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tt0049476 | Man in the Vault | The criminal Willis Trent wants to rob the safety deposit box of a crooked Los Angeles businessman, Paul De Camp. He has lawyer Earl Farraday smooth-talk the guy's girlfriend, the two-timing Flo Randall, into revealing the bank box's number.
Now they need a locksmith. A henchman called Herbie is sent to find one. He se... | murder | train | wikipedia | I had an old fuzzy copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy of a TV broadcast of this 1956 crime-noir B programmer, but now that there's a new letter-boxed DVD out, I threw the old tape away and can finally enjoy this film for what it is: a solid "b" crime film with good performances, good pacing, and great Los Angeles location photog... |
tt0032234 | The Bank Dick | Hard-drinking family-man Egbert Sousé's strained relations with his family is shown by wife & mother-in-law giving him lip about his drinking, smoking, and taking money out of his younger daughter's bank. When he tries to brain his younger daughter with a concrete urn, he is interrupted by his older daughter introducin... | cult | train | wikipedia | The irreverent Fields gives spark to what would otherwise have been a quite humdrum comedy movie.His politically incorrect jokes seem very present-day, and so makes you understand that the people back in the 1940's weren't so far removed from us as we sometimes think.Fields is nasty to children, his wife and the bank e... |
tt0119535 | A Life Less Ordinary | In Heaven (which resembles a modern police headquarters), angels are tasked with ensuring that mortals on Earth find love. The "Captain", Gabriel (Dan Hedaya), is upset at reviewing the file of angel partners O'Reilly (Hunter) and Jackson (Lindo), all of whose recent cases have ended in divorce or misery. Gabriel is be... | comedy, murder, violence, cult, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | If You Get It, Its Amazing, If Not, Its Not. I remember seeing A Life Less Ordinary back in the late 1990s with high expectations as Trainspotting was one, and still is, one of my all time favorite films.
Although I enjoy ALLO its not perfect, some parts don't work very well and come across as corny, but the good, my m... |
tt2551396 | Come Back to Me | As a teenager, Dale witnesses the apparent murder of his mother, Eileen, by his meth-addicted father. When the police arrive, they confront and kill Dale's father. The officer who discovers Eileen runs from the house and vomits, but Dale re-enters the house and tells his mother that everything will be all right. Years ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119860 | Parasaito Ivu | Mitochondria are the "power house" of biological cells. It is thought that they were originally separate organisms, and a symbiotic relationship between them and early cellular life has evolved into their present position as cell organelles with no independent existence (see endosymbiotic theory).
The novel's plot supp... | psychological, suspenseful, murder, neo noir, paranormal, violence, cult, flashback, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | But the ending eschews the usual thriller big finish for something haunting and rather beautiful, making one feel this is more a love story than anything else, but a really strange one.
The movie has terrific atmosphere and is really pretty original, and while it is sometimes a bit on the lethargic side I thought it wa... |
tt0057261 | Lord of the Flies | In the midst of a wartime evacuation, a British aeroplane crashes on or near an isolated island in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean. The only survivors are boys in their middle childhood or preadolescence. Two boys—the fair-haired Ralph and an overweight, bespectacled boy nicknamed "Piggy"—find a conch, which Ralph... | good versus evil, allegory, cult, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0101327 | American Shaolin | During a martial arts tournament, the American finalist Drew Carson (Reese Madigan) is humiliated by his opponent, ruthless and sadistic kickboxer Trevor Gottitall (Trent Bushey) who pantses him during the match. To add to the insult, Drew's teacher Master Kwan (Kim Chan) confesses that he is not—as he had claimed—a Sh... | violence | train | wikipedia | Fast paced and exciting.
This was a great martial arts film.
The action sequences are exciting and fast paced.
The Shaolin training sequences was a highlight, especially when the new monks demonstrated with weapons.
Reese Madigan was a bit annoying, but he still can prove he is a tough fighter on screen.
I don't know h... |
tt0038011 | Quiet Please! | Tom's nemesis, Spike, is trying to take a nap, but is awoken by Tom Cat chasing Jerry Mouse with a frying pan. After being hit several times, an annoyed Spike tries to go back to sleep. But he is awoken again by Tom's rather inaccurate use and tossing away of a rifle, which hits Spike on the head. The canine buries his... | comic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0825225 | American Pastime | The first scene shows the life of the Nomura family, a typical American family of Japanese descent in 1941, composed of Japanese-born parents and American-born children (in this case, two sons, Lane and Lyle).
They are forced to leave their home in Los Angeles following the infamous Executive Order 9066, signed by Fran... | romantic, home movie | train | wikipedia | Worth seeing "American Pastime".
When I saw the movie "American Pastime", there was a Q and A afterward.
This film is a compilation of many of the experiences that friends and relatives of the screen writer had during the Japanese internment camps of WWII.
The producer and director stated that the entire film was filme... |
tt0086605 | Qi mou miao ji: Wu fu xing | Five prisoners - Teapot (Sammo Hung), Curly (John Sham), Exhaust Pipe (Richard Ng), Vaseline (Charlie Chin), and Rookie (Stanley Fung) meet in their cell to form a friendship. Rookie assumes the leadership of the group, whilst Teapot is bullied by the others (in the later films, Roundhead, played by Eric Tsang, is the ... | violence | train | wikipedia | The first of the Lucky Stars films is more winner than sinner..
More comedy than kung fu, Winners and Sinners is a crazy Hong Kong caper that follows the antics of a bunch of likable ex-convicts as they become unknowing recipients of a briefcase of missing counterfeit money and some printing platesitems much sought af... |
tt4581576 | Aftermath | Hunter (C. J. Thomason) is a young doctor that has found himself stuck in the cellar of a farmhouse while World War III and the resulting nuclear attack unfolds around him. He's accompanied by eight other people, none of whom know one another. Terrified and forced to defend themselves against other refugees looking to ... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0285006 | Australian Rules | In the isolated and fictional South Australian fishing town of Prospect Bay, the only thing that connects the black and white communities is football. Gary "Blacky" Black (Nathan Phillips) and Dumby Red (Luke Carroll) are an exception; teenage best friends from different sides of the tracks. Dumby is the star of the fo... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0092879 | Desyat negrityat | PART 1
Eight complete strangers are brought by boat to spend the weekend in a lonely mansion on an island off the English coast, attended to by a married domestic couple, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers. Once there, they realize that none of them know their unseen host, who has identified himself only as "A. N. Owen." In everyone'... | revenge, mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1181795 | Bunraku | In the aftermath of a global war, guns have been outlawed but people still fight, using blades and fists.
