD, and begins with the Prince narrating to an unseen listener about his adventures. The Prince and the army of his father Shahraman are passing through India to visit the Sultan of Azad. The Vizier of a local Maharaja, wanting to prevent his death using a substance kno... | psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0475289 | Hack! | On a small island, a man (Kane Hodder) is chased by an unseen figure. As he stops to catch his breath, he is decapitated by his pursuer. Meanwhile, a group of teenage college students, including the social outcast Emily (Danica McKellar), Emily's love interest Johnny (Jay Kenneth Johnson), the flamboyant homosexual Ric... | violence | train | wikipedia | It tries to talk you into believing that it's a tribute to classic campy slasher films, it dazzles you with good production design, cinematography and some fairly decent actors, but ultimately it turns to tired slapstick and surrealism without purpose, all courtesy of the only horrifying aspect of this movie; the scrip... |
tt0787523 | Nothing Is Private | Set in 1990 amid the Kuwait War of 1990-91, Towelhead tells the coming-of-age story of a 13-year-old Lebanese American girl named Jasira (Summer Bishil). She first lives with her mother in Syracuse, New York, but when her mother's live-in boyfriend helps Jasira shave her pubic hair, her mother sends Jasira to live with... | comedy | train | wikipedia | If you are made uncomfortable by the honest portrayal of adolescent sexuality, racism, sexism, bad parenting, sexual assault, and sexual predation, then you will not enjoy this movie.If you are like myself and my wife, and you feel that dealing with the life of a young woman torn between cultures and divorced parents, ... |
tt2852376 | Heli | Heli is a young man working in a car assembly factory; he lives with his father who also works there, his wife Sabrina, his baby son Santiago and his sister Estela. His life is normal, slow, and without economic prospects, and he suffers from a troubled relationship with his wife.
Estela is revealed to be in a relation... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0498348 | Glass House: The Good Mother | The film tells the story of Abby (Jordan Hinson) and Ethan Snow (Bobby Coleman), who lose their parents in a tragic accident and are adopted by Eve (Angie Harmon) and Raymond Goode (Joel Gretsch), two seemingly-ideal parents who have recently lost a child of their own, David.
At first things seem good, but the first od... | cruelty, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0120456 | Virasat | After completing his studies in London, Shakti Thakur (Anil Kapoor) returns to his ancestral village in India. Accompanying him is his girlfriend, Anita (Pooja Batra), whom he is in love with and wants to marry, much to the disapproval of his family. After a few days, Shakti starts to feel that nothing much has changed... | good versus evil, murder | train | wikipedia | A modern day Hindi film dealing with timeless values of the village..
Virasat is a film dealing with the archetypes of Indian rural existence.
Shakti (Anil Kapoor) is an educated son of a landowner who returns to his village.
Due to his education and city girlfriend, Shakti wishes to turn his back on the village and se... |
tt1091207 | Teenage Dirtbag | At a local IGA store, a pregnant woman is shocked to learn from an old classmate that a boy she once knew named Thayer died in a river recently. When going back to her car, the woman has a flashback of her time in high school.
The woman is Amber Lange, once a popular cheerleader in high school. Thayer Mangeres is a cla... | suicidal, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1114271 | Thursday | The movie opens in a Los Angeles convenience store one late Monday night, where a small-time drug dealer named Nick (Aaron Eckhart) is trying to decide what coffee brand to buy. His ex-lover Dallas (Paulina Porizkova) and fellow hitman Billy Hill (James LeGros) are getting impatient and tell him to hurry up. Conflicts ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0140588 | La svastica nel ventre | The film opens with Hanna and her German soldier boyfriend making love in a field in the days before the outbreak of World War II. Once the war has broken out, the Jewish Hanna and her family are rounded up, but not before her mother is killed trying to defend the family. They are then taken to a concentration camp.
At... | violence, revenge, cruelty, sadist | train | wikipedia | Rather drama than exploitation.
Despite its exploiting English title "Nazi Love Camp 27" and despite the fact that this film belongs to the so-called "Nazi Camp films" (or, even worse, "Nazi porn films", although these films are all not pornographic) that were made in Italy following the success of both "Ilsa - She-Wol... |
tt0082933 | Possession | A newly separated couple Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Stephanie Brenek (Kyra Sedgwick) live in different homes. After Clyde picks up their two children, Emily "Em" (Natasha Calis) and Hannah (Madison Davenport), for the weekend, they stop at a yard sale where Em becomes intrigued by an old wooden box that has Hebrew... | avant garde, murder, allegory, cult, violence, insanity, psychedelic, philosophical, romantic | train | wikipedia | I'm not very good at plot synopsis, and I very rarely write reviews, but this film could quite possibly be a distant cousin to David Lynchs 'Eraserhead', in that it involves a marriage gone wrong, a (perhaps) mutant baby, infidelity, and so much more that is felt emotionally rather than explained and read into.It conta... |
tt1789074 | The Night Watch | In the prologue, which is set in medieval times, the audience is introduced to humans with special powers called The Others (Иные, иной; Inyye, Inoy). The Others are divided into two camps, with each Other either allied with the forces of Light or the forces of Darkness, and the prologue recounts a great battle between... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Spellbinging stories of love and loneliness during the London Blitz.
