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tt0090563 | 37°2 le matin | Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) is a 34-year-old aspiring writer making a living as a handyman for a community of beach houses in the seaside resort at Gruissan on France's mediterranean coast. He meets 19-year-old Betty (Béatrice Dalle), a volatile and impulsive young woman, and the two begin a passionate affair, living in... | insanity, cult | train | wikipedia | The same intensity that drives her sexuality and her love for Zorg is, ultimately, her downfall.Over the course of the movie, which is quite long (I saw the 178 minute director's cut), Zorg goes to increasingly frantic lengths both to please Betty and to protect her from herself.
As well as providing a narrative that m... |
tt0267408 | Dance Party USA | Apathetic 17-year-old Gus spends most of his time hanging around doing nothing with his buddy Bill. Gus likes to tell half-true stories about all the girls he’s slept with and all the drugs he’s done. Jessica is seventeen too. She doesn't seem to have much in common with anyone anymore – not even her best friend Christ... | non fiction | train | wikipedia | Ahh, the dance shows of yesteryear.
The thing that I liked about this dance show was that they used regular people off the street instead of professional dancers and models like Soul Train and Solid Gold was doing during the same period.
It was a breath of fresh air.
I wish some exec would create a Dance channel and do... |
tt0375791 | Gundaraj | Ajay Chauhan lives with his parents and younger sister. He is in love with Pooja, and hopes to marry her someday. His father wants him to get a job and settle down, and then get married. Ajay applies for a job in Bombay, and soon receives a letter asking him to appear for an interview. He attends the interview, and is ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Ajay Devgan's routine film. Ajay Devgan in 1990's played mostly roles wherein he is convicted for a murder or something and he takes revengeThis is one of those filmsThose days Ajay had a side parting hair look, those small fitting black jackets and those brooding eyes in most filmsThe story is done to death, though it... |
tt1736555 | Caged | A married 19-year-old, Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker), is sent to prison after a botched armed robbery attempt with her equally young husband, Tom, who is killed. While receiving her initial prison physical, she finds out that she is two months pregnant.
Marie has trouble adjusting to the monotonous and cutthroat world o... | revenge, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | somewhere between Giallo and soft core. I came across this DVD while visiting the Netherlands. The sleeve of the DVD looked promising and it was filed in the shop under 'horror'. But I can't really classify it under that label. There are of course some scary moments but there's more going on. I guess that the director ... |
tt0070533 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | The plot of the novel varies between each of the published versions. The summary below deals with the longest version, the 1891 novel. However, certain episodes described—in particular Dorian's encounter with, and murder of, James Vane—do not appear in the version originally submitted by Wilde to Lippincott's.
The Pict... | gothic | train | wikipedia | This was originally broadcast in the early 1970s, by ABC Circle Films, I think, and it was a great drama for its time and it still holds up well today.
Dan Curtis, who directed this also has a big collection of the Dark Shadows series and he has a good feel for the gothic aspects of the 19th century story.
Altho it fol... |
tt0097270 | Elephant | Mr. McFarland driving erratically down a residential street on the way to drop off his son John. John notices damage to the car and realizes that his father is drunk, so John instructs him to move to the passenger seat and let him drive.
Alex and Eric are bullied at school by the so-called jocks, one of whom diverts a ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | There was a certain amount of hoo-ha about it, as the BBC had already put it back for a few months - films about the North of Ireland were, and are, touchy subjects.
The complete absence of story, dialogue and explanation serves to bring home the fact that, after all the talk and propaganda and fine words about freeing... |
tt1320296 | Shank | The film is set in Bristol (several shots feature the Clifton Suspension Bridge, and one appears to show the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta). Cal (Wayne Virgo) is a 19-year-old closeted gay gang member who has nothing in his life except drugs, sex, random acts of violence and a secret that he keeps hidden from hi... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0120861 | The Theory of Flight | Richard (Branagh), an unsuccessful artist who builds primitive flying machines, attempts to fly from the roof of a London office building wearing homemade wings but fails, instead crash-landing and only being saved by a rescue squad. As a result of his actions Richard is sentenced to community service, in the form of c... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The driving force in the movie is no doubt Jane, a young woman who faces the fact that she shall die soon.
(Bonham Carter) I am a veteran of pictures which feature a dying character with a physical disability.
But those films somehow never got the character to seem like a person.
Another beautiful quality of the film i... |
tt0371922 | Saaya | Akash "Akki" (John Abraham) and his wife Maya (Tara Sharma) are doctors. When malaria strikes India on the Burmese border, pregnant Maya rushes over to help, despite Akki's disapproval. Akash soon receives the news of her death caused by a bus crash. The bus crashed into water at heavy rains.
Akash cannot accept Maya's... | romantic, haunting, flashback | train | wikipedia | Thoughtful and mature.
So the story goes like this: Akash Bhatnagar (John Abraham; a.k.a Akki) is a doctor who loses his wife Maya (Tara Sharma) in an accident.
Unable to cope with his loss, he begins to see and hear things that convince him that his dead wife is trying to contact him.
His friends, like Tanya (Mahima C... |
tt0112572 | The Brady Bunch Movie | Larry Dittmeyer, an unscrupulous real estate developer, explains to his supervisor that almost all the families in his neighborhood have agreed to sell their property as part of a plan to turn the area into a shopping mall, except for the Brady family.
At the Bradys' house, Mike and Carol are having breakfast prepared ... | romantic, comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | An excellent movie on the whole, complete with cameos by the original Brady Bunch cast and '70s icons.The beauty of this movie, has I've mentioned before, is that it is done so authentically.
There are little touches here and there (you may need to watch the movie a few times to notice), such as 'The Partridge Family' ... |
tt0246404 | The 24th Day | Tom (Scott Speedman) and Dan (James Marsden) meet in a bar and then proceed to Tom's apartment together. While there, Dan realizes that he had been in that same apartment before. Five years earlier, Dan and Tom had a one night stand there. According to Tom, that encounter with Dan was his first and only homosexual expe... | revenge, suspenseful, queer, flashback | train | wikipedia | Without giving away the plot, let me say that almost every minute of the taught, carefully crafted script is imbued with thoughtful discussion on issues that are all to frequently ignored by sexually active gay men.
As great as the material is on its own, it takes a couple of powerhouse actors to sustain tension and in... |
tt0108432 | Umi ga kikoeru | At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite. Later, as his flight to Kōchi Prefecture takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life. The story is told in flashback.
