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tt2401225 | Uu Kodathara Ulikki Padathara | The story of the film revolves around a palace known as ‘Gandharva Mahal’ which belongs to Rayudu (Prabhu), the present head of a royal family that has lost its former splendor. Rayudu lives with his wife (Meena Kumari) and two daughters Visalakshi (Madhumitha) and Jagadha (Deeksha Seth) in a small house beside the Mah... | romantic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Nothing else except Balakrishna. The title Uu kodathara ulikki padathara doesn't match the movie at least in a single scene.This title raises the expectations on the movie which leads to disappointment after watching it.The story of the movie is convincing but the debut director failed to mould it into a masterpiece.Th... |
tt0344777 | Six: The Mark Unleashed | The film is set in the end-times,or The Great Tribulation, after the rapture, when the earth has been taken over, and the mark of the Beast - an implant in the right hand or forehead - is being imposed on everyone worldwide. Those who take the mark become part of 'The Community',; those who refuse are imprisoned and af... | brainwashing, christian film | train | wikipedia | With such recognizable stars as Stephen Baldwin and Eric Roberts in it, Six, The Mark Unleashed has quite a bit more production values in it than you normally get from a Christian film.
Note the producer is Paul Crouch, Jr. of the Crouch family of Trinity Broadcasting Network so it's not like they're short of funds.The... |
tt0119283 | Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus | Long after Zeus stole the Cronus Stone from the monsters called the Titans whom he also imprisoned in Tartarus, he and Alcmene gave birth to a son named Hercules, who defeated two serpents (sent by a jealous Hera) at a young age and became a hero. After Hercules battles a sea serpent, the villagers thank him, and Iolau... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0329374 | Mickey's House of Villains | It is Halloween night at the House of Mouse, and a lot of villains are showing up. Jafar has a trick in store for the usual heroes of the House, but the villains have to wait until midnight for him to unleash it. After a series of cartoons, Jafar, along with his new henchmen Captain James Hook, Cruella de Vil, Ursula t... | good versus evil, psychedelic, horror | train | wikipedia | One Great Classic Get-to-gether.
WARNING: Telling SecretsThis is a greatly put together piece of work, from Lonesome Ghosts to other Halloween classic tales told and starred by the Disney gang.
My favorite part was the Trick or Treat with Donald and his three nephews, and Hazel the witch, when she zaps Donald a few tim... |
tt0034420 | 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge | This time around, the East Side Kids, a gang of well-meaning young rough-necks in New York, get pulled into a murder mystery. They manage to rescue a young girl by the name of Sylvia from her violent stepfather Morley's abuse. Soon after this the stepfather is killed by a gangster called McGaffey for interfering with h... | murder | train | wikipedia | Typical East Side Kids adventure.
This time Muggs, Glimpy and the gang take on a real hard case: gangster Marc Lawrence, a cold-blooded baddie who entraps sweet young thing Ann Gillis (whose most recent film credit remains 2001: A Space Odyssey) in a murder case.
Lawrence elevates this Poverty Row billfiller above its ... |
tt0433390 | Hitman: Blood Money | The game begins with a flashback to an abandoned Baltimore amusement park, where many people were killed in an accident caused by negligent maintenance of a Ferris wheel. The father of one of the victims contacts the Agency and orders a hit on the park owner, Joseph Clarence. Agent 47 carries out the hit, and following... | violence | train | wikipedia | Some things might take some getting used to for some fan boys but in the long run they make the game more fun.
Fans of the old series and new players will find the game-play very immersing and at some points challenging.
With there being about five ways to perfectly complete one level the player gets a sense of freedom... |
tt0067333 | Lawman | The film starts with a scene common to many Westerns, cowboys in a drunken state shooting up a town and wreaking havoc. The rowdies are from the town of Sabbath and are visiting the town of Bannock for a little recreation that gets out of hand.
The town's marshal, Jared Maddox, rides into Sabbath and is not alone. He b... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | An eerily quiet early showdown scene with Burt Lancaster, Albert Salmi, and Richard Jordan (with Robert Ryan in the background) is probably the most creative and effective such scene I've ever witnessed, Leone notwithstanding.Then there's the acting.
Director Michael Winner is a controversial figure, at least in his na... |
tt0016473 | The Unholy Three | Three performers leave a sideshow after Tweedledee (Harry Earles), the midget, assaults a young heckler and sparks a melee. The three join together in an "unholy" plan to become wealthy. Prof. Echo, the ventriloquist, assumes the role of Mrs. O'Grady, a kindly old grandmother, who runs a pet shop, while Tweedledee play... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Vowing revenge on the world of normal' people, a sideshow ventriloquist, strong man & dwarf band together as THE UNHOLY THREE.Following Lon Chaney's great film successes at Universal Studios, Irving Thalberg managed to entice the actor to come to MGM.
A crime caper rather than a horror film, the chills are saved for r... |
tt0275773 | Versus | Unknown to the world, there are 666 portals on Earth that connect this world to the other side which are concealed from human beings. However, there are some who are aware of their existence and are willing to locate and open the gates of the portals to obtain the power of darkness for their own pleasure. Somewhere in ... | comedy, avant garde, suspenseful, murder, paranormal, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, absurd, psychedelic, action, romantic, melodrama, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119665 | Metroland | In 1977, Chris (Christian Bale) and Marion (Emily Watson) are leading a quiet married life with their child in Eastwood in the London suburbs known as Metroland, the staid commuter region at the end of the London Underground's Metropolitan Line. Their predictable life is disrupted by an early morning phone call from Ch... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0052603 | Baton Bunny | Bugs is about to conduct "The Warner Bros. Symphony Orchestra" (supposedly in concert at the Hollywood Bowl) fancily. When he finishes his elaborate preparation, he starts to conduct, but is interrupted by someone in the audience coughing loudly. Bugs then holds out a sign saying "Throw the bum out!", which the audienc... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Unique, But Not That Funny.
Bugs is the guest conductor of the Warner Brothers Symphony Orchestra, playing "Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna by Franz Von Suppe."The whole cartoon is a spoof of overly-dramatic conductors.
Bugs exaggerates most of his moves with the orchestra delivering what he's doing.
Some of it is fu... |
tt0078749 | Alien 2 - Sulla Terra | The commercial spacecraft Nostromo is on a return trip to Earth with a seven-member crew in stasis: Captain Dallas (Skerritt), Executive Officer Kane (Hurt), Warrant Officer Ripley (Weaver), Navigator Lambert (Cartwright), Science Officer Ash (Holm), two Engineers, Parker (Kotto) and Brett (Stanton) and also a cat name... | violence | train | wikipedia | They've got some nerve calling this film Alien 2: although certain elements have clearly been inspired by Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror classic, the film as a whole couldn't be more different
Want tense, claustrophobic, space-bound, futuristic action?