The Night Watch employs an unusual narrative structure (presumably duplicated from the novel by Sarah Waters) which begins in 1947, then flashes back not once but twice to show us how the large cast of characters came to arrive at the "end" of the sto... |
tt0067355 | Lo chiamavano Trinità... | Trinity, a lazy, ne'er-do-well gunfighter with an unnaturally fast drawing ability and marksmanship, is dragged on a travois by his horse to a way station and restaurant. There, he encounters a pair of bounty hunters with an injured Mexican prisoner. Trinity calmly takes the Mexican away from the two men, killing them ... | western, cult, violence, feel-good | train | wikipedia | Trinity (Terence Hill) a dirty, dusty drifter-turned bounty-hunter comes to town to pay a visit to his horse-thieving half-brother Bambino (Bud Spencer) who's pretending to be the real sheriff.
Bambino's looking for the best way to rustle some of the Colonel's horses before he leaves and he's not interested in letting ... |
tt0075909 | Damnation Alley | First Lieutenant Jake Tanner (Jan-Michael Vincent) shares ICBM silo duty at an American air force missile base in the Californian desert with Major Eugene "Sam" Denton (George Peppard), who is requesting not to work with him. On their way to duty, Denton talks to Airman Tom Keegan (Paul Winfield), an aspiring artist. W... | cult | train | wikipedia | The trouble actually doesn't add up to much (look for roaches!) and the acting and storyline are at a minimum....BUT!!!!!!The following things kicked ass!:Beginning!--->creepy slow suspense as the world faces nuclear destruction!Score!--->Great music sets the tone for the scenes (saving many)Sky FX!--->tripped out!
The... |
tt0040525 | The Lady from Shanghai | Irish sailor Michael O'Hara (Welles) meets the beautiful blonde Elsa (Rita Hayworth) as she rides a horse-drawn coach in Central Park. Three hooligans waylay the coach. Michael rescues Elsa and escorts her home. Michael reveals he is a seaman and learns Elsa and her husband, disabled criminal defense attorney Arthur Ba... | murder, bleak, intrigue, atmospheric, romantic, suspenseful, storytelling | train | wikipedia | After all, you do not go to an Orson Welles movie to see a nice simple little plot and a burnishing of the image of a happy-ever-after star
You go to see theatrically heightened characters locked in conflict against colorful and unusual settings, lighted and scored imaginatively, photographed bravely, and the whole thi... |
tt0096402 | Voyage of the Rock Aliens | A guitar-shaped spaceship and Robot 1359 (voiced by Peter Cullen), search the universe for the source of rock and roll music. He finds it on Earth. 1359 wakes the crew to visit the planet. A rocket telephone booth lands in the town of Speelburgh and ABCD (pronounced "Absid") (Tom Nolan) with his group of aliens exit. T... | absurd, murder | train | wikipedia | To watch this movie is akin to reliving the eighties only through MTV news updates.
There are so many things "right" about this movie.
Baby.Rock 'n' Roll is misleading, but it's more like New Wave vs.
Name another film that that happens in please because I would love to watch it.If you do not like this movie you obviou... |
tt0123179 | Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol | Dickens divided the book into five chapters, which he labelled "staves".
=== Stave one ===
The story begins on a cold and bleak Christmas Eve in London, seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an old miser, hates Christmas and refuses an invitation to Christmas dinner ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The thought of being alone on Christmas deeply saddens me, and I think it goes back to seeing little Ebenezar Scrooge left behind in boarding school while all the other kids had families to go home to for Christmas.I cried just like Mr. Magoo's older Scrooge did when he saw himself as a kid singing:When you're alone, a... |
tt0091818 | Radioactive Dreams | A nuclear war breaks out in 1996, expending the world's entire nuclear arsenal, except for one missile. Two children, Philip Chandler (John Stockwell) and Marlowe Hammer (Michael Dudikoff), are abandoned by their fathers in a fallout shelter cut into the side of a wooded mountain. The pair grow up in the shelter, with ... | comedy, cult, satire | train | wikipedia | I belong to the first category: 2 kids growing up in a nuke shelter with a large collection of detective novels deciding to be the post apocalyptic worlds first dicks, The Atomic Dicks!
B-movie queen Lisa Blount pops up in this weird mix and singer Sue Saad gives a few nice songs like the excellent title song "Radioact... |
tt0051825 | Knighty Knight Bugs | King Arthur is sitting with his Knights of the Round Table, complaining about hard times that have befallen the kingdom ever since the Black Knight stole the Singing Sword. He asks his knights—among them Sir Osis of Liver and Sir Loin of Beef—for a volunteer to get the sword back. The knights complain that the Black Kn... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Rabbits of a round table..
