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tt0040064 | 3 Godfathers | Cattle rustlers Robert Hightower (John Wayne), Pedro "Pete" Rocafuerte (Pedro Armendáriz), and William Kearney (Harry Carey, Jr.) rob a bank in the town of Welcome, Arizona, but William is shot in the shoulder and they have to flee into the desert, pursued by a posse led by Sheriff Buck Sweet (Ward Bond), who shoots a ... | allegory | train | wikipedia | This one has to rank at the top of John Wayne's films.Wayne and fellow outlaws Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey, Jr. arrive at the town of Welcome, Arizona and after a brief chance meeting with the marshal, Ward Bond, proceed to rob the Welcome bank.In pursuit of the robbers, Bond shoots the waterbag draped across Wayn... |
tt0020480 | Tanned Legs | Peggy is the daughter of Mr. Reynolds and his wife Sophie. Although married, both of the elder Reynolds are having romantic interludes with younger people, Mrs. Lyons-King and Roger Fleming, respectively. In addition, Peggy's sister, Janet, is infatuated with Clinton Darrow, a ne'er-do-well, who is only interested in t... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | It's not THE COCOANUTS, but.....
It is a watchable first-generation film musical.
There are some obvious flaws caused by a mostly immobile camera and choreography better suited for the Broadway stage than the Hollywood sound stage, but there are some great strengths to it.
Among them are its cast, including Arthur Lake... |
tt0095330 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville. Sir Charles was found dead on the grounds of his Devonshire estate, Baskerville Hall, and Mortimer now fears for Sir Charles's nephew and sole heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, who is the new master of Baskerville Hall. T... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2124787 | Final Girl | A seven-year-old Veronica meets with a man named William after her parents have died. He asks her how she feels about it, and she responds that people die all the time. After she demonstrates total memory recall, he offers to take her in and train her for a job that is only for "special" people. After he explains that ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | The rest of the actors do on the whole a pretty good job and overlooking Abigail Breslin's obvious miscasting this was an entertaining movie to watch.
Just don't expect too much going in.Wes Bentley, Cameron Bright, Alexander Ludwig and Francesca Eastwood are all actors I have seen before and their performances while g... |
tt0045201 | Hunted | U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Aaron Hallam (Benicio del Toro), a former United States clandestine operator, has spent much of his career performing covert assassinations in service to the government. These missions leave the sensitive and intelligent Hallam conflicted and it is implied that he was either set up, or th... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0105306 | Salt on Our Skin | On the death of her lover, George McEwan, a half French/half Scottish woman, recounts in flashback her passionate relationship with Gavin McCall, a humble fisherman. Their romance goes back in time more than thirty years.
In the 1950s, George, then a vivacious young woman living in France, comes to Scotland to spend he... | tragedy, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Very worth seeing yet it takes some life experience to sink in it.
If you are looking for a movie with a prudent life lesson or just a "happy end/justice to all" thing or an ordinary chick flick, than you might want to go back to Maid In Manhattan's...It takes some life experience to let the beauty of this movie sink i... |
tt0418880 | Mere Jeevan Saathi | Vicky (Akshay Kumar) is an aspiring singer who is devoted to his true love, Anjali (Amisha Patel). He gets a big offer from a music company in America and accepts it. In Canada, he meets the owner of the company, Natasha (Karisma Kapoor). Natasha helps Vicky become a star, however, Vicky is unaware of Natasha's hidden ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0928385 | Freedom Project | Freedom is about a child, Takeru, discovering a secret that could change the very society he depends upon. Civilization on the Earth was destroyed by a permanent abnormal climate shift. Cities with millions of people had been built on the far side of the Moon and became the only place where humanity still survived. The... | violence | train | wikipedia | Simply amazing!. There are actually seven 25min long episodes and a 6min prologue. I don't understand why this anime hasn't been publicised more by the studios or even by the American company which holds a licence and released a blu-ray version in the states.It was created as promotional material for a noodles brand in... |
tt0451631 | Apaharan | Ajay Shastri (Ajay Devgan) is an unemployed, honest graduate who dreams of joining the police force. His father, Raghuvansh Shastri (Mohan Agashe) is a highly principled and moralistic man. An ex-schoolteacher and Gandhi follower, now a social activist, Prof. Shastri expects his son to follow in his steps and believe i... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0134154 | Ride with the Devil | Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles are friends in Missouri when the American Civil War breaks out. During the mayhem, Chiles's father is murdered by Kansas pro-Union Jayhawkers. The two men join the First Missouri Irregulars, also known as the Bushwhackers; informal units loyal to Missouri in 1861. They later meet George... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | But don't watch this movie expecting to be "entertained." Ang Lee takes an objective look at a relatively unexplored aspect of the Civil War. What is beautiful about the movie, like all of Lee's films, is that he doesn't "side" with his characters.
As you watch the characters, you will ask yourself "how can they be fig... |
tt0412080 | The World's Fastest Indian | Burt Munro is a sort of folk hero in his home town of Invercargill, New Zealand, known for his friendly easy-going personality, for having the fastest motorcycle in New Zealand and Australia, and for being featured in Popular Mechanics magazine. However, that recognition is contrasted by his exasperated next-door neigh... | dramatic, sentimental, philosophical, inspiring, feel-good | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0058403 | The Night Walker | The plot of the play focuses on an arranged marriage. The heroine, Maria, is in love with a suitable potential mate, Frank Heartlove; but her mother (known only as the Lady) coerces Maria into a marriage with a rich old miser, Justice Algrip. Maria's Nurse describes him as "this old stinking dog's flesh," among other c... | murder | train | wikipedia | Producer/Director William Castle, famed for his low-budget shockers complete with assorted gimmicks, had by now reached his "Star Stage." He had featured Vincent Price in two of his films, and in 1964 really scored a coup when he signed Joan Crawford for "Strait- Jacket." Thanks mostly to her drawing power (she would l... |
tt0053064 | Mexicali Shmoes | Two sombrero-wearing cats, Jose and Manuel, are singing while relaxing on the "Avenida de Gatos" when they are taunted by Speedy Gonzales. After Manuel fails to catch Speedy, Jose informs Manuel that Speedy is "the fastest mouse in all Mexico" and that they will have to use their brains, not their feet, to catch him. T... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1854582 | The Helpers | The film opens with a scene of newspapers and news broadcasts describing an orphanage which was burned down, resulting in several deaths. It then turns to seven friends as they start out on a road trip to Las Vegas, with Phil (JoJo Wright) recording the trip for his girlfriend Julia. The group hits a road block en rout... | sadist, revenge, cult, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | If you decide to watch this movie you will understand.