Unfortunately, this means we get endless tedious footage of the ... |
tt0273435 | Ararat | In Toronto, an Armenian Canadian family is headed by Ani, a widow whose husband attempted to assassinate a Turkish ambassador. Her adult son Raffi is involved in a sexual affair with Celia, who has accused Ani of pushing her father off of a cliff, while Ani insists he slipped and fell. Ani gives art history presentatio... | violence, historical, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0105659 | The Turn of the Screw | An unnamed narrator listens to Douglas, a friend, read a manuscript written by a former governess whom Douglas claims to have known and who is now dead. The manuscript tells the story of how the young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after the deaths of their parents... | insanity, haunting | train | wikipedia | A peculiar if intriguing attempt at adapting Henry James' Novella.
This 1992 adaptation of "The Turn of the Screw" is a strange experience indeed.
Taking the Henry James Psychological ghost story masterpiece as a starting point, writer/director Rusty Lemorande makes a film that is ultimately a failure, but a very intri... |
tt0069278 | Skyjacked | During a routine flight to Minneapolis, a passenger (Susan Dey) aboard Global Airways Flight 502, a Boeing 707, discovers a bomb threat written on the mirror of one of the first-class bathrooms. A second threat is soon found left on a napkin in a galley. Captain Hank O'Hara (Charlton Heston) takes the cryptic threats s... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0389121 | The Mystery of Natalie Wood | === Part 1 ===
The film begins on November 28, 1981 on Catalina Island, California, where 43-year-old Natalie Wood (Justine Waddell) falls off her yacht, Splendour, and drowns. Flashing back to 1943, five-year-old, then named Natasha (Grace Fulton), grows up in a violent household in Santa Rosa, California. Her overbea... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0122143 | The Last Broadcast | The film deals with a documentary film-maker named David Leigh, and his investigation of the Fact or Fiction murders, where a pair of public-access television cable TV hosts were murdered in mysterious circumstances. Leigh sets out to find the truth behind these killings while making his documentary.
Fact or Fiction is... | dark, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Both films rest on a similar gimmick of claiming to be partially a composed "documentary" and partially a collection of videotaped images by a group of young adults who are about to get killed in the woods, and we're watching them as "evidence" of what happened to them.
There are finer-grained similarities as well, but... |
tt0114682 | To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar | After tying for the win in New York City's "Drag Queen of the Year" contest, Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes) and Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze) win a trip to Hollywood to take part in the even bigger "Miss Drag Queen of America Pageant." Before they depart, Vida persuades Noxeema to take along the inexperienced "drag pri... | cute, queer, melodrama | train | wikipedia | The premise of having three macho actors take on the roles of drag queens to put together a very funny and insightful comedy of the sexes must have appeared as an impossible task.
This movie about three drag queens, two of whom win a trip to Hollywood, is kind of the ultimate road picture.
I've seen it a couple of time... |
tt1231277 | S. Darko | In 1995, Samantha Darko (Chase) follows her best friend Corey (Evigan) on a road trip from Virginia to California, in an attempt to become professional dancers. Their dreams are cut short when their car breaks down in a tiny Utah town. They are saved by the town bad boy, Randy (Westwick), who takes them to the local mo... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0279830 | Garfield in Disguise | Garfield is awakened early in the morning by the obnoxious Binky the Clown Show and learns that it is Halloween, thrilled at the prospect of obtaining a mass of candy via trick-or-treating. He hatches the idea of deceiving Odie into thinking dogs are required to trick-or-treat with cats and give almost all of their can... | horror | train | wikipedia | And candy he certainly gets in this wonderful Halloween Special.
It all starts on one cozy Halloween morn with Garfield waking to the sound of the TV.
Normally he'd be irate at waking so early but when he learns what day it is he cannot wait to go trickortreating and get his paws on some candycandycandycandy!He and Odi... |
tt1945062 | About Cherry | Angelina (Hinshaw) is an 18-year-old girl not far from graduating from high school. Her boyfriend Bobby (Weston) suggests that she take naked pictures of herself and sell them. She is initially hesitant, but eventually does the photo shoot and uses the money to run away to San Francisco with her best friend Andrew (Pat... | romantic | train | wikipedia | "About Cherry" does try hard to deliver, but it just doesn't punch hard enough to make a lasting mark.The movie trots ahead at a fairly slow, but steady, pace, which makes the movie seem to go on for a very long time.
Especially where there aren't any particular peak moments in the movie."About Cherry" is about a young... |
tt0113321 | Home for the Holidays | Claudia Larson, a single mom who has just been fired from her job as an art restorer due to budget cuts, flies from Chicago to spend Thanksgiving at the Baltimore home of her parents, Adele and Henry Larson, while her only child Kitt decides to stay home and spend the holiday with her boyfriend. As she is dropping her ... | boring, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0045109 | Ruby Gentry | Ruby Corey (Jennifer Jones), a poor backwoods girl living in the small North Carolina town of Braddock, is still in love with Boake Tackman (Charlton Heston). During high school, Ruby had rebuffed his aggressive advances, and was taken in for a couple of years by a kind wealthy businessman and his wife, who protected h... | melodrama, revenge, murder, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2524674 | Feuchtgebiete | 18-year-old Helen uses vegetables for masturbation and believes that body hygiene is overrated in our society. She provokes others by saying and doing things most people would not even dare to imagine.
Helen's parents are divorced and she desperately wishes that they get back together. But her mother is depressive, hyg... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | It gives us a lot to zero-in on with every scene, from unadulterated narration, vibrantly-colored visuals, and explicitly-detailed fetishes carried out in a manner that make the film equal parts stomach turning (for some) and irresistible for others (like myself).
If you're one of the people who thought that tampon-sha... |
tt1716747 | Hellraiser: Revelations | Steven Craven and Nico Bradley run away from home and travel to Mexico. They film themselves engaging in several days' worth of drunken partying. The boys later disappear. The Mexican authorities return their belongings to their parents, including a videotape made by Steven that documents their final moments.
A year la... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | At the time I am writing this review, the series has spanned nine films (with rumors of a TV-show possibly in the works), and countless spin-off media including a popular line of graphic novels and comics."Hellraiser" is a staple in horror, which is what makes this latest film so infuriating and heart-wrenching."Hellra... |
tt2040608 | I Am... Gabriel | An unforgiving sun, a parched earth, and a failed economy have left a small Texas town desolate. For ten years Promise, Texas has known nothing but one curse after another. It's barren, broken, and dying, leaving a town full of despair. When a couple finds a boy walking along a dusty road, alone in the middle of nowher... | christian film | train | wikipedia | I Am Gabriel is inspirational film and all-around very uplifting.