Nicola the Woodcutter (Ron Perlman) is the most powerful man east of the Atlantic, a shadowy crime boss who rules with an iron fist and nine assassins called the Killers. His right-hand man is Killer No. 2 (Kevin M... | boring, fantasy, murder, flashback, revenge, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0113537 | Kicking and Screaming | Phil Weston (Will Ferrell), is an average person who had to endure his father Buck Weston's (Robert Duvall) over-competitiveness throughout his childhood, an upbringing which has left permanent mental scars. Now middle-aged and married, with a young son named Sam, Phil runs a small vitamin store, while Buck operates a ... | romantic, cult, boring, flashback | train | wikipedia | Of course, we know the ending, because Jane and Grover's fate has basically been the subject of the whole film, but the way Baumbach ties all of this together is truly inspired.
Noah Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming is one of those rare films that actually gets it right when it comes to understanding the angst of being... |
tt0427089 | Confetti | The prestigious bridal magazine Confetti, owned by the arrogant, suave Antoni Clarke (Jimmy Carr) and managed by the long-suffering, uptight chief editor Vivienne (Felicity Montagu) is holding a competition to see who can hold the most original wedding, with the winners being presented with a new house and a cover shoo... | romantic, comedy | train | wikipedia | Step forward the three couples: nudists Michael and Joanna; tennis-mad Josef and Meredith, and Hollywood musical fans Matt and Samantha.The fun comes for us as as viewers as we join the fly-on the wall documentary team that follows all three couples as the wedding organisers and their respective families try to get the... |
tt0061590 | Don't Make Waves | Carlo Cofield, a tourist visiting California's west coast, has not even arranged lodging when his car is smashed by a reckless driver. She is carefree, attractive Laura Califatti, who offers him to sleep that night on her couch.
This displeases Rod Prescott, a wealthy swimming-pool builder, because Laura is his mistres... | mystery | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0072725 | Boss Nigger | Upon finding a wagon under attack by bandits, two black bounty hunters, Boss and Amos (Fred Williamson and D'Urville Martin, respectively) intervene and save Clara Mae, a black woman (Carmen Hayworth). Upon inspecting the bodies, the bounty hunters find several have rewards to their name and one holds a letter from the... | violence, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | This is a good, solid B movie; not a great western, but a satisfying "blaxploitation" flick mostly because the humor is well done.
Not only do the actors bring out the best in the material, but the material (by Williamson himself, who would soon make the jump to directing but on this film hired veteran pro Arnold) is n... |
tt0271136 | Quicksand | Martin Raikes is an American bank investigator who is sent to Monaco to check up on the suspicious financial dealings of a movie production. After the business trip, Martin, who is divorced, will fly to London to visit his daughter.
Martin is met by the film company's CFO, Lela Forin, who introduces him to the movie's ... | suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | if you've got too much spare time (like I do) and feel like a nice, B-movie night at home, you could do much worse than renting "Quicksand".
Michael Keaton and Michael Caine gave stellar performances, which were supported by a wonderful European cast.If you want to see a great movie with great actors and great footage ... |
tt0455326 | Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters | Before the main feature, a faux theater concession stand advertisement plays. A group of anthropomorphic theater snacks, The Soda Dog Refreshment Band, sings until they are interrupted by another snack band (performed by Mastodon). They proceed to loudly sing their own bizarre theater rules before finishing on a guitar... | psychedelic, cult, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0089052 | Dreamchild | The film begins on the ship bearing Alice (Coral Browne) and Lucy from England to New York City. As she and Lucy (Nicola Cowper) disembark, they are set upon by several journalists, all trying to get a story or quote from her. Clearly bewildered by all the excitement, she is befriended by an ex-reporter, Jack Dolan (Pe... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0395843 | CSI: NY | CSI: NY follows a group of investigators who work for the New York City crime lab. The series mixes gritty subject matter and deduction in the same manner as its predecessors, yet also places a great deal of emphasis on criminal profiling. The team is led by Detective Mac Taylor, a former Marine from Chicago. Mac is a ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Add to that the loss of his wife in the tragedy of 9/11 -- which I do not think the show exploits; it is a legitimate plot point in the development of a character in NY and motivates Taylor to find justice wherever he can, something his wife was denied -- and his quiet demeanor makes sense.If Emily Proctor leaves CSI:M... |
tt0042094 | The Colgate Comedy Hour | The program evolved from NBC's first TV variety showcase, Four Star Revue, sponsored by Motorola. The "running gag" sketches were dropped in favor of more performing acts. The weekly show was proposed to be hosted by four comedians in a four-week rotation to provide competition for Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town on CB... | comedy, humor | train | wikipedia | Not the first color broadcast.
An earlier comment claims that an episode in November 1953 was the first color television broadcast ever.
The Federal Communications Commission, on Oct. 10, 1950, approved a color television system developed by CBS that was not compatible with existing black and white television sets.
How... |
tt0112722 | Copycat | After giving a guest lecture on criminal psychology at a local university, Dr Helen Hudson (Weaver), a respected field expert on serial killers, is cornered in a lavatory by one of her previous subjects, Daryll Lee Cullum (Harry Connick, Jr.), who kills a police officer and brutally attacks her. Helen becomes severely ... | mystery, neo noir, murder, violence, horror, claustrophobic, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0080947 | The Jayne Mansfield Story | The film tells the fictionalized rise and fall of Hollywood bombshell and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield.
The Jayne Mansfield Story opens in 1967 in Mississippi with Jayne Mansfield closing a show and then talking on a payphone with Mickey Hargitay about going on a new tour together. Intercut with scenes of Mansfield getti... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090180 | To Live and Die in L.A. | Richard Chance and Jimmy Hart are United States Secret Service agents assigned as counterfeiting investigators in its Los Angeles field office. Chance has a reputation for reckless behavior, while Hart is three days away from retirement. Alone, Hart stakes out a warehouse in the desert thought to be a print house of co... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | When Friedkin went "back on the streets" in 1985 to make TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A., he made a classic that will endure and that perfectly captures its 80's milieu.I don't understand these idiots who complain how a film is "dated" by its music.
These powerful ingredients weave their way through a police procedural/action ... |
tt0298296 | Derailed | Charles Schine (Clive Owen), is an advertising executive. His marriage to Deanna (Melissa George) is deteriorating, and his daughter Amy (Addison Timlin) suffers from diabetes, requiring expensive medication. Charles's story is being written down by an unidentified man in a prison cell.
