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tt0114702 | Total Eclipse | The older Paul Verlaine meets Arthur Rimbaud's sister, Isabelle, in a café in Paris. Isabelle and her mother want Verlaine to hand over any copies he may still have of Rimbaud's poems so that they can burn them; they fear the lewdness of his writings. Verlaine reflects on the wild relationship he had had with Rimbaud, ... | violence, romantic, cruelty, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | It's a good thing not too many people saw this film when it came out [no pun intended], because, if any of DiCaprio's female fans had seen him in this, one of his best early roles, his career would have been over well before he was involved in "Titanic." And that's because he's so utterly convincing as the tortured, bi... |
tt0101042 | Back to the Future | Teenager Marty McFly is an aspiring musician dating girlfriend Jennifer Parker in Hill Valley, California. His father George is bullied by his supervisor, Biff Tannen, while his mother Lorraine is an overweight, depressed alcoholic. While dissatisfied with Marty's relationship with Jennifer, Lorraine recalls how she me... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The weekly adventures of Marty and Doc. This little animated series came about a year after the third movie, either an attempt to keep Back to the Future in the public eye or just to cash in on the films.
Either way, this was a fun series.
Some of the stories were very fresh and clever.
One story that comes to mind is ... |
tt0378072 | Hum Tum | Karan (Saif Ali Khan) is a cartoonist and a self-styled ladies' man. His daily comic, named "Hum Tum," explores the battle of stereotypical male/female behavior. On a plane from Delhi to New York, he meets Rhea (Rani Mukerji) who doesn't seem to be interested in him. His feeble attempts at flirting go nowhere, but when... | romantic, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0109028 | Á köldum klaka | Hirata (Masatoshi Nagase) is a successful Japanese businessman whose plan for a two-week winter holiday in Hawaii to play golf changes when his elderly grandfather (Seijun Suzuki) reminds him that he should go to Iceland.
Hirata’s parents died there seven years ago, and the seven year death anniversary is a significant... | cult, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0174480 | Autumn in New York | Will Keane (Richard Gere) is a successful 48-year-old restaurateur and womanizer who is the subject of a recent New York Magazine cover story. Charlotte Fielding (Winona Ryder) is a free-spirited, 22-year-old woman brought to Will's upscale restaurant by her grandmother and friends to celebrate her birthday. Will notic... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0094357 | Ying hung boon sik II | Several years after the events of A Better Tomorrow, Sung Tse-ho (Ti Lung) is offered early parole by the police in exchange for spying on his former boss and mentor, Lung Sei (Dean Shek), who is suspected of heading a counterfeiting operation. Inspector Wu (Lau Siu-ming), the leader of the crime task force, wants to m... | cult, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Most of the original cast return, including Chow Yun-Fat as Mark Lee's twin brother Ken.Taking place a few years after the events of the first film, we see how things are finally starting to look up.
I love this movie to death, the acting is wonderful, believable and very realistic and Chow Yun-Fat which is my favorite... |
tt0087032 | Cannonball Run II | Having lost the first Cannonball Run race, Sheik Abdul ben Falafel (Jamie Farr) is ordered by his father (Ricardo Montalban) to go back to America and win another Cannonball Run in order to "emblazon the Falafel name as the fastest in the world." When Sheik Abdul points out that there is no Cannonball Run that year, hi... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt5225338 | The Eyes of My Mother | Francisca and her mother live on a farm where they raise cows and other animals. A trained surgeon, Francisca's mother teaches her how to remove eyeballs from farm animals, and is taught the legend of Francis of Assisi. Suddenly, Charlie, a door to door salesman, appears and asks to use her bathroom. Against her better... | tragedy, violence, murder, dark, sadist | train | wikipedia | It defies belief that some film makers can make dozens of films throughout their career, garnering experience the entire time, and never make a film half as good as 'The Eyes of My Mother', and then someone can come along on their very first attempt and achieve this masterpiece.
For people who are expecting a slasher o... |
tt0289229 | Hukkle | The story takes place in an ordinary village in Hungary. It begins with an old man who has hiccups, and takes place in front of his house near a can of milk. He observes the daily habits of the villagers, and the viewer is shown many sequences about different events: A young man drives his horse and cart filled with mi... | psychedelic, murder | train | wikipedia | This film challenges the idea that we need dialogue to define human interaction, or even interaction between humans, animals and the environment.
It may sound boring, but isn't because you are constantly wondering what will happen next.The movie covers the life of a small Hungarian village during the course of, more or... |
tt0039036 | Till the End of Time | Right after VJ Day, two Marine Corps buddies, Cpl. Bill Tabeshaw (Mitchum) and Pfc. Cliff Harper (Madison), are among a group selected to return immediately to civilian life. Bill, a former cowboy, has a silver plate implanted in his head, a "souvenir" of Iwo Jima, but has won $2,100 gambling and plans to buy a small c... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0433286 | Dragon Booster | === 10,000 years ago ===
Ten-thousand years ago, on the planet of Draconis there existed a breed of Gold-Boned animals called dragons. These Dragons had star-shaped marks on their foreheads (called bone-marks) and were known to all as Star Dragons (they were later renamed as Gold Dragons when the other colours emerged)... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0047389 | Rails Into Laramie | In the Wyoming Territory during 1869, Union Army Sgt. Jefferson Harder enters a casino and, within minutes, instigates a brawl. Just as he is thrown through the window, the soldiers sent by Gen. Augur to bring Jeff back to the fort arrive. Back at the fort, Argur explains to the hot-headed officer that the construction... | violence | train | wikipedia | Ridin' the rails ........
John Payne stars in this 1954 sagebrush saga, which also features several western favorites as co-stars.
The railroad sends a representative to get to the bottom of a gang's attempts to disrupt the rail-lines.The film is well-paced and Payne is a good choice to play the lead role.
Dan Duryea s... |
tt0421201 | Flash Gordon | The Planet of Peril
The planet Mongo is on a collision course with Earth. Dr. Alexis Zarkov takes off in a rocket ship to Mongo, with Flash Gordon and Dale Arden as his assistants. They find that the planet is ruled by the cruel Emperor Ming, who lusts after Dale and sends Flash to fight in the arena. Ming's daughter, ... | comic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0109665 | Dream Lover | The movie opens on divorce proceedings involving Ray Reardon (Spader), a successful architect, and his first wife. Shortly after their divorce, he agrees to go to a gallery opening to meet a woman with whom his obnoxious friend, Norman (Larry Miller), sets him up. While he is there, he embarrasses himself by bumping in... | insanity, revenge, psychedelic, murder | train | wikipedia | DREAM LOVER has a tightly wound plot and fine performances by the entire cast.
