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tt0480242 | Dan in Real Life | Advice columnist Dan Burns (Steve Carell) is a widower with three daughters, whom he brings to his parents' vacation house for a family get-together. When Dan goes to a local bookstore, he meets Marie (Juliette Binoche). To catch her attention, Dan poses as a shop clerk, and convinces her to buy a random selection of b... | bleak, romantic, psychedelic, realism | train | imdb | The most satisfying element about "Dan in Real Life" is that the relationship between Dan (Steve Carell) and Marie (Juliette Binoche) makes sense and is beautifully realistic.
Had this movie been made with Jessica Alba or Scarlett Johansson, it would have been a disaster.Another wonderful aspect about "Dan in Real Life... |
tt1617620 | A Horrible Way to Die | A car drives along a stretch of road. On a pass through wooded hills, the driver, Garrick Turrell, gets out and opens the trunk, revealing a brunette. The young woman is bound and gagged, recoiling in terror as Garrick takes her out of the trunk. He takes her further into the woods, and she whimpers and struggles as he... | violence, murder, flashback | train | imdb | Lots of people die in this movie, either on screen or off, and one person comes very close to dying, and all of the methods used are pretty horrible."A Horrible Way to Die" brings an admittedly unique spin to the serial killer movie.
It uses mixed up chronology to tell the story of a woman whose boyfriend, a convicted ... |
tt0470000 | Wicked Little Things | In 1913, in Carlton Mine, Addytown, Pennsylvania, the cruel owner of a mine exploits poor immigrant children. After an explosion, a group of children are buried alive.Present day. Karen Tunny has just lost her husband after a long period of terminal illness and has inherited her husband's home by Carlton Mine. She move... | violence, haunting | train | imdb | null |
tt1245678 | The Torturer | Endorsements and Reviews:- "A Breathtaking Psychological Thriller!" - Emmy Award Winning Entertainment Reporter Kirk Montgomery, KUSA-TV, NBC Denver- "Y'all in the mood for some war-horror after Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS? Well have a look at Graham Green's debut feature THE TORTURER." - JoBlo Movie Network· "Sho... | suspenseful, psychological, neo noir | train | imdb | Imagine Dexter with military training.
The reason Dexter is so popular, IMHO, is because he's a sympathetic and plausible character who happens to be doing horrifying things.
The same is true of Rick (Andrew Walker), the lead in this film.Rick is a man raised with solid American values, who was trained as a "special in... |
tt0401729 | John Carter | In New York City, 1881, a man eludes another in the crowded streets. He appears anxious, and eventually enters a building. Inside he pays extra to send a telegram express. A young man receives the telegram -- his uncle is urging him to hurry and save him. The young man travels to the uncle's large estate where a lawyer... | fantasy, violence, flashback, good versus evil, action, sci-fi | train | imdb | I have found John Carter to be an amazing movie visually, and the story was actually great.
Don't get me wrong, Star Wars and Avatar were great movies, but I believe that John Carter was far much different and slightly better.
I saw John Carter in the theaters the week that it came out and I had a lot of fun watching t... |
tt0020724 | Call of the Flesh | In Seville, Spain, a cantina is located across the street from San Agustín convent. At the convent, postulant Maria Consuelo Vargas (Dorothy Jordan) receives a visit from her brother, Captain Enrique Vargas (Russell Hopton). They have not seen each other in seven years, as he has been stationed in Africa. During the in... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Novarro confirms his talent in a great performance..
Ramon Novarro is really great in this fairly ordinary film about a young singer and his love for an innocent girl.
Also he demonstrates his usual charm, wit and joy of life - and proves yet again that he deserved better material than MGM offered him.It's easy to see ... |
tt1535472 | Bulshinjiok | Hee Jin, a college student currently studying in Seoul, receives news that her 14-year-old sister So Jin has disappeared. Hee Jin then quickly returns home to look for her missing sister. Meanwhile, her mother prays obsessively for her daughter to return and asks Hee Jin to do so. Veteran detective Tae Hwan becomes inv... | psychedelic, suspenseful, haunting, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1638002 | Love, Rosie | Alex and Rosie have been best friends for almost as long as they can remember. On Rosie's 18th birthday party Alex kisses Rosie, who is drunk, and realises that he has romantic feelings for her. However, the day after her 18th birthday, Rosie is upset about having got drunk, and tells Alex that she wishes the night had... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1300854 | Iron Man Three | The movie opens with Tony (Robert Downey Jr.) narrating a story about how we create our own demons. In a flashback to New Year's Eve 1999, Tony, meets a botanical scientist named Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall) in Bern, Switzerland, and arrogantly avoids crippled scientist Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), who wants Tony's back... | comedy, boring, murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, absurd, humor, psychedelic, action, romantic, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0079641 | Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht | Jonathan Harker is an estate agent in Wismar, Germany. His boss, Renfield, informs him that a nobleman named Count Dracula wishes to buy a property in Wismar, and assigns Harker to visit the count and complete the lucrative deal. Leaving his young wife Lucy behind in Wismar, Harker travels for four weeks to Transylvani... | cult, psychedelic, atmospheric, gothic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0065988 | Little Big Man | In the present day 1970, 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman), the oldest living man in the world, who resides in a hospice, is recounting his long and colorful life story to a curious historian (William Hickey). Among other things, Crabb claims to have been a captive of the Cheyenne, a gunslinger, an associate of ... | murder, cult, violence, cute, historical fiction, flashback, revenge, alternate history | train | imdb | This is one of those movies you have to see if you like great films.This is a long movie but it is so good you'll never want it to end.I rated this movie a 10 but only cause the scale doesn't go any higher.This is the story of Jack Crabb who begins the movie as a 121 year old man in a nursing home recounting his life.A... |
tt0060901 | Ringo del Nebraska | New Mexico, 1866. A man riding alone on horseback is gunned down by several gunmen. The man is revealed to be Donato, one of Marty Hillmann's ranch hands.Soon after the opening killing, a laconic drifter (Ken Clark) arrives at the remote Hillmann ranch where he asks the owner Marty Hillmann (Alfonso Rojas) if there is ... | western | train | imdb | solid, unpretentious spaghetti western, Ken Clark is excellent.
This review is of the pan-and-scan AIP-TV version of this film, called SAVAGE GRINGO.
I taped it off TV about 20 years ago.
I liked it then, and I like it now just having re-watched it.
The few references to this film I've seen note that Mario Bava took ov... |
tt2823054 | Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates | The film starts with Mike Stangle (Adam Devine) trying to sell liquor to a bar owner named Randy (Marc Maron). Mike uses his brother Dave (Zac Efron) to help him sell the stuff by pretending to be a stranger looking for good booze. Randy is used to Mike and Dave pulling this stunt, but he decides to buy three cases of ... | violence, intrigue, adult comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0360139 | Chasing Liberty | Anna Foster (Mandy Moore) is the daughter of the President of the United States, James (Mark Harmon) and First Lady Michelle Foster (Caroline Goodall).When a hassle of Secret Service agents ruins a first date, Anna demands some freedom. Her dad agrees to send only two agents with Anna and Gabrielle La Clare (Beatrice R... | cute | train | imdb | Mandy Moore is just adorable and Matthew Goode is just...hum...really great eye candy!!!