After seeing this film it touched my soul as it did for many children and families.
Wonderful directing by Mike Norris as well he did a great job on this.Fantastic acting by the amazing Gavin Casalegno.
Great job Gavin.The story-line itself was very well... |
tt0031713 | Naughty Neighbors | In this Romeo and Juliet meets the Hatfields and McCoys short, the film is set in the "quiet hills of old Kaintucky" (Kentucky), where according to the introduction "the hill folk live in peace and harmony". This description is immediately contradicted by a brief view of a chaotic battle. The short properly opens by fe... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Light on plot but very cute. For as long as I can remember I have loved Looney Tunes. Naughty Neighbors is not one of my favourites but part of me does still like it, though I can see why some may not. It is light on plot, and isn't what we come to expect from Looney Tunes in terms of expectations. Instead of the crisp... |
tt0240912 | Sound and Fury | === Part 1: April 7, 1928 ===
The first section of the novel is narrated by Benjamin "Benjy" Compson, a source of shame to the family due to his diminished mental capacity; the only characters who show a genuine care for him are Caddy, his older sister; and Dilsey, a matriarchal servant. His narrative voice is characte... | home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2593410 | Bridge and Tunnel | The film begins on New Year's Day as six Long Island natives: Sal, his wife Meghan, Terry, Nate, Eric, and his girlfriend Lina discuss the pro's and con's of going into Manhattan on New Year's Eve. The group spent the holiday in Nassau County going to bars, and Terry makes the decision to drive home while intoxicated, ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A year in the life of Long Island twenty-somethings. This is a movie about life in suburbia, specifically, Long Island, New York. Jason Brescia has written a solid script, with a keen ear for dialog. Told through slice of life vignettes, Bridge and Tunnel unfolds at an easy and enjoyable pace. The film follows six high... |
tt0101476 | Blood River | Clark and Summer, a young married couple, are on their way to see Summer's parents. Their car has a blowout and, as they do not have a spare tire, the couple decides to walk onwards and find help. Upon arriving at a small collection of buildings, they realise that the town is abandoned. It isn't long before a drifter i... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2312702 | Dood van een Schaduw | The shadow of Nathan Rijckx, a Belgian soldier who died in World War I, is captured by a collector. He is offered the chance to live again if he captures the shadows of 10,000 other people instead. He thinks nothing of his job at first. Simply find the name, pick the death, and capture the shadow when they die. Between... | romantic, murder, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0118414 | The Odyssey | === Exposition ===
The Odyssey begins ten years after the end of the ten-year Trojan War (the subject of the Iliad), and Odysseus has still not returned home from the war. Odysseus' son Telemachus is about 20 years old and is sharing his absent father's house on the island of Ithaca with his mother Penelope and a crowd... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0099740 | Hardware | A nomad scavenger treks through an irradiated wasteland and discovers a buried robot. He collects the pieces and takes them to junk dealer Alvy, who is talking with 'Hard Mo' Baxter, a former soldier, and Mo's friend Shades. When Alvy steps away, Mo buys the robot parts from the nomad and sells all but the head to Alvy... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, psychedelic, revenge, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0458367 | Right at Your Door | The film opens with Brad (Rory Cochrane), an out-of-work musician, making coffee for his wife, Lexi (Mary McCormack), who is still in bed. She leaves for work and Brad is left home alone. Over the radio, he hears that several suspected dirty bombs have been detonated across Los Angeles. He exits his house and sees larg... | mystery | train | wikipedia | She wakes up in the morning and heads in her convertible to the highway to work downtown.Brad listens to the news that dirty bombs have just blown up in Los Angeles in a terrorist attack and the authorities warning people seal off doors, windows and any opening and stay home.
It's a very real possibility LA could be hi... |
tt0406759 | The Eye | Sydney Wells is a successful classical violinist from Los Angeles who has been blind since she was five years old, caused by an accident with firecrackers. Fifteen years later, after celebrating conductor and pianist Simon McCullough's birthday during rehearsal, Sydney undergoes a cornea transplant, which causes her ey... | horror | train | wikipedia | I still get a little skeeved when I see a closeup of eyes, come to think of it.Jessica Alba plays Sydney, a blind concert violinist who has a double corneal transplant, and of course things go wrong.
The Eye does use special effects, but it uses them - pardon me - to great effect; you're not overwhelmed with attention-... |
tt0113965 | Never Talk to Strangers | Psychologist Dr. Sarah Taylor (Rebecca De Mornay) is a guarded, aloof criminal psychologist who interviews a client who is a rapist, and is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. It is later revealed that she was the subject of daily rapes as a child by her estranged father, who is now shown to be very ill. Sarah m... | romantic, boring, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | This thriller is a bit rough-edged, but a lot of people like that sort of thing.
Rebecca DeMornay was the at the top of her game around this time (early to mid '90s).GOOD NEWS - Overall, an interesting and involving story, especially in the second half.
There are a few steamy scenes, too.BAD NEWS - No likable character... |
tt0462470 | Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside | Sam (voiced by Pamela Segall Adlon) can't sleep due to a fear of the dark that fills his room. He is inspired by an issue of his favorite superhero comic, Pajama Man, to take matters into his own hands. Journeying into his closet with his purple Pajama Sam mask (Signature-Edition), All-Metal Pajama Man Lunch Box (Porta... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0342272 | Dear Wendy | The teenage members of a group of self-proclaimed pacifists decide to carry guns. They call themselves The Dandies. Their club is assembled from the young misfits in a fictional small American mining town, Electric Park. It is started after the main character, Dick (Jamie Bell), buys what he thinks is a toy gun. His co... | comedy, boring, murder, allegory, violence, flashback, satire, romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | "Dear Wendy" comes from the talents that brought us "Festen" and "It's All About Love" (both written and directed by Thomas Vinteberg), "Dogville," "Dancer in the Dark" and "Breaking the Waves" (written and directed by Lars Von Trier).
A film about child misfits and their guns could easily follow thematic red herrings ... |
tt0113986 | Nine Months | Child psychologist Samuel Faulkner has an ideal romance with ballet teacher Rebecca Taylor. Rebecca is thinking about marriage and children. Samuel is against the idea of marriage as he is happy with how things are between them. This all changes when Rebecca declares she is pregnant and when questioned by Samuel about ... | comedy, romantic, humor, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Robin Williams's character seems forced.While things are a little light and slow in the beginning, it's in the last half hour that the writer puts a little too many comedy, most of it falling flat on its 'face'.