Nick Kazan has some great dialogue in here like "What you think is paranoia is heightened awareness." Some folks might fault Spader's character as very stupid (really, you should find out as much as you can about a potential mate before ma... |
tt0036218 | Northern Pursuit | After a German U-boat drops off Nazi saboteurs, RCMP Corporal Wagner (Flynn) captures the leader, Colonel Hugo von Keller (Helmut Dantine), the only survivor after an avalanche wipes out the rest of the group. When left alone with the Canadian Mountie, von Keller discovers that Wagner speaks German and is of German anc... | intrigue, murder | train | wikipedia | This Mounties versus Nazis picture bears little resemblance, as claimed, to The 49th Parallel and even less to Across The Pacific.From the opening scene with a German submarine breaking through the ice in Hudson Bay to the climatic showdown in a bomber aloft, Northern Pursuit is high-powered excitement all the way.
Top... |
tt1153546 | BloodRayne: The Third Reich | Rayne fights against the Nazis in Europe during World War II with the French resistance, encountering Ekart Brand, a Nazi leader whose goal is to inject Adolf Hitler with Rayne's blood in an attempt to transform him into an all powerful dhampir and attain immortality.
The film opens with train cars full of humans being... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | no sexy chick in latex as expected.Instead of Bloodrayne, a hot SENSUAL SEDUCTIVE female, we got from the casting crew a HYSTERICAL whining girl, she just can't pull it off, her voice is irritating, has nothing sensual or seductive, like vampires should have, instead it s dominated by the rebel 19 year boy looking like... |
tt0070947 | Zanjeer | ACP Vijay Khanna (Ram Charan) is a brutally honest police officer who has been transferred yet again by the system for chasing the corrupt underworld goons. He is continuously disturbed by the killing of his parents years back. He keeps remembering a man in a black raincoat on a white horse and with a tattoo on his rig... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0041434 | The Grey Hounded Hare | Bugs Bunny pops out of a hole, wondering what all the 'racket' is. He quickly finds out that he is at a greyhound track. Bugs decides to check out the dogs, commenting positively on dog #7, a large grey greyhound named Gnawbone, then angering him.
After this, Bugs goes outside to see the race from the sides. Before the... | psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | Bugs Trying To Hit On A Hot Hare In The Fast Lane.
Bugs tunnels from underneath and finds himself at the local dog track After checking out all the entries, he wanders over to the fence to get a close look at the race.It begins and, lo-and-behold, there's a cute little rabbit!
Bugs is immediately smitten.
Unfortunately... |
tt0178299 | Carmen | Place: Seville, Spain, and surrounding hills
Time: Around 1820
Act 1
A square, in Seville. On the right, a door to the tobacco factory. At the back, a bridge. On the left, a guardhouse.
A group of soldiers relax in the square, waiting for the changing of the guard and commenting on the passers-by ("Sur la place, chacun... | satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0087075 | The Company of Wolves | In the present day, a young girl named Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson) dreams that she lives in a fairytale forest with her parents (Tusse Silberg and David Warner) and sister (Georgia Slowe), but one day her sister is killed by wolves. While her parents are mourning, Rosaleen goes to stay the night with her grandmother (An... | comedy, fantasy, cruelty, gothic, cult, alternate reality, violence, atmospheric, psychedelic, suspenseful, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0132347 | Mystery Men | In the metropolis of Champion City, the would-be superhero team of Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller), the Shoveler (William H. Macy), and the Blue Raja (Hank Azaria) attempt to make a name for themselves, but their suspect skills make them ineffective, and they find themselves upstaged by the city's most successful superhero, ... | cult, comedy, psychedelic, humor | train | wikipedia | It's not a perfect movie, but it definitely deserves another look and perhaps a cult following.The story: a bunch of low-level superheroes save the day.
Time for the Mystery Men: Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller, gets mad), The Shoveller (William H.
Macy, beats people with shovels), The Blue Raja (Hank Azaria, British, throws ... |
tt0108565 | Wide Sargasso Sea | The novel opens a short while after the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ended slavery in the British Empire on 1 August 1834. The protagonist Antoinette relates the story of her life from childhood to her arranged marriage to an unnamed Englishman (implied as Mr Rochester from Jane Eyre). As their marriage progresses, Antoi... | insanity, revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | I think that there seem to be some confusion expressed in a number of the reviews of this and a subsequent version of Jean Rhys' most famous novel.
Bertha (to use Rochester's name for her) was clearly white enough to appear white and indeed, like Jean Rhys herself, may have been entirely of European ancestry.
The Wide ... |
tt1152758 | Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father | Kurt Kuenne and Andrew Bagby grew up as close friends in the suburbs of San Jose, California, and Bagby frequently appeared in Kuenne's home movies. As these movies became more professional in quality in later years, Bagby invested in them with money he had saved up for medical school. While studying in Newfoundland, C... | murder, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0424993 | Employee of the Month | For years, Zack Bradley (Dane Cook) has been working at the local "Super Club" as a box-boy. He lives with his grandmother and spends his free time with co-workers Lon Neilson (Andy Dick), Iqbal Raji (Brian George), and Russell Porpis-Gunders (Harland Williams). Despite his "slacker" like ways he is kind-hearted, popul... | entertaining, revenge, cult, comedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | It didn't look that good, I'm not that big of a Dane Cook fan (and in no way a Jessica Simpson fan), and I didn't enjoy "Waiting" too much (though I'm not sure how much that relates).
I went in hoping for something that was like Clerks or Office Space, What I received was unfortunately this piece of crap.Employee of th... |
tt0821810 | All Roads Lead Home | The story is about a 12-year-old girl, Belle, who loses her mother in a car accident. She is sent to her grandfather's for releasing all of the kennel dogs where her father works. When all the animals start to get sick and die in Belle's hometown, her father's veterinarian girlfriend struggles to find out what is killi... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | Defining Family Entertainment...perhaps re-defining..
All Roads Lead Home Review By: J.
Franklin Bradley, LBK Holdings, Inc.True "family entertainment" is far more than just something everyone in the family can watch together.
If done correctly, "family entertainment" is characters and situations that can be felt and... |
tt0459668 | Kilomètre zéro | The story begins with a road trip story set in Iraqi Kurdistan during the Iran-Iraq war in 1988. The radio announcer is describing the events happening.
