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tt3717532 | The Last: Naruto the Movie | Two years after the Fourth Ninja World War and Kakashi Hatake becomes the Sixth Hokage, the moon is falling towards onto Earth and will soon collide. The crisis is caused by Toneri Ōtsutsuki, a descendant of Hamura Ōtsutsuki of the Branch House, who is determined to fulfill his legacy and punish mankind for abusing cha... | violence | train | wikipedia | The film is not lacking for action, but it's not as evenly distributed as it could be--however, this film is about Naruto, so it is natural that the hero receive the majority of the focus.The characterization and plot were painstakingly revised and re-revised by the original creator, Masashi Kishimoto, and it shows--it... |
tt0040765 | 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 ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1405365 | Celeste & Jesse Forever | Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg) are best friends who start dating in high school and eventually marry young. Their relationship is shown in a photo montage; the montage ends with Celeste walking away from Jesse during a party.
Celeste and Jesse still get along well. Celeste is a successful trend analyz... | romantic, entertaining, plot twist | train | wikipedia | 'CELESTE & JESSE FOREVER': Four Stars (Out of Five) Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg play a divorcing couple who remain best friends and inseparable until one meets someone new.
The film is equal parts comedy and drama and actually allows both Jones and Samberg to show off their acting chops and do something a little mor... |
tt1815799 | Les bien-aimés | Sethe is a former slave living on the outskirts of Cincinnati shortly after the Civil War. An angry poltergeist terrorizes Sethe and her three children, causing her two sons to run away forever. Eight years later, Sethe (Oprah Winfrey) lives alone with her daughter, Denver (Kimberly Elise). Paul D. (Danny Glover), an o... | tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | Fantastic, for those who love Honoré's movies.
Let's get the hard part out of the way: most Americans are going to hate this movie, so if you're an American, or if you're not an America but your taste runs toward Hollywood blockbusters, don't waste your time watching Beloved and our time reading about how much you hate... |
tt0062030 | Nato per uccidere | Helen Brent (Claire Trevor) has just received a Reno divorce in Nevada. That night, she discovers one of her neighbors, Laury Palmer, and Palmer's gentleman caller both murdered in Palmer's home. The killer is Palmer's other boyfriend, Sam Wilde (Lawrence Tierney), an insanely jealous man who won't abide anyone "cuttin... | western | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0017843 | Easy Virtue | Larita (Jessica Biel), a glamorous American widow and successful racecar driver, meets young John Whittaker (Ben Barnes) in Monaco. They marry, and he takes his bride home to meet his family at their dauntingly large rural mansion, where seven generations of Whittakers have been gentleman farmers. There she meets her i... | flashback | train | wikipedia | This silent Alfred Hitchcock drama gets decent mileage out of a rather simple story.
Isabel Jeans stars as a young woman who, because of a messy divorce in her past, is unfairly considered a woman of "Easy Virtue", and she must struggle constantly against the ways that her past affects how she is perceived by others.
O... |
tt0112571 | Boys on the Side | Three unique women embark on a cross-country road trip: Jane (Whoopi Goldberg), a lesbian lounge singer in search of a new life after breaking up with her girlfriend and getting fired; Holly (Drew Barrymore), a pregnant girl who just wants to escape her brutal boyfriend; and Robin (Mary-Louise Parker), an uptight real ... | comedy, murder, paranormal, violence, tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | 'Boys on the side' is a very touching movie that looks essentially at what it means to be a woman, trapped inside a man's world.
It also looks into what it means to be sick, which I have been no stranger too, either....Three women sharing a car going west, team up in this winning celebration of camaraderie, caring and ... |
tt0092507 | Abhimanyu | Maasilamani (Raghuvaran), a dreaded don, spreads terror around him: triggering riots, smuggling illicit liquor and drugs. The police are exasperated by Maasilamani and send Abhimanyu (R Parthiepan) to cope with Maasilamani. Abhimanyu is an incorruptible and strict Assistant Commissioner of Police who has been suspended... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0022352 | The Sea Ghost | Navy Lieutenant Greg Winters (Alan Hale) is found guilty by a court-martial for pausing briefly to prepare to rescue survivors of the Alatania, a torpedoed ship, rather than attacking immediately the submarine responsible. As a result, he is sidelined for the rest of World War I.
In 1925 New Orleans, lawyer Henry Sykes... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0362696 | Haasil | The background of the movie is student politics in the University of Allahabad and the dirty turn it takes. When Anirudh (Jimmy Shergill) meets Niharika (Hrishitaa Bhatt) at university, they quickly become romantically involved. Unfortunately, their relationship can't escape the political battles between two rival gang... | violence, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0411118 | Anthony Zimmer | Anthony Zimmer is a genius career criminal wanted by police around the world. He has used ingenious methods to launder money legally, using dummy corporations that file lawsuits against firms outside France. Zimmer is also being pursued by the "White Collar Barons"—a powerful Russian mafia with whom he once did busines... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Things Are not How They Seem to Be. In Paris, the international police force and the Russian mafia are chasing Anthony Zimmer, an intelligent man responsible for laundry of dirty money in France.
The only means to reach Zimmer is through his beloved mistress Chiara (Sophie Marceau), who is under surveillance of the pol... |
tt0172089 | Aatank Hi Aatank | Shiv Charan Sharma, a farmer, moves to the city to make a life with his son Rohan, daughter Radha Seth and his wife. He meets Munna, an orphan. Shiv and Munna work hard in the underbelly of the city outside the law and go on to lead a syndicate of gangsters. Years pass by and Shiv Charan Sharma is shown to have become ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A unique movie in the 90s. The movie released in 1995, when there was a period for romantic movies released, such as Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Barsaat and others. This one was unique in the sense that it is a gangster type movie. The movie is about a farmer who moved to the city of Bombay with his family where he... |
tt0445965 | Feed | Australian cop Phillip (Patrick Thompson) works as a Cybercrime investigator for Interpol. Phillip finds himself shaken after investigating a case in Hamburg, Germany, in which a man consents to have his penis cut off and eaten by his lover. Phillip's own relationship is troubled due to his frequent travel and difficul... | suspenseful, plot twist, flashback | train | wikipedia | The premise of this film is excellent - it's the first movie I've been aware of that tackles the bizarre subject of feeders.Sadly, the strong cast is let down by sloppy direction.