I have always liked Mandy Moore (especially in "A Walk to Remember") and I thought she was pretty good in this.Nothing that will make you think which is nice if you're looking for a fun girly movie.My only complaints are that the m... |
tt0079095 | Die Ehe der Maria Braun | The film opens with a portrait of Adolf Hitler hanging on a brick wall. Suddenly an explosion blows a hole through the wall and inside is Maria Braun (Hanna Schygulla) and Hermann Braun (Klaus Lowitsch) about to get married. What is supposed to be a ceremonial and memorable moment for them has turned violent as bombs a... | psychedelic | train | imdb | We watched this film in our German Cinema class at university some years ago, and I still remember it well.Without wishing to give too much away, it tells the tale of a woman who, seeing the desolate landscape that Germany was in 1945, determines to build herself a comfortable life and, as she does so, she becomes one ... |
tt0060176 | Blowup | The plot is 24 hours in the life of a glamorous fashion photographer named Thomas (David Hemmings), inspired by the life of an actual "Swinging London" photographer, David Bailey.In the opening scene, Thomas wakes up after spending the night at a doss house where he has taken pictures for a book of art photos. He is la... | mystery, murder, cult, intrigue, atmospheric, psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt1907668 | Flight | In the opening scene in a hotel room, Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) wakes up before it's time to take off on a new flight, after an evening of drinking, drugs and sex with one of his plane's flight attendants, Katerina Marquez (Nadine Velazquez) who crawls out of his bed to get dressed. Still trying to rouse himsel... | suspenseful, home movie | train | imdb | Denzel Washington is William "Whip" Whitaker, an alcoholic pilot who, after a night of heavy drinking, remains drunk well into the morning he is to fly a plane into Georgia.
But it is all about the lead character, Captain "Whip" Whitaker (Denzel Washington), a man who is a pilot and an alcoholic.
Robert Zemeckis' lates... |
tt0076191 | The Incredible Melting Man | A space rocket communicates with ground control at Houston (Dave Hull's voice). The astronaut, Steve West (Alex Rebar) reaches the rings of Saturn and sees the rising sun. A solar explosion reaches him immediately, and he passes out.Steve wakes up at hospital. Dr Leland Loring (Lisle Wilson) wonders aloud how he could ... | violence, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0077975 | Animal House | In 1962, college freshmen Lawrence "Larry" Kroger (Tom Hulce) and Kent Dorfman (Stephen Furst) seek to join a fraternity at Faber College. They visit the prestigious Omega Theta Pi House's invitational party, but are not welcomed there. They then try next door at Delta Tau Chi House, where Kent's brother was once a mem... | comedy, cult, satire, revenge, entertaining, prank | train | imdb | The early bird director John Landis directs this film into greatness bringing stars John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Tom Hulce, Mark Metcalf and Donald Sutherland to the screen in brilliance.
Every successful movie has its myriad clones and imitators, but none of them ever come close to what made the original so good.That's... |
tt0098554 | Uncle Buck | Bob and Cindy Russell and their three kids, 15-year-old Tia, 8-year-old Miles, and 6-year-old Maizy, have recently moved from Indianapolis to the Chicago suburbs because of Bob's promotion. Late one night, they receive a phone call from Indianapolis informing them that Cindy's father has suffered a heart attack. They m... | humor | train | wikipedia | As hard as it is to pick a favorite role that John Candy ever portrayed, I'd have to say it was Uncle Buck.
Although this wasn't the only title he and Culkin ever shared, it was the only film the two ever shared any time on screen together.Basic plot: Candy's sister-in-law's father has just had a heart attack in the m... |
tt0104812 | Map of the Human Heart | This 1993 film is a love story about a young eskimo boy, Jason Scott Lee, and a metisse (French for half breed) girl, Anne Parillaud, set in Arctic Canada. The story begins pre WWII with the main characters as children and the beginning of their love, continues through WWII with their love truly and fully blossoming, a... | bleak, atmospheric, flashback | train | imdb | This is one of the few movies that actually cost me some sleep after I first saw it one evening.The two main characters are "half-breeds," Avik (or "Holy Boy") is an Eskimo- white man and "Albertine," an Indian-French female.
The filmmakers did an amazing job finding two kids who really look like the two adults probabl... |
tt0314353 | Tears of the Sun | A montage of news footage illustrating a violent coup that is taking place in Nigeria, overthrowing the Presidential family and establishing a dictatorship under the rebel general Yakubu. The Fulani rebels then begin a violent ethnic cleansing campaign against the Ibo (Eebow) tribes in the southern region. We then join... | tragedy, anti war, suspenseful, murder, violence | train | imdb | We start with Lieutenant Waters (Bruce Willis) and his team of SEALS who have to rescue Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), a priest and two nuns from a missionary post in Nigeria where murdering rebels are about to arrive.
Another is the way the movie dares to show the rebels and their actions, things we see parts o... |
tt0094754 | Blackadder's Christmas Carol | Ebenezer Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson), the Victorian proprietor of a "moustache shop", is the nicest man in England. He is everything that Ebenezer Scrooge was by the end of the original story: generous and kind to everybody, and sensitive to the misery of others. As a result, people take advantage of his kindness—Mrs. ... | cult, comedy, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0100318 | Pacific Heights | Carter Hayes (Michael Keaton) makes love to a woman (Beverly D'Angelo) in a nice house as 2 men enter and attack him with a bat. He talks about leaving.Drake (Matthew Modine) and girlfriend Patty (Melanie Griffith) are house hunting in San Francisco. They purchase a house with rooms that can be rented, and set about re... | revenge, suspenseful, neo noir | train | imdb | Prior to this film,we only saw Michael Keaton in comedic,and good guy roles.In Pacific Heights,he proves to us that he is not afraid to turn on us and be the bad guy.Keaton is excellent as Carter Hayes,the worst kind of no account,as he knows how to stay just out of reach of the law.
The character is very similar to th... |
tt0093990 | Slaughterhouse | Deputy Dave and Sally Jean go out parking, and Dave sees Skip's jeep and Kevin's car, both apparently abandoned. He hears screaming on the dock and pulls his gun, but it is only a group of friend, practicing for Liz's "horror video". After Dave and Sally leave, Liz, Skip, Annie and Buzz get in Skip's jeep and drive awa... | cult, revenge, murder, violence | train | imdb | As for the plot, it was a typical slasher that had pretty good acting, great music, and a sadistic killer in Buddy.