The scene then switches to a Kurdish village a few weeks before the Halabja poison gas attack where Ako, a young Kurdish man, is forced to join the Iraqi Army, while h... | comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | this movie writes history.
"If the starting point is zero the only way to move is forward", said director Hiner Saleems in an interview.
His movie "Kilomètre zero" is made out of this indestructible optimism in the middle of horror.In a small town in the North of Iraq during the times of the "First Golf War" the Kurd A... |
tt0116908 | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is a schoolteacher in the small town of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, with her boyfriend Hal (Tom Amandes) and her daughter Caitlin (Yvonne Zima). Eight years earlier, she was found washed ashore on a New Jersey beach, pregnant with Caitlin and totally amnesiac. Having never remembered her real ... | comedy, mystery, neo noir, cult, flashback, humor, action, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2120152 | The Invisible War | The Invisible War features interviews with veterans from multiple branches of the United States Armed Forces who recount the events surrounding their assaults. Their stories show many common themes, such as the lack of recourse to an impartial justice system, reprisals against survivors instead of against perpetrators,... | thought-provoking | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0069747 | Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob | Rabbi Jacob (Marcel Dalio) is one of the most loved rabbis of New York. One day, the French side of his family, the Schmolls, invite him to celebrate the bar mitzvah of the young David. Rabbi Jacob boards a plane to leave America for his birthland of France after more than 30 years of American life. His young friend Ra... | avant garde | train | wikipedia | Life couldn't be better.The one thing the handful of viewings of the film has taught me is that the movie plays differently every time I see it.
No matter though I've enjoyed it each time I've watched it.The story of a bigot who gets way laid and ends up on the run all over France only to end up posing as a beloved Rab... |
tt0486578 | First Sunday | The film is set in Baltimore. The film follows Durell (pronounced Darrel) (Ice Cube) and LeeJohn (Tracy Morgan), who are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. At the beginning of the film, the two have just began working in a store that repairs electronic goods. The manager is impressed by Durell's skillful abilit... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0367859 | O Homem Que Copiava | Nineteen-year-old André Maciel (Lázaro Ramos) works as a photocopy machine operator in a convenience store in Porto Alegre. Disillusioned with his life and obsessed with material wealth, he dreams of being an illustrator, but his comics, though well drawn, are rejected by publishers. After André returns home from work,... | entertaining, comic, flashback | train | wikipedia | And that's exactly the situation the main character, André, is in.André is a nineteen year old, relatively poor kid who lives with his mother in a small apartment in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
When he falls in love with Silvia, a girl from the neighborhood that he spies on with a telescope, he needs money to spend in the st... |
tt0340163 | Hostage | Former SWAT officer Jeff Talley is a hostage negotiator in Los Angeles. One day, Talley negotiates with a man who has taken his wife and son hostage after learning his wife was cheating on him. Shortly after Talley denies a SWAT commander's request to give snipers the order to open fire, the despondent man kills his wi... | suspenseful, neo noir, violence | train | wikipedia | It seems to have all the elements of the Bruce Willis action movie, so one might think it cannot surprise anymore.
It has the opening failure of the perfect cop, and the almost "post traumatic stress" side to the character who then moves into a smaller town, but carries his burden along with him.But this time, Bruce Wi... |
tt0226874 | Joshû sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô | Nami Matsushima (Meiko Kaji) is locked up and bound in underground solitary confinement. She makes a weapon out of a spoon by holding it in her mouth and grinding it against the concrete floor. The chief warden, Goda, is to be promoted to a higher post shortly. When an inspector visits the prison, Matsushima is brought... | cult, cruelty, violence | train | wikipedia | I think it is important to view the Scorpion films in the proper context: They are excellently produced potboilers which are very pleasing, and their use of Meiko Kaji as an unapologetically aggressive and vengeful woman looking out for herself, while praiseworthy today, was particularly innovative 35 years ago..
It's ... |
tt1599351 | Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo | After wrapping up their latest mystery, Velma gets a call from her mother asking that she check on her younger sister Madelyn, who attends a college for magicians. The gang head off to the Whirlen Merlin Magic Academy, located in an old Irish castle. They meet the owner, Whirlen Merlin, along with his brother Marlen, w... | horror | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1819443 | 3 Minutes | The film centers on the unnamed main character (Harry Shum) receiving a handgun from an old man (Thaine Allison Jr.) and being told he has to complete an unspecified task within three minutes . Shum's character then rushes into a storage yard in pursuit of "Steve" (Stephen Boss), who evades Shum's gunshots and hides. S... | violence | train | wikipedia | 3 Minutes of greatness. 3 Minutes by Ross Ching was great and action packed. Ross Ching is a very good up and coming director. This story can really work out as an actual movie if he puts his mind to it and adds more scenes. 3 Minutes is really great and I can totally see it becoming a movie with suspense and revenge. ... |
tt0087561 | King Lear | King Lear of Britain, elderly and wanting to retire from the duties of the monarchy, decides to divide his realm among his three daughters, and declares he will offer the largest share to the one who loves him most. The eldest, Goneril, speaks first, declaring her love for her father in fulsome terms. Moved by her flat... | tragedy, cruelty, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0023225 | Million Dollar Legs | While visiting the mythical country of Klopstokia on business, brush salesman Migg Tweeny (Jack Oakie) collides with a young woman (Susan Fleming) on the street and the two fall instantly in love. Her name is Angela—all the women in Klopstokia are named Angela, and the men are named George—and she is the daughter of Kl... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Million Dollar Legs is one of a kind, a truly bizarre comedy with attitude to spare and an otherworldly quality all its own.
The closest cinematic parallel would be the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup, made at the same studio (Paramount) by the same producer (Herman J.
Both movies take place in mythical countries and include ... |
tt1621429 | S.W.A.T.: Firefight | Sgt. Paul Cutler (Gabriel Macht) is an ex-military L.A.P.D. S.W.A.T. officer and considered to be one of the best, even holding a record of having no civilian casualties for ten years. After successfully rescuing hostages with no casualties, Cutler is requested to train the Detroit S.W.A.T. with an updated training cur... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | SWAT is more like a glorified TV movie than a big budget Bruce Willis movie blockbuster.Its worth watching if you like your cop/hostage movies.
I'm a big fan of Robert Patrick, hold respect for Gabriel Macht and it was nice to see Kristana Loken even in a minor role, which she played in style.