The dialog is from the day dreams of a fourteen year old.The fact that a film uses actor Hugh Grant does not... |
tt0113939 | The Nature of the Beast | The story is set in Southern California in July 1993.
Jack Powell is a businessman with a wife and kids who live in San Diego. He's on his way home, when he pulls over to the side of the road to check out a crime scene. The sheriff tells him a cut-up body has been found stuffed into the trunk of a Chrysler, and advises... | murder | train | wikipedia | This movie seemed to be made for people who appreciate second banana actors, and it was done pretty well in my opinion.
Lance is one of my favorite actors, and this was one of those movies that stand out in my mind when I think of his work.
I think if this movie went mainstream with bigger named actors...like..I dont k... |
tt3741700 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | American reporter, Steve Martin (Raymond Burr), is brought to a hospital with dozens of maimed and wounded citizens. In flashback, Martin recalls stopping over in Tokyo, where a series of ship disasters catches his attention. When a survivor finally washes up on Odo Island, Martin flies there for the story with Tomo Iw... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0265343 | Monsoon Wedding | The film's central story deals with the organisation of an enormous, chaotic, and expensive wedding that is due to take place in a modern Indian family. Lalit Verma (Naseeruddin Shah) and his wife Pimmi (Lillete Dubey) have arranged a marriage for their daughter Aditi (Vasundhara Das) to Hemant Rai (Parvin Dabas). Hema... | humor | train | wikipedia | Unlike many others I was not familiar with Mira Nair's work at all, but after having seen how she delicately handles child-abuse, pre-arranged-marital-infidelity, growing old and trying to be different as an upper middle class Indian boy, being a flirtatious, bored but basically settled non-resident Indian housewife, o... |
tt1373156 | Karthik Calling Karthik | Karthik (Farhan Akhtar) is an introvert who lacks confidence and feels trapped in his average job at a construction company. He is continuously troubled by an incident from his childhood: His older brother, Kumar, used to torture him, but whenever he complained to his parents, they did not believe him. One day, Kumar t... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Farhan Akhtar stars as Karthik, a young square man who blames himself for his elder brother's death at childhood and who lives a very unsocial life, working at a big company where he has to bear his boss' daily humiliations, while Shonali, the girl he is interested in does not even know of his existence.
Nightly calls ... |
tt0056891 | Bye Bye Birdie | === Act one ===
Agent and songwriter Albert Peterson finds himself in trouble when hip-thrusting rock and roll superstar Conrad Birdie is drafted into the Army. Albert's secretary and sweetheart, Rose "Rosie" Alvarez, comes up with a last-ditch publicity stunt to have Conrad Birdie record and perform a song before he i... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1242457 | Taras Bulba | === 1842 revised edition ===
Taras Bulba's two sons, Ostap and Andriy, return home from an Orthodox seminary in Kiev. Ostap is the more adventurous, whereas Andriy has deeply romantic feelings of an introvert. While in Kiev, he fell in love with a young Polish noble girl, the daughter of the Governor of Kowno, but afte... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Bortko set out to make an apparent epic here, but sadly, missed an opportunity to tell a great story.
What Gogol did NOT include was the Russian polemic which slaps you in the face at every turn in this film.I agree with some of the other reviewers that casting and costuming were great!
Bogdan Stupka is always a pleasu... |
tt3663490 | The Librarians | The series follows four people, Eve Baird (Rebecca Romijn), who is chosen by the Library to be the new Guardian, as well as Ezekiel, Cassandra and Jacob, who were asked to apply to the Library to become The Librarian, but for some reason didn't show up to the "auditions". In their place, the current Librarian Flynn Car... | cult | train | wikipedia | Maybe if TNT doesn't come to their senses and renew the show you can try Netflix, Hulu or Amazon if nothing else try WGN to continue the show, so don't stop writing and filming because I bet their is a network that will be smart enough to know a good investment when they see it and we will be there to watch it.
Having ... |
tt0049107 | Crime in the Streets | After a rumble between New York City street gangs, the Hornets and Dukes, a youth is taken captive and threatened with a zip gun by Lenny Daniels, one of the Hornets. The act is witnessed by a neighbor, McAllister, who tells the cops.
Lenny is arrested and sentenced to a year in jail. Hornets leader Frankie Dane decide... | violence | train | wikipedia | Working on a painfully thin budget from Allied Artists, Don Siegel managed to fashion an urban tale of violence and juvenile delinquency in Crime In The Streets.
And the delinquents aren't romanticized as they are in West Side Story.James Whitmore stars as a local social worker working out of a settlement house who kee... |
tt2177827 | The Search | Trains bring homeless children (Displaced Persons or DPs), who are taken by Mrs. Murray (Aline MacMahon) and other United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) workers to a nearby transit camp, where they are fed and cared for. The next morning, the children are interviewed by UNRRA officials to try ... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | The movie about the forgotten people.
I'm Chechen and I've seen the war in my country.
This story is only a simple story from a hundred of thousands other stories of Russian- Chechen wars.As someone that have seen the war, it was very difficult for me to watch this movie, I'm a man and I was watching it with the tears ... |
tt1959347 | Sexting in Suburbia | The film opens as school pariah, Dina Van Cleve (Jenn Proske) walks down the hallway of her school. When she opens her locker, a pile of condoms that were put inside as a prank comes falling out. Later, Dina is shown alone in her bedroom recording a video diary. When her mother, Rachel (Liz Vassey) returns home, she fi... | flashback | train | wikipedia | 1) Don't take selfies and 2) If you do, don't post on the internet.
I watched the beginning of this movie this morning on LMN and read where it was about bullying.
Then I saw the girl take a selfie of herself to send to her boyfriend.
Not sure but why do I think that any girl who does this deserves whatever happens.
I ... |
tt0034936 | Keeper of the Flame | When national hero Robert Forrest is killed in an riding accident, the entire United States goes into deep mourning. Admirer and renowned journalist Stephen O'Malley (Spencer Tracy) returns from Europe to write a biography of the great man. Among the throngs covering the funeral, he finds his old friends and fellow rep... | insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0087003 | Broadway Danny Rose | The story of Danny Rose (Woody Allen) is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli.
Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless unorthodox, unsuccessful entertainers, including washed-up lounge lizard Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte), whose career is o... | paranormal, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0048624 | Sissi | Princess Elisabeth, nicknamed "Sissi", is the second oldest daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria. She is a carefree, impulsive and nature-loving child. She is raised with her seven siblings at the family seat Possenhofen Castle on the shores of Lake Starnberg in Bavaria. She ha... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I know these films are considered by some purported high-brows to be of low popular-art form and saccharine emotions.