In Kōchi, two years prior, Taku receives a call from his friend, Yutaka Matsuno, askin... | psychedelic, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | If you appreciate a fine subtle authentic slice-of-life story of high school romance, this is as good as it gets.Its told from the point of view of a male student.
By the end of the film lessons are learned and the heart strings are pulled.This movie doesn't try to do too much; it simply focuses on the main characters ... |
tt0405833 | The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay | === Setting and characters ===
Escape from Butcher Bay is set in the futuristic science fiction universe of the Chronicles of Riddick franchise, and is a prequel to the film Pitch Black. The game takes place inside Butcher Bay, a maximum-security prison from which no prisoner has escaped. The facility—constructed on a ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1182908 | Krazzy 4 | Raja (Arshad Warsi) has a temper problem, Gangadhar (Rajpal Yadav) has an obsession of freedom, Dr. Mukherjee (Irrfan Khan), is a clean freak and Dabboo (Suresh Menon), has not spoken in years. Dr. Sonali (Juhi Chawla) is treating all four of them.
While Raja is diagnosed with Intermittent Explosive Disorder due to his... | satire, flashback | train | wikipedia | A movie from Rakesh Roshan expected lot more than this script and dialogues.
Juhi Chawla and Arsad Warsi's acting are wasted in this movie.
It is an entertainer but doesn't have excellent humour.
The plot of four mental people running around the city to save their doctor who is kidnapped doesn't enthral you.It could ha... |
tt0119164 | The Full Monty | The once-successful steel mills of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, have shut down and most of the employees have been laid off. Former steel workers Gary "Gaz" Schofield and Dave Horsefall have resorted to stealing scrap metal from the abandoned mills to sell. Gaz is facing trouble from his former wife, Mandy and her boyfr... | cute, comedy, entertaining, sentimental | train | wikipedia | Peter Cattaneo's direction was inspired, and he knew the right angles to use (check out the scene when the lads were auditioning new members, particularly Guy) for perfect comedic effect.I admit that some of the sub-plots needed more fleshing out, particularly between Gaz and Nathan as well as Gerald and his wife.
And ... |
tt0046783 | The Black Dakotas | Over footage from The Man from Colorado, opening titles inform the audience that during the Civil War the Confederate States of America sent agitators to the American West to incite Indian tribes against the Federal Government to draw troops away from battles in the East.
In 1864 a stagecoach containing two passengers ... | violence, murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Murky Machinations Afoot..
Ray Nazarro directs from a screenplay written by Ray Buffum and DeVallon Scott.
It stars Gary Merrill, Wanda Hendrix, John Bromfield, Noah Beery Junior, Jay Silverheels, Fay Roope and Howard Wendell.
Music is by Mischa Bakaleinikoff and Technicolor cinematography is by Ellis W.
Carter."During... |
tt0086617 | The Year of Living Dangerously | Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson), a neophyte foreign correspondent for an Australian network, arrives in Jakarta on assignment. He meets the close-knit members of the foreign correspondent community including journalists from the United Kingdom, the United States, and New Zealand, diplomatic personnel, and a Chinese-Australia... | murder | train | wikipedia | Eventually Hamilton must confront moral conflicts and the relationship between Billy and him reaches some problems connected with a British diplomatic attaché , at the same time the political upheaval takes place in coup détat.Mel Gibson is good as correspondent covering a conflict and finding himself becoming personal... |
tt0098486 | Der Todesking | Monday A man comes home, phones his boss to resign from his job, writes mysterious letters, cleans his apartment and swallows poison in his bathtub. His death is simultaneous with the death of his fish, the only being that was close to him.
Tuesday A man rents a film in a video store, a Nazisploitation movie in which N... | cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, insanity, sadist | train | wikipedia | 'Der Todesking' is my first experience with Jorg Buttgereit.
This of course awoke my curiosity so I ordered Nekromantik 1 & 2 and Der Todesking (The Death King).
The Nekromantik movies are Ok, even kind of interesting and unique in their approach to the subject Necrophilia (even if they obviously are horror-opera entri... |
tt0122264 | The Spirit of Christmas | While on a school field trip to a candy factory, Butters spots actor Tom Cruise working there, packing fudge into boxes. Stan, who previously told Cruise that his acting is not as good as others' in "Trapped in the Closet", accidentally insults him again by calling him a "fudge packer", as Cruise claims to be fly fishi... | cult, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Jesus, Santa Claus and Brian Boitano visit South Park for Christmas.
The Spirit of Christmas (a.k.a South Park The Un-Aired Plot of 1995), is actually the second instalment of South Park Christmas shorts, with 1992 The Spirit of Christmas: Mr.Frost being the pioneer.
And if you are looking for an original South Park sh... |
tt0478305 | Triloquist | In a hotel in Hollywood California, a young lady (Dagmar Peterson) is a down and out ventriloquist who can't find work anymore. She is also a drug addict. One night the hotel manager comes in and tells her she has to pay the rent tomorrow or her and her two kids, Angelina and Norbert, will be thrown out.
The mother doe... | murder | train | wikipedia | Pretty much from the start it's clear where this movie is coming from and what you should expect from it.
If you are looking for an even vaguely serious, linear movie that tells a story that all hangs together and makes sense then you better look elsewhere.
There's a good smattering of silicone free nudity however, so ... |
tt0093199 | Hol volt, hol nem volt | Andris is a child living in Budapest. He is conceived when his mother Maria is attracted to a mysterious stranger during a performance of "The Magic Flute". The stranger disappears after the conception, and as a result Andris does not know his father. The law states that a boy should have his father's name, even if the... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0053922 | Horse Hare | In 1886 during the Indian wars, Bugs Bunny is hired by the USA Cavalry as a Sergeant. Sergeant Bugs is told to watch an American army base in Utah's desert as the cavalry battles an Indian army. Bugs patrols the fort, but an Indian army led by Yosemite Sam want to take it. Sam orders an attack on the fort and they fire... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0044765 | The Jazz Singer | Cantor Rabinowitz wants his son to carry on the generations-old family tradition and become a cantor at the synagogue in the Jewish ghetto of Manhattan's Lower East Side. But down at the beer garden, thirteen-year-old Jakie Rabinowitz is performing so-called jazz tunes. Moisha Yudelson spots the boy and tells Jakie's f... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1241329 | The River Why | The River Why is an adaptation of the 1983 Sierra Club novel by David James Duncan. The coming-of-age tale centers on a young man named Augustine "Gus" Orviston (Zach Gilford) and his quest for an elusive rainbow trout, which is a metaphor for the man's internal search for self-knowledge. Amber Heard plays his love int... | philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0355857 | Onmyoji | At the construction of a new capital of Japan, Heian, a ceremony is performed to prevent the attacks of the vengeful spirit of Prince Sawara, who had been wrongfully accused of committing treason and put to death. An official announces the construction of a holy barrier that will trap Prince Sawara's spirit and prevent... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0071269 | California Split | A friendship develops between Bill Denny (George Segal) and Charlie Waters (Elliott Gould) over their mutual love of gambling. Charlie is a wisecracking joker and experienced gambler constantly looking for the next score. Initially, Bill is not as committed a gambler (he works at a magazine during the day), but he is w... | cult | train | wikipedia | Its stars -- Elliot Gould and George Segal -- were at the top of their form, free and comfortable working in Altman's off-the-cuff, low-key style.