At the end of the day, it's okay but instantly forgettable.The film scrapes a "7" as the subject matter is interesting and the acting is ver... |
tt0064002 | Alice's Restaurant | In 1965, Arlo Guthrie (as himself) has attempted to avoid the draft by attending college in Montana. His long hair and unorthodox approach to study gets him in trouble with local police as well as residents. He quits school, following which he hitchhikes back East. He first visits his father Woody Guthrie (Joseph Boley... | melodrama, satire, home movie | train | wikipedia | I had all but forgotten about the film of "Alice's Restaurant", which was inspired by (as opposed to based on) Arlo Guthrie's classic and comic song of the same name.
Viewing it again on DVD made for a curious experience.Midway through the film, director Arthur Penn (fresh off of "Bonnie and Clyde", I believe) literall... |
tt4324274 | Batman vs. Robin | During an investigation of missing children, Damian Wayne, AKA Robin, Batman's son with Talia al Ghul, has taken the Batmobile out to an abandoned toy factory without Batman's consent. He finds the perpetrator, Anton Schott, who has mutated some of the victims into dolls. Batman arrives, and in the resulting battle, Ro... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0114171 | The Power Within | Stan Dryer, an unsuccessful-at-life green-belt in karate teenager, is given an ancient ring by an old karate master whom Stan tried to save from impending doom.
Stan soon discovers the magical power of the ring when he defeats not one, but five drunk, low-life idiots who want to steal his red convertible. He even disco... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | A story about finding the Power within yourself..
This film shows what you can do with little money and lots of imagination.
The story is simple and well told.
The action is not high tech or computer animation driven.
It is exciting never-the- less.
The martial arts choreography is very strong without being too campy o... |
tt0081662 | Tsigoineruwaizen | Vacationing in a small seaside village, Aochi, a professor of German, runs into Nakasago, a former colleague turned nomad. Nakasago is being pursued by an angry mob for allegedly seducing and killing a fisherman's wife. Police intervene and Aochi vouches for his friend, preventing his arrest. The two catch up over dinn... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Astonishing series of outrageous images.
So you are here because you like such outrageous films as Branded to Kill and Nikutai no Mon. Overwhelmed by those films, you couldn't help but search for more about this truly unique filmmaker and found that he has continued to make films in the last two decades too.
That is wh... |
tt0044015 | The Secret of Convict Lake | In 1871, six convicts escape from a Carson City prison. A posse loses them in a mountain blizzard, and after the posse turn back, the convicts continue on foot and one of the fugitives freezes to death. The five remaining are Canfield, Greer, Cockerell, Anderson and Maxwell. They make it to a lake called Monte Diablo, ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | women and condemned convicts.
Six condemned convicts escape over a mountain pass (one of them doesn't make it, leaving five) in a blizzard and take refuge in an outpost where the men have temporarily left their wives and assorted other females to watch over the property.
It's quite a setup and the movie does not let it... |
tt0032028 | The Three Musketeers | In Venice, the musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with the help of Milady de Winter, steal airship blueprints made by Leonardo da Vinci. However, they are betrayed by Milady, who incapacitates them and sells the blueprints to the Duke of Buckingham.
A year later, d'Artagnan leaves his village in Gascony for Paris i... | good versus evil, action, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2209764 | Transcendence | Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is a scientist who researches the nature of sentience, including artificial intelligence. He and his team work to create a sentient computer; he predicts that such a computer will create a technological singularity, or in his words "Transcendence". His wife, Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), is also ... | psychedelic, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | I figured since Wally Pfister has been Christopher Nolan's cinematographer since 2000's Memento, maybe some sort of slow-release genius-osmosis had taken place, and Transcendence would be a stellar thriller/head- scratcher like we've come to expect from Nolan.
In other words, it doesn't raise up any concerns or ideas w... |
tt0276617 | Das weiße Rauschen | Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) is a successful architect and lives a peaceful life with his wife Anna (Chandra West) until her unexpected disappearance. Eventually, he is contacted by Raymond Price (Ian McNeice), who claims that his own son had also died. He says he has recorded messages from Anna through electronic ... | psychological | train | wikipedia | Gives "A Beautiful Mind" a run for the money. Normally I'm not particularly fond of movies about mental illness and I hate it when an actor automatically gets an Academy Award just because he plays another autistic person or Alzheimer patient. "Das weisse Rauschen" is the exception to the rule. In this film you really ... |
tt0246339 | Yamudiki Mogudu | Kaali (Chiranjeevi) is a small town goon who helps his neighbourhood with his earning. He is good at heart and is loved by everyone in town. He works for Kotayya (Kota Srinivasa Rao) whose rival is Gollapudi. Once, when he goes to warn Gollapudi, he meets and falls in love with Radha (Radha), Gollapudi's daughter. When... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037366 | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | In February 1942, just two months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the United States Army Air Forces plan to retaliate by bombing Tokyo and four other Japanese cities—taking advantage of the fact that US aircraft carriers can approach near enough to the Japanese mainland to make such an attack feasible.
Lt.Col. James Doo... | historical | train | wikipedia | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is the most accurate portrayal of the Doolittle Raid on Japan during World War II.
All of the characters in the movie were real life people from the Doolittle Raid and from accounts in the book and other sources, they are accurately portrayed by the actors in the movie.
The movie "Pearl Harbor... |
tt0171546 | Murder in a Small Town | The film opens with a series of scenes in which local millionaire Sidney Lassiter (Terry O'Quinn) has arguments with his son Albert (whom he threatens to remove from his will, if Albert doesn't leave his current lover), his wife Martha (who reveals that she knows that Sidney is unfaithful, and unsuccessfully tries to s... | murder | train | wikipedia | A great whodunit!.
I love this movie.The time period sets & characters were very engrossing.I was truly surprised as to the outcome of this movie.I thought I had it all figured out.This film reminds me of the board game "Clue".I will probably purchase this movie.There is a little bit of "CHINATOWN" in the movie's plot.... |
tt0071780 | Lovin' Molly | Over a span of nearly 40 years, Gid and Johnny, a pair of Texas farm boys, compete for the affections of Molly Taylor, a free spirit who cares for both of them. The story is told by three consecutive segments which is narrated by one of the three lead roles.
The first segment is set in 1925 and narrated by Gid, who int... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Lovin' MollyLeaving Cheyenne.
It's seems clear that Sidney Lumet was unfamiliar with the setting, the characters, the story...I mean, Gid is a cowboy wearing OVERALLS--Gid's NOT a farmer!