Above all Romy Schneider and Vilma Degischer as Sissi and Sofia playing the tension between the young empress and her formidable mother-in-law, are great to watch.
Each has their own humanity and, actua... |
tt0078335 | Stunt Rock | Today
The film begins with commentary by passenger Detective Graham Waters (Don Cheadle), who has suffered a car accident with his partner Ria (Jennifer Esposito). He mentions that the citizens of Los Angeles have lost their "sense of touch." Ria and the driver of the other car, Kim Lee, exchange racially charged insul... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Great music and an enjoyable movie too!.
I liked the music so much after I bought the movie I found the soundtrack and bought that too, and it is even better on CD than in the movie.
I remember the rock band Sorcery, and I'm glad to see they still have a web site and are active.
I remember the buzz in Hollywood/L.A. ab... |
tt1444331 | The Incubus | In a lake at a rock quarry, a young woman named Mandy and her boyfriend, Ray, are swimming. The two spend the night at the lake camping, but are attacked by an unseen figure; Ray is killed, and Mandy is taken to the hospital with a ruptured uterus and serious trauma. As the attack occurs, teenager Tim Galen experiences... | romantic, gothic, haunting | train | wikipedia | This is *almost* so bad it's good. If the movie were under ninety minutes, it might be more watchable.The dialog comes across as written by someone who's never actually had a conversation before. The acting has two modes: flat and scenery chewing. The sound design is atrocious. Often actors in the same scene sound like... |
tt1598621 | The House of the Dead: Overkill | === Characters ===
Agent G: Inexperienced but already highly trained and deadly, he graduated top of his class at the AMS academy and is now on his first assignment.
Detective Isaac Washington: A hard-drinking, ladies' man, Washington is also a habitual rule and heart-breaker. He took the assignment to exact revenge fo... | violence, comedy | train | wikipedia | "No, *mutants*, I told you, do *not* use the Z-word!". This review is of the version for the Wii, in case this has been released for any other console, or the PC; I haven't heard of it being out for any of them, I'm covering my bases. You have to wonder why it took them three(I haven't tried the new arcade one, can't c... |
tt5180118 | Maria Labo | The film revolves on Maria (Kate Brios) a loving and dutiful life wife to her husband, Ermin, a police officer (Jestoni Alarcon) with whom she has two children named Pablo (Miggs Cuaderno) and Rosalinda (Lenlen Frial). Facing financial problems, Maria was convinced to become an Overseas Filipino Worker after she learne... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | awful movie. It's a movie that set back Philippine cinema decades. It's so bad I would rather sit through a root canal. This is a story of an urban myth that an overseas Filipino worker got infected or possessed by a demon, coming back to her home country half person half monster. There are numerous scenes that left me... |
tt0111579 | Utomlennye solntsem | In the summer of 1936 in the Soviet Union, Comdiv Sergei Petrovich Kotov, his wife Maroussia and their young daughter Nadia are relaxing in a banya when a peasant from the local collective farm frantically tells them the Soviet Army's tanks are about to crush the wheat harvest as part of general maneuvers. Kotov rides ... | tragedy, revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0110399 | A Low Down Dirty Shame | Former LAPD detective Andre Shame is a private investigator who owns A Low Down Dirty Shame Investigations. He runs it with Peaches, whom he arrested six years before and has romantic feelings for him. Despite the high-risk jobs, Shame is unable to keep the firm afloat, and may be forced to close.
Five years earlier, S... | violence, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | A Low Down Dirty Shame is really no more than all the most familiar Cop movie clichés arranged in an order that makes a barely cohesive story.
It's a bit like The Last Boy Scout from a spoof-blaxploitation angle.Shame (Keenan Ivory Wayans) is a former cop who has been blackballed after a major drugs bust went awry, lea... |
tt0107180 | I Yabba-Dabba Do! | Pebbles Flintstone, who now works for an ad agency and Bamm Bamm Rubble, who works in a car repair shop, decide to get married after Bamm Bamm proposes with a poem, in the middle of the street (ironically after Pebbles mistakenly thinks he was trying to dump her when Bamm Bamm read her a letter that started "Dear Pebbl... | alternate history, flashback | train | wikipedia | Perfect title, AMAZING movie, and equally incredible as the iconic live action film.. Ignore the laughably clueless crybaby and his troll-worthy excuse for a "review". This highly enjoyable story is easily the single best iteration of The Flintstones EVER, with the first live action movie starring John Goodman being an... |
tt0951261 | Asian Treasures | === Plot ===
The story is about the hunt for the ten anting-anting (or powerful amulets) that serve as keys to the Asian Treasure. The Asian Treasure referred to is the treasure collected from all over Asia left by the ten Bornean Datus in the island of Panay. The treasures were locked in a cave and can only be opened ... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0756729 | Year of the Dog | Shannon stars as Peggy, a forty-something administrative assistant whose social and love life are slim to nil. Her most intimate bond is with her dog, Pencil. One morning Pencil refuses to come in after being let out to do his business, and a half-awake Peggy lets him stay outside overnight. The next morning she finds ... | romantic, psychedelic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Moreover, the main character is as easy to laugh at as to cry with.This isn't some silly comedy like most of the other movies with dog in the title which are all in my opinion dogs.
My only real problem with the film is that a lot of the supporting characters are a little too caricature-esquire (notably Shannon's boss,... |
tt0072317 | The Trial of Billy Jack | Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) goes to court facing an involuntary manslaughter charge stemming from events in the earlier film. He is found guilty and sentenced to a prison term. Meanwhile, the kids at the Freedom School—an experimental school for runaways and troubled youth on a Native American reservation in Arizona—vow ... | tragedy, cult, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Child abuse, the trampling of Indian rights, prejudice, illegal FBI wire-tapping and subterfuge, television exposes, campus shootings by the National Guard, the Mi Lai massacre, culture clashes, Jungian philosophy, police brutality, government corruption, karate, guns, and a spiritual journey are just some of the subje... |
tt2991092 | Eastern Boys | Marek, a young Ukrainian immigrant in Paris, works the street in front of the Gare du Nord with his friends, other Eastern European 'toughs'. He is approached by Daniel, a businessman in his 50s, self-consciously cruising at the station, and agrees to visit him at his home at 6pm the following day.
The next evening, Da... | violence | train | wikipedia | But as the slow narrative starts to develop, it sucked me in and kept me captivated until the very end.A very realistic, raw image of illegal immigrants and a very sensitive story of deception, love and protection.