This movie seems to be a collection of Vacancy, The Hitcher, and Saw. Not very creative and someone should help the cast to acting lessons.
I am writing this to be helpful to the next potential victim of this movie.
Help me get away from this bad movie!.
Bad acting... |
tt0062350 | Il tempo degli avvoltoi | The womaniser Kitosch takes with good humour the whipping dealt to him by boss Don Jaime after he has fondled the wife of the foreman. When he finds Kitosch in a compromising situation with his own wife the Don brands Kitosch, so "he doesn't forget who is the boss.” Kitosch leaves but is caught and beaten. Next time he... | western, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0309150 | DreamKeeper | The film opens with Eagle Boy, a young man who is on a vision quest. It then cuts to the present, where a 17-year-old Lakota named Shane Chasing Horse is living on the Pine Ridge reservation. He is in trouble because he owes some money to a local gang—money he used to buy a beautiful ring for Mae Little Wounded, a girl... | storytelling | train | wikipedia | SO glad to see a movie true to the people it depicts!!!.
As a Native American I hate movies that play out the old "cowboys and Indians" theme, which severely limited the "indian" movies I would watch.
I am SO GLAD to FINALLY see a movie that shows Native Americans as we are in real life rather than the traditional depi... |
tt0466839 | I Could Never Be Your Woman | Rosie (Michelle Pfeiffer), is a 40-year-old divorced mother who works as a scriptwriter and producer for a TV show You Go Girl. Rosie is insecure about her age, and uses cosmetics to maintain her appearance. She has a very close relationship with her thirteen-year-old daughter, Izzie (Saoirse Ronan), which becomes even... | romantic, satire, feel-good | train | wikipedia | It had us ROTFL as we had gone through similar situations ourselves when we were dating.Paul Rudd is very funny much funnier than I remember him from Friends and Michelle Pfeiffer is perfect as the sexy, and somewhat insecure love interest.
The dialog in the film is clever and witty but light and self-parodying along t... |
tt0064501 | It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown | School is out for the summer and Charlie, Linus, Schroeder, and Pig Pen are planning to spend it reading every comic book, watching television, playing baseball, and playing classical music. However, Lucy tells them that she signed them up for camp. The girls are eager to go, but the boys hate the idea. (Charlie adds t... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | It's Summer Camp. Sixth animated special based on the cartoon strips of Charles M. Schulz deals with Charlie Brown's attempts to write a report on what he did this past summer, and Charlie tells how Lucy signed everyone up for summer camp, where it was the boys against the girls, and the girls won every time, until the... |
tt0083891 | Enigma | Alex Holbeck (Martin Sheen) is recruited as a CIA agent. He is sent to East Berlin on a mission to steal an Enigma code scrambler. This is part of an attempt to stop the Russian assassination of five Soviet dissidents which is planned for Christmas Day. What Alex doesn't know is that the CIA already has a code scramble... | intrigue | train | wikipedia | Great acting, suspense and plot twists.
This was the film that first indicated to me what a great actor Martin Sheen really is.
He modestly claims that Charlie is a better actor, Charlie can't hold a candle to him.I found it suspenseful and thoroughly enjoyed the intertwining of the love story with the main plot (and I... |
tt0080031 | Tom Horn | Tom Horn, a legendary frontier scout and tracker who helped capture Geronimo, drifts around the quickly disappearing western frontier. The story begins as he rides into a small town and provokes prizefighter Jim Corbett, ending up in a livery stable, unconscious and badly bruised.
Cattle company owner John Coble finds ... | cult, neo noir, violence | train | wikipedia | Directed by William Wiard and based on a true story, "Tom Horn" opens in 1901, in Wyoming, where McQueen meets John C.
Coble (Richard Farnsworth) who offered him to ease up at his place for a while
Tom accepted, but he said I'd to earn my keep
Seeing Horn with great ability with a rifle, and after speaking with the A... |
tt0796314 | A Dog's Breakfast | Patrick (David Hewlett) is single, loves his dog (Mars the Dog) and still lives in his parents' house ten years after their death. Shortly before Christmas, Patrick's sister Marilyn (Kate Hewlett) visits Patrick to introduce him to Ryan (Paul McGillion), a science fiction television star.
After accidentally knocking Ry... | insanity, comedy, dark | train | wikipedia | I actually rented this movie expecting to be disappointed.We laughed almost the entire way through the film, and it was so strange and hilarious that I intend to purchase it at my first opportunity.
David and Kate Hewlett are obviously siblings, but they actually capture that antagonistic sibling relationship very well... |
tt0077530 | Eyes of Laura Mars | Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway) is a glamorous fashion photographer who specializes in stylized violence (based upon the work of Helmut Newton, who provided the photos used for the film). In the middle of controversy over whether her photographs glorify violence and are demeaning to women, Laura begins seeing, in first perso... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Combining the improbable worlds of violence and fashion, with a story that centers on a famous photographer (Dunaway) and her ability to *see* her friends and colleagues being stalked and murdered, *Eyes* has moments of serious suspense, but that's hardly the reason to see this movie.
Utilizing the actual photography o... |
tt0089543 | The Man with One Red Shoe | An agent of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is arrested in Morocco on drug-smuggling charges. The person behind the smuggling operation is CIA deputy director Burton Cooper, who hopes the resulting scandal will lead to the resignation of CIA Director Ross, and Cooper's promotion to Director. Althoug... | comic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0047892 | Bob le flambeur | Bob, a middle-aged gambler and ex-con living in the Montmartre district of Paris, experiences a run of bad luck that leaves him nearly broke. Bob is a gentleman with scruples, well liked in the demi-monde community. He has unsuccessfully tried to rob a bank in the past, and has spent time in prison.
He hears through a ... | cult, humor, murder, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | Their influence on modern cinema has been incalculable - Melville's creative indepedence, location shooting and low-budgets inspiring the nouvelle vague; his filming of violent men in action everyone from Scorcese and Coppola to Tarantino and Woo; his deconstruction of genre encouraging Bava and Leone.Yet in many ways,... |
tt0062108 | Pedro Páramo | The novel is set in the town of Comala, considered to be Comala in the Mexican state of Colima.