I can only imagine what those freaky hillbillys from Deliverance would think of Buddy, the 300+ pound mentally handicapped killer who grunts like a pig rather than speaking normally.
The plot centers arou... |
tt0117318 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | In 1952, 10-year-old Larry Flynt is selling moonshine in Kentucky. Twenty years later, Flynt and his younger brother, Jimmy, run the Hustler Go-Go club in Cincinnati. With profits down, Flynt decides to publish a newsletter for the club, the first Hustler magazine, with nude pictures of women working at the club. The n... | comedy, murder, dramatic, violence, romantic, historical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0489664 | Butterfly on a Wheel | Chicago residents Neil Randall (Gerard Butler) and his wife, Abby Randall (Maria Bello) have the perfect life and a perfect marriage. With their beautiful young daughter, Sophie, they are living the American dream... until today. When Sophie is suddenly kidnapped, they have no choice but to comply with the abductor's d... | revenge | train | wikipedia | On top of that: this movie's great twist ending beautifully blurs the line between good and evil.Pierce Brosnan has already proved to be much more than 007 and continues to do so here.
And Gerard Butler has fought side by side with Lara Croft and 300 of the bravest Greeks, but now this Scottish actor takes a break from... |
tt0462219 | Camille | The following synopsis were provided by la_bon_chat. His/her writings were even more attractive than the film itself and contained the spoilers. Saluted to la_bon_chat and enjoyed.
****************************************************************************************************************************Main female cha... | romantic, fantasy | train | imdb | This is a very original movie which is not like most things Hollywood produces.If you are reading this, you already know the basic plot so I will not bother going over that.
The only movies that come to mind to compare this to are "Interstate 60" and "Art of Travel" which are little known gems that take a different pat... |
tt0058672 | Topkapi | Professional jewel thief Elizabeth Lipp (Melina Mercouri) reunites with her former lover and partner Walter Harper (Maximilian Schell) for the score of her life - the theft of an exquisite jeweled dagger from the Topkapi museum, located in the former Ottoman imperial palace in Istanbul. Walter recruits the team, which ... | suspenseful, intrigue | train | imdb | The film talks a hold-up to Turkish museum carried out by a motley group : Melina Mercouri , Maximiliam Schell , Jess Hahn , Gilles Segal .
Melina Mercouri introduces herself as a thief who doesn't hide the way she feels about the most wonderful emeralds
She wants to rob a dagger encrusted with fascinating gemstones
... |
tt0026230 | Condemned to Live | Professor Paul Kristan [Ralph Morgan] doesn't know that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat just before he was born. The doctor who delivered the baby some 40 years ago in a bat-infested cave within earshot of angry native drums in the darkest reaches of Africa, handed the bundle of joy to his colleague, Doctor Ande... | violence | train | imdb | Ralph Morgan plays a kind-hearted doctor, known throughout his community for his wisdom and charity, that has a terrible secret he does not even know.
It seems when he was born he was marked by a vampire bat....and now in his middle age the terrible strain of over-work has caused his affliction to surface.
Ralph Morgan... |
tt0323571 | Nemesis Game | This movie is a very good thriller, for the most part. Just cryptic enough, most of the riddles are easy enough to figure out, though some of them hard enough you run out of time if you don't pause the movie. But the biggest mystery of all is the ending, which could be seen as a continuation of the theme of the movie, ... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | Instead what I found was a movie that kept me guessing until the very end.
The film has a superb ending and good acting all the way around.
The 'Nemesis Game' as it comes to be called is supposed to end with one final riddle.
This very unique plot and inventive ending leave you wanting to know more of story at the end.... |
tt1035730 | Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin | CONTAINS SPOLIERS This is a real diary from a real woman. The woman cast in this film is too young too play the real woman. The diary was written by a woman in the basement of her bombed out building during the invasion of Berlin by The Red Army in the last months of WWII. It details the way German women survived the r... | violence | train | imdb | To begin with the end note: When the anonymous memoir adapted here ('Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin') was published in Switzerland in 1959, it was greeted with such outrage among Germans the author allowed no further editions; she of course never revealed her name.
They don't, and when they invade Berlin and begin the w... |
tt0079417 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is a workaholic advertising executive who has just been assigned a new and very important account. Ted arrives home and shares the good news with his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) only to find that she is leaving him. Saying that she needs to find herself, she leaves Ted to raise their son Bill... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0085970 | Mr. Mom | Jack Butler is an engineer at an automobile manufacturing plant in Detroit, Michigan. He lives with his wife, Caroline, their two boys, Alex and Kenny, and their infant daughter, Megan. Jack has a decent life and a decent home in the suburbs.However, Jack's job seems to be stressful for him; he and his coworkers, whom ... | satire | train | imdb | Keatons first lead role after his successful "Night Shift" debut in 82 was this family comedy about a laid off auto worker who takes over at home as his wife (Garr) goes back to work.
Its a little like a fish outta water story as he has to go to the unfamiliar market, do numerous chores around the house and learn the r... |
tt2017038 | All Is Lost | Somewhere in the Indian Ocean ("1700 nautical miles from the Sumatra Straits"), we see an abstract image of an object floating in water. Our Man (Robert Redford) narrates:"13th of July, 4:50 p.m. I'm sorry. I know that means little at this point, but I am. I tried. I think you would all agree that I tried. To be true, ... | flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0130487 | Backwoods | A man, who is a doctor, and and his girlfriend go hiking in the woods. They stop and camp for the night. The next day they find a girl choking with her father next to her. The doctor is able to save the girl's life. In return the father invites the couple to eat supper with him and stay at his home. All seems to be goi... | humor, murder | train | imdb | "Backwoods", or "Geek" (as I know it) is one of those films in the same sub-genre as Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Deliverance, Midnight, Just Before Dawn...you get my drift.
It reminded me very much of "Just Before Dawn", as some of the scenes are very similar.I won't go into a detailed description of the plot as I'm sure ... |
tt0114181 | Prime Suspect: The Scent of Darkness | A prison guard walks down a hallway and enters a cell. Inside is George Marlow (Tim Woodward), who gives the guard a letter to mail. Marlow then picks up a book about his own case called "Not Proven". Mr. and Mrs. Branwell (Christopher Ashley and Penelope Beaumont) are calling their daughter Christine's friends after s... | mystery, psychological, murder | train | imdb | OK Give In. I previously wrote that part 2 in this set was going to be the most gripping for myself - without even having seen this one, part 3.
I liked the premise of part 2 and could not imagine I'd find another better.But OK: I give in.
It's just so juicy seeing Mirren have to haggle with these creeps who are simult... |
tt1433540 | Panique au village | Cowboy and Indian, long-standing best friends and rivals, decide to celebrate the birthday of Horse, their faithful and loyal friend. They want to organize a surprise party for him and build him a wonderful hand-made barbecue. Unfortunately, when ordering the bricks for their construction, a typing error multiplies the... | whimsical, absurd, psychedelic | train | imdb | The gloriously cheap stop motion animation is a world away, however - Cowboy and Indian, for instance, even have the little flat stand to hold them up like regular children's toys.Don't take that as a criticism, however- it just makes the whole thing more endearing.