I won't spoil the story, but if you are not homophobic and if you like movies such as Stephen Frears's "D... |
tt0120491 | Welcome to Woop Woop | Teddy (Johnathon Schaech) is a New York bird smuggler who goes to Australia to replace a flock of escaped birds after a deal goes awry. While there, he has a wild liaison with a quirky, sexually ravenous girl, Angie (Susie Porter), who after a brief courtship knocks him unconscious and kidnaps him. When he awakes he fi... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | The town Woop Woop is literally 'off the map' and its inhabitants interact in a surreal and disturbing fashion.Fleeing from danger in New York, the lead character (Johnathon Schaech) makes it to Australia, only to walk into a much bleaker situation a kind of time-warp - where Daddy-O is the law, the judge, and the ex... |
tt0088915 | A Chorus Line | The show opens in the middle of an audition for an upcoming Broadway production. The formidable director Zach and his assistant choreographer Larry put the dancers through their paces. Every dancer is desperate for work (I Hope I Get It). After the next round of cuts, 17 dancers remain. Zach tells them he is looking fo... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2140619 | Two Night Stand | Megan is unemployed and single, and one day she joins a dating website. Her roommates, who just want her to move out, invite her to a party at a club. After a bouncer refuses to let her into the club on the grounds that she looks too young and she is without ID, she sees her ex-fiancé, Chris, and later decides to have ... | comedy, humor, romantic | train | wikipedia | Nice, this 55 year old liked it.Fluffy, yes.Light, yes.But also intelligent, well written, well acted, and realistic.No puerile toilet humour.No clichés.A very smart move which leads to a pleasant end to a pleasant movie, topical on the way people hook up today and deal with the traps, pitfalls and dangers in pursuing ... |
tt0210814 | Lone Texas Ranger | In the 1890s town of Silver City, "Iron Mike" Haines (Tom Chatterton), is a crooked sheriff who is celebrated for his character and ability to capture bad guys. The townspeople are completely unaware that he is corrupt and that the town blacksmith "Hands" Weber (Roy Barcroft), are partners in crime and are the ones ins... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | A good deed gets an autograph. I found a copy of Lone Texas Ranger on video at the Knoxville Film Convention in 1997. Sitting just a few feet away was the heroine, Helen Talbot, who was signing autographs for fans. Taking the video up to her, I asked if she had a copy of the film, explaining that it was the only Red Ry... |
tt0043638 | The Highwayman | The movie and subsequent series follow the adventures of "The Highwayman", one of a mysterious group, presumably of U.S. Marshals, conducting crime-fighting missions and solving bizarre mysteries. Each Highwayman in this group is equipped with a high-tech, multi-function truck.
The pilot movie used a different opening ... | action | train | wikipedia | One of Hollywood's finest classic romantic swashbucklers.. This one has it all . . . thundering hoofbeats, derring-do, moonlight chases, sneering villains, and a dashing hero to entrance his lady fair, all to the rousing music of Mendelsohn's "Italian Symphony", and no Hollywood film composer could have written a more ... |
tt1925431 | Fire with Fire | Following a grueling day of work, firefighter Jeremy Thomas Coleman and his co-workers contemplate ending the day with a case of 35-year-old Scotch. When Jeremy enters a convenience store to buy snacks, he witnesses the clerk and his son being brutally murdered at the hands of Hagan, an Aryan Brotherhood crime boss. Af... | suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | Similar recent action flicks with decent actors that were worse:The River Murders(3/10), Set-up(3/10), Takers(4.5/10), and Elephant White(4/10).Donofrio is actually really solid as the villain here.The story is very straight forward, but the brutality of some of the violence is quite nice.
Too bad the script squanders ... |
tt1523939 | Answers to Nothing | Against the backdrop of a child abduction case the film follows five days in the life of a variety of people living in Los Angeles. Kate (Mitchell) is a lawyer arguing in a custody battle on behalf of Drew (Bailey) who cares for her completely disabled brother. He was an accomplished marathoner. After celebrating his t... | comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | Writer/director Matthew Leutwyler manages to challenge the concentration and intellect and attention span of the viewer in this non-linear and ultimately satisfying intertwining of stories that examine the bad in the best of us and the good in the worst of us.
Against the backdrop of a child abduction case (person of i... |
tt0076868 | Valentino | The film begins with a mock newsreel sequence showing the chaos around the death of 31-year-old film star Rudolph Valentino (Rudolph Nureyev). Thousands of fans mob the funeral home until order is restored, at which point the important women in Valentino's life come to mourn. Each remembers him via flashbacks.
The firs... | violence, satire, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0062908 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Gabriel John Utterson and his cousin Richard Enfield reach the door of a large house on their weekly walk. Enfield tells Utterson that months ago he saw a sinister-looking man named Edward Hyde trample a young girl after accidentally bumping into her. Enfield forced Hyde to pay £100 to avoid a scandal. Hyde brought the... | insanity, gothic | train | wikipedia | Amid the long lists of accomplishments, for actor Jack Palance, is this truly remarkable film achievement.
Robert Louis Stevenson created his memorable set of characters; humanitarian Jekyll and terrifying Mr. Hyde, never realizing how many thespians would attempt to personify his creations.
Many are consider excellent... |
tt0049065 | Checkpoint | Checkpoint is shot in cinéma vérité style with no narration and very little context. Shamir himself is absent from the film except for one scene in which a border guard asks him to try to make him "look good," and Shamir asks how he should do that.
The camera films people trying to cross at various checkpoints. At some... | murder | train | wikipedia | Nice scenery, not so thrilling car race..
This film was produced in colour in 1956 at a time when Britain was just emerging from post-war austerity and pleasant motoring trips to the continent were becoming a possibility for the British middle class.
The film was made on location and Ralph Thomas the director is clearl... |
tt0054757 | The Comancheros | In 1843 roguish gambler Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman) escapes a death penalty after killing in a duel Emil Bouvier (Gregg Palmer), the son of a Louisiana judge. Regret claimed that he would have only wounded Bouvier if he hadn't sidestepped. He is captured by Texas Ranger Jake Cutter (John Wayne) after a tryst with a my... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0068688 | Heat | FBI agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is an expert and effective investigator in New York City, but is despised by her allied agents for her egotistical & vicious personality. When her manager assigns her to a mission in Boston, she meets a detective named Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), a skilled but loudmouthe... | cult, satire | train | wikipedia | In the moments of their most wooden acting, the fascinations of the real person - whether it be the gapingly numb Joe Dallesandro, the ogrishly preening Pat Ast or the gonzo mystery of Andrea Feldmen, emerges with overexposed brilliance.Sylvia Miles plays her role with subtlety and iconic ugliness.