The story begins with the first person account of Juan Preciado, who promises his mother at her deathbed that he will return to Comala to meet his father, Pedro Páramo. Juan suggests that he did not intend to keep this promi... | allegory, psychedelic, horror | train | wikipedia | Flawless. I truly feel that this film is an unsung masterpiece. From the opening credits to the Don's last cry of "Susana," it's a captivating, mysterious, and rich work. It is an epic both dark and profound, exploring a range of human motivations and emotions.This film, based on the short novel of the same title, open... |
tt0081375 | Private Benjamin | Judy Benjamin (Goldie Hawn) a 28-year-old from a sheltered wealthy upbringing whose lifelong dream is to "marry a professional man", joins the U.S. Army after her new husband (Albert Brooks) dies on their wedding night during sex. Adrift, Benjamin meets a recruiting sergeant, Jim Ballard (Harry Dean Stanton), who leads... | revenge, satire, prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1166100 | Ghajini | Sunita (Jiah Khan) is a medical student, working on a project about the human brain with her classmates. When she was denied access by her professor to the curious case of Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan), a man reported to have anterograde amnesia, because it is under criminal investigation, Sunita decides to investigate... | cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, romantic, revenge | train | wikipedia | Ghajini is an entertainer.It has loads of action,comedy,drama and romance which makes it a family packed entertainer.The story is good.Screenplay is penned very well.But the problem is that the movie is long,it could have been trimmed 15-20 minutes and the movie even gets violent at times,which could have been shortene... |
tt0033058 | Sky Bandits | Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien) fly in search of a missing aircraft flown by Buzz Murphy (Eddie Featherston). Murphy was carrying a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Local radio announcer Uncle Dimwittie (Dewey Robinson), has bugged the... | murder | train | wikipedia | Well used plot is given new life and plenty of laughs as the Mounties battle gold hijackers. One of the last Renfrew of the Mounties films starring James Newill is a fun Mounties meet sci-fi mix.The plot concerns a gang of hijackers shooting down gold planes in the great wilds of Canada. Renfrew and his buddy Constable... |
tt0170181 | Rupan sansei: Kutabare! Nastradamus | Lupin III, grandson of the legendary gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, is a member of the international thieving ring "The Works", which specializes in stealing valuable objects from wealthy owners. Lupin beats his fellow Works members Fujiko Mine (his would-be lover), Pierre (a computer genius) and Jiro to the theft of an... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0034881 | I Married a Witch | Two witches in colonial Salem, Jennifer (Veronica Lake) and her father Daniel (Cecil Kellaway), are burned at the stake after being denounced by Puritan Jonathan Wooley (Fredric March) and their ashes buried beneath a tree to imprison their evil spirits. In revenge, Jennifer curses Wooley and all his male descendants, ... | revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | Utterly entrancing comic fantasy with a captivating Veronica Lake.The film is a light as air concoction directed by Rene Clair at breakneck speed which suits the material perfectly.
It's probably the greatest movie which Veronica Lake ever did, and probably one of the best classics to come out of the heyday of Hollywoo... |
tt0758790 | The Tudors | === Season 1 ===
Chronicles the period of Henry VIII's reign in which his effectiveness as King is tested by international conflicts as well as political intrigue in his own court. Cardinal Wolsey plays a major part in the series, acting as Henry's trusted advisor.
In Episode 1, Wolsey persuades his King to keep the pe... | intrigue | train | wikipedia | I'm glad to see Showtime taking on the Tudor era, even if they are doing it because Henry's life is a tabloid-seller's dream come true, and our culture is tabloid-obsessed.I love the casting of Jeremy Northam (Sir Thomas More) and Sam Neill (Cardinal Wolsey).I read an earlier comment after I had already expressed the f... |
tt0089670 | National Lampoon's European Vacation | The Griswald family competes in a game show called Pig in a Poke and wins an all-expenses-paid trip to Europe. In a whirlwind tour of western Europe, chaos of all sorts ensues. They stay in a fleabag London hotel with a sloppy, tattooed Cockney desk clerk. While in their English rental car, a yellow Austin Maxi, Clark ... | satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0029752 | Wells Fargo | In the early 1840s, Wells & Fargo employee Ramsay MacKay (Joel McCrea) comes upon a broken down carriage in the countryside and gives belle Justine Pryor (Frances Dee) and her mother (Mary Nash) a lift into Buffalo, New York, though he warns them he is in a hurry to make a delivery of fresh oysters. The ladies endure a... | historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0360619 | The Green Goblin's Last Stand | The film starts off at night with Spider-Man jumping from building to building, following a car stolen by two crooks, late for a date with his girlfriend Gwen Stacy. He finally catches up with the vehicle and, complaining that he is late for his date the whole while, eventually manages to stop, overpower and web up the... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1911613 | Paranoia | Adam Cassidy is a low-level inventor who works for a corporation run by Nicholas Wyatt. After being fired for insubordination, Adam uses the company's credit card to pay for bottle service for his friends at a club. Wyatt and his enforcer, Miles Meachum, blackmail Adam into becoming a corporate spy for Wyatt by threate... | psychedelic, comedy, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0113010 | Fair Game | Valerie Plame is employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, a fact known outside the agency to no one except her husband and parents. She is an intelligence officer involved in a number of sensitive and sometimes dangerous covert operations overseas.
Her husband, Joseph C. Wilson, is a diplomat who most recently has ... | violence, cult, comedy, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | And sometimes fans of pure action-entertainment are the target audience and we have a film like "Fair Game".This is a film which most people have a strong opinion of.
While it's true that no-one has been able to make a good macho-actioner since the 80s (except Steven Seagal and even he is now making films like "The Pat... |
tt0307156 | Michel Vaillant | For decades, the Vaillant family has been successfully involved in various kinds of motor racing competitions. Their most notorious driver is Michel, the son of the team's founder and owner Henri and younger brother of Jean-Pierre, the team's manager. One night, Michel's mother Elizabeth has a nightmare involving his d... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | It's funny how much this movie is hated and bashed by mainly the French speaking people and critics for whom Michel Vaillant is a real icon figure, while in the rest of Europe and outside of it, this movie is regarded as a good movie!
It are mainly the people who grew up with the comic books that saw and hated this mov... |
tt0060639 | Love Me, Love My Mouse | Tom, in love with Toots, goes to her house, carrying Jerry in a ring box to woo her. Tom presents Jerry to his love interest, but Jerry pretends to be frightened of Tom and cuddles up with Toots, who instantly sympathises with him, taking sides with the mouse.
Later, Jerry waves Tom and then aims to gain more sympathy ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2781516 | WolfCop | Lou Garou (loup garou is French for werewolf), an alcoholic cop in the small community of Woodhaven, spends most of his day either asleep at work or at Jessica's bar. When his friend Willie Higgins phones in a complaint of occult activity in the area of his gun store, the police chief sends Garou to investigate. After ... | violence | train | wikipedia | The acting isn't very good, but the quality of the special effects is a real surprise; they actually turn out to be very good indeed, with some excruciating werewolf transformations that work well.