If you evaluate the actor... |
tt0051310 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | In 1792, at the bloody height of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, vengeful French mobs are outraged when again and again French aristocrats are saved from death by the audacious "Band of the Scarlet Pimpernel", a secret society of 20 English noblemen, "one to command, and nineteen to obey". Among the latest sch... | historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1491044 | The Iceman | In the 1960s, Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon) marries Deborah (Winona Ryder) and the couple have two daughters. Kuklinski keeps secrets from his family. He works dubbing pornographic films which he then supplies to a mob operated syndicate, but he tells his family that he dubs Disney cartoons. Kuklinski is also dee... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1185838 | Easy Rider: The Ride Back | The protagonists are two freewheeling bikers: Wyatt (Fonda), nicknamed "Captain America", and Billy (Hopper). Wyatt dresses in American flag-adorned leather (with an Office of the Secretary of Defense Identification Badge affixed to it), while Billy dresses in Native American-style buckskin pants and shirts and a bushm... | cult, avant garde, dark, flashback | train | wikipedia | Not about the Motorcycles, and More of a Dramatic Bio of the ER Characters' Family.
This creation has little to do with the style, direction or intent of the original 1969 film.It tries to explain in a rather technical and overly melodramatic way effectively how Wyatt and Billy ended up on the road in the first place.
... |
tt0030798 | Storm Over Bengal | Two Royal Air Force officers, Flt Lt Hallett and F/O Neil Allison visit a British outpost in India. Neil is the younger brother of Army Intelligence Officer Captain Jeffrey Allison who is away on an undercover mission in the unaligned and independent Princely state of Lhanapur. The British are worried about radio broad... | intrigue | train | wikipedia | Days of the Raj.. I must admit that I am a fan of all those old movies that were set in India during the days of the British Raj, and this movie, while certainly made as a B programmer, has stayed with me for over 50 years!! I still recall Patric Knowles as the Soldier, with the then lovely Rochelle Hudson as the usual... |
tt0337960 | Danny Deckchair | Danny Morgan (Ifans) works as a concrete maker driver and construction worker who lives in a big Australian city with his girlfriend but is unhappy with his life. Danny yearns for the simple life while girlfriend Trudy (Clarke) fantasizes about bright lights and fast times. While Danny plans for their annual camping tr... | romantic, fantasy, comedy, prank | train | wikipedia | I think this will be one of the first comments for Danny Deckchair, so let me start this section off by saying straight away that I really, awfully enjoyed this film!
I was sorry to see the finish of it, and thats something that you cant always say about movies.Starring Rhys Ifans (fantastic actor!), and Miranda Otto (... |
tt0284674 | Pauly Shore Is Dead | The film begins as an autobiographical look at Shore's early professional successes on MTV and as the star of a series of 90s comedies. Shore's film career leads to his taking a starring role in a vehicle on the Fox Network, in which he plays the slacker son of a millionaire. The pilot of the series turns out to be a c... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0434670 | Chrono Crusade | Chrono Crusade is set in the height of the Roaring Twenties, where jazz is king, bootleg liquor flows freely, and the mob rules the streets. It is a time of prosperity, luxury and decadence, and the division between rich and poor grows even wider in the wake of the First World War. It is at such times of great change a... | paranormal, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Nun with guns, how can you go wrong?.
Well like my title suggests, this anime has a nun with guns.
Correction numerous nuns with guns.
Also this has nothing to do with the Chrono Trigger/Cross games.
Heck it's nothing near it unless the new games feature a nun with a gun.
Also a note I have only watched the Japanese ve... |
tt0118972 | The Devil's Own | In 1972, eight-year old Francis McGuire witnesses his father being gunned down in front of him due to being an Irish republican sympathizer.
By 1992, an adult Francis (Brad Pitt) and three other I.R.A. men are caught up in a firefight in Belfast when members of the British Army try to capture him. One gunman is killed ... | tragedy, revenge, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4287118 | Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 3 | Each episode revolves around Yellow Guy, Red Guy, and Duck Guy meeting one or several anthropomorphic characters, who begin a musical number related to a basic concept of day-to-day life with an upbeat melody similar to that of a nursery rhyme. As each song progresses, it becomes apparent that its moral or message is n... | brainwashing, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1772270 | Foxfire | Foxfire is narrated by Maddie Wirtz, a high school senior living a rather normal life in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. Maddie is in control of her life, with a boyfriend, as well as plans to go to art school. One day in science class, the students are watching the teacher Mr. Buttinger try to make Rita Faldes dissec... | violence | train | wikipedia | An excellent film!.
I have not read the novel, nor seen the 1996 version, so I cannot base my review on any sort of comparison.
Filled with newcomers, this film really surprised me.
I was hooked from the first scene and my interest continued for the length of the film.
This is a long film, over two hours but it did not... |
tt0775480 | Hellphone | The film begins with Sid Soupir admiring the girl of his dreams, Angie. His friend, Pierre (also called Tiger), encourages him to talk to her. Sid agrees but decides to impress Angie with his skateboarding moves first. At first he succeeds in getting Angie's attention, but then he crashes into a vegetable cart. Angie's... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | It's a lot of fun (...but just don't expect it to be scary). Hellphone is the story of a boy who , not really knowing it , buy an evil phone who has a mind of its own to get the girl of his dream. It's a crazy film from beginning to the end , it goes at a crazy speed both in the writing and the direction, the camera ke... |
tt0068828 | Lady Sings the Blues | In 1945 New York City, Billie Holiday is arrested on a drugs charge.
In a flashback to 1928, Billie is working as a housekeeper in a brothel in Baltimore where she is raped. She runs away to her mother, who sets up a job cleaning for another brothel in the Harlem section of New York. The brothel is run by an arrogant, ... | murder, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | The recent death of Richard Pryor prompted me to look at the 2005 DVD package of 1972's "Lady Sings the Blues", which proves the then-young comedian to be a fine actor in the meaty supporting role of Piano Man. Even though he was a master stand-up comic, it's still too bad he never pursued roles of a similar dramatic c... |
tt0258760 | Lammbock | Kai and Stefan are two friends who own a gourmet pizza delivery business as a front for selling cannabis. Stefan is finishing law school and preparing to take the Bar examination to become a lawyer under the behest of his father, who is a judge. They visit their outdoor cannabis growing operation only to discover that ... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1810697 | Meeting Evil | John Felton (Luke Wilson), who lives in Orly County, in an unnamed southern state, has a wife named Joanie (Leslie Bibb), and two kids named Sam (Gabrielle Harvey) and John Jr. (Sam Robbins). John is a mild-mannered real estate agent who has just been fired, making his personal crisis—his marriage is on the rocks due t... | suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0449869 | Chandramukhi | Saravanan (Rajinikanth), a psychiatrist, visits India on vacation. He meets up with his foster brother Senthilnathan alias Senthil (Prabhu), and his wife Ganga (Jyothika). Senthil's mother Kasthuri (K. R. Vijaya) wanted Senthil to marry Priya (Malavika), the daughter of his father's cousin Kandaswamy (Nassar), to reuni... | revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0033124 | Swiss Family Robinson | The novel opens with the family in the hold of a sailing ship, weathering a great storm. The ships' passengers evacuate without them, and William and Elizabeth and their four children (Fritz, Ernest, Jack and Francis) are left to survive alone. As the ship tosses about, the father - William - prays that God will spare ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Best of them all..