We all know King Arthur, but what if Bugs Bunny was his court jester?
Quite simply, the king - disappointed at his knights chickening out (in more way than one) - would send Bugs to fetch the Singing Sword kept by the Black Knight, aka Yosemite Sam. And that's just what happens in "Knighty Kn... |
tt2103264 | Emperor | Brigadier-General Bonner Fellers is sent to Japan as a part of the occupation force. He is tasked with arresting Japanese war criminals, including Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. Before he departs, he privately orders his Japanese interpreter, Takahashi, to locate his Japanese girlfriend, Aya Shimada. After arresting Tojo,... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Very interesting story about General Fellers who is given the impossible task to investigate the Emperor's role in the lead-up to war,.
This nice movie tells a fictionalized account based on the actual life story of US Army Brigadier General Bonner Frank Fellers who served under General Douglas MacArthur .
On the staff... |
tt0119893 | Photographing Fairies | In Switzerland in 1912, photographer Charles Castle (Toby Stephens) and Anna-Marie, his fiancèe, are married in an Alpine church. The following day, they are walking in the mountains when a snowstorm closes in. They are returning to the village when a crevasse opens and Anna-Marie falls into it. Charles tries to pull h... | psychedelic, fantasy, murder, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Following a visit to a Philosophical Society meeting where he debunks the mystical by explaining tricks of the camera along side Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he is approached by a woman who has taken a photograph of her daughter with a fairy standing in her hand and is asked to try and disprove the pictures using empirical ... |
tt0074695 | Cross of Iron | The movie opens with a German children's song, "Hänschen klein", mixed with black-and-white footage of prewar and war scenes. It then segues to color and a German platoon raid on a Russian forward outpost led by Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn), during which his men capture a Russian boy-soldier (Slavko Štimac).
An... | boring, cruelty, murder, realism, anti war, cult, violence, flashback, historical, sadist | train | wikipedia | The carnage occurs in the choreographed slow motion which Peckinpah made his signature.James Coburn turns in one of his finest roles as Rolf Steiner, a highly decorated NCO who leads a German reconnaissance squad.
CROSS OF IRON has a much better script.Maybe the battle scenes of SPR are slightly more gory but at best t... |
tt0210294 | Snow Queen | Hans Christian Andersen's story is simplified in this animated version of his fairy tale. A little man, who introduces himself as "old Dreamy" ("Ole Lukøje"), he tells the viewer that on days when the master storyteller Andersen is not overtired, he puts him to sleep with his colorful, magic umbrella ("slumbrella") cau... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | My main attraction was that I absolutely love the original Snow Queen story and always have done, for me it is one of Hans Christian Andersen's best stories.
The good news is that while it is miles away from being perfect Snow Queen is really quite decent and one of Hallmark's better efforts.It does have a number of go... |
tt0126449 | Atunci i-am condamnat pe toti la moarte | The story follows a young boy, Elev, who is adopted by his uncle, Ioan, and his wife after Elev's father, a partisan during World War II, is killed by soldiers. Ioan is the local village priest and though gentle and intelligent, is frustrated by his ward's apparent inability to love him. Elev, who equally ignores girls... | murder | train | wikipedia | One Romanian masterpiece.
This is a great Romanian movie...i am very subjective because i am Romanian...but anyone,with proper subtitles can enjoy this little masterpiece.It is not like other Nicolaescu's movies,it's more deep,it has a certain touch, a vibrant image that goes beyond the screen.Well directed,well played... |
tt0053362 | Timbuktu | The city of Timbuktu is under the occupation of extremist Islamists bearing a jihadist black flag. Kidane is a cattle herder who lives outside of the city. One day, one of his cows accidentally damages the net of a fisherman. The enraged fisherman kills the cow. Kidane confronts the fisherman and accidentally shoots hi... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | From Vancouver to Timbuktu..
Unofficial sequel (methinks so, anyway) to Yvonne De Carlo's Fort Algiers, this hot and heavy desert drama arrives at the end of Miss De Carlo's initial leap into a Hollywood film career, 1945-59, just before her semi-retirement, and prior to her reemergence as "Lilly Munster," the antithes... |
tt0357905 | Minnale | The movie opens in an engineering college in Ooty with a narration of the characters by Rajesh Shivkumar (R. Madhavan). Rajiv Samuel (Abbas) is a computer engineering student and is one of the top students in the college, whereas Rajesh (R. Madhavan) is a mechanical engineering student who is the bad guy of the college... | prank | train | wikipedia | A great Movie.
The hero who is allergic to girls during the first few scenes.On a rainy night he sees a girl dancing in the rain and he sees her face when lightning strikes(minnal in tamil and hence the name).
He falls in love with her but he finds out that she is engaged to someone else and he pretends as her fiancée ... |
tt4460878 | Wolf Creek | In Broome, Western Australia, 1999, two British tourists, Liz Hunter (Cassandra Magrath) and Kristy Earl (Kestie Morassi), are backpacking across the country with Ben Mitchell (Nathan Phillips), an Australian friend from Sydney. They constantly get drunk at wild, extravagant pool parties and camp out on the beach. Ben ... | murder | train | wikipedia | I am a huge fan of the Wolf Creek movies, John Jarratt does a great portrayal of outback killer 'Mick Taylor', when I first saw the preview for this it got me genuinely excited.