He was afraid of Texas, and moved back east to New Jersey to shoot the remainder of the film--no wonder the film looks like a TV mov... |
tt0088563 | MASK | Stanley Ipkiss is a shy and unlucky bank clerk working at the local Edge City bank. He is frequently ridiculed by everyone around him, except for his Jack Russell Terrier Milo, and his co-worker and best friend Charlie Schumaker. Meanwhile, gangster Dorian Tyrell, owner of the Coco Bongo nightclub, plots to overthrow h... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0053716 | Cinderfella | When Fella's (Jerry Lewis) father dies, he continues to live with his wicked stepmother, Emily (Judith Anderson), and her two sons, Maximilian (Henry Silva) and Rupert (Robert Hutton). His stepfamily takes over the family mansion, while Fella is reduced to living in an unfinished room at the end of a long hallway. He h... | fantasy, satire | train | wikipedia | "Cinderfella" was Jerry Lewis' answer to the classic Cinderella story.
When his father dies, poor Fella (Lewis) is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother (Judith Anderson) and her two no-good sons, Maximilian (Henry Silva) and Rupert (Robert Hutton).
Meanwhile, hoping to restore her dwindling fortunes, the stepmo... |
tt0055318 | Posse from Hell | In 1880 four escapees from death row, Crip (Vic Morrow), Leo (Lee Van Cleef), Chunk (Henry Wills) and Hash (Charles Horvath) ride into the town of Paradise and enter the Rosebud Saloon. Crip shoots the town marshal Isaac Webb (Ward Ramsey) and takes ten men as hostages, killing some to ensure the four are unmolested. T... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0402127 | The Defender | At Friendship Field, Carman, Manitoba, aircraft restorer and self-taught engineer Bob Diemert and his friend Chris Ball are working on an unusual project which had its origins in the late 1970s. Taking shape in one of the airfield hangars is a new type of close air support or COIN aircraft designed to take on Soviet Un... | violence, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Dolph Lundgren takes up directing duties for the first time here and scores a hit!
The Defender is a film which remarkably for a B-movie offers some thought provoking ideas.
The plot involves political intrigue and corruption but the basic gist is that America wants peace with the international terrorists against them.... |
tt0045218 | Target | Charlie Snow (Stephen Baldwin) was a highly decorated war hero, a sniper who never placed emotion before the mission. Except once. Providing cover for an undercover arms dealer sting operation, he was forced into a predicament, as through his scope he saw a hostage crisis unfold.
The decision he made cost his fellow so... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Not one of Tim's best. I'm a big fan of the old B Western and Tim Holt is a particular favorite of mine. I've always thought Tim Holt was one of the most under-appreciated heroes of the old silver screen. While never quite enjoying the popularity of Hoppy, Gene or Roy he made some of the best movies of his genre. Targe... |
tt0088930 | Clue | In 1954 New England, six strangers are invited to a party at a secluded New England mansion known as Hill House. After being met at the door by the butler, Wadsworth, the guests are reminded that they have been given a pseudonym to protect their true identity and asks that they only use that name with the other guests.... | comedy, mystery, murder, cult, violence, flashback, psychedelic, humor | train | wikipedia | Superbly casting some superlative film talents into the board game roles of Colonel Mustard et al, this throws the greatest over-actor of them all in as the butler and lets rip.
I cant say I'm a fan of that board game (although I sometimes play it on the quiz machine in pub), but I am a fan of murder mystery - and whil... |
tt0070706 | Slaughter's Big Rip-Off | Slaughter (Jim Brown), a fierce Vietnam veteran and ex-Green Beret, had avenged the death of his parents by killing the gangster who was responsible for their death in Mexico. He is now relocated in Los Angeles, California, a place that Slaughter sought to escape the past events and begin his attempt to have a tranquil... | violence, murder, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | Don't ask me how it happened, but I suppose having the film feature Ed "I'll Sponsor Anything" McMahon as a tail-chasing crack hustler had a bit to do with it.Frankly, I was disappointed with Slaughter's first outing in 1972.
Big Jim Brown seems stronger as Slaughter here than in the first.
Perhaps this is due to the f... |
tt1324058 | Separation City | Simon (Joel Edgerton) is a decent fellow, married to a lovely woman Pam (Danielle Cormack), living comfortably with two children. He has grown tired of the lack of sex and is attracted to a cellist friend of his wife, Katrien (Rhona Mitra).
Katrien travels to New Zealand to follow her husband Klaus (Thomas Kretschmann)... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3614516 | Ankhon Dekhi | Rajesh Bauji (Sanjay Mishra) is a man in his late 50s, living a dreary but eventful life in a small house in old Delhi with his extended family. The movie starts with Babuji narrating his dream where he sees himself flying like a bird free from all the worldly affairs. A random incident is going to change his life in a... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0066258 | Puppet on a Chain | After three hippie drug-dealers are murdered by "the assassin" in a house in Los Angeles, the U.S. government sends special agent Paul Sherman to track down the Dutch source of heroin that is causing the drug war. On arriving at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Sherman witnesses an agent, Jimmy Duclos, who was there to meet... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1111918 | La linea | Veteran assassin Mark Shields (Ray Liotta) is hired to track down the head of an elusive drug cartel centered in Tijuana, Mexico. Shields takes the assignment in a weary daze, as he is fresh off a case that claimed the life of a woman he continues to see in his mind.
Meanwhile, Javier Salazar (Andy García), the head of... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0052862 | The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery | George Fowler (Steve McQueen), a diffident former collegiate football star, is recruited for a bank robbery gang by Gino, the cold hearted and unstable ex-convict brother of George's estranged flame, Ann. George, initially insisting the limit of his involvement is strictly as get-away driver, is coerced deeper into the... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0062262 | The Shooting | Willet Gashade (Oates), a former bounty hunter, returns to his small mining camp after a lengthy absence and finds his slow-witted friend Coley (Will Hutchins) in a state of fear. Coley explains to Gashade that their partner, Leland Drum (B. J. Merholz), had been shot to death two days before by an unseen assassin. The... | murder, allegory, cult, violence, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | By 1967 the ripples Leone's movies are about to make in the American film-making business are around the corner, which leaves The Shooting hanging in a peculiar time and place.
