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tt0070917 | The Wicker Man | Sergeant Neil Howie of the West Highland Police receives an anonymous letter requesting his presence on Summerisle, a remote Hebridean island famed for its popular and unusually abundant fruit produce. A young girl named Rowan Morrison has been missing for a number of months and her mother is being uncooperative with e... | comedy, mystery, murder, cult, atmospheric, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0104009 | Cool World | In 1945, World War II veteran Frank Harris returns to his mother in Las Vegas. Riding a motorcycle that he won in Italy, Frank and his mother are struck by a drunk couple. Frank survives, but his mother dies. As an ambulance takes her away, Frank is transported to Cool World, an animated city of weird landscapes and ra... | cult, alternate reality, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1783732 | John Dies at the End | David Wong recalls confronting a zombie skinhead whom he beheaded one year prior and wonders whether an axe that had its handle and head replaced over time is still the same axe. This is a play on the classic problem in philosophy and metaphysics known as the Ship of Theseus. He sits in a restaurant and recounts his st... | comedy, paranormal, cult, alternate reality, violence, atmospheric, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | I had not read the book previously and knew nearly nothing about the story, but if you've seen the trailer, that is pretty much adequate preparation for the strangeness you subject yourself to as you watch this movie.
If you have a hard time with a story that goes to unexpected places and keeps you on your toes, you ma... |
tt0075765 | Black Sunday | Dahlia Iyad, an operative from the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, arrives in Beirut where she meets with Black September operatives in a safe house outside the city where she informs them about her plan for the upcoming "operation" in the USA to be carried out in two months the following year in the month... | suspenseful, murder, violence, cult, insanity, revenge | train | imdb | There are a number of good things going for this film, among them two things you learn right from the opening credits: (1) John Frankenheimer is the director and (2) it's based on a book by Thomas Harris, the man who created "Hannibal Lechter." Throw in two intense always-interesting actors, Bruce Dern and Marthe Kelle... |
tt0978764 | Sucker Punch | In the 1960s, a young woman nicknamed Babydoll (Emily Browning) is institutionalized by her abusive widowed stepfather (Gerard Plunkett) at the fictional Lennox House for the Mentally Insane in Brattleboro, Vermont, after she is blamed for her younger sister's death. The stepfather bribes Blue Jones (Oscar Isaac), an a... | murder, stupid, cult, alternate reality, violence, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, satire, tragedy, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Nearly every review you read for this film will say the same thing, it's a 'love or hate' movie, and there's a very good reason for this.
After absorbing myself in the world of Zach Snyder's "Sucker Punch" for a while, including one viewing at IMAX, one in my local theater, and multiple listens to the soundtrack, I fel... |
tt0093629 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | The story begins with a young girl, Kristen Parker, creating a papier Mache model of 1428 Elm Street. The house, originally inhabited by Nancy and Jesse from the preceding Nightmare on Elm Street movies has been haunting her dreams. As she works Kristen blasts loud music, eats coffee from the jar and swigs Cola in an a... | fantasy, murder, cult, violence, horror, insanity | train | imdb | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) is definitely the best sequel horror slasher film in the series franchise!
I love this horror slasher film to death it is very imaginative, entertaining, a good set of characters, some fun catchphrases/dialogue, a great Dokken song aka Dream Warriors...a lot of awesome... |
tt1478338 | Bridesmaids | Annie Walker (Kristen Wiig) is a single woman in her late 30s. Following the failure of her bakery, she lost her boyfriend and her savings, forcing her to take a job as a sales clerk in a jewelry store and to share an apartment with an obnoxious roommate Gil (Matt Lucas) and his sister Brynn (Rebel Wilson). Her busines... | comedy, depressing, adult comedy, psychedelic, humor, prank | train | wikipedia | Quite a few plot holes, and there were many scenes where I caught myself rolling my eyes, thinking, "really?" The greatest movies develop their characters so much that you literally feel for their outcomes.
The plot was so weak and rushed for the next pointless comedy spiel, that they didn't give the characters any dep... |
tt0065724 | Five Easy Pieces | Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson) works in a California oil field (shot in and around the city of Taft in the San Joaquin Valley) with his friend Elton (Billy "Green" Bush), who has a wife and baby son. Bobby spends most of his time with his waitress girlfriend, Rayette (Karen Black), who has dreams of singing country music... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | Of course the storyline of an alienated young man (Jack Nicholson as Robert Dupea), walking away from all that is expected of him, and indeed walking away --if not running away-- from his prodigious gifts, and doing it all with a cocky attitude, no longer resonates quite the way it did in 1970.