Altman makes the camera disappear in a movie about gambling that still feels fresh 35 years later.
It's surprising how little known California Split is but even in a career ... |
tt0416712 | Elaan | Elaan is a declaration of war against the reign of terror unleashed by the ganglords. The story revolves around an upright and principled Police Officer, A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary whose eldest son Vikas is killed in a pre-planned accident. But the A.C.P. is unable to nab the culprits for want of valid evidence. Consequ... | good versus evil, murder | train | wikipedia | I especially loved Rahul Khanna's acting in this one.
I also loved the special friendship that the five heroes developed as they plotted the ultimate demise of Baba, an evil man who needed his just desserts.
I especially enjoyed the location scenes in Europe; the road action scene was spectacular!
Give it a try for you... |
tt0971204 | Long Pigs | Two desperate and young filmmakers stumble upon the ultimate subject, a 33-year-old cannibalistic serial killer named Anthony McAllister, who has agreed to let them document every aspect of his horrifically violent life-style. Initially terrified, the filmmakers get to know Anthony as a person. They even begin to ident... | violence | train | wikipedia | If Nothing Else, A Phenomenal Display of Practical Effects.
Two young directors film the hunt and butchering of a prostitute by a local cannibal serial killer.
For example, the cannibal (Anthony Alviano) seems younger and nerdier than expected, which took away some of the realism.
A fine actor, he easily could have pas... |
tt0432236 | Kidnapped | The central character and narrator is 17-year-old David Balfour. (Balfour is Stevenson's mother's maiden name.) His parents have recently died, and he is out to make his way in the world. He is given a letter by the minister of Essendean, Mr. Campbell, to be delivered to the House of Shaws in Cramond, where David's unc... | historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0056952 | The Cool World | In 1945, World War II veteran Frank Harris returns to his mother in Las Vegas. Riding a motorcycle that he won in Italy, Frank and his mother are struck by a drunk couple. Frank survives, but his mother dies. As an ambulance takes her away, Frank is transported to Cool World, an animated city of weird landscapes and ra... | violence, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0042895 | Rio Grande | Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke (John Wayne) is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against attacks by marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress between the Apaches using Mexico as a sanctuary from pursuit and by a serious shortage of troops of his command. The action of the movie is set in the summer... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0116714 | Johns | It's Christmas Eve and John (David Arquette) is asleep in a Los Angeles park. He awakens as someone is stealing his shoes, in which he keeps his money. He chases the thief but can't catch him. John is angered not only because those are his "lucky" sneakers but because he's trying to accumulate enough money for an overn... | violence, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0351997 | X-Men: Next Dimension | Narrated by Patrick Stewart (reprising his role as Professor Charles Xavier from the X-Men films), the game's plot is built around the Prime Sentinels retrieving the head of Bastion, and Bastion's subsequent attempt to wipe out mutant-kind. The game opens with the Prime Sentinels freeing Bastion from S.H.I.E.L.D. impri... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | This Game is so...........COOL!. this game is one of the best x-men games of all times. Even tough there are some characters that are rubbish, but there are some characters that rock! like for example...Rogue-Good-she is super strong and when you play her you don't realise that it knocks out at a lot of your enemy's en... |
tt3072546 | Santa Diabla | Santa Diabla is the story of Santa Martínez (Gaby Espino), a woman who seeks revenge for the murder of her husband Willy Delgado (Lincoln Palomeque). Santa's revenge includes marrying Humberto Cano (Carlos Ponce), a powerful attorney in Marrero. Humberto hired Willy Delgado to give piano lessons to Humberto's niece Dan... | revenge, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | awful story.
when this story started it was entertaining, kept my attention for a little while, then it turned into a "culebron".
The story makes no sense, nobody works in this story.
i still don't know how Santa Diabla eats.
don't understand her motives for so much rage.
this Telenovela has turn out to be a complete d... |
tt0287537 | Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega | A story about a troubled young businessman, Prakash (Saif Ali Khan). He is married to Sapna (Sonali Bendre), who is the daughter of famous rich businessman, Rajiv Chopra (Dalip Tahil). Rajiv Chopra totally hates Prakash, and troubles him all the time. Prakash, who is fed up of being troubled by Chopra, then makes a pla... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | What is this?. Love Ke Liye Kuch Be Karega While I was roaming around at the video store, I happened to find this in the new releases section. I first took a look at the cast list and was quite impressed with the star list. With names like Sonali Bendre, Aftab, Fardeen Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Twinkle Khanna, and Dilip Tah... |
tt0965375 | Breaking Point | Harry Morgan (John Garfield), is a sport-fishing boat captain whose business is on the skids and whose family is feeling the economic pinch. He begins to work with a shady lawyer, Duncan (Wallace Ford), who persuades him to run illegal immigrants into California. Harry also begins a flirtation with Leona Charles (Patri... | murder | train | wikipedia | Thrilled crime-drama, but not "enough" worth..
Breaking Point (showed as Order of Redemption in my cable-TV) was the crime drama movie which could make everyone go to the deepest of darkness.
The movie blasted viewers with violence, drugs, and especially, women's abusive which more than a half of women in the world cou... |
tt0483437 | Still Life | Still Life is set in Fengjie, a city upstream of the massive Three Gorges Dam. Now marked for flooding, the city undergoes a process of self-deconstruction. Into this dying town comes Han Sanming, a coal-miner from the province of Shanxi who has returned in search of a wife who ran away sixteen years ago. Upon arriving... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0398375 | Rumor Has It... | In 1997, Sarah Huttinger, an obituary and wedding announcement writer for The New York Times, travels to Pasadena, California, for her sister Annie's wedding, accompanied by her fiancé Jeff Daly. At a pre-wedding party, Sarah learns from her grandmother Katharine that her mother Jocelyn ran off to Cabo San Lucas to spe... | romantic, humor, cute, boring | train | wikipedia | Jennifer Aniston plays Sarah Huttinger, a journalist about to get married to her boyfriend (Mark Ruffalo) when she's called back to Pasadena for her sister's wedding.