It's an amiable time-waster although those looking for genuine originality or insight will be disappointed; WOLFCOP is a f... |
tt0084749 | The Sword and the Sorcerer | The film opens as King Cromwell (Richard Lynch) and his men land ashore of Tomb Island in search of Xusia of Delos (Richard Moll), a long-dead sorcerer who may be the key to overthrowing his rival King Richard, whose land of Ehdan is the richest in the world. Using one of Xusia's worshipers to awaken him, Cromwell conv... | cult | train | wikipedia | The main reason this movie was even made was that they wanted it to be in theaters at around the same time as the film "Conan the Barbarian" in 1982.
(And Lee Horsley even resembles Errol throughout this film, which I was fortunate enough to see theatrically at time of release.)There are terrific villains galore, rip-r... |
tt0380817 | Winter Passing | Reese Holdin (Deschanel) is a depressed bartender/actress living in New York City. She regularly engages in casual sex, cocaine use and self-mutilation. When a publishing agent (Amy Madigan) approaches her, we learn that Reese is the daughter of a famous author named Don Holdin (Harris); and that her mother, Mary, rece... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Inside the Box. Though the cover for the DVD of WINTER PASSING (a photo of the four main characters crowded into a box) may make many potential viewers pass over this little film, thinking that it must be silly slapstick, this is a fine film written and directed with finesse and style by Adam Rapp, a new face whose tal... |
tt0824262 | Yo soy Bea | Set in Madrid, the series tells the story of Beatriz "Bea" Pérez Pinzón (Ruth Núñez). She is a highly intelligent and well-educated young woman, but has trouble finding a job because of her unattractive appearance, which consists of oversized glasses, braces, big eyebrows, and a lack of fashion sense. She manages to ge... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0248617 | Yaadein... | Raj Singh Puri is best friends with L.K. Malhotra, who is the younger brother of J.K. Malhotra. The brothers are business tycoons and Raj works in their company.
Raj has three daughters. Their mother, Shalini Singh Puri, died from being hit by a car while shopping. The first one, Avantika, gets married through arrangem... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Though I am not a Hrithik fan, I went to see the movie because of Subhash Ghai.
After all he has given some excellent movies to Indian Film Industry.
But it seemed like it was trying to save itself (specially during song sequences, dance by Hrithik is only little good thing about the movie).
In last half an hour of the... |
tt1766093 | Smoke Screen | Sir Humphrey Appleby is meeting with his subordinate Sir Frank Gordon, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury. Sir Frank is worried about Jim Hacker’s proposal to use some of the savings from his “Grand Design” for a £1.5 billion tax cut. They both agree that the whole system of government depends on them controlling the ... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0452039 | Mind Game | Nishi is a 20-year-old loser with dreams of becoming a comic book artist. One late evening he runs into his childhood crush, Myon, on the subway. Nishi declares he has always loved her, but she tells him she is due to marry someone else.
They go to her father's yakitori restaurant, and see Myon's father and her elder s... | romantic, psychedelic, alternate reality, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0255605 | Snow White | At the beginning of the story, a queen sits sewing at an open window during a winter snowfall when she pricks her finger with her needle, causing three drops of red blood to drip onto the freshly fallen white snow on the black windowsill. Then, she says to herself, "How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as whi... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | I like Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang of Smallville TV series), she is so cute, she is a perfect pick for Snow White.
On the DVD extra the writer/director explains that this version is more in line with the original Snow White tales that were handed down from olden times.
Maranda Richardson, known best for her work as Ms Twe... |
tt0810743 | Mr. Jingles | Young Angie Randall witnesses a spree killing clown named Mr. Jingles murder her parents, before he is shot to death by Officers Baines and Guinness. Before dying, Jingles tells Angie, "I'll be back for you!" The traumatized Angie is institutionalized until she is a teenager, at which point she is released into the car... | paranormal, violence, humor | train | wikipedia | This movie was awful, the acting sucked, the plot sucked, it just confused me, it skipped around everywhere, and the only time it even made since was the last 15 minutes, and even then, it wasn't very good.
It looks like a homemade movie, that i could even do better with.
This movie is not for a horror fan, the gore an... |
tt0156043 | Sanam Teri Kasam | Vijay Verma (Saif Ali Khan) is a rich and selfish playboy who enjoys playing with women by giving a fake name to every girl. His friend, Gopal, (Atul Agnihotri) tells him several times to stop this act otherwise he will regret it. One day, Vijay meets a lovely tourist, Seema (Pooja Bhatt) and falls in love with her aft... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Typical Hindi movie. after seeing this movie, one feels like one has seen a number of Hindi films with the same theme like 'Phir wohi dil laya hoon' Jab Pyar kisse se hota hai etc., where a lookalike son comes in to claim the property competing with the real inheritor son, the hero, who got separated early in life and ... |
tt0096419 | Warlords | The film is set in China in the 1860s, during the Taiping Rebellion. It is based on the assassination of Ma Xinyi in 1870. In the beginning, there is a battle between loyalists and rebels, during which all of the loyalists are killed except Qingyun, the general. Qingyun goes to a village nearby where the inhabitants en... | satire | train | wikipedia | Endless car chases, a hand-puppet mutant, and David Carradine Fred Olen Ray strikes again.
I sure hope the actors working in Fred Olen Ray's films are having fun when they're making them.
Because we, the viewer, sometimes have no fun at all.Enter WARLORDS.
Some sort of MAD MAX-inspired cheese that has really little poi... |
tt0033806 | Lady for a Night | Social climber Jenny Blake owns of the casino steam boat Memphis Belle, together with the influential Jack Morgan. Most of the customers are from the upper layers of the city's social life, but they have little respect for Jenny and her - in their opinion - vulgar occupation. Jack is secretly in love with Jenny. To sho... | melodrama, satire, murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Lady for a Night is a Joan Blondell film with John Wayne as her leading man.
When Ray Middleton gambles away the title to the old Alderson family estate, Blondell offers to marry him to save the good gentry from being thrown out on their duffs.
It's a marriage she has soon cause to regret.Blondell sings a nice number e... |
tt0483781 | Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones | The game is set after the events of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, in which the Prince kills the Dahaka, saves Kaileena and prevents the Sands of Time from being created. Unlike the previous games, the story is narrated by Kaileena. The Prince's actions alter the timeline of events that took place before that point.... | violence | train | wikipedia | I'd say the past ten years or so it has been discouraging because these video games are so difficult to learn and play.
Once Super Nintendo came on the scene my video game days were almost over.Even still, I decided to give Prince of Persia a shot.
I took the game to work, I played endlessly trying to beat that game.