This isn't Avatar - this is more like Morph: forget t... |
tt0058898 | Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution | A man arrives in a hotel very possessive about his white suitcase. This is Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), an American private-eye, and he has arrived in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet.Here he meets Natacha von Braun (Anna Karina) and tried to arrange an interview with her father, saying he is a jou... | avant garde, neo noir, mystery, dramatic, violence, alternate reality, psychedelic, satire, philosophical, comic | train | imdb | null |
tt1606389 | The Vow | The movie begins with Paige Collins (Rachel McAdams) and her husband Leo (Channing Tatum) coming out of a movie theater. On their way home, when they stop at a stop sign, Paige unbuckles her seatbelt to lean over and kiss Leo. At that very moment, a truck rams their Saab 900 from behind and Paige crashes out through th... | romantic, flashback | train | imdb | In Chicago, Paige (Rachel McAdams) and Leo (Channing Tatum) have just married and they are in love for each other.
Leo decides to woo her again to have his wife back, but her ex-fiancé Jeremy (Scott Speedman) is courting Paige and she does not know why she had broken with him."The Vow" is a cute movie based on a true s... |
tt0054198 | Pote tin Kyriaki | In Piraeus, the port city of Athens, Greece, a free-spirited woman named Ilya (Melina Mercouri) is the most popular with all the men because she is a prostitute who isn't only interested in the highest-paying client.She never sets a price, and she must like the man before she will go with him. A young philosophical int... | romantic | train | imdb | Coming from the 50's generation, I remember seeing this movie when I was a teenager and being absolutely fascinated by the Greek setting, music and dancing.
"Never on Sunday" is why.Aided immeasurably by Manos Hadjidakis' unforgettable score (you're probably already humming the theme) and Jules Dassin's story, Mercouri... |
tt1245492 | This Is the End | Jay Baruchel arrives in Los Angeles to visit with old friend and fellow actor Seth Rogen, who invites him to attend a housewarming party hosted by James Franco. Baruchel is uncomfortable at the crowded party, so Rogen accompanies him to a convenience store for cigarettes. There, beams of blue light come down and suck n... | comedy, boring, stupid, paranormal, bleak, violence, humor, satire | train | wikipedia | The movie made me laugh extremely hard and had all my favorite people in one film.
The acting in the movie was not that spectacular, but the actors involved were all born for this kind of movie.For anyone who can truly appreciate a hilarious movie which is made specifically to humor and entertain people, and has no oth... |
tt3717252 | Underworld: Blood Wars | The film starts with a recap of the previous 'Underworld' films. The vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) has been a death dealer for thousands of years in the war against the lycans (werewolves). She was betrayed by the vampire elder Viktor (Bill Nighy) and later met and fell in love with Michael Corvin (Scott Speedman), ... | gothic | train | imdb | Do expect some Lycan ass-kicking from Selene as usual, and enjoy the movie for what it is - a war between vampires and werewolves.
I watch the Underworld movies for pure action, a little bit of story, and seeing a bad chick kicking butt.
As far as girl power movies go, the Underworld franchise is one of--if not--my fav... |
tt0092675 | Bloodsport | The movie begins with montages of various hopeful competitors training and practicing their fighting techniques. Interspersed with these montages are shots of the arena where the Kumite will be held. The hosts of the Kumite are rehearsing pageantry and preparing the arena for proper use.Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, flashback, humor, revenge | train | imdb | A cult classic best martial arts Van Damme Style movie!.
In my opinion is Van Damme's best martial arts film!
Van Damme called those three months "the hardest training of his life" - this despite being a world-championship martial artist in his own right.It does feel good to go re-watch films like this especially deali... |
tt0467197 | Max Payne | As the movie begins, Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is struggling to surface in a ice-crusted river. In a voice-over, he is also narrating. The film then cuts to one week earlier, where Max working as a clerk in the Police Departments cold-case unit. He is obsessed with finding the killer who brutally murdered his wife, Mic... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0477102 | Super Bowl XIII | Super Bowl XIII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1978 season. The Steelers defeated the Cowboys by the score of 3531. ... | non fiction | train | imdb | null |
tt3783958 | La La Land | During the opening credits, the movie we are viewing is said to have been filmed in CINEMASCOPE (like the old-time musicals) and then the screen expands from box format to wide. We find ourselves on the 105/110 interchange in Los Angeles. People listen to various forms of music in their cars. Then one woman gets out of... | flashback, home movie | train | imdb | His passion for classic movies and musicals is evident as he references and pulls influence from films like 'Singin' in the Rain', 'The Umbrellas of Cherborg' and even 'Rebel Without a Cause', the latter of which is one of my favourite films so seeing the nod to it was something I was pleased about.The chemistry betwee... |
tt1904996 | Parker | Parker (Jason Statham) is a professional thief, who doesn't steal from the poor or hurt innocent people. His mentor Hurley (Nick Nolte) asks him to do a five-man job with a crew he doesn't know, which consists of Melander (Michael Chiklis), Carlson (Wendell Pierce), Ross (Clifton Collins Jr.) and Hardwicke (Michah Haup... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | It also has a better than usual cast and director for a statham action movie (Good villains + hot leading lady).
Apparently the director thought the same and cast her in the film as a walking butt to centre shots around in the time Jason is off screen, presumably to make JS' male fans feel less awkward and have an excu... |
tt0093349 | King Lear | King Lear of Britain, elderly and wanting to retire from the duties of the monarchy, decides to divide his realm among his three daughters, and declares he will offer the largest share to the one who loves him most. The eldest, Goneril, speaks first, declaring her love for her father in fulsome terms. Moved by her flat... | tragedy, avant garde | train | wikipedia | I liked this film quite a lot and I thought it was interesting.
I think it is very innovative and ahead of it's time; it almost seems like a multimedia project more than a film.