It looked a lot more deeper than the conventional slasher type Wolf Creek movies, this one had the vibe of being more psychologically involved... |
tt0078222 | Seeta Aur Geeta | Seeta and Geeta (Hema Malini in a dual role) are twin girls who were separated at birth. Geeta, a feisty girl is raised in a poor neighborhood and is a street performer, while Seeta is raised by her cruel aunt Chachi and meek uncle. Chachi treats Seeta like a servant, despite the fact that the family is living off her ... | revenge, cruelty | train | wikipedia | Outstanding picture!
Seeta, Geeta and the ever-unforgettable Hema Malini!.
Seeta Aur Geeta is according to me one of the best comedy films ever made in India.
Apart from its wonderful screenplay, exceptionally funny proceedings, and the fantastic blend of comedy, romance and action, there's another very good reason to ... |
tt0041146 | Bad Luck Blackie | As the story begins, a small white kitten is being mercilessly tormented by a mean bulldog. The kitten manages to escape, and while hiding for safety behind a garbage can, she is met by a bowler hat-wearing, cigar-chomping black cat, who offers to protect the kitten (his business card reads "Black Cat — Bad Luck Compan... | cruelty | train | wikipedia | A logical Avery cartoon - Who knew?.
This is perhaps Tex Avery's best cartoon, and it's because it has something one would not think of looking for in a cartoon, let alone one by Avery.
That secret ingredient is logic.
Yes, logic.
This is a very logical cartoon, not because it presents realistic action (it certainly do... |
tt0098048 | Outlaw of Gor | While drinking alone one night, reminiscing of his previous adventures on the planet Gor, Professor Tarl Cabot comes across Watney Smith, a fellow professor with a keen interest in women, yet little success in pursuing them. Watney insists on accompanying Cabot to his next drinking spot, and during the car journey Cabo... | good versus evil, violence, alternate reality | train | wikipedia | take one of the more infamous literary staples, namely the Gor books by John Norman, convert it to film and you'd think you'd be onto a winner.
Hidden amongst the sleaze and thinly-veiled attempts to make the reader think of women as nothing but objects, there are actually some pretty good action-adventure stories.
So ... |
tt0012184 | Footfalls | The play is in four parts. Each opens with the sound of a bell. After this the lights fade up to reveal an illuminated strip along which a woman, May, paces back and forth, nine steps within a one-metre stretch. In each part, the light will be somewhat darker than in the preceding one. Therefore, it is darkest when the... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2313743 | Blame! | Killy, a silent loner possessing an incredibly powerful weapon known as a Gravitational Beam Emitter, wanders a vast technological world known as "The City". He is searching for Net Terminal Genes, a (possibly) extinct genetic marker that allows humans to access the "Netsphere", a sort of computerized control network f... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0033286 | Young Bill Hickok | An agent of an unspecified foreign power (John Miljan) plots to take over California during the confusion of the American Civil War. He uses Morrell and his Overland Raiders to prevent news from reaching the east. The Raiders rustle the stagecoach and Pony Express horses from the various relay stations to cut all lines... | murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Roy Rogers sides with Calamity Jane in historical B-western.
In his early years at Republic Pictures, Roy Rogers specialized in historical westerns (DAYS OF JESSE JAMES, BILLY THE KID RETURNS), in contrast with the contemporary settings of his wartime and postwar westerns (DON'T FENCE ME IN, THE GOLDEN STALLION, etc.).... |
tt0120876 | Don't Go Breaking My Heart | Chi-yan (Gao Yuanyuan) is an analyst who just broke up with her boyfriend (Terence Yin) as he was having a baby with another woman (Selena Li). Sean (Louis Koo), a CEO of a broker firm, knows Chi-yan as her office is just opposite of his. He liked Chi-yan, and starts to take action when he sees what happened in the bus... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Nice People, Nice Film.
A really well made British film with a thoughtful storyline,and a fine cast.
Good to see that fine actress Jenny Seagrove in a role well suited to her and played to perfection........wish she were my mum, but I'm too old.
One of those rare movies of today that end making the viewer feel inspired... |
tt0255643 | Thenmavin Kombath | The story revolves around Manikyan (Mohanlal), Sreekrishnan(Nedumudi Venu) and Karthumbi (Shobana) and the love triangle between them. Manikyan works for Sreekrishnan and Sreekrishnan sees him like a brother. Once when they both are returning from a Mela after shopping, Sreekrishnan sees Karthumbi and gets attracted. B... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Donot Miss This!!.
Firstly, this review does not contain any spoilers whatsoever so read on.
Frontier melodrama about Kerala's Thazavad manorial system which is based on matrimonial Kinship.