There, she meets millionaire playboy Beau Burroughs (Kevin Costner) who had relations with both her mother and grandmother, an incident that might have i... |
tt0076240 | Jubilee | Queen Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre) is transported forward in time by the occultist John Dee (Richard O'Brien) by the aid of the spirit guide Ariel (a character from William Shakespeare's The Tempest) whom he commands. Elizabeth arrives in the shattered Britain of the 1970s. Queen Elizabeth II is dead, killed in an arbit... | cult, comedy, psychedelic, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | With this film, Jarman mixes his own social and political ideologies with the ideas at the forefront of punk; taking both the sense of liberation and the dangerous sense of apathy and aggression presented in both the style and the attitude of that particular era, and applying it to a story that involves elements of his... |
tt0099800 | House Party | In their high-school cafeteria, Peter, also known as "Play" (Christopher "Play" Martin) announces to his friends Christopher aka "Kid" (Reid) and Bilal (Martin Lawrence) that he will be having a party at his house that night, as his parents are on vacation. The reluctant Bilal is to be the DJ. Kid is then involved in a... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | But also one of the most copied haircuts in recent history.Play(Christopher Martin) is having this banging HOUSE PARTY with buddy Bilal(Martin Lawrence) DJing.
But their best friend Kid(Christopher Reid) can't go because he's Pops(Robin Harris in a terrific performance) grounded him.
So he sneaks out to join the party,... |
tt0064541 | Kes | Fifteen-year-old Billy Casper has little hope in life. He is picked on, both at home by his physically and verbally abusive older half-brother, Jud, and at school, by his schoolmates and by abusive teachers. Although he insists that his earlier petty criminal behavior is behind him, he occasionally steals eggs and milk... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0933357 | The Danish Poet | The film follows Kaspar Jørgensen, a Danish poet in the 1940s who is seeking inspiration. At the suggestion of his psychiatrist, Dr. Mørk, he travels to Norway to meet the famous author Sigrid Undset. However, after arriving in Norway, he meets Ingeborg, a farmer's daughter, and they fall in love. He proposes to her, b... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Charming.
I understand that this won the Oscar for the category it falls under when it came out.
I haven't seen any of the competition, so I can't compare, but it certainly is great.
It's a fairy tale in a modern setting, and not everyone will care for the world view arguably presented herein.
This is sweet, without be... |
tt0049501 | Michel Strogoff | Michael Strogoff, a 30-year-old native of Omsk, is a courier for Tsar Alexander II of Russia. The Tartar Khan (prince), Feofar Khan, incites a rebellion and separates the Russian Far East from the mainland, severing telegraph lines. Rebels encircle Irkutsk, where the local governor, a brother of the Tsar, is making a l... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0088286 | Top Secret! | Nick Rivers, a highly successful United States rock star ("Skeet Surfing"), travels to East Germany to perform at a cultural festival, which secretly serves the East German government as a diversion for an illegal military operation with the intent of reuniting Germany under their rule. At a dinner, Nick encounters Hil... | plot twist, comedy, entertaining | train | wikipedia | In the dinner scene at the "Hotel Gay Schluffen", Nick Rivers (played by Val Kilmer, and this may be the best thing he's ever done), American rock star, is told that he needs a jacket to eat in the dining room, but the restaurant will provide one.
It's funny, but the amazing thing is that I've seen this movie many time... |
tt0058401 | Night Must Fall | Mrs. Bramson (Dame May Whitty) is an irascible elderly woman who holds court in a small English village. She pretends to need a wheelchair, and impulsively threatens to fire her maid, Dora (Merle Tottenham), for allegedly stealing and breaking china. Meanwhile, the household learns that the police have searched a nearb... | murder | train | wikipedia | The great Albert Finney and his mysterious hat-box!.
To start with a little off-topic note: in 2003, Tim Burton made the film "Big Fish" which stars Ewan McGregor as a younger version of Albert Finney.
When you actually see "Night Must Fall", which was shot around the time when Finney was in his late 30's, it becomes o... |
tt0227194 | One 2 Ka 4 | The story is about two friends and cops, Javed (Jackie Shroff) and Arun (Shahrukh Khan), who are both Special Task Force officers and partners.
Javed is a widower who is bringing up his 4 children with a lot of love and effort while Arun is his carefree, hotheaded, trigger happy albeit well-meaning subordinate and brot... | prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1472195 | The Violent Kind | Cody, Q, and Elroy are second-generation bikers and drug dealers who plan to visit Cody's family at a remote cabin for his mother's birthday party; Shade, Q's girlfriend and Cody's cousin, joins them. When they arrive, they meet Cody's ex-girlfriend, Michelle, and her younger sister, Megan, who has a crush on Cody. Aft... | violence | train | wikipedia | The central characters in The Violent Kind sure don't conform to the 'ugly, burly, leather-clad, bandana-wearing thug with unkempt beard and long unwashed hair' biker stereotype: best friends Q and Cody (Cory Knauf), members of tough Northern Californian gang 'The Crew', look like aspiring Levi's models, sporting caref... |
tt0113690 | Lord of Illusions | In the Mojave Desert in 1982, a man named Nix has gathered a cult in an isolated house, where he plans to sacrifice a young girl that he has kidnapped. Nix calls himself "The Puritan" and has the ability to use real magic. A group of former cult members, including Swann and Quaid, arrive to stop him. After the initial ... | insanity, violence, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090142 | Teen Wolf | Scott Howard is a seventeen-year-old high school student who is sick of being average. Living in a small town, his only claim to popularity is playing on the Beavers; his school's basketball team (which is very unsuccessful) and fawning after his crush Pamela Wells, who is dating his rival Mick. Mick plays for the Drag... | cult, comedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | Fox turns into a werewolf and becomes a popular star of his high school basketball team.
The whole school turns wolf crazy but Fox learns the right lesson in the end.