On a commuter train, Charles enc... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0244316 | Yi yi | Yi Yi depicts the trials and tribulations of the Jian family of Taipei. The narrative shifts between three perspectives: the middle-aged father NJ (Wu Nien-jen), the young son Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang), and the teenage daughter, Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee). The film starts with a wedding, concludes with a funeral, and conte... | romantic, humor, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0443431 | Another Gay Movie | The story centers around four gay friends who have recently graduated from San Torum High School. Andy (Michael Carbonaro) is an awkward, sex-crazed character who frequently masturbates with his mother's fruits and vegetables. Jarod (Jonathan Chase) is a handsome and fit jock who is quite insecure. Griff (Mitch Morris)... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0068657 | Il grande duello | Philip Wermeer has escaped from prison where he serves a sentence for the murder of Ebenezer Saxon, the patriarch of Saxon city, who in his turn is believed to be behind the murder of Wermeer’s father. Wermeer is holed up in Gila Bend by a swarm of bounty killers, who want his $3,000 reward, posted by Saxon's three son... | western, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | It could be said that The Grand Dual is merely a vehicle for its lead star, and whoever said it wouldn't necessarily be wrong; but while this film doesn't feature a lot of originality, it's also true that Italian cinema was based on repeating itself, and the film definitely succeeds in providing an enjoyable slice of w... |
tt0077687 | The Hobbit | Gandalf tricks Bilbo into hosting a party for Thorin and his band of dwarves, who sing of reclaiming the Lonely Mountain and its vast treasure from the dragon Smaug. When the music ends, Gandalf unveils a map showing a secret door into the Mountain and proposes that the dumbfounded Bilbo serve as the expedition's "burg... | fantasy, cult, violence, good versus evil, revenge, entertaining | train | wikipedia | I've read comments that slam the film for either technical faults or the fact that it has left out a number of things.All these things are true, of course.Though I thought the artwork itself was quite good, the animation could use some work.
A glorious ensemble of voices including the legendary John Huston and Otto Pre... |
tt2330866 | Dodookdeul | A cat burglar named Yenicall (Jun Ji-hyun) seduces the owner of Leesung Gallery (Shin Ha-kyun), and steals a rare artifact with the help of three other criminals: Popie (Lee Jung-jae), the leader, Zampano (Kim Soo-hyun), the assistant, and Chewing Gum (Kim Hae-sook), a middle-aged woman. They are visited by a detective... | intrigue | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0025586 | Of Human Bondage | The book begins with the death of Helen Carey, the much beloved mother of nine-year-old Philip Carey. Philip has a club foot and his father had died a few months before. Now orphaned, he is sent to live with his aunt Louisa and uncle William Carey.
Early chapters relate Philip's experiences at his uncle's vicarage. Aun... | romantic, cruelty | train | wikipedia | Bette Davis became a star with her role in this first and best film adaptation of the Somerset Maugham novel of the same name (well worth a read).
This was her first nomination for an Academy Award, for her portrayal of Mildred Rogers; a tawdry, sluttish, cockney waitress who bewitches hapless Philip Carey (Leslie Howa... |
tt3148266 | 12 Monkeys | A deadly virus released in 1996 wipes out almost all of humanity, forcing remaining survivors to live underground. A group known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is believed to be behind the release of the virus. In 2035, James Cole (Willis) is a prisoner living in a subterranean compound beneath the ruins of Philadel... | murder | train | wikipedia | It surpassed any expectation I could have about it, although the beginning of the first season didn't look that promising (maybe it had a slow pace, maybe too little things were explained), oh well, the sequels surely are totally worth watching.
I saw that many people complained how they liked the 1995 movie but the tv... |
tt0290002 | Meet the Fockers | Set two years after the events of the first film, Gaylord "Greg" Focker (Stiller) and his fiancée Pam Byrnes (Polo) decide to introduce their parents to each other. They first fly to Oyster Bay, New York, on Long Island, to pick up Pam's father, retired CIA operative Jack Byrnes (De Niro), her mother Dina (Danner) and ... | bleak, humor | train | wikipedia | There are many movies where the performances are so good that the weaknesses of the movie itself are almost oblivious.The casting in this film, bringing together the stars of the original with Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand as Greg aka Gaylord Focker's parents, is sensational.While I admit that I believed I would ... |
tt0411677 | Mortal Kombat: Deception | In the final events of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, Raiden's warriors, who were meant to protect the six fictional universes (named "realms"), are killed by the Deadly Alliance (Shang Tsung and Quan Chi), who attempted to conquer the realms. With Raiden defeated, the Deadly Alliance dissolves as the two sorcerers tu... | violence, cruelty | train | wikipedia | Nostalgia is good.
In this case nostalgia is good.
Old MK characters return and stage fatalities return.
Konquest in this game is an RPG like adventure with the main character named Shujinko.
Konquest does have some terrible voice acting in spots, but not everyone is bad.
Midway has got the right idea with Konquest.
It... |
tt0054346 | The Stranglers of Bombay | Captain Harry Lewis (Guy Rolfe), of the British East India Company, is investigating why over 2000 natives are missing, but encounters a deaf ear from his superior, Colonel Henderson, who is more concerned with the local English merchants' caravans which are disappearing without a trace. To appease them, Henderson agre... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Watching this, I was reminded all over again just how invigorating the output from Hammer Films was during its heyday; even so, this isn't a horror film as such and, in fact, has recently been released on DVD through Sony as part of a double-disc 4-movie collection entitled "Icons Of Adventure" (none of which I'd pre... |
tt1078298 | 30 Days of Night: Blood Trails | The series begins in New Orleans with a man named George covered in blood running towards a police officer who subdues and begins to arrest him when George ignores his commands to stop.
2 days earlier, George is going to see Judith for one last job. George is a recovering addict and he is hoping to use the money from t... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0386788 | Silent Hill 4: The Room | === Characters ===
The protagonist and player character of Silent Hill 4 is Henry Townshend, a resident of the South Ashfield Heights Apartments building in the fictitious town of Ashfield. Henry is an "average" man who has been described by Konami as an introvert in his late 20s. For the most part Henry navigates the ... | violence, cult, psychedelic, murder, haunting | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0107151 | The House of the Spirits | Prologue
A young woman, Blanca Trueba (Winona Ryder), arrives at a house with an old man and the young woman starts remembering her life.