Sreekrishna (Venu), the brother of the Madambipura House's leader, Yashoda, is extremely friendly with his servant Manikan (Mohan... |
tt0479647 | Bon Cop, Bad Cop | When a body is found hanging on top of the sign demarcating the Ontario-Quebec border, police officers from both Canadian provinces must join forces to solve the murder. David Bouchard (Patrick Huard) is a rule-bending, francophone detective for the Sûreté du Québec, while Martin Ward (Colm Feore) is a by-the-book angl... | murder | train | wikipedia | Being bilingual, I can say I may have laughed twice as hard as anyone else in the theater; However, this half-English half-french movie is sure to please anyone regardless of maternal language thanks to perfect subtitles which only add to the amazingness of the film.Highly recommended..
When the body of the executive o... |
tt0116313 | The First Wives Club | At Middlebury College in 1969, four young friends, Annie MacDuggan, Elise Elliot, Brenda Morelli, and Cynthia Swann, are graduating. As graduation gifts, valedictorian Cynthia presents the girls with matching Bulgari pearl necklaces. As the graduates take a commemorative picture of the four of them (presumably for the ... | revenge, cult, satire | train | wikipedia | Like Nine to Five, First Wives Club purports to be making a statement - albeit in comedy mode - about a serious feminist issue, but like that movie is simply an opportunity to portray women getting back at men who have taken advantage of them - and why not?!
While the film may have little practical application to the m... |
tt0441796 | Stay Alive | The film opens with a character in a video game entering an eerie mansion. He is followed throughout the mansion by a woman in a red dress, who kills him by hanging him from a chandelier. The man playing the game is Loomis Crowley (Milo Ventimiglia), and the game is called Stay Alive. Loomis later wakes up to find his ... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | I saw "Stay Alive" tonight, and I was surprised to come home and read reviews discounting it as stupid or pointless.Actually, I think that the plot was fairly substantial and well thought out for a horror movie--especially a PG-13 one.
Without worrying about when things are happening, you are free to instead concentrat... |
tt0116823 | Larger Than Life | The film opens at a convention of recliner salesmen, where Jack Corcoran (Bill Murray) gives a motivational speech based on his book Get Over It. Jack shares the example of his father dying before he was born as a difficult circumstance that must be overcome to succeed. At Jack's engagement party, his agent (Jeremy Piv... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Kids and adults both will enjoy the elephant and the occasional outdoor scene, as Bill Murray and his new friend trek across the beautiful American countryside.
Bill Murray is funny as usual and Matthew McConaughey puts in an unusual and funny performance.
This movie isn't going to win any Oscars, but provides good ent... |
tt1203517 | The Graves | Present day. Arizona. Megan and Abby Graves are inseparable sisters that couldn't be less alike. Megan just graduated ASU with a marketing degree. She's a self-assured, naturally attractive rock chick with a black belt that she likes to use. Abby just barely graduated high school. She's a cute, Hot Topic Goth who's cau... | violence | train | wikipedia | It broke my heart too because I was really up to watching it with my all time favorite vocalist Randy Blythe, and two other great actors, Tony Todd and Bill Mosely.
Wow
and to think that all of the movies in the After Dark Horror-fest would be somewhat, oh I don't know
enjoyable?
Because of what I had to deal with thi... |
tt1279024 | Toradora! | Ryuji Takasu is frustrated at trying to look his best as he enters his second year of high school. Despite his gentle personality, his eyes give him the appearance of an intimidating delinquent. He is happy to be classmates with his best friend Yusaku Kitamura, as well as the girl he has a crush on, Minori Kushieda. Ho... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0048090 | Fort Yuma | When word reaches a U.S. Cavalry command that an Apache chief's son is planning an attack on Fort Yuma, a column of soldiers led by Lt. Ben Keegan is sent to deliver ammunition and supplies. Keegan has a longstanding hatred of the Indians and even resents that his chief scout, Sgt. Jonas, is an Apache himself.
Accompan... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0034554 | Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid | The cartoon begins with a mother buzzard instructing her children to go out and catch something for dinner. They set off right away except one with his back turned. This is Beaky Buzzard (Killer) who is shy and a little on the slow side. Against his will, his mother kicks him out of the nest with instructions to at lea... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | This was Clampett's third Bugs Bunny cartoon, but it marks the first time Bugs Bunny looks like the rabbit we all know.
Prior to this Bugs had a more oval head giving him a rat-like appearance.
It was as an animator in Clampett's unit that Robert Mckimson developed the model sheet of Bugs that all the other units event... |
tt2511428 | Cold Comes the Night | Chloe, a single mother living with her daughter Sophia, operates a motel. Topo is a blind man traveling cross country in a Jeep with his associate John. They stop by Chloe's motel, when John hires prostitute Gwen, and convinces Topo to stay the night. When Gwen is entertaining John, an argument has John fatally shootin... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0103205 | Victim of Love | Therapist Tess Parker (JoBeth Williams) meets Paul Tomlinson (Pierce Brosnan), an English professor she's wacky over, and he's also a guy that is too good to be true.