Saw this "Thomas Mitchell" Swiss FR years, decades ago broadcasted on TV.
In fact during the 50's and 60's this wonderful movie would be shown often.
It was just a great kids adventure movie, and is simply the best of them all.
Would be great to see it now, but....
Siss Family Robinson.
I also rememb... |
tt0047580 | Three Coins in the Fountain | A young American secretary, Maria Williams (Maggie McNamara), arrives in Rome and is greeted by Anita Hutchins (Jean Peters), the woman she is replacing at the "United States Distribution Agency". They drive to the "Villa Eden" Anita shares with Miss Frances (Dorothy McGuire), the longtime secretary of the American aut... | romantic | train | wikipedia | This pleasant comedy-romance opens with the beautiful view of the Fountain of Trevi in Rome, combined by another famous fountain garden at the villa d'Este in Tivoli where a great water organ exploits another attribute of moving water: its sound...But in "Three Coins in the Fountain," the 'sound of music' is the fine t... |
tt1374990 | The Prodigies | Ten-year-old Jimbo Farrar is a gifted child who is misunderstood and regularly beaten by his parents. One day he is badly beaten by his father while his mother cheers him on, and Jimbo gets carried away by his anger and loses control of his abilities. When he wakes, up he finds his mother's body on the floor, as she ha... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1363468 | Zenith | In the post-apocalyptic year 2044, the population has been genetically altered to live in a constant state of happiness, but without sorrow, happiness dissipates, leaving only a feeling of never-ending paresthesia. Only pain can make people feel alive.
Jack (Peter Scanavino), a young man and former neurosurgeon, is a p... | psychedelic, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Almost perfect brain candy.
An exciting stand-up triple that falls frustrating short of a home run.
Wonderfully original and thought-provoking story covering the dystopian topics of power structures without rule-of-law, genetic manipulation on a mass scale, mind chemical crutches, and the erosion of scholasticism.
Acti... |
tt1648112 | New Kids Turbo | Set in the small village of Maaskantje in North Brabant, a group of friends: Gerrie, Richard, Rikkert, Robbie and Barrie lose their jobs. The group perceives themselves as being victims of the widely reported credit crisis, although in actuality their misfortune is the direct result of their idleness, lack of common se... | comedy, humor, stupid | train | wikipedia | To understand a part of this movie you have to know a little history.
In that time a lot of people dressed as the people in the movie, drove the Sita scooters and drive around in Opel brand cars pretending to be the tough guys.
Those were great times as we laughed a lot at their stupidity and general behavior.So basica... |
tt0036959 | The Invisible Man's Revenge | An eager scientist (John Carradine) tests his new formula for invisibility on an escaped fugitive (Jon Hall). When the formula works the criminal runs off to terrorize a family he believes cheated him out of a fortune years earlier.
Robert Griffin (Jon Hall) is nothing but a mad, psychopathic killer who should be locke... | good versus evil, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | "The Invisible Man's Revenge" isn't the equal of the peerless 1933 Laemmle-era original, but it's certainly better than the previous run of "New Universal" Invisible Man movies.
Jon Hall, relatively dull as the hero in "Invisible Agent," proves surprisingly effective as a full-throated villain (in this version he's a p... |
tt0120434 | Vegas Vacation | At work, Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) has invented a long life food preservative, earning him a large bonus check. Clark announces to his family that he is taking them on vacation. Part of the reason for the trip is for Clark and Ellen to renew their wedding vows. Excitement wanes, however, when Clark says they are hea... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | If you laugh at something senseless and absurd, such as Cousing Eddie babbling on about his worthless, pathetic existence, or Clark Griswald finding himself at the edge of the Hoover Dam, or even a busload of tourists crashing into the estate of "Mr. Las Vegas", Wayne Newton, so what?
The idea of the dysfunctional Gris... |
tt0089603 | Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | The film sets in on November 25 1970, the last day in Mishima's life. He is shown finishing a manuscript. Then, he puts on a uniform he designed for himself and meets with four of his most loyal followers from his private army.
In flashbacks highlighting episodes from his past life, the viewer sees Mishima's progressio... | sadist, psychedelic, murder, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0234000 | Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai | Rohit (Hrithik Roshan) and his younger brother Amit are orphans living with an elderly couple, Lily (Farida Jalal) and Anthony (Satish Shah). Rohit is an aspiring singer who works as a salesman in a car showroom, run by Malik (Dalip Tahil). One day he meets Sonia Saxena (Ameesha Patel), daughter of Mr. Saxena (Anupam K... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Don't expect a deep art film or edge of the seat thriller this is a feel good movie with romance comedy and a little action.
and even if you don't like the movie you will have to love the guy.
Watch this great movie free of vulgarity and violence often filling the screen.and u will love kaho naa...
But amusingly enough... |
tt4877736 | BrainDead | In 1957, explorer Stewart McAlden (Bill Ralston), leads his team out of Skull Island with a captured Sumatran Rat-Monkey — a hybrid creature that resulted from the rape of tree monkeys on the island by plague-carrying rats. The team is stopped by warrior natives, who demand the return of the creature. Stewart gets bitt... | murder | train | wikipedia | I expected a comedy, based upon television ads, so I watched episode one waiting for the moment when it diverged into that genre, but that moment never came.
There were bizarre happenings that suggest a writer with a dark sense of humor, but the episode played like straight horror/drama, like "Invasion of the Body Snat... |
tt0116594 | I Shot Andy Warhol | The film opens with a flashforward to moments after the shooting. This is quickly followed by a scene with Valerie Solanas (Lili Taylor) in custody for the shooting of Andy Warhol (Jared Harris). The film then takes us back to a time when Valerie is living in New York making a living as a sex worker. A series of furthe... | queer | train | wikipedia | I Shot Andy Warhol, is based on the true life story of Valerie Solanas, who was a female radical in the 60's and was a lesbian and very against men.