It's Godard's own Finnegan's Wake-like dreamscape of the making of a film on the theme of King Lear, beginning with the contract, ending with ... |
tt1320261 | Gulliver's Travels | Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) is happy to coast through life working in the mail room of a New York literary powerhose, until new employee Dan (T.J. Miller) is promoted to be his boss in less than a day, prompting Gulliver to blag an assignment to be a new travel writer, hoping to impress the love of his life, travel ed... | revenge, comedy, psychedelic, satire, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0046899 | Demetrius and the Gladiators | The movie is introduced by the closing scene from the previous year's The Robe, in which Marcellus (Richard Burton) and Diana (Jean Simmons) are martyred for their Christian beliefs. As they are led away to their deaths, the robe of Christ is given to former slave Demetrius (Victor Mature) for safekeeping. Mad emperor ... | good versus evil, insanity, violence, murder, romantic | train | imdb | The film opens with Emperor Caligula (Jay Robinson) calling for his guards to find him the robe to bring him eternal life
Caligula stakes his life on the loyalty of the Praetorian Guards
So if they can keep him alive at all, why not forever?Peter (Michael Rennie) gave Demetrius of Corinth (Victor Mature) their master... |
tt0811080 | Speed Racer | Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is an 18-year-old whose life and love has always been racing. As a young boy, Speed shirked his schoolwork, only dreaming of being able to race one day as well as his older brother, Rex Racer (Scott Porter).However, Rex eventually had an altercation with his father Pops Racer (John Goodman), ... | cult, entertaining, flashback | train | imdb | Good and bad guys with crazy cartoon anime hairstyles, crazy over-the-top kung fu, elaborate motion line effects just like in mangas, crazy death defying races, cheesy as hell dialogue which fits perfectly in context!
Go into this movie expecting high adrenaline scenes and all campy fun that only a 60's anime adaptatio... |
tt0415679 | Boy Eats Girl | While working in the church, Grace finds a hidden crypt. While exploring she discovers a voodoo book, however she is soon sent away by Father Cornelius. Grace's son, Nathan attends the local high school, with his friends Henry and Diggs. Nathan likes his long-time friend Jessica however is too scared to ask her out, in... | violence, cult | train | wikipedia | Yes i do admit that the storyline when it comes to the bit about how the zombies were created ( by voodoo) was a bit weak and also the love story between the two main characters was a bit too soppy, but you've got to expect that from a teen movie.
But as for the amount of gore that definitely deserves a 10 out of 10, n... |
tt0190865 | Vertical Limit | In a mountain range in the Southwestern United States, veteran mountain climber Royce Garrett (Stuart Wilson) is traversing a cliff base with his son, Peter (Chris O'Donnell), and daughter, Annie (Robin Tunney). Amateurs above them lose their footing and endanger them all, eventually causing all three Garretts to hang ... | action | train | imdb | null |
tt1334102 | The Resident | The movie starts with newly divorced ER doctor Juliet (Hilary Swank) running through New York City and working in a busy ER. She is looking for an apartment to rent. After viewing one ridiculously small one, she looks at a stunning apartment with a lovely view. The owner, Max (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is renting it for £38... | flashback | train | imdb | This could be a lot entertaining if Hillary Swank wasn't attached to it, and could be a lot interesting and nostalgic if the movie wasn't too serious.I can't blame the plot, which is very interesting though the great collection of clichés and some bad character's development destroy the main subject and entire movie.It... |
tt0062288 | Something Weird | A man named Cronin Mitchell (Tony McCabe) survives a horrible electrical accident when a maintenance man falls from an electrical power line pole, and accidentally releases the power line he was attempting to attach. Mitchell attempts to help the man, but the electrical line thrusts into his face. An ambulance arrives,... | paranormal, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0087336 | Girls Nite Out | At Weston Hills Sanitarium, Dickie Cavanaugh is found hanging in his cell. Cavanaugh's sister gives permission to two gravediggers to bury the body. While the two men are digging the hole for Cavanaugh's body, they are attacked and murdered by an unseen killer who throws their corpses into the burial plot and buries th... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Sure, this isn't "Gladiator" but it's one of the better teen slashers from the eighties and doesn't deserve the mauling it's received here.The plot - a menacing killer picking off university co-eds during a scavenger hunt - is just a credible as the more popular storylines in slashers like "Prom Night" and "Friday The ... |
tt0491747 | Away from Her | Grant and Fiona are a retired married couple living in rural Brant County, Ontario. Fiona begins to lose her memory, and it becomes apparent she suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Throughout the film, Grant's reflections on his marriage are woven with his reflections on his own infidelities, and influence his eventual d... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | One thought that would be her best turn at geriatric impersonations.Less than a decade later, Christie comes up with an even better performance of a woman coping with Alzheimer's disease in a debut directorial effort "Away from Her" of Canadian actress Sarah Polley.
Sarah Polley's film grips, holds, moves, thrills; you... |
tt0454921 | The Pursuit of Happyness | In 1981, San Francisco salesman Chris Gardner (Will Smith) invests his entire life savings in portable bone density scanners, which he demonstrates to doctors and pitches as a handy quantum leap over standard X-rays. The scanners play a vital role in Chris's life. While he is able to sell most of them, the time lag bet... | inspiring, depressing, feel-good | train | wikipedia | I will say that Will Smith was shockingly good now that he's paid his dues with "Men in Black" and "Bad Boys."I was very happy that this film never got political and blamed Reagan for the number of "down on their luck" people that were shown, nor was the race card ever pulled out.
While the movie has an uplifting "go f... |
tt1341167 | Four Lions | A group of radicalised young British Muslim men aspire to be suicide bombers. They are Omar (Riz Ahmed), who is deeply critical of Western society and imperialism; his dim-witted cousin Waj (Kayvan Novak); Barry (Nigel Lindsay), a bad-tempered and extremely rash white convert to Islam; and the naive Faisal (Adeel Akhta... | comedy, satire, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0128853 | You've Got Mail | An updating of 1940 The Shop Around the Corner and the1949 musical version, In the Good Old Summertime, to the Internet Age, You've Got Mail follows the squabbling and romance of two competing book retailers on Manhattan's Upper West Side.Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) awakens to the latest comments by her newspaper columni... | romantic, boring, psychedelic, comedy, sentimental | train | imdb | Romantic comedies are not everyone's cup of tea; after all, who would want to watch unrealistic stories about ordinary people 'coupling' when we are offered such wonderful everyday experiences as ten car pileups, hordes of people being slaughtered in a hail of bullets while shopping, goblins, explosions, vampires and i... |
tt0120746 | The Mask of Zorro | In 1821, the Mexican Army is on the verge of liberating its country from Spanish colonial rule. In the area of Las Californias the ruthless Spanish Governor, Don Rafael Montero, is about to be overthrown. In a last ditch effort to trap his nemesis, the masked swordsman Zorro (Anthony Hopkins), Montero prepares to execu... | comedy, boring, murder, good versus evil, action, tragedy, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt1440728 | The American | Jack (George Clooney), an American assassin, is relaxing in a remote cabin at Dalarna, Sweden with his lover, Ingrid (Irina Björklund). The two decide to take a walk on the frozen lake nearby. While walking, Ingrid notices some footprints. Jack immediately becomes suspicious and quickly drags Ingrid to cover behind a l... | avant garde, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, mystery, boring, cult, revenge, violence, flashback, romantic | train | imdb | The assassin is determined to do one last job before giving up his nefarious profession, but two women are complicating his intentions: fellow shootist Mathilde, played icily by the Dutch Thekla Reuten, and a local prostitute Clara, the beautiful Italian actress Violante Placido.