Her patient Carla (Virginia Madsen), comes to Tess to tell her about her former lover who wanted to marry her but needed some time after his wife's death... | psychological, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1064744 | Dying Breed | Tasmania, 1800s. Alexander Pearce, a convict known as "the Pieman", has escaped into the wilderness and he is being hunted by policemen with dogs. He is faced by a policeman who attempts to shoot Pearce, but his gun does not fire. Pearce then bites the policeman's neck, taking a large chunk from his throat, killing him... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Hey it reminded me of an other Australian horror film 'Wolf Creek (2005)' and maybe 'The Hills Have Eyes (2006)' remake, but this time the escalating terror is found in the beautiful forests of Tasmania as a group of young adults head out searching for the supposedly instinct Tasmanian tiger, but actually earth up some... |
tt2425886 | Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear | The film was composed of five short films and did not have a wraparound story, instead linking the shorts together with the mysterious company Watershed, a company with sinister intentions.
=== Smell ===
Smell (directed by Nick Everhart) follows a depressed man by the name of Seth (Corey Scott Rutledge). He's in a job ... | violence, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | With maybe one exception, this doesn't end well for anybody!SMELL tells the story of a man who's given the chance to change his pheromones to get sex and success.
Our protagonist fails to realize that something about that offer smells fishy.SIGHT deals with a lonely eye doctor who can see what his patients see.
Unfortu... |
tt0064939 | Satan's Sadists | The plot centers around an outlaw motorcycle gang called the "Satans", who roam the deserts of the American Southwest. The gang's leader goes by the name of Anchor, and other members include Firewater, Acid, Muscle, Willie, Romeo and Gina. The gang comes upon two lovers whom they proceed to attack: they beat up the boy... | good versus evil, violence, sadist | train | wikipedia | "Sadists" a "fun" ride for the TRUE fan of BAD dudes!.
Coming from a huge fan of the trashy, 1970s, low-budget, motorcycle gang, genre, my comment may be slightly biased.
However, as far as sleazy 70s biker flics go, "Satan's Sadists" is indeed one of the better ones.
Russ Tamblyn outdoes himself as the whacked out, sa... |
tt1032815 | I Love You, Beth Cooper | On graduation day at Buffalo Glenn High School in Tacoma, Washington, valedictorian Denis Cooverman (Paul Rust) confesses his love for head cheerleader and long time crush, Beth Cooper (Hayden Panettiere) in his speech while also taunting Valli Wooley (Marie Avgeropoulos), a girl with an eating disorder, and an ignoran... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Honestly, I love you Beth Cooper is not going to be one of those high school movie classics by no mean, but I didn't feel like my time was wasted watching it.
I think that over all the film worked, there were certain things that were flawed in the movie like the script could have used a few touch up's here and there an... |
tt0116259 | Extreme Measures | Dr. Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant) is a New York emergency room doctor who one night comes across a strange patient: a homeless man who has a wristband from a hospital he's not familiar with, mentioning a drug he's never heard of, and with strange symptoms, including a wildly fluctuating heart rate. When the man dies, Guy att... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0066907 | Chato's Land | The film opens as the half-Apache Chato orders a drink at a bar. The bartender ignores him and serves the local sheriff who has arrived after Chato. The sheriff calls Chato a "redskin" and tells him the bar is for whites only. He moves behind Chato while hurling a stream of abuse at him. The sheriff's taunts escalate, ... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Michael Winner's "Chato's Land" of 1972 starring the great late Charles Bronson and the equally grand Jack Palance, who also passed away recently, is a tough-minded and violent English Western which should not be missed, and a must-see for every Bronson fan.
Director Winner, who is most famous for his violent 1974 cult... |
tt0037318 | Strangers in the Night | Sgt. Johnny Meadows is seriously wounded in battle in the South Pacific during World War Two. While recuperating, he takes comfort reading a book donated to the Red Cross by Rosemary Blake, who has written her name and address in the book. He corresponds with her, and as pen pals they fall in love. Eventually, on leave... | insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | Getting a Lot Out of 56-Minutes.
When you think actresses, the name Helen Thimig doesn't pop right up.
But here for a crippled old lady she's scary as heck.
And what's this with her daughter Rosemary whose portrait looks like a dolled up version of Laura (1944).
Poor Sergeant Johnnie, he's back from the war all bunged ... |
tt0277723 | Grand Theft Auto III | While robbing a bank in Liberty City, ambitious criminal Claude is shot and betrayed by his girlfriend and accomplice Catalina (Cynthia Farrell). Although he survives the wound, Claude is arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison. While being transported in a prison van, Claude and fellow prisoner 8-Ball (Guru) are... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | Grand Theft Auto 3 is a violent, no holds barred (with cheats of course), racist and audacious video game.
To put it simply, Grand Theft Auto 3 is one of the very best video games, or any form of entertainment for that matter, ever made.