Clara and Esteban
Blanca's mother, Clara del Valle (Meryl Streep) was a child with psychic power when Esteban Trueba (Jeremy Irons) came to propose to Clara's older sister, Rosa del ... | paranormal, revenge, avant garde, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | The relationship between Esteban and Pedro Tercero (Tercero-third-, by the way, is the son and thus comes after Segundo-second-) and its connections to that between Esteban and his grandson from Pancha García (not son, who he also did recognize) is chopped in half and its importance downplayed.One of the most fundament... |
tt0023397 | Ride Him, Bosko! | The cartoon begins as a coyote howls from a mountain top, under a full moon. He takes a deep breath as his body inflates to accommodate extra air and releases another howl.
Next, Bosko is seen riding a horse, playing a banjo and singing the cowboy song, "When the Bloom is on the Sage". His horse seems unable to go over... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Bosko in the wild west. The Bosko cartoons may not be animation masterpieces, but they are fascinating as examples of Looney Tunes in their early days before the creation of more compelling characters and funnier and more creative cartoons. There are some good cartoons, as well as some average or less ones.'Ride Him Bo... |
tt0033729 | How Green Was My Valley | The movie begins with a monologue by an older Huw Morgan (voice by Irving Pichel): "I am packing my belongings in the shawl my mother used to wear when she went to the market. And I'm going from my valley. And this time, I shall never return." The valley and its villages are now blackened by the coal mines that fill th... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | John Ford's film of social and familial change details the chilling effects hard economic times have on a large, but tight-knit Welsh coal mining family around the turn of the last century.
Yet on its own merits it's a fine film and can be seen again and again without any boredom.It's like Ford's Liberty Valance in tha... |
tt0240380 | Bloody Murder | Teenage friends Julie (Jessica Morris), her boyfriend Jason (Justin Martin), Dean (Michael Stone), Whitney (Tracy Pacheco) and Tobe (Patrick Cavanaugh) travel to Camp Placid Pines to be camp counselors for the summer. Upon arrival, they meet their boss Patrick (Peter Guillemette), another counselor named Drew (Christel... | murder, prank | train | wikipedia | If you're a hard core horror fan looking for a modern camp slasher, rent it, you may like it, but you'll probably be disapointed.
There's very little to put into words about Bloody Murder, because basically if you've even seen one of the many other stabs at a 'campsite massacre' flick, you'll know exactly what to expec... |
tt0062463 | The Vulture | Hopeless but eager would-be private detective Cedric Gull (Hulbert) has just obtained a diploma from a backstreet 'School of Detection' and is keen to put his new qualification to good use. Fortuitously, he happens to stumble across a crime scene at the office of a diamond merchant, who has just been robbed and assault... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0035860 | The Fallen Sparrow | John "Kit" McKittrick (John Garfield) endured two years of brutal torture after being captured in the Spanish Civil War. However, he managed to withhold the vital information sought by his captors, particularly their leader, a never-seen Nazi with a limp. His lifelong friend, Louie Lepetino, arranged his escape. When L... | murder | train | wikipedia | Although "The Fallen Sparrow" isn't one of Garfield's greatest parts or films, he's on target in every scene.
A good looking, sharp and crisp, black-and-white production design enhances this presentation, which also features the always dependable Maureen O'Hara and Walter Slezak..
The Spanish Civil War was never a popu... |
tt0392883 | Valley of Flowers | A gang of bandits with their leader Jalan (Milind Soman) who have chosen to live an independent life free from oppression amid the wilderness live by plundering the travelers of the Silk Route of their merchandise. They have their own rules and sense of self-righteousness. While divesting victims of their valuables one... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Valley of Flowers has gorgeous male lead and two lovely leading ladies.
Pan Nalin has a talent for discovering talent; in Valley of Flowers he gives a break to French-Chinese Mylene Jampanoi (watch out Zhang Zyi and Sophie Marceau!!) and Japanese Eri.Vertigenous landscapes and skyscrapers, superb casting, sublime costu... |
tt1520211 | The Walking Dead | In 1972 North Vietnam, short-timer Marines are dispatched by helicopter to conduct their last mission: to evacuate the survivors from a POW camp abandoned by the Viet Cong. The landing zone - which they expect to be cold - is actually hot (under fire) and after a short fight, only four members of the rescue mission sur... | violence | train | wikipedia | TWD has nothing to do with that anymore.If TWD would have kept 4-5 main characters and presented their struggle to live in this horror world full of zombies, then that could have been a great series.
I don't care who dies, who lives, because there is no story, no character, nothing intelligent about this series, nothin... |
tt0420740 | A Little Trip to Heaven | The very beginning of the film, before the opening credits, shows a new widow sitting in a life insurance office. Expecting to be compensated for her husband's death, the widow is informed that she is not entitled to full death benefits because the insurance company has captured footage of her husband smoking and attri... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Filmed In Iceland, This Is Intriguing, But Ending Hurts It. This was an intriguing, although not satisfying,, movie and one I still felt was worth my few bucks I paid to rent it.It was filmed in Iceland - one of the few films I've heard of with that locale - but the story in the film takes place somewhere in Midwestern... |
tt0004635 | The Squaw Man | James Wynnegate (Dustin Farnum) and his cousin, Henry (Monroe Salisbury), are upper class Englishmen and have been made trustees for an orphans’ fund. Henry loses money in a bet at a derby and embezzles money from “the fund” to pay off his debts. When war office officials are informed of the money missing from “the fun... | murder | train | wikipedia | "Come out west where folks keep their hands in their own pockets".
The Squaw Man may be best remembered as the first picture directed by Cecil B.
DeMille, and the first made in Hollywood, then a convenient wilderness.
It's a rather inglorious debut on both counts, and nowadays is perhaps most interesting as an exampl... |
tt1522262 | The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu | Jeff Philips is working a dead end job at a call center. One day, an old man arrives at his apartment to tell him he is the last descendent of H.P. Lovecraft and must guard a relic to keep it from being reunited; if the pieces of the relic are united while the stars are in alignment, the sunken city of R'lyeh will rise... | comedy | train | wikipedia | The people who say this isn't based on Lovecraft or the Cthulhu mythos are way off base, and they miss the point of this romp.