As Warren Oates, Jack Nicholson (in an early role here but showing the potential he would fulfill later on in his career) travel through the ba... |
tt0211465 | Knockaround Guys | Matty Demaret (Barry Pepper) is the son of a mob boss, but he is used as little more than an errand boy. His relative and friend Chris (Andy Davoli) shares this urge to be part of something bigger, and Matty finally convinces his father to give him a job, with the help of his father's right-hand man Teddy (John Malkovi... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | The story is basic, about a mobsters son (Barry Pepper) who has grown up disparaged by the life of crime his family are involved in, but in his adults days he is unable to get the sort of legit career he wants, as a sports agent, because no-one will hire him for the simple reason that he is related to Dennis Hoppers ch... |
tt0107211 | Indecent Proposal | High school sweethearts David (Woody Harrelson) and Diana Murphy (Demi Moore) are a married couple who travel to Las Vegas, hoping they can win enough money to finance David's fantasy real estate project. They place their money on red in roulette and lose.
After gambling away all of their savings, they encounter billio... | cult | train | wikipedia | Afterwards they get together to play some pool and Gage turns the conversation to the idea of what money can and can't buy specifically offering the Murphy's a cool $1,000,000 for one night spent with Diana.When this film came out, the basic concept was enough to give it lots of free advertising by getting the nation... |
tt0242256 | Alai Payuthey | Karthik Varadarajan (Madhavan) is an independent and free-spirited software engineering graduate establishing a software start-up with his friends. At a friend's wedding, he meets Shakti Selvaraj (Shalini), a student of medicine at Madras Medical College. They continue to bump into each other on local trains that they ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Mani Ratnam Attempts An Urban Love Story.
With 'Alai Payuthey', Mani Ratnam comes back with an urban love story set in contemporary India.
'Alai Payuthey' solely focuses on Karthik and Shakti's love story and how it develops from before till after marriage.
Ratnam's storytelling is sincere and even though one has witne... |
tt0016029 | The Little Colonel | Shortly after the American Civil War, southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd (Evelyn Venable) marries a northerner, Jack Sherman (John Lodge). Her father Colonel Lloyd (Lionel Barrymore) disowns her in anger and retaliation. Elizabeth and Jack move west where they become parents of a girl they name Lloyd Sherman (Shirley Templ... | cute, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Crusty old Colonel Lloyd (Lionel Barrymore) is used to having his ornery way so when he finds out his daughter Elizabeth (Evelyn Venable) is determined to run off with Yankee Jack Shermon (John Lodge) to be married, he confronts her in a heated exchange and vows never to see her again if she does, and then she leaves.S... |
tt0067810 | Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | A young African American orphan (Mario Van Peebles) is taken in by the proprietor of a Los Angeles brothel in the 1940s. While working there as a towel boy, he loses his virginity at a young age to one of the prostitutes. The women name him "Sweet Sweetback" in honor of his sexual prowess and large penis. As an adult, ... | violence, cult, avant garde, murder, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | Considered the first blaxploitation film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song features Melvin Van Peebles (who also directed, wrote, produced, edited and did music for the film) as Sweetback, a Los Angeles-area "male prostitute"/"sex performer" (who only has relations with females).
In terms of quality, Sweet Sweetback's... |
tt0118523 | 'Til There Was You | Gwen Moss (Jeanne Tripplehorn) has spent the better part of her life waiting for the man of her dreams, unaware she briefly bumped into him at school as children and has had several close encounters ever since. She aspires to have a life like her longtime friend Debbie (Jennifer Aniston), a successful doctor with a bea... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1105731 | Kuntilanak 2 | Samantha "Sam" is an orphaned young woman who moves to an isolated boarding house in North Jakarta, trying to avoid the advances of her pervert stepfather. The landlady of the house, Yanti, tells her that the house was previously a batik factory of Mangkoedjiwo family, with its current leader, Raden Ayu Sri Sukmarahimi... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0310281 | A Mighty Wind | The film is structured as mockumentary about a memorial concert for (fictional) folk music producer Irving Steinbloom. Upon his death, his children organize a concert, which they hope to feature his three most famous acts: The Folksmen, The New Main Street Singers, and Mitch & Mickey.
The Folksmen trio — Mark Shubb (Ha... | psychedelic, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt5378734 | Tres veces Ana | Ana Lucía, Ana Leticia, and Ana Laura Alvarez Del Castillo are identical triplets with very different personalities. Their parents died in a car accident when they were younger. It was believed that Ana Lucía had drowned in the river in which the family car fell and only Ana Leticia and Ana Laura survived. Local woman,... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1998395 | Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt | Jenna (Rhodes) invites Rocky (Edmundson), Catalina (Madix), and Kiana (Furs) to help her decorate her family's home for Halloween, while her mother is away for a week. The girls decide to take a break from decorating so that they can drink and dance. Rocky discovers a copy of a horror movie The Killer Eye, complete wit... | flashback | train | wikipedia | A group of girls (who look like they're from the adult film world) gather in a house to decorate it for halloween, and watch "The Killer Eye." There's a crystal ball that has powers, and their Killer Eye doll gets possessed and eventually turns on them.As this film features the girls watching the first Killer Eye movie... |
tt0103129 | Truly Madly Deeply | Nina, an interpreter, is beside herself with grief at the recent death of her boyfriend, Jamie, a cellist. When she is on the verge of despair, Jamie reappears as a "ghost" and the couple are reconciled. The screenplay never clarifies whether this occurs in reality, or merely in Nina's imagination. Nina is ecstatic, bu... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0111127 | Serial Mom | Beverly Sutphin appears to be a typical suburban housewife living with her dentist husband, Eugene, and their teenage children, Misty and Chip, in the suburbs of Baltimore. However, she is secretly a serial killer, murdering people over the most trivial of perceived slights, including mere faux pas.
During breakfast, D... | comedy, psychological, murder, violence, cult, satire, revenge | train | wikipedia | An uproariously witty satire on "petty" bourgeois American values, John Waters brings his own distinctive madness to the screen by focussing on cardboard cut-out caricatures of pop culture Americana.Turning his outrageous gaze on an archetypally perfect housewife and mother from the Baltimore suburbs in Maryland, suppo... |
tt0153464 | Up at the Villa | The action takes place in the late 1930s. 30-year-old Mary Panton, whose extraordinary beauty has always been one of her greatest assets, has been a widow for one year. Her late husband Matthew, whom she married at 21 because she loved him, turned out to be an alcoholic, a gambler, a womaniser, and a wife-beater. Mary ... | violence, intrigue | train | wikipedia | "You're never a great man, when you have more mind than heart." E.P. Beauchene In a nutshell, Mary, (Kristin Scott Thomas), a distractingly beautiful English widow has more heart than mind in this period piece.