A funny, almost myst... |
tt0167720 | Seven Days | The plot follows a secret branch of the United States' National Security Agency which has developed a time travelling device based upon alien technology found at Roswell. As the opening of the show says, the Chronosphere, or Backstep Sphere, sends "one human being back in time seven days" to avert disasters. The show's... | alternate history | train | wikipedia | To make a series with a story based on time travel is quite tricky.
It certainly has it flaws and errors, but if you don't take it all to serious and don't think too much about it this show will be quite entertaining and enjoyable.Frank Parker is pulled out of a secret mental institution and trained to be the chrononau... |
tt0465940 | Cinderella III: A Twist in Time | Cinderella and the Prince are having a picnic to celebrate their one-year anniversary. Meanwhile, at the Tremaine mansion, Cinderella's stepsisters Anastasia and Drizella are bitterly doing Cinderella's chores. Anastasia wanders off to avoid work and stumbles upon the picnic. When the Fairy Godmother drops her wand, An... | romantic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | Even Cinderella herself showed a courageous side that you didn't get to see before.It seemed to be a darker story compared to most Disney movies and it turned out well.
Here's what makes this plot better than the "classic" fairy tail: 50 years ago Disney's idea was to adapt the fairy tale into a full length film.
. som... |
tt1542429 | Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight | The prologue takes place in the year 2062, 15 years after the Tiberium Wars (which led to the invasion and defeat of the Scrin), and 10 years after the end of Kane's Wrath (where Kane regained possession of the Tacitus). Tiberium has evolved and is spreading at such a rate that the whole planet is expected to become un... | violence, alternate reality, alternate history | train | wikipedia | Why?. What a rip off. After years of following a game franchise the reward is to be treated with contempt. This game is a C&C in name only. Any soul the series had, has been well and truly ripped out, and stomped on. The cynical creeps, who made this fiasco, care not about the gamer, but about how they can market onlin... |
tt2120779 | Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet | The film documents Becker's rise to near-stardom, following him from the first time he touched a guitar as a five-year-old to when he was drafted into The David Lee Roth Band as lead guitarist at the age of 19. In 1990, this was considered perhaps the most coveted rock guitar gig on the planet, as Becker would be follo... | inspiring | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0026082 | The Arizonian | Clay Tallant is on his way to Silver City, Arizona to meet up with his brother, Orin. As he approaches the town, he stops a stagecoach robbery being attempted by Frank McCloskey and his gang. In intervening, Clay saves Kitty Rivers, a singer in the town's saloon, who is engaged to Orin. In town, the marshal accuses McC... | violence, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | The Very Wild West.
This is a damn good western from the mid-thirties, and it features two or filmdom's more rugged players, Richard Dix and Preston Foster, in leading roles.
There's a natural masculinity both in the movie itself and its stars that many films strive for and few achieve.
A good number of fights pepper t... |
tt1764651 | The Expendables 2 | The Expendables—leader Barney Ross, knife specialist Lee Christmas, hand-to-hand combat specialist Yin Yang, heavy-weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitions expert Toll Road, the unstable Gunner Jensen, and sniper Billy the Kid, the team's newest recruit and Ross' protégé—are deployed to Nepal to rescue Dr. Zhou, a h... | boring, murder, bleak, violence, cult, good versus evil, humor, action, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0243559 | Sikandar | Sikandar Raza (Parzan Dastur) is a 14-year-old schoolboy in the Kashmir valley. Ever since his parents were killed by jihadis (from Azad Kashmir) (militants) 10 years ago, he has lived with his aunt and uncle, in a small town called Kupwara in Kashmir valley. All Sikandar’s desires revolve around the happiness of his f... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Prithviraj Kapoor & Sohrab Modi magic. A historic epic produced & directed by Sohrab Modi is basically based on faceoff between Alexander the Great & King Puru, whilst Sikander enters Indian subcontinent en route to his journey to conquer the world. Who wins the battle is a question for everyone to find out but the mov... |
tt3424814 | Die kleine Meerjungfrau | Ariel, a sixteen-year-old mermaid princess, is dissatisfied with underwater life in the kingdom of Atlantica and is curious about the human world. With her best friend Flounder, Ariel collects human artifacts in her grotto and often goes to the surface of the ocean to visit Scuttle, a seagull who offers very inaccurate... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0049125 | Davy Crockett and the River Pirates | === Keelboat Race ===
Davy Crockett and George "Georgie" Russell are loaded with pelts as they make their way to Maysville, Kentucky on the Ohio River after a successful season of trapping and hunting. There they encounter Mike Fink, blowhard captain of the keelboat Gullywhumper who refuses to take them downriver, unle... | violence | train | wikipedia | "Davy Crockett And The River Pirates" was originally produced for television and was broadcast on ABC as two episodes of the "Disneyland" series in 1955.It is very easy to see why there was a Crockett phenomenon at the time.
Fess Parker is perfect as Davy, and his sidekick, Georgie Russel, is played by Buddy Ebson, a f... |
tt0107505 | Mandroid | In his hidden laboratory deep in Russia, Dr. Karl Zimmer (Symonds) has invented the Mandroid, a humanoid robot which follows the motions of a man in a special control suit. He has offered the invention to the United States, which has sent Agent Joe Smith and Dr. Wade from the CIA for inspection.
However Zimmer's partne... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0290455 | Batman Returns | On a snowy Christmas night, Tucker and Esther Cobblepot throw their deformed infant child Oswald into Gotham River, fearing he would become a menace to society after attacking their pet cat. His basket floats to an abandoned zoo and is found by a flock of penguins who raise him as one of their own.
33 years later, duri... | good versus evil, insanity, revenge | train | wikipedia | Great Time Killer......
This action/beat-em-up Snes game is excellent as a time killer, if any of you out there still have a Super Nintendo, and a store that rents the games, look for it and pick up a copy.It's the best beat-em-up on Snes other than Double Dragon, and Final Fight..
a very good game based upon the movie... |
tt0118859 | City of Industry | Retired thief, Roy Egan (Harvey Keitel), comes out of retirement to help his youngest brother, Lee (Timothy Hutton), with a jewelry heist in Palm Springs. Along for the job are hired muscle, Jorge Montana (Wade Dominguez), and wheelman, Skip Kovich (Stephen Dorff), who is running late. While they wait for Skip, the thr... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | In this contemporary film noir, two brothers with the same alma mater-- Folsom Prison-- discover something about loyalty and what `honor among thieves' really means, in `City of Industry,' directed by John Irvin.