She wrote a play and came to New York, with a friend of hers who is a drag queen named Candy Darling to meet Andy Warhol.
Valerie, gives Andy Warhol's company (called the ... |
tt0041593 | Little Rural Riding Hood | The film opens with a stereotypical hillbilly version of Little Red Riding Hood (voiced by Colleen Collins), telling the audience that she's taking "nourishment" (as she holds up a cliché moonshine bottle) to her grandma, who lives on a country farm. At the farmhouse, a wolf (voiced by Pinto Colvig) reveals himself to ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0084747 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | === Prologue ===
The citizens of London, acting as a Greek chorus to raise commentary throughout the play, drop a body bag into a shallow grave. Sweeney Todd rises forth ("The Ballad of Sweeney Todd"), and introduces the play, set some months before the burial.
=== Act I ===
In 1846, young sailor Anthony Hope and Sween... | revenge, comedy, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119485 | Kundun | The film has a straightforward chronology with events spanning from 1937 to 1959; the setting is Tibet, except for brief sequences in China and India. It begins with the search for the 14th mindstream emanation of the Dalai Lama. After a vision by Reting Rinpoche (the regent of Tibet) several lamas disguised as servant... | avant garde, murder | train | wikipedia | It's really difficult to describe how I feel about this movie since I have only viewed it once and was completely blown away, it left me in complete awe.Like most when I first started watching Scorsese I thought that he did brilliant gangster films and that was his thing, but I have recently discovered that this couldn... |
tt0047528 | La strada | Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), a credulous young woman, learns that her sister Rosa has died since going on the road with the strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn). Now the same man has returned a year later to ask her mother if Gelsomina will take Rosa's place. The mother accepts 10,000 lire, and her daughter departs the s... | bleak, violence, magical realism, tragedy, sadist, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0028075 | Page Miss Glory | The cartoon opens with a town of Hicksville preparing to welcome Miss Glory. In a nearby hotel, a teenage bellhop, Abner, is anxiously awaiting her arrival, and has prepared for it, but falls asleep while waiting. As he "sleeps", he enters a dream sequence whereupon the hotel ends up morphing into the Cosmopolitan Hote... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1346947 | Afro Samurai | In a feudal yet futuristic Japan, it is said that the one who wields the Number 1 headband is the fiercest fighter in the world and shall possess god-like powers. The only way to obtain the Number 1 headband is to challenge and defeat the current wearer in combat. However, only the Number 2 can challenge the Number 1 w... | violence, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1034447 | Hydra | Young archaeologist Dr. Valerie Cammon (Polly Shannon) and her colleague Dr. Kim (Philip Moon) go by ship to a volcanic island in the Mediterranean sea. While she seeks relics in a cave, a seaquake sinks their ship without survivors. At about the same time all archaeologists except for Dr. Cammon get eaten by the re-aw... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Well, the good news is that Hydra is not the worst SyFy's done, and it's not quite bad enough to be down there as one of their worst.
Also the hydra itself actually looks good, not amazing, but compared to the cheap-looking and stilted-moving effects before and since this movie it is a considerable improvement.
The bad... |
tt0119707 | Mortal Kombat: Annihilation | The film begins in media res, when the evil emperor Shao Kahn opens a portal from Outworld to the Earthrealm and has reclaimed his queen Sindel, who is Kitana's long-dead mother. Earthrealm is therefore in danger of being absorbed into Outworld within six days, a fate which Liu Kang and the others must fight to prevent... | murder, cult, alternate reality, violence, good versus evil, absurd, psychedelic, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0106677 | Dazed and Confused | It is May 28, 1976, the last day of school at Lee High School in the suburbs of Austin, Texas. The next year's group of seniors are preparing for the annual hazing of incoming freshmen. Randall "Pink" Floyd (Jason London), the school's star football player, is asked to sign a pledge promising not to take drugs during t... | pornographic, cult, revenge, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | We didn't have the freshman hazing, and few of us could afford the cars (although we sure knew about them and lusted after them), but the rest of this movie is so dead on about my experience of High School in the 70's that it's scary.
To me it's a toss-up between the opening "Sweet Emotion" GTO in the school parking lo... |
tt0046896 | Deep in My Heart | In Boston in the early 1960s, Geraldine Cummins was walking home alone from the movies when she was jumped and raped by a black man. Stunned, she returned home to her husband Bob, stating she had been raped. Sometime later, she finds she is pregnant. In the beginning she hates the thought of her unborn baby, not wantin... | romantic | train | wikipedia | She was crushing on Sigmund big time, but Ferrer only had eyes for Doe Avedon who played his beloved Lillian Harris.Operetta plots are so silly that productions are hardly ever done today.
Criticism of such work as Maytime, Student Prince, Desert Song and New Moon rightly belong in those films, but speaking as someone ... |
tt0388980 | The Greatest Game Ever Played | Set mainly in 1913, the film is about Francis Ouimet, the first amateur to win a U.S. Open. Amateur golf in that era was then a sport only for the wealthy, and Ouimet came from an immigrant family that was part of the working class. Ouimet watches an exhibition by legendary British golf pro Harry Vardon (Stephen Dillan... | flashback | train | wikipedia | With this backdrop, this based-on-a-true-story unfolds with a young, working class boy who takes on the golf establishment and the greatest golfer in the world, Harry Vardon.And the story is inspirational.
Against all odds, Francis Ouimet (played by Shia LaBeouf of "Holes") gets to compete against the greatest golfers ... |
tt0112738 | Criminal | After witnessing the unfortunate death of a woman, who was unable to afford hospital treatment, Dr. Ajay Kumar (Akkineni Nagarjuna) cancels his U.S. immigration and instead sets out to work a plan to open a hospital that will be accessible to people who cannot afford treatment in regular hospitals, called "Amma Hospita... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0101583 | Ranma ½: Chûgoku Nekonron daikessen! Okite yaburi no gekitô hen | On a training journey in the Bayankala Mountain Range in the Qinghai Province of China, Ranma Saotome and his father Genma fall into the cursed springs at Jusenkyo (呪泉郷). When someone falls into a cursed spring, they take the physical form of whatever drowned there hundreds or thousands of years ago whenever they come ... | violence | train | wikipedia | Its Ranma 1/2...
in specialized Movie format!.