The sparse script is the work of Rowan ... |
tt0365677 | Red Water | Dr Kelly Raymond (Kristy Swanson) wants to investiage on the waters of a Louisiana river. She tries to convince her ex-husband, expert John Sanders (Lou Diamond Phillips) who at first rejects her offer. He is not convinced by her ecological proposal. Their relationship hasn't gone too smoothly between them since their ... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0368479 | Cold Case | Detective (Lilly) Rush is a homicide detective working for the Philadelphia Police Department in the present day. Although she initially dabbled in current crimes, she begins focusing on "cold cases" (murder cases in the past that were originally never solved). Assisting her along the way are her colleagues. Her boss a... | romantic, revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0363547 | Dawn of the Dead | Ana (Sarah Polley), a nurse, finishes a long shift at her Milwaukee County hospital and returns to her peaceful suburban home. She and her waiting husband Louis (Justin Louis) make love and go to sleep, missing warnings beginning to trickle through the local media concerning a mysterious and rapidly-spreading contagion... | comedy, murder, violence, cult, horror, action, sadist | train | imdb | Dawn of the DeadI'm not sure I can recall witnessing an opening sequence quite like the one I saw in Zack Snyder's remake of the classic horror film 'Dawn of the Dead.' Besides being rather lengthy (it's over ten minutes before we see the opening credits), it has a bizarre creepiness about it.
Now you have to admit, th... |
tt0059674 | The Sandpiper | Laura Reynolds (Taylor) is a free-spirited, unwed single mother living with her young son Danny (Morgan Mason) in an isolated California beach house. She makes a modest living as an artist and home-schools her son out of concern that he will be compelled to follow stifling conventional social norms in a regular school.... | romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | "The Sandpiper" was the second in a number of films ("The VIPs" was the first) made together by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
By 1965, however, the Code, although not quite dead, was no longer in robust health, and a film on this subject, although still highly controversial, was no longer impossible.Taylor's cha... |
tt0091306 | Jumpin' Jack Flash | Teresa "Terry" Doolittle (Whoopi Goldberg) transfers funds for the First National Bank in Manhattan, New York. She does not quite fit with the bank's corporate image, despite being a good employee and well-liked by her co-workers. She is often chastised by her no-nonsense boss James Page (Peter Michael Goetz).
Set agai... | comedy, murder, violence, intrigue, cult, humor | train | wikipedia | Whoopi Goldberg plays the quirky and livewire Terri Doolitle a low level bank employee who gets involved in a dangerous spy game involving the CIA, British Secret Service and the KGB (made in the 80's the cold war was still in full swing).Contacted via her computer (the computer geeks out there will love seeing this ea... |
tt0318649 | Sahara | The film begins with a prologue set in Richmond, Virginia in 1865, showing the ironclad CSS Texas, carrying the last of the Confederacys treasury, as Captain Adrian Tombs (Robert Cavanah) tries to run a Union blockade.The film then moves to the present day, circa 1990s, where World Health Organization doctors Eva Rojas... | comedy, humor, action, boring, flashback | train | imdb | I also found it refreshing for the sidekick to look like a doofus, but actually more than hold his own during crunch time.I can only assume the negative reactions are from fans of the book (I have never read any Clive Custler, so it may well depart from it in tone or otherwise.) But judged solely on its merits as a lig... |
tt1441395 | Under the Skin | In the opening shot, there is a tiny ball of light, which turns into a bright circular flash, slowly coming into view with a circular object. Amidst the ominous tone that plays, we hear a woman's voice making sounds, trying to get her speech down to being perfect (down to a Scottish accent). We see what appears to be a... | dark, psychological, boring, atmospheric | train | imdb | Instead, they say things like "Not enough was explained." "This film had no plot." "The movie went nowhere." or "Nothing happened." At the risk of sounding smug, I will say that these people are looking for the wrong things in this movie, or any movie.
Movies can explain the plot, story, character motivations, and role... |
tt0041886 | The Small Back Room | Sammy Rice (David Farrar) is a British scientist working with a specialist "back room" team in London during the Second World War. Rice is embittered because he feels military scientific research is being incompetently managed. He is also enduring unremitting pain from his artificial foot. The painkillers he has been p... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | The film shines in its production values, photography, art direction, casting but most of all in its details and its capacity to involve the viewer in a subject that would seem almost repellent today, a complicated and imperfect man's devotion to his work in time of war.
Its success is helped by the talent of the princ... |
tt0464141 | El orfanato | The film is set in Spain, where Laura (Belén Rueda) returns to the dilapidated orphanage where she grew up, accompanied by her husband, Carlos (Fernando Cayo), and their seven-year-old son, Simón (Roger Princep). Her plan is to reopen the orphanage as a facility for disabled children. Once there, Simón claims that he s... | paranormal, horror, gothic, depressing, fantasy | train | imdb | 'El Orfanato' surprised me first in successfully thrilling me with its surface, and surprised me again in how deeply it moved me with its core.When Laura (the marvelous Belén Rueda) moves back into the house that used to be the orphanage she lived in as a girl, she is thirty-seven, married, and she and her husband have... |
tt0073594 | I quattro dell'apocalisse | Salt Flat Utah, 1873. Stubby Preston (Fabio Testi) a card-shard and gambling trickster, arrives in the small Wild West town to practice his art at the local casino. However, the town sheriff (Donald O'Brien) recognizes him climbing out of the stagecoach and within minutes, he is in a jail cell for the night and his mar... | murder, western, violence, insanity, tragedy, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | Pacing up to this point was sharp, but here things did drag a little.There are some well-handled action sequences, a little hard-boiled violence (but leagues away from the incredible sadism of something like 'New York Ripper') and some humorous touches, mainly provided by the character of Clem, the town drunk.
The conv... |
tt0120684 | Gods and Monsters | Clay gets up from his trailer at the beach and drives to Mr. Jimmy's lush house, where he mows the lawn.Mr. Jimmy has a visit from David, who is concerned about his health. He then goes out to chat with Clay, his new gardener, and invites him to swim in the pool after he is done working. Clay says he needs to do anothe... | romantic, flashback | train | imdb | I knew little about James Whale and the Frankenstein franchise, possessed virtually zilch experience with Bill Condon (aside from the trivial baggage that his previous _and first_ feature film was the Direct-To-Oblivion sequel to the Scariest-Movie-Of-All-Time-When-I-Was-Fourteen, Candyman.), and unceremoniously avoide... |
tt0068369 | Child's Play | Eight years after the Chucky's second demise in the Play Pals factory, The Play Pals company has recovered from bad publicity brought along by Chucky's (voiced by Brad Dourif) murder spree and resumes manufacturing of the Good Guy dolls. The company releases a new line of Good Guy dolls and recycles Chucky's remains. H... | cult | train | wikipedia | A great film..
This is an excellent film.