T... |
tt0042466 | Flicka och hyacinter | A young woman is playing the piano at a wild party. When asked to play a special tune, she begins but stops abruptly and rushes out, visibly upset. Alone she starts to walk home through late night central Stockholm. Crossing a bridge, she has a conversation with a drunk artist, and after his persuasion, out of kindness... | tragedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0047686 | The Yellow Tomahawk | Scout and tracker Adam Reed is handed a yellow tomahawk by Cheyenne warrior Fire Knife to deliver to a U.S. Army fort commanded by Major Ives as a proclamation of war, a warning to evacuate women and children before the attack.
Ives is known as "the butcher" for having given Cheyenne women and children no such warning ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Another western sleeper from the 1950s with good plot, acting, characters of some depth , and violent action.
Major Ives (Warner Anderson), one of the commanding officers of the infamous Sand Creek Massacre ( an actual event) is building a fort in Cheyenne territory.
Fireknife(Lee Van Cleef) , tells his friend Adam Ree... |
tt0121232 | Dulaara | Raja (Govinda) is the step son of Florence (Farida Jalal) and James (Dalip Tahil). James was a target killer who was killed in an encounter with police and died in front of Florence. After James funeral, Florence found out a new born baby lying, she takes him with her and makes him her son. This toddler is Raja. At col... | murder | train | wikipedia | One of Govinda's BEST! A MUST SEE!. I saw this movie long time ago when i was a kid and ever since then i enjoyed Govinda's movies, still do! Out of EVERY movie i've seen i must say that Dulaara along with Khuddaar are both One of the Best movies! Govinda acted very well in this movie in which he is an orphan raised by... |
tt0081738 | The Watcher in the Woods | Americans Helen and Paul Curtis and their daughters Jan and Ellie, move into a manor in rural England. Mrs. Aylwood, the owner of the residence who now lives in the guest house next door, notices that Jan bears a striking resemblance to her daughter, Karen, who disappeared inside an abandoned chapel in the woods thirty... | gothic, paranormal, cult, horror, flashback, psychedelic, revenge | train | wikipedia | When I sat down to watch it, I was instantly drawn into a world of eerie mystery that's surprisingly well-done, especially for a film that bears the name of Disney, notorious for their sanitized, 'family-friendly' fare.
I have the 1998 VHS that has a cover with a marvelous photograph of Davis on the back.Florence Engel... |
tt0066050 | A Man Called Sledge | Luther Sledge (Garner), a wanted outlaw, is visiting his prostitute girlfriend, Ria (Antonelli), when one of his gang is shot over a poker game. Sledge kills the murderers, and is recognized by an old man (Marley), who follows him. Sledge waylays the old man, who then relates a tale of a periodic, gold shipment that is... | violence | train | wikipedia | If nothing else can be said about it, A Man Called Sledge is a slightly above average spaghetti western.
It boasts James Garner,playing against type, as Luther Sledge, a brutal robber who gets involved in a plot to steal a shipment of gold stored in a prison.It's a departure from his usual easygoing roles and he gets g... |
tt0253840 | The Triumph of Love | Léonide, Princess of Sparta, disguises as a man called Phocion to enter the household of her enemy, Hermocrates, an old philosopher. Léonide does so because she has seen and fallen in love with a young man who lives in the household, Agis. Learning that he is the rightful heir of the late Cléomènes, King of Sparta (usu... | romantic, philosophical | train | wikipedia | You simply have to accept the conventions of this type of story, just as you do when you read/watch Shakespeare's plays.
I thoroughly enjoyed it; it was witty, fast paced, sexy, the acting was fantastic (especially Kingsley though Sorvino is no slouch)etc.
An entertaining movie if you like classical French theater.
Mir... |
tt4273570 | Shok | The film starts by scenes in present-day Kosovo, in which the adult Petrit (Kushtrim Sheremeti) finds an old bicycle like Oki's in the middle of the road.
The story shifts back during the 1990s war in Kosovo and centers on two young boys, Petrit (Lum Veseli) and Oki (Andi Bajgora). At the start of the film, the two rid... | violence, cruelty, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1261046 | Death Racers | In the year 2030, a civil war breaks out in the United States. In a final attempt to restore order, the president declares martial law. In 2033, a massive prison camp known as "the Red Zone" is built in a desolate city that soon holds over one million insane, violent felons. The United States is declared safe.
A danger... | cult, comedy, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0056677 | The War Game | Filmed in black-and-white with a running time of just under 50 minutes, The War Game depicts the prelude to, and the immediate weeks of the aftermath of, a Soviet nuclear attack against Britain. The narrator says that Britain's current nuclear deterrent policy threatens a would-be aggressor with devastation from Vulcan... | allegory | train | wikipedia | THE WAR GAME {Short} (Mai Zetterling, 1963) **1/2. After the August 1963 premier of this short film at the Venice Film Festival and the later one in December of her current film THE MAN WHO FINALLY DIED (co-starring Stanley Baker and Peter Cushing – which I own but have yet to watch), Swedish actress Mai Zetterling wou... |
tt0099263 | The Christmas Toy | When no people are around, the toys still play in the playroom. But since a toy will be frozen forever if a person catches it out of position, they have to be very careful. It's Christmas Eve, and Rugby the Tiger remembers how he was the favorite Christmas toy last year and wants to be the favorite again this year, as ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | A Christmas classic!.
Imagine being the light of someone's life, the favorite plaything of a child, only to feel rejected when a new plaything gets in the way?"The Christmas Toy" is a 1986 made-for-TV Christmas special that aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC-TV) in December 1986, and centers around a playr... |
tt0371939 | Secuestro express | The film follows the kidnapping of Carla (Maestro) and her boyfriend when they are suddenly kidnapped in Caracas, Venezuela. Carla (Mía Maestro) and Martin (Jean Paul Leroux) are a young upper-class couple fresh from a night of dancing and partying when they cross paths with Trece (Carlos Julio Molina), Budu (Pedro Per... | violence, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | It is sad, but real, people in Latin America are going to situations just as described in the movie.Mia Maestro, really showed to all of us her talent, for those Spanish speakers know how different the Argentinian accent is, and she was able to imitate the Venezuelan accent perfectly.I am sure does who are related to V... |
tt0148508 | Il mio West | The story begins in 1860 in Basin Field, a small (fictional) village on the slopes of the great mountains that border Canada in the "Far West." The film depicts the idealistic lifestyle of an old West farmer, his Indian wife and half-breed son, who narrates the tale. The main character is "Doc" (Pieraccioni), the villa... | western | train | wikipedia | Good subtle humor and still real..
If you would enjoy seeing some of the formula characters and scenes in a western presented in new ways, you might like this.