While I'm not sure it's bound for cult classic status, the film does have it's moments, and offers a humorous take on the Lovecraftian mythos, including an opening credit sequence that was remi... |
tt0309530 | Down with Love | In early 1960s New York City, Barbara Novak arrives in town at Banner House to present her new work, Down with Love, a book the intent of which is to free women from love, teach them to enjoy sex without commitment, and to replace the need for a man with things such as chocolate. Following her rules would, she believes... | revenge | train | wikipedia | The set, costumes, production design and cinematography were also outstanding in this movie, evoking the brashly-coloured, kitsch, fluffy-light ambiance which pervades the early 1960s New York screwball romance movie genre, but the snippy script and slick direction removed this pastiche away from its potential as mere ... |
tt0462359 | Incubus | In a lake at a rock quarry, a young woman named Mandy and her boyfriend, Ray, are swimming. The two spend the night at the lake camping, but are attacked by an unseen figure; Ray is killed, and Mandy is taken to the hospital with a ruptured uterus and serious trauma. As the attack occurs, teenager Tim Galen experiences... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Nightmare On Elm Street was a well thought-out fully connected movie...Incubus was disjointed at times and Reid's character was empty.
It's a standard premise--people get into an accident in the middle of nowhere, look around, discover something they should have left alone, and murder and mayhem ensure.Done right, you ... |
tt1533435 | Miranda | Frank (Simm), a librarian in the United Kingdom, falls in love with a mysterious American dancer named Miranda (Ricci). Frank appears naive, but his character is a complex as Miranda's. Graphic scenes of sex and seduction illustrate Frank's fantasy and unrealistic love for Miranda. She suddenly disappears, and he track... | comedy | train | wikipedia | When I watched on Catch Up, I just fell in love with Miranda & her world of insanity.
I'd heard a version of it on the radio - I'm not sure which came first in the order of things - but that was mildly amusing, although a lot of Miranda's comedy is visual, and when I heard a repeat of the radio version after seeing the... |
tt0230534 | Les misérables | === Volume I – Fantine ===
The story begins in 1815 in Digne, as the peasant Jean Valjean, just released from 19 years' imprisonment in the Bagne of Toulon—five for stealing bread for his starving sister and her family and fourteen more for numerous escape attempts—is turned away by innkeepers because his yellow passpo... | tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | I've seen this version more times than I'd like to admit, and I have to say, that as an introduction to Les Miserables, this film is the most accurate guide you will find if you want to understand the book.
Although the character of Eponine isn't as well developed as it should have been, this should not lower people's ... |
tt0078504 | The Wiz | === Prologue ===
Dorothy Gale lives with her Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, and dog, Toto, on their farm in Kansas. Though her work on the farm keeps her busy, she often gets distracted in her boredom with farm life, choosing instead to play with Toto and dream of someday seeing far off lands. Aunt Em, however, hasn't much pati... | cult, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0106586 | Cold Sweat | During the Korean War, Joe Moran, a U. S. Army sergeant, was convicted for striking a colonel. He was imprisoned in Germany. In the military prison he encountered his former company commander Captain Ross, and a fellow soldier who served under Joe called Vermont. They had been imprisoned for black marketeering and hija... | murder | train | wikipedia | Decent entertainment for an evening, with today's standard themes of business conflicts, greed, betrayal, and murder, and, of course, Shannon Tweed cheating on her husband with two different affairs.
This movies a bit of a Strange brew but I enjoyed it.
Mark Cahill as a cunning hit-man who decides to take another mark ... |
tt0102034 | Highlander II: The Quickening | In August 1994, news broadcasts announce that the ozone layer is fading, and will be completely gone in a matter of months. In Africa, millions have perished from the effects of unfiltered sunlight. Among the dead is Connor MacLeod's wife, Brenda Wyatt MacLeod. Before dying, Brenda extracts a promise from Connor that h... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, action, revenge, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | I'd say the film is pretty much divided between being on Earth in 2024 and Zeist 500 years before, but I think it was meant to be on Earth in 2024.Now that that's cleared up ...Imagine, if you will, that most of what they told us in the original HIGHLANDER was crap.
Lies!And if you believe that, I've got some $200,000 ... |
tt0138946 | The Yards | Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) rides the subway to his mother's house in Queens, New York, where she throws a surprise party in honor of his parole. His cousin Erica (Charlize Theron) is at the party with her boyfriend Willie Gutierrez (Joaquin Phoenix). Willie takes Leo aside and thanks him for serving time in prison, im... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | That is precisely what I liked about it, and in all likelihood, it is the reason that it foundered on the market.Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) is just returning home from prison on a car theft conviction when the movie opens.
With sinister intent, Uncle Frank wants to find him first so he won't blow the lid on the crooke... |
tt0810895 | Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms | The film starts in the middle of an unspecified mission which sees Hellboy, Liz Sherman and Abe Sapien battling bat-worshipping Mayan zombies who are led by a gigantic zombie bat. The group are eventually able to defeat their opponents when Liz unleashes her pyrokinetic powers, although she is still unsure of her abili... | violence | train | wikipedia | This cartoon version did a great job of bringing the feel of the comic to life, and as a bonus, Ron Perlman and Selma Blair from the movie version do the vocal work of their characters, respectively Hellboy and Liz Sherman.
I was also pleasantly surprised to see that Doug Jones, who played Abe Sapien in the film but di... |
tt2326087 | Girl Vs. Monster | The movie begins on the day before Halloween with Skylar, a fearless 15-year-old teenager with a powerful singing voice, prepares for the ultimate Halloween bash with her best friends, Henry and Sadie. The plan is for Skylar to sing at the party, with rock band member Ryan Dean. Skylar is crushed when the next afternoo... | horror | train | wikipedia | gag me with a spoon.
The kindest thing you could say about this mess is that the budget was too low so they had to take shortcuts.Unfortunately if you read the credits you will see that this is a 100% Disney Channel product, so you had one of the greatest and most powerful corporations on the planet behind this film, s... |
tt3129282 | War Chod Na Yaar | The film begins with Captain Rajveer Singh (Sharman Joshi) and Captain Quereshi (Javed Jaffrey) are captains of India and Pakistan playing cards with their partners at Indo-Pak border. Suddenly bomb explodes. Then the film flashback into 17 hours before. At that time the Defense minister of India calls Rut Dutta (Soha ... | satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0061132 | Uccellacci e uccellini | Totò and his son Ninetto roam the neighbourhood and the countryside of Rome. During the walk they observe a body being removed from a house following a murder. They next encounter a talking crow, who is described in the intertitles thus: "For the benefit of those who were not paying attention or are in doubt, we remind... | allegory, psychedelic, satire, philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0100557 | Das schreckliche Mädchen | A German high school student, Sonja (Lena Stolze as a fictionalized version of Anna Rosmus) wins an essay contest and goes on a trip to Paris.