I found it hard to believe that anything with Sean Penn and Kristin Scott Thomas would be awful and had to ch... |
tt0110950 | Reality Bites | Four friends who recently graduated from college live together in Houston, Texas. Coffee-house guitarist Troy Dyer and budding filmmaker Lelaina Pierce are attracted to each other, although they have not acted on their feelings except for one brief, drunken encounter. Troy is floundering, having lost several minimum wa... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0046005 | Little Johnny Jet | The cartoon follows the story of a B-29 Bomber named John, who is married to a Douglas DC-3 named Mary. John can't seem to find work at any airport because they're looking for jets. Mary later reveals that she's going to have a baby, and needing to find work to support his family, Johnny heads off to reenlist in the Ai... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The best of Tex Avery's cartoons giving human characteristics to inanimate objects. This cartoon was nominated for an Oscar, which is welcome although a bit puzzling, as this is a prototypical Tex Avery cartoon-take something ordinary, twist it in some odd or extraordinary way and fire sight gags at the audience for th... |
tt0118691 | The Beautician and the Beast | An American beautician named Joy Miller (Fran Drescher) teaches students to groom hair, but is put out of business when one of her students accidentally ignites hair spray with his cigarette, eventually leading to the school burning down. Joy ends up being highlighted in a newspaper article after she helps her students... | comedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | Fran Drescher absolutely blew me away, I had no idea she was so talented -- in this movie she absolutely shines!!
Her character "Joy Miller" is the Nanny all over again...but this time she has been hired (mistakenly) to teach the four children of a eastern-European dictator.
She has amazing comic timing and plays well ... |
tt0066122 | Deep End | Mike (John Moulder Brown), a 15-year-old dropout, finds a job in a public bath. There he is trained by his co-worker Susan (Jane Asher), a woman ten years his senior. Susan is a tease who plays with Mike's and other men's feelings, acting sometimes warm and affectionate and other times cold and distant. Working in the ... | tragedy, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | The film follows the adolescent obsession of a 15 year old (John Moulder Brown) seedy (Newford) Bath House attendent.
He falls under the romantic spell of a red haired tease (brilliantly played by Jane Asher), that toys with his emotions to the brink of taking him over the mental "deep end".
It contains the song "But I... |
tt0479863 | Black Widow | Mark Sherwin (Ayres) is driving in the country when he notices a man lying at the side of the road. Assuming the man is the victim of a hit-and-run, he stops to offer assistance, only to be coshed and left stunned while his wallet and car are stolen. On recovering his senses, he staggers towards a nearby farmhouse wher... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3721936 | American Honey | Star (Sasha Lane) is a teenager living in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She takes care of two younger children while being groped by their father (Johnny Pierce II). While trying to hitchhike home she spies a car full of teenagers and makes eye contact with Jake (Shia LaBeouf), one of the boys.
She follows them to a local K-Mart... | storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0787985 | Robin Hood | Alan-a-Dale introduces the story of Robin Hood and Little John, two outlaws living in Sherwood Forest, where they rob from the rich and give to the poor townsfolk of Nottingham, despite the efforts of the Sheriff of Nottingham to stop them. Meanwhile, Prince John and his assistant Sir Hiss arrive in Nottingham on a tou... | historical fiction | train | wikipedia | After the first 15 minutes of the BBC's new drama 'Robin Hood', I was pretty much certain that I wouldn't go further than the first episode.
What made sure I came back to watch the second, third and eventually entire series of this show was Lucy Griffiths as Maid Marian and Keith Allen as the deliciously ruthless Sheri... |
tt0047479 | Shield for Murder | Lieutenant Barney Nolan (Edmond O'Brien), a 16-year veteran of the police force, has had enough. In a secluded alley late one night, he fatally shoots a bookmaker in the back and steals the $25,000 he was carrying. He then claims the man was killed trying to escape custody. Sergeant Mark Brewster (John Agar), his frien... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095560 | Mac and Me | A NASA spacecraft has landed on an unknown planet and begins to take rock and soil samples. Four aliens discover it and are sucked up through its vacuum, after which it makes its way back to Earth. The aliens are able to escape from a military base by using their powers (with which they can destroy or heal anything the... | cult | train | wikipedia | But this poorly done film made its way onto one of my cable movie channels last night, and I feel the need to have a violent, outward reaction outside of the projectile vomiting I experienced.People, this film is bad.
And forgive me, but anybody who finds this 95-minute commercial for McDonalds and Coca-Cola to be warm... |
tt0064933 | El mundo del los muertos | Years after a zombie apocalypse, survivors have set up outposts across the United States. One outpost in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, contains a feudal-like government. Bordered on two sides by rivers and on the third by an electric fence, the city has become a sanctuary. The rich and powerful live in a luxury... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Solid Santo.... Making very good use of a creepy score and some genuinely atmospheric cinematography (not to mention enough action to keep things interesting), THE WORLD OF THE DEAD turns out to be one of the better Santo movies. Our hero gets the lion's share of time on screen (which always helps in a Santo movie), an... |
tt3409392 | Timbuktu | The city of Timbuktu is under the occupation of extremist Islamists bearing a jihadist black flag. Kidane is a cattle herder who lives outside of the city. One day, one of his cows accidentally damages the net of a fisherman. The enraged fisherman kills the cow. Kidane confronts the fisherman and accidentally shoots hi... | murder | train | wikipedia | Unsure, also, whether people can tell when different actors use different languages (Arabic, Tuareg, Bambara etc.).The soccer game scene is one of the best I saw this year on the big screen, and the one with the killing of astounding beauty.Definitely a great director at work here, despite obvious limited resources..
B... |
tt0258223 | Stranger Inside | Treasure Lee (Yolonda Ross) learns that her biological mother Brownie (Davenia McFadden) is incarcerated in an adult prison, so she purposely gets into trouble in order to be transferred from a juvenile facility to an adult women's facility in order to meet her. In the new prison, she reunites with an old friend Shadow... | violence | train | wikipedia | Lights Out, Girls!!.
A warts-and-all depiction of life on the inside for women in the United States, so don't expect to see any tellies in cells or parties for inmates here.