Fox finds he can transform into a werewolf with superhuman powers - his "problem" makes him the most popular guy in high school and creates a winning bas... |
tt0082466 | Gosti iz galaksije | Robert is a hotel doorman who is obsessed with science fiction. He plans to write an SF novel about three alien androids—Andra and children Targo and Ulu—who land on Earth coming from an advanced civilisation from the galaxy of Arkana. He is constantly disrupted by his girlfriend Biba and his neighbour Tino, a photogra... | absurd, psychedelic, dark, flashback | train | wikipedia | Yugoslavian Sci-Fi with the sense of humour. Cinematography of Ex-Yugoslavia was really big and strong but it hadn't many sci-fi movies, "Visitors from The Arkana Galaxy " or Gosti Iz Galaksije on Serbo-Croatian was only sci-fi movie produced in Ex-Yugoslavia. I was really curious to see this movie because it is made i... |
tt0419277 | X-Men Legends | X-Men Legends is not set in any particular Marvel Comics universe. It is played from the perspective of a teenage girl named Alison Crestmere, a mutant with the ability to control volcanic activity. At the start of the game Alison is abducted by the Genetic Research and Security Organization (GRSO). As GRSO soldiers ta... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0084899 | White Dog | Young actress Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) accidentally runs over a stray White German Shepherd Dog one night. After the dog is treated by a vet, Julie takes him home while trying to find his owners. A rapist breaks into her house and tries to attack her, but the dog protects her so she decides to adopt him, against ... | tragedy, allegory, cult, murder, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0049014 | The Black Tent | The film begins with a tank battle where blonde-haired Captain Holland (Anthony Steel) is sprawled unconscious beside his tank on the sand. When he comes to, he walks over the dunes until collapsing near a Bedouin encampment at an oasis. He is found by the sheik's daughter, Mabrouka (Anna Maria Sandri), who takes him t... | romantic | train | wikipedia | An interesting idea, though its execution is a bit slow and dull..
"The Black Tent" begins with a man in Britain being told that his brother, the heir to the family fortune, MIGHT still be alive in North Africa--over a decade after he was assumed to have died fighting in WWII.
However, when he tracks down the Bedoins w... |
tt0098987 | The Adventures of Ford Fairlane | Ford Fairlane (Andrew Dice Clay) is seen sitting on a beach smoking as the film opens. A flashback initiates, showing a roaring crowd at a concert given by fictional popular heavy metal band The Black Plague. Lead singer Bobby Black (Vince Neil) makes an eccentric entrance down a zip-line onto the stage and begins perf... | comedy, neo noir, murder, stupid, cult, violence, insanity, absurd, humor, satire, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | I should note that I'm SO not a fan of Andrew "Dice" Clay, I think his stand-up shows suck, big time.
But here, he's simply fantastic as Ford Fairlane, the Rock'n Roll Detective, who mostly gets paid in the form of gifts or memorabilia.Dice's jokes here work perfectly each time, one quotable line after another ("so man... |
tt0053131 | The Nun's Story | Gabrielle "Gaby" Van Der Mal (Audrey Hepburn), whose father Hubert (Dean Jagger) is a famous surgeon in Belgium, enters a convent of nursing sisters in the late 1920s in the hopes of eventually becoming a missionary nursing sister in the Belgian Congo. After being given the name of Sister Luke and undergoing a postulan... | insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | Perched high atop the list of the finest American movies of the 1950's, Fred Zinnemann's "The Nun's Story" is an intensely beautiful and powerful film about a woman who undergoes a crisis of faith and, through her struggle, learns the importance of finding one's true path in life.
Based on the novel by Kathryn Hulme, t... |
tt0411004 | Life As We Know It | Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) is the owner of a small Atlanta bakery, and Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel), (often just known as "Messer") is a promising television technical sports director for the Atlanta Hawks. Their best friends Peter (Hayes MacArthur), an attorney, and Alison Novak (Christina Hendricks) set them up o... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0019745 | The Canary Murder Case | Charles Spotswoode's son Jimmy became involved with "the Canary", a conniving star showgirl. Fortunately, Jimmy has regained his senses and reconciled with Alyce LaFosse. However, the Canary is determined to force Jimmy to marry her so she can join the social elite, threatening to reveal that Jimmy was embezzling from ... | murder | train | wikipedia | This film is today memorable only for those interested in the struggles the studios went through during the conversion to sound, and those interested in the fortunes of two of Hollywood's most fascinating characters, William Powell, and Louise Brooks.Powell is cast as Philo Vance and plays him in a straight, deadpan ma... |
tt0060048 | 40 Guns to Apache Pass | In the Arizona Territory 1868,the Apaches, led by Cochise (Michael Keep), are on the warpath. Army Captain Bruce Coburn (Audie Murphy) is tasked with escorting homesteaders to Apache Wells where they can concentrate their defense against the Apache. But there is dissension in the ranks as some of the men under Coburn’s... | violence | train | wikipedia | Audie Murphy's last starring western proves a disappointment.
40 GUNS TO APACHE PASS (1966) was the last starring western for war hero-turned-western star Audie Murphy, who had ended his fruitful 15-year association with Universal Pictures the previous year.
Released by Columbia Pictures, it turned out to be an unfitti... |
tt0115633 | Bastard Out of Carolina | The book opens with Bone relating the details of her birth. Bone's 15-year-old mother Anney gives birth to her after being seriously injured in a car accident. Anney, who is comatose during the delivery, is unable to lie about being married. Her mother and older sister Ruth attempt to give a false name and are caught i... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0101325 | American Kickboxer | B.J. Quinn (John Barrett) is the current middleweight kickboxing champion of the world. His next opponent is Chad Hunter (Keith Vitali). Hunter proves to be quite the opponent with his impressive skills. In the second round, Quinn accidentally hits Chad with an elbow while going for a spinning back fist, causing the do... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0105812 | White Men Can't Jump | Billy Hoyle is a former Iowa Hawkeyes basketball player who makes his living by hustling streetballers that assume he cannot play well because he is white. Billy never degrades his race when joining on pickup games; he simply allows his opponents to falsely believe they have a natural advantage over him. Such a player ... | cult, comedy, entertaining, humor | train | wikipedia | Granted the field of movies about basketball isn't nearly as deep as say movies with plots concerning baseball or boxing, Hoosiers still generally beats out what little competition there is.However in my opinion the best movie to ever capture the game of hoops is the criminally underrated and underseen White Men Can't ... |
tt0088163 | Splitz | Hooter College student Chuck (Chuck McQuary) has decided academics aren’t going to get him anywhere in life, so he’s taken to managing a band his classmates have formed called The Splitz, which consists of lead singer Joan (Patti Lee), guitarist Gina (Robin Johnson) and drummer Susie (Barbara Bingham). The Splitz strug... | revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | Animal House gone Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Sometimes you don't want to see Gone With The Wind. Sometimes you just want to see a good, old fashioned titty-flic. They don't make films like these anymore: films that fell somewhere between the drive-in, the grind house and late night cable. SPLITZ was one of the ama... |
tt0419730 | Eolguleobtneun minyeo | Though the film is presumed lost, a synopsis survives in The Moving Picture World from December 31, 1910. It states, "May Smalley is a simple little country girl with whom Jack, a youth whom she has known since childhood, is very much in love. When a traveling show, consisting of a hypnotist and a Hindu magician comes ... | insanity, plot twist | train | wikipedia | Underrated masterpiece.