Some of these formulas are treated with quietly humorous disrespect, be warned, if you take westerns seriously.
Think of a good "Gunsmoke" episode made as a mov... |
tt0050839 | Peyton Place | In April 1941, in the seemingly idyllic New England town of Peyton Place, drunkard Lucas Cross (Arthur Kennedy) stumbles out of his house as his step-son Paul - fed up with Lucas' alcoholism - leaves town. Lucas's downtrodden wife, Nellie (Betty Field) goes to work as the housekeeper for Constance "Connie" MacKenzie (L... | murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | And the film's unraveling of the town's secrets is handled well - building up like a ball of snow as each successive scandal is unearthed.We meet the townspeople from the point-of-view of Allison Mackenzie(Diane Varsi), the sweet and sheltered daughter of Constance(Lana Turner).
Peyton Place is a movie that strips away... |
tt0072822 | Cornbread, Earl and Me | The film focuses on three African-American youths living in an urban neighborhood. Nathaniel Hamilton (Jamaal Wilkes, credited as Keith Wilkes) is a star basketball player from the neighborhood, who also goes by the nickname of "Cornbread." In the movie, he epitomizes the dream of the neighborhood to be successful, as ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Early Comment on Racial Profiling.
A kid witnesses the shooting death of the neighborhood basketball star.
The basketball player had been mistaken by the police as a crime suspect.
The kid is subjected to harrassment from the policement involved to keep quiet about what he knows.
The cops even go so far as to intimidat... |
tt0448090 | The Proud Family Movie | The film opens with a man named Dr. Carver, the great-great-grandson of George Washington Carver, trying to generate a super 'Gnome Warrior', a prototype for an army of humanoid peanut warriors, but it disintegrates. The scene then turns to Penny Proud, who is celebrating her 16th birthday in her hometown of Wizardvill... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Disappointed in Disney.
Disappointed in DisneyThe Disney name used to represent an assurance to many parents that the content of a show would be family oriented and of sound moral ethics.
The Proud Family Movie presents cloning as a trivial detail in weak plot with no indication of the moral or ethical questions involv... |
tt0068524 | E poi lo chiamarono il magnifico | The young English nobleman Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore (Terence Hill) arrives in the West following the wish of this late father who years earlier had to leave England due to an affair. The trouble led to a conflict with "Vicci Windsor". In the West, the young man joins up with his father's former pals, the st... | western | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0047766 | Quatermass II | === The Bolts ===
Meteorites are falling over Northern England, one of which is observed by an Army radar unit. After a farmer finds one of the objects in a field, the soldiers become directly involved, and Captain Johnny Dillon decides to unofficially ask the father of his fiancée, Paula, to investigate. Paula's fathe... | violence, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | By far the most frightening serial ever shown on British TV and in 1955 the Beeb took the unprecedented step of warning viewers before each episode that under no circumstances should children view this film and anyone of a nervous disposition would be best advised not watching.
My own father, a man one would view as st... |
tt0030608 | Porky's Hare Hunt | Several rabbits are eating carrots and ruining crops. Another rabbit warns them to evacuate by saying "Jiggers, fellers!". Soon, Porky and his dog meet this rabbit and try to outwit him in the forest. Porky and the rabbit get in a long, long fight and soon the hare thinks he has won the battle. However Porky finds the ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Cute cartoon starring an early hybrid of Bugs.
The little white nameless rabbit with the bulbous black nose is considered by many as the very first version of what would later become Bugs Bunny.
An early Porky goes rabbit hunting with his dog and is outwitted again and again by this "granddaddy" of Bugsy!!!In June 2001... |
tt1341188 | How Do You Know | Softball player Lisa Jorgenson is devastated when she is left off the Team USA roster. Unsure what to do next, Lisa begins dating Matty Reynolds, a pitcher for the Washington Nationals. She also receives an intriguing phone call from a young executive, George Madison, who was advised by a friend of Lisa's to give her a... | romantic, boring | train | wikipedia | from people going in to see this movie, expecting a chick flick and being disappointed.I believe the reason for the poor reviews of this movie are due to the fact that is has been advertised and delivered as a romantic comedy.True, it is fit for the romance genre, comedy..
Humour is few and far between for a comedy-see... |
tt0179148 | The Devil's Arithmetic | The book is a little different from the film. Hannah Stern is a 13-year-old Jewish girl living in the present day (time of publication: 1980s). She is bored by her relatives' stories about the past, is not looking forward to the Passover Seder, and is tired of her religion. When Hannah symbolically opens the door for t... | storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0101538 | Campfire Tales | The first story involves a young couple returning home after hearing on the radio that a murderer with a hook on his right hand has escaped from the local insane asylum and is terrorizing the countryside. Upon returning home, the girlfriend discovers that her parents have been decapitated. As she runs to get help from ... | cult | train | wikipedia | Very Entertaining Low Budget Film.
It was many years ago that I saw this movie and I haven't seen it recently so I am working off of old memories here but I seem to remember that this was a fairly gory, low budget, short story movie with Gunnar Henson (Leatherface) telling the stories.
The first story is an old classic... |
tt0057869 | Bande à part | Odile (Anna Karina) meets a man named Franz (Sami Frey) in an English language class. She has told him of a large pile of money stashed in the villa where she lives with her aunt, Madame Victoria and a man named Monsieur Stoltz in Joinville, a Parisian suburb. Franz tells his friend Arthur (Claude Brasseur) of the mone... | psychedelic, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | Acting wise, the film is stolen by the lovely Anna Karina (who was Godard's wife at the time) as the sweet, vague woman at the centre of the trio.
Godard himself does the voice-over narration relating the story.Filmed on the cold, de-glamorised streets of urban Paris, the film has a spontaneous feel that adds a lot to ... |
tt1105733 | Kismat Konnection | This is a story about an architect Raj Malhotra (Shahid Kapoor) who lives in Toronto, Canada. While he was a top student in his school and college days, he is not having much luck in finding work, clients or projects. All he does, seems to go wrong. Raj goes to a gypsy named Haseena Bano Jaan (Juhi Chawla). She advises... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | The chemistry between Shahid and Vidya was not very good.
All in all it is not a movie worth wasting your time and money on.A lousy effort..
Aziz Mirza returns with his new movie after "Chalte Chalte".
But this time its not Shahrukh but Shahid in a role of next to door young person with a mission to make it big.
The mo... |
tt1303901 | Silent Hill: Homecoming | At the start of the game, the player controls Alex through a nightmare concerning his younger brother, Josh, before Alex wakes up in the cab of a truck driven by Travis Grady, the protagonist from Silent Hill: Origins, who gives him a ride to his hometown of Shepherd's Glen. The town, named for a distant ancestor who h... | revenge, gothic, violence | train | wikipedia | As an avid fan of the Silent Hill series, I understandably, had this pre-ordered way back 2 months ago.