These girls are tougher than the skin of a burnt jacket potato, with violence and drug taking seen as an everyday occurrence.
It's a place where t... |
tt0105121 | The People Under the Stairs | Poindexter "Fool" Williams is a resident of a Los Angeles ghetto. He and his family are being evicted from their apartment by their landlords, the Robesons. The Robesons, who are believed to be a married couple, call themselves Mommy and Daddy. They have a daughter named Alice.
Leroy, his associate Spencer, and Fool br... | comedy, grindhouse film, gothic, murder, cult, horror, violence, insanity, satire, sadist | train | wikipedia | The boy quickly learns the true nature of the house's homicidal inhabitants and the secret creatures hidden deep within the house.I love the story, the idea from richer vs poor, you have a lead that it is a kid Brandon Adams is the star and the hero of the film.
Now Wes Craven, creator of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" ta... |
tt0282695 | Lone Hero | John Gray (Sean Patrick Flanery) is an actor in a Far West time touristic attraction village, named Profit, near a small town. He lives an eventless life, with his on-and-off girlfriend Sharon (Tanya Allen) his friends and co-workers Tim (Tyler Labine and Pablo (Alonso Oyarzun), and his mentor Gus (Robert Forster).
Unt... | suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | The "High Noon" story has been told so many ways on the screen that its hard to think that another retelling could be anything but tedious.
Surprisingly, however, "Lone Hero" is an entertaining, low-budget variant on the tale, thanks to a terrific performance by Lou Diamond Phillips as the vicious, but sardonically per... |
tt0362269 | Kinsey | Professor Alfred Kinsey is being interviewed about his sexual history. Interspersed with the interview, are flashbacks from his childhood and young-adulthood. The young child years show his father, a lay minister, denouncing modern inventions as leading to sexual sin, then in early adolescence, humiliating him in a sto... | psychological, queer | train | wikipedia | Bill Condon, working with his own material has come out with a movie that serves to illustrate how the work of Dr. Kinsey awoke the American public to a better understanding of their sexuality in ways no one, up to that point, had ever dared to show.
He was a man ahead of his times when he decided to gather information... |
tt1084972 | Wanted | Radhe (Salman Khan), a gangster with a mysterious past, kills others for money. He meets Jhanvi (Ayesha Takia) while she's doing fitness training and instantly falls in love with her. Even though their first meeting leads Jhanvi to think negatively about Radhe, she later begins to reciprocate his feelings. However, Tal... | revenge, neo noir, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | When i watched the movie i expected a lot as i am a big fan of Salman Khan.
Aisha Takia looks sexy as always, in my opinion she is very under rated in the business.is a story that will not be new to most regular bollywood movie watchers the twist is very good.Salman Khan looks very big in the movie and they show him as... |
tt0181262 | Thundarr the Barbarian | Thundarr the Barbarian is set in a future (c. 3994) post-apocalyptic wasteland divided into kingdoms or territories — the majority of which are ruled by wizards – and whose ruins typically feature recognizable geographical features from the United States, starting in New York City and working itself to Los Angeles, Las... | good versus evil, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | 'Thundarr the Barbarian' has been one of my favorite cartoons for years, holding a place beside 'Dungeons and Dragons', 'Heavy Metal' and 'Pirates of Dark Water'.
I started watching it when I was about 8 years old, and it was the coolest cartoon out there.
You had a post-apocalyptic world full of mutated creatures and ... |
tt0424437 | ShellShock: Nam '67 | The game starts in January 1967 in Saigon, South Vietnam. A CH-47 Chinook containing Caleb "Cal" Walker ,the game's protagonist, and other G.I.s, lands at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in southern Saigon. Walker, along with his squad mate, Private "Psycho" Kowalski, are chosen by Colonel Salter ,The CO to participate in an air... | violence | train | wikipedia | excellent war game. Shellshock is a very good and very violent war game set in the Vietnam war in 1967 Shellshock lets you play as a silent but tough soldier who must survive the harsh reality that is war.this game feels like a movie it has smart dialogue and realistic graphics. albeit it is over the top but it is real... |
tt0021750 | City Streets | Nan Cooley (Sylvia Sidney), the daughter of racketeer Pop Cooley (Guy Kibbee), is in love with The Kid (Gary Cooper), a shooting gallery showman. Cooley tries to urge him to join the gang, in order to earn enough money to support her in the lifestyle she is accustomed to, but The Kid refuses. Soon her father kills boot... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | I saw this film last night at a "pre-Code" film festival, and I have to tell you that when Gary Cooper turned his head for his introductory close-up, the entire audience gasped.
He was just that beautiful.Cooper's looks aside, this film displays Rouben Mamoulian's directorial artistry to perfection.
Wonderful scene-fad... |
tt2190152 | Watch Dogs | === Setting and characters ===
In the backstory of Watch Dogs, a computer hacker is discovered to have been behind the Northeast blackout of 2003, which led to eleven deaths. This event prompted the Blume Corporation to develop ctOS (Central Operating System) a supercomputer that connects everyone and everything — incl... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | 1. I want to begin with all the fuss that's on the web: This game got so popular before it even launched that people started already hating the game they haven't played.
If you are looking for a good story, like maybe: Max Payne - This game isn't for you.
I was amazed by the filling of hanging around outside by the ben... |
tt0165798 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) sees himself as a retainer of Louie (John Tormey), a local mobster, who saved Ghost Dog's life years ago. While living as a hired hitman for the American Mafia, he adheres to the code of the samurai, and interprets and applies the wisdom of the Hagakure in his contracts for the mob.
Louie te... | violence, psychedelic, philosophical, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai * * * * Stars Forest Whitaker stars in this amazingly good character driven film.
Whitaker is Ghost Dog, a New York hitman who lives by the code of the ancient samurai.
However both aspects work exceptionally well, the effect taken as a whole make this one of the best films of the past f... |
tt0113729 | Mad Love | Tordesillas, 1554. Seventy four years old, Queen Joanna of Castile, called Juana La Loca (Joanna the Madwoman), is still mourning the loss of her husband who died a half century before. Joanna remembers with emotion the man she loved passionately, but who brought her ruin. She does not fear death, she says, because dea... | insanity, romantic | train | wikipedia | Not to minimize the life-changing effects of clinical or chemical depression, because I'm not.) Drew generates a stellar performance here, and fully sells the range of emotions her character experiences.