This is an amazing movie, the kind that reminds us that cinema is not only a background entertainment for eating popcorn but a (complex) form of Art.It has unique, beautiful visuals (won best cinematography prize at MIFF), and captivating soundtrack that perfectly suits the pictures, mood and st... |
tt0068595 | Flesh Gordon | Distinguished Professor Gordon (John Hoyt) explains that Earth is being tormented by periodic "sex rays" which send people into a sexual frenzy. When one of the rays hits the Ford Tri-Motor passenger aircraft carrying Flesh Gordon (Jason Williams) and Dale Ardor (Suzanne Fields), the pilots abandon the controls and eve... | pornographic, cult, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | I still remember Dr Jerkoff unveiling his spaceship shaped like a giant erect phallus with the words "Fortunately I was able to complete the design before the Sex-ray took effect".
The filmmakers of Flesh Gordon spent so much effort lovingly recreating the look and feel of the original Flash Gordon serials of the 1930s... |
tt0289848 | Analyze That | Near the completion of his sentence in Sing Sing prison, Paul Vitti's life is threatened by assassins and corrupt guards while incarcerated. He starts singing showtunes from West Side Story to get the attention of Ben Sobel, who previously hung up on him while attending his father's funeral. The FBI calls in Ben to see... | flashback, comedy, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0108053 | Schramm | Lothar Schramm is a polite, neighborly cab driver who makes an honest living and invites callers in for cognac. Later on, he might slit their throats and assemble their bodies in suggestive poses. He lives next door to a young, beautiful prostitute named Marianne, with whom he is smitten. Schramm is lonely. His sex lif... | pornographic, cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, insanity, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0339824 | Tyubeu | Detective Jang Do-joon (Kim Suk-hoon) who does not know the meaning of giving up, is hot on the trail of Kang Gi-taek, a deadly terrorist. Kang Gi-taek (Park Sang-min) was an elite secret agent for the government's intelligence agency before getting tossed out for assassinating a key figure.
On the day of the new mayor... | suspenseful, neo noir, allegory, violence, satire, revenge | train | wikipedia | TUBE (2003): While I can't highly recommend it, it is kind of fun, provided you don't think too much about the plot, which has a walking stereotype loose-canon cop (Kim Seok-hoon) battling a terrorist (Pak Sang-min) onboard a hijacked subway train.
Equal parts SPEED, TAKING OF PELHAM 123, MONEY TRAIN and DIE HARD, the ... |
tt0028331 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | === Prologue ===
The citizens of London, acting as a Greek chorus to raise commentary throughout the play, drop a body bag into a shallow grave. Sweeney Todd rises forth ("The Ballad of Sweeney Todd"), and introduces the play, set some months before the burial.
=== Act I ===
In 1846, young sailor Anthony Hope and Sween... | murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0809504 | The Accidental Husband | Patrick Sullivan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is looking forward to a life with Sophia (Justina Machado), until she calls into the show by famed love expert and radio host Dr. Emma Lloyd (Uma Thurman). Emma questions Sophia’s concept of romantic love and advises her to break their engagement, which she swiftly does.
Patrick i... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1380833 | Hansel and Gretel | Hansel and Gretel are the young children of a poor woodcutter. When a great famine settles over the land, the woodcutter's second, abusive wife decides to take the children into the woods and leave them there to fend for themselves, so that she and her husband do not starve to death, because the kids eat too much. The ... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0074878 | A Matter of Time | The film opens at a mid-1950s press conference, where scenes are shown for an upcoming film starring Nina (Liza Minnelli), a popular screen celebrity. While on her way to the conference, Nina looks at herself in an ornate mirror, which triggers a flashback to her arrival in Rome, when she was 19 years old. Her cousin, ... | melodrama, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0108410 | Twenty Bucks | An armored truck brings money to load an ATM. A woman withdraws $20 but the bill slips away. A homeless woman, Angeline (Linda Hunt), grabs the bill and reads the serial number, proclaiming that it is her destiny to win the lottery with those numbers. As she holds the bill, a boy grabs the bill from her and uses it at ... | psychedelic, comedy | train | wikipedia | The problem with movies that actually try not to insult your intelligence is that they are totally inaccessible and make you feel like you're sitting at a table in the high school cafeteria with the cool kids .
It's a fascinating story of a $20 bill's journey in and out of the lives of people to whom it changes hands.
... |
tt0166960 | An All Dogs Christmas Carol | The film opens with angel puppies talking to Annabelle (Bebe Neuwirth). They ask her to tell them a story. She begins to tell them about how Carface saved Christmas with a little guidance from Charlie (Steven Weber) and Itchy (Dom DeLuise).
The movie begins in an alleyway with Charlie, Itchy, Sasha (Sheena Easton), and... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | thumbs down.
This is the Christmas special based on the "All Dogs Go To Heaven" universe.
Sometimes I wonder why I bother with prequels as they are never (well, rarely) as good as the original, but maybe I am rating this based on the film that started it all.Again, we do have a return of some old and new characters, an... |
tt0053390 | Ukikusa | The film takes place during a hot summer in 1958 at a seaside town on the Inland Sea. A troupe of travelling theatre arrives by ship, headed by the troupe's lead actor and owner, Komajuro (Ganjirō Nakamura). The rest of the troupe goes around the town to publicise their kabuki performances.
Komajuro visits his former m... | cute | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0101669 | Dead Again | Newspapers detail the 1949 murder of Margaret Strauss (Emma Thompson), who was stabbed during a robbery; her anklet is missing. Her husband, composer Roman Strauss (Kenneth Branagh), is found guilty of the crime and condemned to death. Before his execution, Roman is visited by reporter Gray Baker (Andy Garcia). Asked i... | comedy, mystery, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, humor, romantic, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Although he received tremendous praise for his memorable film production of Shakespeare's HENRY V, DEAD AGAIN was the film that really introduced actor/director Kenneth Branagh to mainstream American film, and for a time he and then-wife Emma Thompson were the most celebrated acting couple since Olivier and Leigh.