Lee Egan (Timothy Hutton) puts together a crew of four men, including his brother, Roy (Harvey Keitel), to ... |
tt1998355 | The Voorman Problem | Dr. Williams (played by Martin Freeman) is hired by Governor Bentley (Simon Griffiths) to work as a prison psychiatrist after "The War in the East" has produced a doctor shortage. Williams is informed about the Voorman problem; a prisoner named Voorman (Tom Hollander) is convinced that he is a god and has convinced the... | insanity, comedy | train | wikipedia | We need to talk about Voorman. While Mark Gill's "The Voorman Problem" is intended to be darkly comedic, I found the short mostly disturbing and often offputting. That's definitely not a bad thing, but the comedic element, in my opinion, is something I found extremely subtle rather than prominent, as many viewers of th... |
tt0101130 | Land of the Lost | Motivated by the success in syndication of the cult 1974 series Land of the Lost, Sid and Marty Krofft created a new version of it. The new Land of the Lost had advanced special effects and a lighter, less survivalist-oriented tone. Frequent writers Len Janson and Chuck Menville had previously crafted numerous scripts ... | alternate reality | train | wikipedia | people live with dinosaurs.
The special effects are amazing.
So amazing, in fact the same scenes must be reused over and over - and it never gets old!
The episode with the dinosaurs was just great.
Those Sleestaks always gave me nightmares when I was little; creepy!
Ed Gale does such a great job in this show.
15 years ... |
tt1753496 | Biohazard: Damnation | Underneath Raccoon City exists a genetic research facility called the Hive, owned by the Umbrella Corporation. A thief steals the genetically engineered T-virus and contaminates the Hive with it. In response, the facility's artificial intelligence, the Red Queen, seals the Hive and kills everyone inside.
Alice awakens ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3169706 | Pride | It is 1974 and life is not easy for a black male to find employment, even college-educated Jim Ellis (Terrence Howard). While struggling to find anything better, Jim, a former competitive swimmer, is working on the decrepit Marcus Foster Recreation Center operated by the Philadelphia Department of Recreation. The cente... | queer | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0361467 | Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen | Mary Elizabeth "Lola" Steppe (Lindsay Lohan) is a 15-year-old girl who grew up in New York City and wants desperately to be a famous Broadway actress. Lola narrates the story. Much to her annoyance, she moves with her family to the suburbs of Dellwood, New Jersey, but she confidently tells the audience, "A legend is ab... | dramatic, comedy | train | wikipedia | 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' comes as a disappointment from Lindsay Lohan after the very funny 'Freaky Friday' and 'Mean Girls'.
Other parts involve a school play where Lola is cast for the leading role and Carla only for a small supporting role.I am not sure why this film was made, but I guess to show Lohan ... |
tt5038448 | Bruce Lee-The Fighter | Karthik and Kavya are the children of Rama Chandra Rao (Rao Ramesh). Rama Chandra Rao wants to make Karthik into a collector. The only problem is that Kavya wants to become a collector as well, but Rama Chandra Rao cannot afford to pay for both of their studies. Because of this, Karthik deliberately fails in his exams ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0039321 | Dick Tracy's Dilemma | Ruthless killer Steve Michel is known to the public as "The Claw" for his way of killing her victims with his prosthetic hook. After his accomplices Ryan and Taylor have broken in and stolen furs from the Flawless Furs warehouse, Steve kills the guard with his hook. When the police arrive at the crime scene in the shap... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0082477 | Gregory's Girl | Gregory Underwood (John Gordon Sinclair) is an awkward teenager who plays in his school football team. They are not doing very well, so the coach (Jake D'Arcy) holds a trial to find new players. Dorothy (Dee Hepburn), turns up and, despite the coach's sexist misgivings, proves to be a very good player. She subsequently... | whimsical, romantic, comedy | train | wikipedia | The story is nothing big and dramatic, just a boy liking a girl and learning a bit about himself and about love in general in the end.
The lead character of Gregory is very convincing and very real, you like him but at the same time you can't help wincing a bit at his awkwardness, especially in the scene where he's hel... |
tt0278504 | Insomnia | In the small fishing town of Nightmute, Alaska, 17-year-old Kay Connell (Crystal Lowe) is found murdered. LAPD detectives Will Dormer (Al Pacino) and Hap Eckhart (Martin Donovan) are sent to assist the local police with their investigation, at the request of police chief Nyback (Paul Dooley), an old colleague of Dormer... | psychological, neo noir, murder, thought-provoking, atmospheric, flashback, tragedy, romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Like the 1997 Norwegian film on which it is based, `Insomnia' is a superbly crafted crime thriller, one that is more concerned with the psychological complexities of its main character than with the minutiae of the criminal investigation itself - though the details of the case are fascinating in their own right as well... |
tt0038160 | They Were Expendable | In December 1941, a squadron of PT Boats under the command of Lt. John "Brick" Brickley (Robert Montgomery) is sent to Manila to help defend the Philippines against a potential Japanese invasion. However, upon their arrival, instead of a welcome, they are ridiculed by the local military commanders. One of Brick's men, ... | realism, suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | I'm thinking that John Ford wisely decided that World War II being recently over, the country's mood was joyous, but somber in terms of the heavy human cost.They Were Expendable has the benefit though of the American audience knowing the ultimate victory.
The story begins in the Phillipines in 1941 with Robert Montgome... |
tt2771200 | Beauty and the Beast | A widower merchant lives in a mansion with his six children, three sons and three daughters. All his daughters are very beautiful, but the youngest, Beauty, is the most lovely, as well as kind, well-read, and pure of heart; while the two elder sisters, in contrast, are wicked, selfish, vain, and spoiled. They secretly ... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0291032 | Xiao cai feng | The film is set in a period between 1971 and 1974, during the later stage of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Two city boys in their late teenage years, Luo Min (played by Chen Kun) and Ma Jianling (Liu Ye), are on their way to a remote village in the mountainous Sichuan province for re-education. Upon arrival, the boy... | romantic, autobiographical, flashback | train | wikipedia | Despite this, there is something innately satisfying about watching it, which defies casual analysis.The story centres on two young men, Ma and Luo. Coming from "reactionary bourgeois" families in the city, they are sent by the Chinese authorities for "re-education" to a beautiful yet achingly backward and isolated com... |
tt2911674 | Tiger House | Mark, who comes from a well-off family, meets his gymnast girlfriend Kelly after school. She becomes uncomfortable when he shows her a crossbow that he has brought along with her. While demonstrating it, he accidentally shoots her in the leg. An unspecified time later, Kelly sneaks into Mark's house through his second-... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
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