Unfortunately the word subtle, which applies to this film, is used as a negative by the only (at this date) other comment on "Child's Play." Subtle it is, and those who like character studies and evocative camera work, a sustained mood and a finely wrought battle between good a... |
tt0178868 | Ringu | High school students Katie and Becca discuss an urban legend about a cursed videotape which kills anyone who watches it seven days later. Katie admits that she watched the tape with her boyfriend and two friends the previous week. That night, Katie is killed by an unseen force.
At Katie's funeral, her aunt Rachel, a Se... | psychological, cruelty, murder, realism, paranormal, cult, violence, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, suspenseful, sadist | train | wikipedia | **CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS**Ringu is an unassuming little movie that my boyfriend and I rented from the local DVD store knowing little about it other than it had inspired a recent Hollywood remake.The first thing which accosts you when watching this film, is it's lo-fi documentary-style reality.
Ringu has the look and fe... |
tt0319531 | I'll Sleep When I'm Dead | Davey Graham (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) arrives at an upper class party to sell drugs to a woman named Stella. As he leaves, Stella's date watches him and makes a call on his cell phone. Outside the party, three men are waiting for Davey in a black Range Rover, including a car dealer named Boad (Malcolm McDowell). The men ... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1578873 | Pretty Little Liars | 1 year ago, Allison, the queen bee of the four friends, Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily, went missing. Since her disappearance, the four girls became less close, with Aria moving to Iceland, Hanna losing weight, Spencer in competition with her older sister, Melissa, and Emily experimenting with her sexuality. When Aria... | neo noir, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0195714 | Final Destination | Alex Browning is aordinary teenager, who has the power of seeing the future.He and 40 of his classmates are going to Paris on a school trip. Just before the plane takes off, Alex has a premonition of the plane exploding, killing everyone. He awakens and screams to everyone that the plane will explode. The guards take h... | fantasy, mystery, murder, paranormal, dramatic, violence, horror, humor, suspenseful, entertaining | train | imdb | Final Destination has made my list as one of the best horror films in the wake of the teen/slasher revival.
This is where the story gets interesting by getting off the plane Alex soon realizes that him and his friends have cheated Death and they have to figure out when death is coming back at them.The one thing i thoug... |
tt0103522 | Red Shoe Diaries | Jake Winters (David Duchovny) is at the funeral of his fiancée, who has just commited suicide. A lady tells him that he can speak with her when he feels prepared. He feels lost, on his own, after the funeral. Nobody can understand why it happened. He goes to his huge luxury apartment, where he remembers her, dancing, h... | pornographic | train | imdb | Soft Porn With A Woman's Touch. Late night eroticism, but the stories were told from a woman's perspective. The music in this series was fantastic, and it set the mood perfectly. Many of the stories were good, but there were some clinkers, as well. Some of the actors and actresses that appeared were those that viewers... |
tt0099674 | The Godfather: Part III | The movie begins in 1979, with a brief flashback establishing the long and tragic history of criminal activity within, and by, the Corleone family. Much has changed. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) is now approaching 60 and feels tremendous guilt for indulging in his ruthless ambition many years ago. Although his previous... | murder, dramatic, cult, flashback, good versus evil, revenge | train | imdb | While I never found Diane Keaton's performances in the saga that good, she still fills the spot required, same goes for Talia Shire, whose role in the ending finale of the film really came as a surprise to me - which was a good thing.
Sophie Coppola was OK, like I said a lot of people have complained about her acting s... |
tt0064505 | The Italian Job | A Lamborghini Miura drives through the Italian Alps, enters a tunnel, crashes and explodes. A bulldozer pulls the remains from the tunnel and dumps them down a steep alpine gorge. Some time later dapper mobster Charlie Croker (Caine) is released from prison. He soon meets with the widow (Goldoni) of his friend and fell... | comedy, mystery, murder, cult, plot twist, entertaining, home movie | train | imdb | null |
tt0085333 | Christine | It's 1958 in Detroit. We are inside a car factory where numerous Plymouth Fury's are being assembled. Among the rather plain-colored vehicles, one of them stands out: a bright-red one. During the process, this particular red car is being fussed about by one factory worker who has his hand injured when the vehicle's hoo... | gothic, paranormal, cult, revenge, horror, violence, good versus evil, suspenseful | train | imdb | Ah, do I remember the day that I saw Christine, which is disturbing since I was only 6 years old, but my sister said "Do you wanna watch Christine?" and I was confused, my name is Kristine, but she told me about this little horror movie and thanks to her I couldn't go near our family car for a few months.
Christine is ... |
tt0177971 | The Perfect Storm | In October 1991, the commercial fishing boat Andrea Gail returns to port in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a poor catch. Desperate for money, Captain Billy Tyne (Clooney) convinces the Andrea Gail crew to join him for one more late season fishing expedition. The crew heads out past their usual fishing grounds in the G... | tragedy, dramatic, action, mystery, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0285175 | Havoc | The film begins in a parking lot in which a teenage filmmaker named Eric is attempting to document the faux-gangsta lifestyle enjoyed by Allison Lang (Anne Hathaway) and her boyfriend Toby's (Mike Vogel) gang of white upper-class teenagers living in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. A brawl ensues between Toby's gang... | violence | train | wikipedia | It was either hearing about the various nude scenes of Anne Hathaway or a bunch of white kids trying to act black, and doing it poorly.I said that that "fake" was the first thing that came to mind, because we are immediately presented with this group of rich white kids acting like they are black.
Now it doesn't happen ... |
tt0254686 | La pianiste | Erika Kohut is a piano professor at a Vienna music conservatory. Although already in her forties, she still lives in an apartment with her domineering mother. Her father is a long-standing resident in a psychiatric asylum.
The audience is gradually shown truths about Erika's private life. Behind her assured façade, she... | pornographic, cult, psychological, cruelty | train | wikipedia | If you think piano teacher Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert) in Michael Haneke's film "LA PIANISTE" is the ultimate degree in the personification of derangement, perversion and darkness, I've got news for you: the piano teacher in Elfriede Jellinek's novel "LA PIANISTE" (on which the film was based) is twice as "repulsive... |
tt1649419 | Lo imposible | Henry Bennett (Ewan McGregor), his wife Maria (Naomi Watts), and their three sons Lucas (Tom Holland), Tomas (Samuel Joslin), and Simon (Oaklee Pendergast) go on a Christmas holiday in 2004 to Khao Lak, Thailand. Arriving on Christmas Eve, they settle in and begin to enjoy the brand new Orchid Beach Resort. Two days la... | mystery, dramatic, flashback, home movie, action, tragedy, inspiring, suspenseful, sentimental | train | wikipedia | Their solution was to deal with one British family on vacation in Thailand from Japan, but their film uses that family as a catalyst to show the tsunami's awful effect not only on the tourist population but on the local people who suffered even more.Both the film itself and the filmmakers have taken pains to say that t... |
tt0035884 | Five Graves to Cairo | Corporal John Bramble (Franchot Tone) is the sole survivor of a British tank crew after a major battle with Erwin Rommel's victorious Afrika Korps. Delirious, he stumbles across the North African desert into the Empress of Britain, a small, isolated hotel owned by Farid (Akim Tamiroff). The staff consists of just Frenc... | murder | train | wikipedia | There are other excellent performances by Anne Baxter and Akim Tamiroff and a scene reminiscent of "La Grande illusion," where Field Marshal Rommel, played with swagger and arrogance by Erich von Stroheim, entertains several British POW officers.