Martin Wegmus begins teaching physics at Sonja's school and one of Sonja's classmates falls in love with him. Almost by luck, Mr. Wegmus and Sonja kiss. The teacher promises to ... | psychedelic, comedy, alternate history | train | wikipedia | The film is about a young woman in a small conservative community in southern Germany who decides to do some research into life during World War 2, and discovers that the version of events she has been brought up to believe is not backed up by the facts.
Much as the vast majority of American westerns tend to gloss over... |
tt0108277 | TC 2000 | In 2020, ecological disaster has driven the wealthy to an underground city. Jason Storm is part of an elite security force called the Tracker-Communicators who protect the city against the surface world survivors who could not afford to escape. Zoey Kinsella, the deceased founder's daughter, joins him as his rookie par... | good versus evil, violence, murder, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Lots of cool fights and almost no plot.
Just how I like them!.
TC 2000 is not a film for the average science fiction fan.
This is all about fighting, and lots of it.
It seems that almost every single person in this film is a martial artist (which would explain the terrible acting) and no more than ten minutes go by wit... |
tt0072228 | The Super Cops | The film opens with archival footage from a press conference where NYPD officers Dave Greenberg and Robert Hantz are lauded by Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy commends them for the sheer volume of drugs and weaponry that the two cops have removed from the streets.
After a credits sequence, the narrative begins at the Ne... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | Two rookie cops join forces to try and make a difference fighting crime on the streets of New York.
They quickly learn they must also fight the corruption and bureaucracy in their own police department.Entertaining and offbeat crime drama from Gordon Parks which served as his first follow-up feature after directing the... |
tt0044418 | Big Jim McLain | House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain (John Wayne) and Mal Baxter (James Arness) come to Hawaii to track American Communist Party activities. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.
After receiving useful information from reporter Phil Bri... | cult, suspenseful, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | For a movie so obviously filled to the brim with machismo, the results surprise us with just a scene or two of fisticuffs and much more romance between Wayne and Nancy Olson (who moves quickly, and can you blame her?).
"Big Jim McLain" features one of John Wayne's best walk-throughs; he looks a little sheepish, but he'... |
tt0027194 | Werewolf of London | Wilfred Glendon (Henry Hull) is a wealthy and world-renowned English botanist who journeys to Tibet in search of the elusive mariphasa plant. While there, he is attacked and bitten by a creature later revealed to be a werewolf, although he succeeds in acquiring a specimen of the mariphasa. Once back home in London he i... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Interestingly blending the werewolf legend with science fiction elements, its script is intelligent, the scenic sets impressive and director Stuart Walker keeps it taut and suspenseful.In spite of what you may have read on some internet sites, the cast deliver the goods, particularly Henry Hull who it should be remembe... |
tt1588334 | Jeff, Who Lives at Home | Jeff (Segel) is a 30-year-old unemployed stoner living in his mother Sharon's (Sarandon) basement in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He looks for his destiny in seemingly random occurrences. He finds inspiration in the feature film Signs, which reinforces his belief in this outlook. One day, he answers the telephone; it's a wr... | philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0292314 | Uyarangalil | Jayarajan (Mohanlal), an over-enthusiastic assistant manager at a tea plantation plans to loot a huge amount. He lures two debt-ridden subordinates, Chandran (Rahman) and Johnny (Nedumudi Venu), into his conspiracy. Though unwillingly, both agree. But during their attempt, A.K.Menon (Janardhanan), the manager of the co... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1183732 | Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu | The film is set in a near future chaotic Japan. A mad scientist known as "Key Man" (Itsuji Itao) has created a virus that mutates humans into monstrous creatures called "Engineers" that sprout bizarre weapons from any injury. The Tokyo Police Force has been privatized to deal with this new threat of engineers, so a spe... | comedy, cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, absurd, satire, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | And on top of this the filmmakers have an incredible design conceit that allows for limbs, once torn off or exploded or shredded or whatever, to spring back crazy appendages that range from heat-seeking missiles to crocodile jaws to genital "restructuring." There is no other movie quite like it.It's also, not so oddly ... |
tt1220706 | Breathing Room | Thrown naked in a desolate room with thirteen strangers, Tonya Mane discovers she is playing a deadly game. She must figure out the reason for her abduction. In the room, Tonya finds a tape recorder that explains the rules, one of the which state "Only those without collars can break the rules". One of the strangers cr... | suspenseful, mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0048811 | Women's Prison | A ruthless superintendent of a prison, Amelia van Zandt, makes life hell for the female inmates. Her rules are rigid and she makes no exceptions.
The newcomer Helene Jensen is not a hardened criminal by any means, but a woman convicted of vehicular homicide after she accidentally killed a child. Out of place here, Hele... | insanity, cruelty | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038714 | The Madonna's Secret | Businessman John Earl observes a piece of artwork in a museum, gazing at it reverently. He asks the museum curator how much it costs, and the curator says that it is not for sale. The artist, James Harlan Corbin [Lederer], does not wish to sell the painting. Nonplussed, Earl returns to his office and phones Corbin with... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1212408 | Dog Tags | This is the coming of age story of Nate Merritt (played by Paul Preiss), who stuck in bad relationships with his fiancee and mother decides to enlist in the military, although he is not sure. In the midst of all this turmoil in his life, he meets Andy Forte (played by Bart Fletcher), a carefree gay guy, and the two imm... | plot twist | train | wikipedia | Because of the DVD cover picture and some reviews I had read, there was an expectation that this little indie would be just another Gay Consciousness Raising Film, that is, another predictable tale where boy meets boy and both fight and then realize they have good sex together and will love each other for eternity no m... |
tt0112483 | Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back | The film opens in the small town of "Liberty", where a vicious group of neo-Nazis have been terrorizing the populace, most recently having murdered an African-American pastor and set fire to his church. While visiting his sister and brother-in-law in Liberty, Tommy Lee (Phillip Rhee) crosses paths with the group's lead... | violence | train | wikipedia | Our hero Tommy Lee, as portrayed by Phillip Rhee, encounters and overcomes a myriad set of common problems in the deep south.
what happened to the great martial arts action of: best of the best?
yes, this movie has a good storyline, and phillip rhee is great in this film...
The gorgeous Gina Gershon does her best as a ... |
tt0346457 | Mangal Pandey: The Rising | The story begins in 1857, when a large part of India was under the control of the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey (Aamir Khan) is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. While fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars, he saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Go... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037761 | Hangover Square | Set against the backdrop of the days preceding Britain declaring war on Germany, the main character is George Harvey Bone, a lonely borderline alcoholic who suffers from a split personality. He is obsessed with gaining the affections of Netta, a failed actress and one of George's circle of "friends" with whom he drinks... | insanity, romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Hangover Square is the last film Laird Cregar made in his brief, remarkable career.