The only solid thing here are the performances by Drew and Chris, and the profound sadness and sense of loss experie... |
tt0115484 | Agni Sakshi | Suraj Kapoor is a single, wealthy young man. One day he meets Shubangi, and they fall in love. Shortly thereafter they marry and settle down to enjoy a harmonious married life. During their stay at a hotel, the couple are approached by a man who claims that Shubangi is his wife and her real name is Madhu. Suraj and Shu... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0055767 | Baat Ek Raat Ki | Neela (Waheeda Rehman) is in police custody for committing a murder. Believing that she did it, she confesses. When renowned lawyer Rajeshwar (Dev Anand) decides to represent her, he accepts her guilt, but as he goes deep into the details of her story and the circumstances, he is not sure whether or not she is guilty. ... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt6481008 | Dil Boley Oberoi | This show focuses on the love lives of the Oberoi brothers, Omkara and Rudra.
=== Omkara-Gauri's love story ===
Omkara's character is ruthless, rude and strict, whereas Omkara's love interest, Gauri has a playful, free-spirited and happy character. They are very much opposites of each other. The first few episodes show... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0044013 | The Second Woman | This psychological thriller tells the story of Jeff Cohalan (Young). He is a successful architect who is tormented because his fiancée, Vivian Sheppard, was killed in a mysterious car accident on the night before their wedding. Blaming himself for her death, Cohalan spends his time alone, lamenting in the state-of-the-... | insanity, revenge, psychological, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0261265 | Rupert and the Frog Song | Rupert Bear decides to head off for a walk on the hills. With his Mother's blessing he sets off for a jolly trip, encountering his friends Edward Elephant and Bill Badger along the way, who are too busy to join him. As Rupert reaches a hill he props himself up against the trunk of an oak tree and enjoys the glory of th... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2027178 | O Homem do Futuro | In 2011, João "Zero", a bitter but brilliant physicist, spends his days brooding over a fateful night 20 years before when he was publicly betrayed and humiliated at a college party by his then-girlfriend, Helena. He now heads one of the largest scientific projects in Brazil, but his eccentricities and tantrums have br... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Absolutely Great !.
I will simply tell you that the scenario, the plot, the characters, the direction, the production values, the soundtrack are absolutely fantastic.
The casting and the acting are brilliant.
The main lead in particular is outstanding.
I am extremely happy to have had the curiosity to watch this film.
... |
tt0175447 | Antony and Cleopatra | Mark Antony – one of the triumvirs of the Roman Republic, along with Octavius and Lepidus – has neglected his soldierly duties after being beguiled by Egypt's Queen, Cleopatra. He ignores Rome's domestic problems, including the fact that his third wife Fulvia rebelled against Octavius and then died.
Octavius calls Anto... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | I was in high school when I saw this version of "Antony and Cleopatra" on the short-lived, occasional "ABC Theatre" on the US ABC television network.
I had read Shakespeare in English Literature class, of course, and had even attended some local productions of Shakespeare plays, but seeing this production totally chang... |
tt0149624 | All the Pretty Horses | In 1949, young cowboy John Grady Cole's maternal grandfather dies. John had grown up on his grandfather's ranch, but it was put up for sale when the old man died. His mother has no ties to it anymore, and would rather have the money. With no home, John asks his best friend Lacey Rawlins to leave his family ranch in San... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0343660 | 50 First Dates | Henry Roth is a veterinarian at Sea Life Park on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. He has a reputation of womanizing female tourists and does not display any interest in committing to a serious relationship. Henry's closest friends are Ula, a marijuana-smoking Islander; his assistant Alexa, whose gender is unclear; Willy, hi... | comedy, prank, entertaining, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | This movie, no matter all the overdone/overacted characters and the fact that Adam Sandler is probably the worst person in the world the act crying, is simply the best description of love ever.
Basically this is a romantic comedy about a man (Henry) and a woman (Lucy) who meet and fall in love, there is just one proble... |
tt0234853 | The Tao of Steve | Dex (Logue) is an unlikely Lothario - an overweight, thirtysomething part-time kindergarten teacher - who has developed an effective method for seducing women. "The Tao of Steve", Dex's own personal pseudophilosophy on seduction, combines a Taoist outlook with the qualities embodied by TV characters such as Steve Austi... | romantic, philosophical | train | wikipedia | Whatever the moniker, everyone knows the type: a guy with stunning looks, a killer smile, lines that don't sound like come-ons, a silky smooth demeanor, an athletic build, whose only problem is deciding which women's numbers to cull from his rolodex.
His life creed is based upon the Steves: Austin, McGarret, McQueen
... |
tt1582604 | Simha | Srimannarayana (Nandamuri Balakrishna) is a lecturer in a University in Hyderabad and lives with his grandmother (K. R. Vijaya). He does not tolerate injustice anywhere and mercilessly beats up people who dare to break the law, a personality which makes him feared and respected among others. A female lecturer Mahima (N... | good versus evil, revenge, cruelty, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Ballaya is the real Simha. When I first heard that SIMHA is creating new box office records, I thought about giving it a chance. I am a north Indian and haven't watched any of Ballaya's movie. Though I have watched more than 50 Telugu movies till now, a Ballaya movie has still eluded me. After watching the teasers of S... |
tt0105399 | Seong lung wui | In 1965, a couple (Sylvia Chang and James Wong) are doting on their newborn twin boys. Meanwhile, a dangerous gang leader named Crazy Kung (Kirk Wong) is being transported as a captive in the same hospital. Crazy Kung escapes and attempts to take one of the twins hostage. In the ensuing chaos, the twins are permanently... | cult, humor, violence, clever | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0427038 | Carlito's Way: Rise to Power | The story begins in the 1960s with three inmates in a New York prison — Earl (Van Peebles), Rocco (Kelly), and Carlito (Hernandez) — controlling their criminal empire within their cell. Upon their release, they all look to control the drug trade in Harlem, which is currently in a power dispute between the Italian Botto... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | I am a huge fan of the original Carlito's Way and when I heard about this, I thought it would be just like almost all the other sequels that come out in Hollywood.