Well it may not be for everyone, due to the violent content, grammar, and sex, but... |
tt0058481 | Point of Order! | The film uses selections from the hearings to show the overall development of the trial, beginning with introductions from several main participants, such as Joseph N. Welch and McCarthy. Each participant is shown in a still image with a brief audio recording, except for McCarthy, who is introduced with longer footage ... | historical | train | wikipedia | The best thing about this documentary is that there is no narration, there is no commentary; clips of the Army-McCarthy hearings that finally brought an end to Joseph McCarthy and his era of bully politics that destroyed so many American lives.
There are arguments both pro and con re: McCarthy and his basic premise (t... |
tt0190198 | Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles | When the Mobile Infantry defeats an infestation on Pluto, the world is united as the Strategically Integrated Coalition of Nations (SICON) declares war on the insectoids.
The main story focuses on a group of troopers known as Alpha Team – otherwise known as Razak's Roughnecks – who are headed back to Pluto after Operat... | violence, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0252299 | Buffalo Soldiers | Specialist Ray Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) is a U.S. Army soldier stationed in Stuttgart, West Germany, in 1989. Bored with the lack of a war, he instead devotes his attention to black market deals, as well as cooking heroin for a gang of drug-dealing Military Police led by Sergeant Saad. As a supply specialist, Elwood po... | neo noir, violence, comedy, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1507564 | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Whitney Brown (Sammi Hanratty), a privileged and popular Philadelphia teenager, nominates herself and her best friend, Lindsay, for class president (which they win because they promised to throw the best school formal). Her mother, Joan (Brooke Shields), then gives her a credit card so she can buy a dress for the forma... | cute | train | wikipedia | Bob, The Horse, drew Me In. A somewhat spoiled young Whitney Brown (Hanratti), who was just elected Class President of her High School Class in the city of Philadelphia is told by her parents that her father lost his job and they have to move.
She is crushed and doesn't like it one bit.
And, they move out to the countr... |
tt0117191 | No One Would Tell | Stacy Collins (Candace Cameron) is a shy 16-year-old high school student who has secretly been in love with Bobby Tennison (Fred Savage) for two years. She is surprised when he starts to show a romantic interest in her, considering he is a senior wrestler and the most popular guy in school. They soon start dating and f... | murder | train | wikipedia | I was forced to watch this in Health class like many other movies.
While we certainly see an abundance of these films on LMN, the message is important, and not to be discarded.Candace Cameron is quite good as a 16 year old involved in an abusive relationship.
no a days this is something that is happening more and more ... |
tt0056255 | Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation | Roger Hobbs is an overworked banker whose wife Peggy plans a quiet seaside vacation with their family, including the grown daughters, family cook, sons-in-law and grandchildren.
What he finds upon reaching their vacation destination is a very dilapidated beach house with nosy neighbors.
Complications mount up. His teen... | satire | train | wikipedia | "Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation" is one of the most enjoyable family films ever made.
The plot is simple: Harried St. Louis banker Roger Hobbs (James Stewart) is looking forward to a quiet, romantic vacation with his wife Peggy (Maureen O'Hara) who, unknown to him, has instead opted for a family reunion in a rented Norther... |
tt0805663 | Jericho | A World War I American troopship is torpedoed, and many soldiers are trapped below the deck. Jericho Jackson (Robeson), a medical student drafted into the war, heroically saves the trapped men, in defiance of his superior’s orders to abandon ship, but accidentally kills the officer in the melee. Despite his heroism, Je... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Dramas like this just can't live up to the HBO/AMC cannon because of the demands on them to, eg: appeal to a large audience and produce 22-ish episodes per series - it can be simply backbreaking.
Nevertheless, the fact one can imagine Jericho's greater potential is a credit to the strength of both the inventive writing... |
tt1663655 | Martyrs | As a child, Lucie escapes a building where she has been held captive and tortured. Lucie spends the rest of her childhood at St. Mary's Orphanage where she is haunted by hallucinations of a woman attacking her. Over time, she grows extremely close to Anna, a fellow resident at the orphanage and Lucie's only friend.
One... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0034637 | The Dawn Express | In the middle of World War II, Nazi Capt. Gemmler (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski) is in need of a powerful chemical formula to improve the energy output of ordinary gasoline. In his quest for this formula he finds two individuals that are of use: the chemist and playboy Tom Fielding (William Bakewell) and his co-worker,... | violence | train | wikipedia | Don't Let Title Fool You. While there is an airplane at the end of the film this film really has nothing to do with the cover artwork.
This film deals with synthetic fuel (formula 311) developed by two scientists apart from each other as security measures.
A love interest between the two stars adds to the story and int... |
tt0121395 | Imtihaan | Vicky (Saif Ali Khan) is a popular singer, who meets and falls in love with Preeti (Raveena Tandon). He asks permission to marry her from her father, who instantly approves of him. Preeti is reluctant to get married but agrees for her father's sake. Soon, her father falls ill, and he makes her promise that she will not... | revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0280970 | My Name Is Tanino | Gaetano Mendollia, nicknamed Tanino, is a native of the fictional Castelluzzo del Golfo, a small, Sicilian, seaside resort in the province of Trapani. He studies cinematography in Rome and dreams of becoming a movie director.