In a case of sheer irony, Ranma 1/2 (specifically this movie) often suffers the indignation where most of the insults and bad reviews come from the Ranma 1/2 fans themselves.
Of course it can't compete with Takahashi's brilliant manga, and the 1st TV season is the best Ani... |
tt1459013 | Uninhabited | Marine biology student Beth and Harry are a young couple seeking a distinctive holiday trip, and they spend ten days on a deserted and idyllic coral island on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, recording many of their adventures with a camcorder. The first two days manifest that they are not alone and the island has ... | revenge, horror | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0042478 | The Franchise Affair | Robert Blair, a local solicitor, is called on to defend two women, Marion Sharpe and her mother, who are accused of kidnapping and beating a fifteen-year-old war orphan named Betty Kane. Set in Milford, the novel opens with the Sharpes about to be interviewed by local police and Scotland Yard, represented by Inspector ... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0049966 | Written on the Wind | Self-destructive, alcoholic nymphomaniac Marylee (Dorothy Malone) and her insecure, alcoholic playboy brother Kyle (Robert Stack) are the children of Texas oil baron Jasper Hadley (Robert Keith). Spoiled by their inherited wealth and crippled by their personal demons, neither is able to sustain a personal relationship.... | melodrama, revenge, psychedelic, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Mesmerizing to watch even as it resorts to the "lowest -common- denominator" melodrama, WRITTEN ON THE WIND is ultimately the work of one man, the incredibly gifted director Douglas Sirk, an émigré from pre -World War 2 Weimar Germany who left his European theater heritage behind to pursue a career in Hollywood.An extr... |
tt0060482 | Dacii | In a pre-credit sequence, a massive Roman army arrives at the gates of a Dacian town. The Roman envoy asks them to open the gates, promising them life and liberty. The guard on watch asks who is making this demand, and gets the reply "the masters of the world". He responds "You will be when we will die".
After the cred... | historical | train | wikipedia | One of the greatest historical movies of all times!.
Unlike many Hollywood movies of the same period (Cleopatra, Ben-Hur, Fall of the Roman Empire, etc) this one is almost perfect in the historical accuracy sence.
They used the latest archeological data available at the time (Trajan's column) to show Roman legions in t... |
tt0247303 | Down | The film takes place at the Millennium building in New York City, which has 102 floors and 73 elevators. One evening, lightning strikes the building, which causes the three main express elevators to begin acting strangely, resulting in a guard's flashlight being crushed. The next day, a group of pregnant women are held... | suspenseful, haunting | train | wikipedia | Down (AKA The Shaft), director Dick Maas' 2001 remake of his own 1983 Dutch horror De Lift, opens with the camera gliding gracefully over the NY skyline to eventually come to rest on 'The Millennium Building' where two night watchmen use an observation telescope to spy on big-breasted hookers at work in a neighbouring ... |
tt0289851 | Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura | === Setting ===
Arcanum is the name of the fantasy world in which the game unfolds. It consists of a continental mainland and three islands. The world is inhabited by various races resembling those from the works of Tolkien, including humans, elves and half-elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, orcs, ogres, and various wi... | fantasy, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | It's unique setting makes for satisfying roleplay.. Arcanum's charm lies in its unique 1885 setting. In comparison with RPGs such as Baldur's Gate, Planescape : Torment, Icewind Dale, or even Fallout, it offers sense of realism in its portrayal of a colourful people of humans, elves, dwarves, orcs and ogres co-existin... |
tt0267913 | Scooby-Doo | The members of Mystery, Inc. solve the case of the Luna Ghost at the Wow-O-Toy Factory. However, long-time friction between Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, and Velma Dinkley finally boils over and the gang break up, leaving Shaggy Rogers and his dog Scooby-Doo heartbroken. Two years on, Shaggy and Scooby are invited to solve... | psychedelic, horror, cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | I've always been a big fan of horror films and when I was too young to watch them, SCOOBY was my favourite cartoon because it had cool heroes and I could see all sorts of monsters in it.
Just to say that I wasn't very excited at the perspective of seeing my cult cartoon turned into an unnamable stuff as the first pictu... |
tt0134380 | Butter | Destiny (Shahidi) is a ten-year-old foster child in Iowa who gets placed with Ethan (Corddry) and Jill Emmet (Silverstone). While visiting the Iowa State Fair by herself, she wanders into the exhibit of the winning butter sculpture, a life-sized Last Supper, and skillfully finishes the Holy Grail cup, which impresses t... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0041785 | Rebel Rabbit | Bugs notices high bounties on various animals. There is a $50 bounty (about $500 today) on foxes, $75 (about $750 today) on bears, but then is offended by the two-cent bounty (about $0.20 today) on rabbits. Bugs has himself mailed to Washington, D.C., where a supercilious game commissioner explains that the bounty is s... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | A great cartoon classic for Bugs!.
Maybe the best cartoon Bugs has ever had- he goes too far, and ends up in a heap of trouble, all because the bounty for a rabbit had been set at 2 cents...Bugs' bounty becomes 1,000,000 dollars..a classic- one of if not the best ever!a classic that until a recent DVD release had not s... |
tt0412704 | Far Cry | 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 | One of the best FPS games in the past five years..
Farcry has got it all, monsters, mayhem, and personality.
Unlike the usual mute superhero Jack Carver talks, and has plenty of sarcasm to dish out.
But what makes this game stand out from the others is the setting.
Most FPS games are either based on real life warfare o... |
tt0036341 | The Seventh Victim | The film opens with the quote from John Donne: "I run to death, and death meets me as fast / and all my pleasures are like yesterday."
Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter), a young woman at Highcliffe Academy, a Catholic boarding school, learns that her older sister and only relative, Jacqueline Gibson (Jean Brooks), has gone miss... | romantic, avant garde, murder, cult | train | wikipedia | The scenes depicting her sister's frantic run through the streets to escape a pursuer will remind others of the opening of Lewton's other little shown film The Leopard Man. Viewing this film further reinforces my belief that an intelligent film patron does not need to be clubbed over the head by excessive gore and viol... |
tt1345450 | Blue Gender: The Warrior | In the year 2009, Yuji Kaido is an average young adult male diagnosed with a serious disease (the "B-cells") and is put into cryogenic stasis until a cure is found. Twenty-two years later, he is awakened in the midst of a raging battle between armored soldiers and insectoid beings called the "Blue" which have overrun t... | violence | train | wikipedia | Do yourself a favor and watch the series instead.. Just finished watching the box set of the original TV series, followed by this movie. This movie uses clips from the original show, and new scenes to present almost the same story in a somewhat different manner. I did some brief math and compared to the show, this movi... |
tt0280438 | Ash Wednesday | Hell's Kitchen on Ash Wednesday, 1983; rumors are flying that Francis Sullivan's (Edward Burns) younger brother Sean (Elijah Wood), dead for three years, has reappeared. If he wasn't killed by rivals, then old scores still need settling, putting both Francis and Sean in danger. An upstart is pressuring the local mob bo... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | But I do know that most of you will enjoy this approximately 90 minutes of suspenseful entertainment, will recommend viewing to your friends and may watch this film a second and third time.
The story concerns one day, Ash Wednesday, and the events that happen on that day to two Irish-American brothers, Francis (Burns) ... |
tt4328756 | Ebar Shabor | A police detective Shabor Dasgupta (Saswata Chatterjee) is entrusted with the daunting task of solving the mystery surrounding the murder of Mitali Ghosh (Swastika Mukherjee), a woman with a messy past, who was killed on the night she had thrown a party for friends and family. The task is daunting for Shabor because of... | murder | train | wikipedia | Watch it, watch it again. You'll love it every time.. Kolkata police detective Shabor Dasgupta (Saswata) sets out to solve the murder case of Mitali Ghosh (Swastika), a woman with a messy past. Her ex-husband Mithu Mitra (Abir), ex-flame Pantu Haldar (Ritwick) and friend Samiran (Rahul) are the prime suspects and so is... |
tt0102045 | The Hitman | Seattle cop Cliff Garret (Chuck Norris) is severely wounded in a drug bust gone bad—shot by his corrupt partner Ronny “Del” Delany (Michael Parks).
Garret dies momentarily in the emergency room, but is revived with a defibrillator. His police supervisor has the hospital conceal his survival, and Garret is given a new i... | violence, revenge, humor, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | The movie nicely combines Norris' neighbourly concern over the plight of a tenant and her son with his undercover police assignment to take down the bad guys.
If you're in the mood for a romantic film or a slow foreign flick, skip it: if you're a real man, watch it.Chuck Norris does, as usual, a very good job, but the ... |
tt0796335 | Molière | The film begins in 1658, when the French actor and playwright returns to Paris with his theatrical troupe to perform in the theatre the king's brother has given him. Most of the film is in the form of a flashback to 1645. Following an unsuccessful run as a tragic actor, Molière is released from debtor's prison by Monsi... | romantic | train | wikipedia | While New York Times film critic A.O. Scott may rail at the "fundamentally bogus and anti-literary idea that the great writers of the past wrote what they knew", there is still a pervasive longing out there to discover the connection between an author's life and his work.
The audacious premise that great art reflects a... |
tt1235830 | Chico & Rita | In present-day Havana, Chico, a shoe-shiner, tunes his radio to the Radio Progreso station, which is playing old Cuban hits on a program called Melodies from Yesterday. As he listens, the station begins to play a romantic arrangement of A Taste of Me (Sabor a Mí) by Mexican composer Álvaro Carrillo (1921–69) which caus... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Chico & Rita follows Chico, an old and retired Cuban pianist, as he remembers his impossible love with a jazz singer called Rita and his rise and fall as a music performer.
Its animation is as nothing you have seen before and the cinematography, the lights, the angles, the music, just everything related to the technica... |
tt0030068 | Donald's Better Self | Donald is fast asleep in his bed. As he turns in his sleep, his Conscience takes a form of its own beside him. She looks exactly like Donald, but wears a white robe and a golden halo. She also has a kinder and gentler voice than Donald. The Conscience tries to get Donald up and out of bed so he won't be late for school... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0066301 | Rio Lobo | During the American Civil War, Col. Cord McNally (John Wayne) has instructions telegraphed to his close friend, Lt. Ned Forsythe (Peter Jason), in charge of the Union troops on a Union army payroll train. However, Confederates led by Capt. Pierre Cordona (Jorge Rivero) and Sgt. Tuscarora Phillips (Christopher Mitchum) ... | revenge, cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | The only one worth watching was Jack Elam (who was GREAT) but he was only in the last half of the film and could have used a lot more screen time as the crazy old man.
To cut to the chase: I liked Rio Lobo.It was fashionable in 1970 to trash Rio Lobo because (a) it was the supposedly feeble, last effort of a great dir... |
tt0058230 | The Incredible Mr. Limpet | The story begins September 1941 just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Shy bookkeeper Henry Limpet loves fish with a passion. When his friend George Stickle enlists in the United States Navy, Limpet attempts to enlist as well, but is rejected. Feeling downcast, he wanders down to a pier near Coney Island and accidenta... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0163187 | Runaway Bride | Maggie Carpenter (Julia Roberts) is a spirited and attractive young woman who has had a number of unsuccessful relationships. Maggie, nervous of being married, has left a trail of fiancés. She's left three men waiting for her at the altar on their wedding day (all of which are caught on tape), receiving tabloid fame an... | romantic, home movie | train | wikipedia | Yes, the director and the two big name stars are the same as the film's 1990 counterpart, but even though the two films have striking and almost offensive similarities, Runaway Bride has a good enough story that I refuse to believe that it relied on the success of its predecessor.
This is a very good romantic comedy, a... |
tt0100944 | The Witches | During a holiday with his grandmother Helga (Mai Zetterling) in Norway, Luke Eveshim (Jasen Fisher) is told stories about "real" witches, female demons with a genocidal hatred for children, all of whom emit an odor obnoxious to witches. Helga tells him that her childhood friend was taken and cursed to spend the rest of... | good versus evil, absurd, cruelty, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0035125 | Night Plane from Chungking | In 1942, during the Japanese invasion of China, due to the carelessness of one of the passengers, Albert Pasavy (Otto Kruger), draws attention from Japanese bombers overhead, to a bus travelling to India along a muddy road. The Japanese bomb the road, hitting a munitions truck carrying Chinese troops. The Chinese offic... | murder | train | wikipedia | Decent wartime Programmer. NIGHT PLANE FROM CHUNGKING – 1943This one is a lower end programmer put out by the B-unit at Paramount Pictures. This flag waver was made at the height of World War Two. It headlines Robert Preston and Ellen Drew. This one starts out at night, on a muddy road with a bus load of people trying ... |
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