Like the previous year's The Lodger, also a Cregar-Brahm collaboration, this is a killer on the loose in Victorian London movie.
Aside from some fancily shot scenes early on, this would not in itself be an extraordinary film but for Cre... |
tt0099180 | Bride of Re-Animator | Eight months after the events of Re-Animator, doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain are working as medics in the middle of a bloody Peruvian civil war. In the chaos of battle and with plenty of casualties to work on, they are free to experiment with West's re-animation reagent. When their medical tent is stormed by the ene... | comedy, cruelty, murder, cult, violence, good versus evil, insanity | train | wikipedia | In Peru, Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) and Dr. Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) are medical volunteers in a civil war with the assistant Francesca Danelli (Fabiana Udenio) and they are researching how to create human life from dead tissue using wounded soldiers as guinea pigs.
It has some plot holes that aren't explained on ... |
tt0279513 | When Good Ghouls Go Bad | Danny Walker (Joe Pichler), and his father James (Tom Amandes), who has gotten a divorce from his wife, have just moved to the town from Chicago so his father can fulfill his dream of re-opening the family chocolate factory. Danny and James are staying with James' father, known by all as "Uncle Fred" (Christopher Lloyd... | horror | train | wikipedia | This movie starts out really fun, slows in the middle, but makes a comeback in the end..
Growing up in a small town in the Great Lakes Region, made this movie a lot of fun, as I was reminded of fun times in my hometown around Halloween.
This is a movie dominated by Christopher Lloyd, who takes over the minute his chara... |
tt1948150 | Singham | Singham opens with an honest police officer in Goa, Rakesh Kadam (Sudhanshu Pandey), committing suicide because of false accusations of corruption filed by Jaikant Shikre (Prakash Raj), a don and politician in Goa running various rackets like kidnapping, extortion and smuggling. Kadam's wife Megha Kadam (Sonali Kulkarn... | good versus evil, comedy, action, prank | train | wikipedia | "Ajay Devgn , Prakash Raj, Rohit Shetty, Aave Singham, Kajal Aggarwal, Majja Satkeli, Gotya
" These are some phrases that keep rolling onto your mind as soon as you leave the theater.
I saw the portrayal of Pure India, Young India and Beautiful India in this movie unlike some movies which tend to show harsh realities a... |
tt0073109 | The Hiding Place | The book begins with the Ten Boom family celebrating the 100th anniversary of the family watch and watch repair business, now run by the family's elderly father, Casper ten Boom. The business took up the ground floor of the family home (known as the Béjé). Casper lived with his unmarried daughters Corrie (the narrator ... | christian film | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3397918 | Harbinger Down | In 1982, a Soviet moon lander crashes into the Bering Sea. In 2015, two biology graduate students, Ronelle and Sadie join their professor, Stephen, on an experimental tour to study the effects of global warming on whales. Sadie's grandfather, Graff, takes them to sea in his commercial fishing trawler, Harbinger, which ... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Films like John Carpenter's The Thing and David Cronenberg's The Fly are some of my favourite films ever, and Harbinger Down looked to bring this classic 80s practical monster effects goodness to the present day.The reality?
For a movie that's whole purpose is to showcase practical effects (PFX), it doesn't do this nea... |
tt0098354 | Society | Bill Whitney seems to have it all. His family is wealthy and he lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills, California. He's popular at his high school, looks to be a shoo-in for class president, has a cute cheerleader girlfriend and owns a new Jeep Wrangler to drive around in. Despite this, he feels as though he does not fit... | murder, cult, alternate reality, violence, psychedelic, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1814884 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | === Setting and characters ===
Skyrim is set around 200 years after the events of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, although it is not a direct sequel. The game takes place in Skyrim, a province of the Empire on the continent of Tamriel, amid a civil war between two factions: the Stormcloaks and the Imperial Legion. The ... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0089194 | Geraftaar | The film starts off with a happy family consisting of Kapil Kumar Khanna (Satyendra Kapoor), his wife Durga (Nirupa Roy), and their two sons Karan (Master Ravi) and Kishen. Karan is a very naughty kid and usually angers their parents while at his pranks. Kapil Kumar is an honest inspector and one day, on his wife's req... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Grand 80's Bollywood Entertainer.
Geraftaar is now considered a cult classic.
One of the best masala movie of 80's.
It has engaging performance throughout.
The movie is filled with typical Bollywood clichés of the time.
Kamal Hasan plays an innocent victim of murder.
He successfully apes Sammo Hung in a funny martial a... |
tt1173568 | Slam | Raymond "Ray" Joshua (played by Saul Williams) is a young man growing up in the Southeast, Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Dodge City, slang for a real Southeast D.C. neighborhood. Despite his innate gift for poetry and his aspiration to be a rapper, he finds it difficult to escape the pressures of his surroundings: v... | melodrama, revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | A Nutshell Review: Slam.
I guess in movies with sports themes, it is never really much about the goal and the destination, but rather the journey the characters take in finding strengths amongst themselves, shore up weaknesses and collectively present and mount a challenge, that makes it compelling viewing.
And it's li... |
tt0072750 | Bug | Agnes White is a waitress at a gay bar living in a run-down motel in rural Oklahoma. Unable to move on from the disappearance of her son some years previously, she engages in drug and alcohol binges with her lesbian friend, R.C. Lately, she has been plagued by silent telephone calls that she believes are being made by ... | insanity | train | wikipedia | This is a dandy little nature-run-amok film, in which giant cockroaches from the center of the earth make their appearance in a small farming community.
This scared the hell out of me when I saw it.Roaches that rub their legs together kill everything and everyone.Bradford dillman is a good actor and I think this movie ... |
tt0077174 | Are You in the House Alone? | 16-year-old Gail Osborne is a typical high school student with a passion for photography. Six months ago, she and her parents moved from New York to a smaller town due to her father Neil's claim the city was too dangerous following a burglary. Gail, a high spirited romantic, initially started dating classmate E.K. Mill... | cult | train | wikipedia | Others though like the the made-for-TV slasher flick "Deadly Lessons" seem to be lost forever.The 70's TV movies were not necessarily good, but they were often pretty enjoyable in a cheesy way.