All fans of Silent Hill know the formula -it's that oppressive, dark, dense, anxious build up.
These elements are synonymous to Silent Hill and were severely lacking in this game.
The plot, length, atmosphere, qualit... |
tt0089382 | Joshilaay | The film revolved around two men Dara (Sunny Deol) and Karan (Anil Kapoor). Both were wronged by Jogi Thakur (Rajesh Vivek) and his partner Raja Singh (Kulbhushan Karbandha). Daara was separated from his family and left near a circus where he was brought up and Karan´s family was murdered in front of him. After Jogi an... | revenge, cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036166 | Mission to Moscow | The film chronicles ambassador Davies' impressions of the Soviet Union, his meetings with Stalin, and his overall opinion of the Soviet Union and its ties with the United States. It is made in faux-documentary style, beginning with Davies meeting with president Franklin D. Roosevelt to discuss his new appointment as Un... | alternate history | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0100129 | Meet the Applegates | The film starts off in a forest with a family being attacked by a family of huge Brazilian Cocorada. It then moves to a typical-looking family moving into a well-off suburban Ohio neighborhood. They are the bugs that were seen earlier, after they took on human form and met every "normality" standard from the magazine F... | cult | train | wikipedia | Angered by a logging company encroaching deep into their natural forest, a family of large insects camouflage themselves as humans and blend themselves into a small American town.
Despite being a little too gory for my tastes, this comedy is actually quite sharp in it's main satire on American life.
The main joke for m... |
tt0984200 | Incendiary | A young woman (Michelle Williams) is married to bomb-disposal officer Lenny (Nicholas Gleaves); they have a four-year-old son (Sidney Johnston).
While the young mother has sex with reporter Jasper (Ewan McGregor), Lenny, their son, and about 1000 others are killed in a terrorist attack carried out by six suicide bomber... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1695994 | The Virginity Hit | Four male teenage friends in New Orleans, Louisiana: Matt, Zack, Jacob and Justin, buy a bong and agree to use it only to celebrate when one of the four have sex for the first time. The boys are beginning to lose their virginity and Matt is the last one. Matt is the adopted brother of Zack after Matt's mother died from... | adult comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0030469 | Mr. Moto Takes a Chance | Over the ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia we see the airplane Victoria Mason, aviatrix, flying around the globe. But her actual destination is the kingdom of Tong Moi in French Indochina. Already in Tong Moi, Mr. Moto is posing as an archeologist, and newsreel cameramen Marty Weston and Chick Davis are traveling up the ... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | The Good & Bad Of 'Mr. Moto Takes A Chance'.
One is never quite sure who is what except we know Mr. Moto is a good guy and the two cameramen are innocent but too goofy.
This, the fourth in the Peter Lorre-starred series of Moto films, re minded me of the Monogram latter-day Charlie Chan films, with Mantan Moreland, in ... |
tt0117866 | Taxi | Taxi portrays director Jafar Panahi as he courses through the streets of Tehran while pretending to be a share taxi driver. He wants to hear a piece of his passengers' life and declines any payment for the services. His earliest passengers include a conservative-minded man who supports capital punishment and a woman su... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0075917 | Dead of Night | Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) has been invited by Elliot Foley (Roland Culver) to his country home in Kent to consult on some renovations. Upon arrival at the cottage, he reveals to Foley and his assembled guests that despite never having met any of them, he has seen them all in a recurring dream.
He appears to... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | From the team who brought us "Trilogy of Terror" comes a follow-up TV produced three part anthology by writer Richard Matheson and director / producer Dan Curtis.
There's no real wrap-around story holding these tales together, but it opens with quite an atmospheric beginning to kick off proceedings.1/ "Second Chance" -... |
tt0050524 | Hot Summer Night | Out of work but on his honeymoon, Bill Partain, a newspaper reporter, reads about a bank robbery in Sedalia, Missouri pulled off by notorious criminal Tom Ellis and his gang. Having once interviewed Ellis's girlfriend Ruth Childers for a Kansas City paper, Partain figures an exclusive interview with Ellis could assure ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0068663 | The Groundstar Conspiracy | Employee John David Welles attempts to steal rocket booster plans from the Groundstar facility. His attempt goes awry and he is badly disfigured in an explosion and barely escapes. He stumbles to the home of Nicole Devon, and collapses. She calls an ambulance, the authorities are alerted, and soon Welles is operated on... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A super secret government space program laboratory known as Groundstar gets blown up while a woman, (Christine Belford) whose parents have recently died and is also recently divorced tries to find some solace for her shattered life in the summer house she was left in the will which just happens to be in the direct vici... |
tt0231050 | Toransufômâ: Kârobotto | Several thousand years ago, the planet Cybertron was consumed by a civil war by the two Transformer factions, the Autobots led by Optimus Prime and the Decepticons led by Megatron. Optimus jettisoned the AllSpark, a mystical artifact that brings life to the planet, into space, but Megatron pursued it. Megatron crashed ... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Every time the latest iteration of Transformers comes out, old-skoolers like me immediately run out and disparage it for not being as good as the last.
After the Success of Beast Machines, The Animal transformers series had finally finished along with the original G1 story that started back in 1984.
Just called "Robots... |
tt0041142 | Awful Orphan | Charlie is showing various thing in the form of a dramatic presentation that ends with him as the major thing and this causes the people present to walk away in disgust. Charlie then hitches a ride a pet shop truck. He arrives in Porky's hotel room who kicks him out. Porky calls the pet shop owner saying: "I ordered a ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Ah, The Benefits Of A Dog Over A Bird.
A dog is out on the street advertising the world's greatest thing - himself!
However, there are no takers, so he jumps into the "Acme Pet Shop" truck.
The next thing we see is Porky Pig answered his door and getting a draped bird cage.
He's excited as he ordered a canary, a pet he... |
tt0061073 | Teesri Manzil | Sunita (Asha Parekh) lives along with her widowed father in a rich neighborhood of Delhi. deeply disturbed by the suicide of her elder sister Roopa in Dehradun a year ago. All she knows was that Roopa committed suicide due to her involvement with a hotel live band drummer "Rocky". (a role played by Shammi Kapoor who wa... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | A Perfect Musical Thriller to be enjoyed again and again.
In todays world when not even the producers know what they are serving the audience in the name of 'Entertainment' this beautifully made film still is a landmark in film making.
It is in true sense a 'Musical Thriller' that today we see only written on posters!