He meets Sally, an American girl vacationing in Italy, with whom he has a brief romance. At th... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A fantastic journey through an hilarious gallery of portraits, a weird and funny movie, an amazing mix of comedy, coming of age, on the road...
Wonderful Rachel Mc Adams (starring in Mean Girls) in the ironic role of a sweet melancholic and sexy wasp Icon!.
Amazing Tanino, a silly and romantic hero in the Art of the Es... |
tt0081506 | Shogun Assassin | As the opening credits roll, an abbreviated version of Ogami Ittō's (Tomisaburô Wakayama) past as Shogunate Decapitator and his wife's murder by ninja are seen, with Daigorō (Akihiro Tomikawa) providing the narration.
Two hooded samurai attack Ogami while he is pushing a cart with Daigorō inside. Ogami fends off the at... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0020629 | All Quiet on the Western Front | The book tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a German soldier who—urged on by his school teacher—joins the German army shortly after the start of World War I. His class was "scattered over the platoons amongst Frisian fishermen, peasants, and labourers." Bäumer arrives at the Western Front with his friends and schoolmates ... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | All Quiet on the Western Front won a deserved Best Picture Academy Award in the year it came out and brought great prestige to Universal Pictures as the first Oscar in that category won by that studio.Lew Ayres is the student leader of a bunch of German school boys in 1914 who listen to the voice of their school master... |
tt0098168 | Ram Lakhan | Sharda (Raakhee) is happily married in a rich aristocratic household to Thakur Pratap Singh (Dalip Tahil) and is the mother to two young boys. Thakur Pratap Singh's father shows mercy to his nephews Bhishamber (Amrish Puri) and Bhanu (Paresh Rawal) after they serve jail time for siphoning the family wealth and stealing... | good versus evil, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | a fallen legend. whatever happened to the legend who gave us masterpieces like Karz, Hero, Vidhataa??, even Raam Lakhan, Meri Jung, Karma, Sadaagar was quality fare, his decline started with Pardes, got worse with Taal & he became downright mediocre with Yaadein, a total insult to anyones intelligence, to make matters ... |
tt0049333 | Hot Blood | Marco Torino (Luther Adler), king of the gypsies in southern California, is terminally ill. He wants his younger brother to succeed him, but Stephano (Cornel Wilde) is determined to become a dancer instead.
After turning a potential employer against him, Marco arranges a marriage for his brother to Annie Caldash (Jane ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Tangled up in red. After a hat trick ,after three films ,two of which are absolute classics "Rebel without a cause" and "Johnny Guitar" and another one which was largely and unfairly ignored ,the poetic western "run for cover",all that Nicholas Ray would do would be necessarily a disappointment .I must confess "Hot Blo... |
tt0348843 | Jism | At the beginning, Izna, a porn star (Sunny Leone), is lying dead in the grass, but she says that she wants to ask forgiveness from somebody for her sins. The story flashes back six months.
Izna is hired by an intelligence officer Aayan Thakur (Arunoday Singh) and Security Chief Guru Saldanah (Arif Zakaria) to become a ... | tragedy, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Jaddo Tha....
Nasha Tha..!.
Jism is a psychological thriller.
NOT your average film where the point of the movie is totally obvious from the start.This movie reminded me a little bit of a film with Richard Gere and Kim Basinger" Double Indemnity" that had the "Married women/ Lawyer" plot line.
But that was the only sim... |
tt0046478 | Ugetsu monogatari | In the farming village, Nakanogō, on the shore of Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province in the late 16th century, Genjurō, a potter, takes his wares to nearby Ōmizo. He is accompanied by Tōbei, who dreams of becoming a samurai. A respected sage tells Genjurō's wife Miyagi to warn her husband about seeking profit in times of upheav... | tragedy, psychedelic, murder, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | The closing scene is one of such deeply-felt compassion and understanding that it is almost frightening; it prefigures in a way the stunning and more personal close of the subsequent Mizoguchi film "Sansho the Baliff".On a lighter level, it is an amusingly sly allegory of the actual history of Japan for the 20 or so ye... |
tt0048733 | Tom and Chérie | Mousketeer Captain Jerry has been gazing at a portrait of a gorgeous French mouse called Lilli, then writes Lilli a love letter and calls his assistant Tuffy, and tells him to deliver it. Tuffy goes out and, after briefly mocking Jerry, looks at the letter and goes a deep shade of red after looking at it. But, when Tuf... | comic | train | wikipedia | Colors Highlight This "Cute" Mouseketeer Story.
The first thing that hit me with this cartoon is the brilliance of the colors, especially the purples and pinks.
This is an extremely good-looking cartoon with bold colors and terrific artwork.
Check out the floors and the walls for the shadows, light and details as well.... |
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