This movie actually kind of does tackle an issue (stalking and acquaintance rape), but it was really before it was an issue.
I... |
tt2314886 | Breakout | Harris Wagner (Huston) frames Jay Wagner (Duvall). In order to keep him silent, Jay is incarcerated in a Mexican prison.
Jay's wife Ann (Ireland) is unhappy at this turn of events and hires a Texas bush pilot in Brownsville, Texas, Nick Colton (Bronson) and his partner Hawk (Quaid), to fly into the prison and rescue he... | murder | train | wikipedia | The bad guy is the worst shot on the planet.
And the good guy kept shooting at a distant target with a sawed off shotgun.
The topper was when the good guy fights with the bad guy and does not take his rifle from him and then runs away to continue the chase.
I think if the people responsible for this movie every want to... |
tt0479537 | Seraphim Falls | In 1868, within the Ruby Mountains, Gideon (Pierce Brosnan) roasts hare over an open fire. Suddenly, gunshots ring out with one striking his left arm. He grabs what he can and races down the mountain. His attackers emerge from their cover to inspect his campsite. Colonel Morsman Carver (Liam Neeson), a former Confedera... | murder, cult, violence, flashback, psychedelic, revenge | train | wikipedia | The tragedy is that it's going to be picked up primarily by fans of westerns, who are looking for shootouts and plots that can be boiled down to "good guys" and "bad guys." Do not go into this movie expecting that.This is ultimately a revenge story, but not a straightforward or clean-cut one; in this way I would compar... |
tt3322904 | Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Maximum Overload | The mischievous Loki challenges the Marvel Super Heroes yet again. But this time, he's cast a snowball-themed spell that has Norn Frost in it to "Overload" various villains.
At a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base in New Jersey, Doctor Octopus raids it in order to obtain the Beta Burst Missile. Using the Norn Frost obtained by h... | humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037902 | Marshal of Laredo | Oh his first day as Marshal of Larado, Red Ryder (Wild Bill Elliott) and his Indian ward, Little Beaver (Robert Blake) are summoned to duty when the town’s bank courier Barton (Tom London) is robbed. However Barton is able to fire his weapon and the fleeing robber whom he recognizes as Ferguson (Bud Geary) who tosses t... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0118949 | Into Thin Air: Death on Everest | The film portrays the 1996 Mount Everest disaster and the events that preceded it. The film mainly follows Jon Krakauer, the author of the book on which the film is based (Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (1997)); it also follows the climbing teams of summit guides Rob Hall and Scott Fische... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | I have that film as well.Too me the Into Thin Air group did a good job of simulating the conditions on Everest and the quiet heroism of both Hall and Scott at the end.The real reason to watch Into Thin Air is to watch Nat Parker as Hall.
This scene had me in tears, just as the real voice of the real Rob Hall recorded i... |
tt0051819 | Kings Go Forth | In the final year of World War II, units of the United States Army are in the foothills of the Alps between France and Italy, trying to dislodge a unit of German soldiers from a supply post in the middle of a small village. 1st Lt. Sam Loggins (Frank Sinatra) is in charge of a reconnaissance unit that has just lost its... | romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | None of the hipster slang, not the nebbish of his forties musicals, Sinatra plays a really good man trying to deal with his own inner conflicts about what he's been brought up to believe and the feelings he has for Wood.
It's something different and Sinatra does it well.Natalie Wood was as beautiful as they come and Le... |
tt0439662 | Fanaa | Zooni Ali Beg (Kajol) is a blind Kashmiri woman who travels for the first time with a dance group to New Delhi to perform in a ceremony for Republic Day. On her journey, she meets Rehan Qadri (Aamir Khan), a Casanova tour guide who flirts with her. Although her friends warn Zooni about him, she cannot resist falling in... | tragedy, romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0071412 | The Marseille Contract | Set in the mid-1950s, the story is about the "Wormsley Common Gang", a boys' gang named after the place where they live. The protagonist Trevor, or "T.", devises a plan to destroy a beautiful two-hundred-year-old house that survived The Blitz. The gang accepts the plan by T., their new leader, and executes it when the ... | murder | train | wikipedia | I like this movie, a good seventies action flick.
I like the Alfa Romeo Montreal that Michael Caine's character drives, an exceedingly rare and attractive model.
I feel you need to look at "The Destructors" as a group of vignettes, individually well done.While player motivations are sometimes a bit unclear,and some sub... |
tt1202150 | Beauty and the Beast | A widower merchant lives in a mansion with his six children, three sons and three daughters. All his daughters are very beautiful, but the youngest, Beauty, is the most lovely, as well as kind, well-read, and pure of heart; while the two elder sisters, in contrast, are wicked, selfish, vain, and spoiled. They secretly ... | romantic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0054098 | Mughal-E-Azam | Emperor Akbar (Prithviraj Kapoor), who does not have a male heir, undertakes a pilgrimage to a shrine to pray that his wife Jodhabai (Durga Khote) give birth to a son. Later, a maid brings the emperor news of his son's birth. Overjoyed at his prayers being answered, Akbar gives the maid his ring, and promises to grant ... | tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | I haven't seen the black and white original of Mughal E Azam since the '80's, but I recently saw the restored revived colourised 2004 re-release for the first time and was astounded by the results.
I'm not a believer in messing around with the originals, but bearing in mind director Asif always wanted to make the whole... |
tt0053779 | La dolce vita | Based on the most common interpretation of the storyline, the film can be divided into a prologue, seven major episodes interrupted by an intermezzo, and an epilogue (see also Structure, below). If the evenings of each episode were joined with the morning of the respective preceding episode together as a day, they woul... | murder, cult, psychedelic, philosophical, satire | train | wikipedia | but it's not that these people are difficult to understand to someone other than marcello - i think we can see that anita ekberg's character really is just a big good-natured blond and not the mysterious goddess marcello makes her out to be; his father is again - the typical traveling salesman and perhaps not the pater... |
tt0078422 | True Grit | Mattie Ross's father was murdered by Tom Chaney when she was 14 years old. While collecting her father's body in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Mattie asks the local sheriff about the search for Chaney. He tells her that Chaney has fled with "Lucky" Ned Pepper and his gang into Indian Territory, where the sheriff has no authori... | murder | train | wikipedia | Oh my what have they done?. Oh my what have they done? Why would anyone take on the awesome responsibility of filling John Waynes shoes especially when he won an Oscar for the role? Warren Oats takes over as Roster Cogburn in this "further adventures" story. He makes no attempt to look like Wayne except for the eye pat... |
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