... |
tt0066989 | Les deux Anglaises et le continent | The film begins in Paris around the year 1902 when Claude Roc and his widowed mother are visited by Ann Brown, daughter of an old friend. Ann invites Claude to spend the summer on the coast of Wales with her widowed mother and sister Muriel. While she enjoys Claude's company, her hope is that he may be a husband for he... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0105211 | Radio Flyer | Mike (Tom Hanks) is observing his two sons fighting; with one insisting that a promise doesn't mean anything. To make them understand that a promise does mean something, he tells them the story of his youth. Young Mike (Elijah Wood), his little brother Bobby (Joseph Mazzello), their mother Mary (Lorraine Bracco) and th... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0064603 | The Love Bug | In 1968, Jim Douglas is a down-on-his luck racing driver, reduced to competing in demolition derby races against drivers half his age. Jim lives in an old fire house overlooking San Francisco Bay with his friend and mechanic, Tennessee Steinmetz, a jolly Brooklynite who constantly extols the virtues of spiritual enligh... | cult | train | wikipedia | Dean Jones plays a race car driver who meets a pretty young woman (Michelle Lee) he sees working in the window at a fancy car dealership.
The car dealer tries his best to keep Herbie from being a success.Jones and Lee did well in their parts but they seemed like they were acting.
Mystic-minded hippie-type Tennessee Ste... |
tt0072886 | Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze | Doc Savage (Ron Ely) returns to New York City following a visit to his Arctic hideaway, the Fortess of Solitude. He learns that his father has died under mysterious circumstances while exploring the remote interior of the Central American Republic of Hidalgo. While examining his father's personal papers, Doc finds hims... | murder, violence, good versus evil, absurd, psychedelic, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | I was fourteen years old when Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze opened in the theaters back in 1975, and I couldn't have been more excited about it.
I had been reading the paperback reprints of Kenneth Robeson's 1930's pulp action stories for years by that point, and was anxious to see the fantastic visions they had produc... |
tt0089283 | The Holcroft Covenant | The novel concerns Noel Holcroft, New York City architect—and secretly the son of Heinrich Clausen, chief economic adviser to the Third Reich. At some point in the 1970s, Holcroft is contacted by the Grande Banque de Geneve, concerning his father's will and testament. The testament says that in the last half of the war... | revenge, intrigue, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | I've read a couple of his novels and they can be, if one is in the right sort of mood, exciting.The thing one has to remember is that Ludlum's novels is about conspiracies and complicated plots and not about characters.
Even the star of the movie Michael Caine, a seasoned heavyweight in the espionage genre, seems out o... |
tt0045513 | Appointment in London | Wing Commander Tim Mason (Dirk Bogarde) is nearing the end of his third tour of operations, meaning that he has flown nearly 90 missions over Germany. Having twice volunteered to continue operational flying, Mason is keen to make it a round 90 "ops", but just as he is nearing the end of his tour he receives orders bann... | romantic | train | wikipedia | ***SPOILERS*** Somewhat talky but very good WWII movie set on an English airfield of RAF Lancaster Bombers in the late summer of 1943.
Grounded Wing-Commander Tim Mason, Dirk Bogarde, who has flown 89 bombing missions over German occupied Europe seems to have developed a dislike of his airmen under his command who have... |
tt0061787 | Hour of the Gun | Outnumbered but determined, Wyatt Earp (James Garner), his brothers Virgil (Frank Converse) and Morgan (Sam Melville) and ally Doc Holliday (Jason Robards) confront and clearly get the best of the Ike Clanton gang in a violent shootout at the O.K. Corral in the Arizona town of Tombstone.
Ike (Robert Ryan), a rustler, c... | good versus evil, revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0072053 | Que la fête commence... | In France in 1719, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans is the regent for the young Louis XV. He is sophisticated, gentle, a liberal and a libertine. He endeavours to keep his subjects cultured and happy—mainly to stop the peasants from rising up—but he knows he has no real royal authority. To assist him, Philippe enlists the ... | romantic, intrigue, cruelty, murder, satire | train | wikipedia | Very accurate historical movie.
It is unbelievable how the director Tavernier could recapture the mentality of this beginning of the 18th century which would lead to the French revolution.
The wars of Louis XIV had ruined the country and the best thing the regent (an excellent Philippe Noiret but all the actors are exc... |
tt2381931 | Compulsion | Compulsion tells the story of Anjika Indrani, a wealthy young Cambridge graduate who is in a secret relationship with fellow graduate, Alex.
Anjika’s father, Satvick, forces her into an arranged marriage with a business associate’s son, Hardick. Satvick’s chauffeur, Don Flowers, realises Anjika is not happy with her fa... | psychological, revenge, flashback, psychedelic, romantic, plot twist | train | wikipedia | Heather Grahm was beautiful in the movie and really made me feel for her characters.
I was dreading that the movie was going to turn into a predictable girl gone crazy movie because I really like the characters of Amy. Luckily this film had more depth.
One of the most disturbing things about the film is the cards that ... |
tt0041495 | The Woman on Pier 13 | Brad Collins (Ryan), a San Francisco shipping executive (real name Frank Johnson) who recently married Nan Lowry Collins (Laraine Day) after a brief courtship, was once involved with Communism in New York, while a stevedore during the Depression. Shortly after returning home following their honeymoon, the couple meet C... | murder | train | wikipedia | Robert Ryan and Laraine Day star in "The Woman on Pier 13," along with Thomas Gomez, John Agar, Janis Carter, and William Talman.
Meanwhile, Brad is blackmailed into stalling union negotiations on the waterfront.This is an okay film, with Robert Ryan looking great and doing his usual fine acting job.
The performances o... |
tt0490084 | Because I Said So | The movie focuses on Daphne (Diane Keaton), the loving but over-bearing mother of three girls, in particular Milly (Mandy Moore). Her other daughters Maggie (Lauren Graham) and Mae (Piper Perabo) are happily married, but Milly has recently broken up with her boyfriend, and Daphne is concerned.
Daphne fears that her dau... | psychedelic, psychological, romantic | train | wikipedia | But it looked cute from the cover and I like Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore, so I wanted to give this movie a chance, but instead it just wasted my time and made me throw up a little in my mouth.
If you can swallow the beautiful and sexy Mandy Moore as an uncoordinated doofus with low self-esteem who can't find a decent ... |
tt0923600 | Baghead | Four actors, Matt (Ross Partridge), Catherine (Elise Muller), Michelle (Greta Gerwig), and Chad (Steve Zissis) attend an art festival and watch a low-budget movie directed by Jett (Jett Garner). After the showing, Jett explains to them that he kept the budget so low by not telling his actors they were in a movie until ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
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