Scot... |
tt0253709 | Sin: The Movie | Set in the near future of 2037, many of the levels and locations are reminiscent of their current day equivalents. Banks, building sites, sewage works and other everyday recognizable buildings form the basis of many of the levels in Sin. One major difference in the world of SiN is the lack of a police force. Ten years ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1880278 | Maska | Krish (Ram) is a happy-go-lucky guy who lives with his brother and sister-in-law. He was in love with a girl named Manju (Sheela). Manju happens to be the daughter of Simhachalam (Mukesh Rishi). Krish's only intention is to become rich by marrying her and doesn't have any feelings whatsoever towards her.He weaves a lov... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1090671 | No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker | A family is driving down a desert highway when they hit a deer. The dad gets out and comes back with half his face gone. The family is attacked by something.
In a lavish apartment, Trip meets with a dealer, Radford, who provides him with pills for a rave in the desert. Trip steals all of the pills. He meets with his fr... | violence, murder, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | In case anyone doesn't know, this movie is in fact a sequel (the first simply called 'Reeker'), and this time it follows the plot, well...almost identical to the first one.This is a major problem.In the original film there is a rather large twist at the end, and if you don't already guess it, it is a great twist.
It's ... |
tt0022180 | Suicide Fleet | Three friends who work on the Coney Island boardwalk, Skeets O'Reilly, Baltimore Clark, and Dutch Herman are all in love with the same woman, Sally. At the outbreak of World War I, the three men enlist in the US Navy. Before they leave for active duty, both Skeets and Baltimore meet with Sally, with the intention of le... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Fighting sailing ships!.
This is not a great movie, but it has some great shots of post World War I-era four-stacker destroyers, submarines, and three-masted wooden sailing ships that play combatant.
A young Ginger Rogers is the love interest in a fairly hokey plot but I am glad that I watched it.
The future Hopalong C... |
tt0041141 | Aventurera | The quiet life of the young Elena (Ninón Sevilla), changes dramatically when her mother runs off with her lover, causing the suicide of her father. Alone and without resources, she immigrates to Ciudad Juárez, where she unsuccessfully looks for work. On the verge of starvation, Elena agrees to work with Lucio (Tito Jun... | revenge, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | "Aventurera" is a very good melodrama - meaning a drama spiced with musical numbers.
Well, anyway by seeing the picture I had the feeling that the actors were not really taking their part so seriously; what I mean is that it felt like they were having fun - the melodrama with its conventions, its stock characters and i... |
tt0045074 | Red Skies of Montana | Cliff Mason, a veteran foreman of the Forest Service's smokejumper unit, is called out with a crew on a fire, despite the fact that they have not rested in three days. Accompanied by R. A. "Pop" Miller and four other men, Cliff leaves the smokejumper base at Missoula, Montana to parachute into a nearly inaccessible are... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Wonderful Adventure Film.
Red Skies of Montana is one of a series of outstanding adventure films in which Richard Widmark starred during the 1950's.
It portrays the dangerous lives of smoke jumpers, who fight fires in the great northwest by parachuting into the flames.
Richard Widmark is a team leader, under suspicion ... |
tt0055198 | Mosura | An expedition to an irradiated island brings civilization in contact with a primitive native culture. When one sensationalist entrepreneur tries to exploit the islanders, their ancient deity arises in retaliation.
In waters off Infant Island, a presumed uninhabited site for Rolisican atomic tests, the Daini-Gen'you-Mar... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | This is the first Mothra movie, a story where a corrupted businessman kidnaps tiny twin priestesses on radiated Infant Island to exploit them for profit gain.
This angers the island's guardian goddess named Mothra, who awakens and goes in search for the kidnapped twins, threatening to leave a wake of destruction along ... |
tt0071671 | The Island at the Top of the World | In London in the year 1907, a British aristocrat named Sir Anthony Ross (Donald Sinden) hastily arranges an expedition to the Arctic to search for his lost son Donald. Donald had become lost on a whaling expedition to find the fabled island where whales go to die.
Sir Anthony employs the talents of a Scandinavian-Ameri... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0452052 | Shadow of Rome | The game begins as the Roman army, under the command of centurion Agrippa (voiced by Rick Weiss), is fighting a Germanic army in the northeastern provinces. In Rome, Julius Caesar (Michael Bell) is on his way to the Senate when he is stabbed. As he dies, he looks at his killer and says "Et tu, Brute?" As he is cremated... | violence | train | wikipedia | Shadow of Rome is awesome!!. Shadow of Rome is the best action game ever!! Since all the other games Capcom has developed over the years id have to say this one is about 3rd place Now to the game, in the game u can chop guys arms off heads off and they bleed like a fire-hose and after u cut an arm or and they are rolli... |
tt0050879 | Raiders of Old California | The film begins with the surrender of Capt. Miguel Sebastian (Dobkin) to Capt. McKane (Davis) from the U.S. Army at the end of Mexican-American War. Three years later, McKane was taking lands from their owners by intimidation and treachery.
Words reach Judge Ward Young (Heydt) and his son Marshal Faron Young (Young). A... | violence | train | wikipedia | I guess the film makers just didn't care....
As a history teacher, this sort of western irritates the life out of me.
While it's supposed to be set just after the Mexican War (which ended in the late 1840s), nothing about the film looks right—nothing.
The guns are all repeating cartridge pistols circa 1870s-1880s, the ... |
tt0118790 | Buffalo Soldiers | Specialist Ray Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) is a U.S. Army soldier stationed in Stuttgart, West Germany, in 1989. Bored with the lack of a war, he instead devotes his attention to black market deals, as well as cooking heroin for a gang of drug-dealing Military Police led by Sergeant Saad. As a supply specialist, Elwood po... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Pleased...not disappointed.
Picking this movie up from the library shelf, I didn't read anything on the box about it being historically accurate or factual so I didn't expect to get a history lesson by watching it.
For a one hundred minute made for TV movie I wasn't at all disappointed, and felt entertained for the tim... |
tt0097550 | I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle | A motorbike gang kills an occultist with a crossbow during a satanic ritual. An evil spirit inhabits a damaged bike. Noddy is then seen purchasing that very motorcycle for the price of £1100 from a dealer, but he tells Kim he only paid £600. He proceeds to take it home and fix, with his friend, Buzzer, and girlfriend, ... | violence | train | wikipedia | For anybody who needs to give their brain a rest.
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle is the definition of "Good Bad", from the title that describes the entire plot, to the broad-brush performances, to the suspension of disbelief that comes when you know the budget is laughably small, but you *don't care*.