The part then fell to Franchot Tone who gave a good account of himself as... |
tt0045477 | Affair with a Stranger | Successful playwright, Bill Blakeley (Victor Mature) phones his wife, Carol (ex model, Carolyn Parker) (Jean Simmons) to find out why she has not arrived in Philadelphia (from New York) to see the opening of his newest play. She seems ambivalent about her non-appearance and he loses his temper at her apparent lack of i... | flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0094012 | Spaceballs | The movie opens with a Star Wars-esque text on the screen that informs the viewer of the war between Planet Druidia and Planet Spaceball. Druidia has been at peace for some time now and has managed to stop Planet Spaceball in their tracks by constructing a giant air shield around the planet. Planet Spaceball has been i... | comedy, cult, good versus evil, humor, satire, entertaining | train | imdb | The story is one of Mel's finest parades, of course, this one is of Star Wars or pretty much any space film.Lord Helmet and President Skroob wish to steal all of Planet Druidia's fresh air and transfer it onto their own, but they must get the combination to the air shield that is protecting it.
But things quickly turn ... |
tt0090021 | Silver Bullet | Jane Coslaw (Follows), the narrator of the film, is the oldest sister in a dysfunctional family of four. Her narration starts in the Spring of 1976 and centers on her strained relationship with her younger, paraplegic brother Marty (Haim) and their parents Nan and Bob. Their rocky relationship changes after a series of... | cult, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0086197 | The Right Stuff | In 1947, a group of determined men gathered at a remote Air Force base in the high desert of California. Their goal was to break the sound barrier by using a small rocket-powered test plane called the X-1. The only problem was that others had tried before, and not all had survived. Some thought of the sound barrier as ... | dramatic, historical | train | imdb | 'The Right Stuff' is one of the most glorious adventure films ever made, a story of incredible heroism, poignant romance, gripping drama, and broad humor...and amazingly, it has actually happened within our lifetimes!This is a tale of test pilots, 'pushing the envelope', proving the sound barrier couldn't constrain man... |
tt0022867 | Ekstase | Emil (Zvonimir Rogoz), a precise, orderly older man, carries his happy new bride Eva (Hedy Lamarr) over the threshold of their home. (He has great difficulty opening the lock on the front door, trying key after key.) She is greatly disappointed on her wedding night; he does not even come to bed. After living in the unc... | cult, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0108333 | The Three Musketeers | In 1625 France, following in his late fathers footsteps, D'Artagnan (Chris O'Donnell) sets off to Paris in hopes of becoming a member of the Musketeers, a band of men sworn to serve and protect the King of France. D'Artagnan is pursued by Gérard and his brothers, who accuse him of blemishing their sister's honor. Gérar... | comedy, murder, violence, historical fiction, good versus evil, action, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0104850 | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | The movie opens with the invisible Nick Halloway (Chevy Chase) dictating his memoirs into a video camera. To prove it is not a camera trick, he chews some bubble gum. Nick narrates the story of how he came to be invisible, beginning a few days earlier at his job as a stock analyst. His secretary refers to him as a "bul... | comedy, cult, suspenseful, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | Nick (played by Chevy Chase, whose great in a serious role,) gets turned invisible in a lab accident.
Memoirs of an Invisible Man tanked in 1992, and was seen by many as a dismal failure, and a sure sign of Chevy Chase's film career demise.
While the story is somewhat muddled, and the other performances, especially Dar... |
tt0116861 | Leprechaun 4: In Space | On a remote planet, the Leprechaun attempts to court a princess named Zarina, in a nefarious plot to become king of her home planet. The two agree to marry, with each partner planning to kill the other after the wedding night in order to enjoy the marriage benefits (a peerage for the Leprechaun, the Leprechaun's gold a... | cult | train | wikipedia | Sequels, especially ones of highly successful films, are almost necessarily cursed with a dearth of creativity, made simply to make money, a cynical perversion of the "art" of moviemaking.That's why you have to see Leprechaun 4: In Space.
Possibly the best movie involving a Leprechaun in space...Ever!.
What a delightfu... |
tt0051947 | The Monster of Piedras Blancas | The movie opens with a long shot of a lighthouse along the California coast. A reptilian claw comes up from behind a rock outcropping and grabs a metal bowl on a chain. The keeper, Sturges (John Harmon) exits the lighthouse, checks his watch, and prepares to mount his bike for a ride into town. He notices some kids wal... | murder | train | imdb | You have one of the better amphibious creature costumes designed by Jack Kevan (No zipper!!), a great sea coast location, decapitations and gore, some very decent acting by A-list party girl and pin-up queen Jeanne Carmen, and last but not least, Les Tremayne - He is only in 85% of all classic B-horror/sci-fi films of ... |
tt2102496 | Cabin Fever: Patient Zero | Initially, as the opening credits roll, you see what appears to be a military force armed with guns and flame throwers and dressed in Bio Hazard suites entering a building as a recording from what sounds like an emergency call to 911 plays. A female operator takes the call and speaks in Spanish and a Male voice can be ... | violence, murder | train | imdb | I blind bought Cabin Fever 3, reasoning that it couldn't possibly be worse than part 2; I was correct in my assumption—it's EQUALLY as bad.Part three of Eli Roth's flesh-melting horror series takes place in the Dominican Republic where Marcus (Mitch Ryan) is due to marry his fiancé, but not before his brother Josh (Bra... |
tt0074486 | Eraserhead | The film starts with a man named Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) hovering in space. His brain, represented by a rocky planet visible through his head, hovers behind him. In Henry's brain there is a Man in the Planet (Jack Fisk) who pulls levers to control Henry's functions which represents his central nervous system. This s... | comedy, avant garde, mystery, dark, boring, cult, violence, horror, atmospheric, psychedelic, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0097737 | Leviathan | Miss Martin, the CEO of Tri-Oceanic Corp., hires geologist Steven Beck to supervise an undersea mining operation for six months. The crew consists of members Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson, Elizabeth 'Willie' Williams, Buzz 'Sixpack' Parrish, Justin Jones, Tony 'DeJesus' Rodero, Bridget Bowman and G.P. Cobb. While working out... | cult, suspenseful, violence, prank | train | wikipedia | null |
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