Now, if any of you reading this are a Carlito's Way fan, you know a lot of the story in the first one has to do with him going to jail.*VERY MINOR SPOILER* ... |
tt1969062 | Infinitely Polar Bear | In the late 1970s, Cameron (Cam) Stuart (Mark Ruffalo) is a Boston man suffering from bipolar disorder. He has had a psychotic break, which has caused him to be fired from his job and hospitalized. To be able to afford to take care of their two young children, Cam's wife, Maggie (Zoe Saldana) moves herself and the chil... | storytelling, home movie | train | wikipedia | The scenes of his extended family are worth the price of admission alone.Zoe Saldana makes the move possible as she loves everything about Mark Ruffalo that anyone does.
Maya Forbes writes and directs a personal story of bittersweet childhood living in livid conditions with her sister, mother and eccentric bipolar fath... |
tt0050105 | An Affair to Remember | Nickie Ferrante (Cary Grant), a well-known playboy and dilettante in the arts, meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) aboard the Transatlantic ocean liner SS Constitution en route from Europe to New York. Each is involved with someone else. After a series of chance meetings aboard the ship, they establish a friendship. When ... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | Cary Grant is so debonair and suave and Deborah Kerr is so ravishing and stunningly beautiful, that it always demands repeated viewing from me (at least three times a year).
-- Grant's suavity, and the south of France settings are not just there to pose for the camera.All of the beauty of this film is there to do ve... |
tt0120844 | Star Trek: Insurrection | Lieutenant Commander Data (Brent Spiner) is temporarily transferred to an undercover mission observing the peaceful Ba'ku people. While on their planet, he malfunctions and reveals the presence of the joint Federation–Son'a task force observing the Ba'ku. Admiral Matthew Dougherty (Anthony Zerbe) contacts the USS Enter... | revenge, cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | In my personal opinion, and as an avid Next Generation fan, without a doubt "Insurrection" is one of the best Star Trek films, and the third outing for Picard, Riker, Deanna and the rest of the Next Generation crew stays most true to their esteemed television series.
Action, drama, comedy and romance follow in true Sta... |
tt0062482 | Welcome to Hard Times | A vicious stranger, the "Man from Bodie" (Aldo Ray), terrorizes the small settlement of Hard Times. (In Doctorow's book, the town is in the Dakota territory. In the movie, it is assumed to be in western Nevada.) He kills the only men who stand up to him, town founder Mr. Fee (Paul Birch) and town undertaker Mr. Hanson ... | revenge, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | this is one of the lousiest movies i've ever seen.The only reason i kept watching this is because i was trying to understand why H.Fonda was in this movie.It seems to be trying to promote pacifism but its so stupidly done that it actually manages the complete opposite,the viewer is convinced by the end of this movie th... |
tt0102729 | Pure Luck | The film opens as the klutzy Valerie Highsmith (Sheila Kelley) arrives at an airport in Puerto Vallarta. She calls her father (Wanamaker), a wealthy businessman, to let him know that she has arrived. While she is on the phone, she clumsily leans on the railing of her balcony and falls several stories onto a canvas. Soo... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0977855 | Fair Game | Valerie Plame is employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, a fact known outside the agency to no one except her husband and parents. She is an intelligence officer involved in a number of sensitive and sometimes dangerous covert operations overseas.
Her husband, Joseph C. Wilson, is a diplomat who most recently has ... | romantic, intrigue, historical, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0099460 | Downtown | Police Officer Alex Kearney (Edwards) is a patrolman in Bryn Mawr, a rich plush suburb of Philadelphia until he stops an important businessman and his story of the incident is not believed. He is sent to work Downtown, the most dangerous, crime filled precinct in the city. Everyone there is sure that this 'by the book'... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | Better than expected, funny, some good car chases.
Downtown wouldn't have been a personal choice but i was lent it with some other movies so I watched it.
I understood that Forest Whitaker was in downtown (actor of recent film The Last King Of Scotland) The film turned out to be quite reasonable, co-star Anthony Edward... |
tt0382734 | Harvie Krumpet | The story revolves around the life of Harvek Milos Krumpetzki, born in Poland in 1922. As a child, he begins to collect pieces of information he calls "fakts", which are presented throughout the film. At the outbreak of World War II, shortly after his parents' death in a house fire, he migrates to Australia as a refuge... | comedy, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0065738 | Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | The film begins with Baron Victor Frankenstein obtaining a brain for his next experiment, but he's surprised by a thief when he returns to his lab. The Baron destroys most of the evidence and moves on, with a haughty Police Inspector on his trail. He obtains a room at a boarding house run by Anna, whose fiance Karl is ... | insanity, gothic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0368314 | Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers | Opening
Footage of the protests at the 27th G8 summit in Genoa.
Fidel Castro gives a speech.
John Zerzan
John Zerzan is interviewed.
RealDoll
RealDoll manufacturer gives a tour of his warehouse, showing the variety and cost of the sex-dolls.
Cuba
Mirta Muñes shows the Cuban ration card, Cuban toothpaste.
Pre Fidel Spee... | avant garde | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0101701 | Delirious | Jack Gable is the lead writer and producer of the soap opera Beyond Our Dreams. Consumed by his work, he harbors an unspoken attraction to Laura Claybourne, the selfish actress playing the lead character, Rachel Hedison.
Jack crosses paths with Louise, who is there to audition for the part of Janet DuBois, a character ... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0305632 | Fascination | In April 1905 a group of fashionable Parisian women arrive at an abattoir to drink the blood of an ox as a way to cure anemia.
Nearby a man named Mark, a thief, escapes from four other thieves. He is planning on heading to London with a bag of gold coins, but for the time being must take refuge in a mansion, looked aft... | neo noir, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1474684 | Luther | The film begins during a thunderstorm in 1505, as Luther is returning to his home. For fear of losing his life in the storm, Luther commits his life to God and becomes an Augustinian monk.
In the next scene, it is 1507 and Luther is a monk in Erfurt. During his time at the monastery, he is constantly troubled by viewin... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0478394 | Vikaren | Jonathan Shale (Berenger) is a mercenary and a Vietnam veteran who returns home to Miami after a botched covert operation in Cuba in which three men from his platoon were killed. He surprises his girlfriend, Jane Hetzko (Diane Venora) at her apartment and is warmly welcomed. On the outside, Jane is a schoolteacher at i... | cult, horror | train | wikipedia | One might be ready to believe a film about Middle School children to be a Ghost House movie.
But, this isn't about Middle School children, it is about the substitute teacher in the 6th grade class.The students know right away that something isn't right, but it isn't until later that they discover just what is wrong.
Of... |
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