Those who love the... |
tt0115561 | L'appartement | Max (Vincent Cassel) is a former bohemian and an amateur writer who gets a job in New York and leaves his girlfriend Lisa, with whom he was madly in love, in mysterious circumstances. After two years, he returns home to Paris and decides to settle down and gets engaged to Muriel (Sandrine Kiberlain). By chance, he catc... | romantic, intrigue, flashback | train | wikipedia | This is an astonishing film: a romantic thriller with a convoluted but perfectly constructed and devastatingly symmetrical plot, brilliantly buttressed by the use of recurring visual motifs.
There's one small scene about three quarters of the way through where she does nothing more than smile; yet in that instant, says... |
tt0018524 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | === Eliza escapes with her son, Tom sold "down the river" ===
The book opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife Emily Shelby believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by s... | cruelty | train | wikipedia | This is perhaps the best film adaption of the classic Harriet Beecher Stowe novel.
An early appearance of Virginia Grey as Little Eva, Harry Pollard's mastery of filmmaking, and Margarita Fischer's beauty and talent all combine to make film preservation an important cause..
While this movie certainly suffers from the p... |
tt0398563 | Sky High | Will Stronghold begins ninth grade at Sky High, a high school that exclusively teaches teenagers with superpowers. Will's parents are The Commander and Jetstream, some of the world's most famous superheroes. Will's best friend, Layla, who happens to have a crush on him, has the power to manipulate plant life. Will is a... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Kanzaki is a detective searching for a serial killer who is killing young women and keeping their hearts.
On his wedding day his wife becomes the killer's next victim sending Kanzaki on a quest for revenge to murder the person who killed his wife.
Part love story/supernatural ghost story/action movie.
Go through the ga... |
tt0104530 | Ironheart | Ironheart opens at a Portland nightclub (Upfront FX), where Milverstead, who is considered the most powerful and ruthless man in town, and his group of thugs are looking at the female clientele with an approving eye. Milverstead is shipping illegal arms out of the Portland docks, and to sweeten the deals with his tradi... | revenge | train | wikipedia | "I was born and raised in Korea ...".
The hero John Keem is going after some drug dealers who kidnaps girls for some reason.
On his journey he uses karate and kung fu moves and I don't believe he got hit a single time during the movie.
This is Crap..
This movie has no plot and five lines of dialogue.
The acting was bad... |
tt0072288 | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | As a young ne'er-do-well named Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges) steals a car, an assassin attempts to shoot a preacher delivering a sermon at his pulpit. The preacher escapes on foot. Lightfoot, who happens to be driving by, inadvertently rescues him by running over his pursuer and giving the preacher a lift.
Lightfoot eventua... | violence, comedy | train | wikipedia | Lightfoot (a superlative Jeff Bridges) has a crush on Thunderbolt (an astonishing Clint Eastwood) at first sight.
Michael Cimino's first film is an arresting fusion of early 70's road movie, 'Buddy' picture and 'planning a heist' action-thriller.
We get a real sense of his character's connection to Bridges which makes ... |
tt0323250 | Mike's New Car | Mike is obsessed with his new six-wheel drive car, and insists on showing it off to Sulley. Unfortunately for Mike, anything that can go wrong does go wrong. Sulley plays with the adjustable power seat until an annoyed Mike asks him to stop. Mike starts the engine and hears the seatbelt reminder tone sound off.
Althoug... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | With the money from his new found fame and success, Mike buys a brand new powerful car to replace his old one.
However this car is a little more complex than his last model.When I borrowed the Monsters Inc DVD off some friends I was impressed by the sheer number of extras on it, whether the tv spots or the weird Japane... |
tt0400525 | The Ice Harvest | At mid-afternoon on Christmas Eve in Wichita, Kansas, mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) and crooked businessman and pornographer Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) steal over $2 million from their mob boss Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). While it appears there will be an easy getaway for the pair, they learn the ro... | comedy, neo noir, philosophical, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | He just happens to be a Witchita attorney for a Kansas City political boss.The film begins when Charlie Arglist (Cusack), with over two million in stolen cash, jumps into the car with partner-in-crime Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton).
Throughout the evening Charlie encounters strip club owner Renata (Connie Nielsen) ... |
tt0081809 | North Sea Hijack | Misogynist freelance marine counter-terrorism consultant Rufus Excalibur ffolkes (Moore) is asked by Lloyd's of London to develop a contingency plan should any of the North Sea oil installations they insure be threatened.
Months later, Esther, a North Sea supply ship, takes on board a group of men posing as reporters w... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1669268 | Awakened | === The Isle of Skye ===
Zoey and Stark reassure their connection by having sex under the wishing tree and become connected. Zoey finds out that she wields the ancient magick of the fey and can bring back old fey that serve her elements, prompting Queen Sgiach to ask her to stay on Skye indefinitely and be her successo... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0229339 | Diddy Kong Racing | Timber the Tiger's parents go on holiday and leave their son in charge of the island they live on, leaving him and his friends to organise a race. Their enjoyment is derailed when an evil intergalactic pig-wizard named Wizpig arrives at Timber's Island and attempts to take it over after having conquered his own planet'... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Diddy Kong Racing!. The Donkey Kong series is one of the most different adventure video games! The characters, the action, and the sure thrill of adventure makes this game a fun non-stop playing time! Below is a brief look how I think the game is! Game Play: The game play is very good. There is really basic controls he... |
tt0091943 | Sherman's March | The documentary chronicles General William Tecumseh Sherman's historic "March to the Sea" through Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina during the fall of 1864. It shows Sherman marching 62,000 Union troops over 650 miles in less than 100 days, and losing only 600 men along the way. The march introduces a new conc... | autobiographical | train | wikipedia | Instead, Sherman's March is an incredibly patient and passionate examination of oneself, the pain and frustration that come with mid-life depression, and the quasi-comic mystery surrounding Southern culture.
In filming his relationships with a number of different women over the course of a year, McElwee reveals himself... |
tt0108401 | The Trust | Sergeant David Waters and his boss/friend Lieutenant Jim Stone both work in the Evidence Management unit of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Disillusioned and bored with their jobs, they also find it hard to make ends meet. While going through case files, Jim comes to know of a drug dealer who has access t... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1191078 | Vidas robadas | === Juliana's kidnapping ===
The central plot of the story revolves around Juliana Miguez (Sophia Elliot), a young woman who is abducted at Rio Manso and entered by force into a prostitution ring. Her parents, Rosario Soler (Soledad Silveyra) and Juan Miguez (Patricio Contreras) since then do everything in their power ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
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