Or, as Jenny, Ali McGraw... |
tt0443676 | Undisputed II: Last Man Standing | Visiting the Russian Federation for a series of boxing matches, George "Iceman" Chambers is subsequently framed for possession of cocaine and sent to prison. There, he discovers a series of illegal full-contact Mixed Martial Arts matches dominated by inmate Yuri Boyka. The prison officials arrange these fights and plac... | cult, violence | train | imdb | The execution of the fight scenes, the action and stunt sequences are choreograph very nice and hard hitting.The story is not that new to movie-watchers, though there's some twist but still its some kind of a stereotype story...
But if you want hard hitting, bone breaking action entertainment, this one is a must see!Th... |
tt2333784 | The Expendables 3 | An armored train is taking a fugitive to the Denzali prison. Hot on their trail are 'The Expendables', flying in a chopper piloted by leader Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone). The gang has set up a wire a few miles down the track. Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), and Toll Road (Randy Coutur... | murder, revenge, humor, comedy, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt1564585 | Skyline | As the film opens we see falling blue lights, like flares, raining down on Los Angeles at night time, evenly spaced over the terrain. Then we see young couple Jarrod (Eric Balfour) and Elaine (Scottie Thompson) being woken by blue lights outside the window shining through the slates in the blinds. Elaine thinks it is m... | psychedelic, suspenseful, action, boring | train | imdb | null |
tt0259446 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 30-year-old Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos (Nia Vardalos) feels that she is the only woman in her family who has "failed" at being a typical Greek girl. Her family expects her to be more like her 33-year-old sister Athena (Stavroula Logothettis) and marry a Greek boy, make Greek babies, and "feed everyone until the day she... | comedy, humor, entertaining, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | This film is a celebration of life steeped in tradition, family, love and just the joy of living; and it invites you to come in and participate in that celebration, rather than leaving you on the outside looking in, as it were, merely as an observer.
A film that seemingly welcomes and passionately embraces all that is ... |
tt0879225 | Cannibal Taboo | Explorer Cliff Hendricks rescues the beautiful young Janet from her primitive African jungle where she was born, a land rife with savagery and devil worship that lured her parents into an early death. Back in America, she becomes a ravishing woman before Cliffs eyes. They fall passionately in love and marry, and she be... | pornographic, cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0127536 | Elizabeth | In 1558, Catholic Queen Mary dies of a uterine tumour. Mary's Protestant half-sister, Elizabeth, under house arrest for conspiracy charges, is freed and crowned the Queen of England.
As briefed by her adviser William Cecil, Elizabeth inherits a distressed England besieged by debts, crumbling infrastructure, hostile nei... | murder, violence, intrigue, flashback, romantic, historical | train | wikipedia | The Academy Awards ceremony of 1999 angered many people: Shakespeare in Love, albeit a very smart and funny film, robbed the superior Saving Private Ryan of the Best Picture Oscar; Roberto Benigni beat Edward Norton in the Best Actor category (though it was the Italian star's behavior, rather than his performance, that... |
tt1142977 | Frankenweenie | Young filmmaker and scientist Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan) lives with his parents, Edward (Martin Short) and Susan Frankenstein (Catherine O'Hara), and his beloved Bull Terrier dog, Sparky, in the quiet town of New Holland. Victor's intelligence is recognized by his classmates at school, his somber next-door nei... | cute, horror, boring, home movie | train | wikipedia | It's also - and this is to be expected from any Tim Burton movie - really good looking, with stylish black and white animation and a cast of creepy looking kids.As someone familiar with the original movies, I appreciate the way it pays tribute to its source material.
And naked enough (no Depp, no Hollywood excess) to s... |
tt0042369 | D.O.A. | Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) begins his tale by walking into a Los Angeles police station and telling a detective "I want to report a murder... mine." Oddly, the police almost seem to have been expecting him and already know who he is since there has been an APB on him since yesterday.A flashback begins with Bigelow ... | cult, mystery, murder, sadist, flashback | train | imdb | Edmond O'Brien had one of the best roles of his career in D.O.A., and he took full advantage, though few critics give his performance much credit for the film's success.O'Brien, a classically trained actor, plays a small-time Southern California businessman living his ordinary little life, minding his own business, reg... |
tt0059744 | Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space | The opening narrative is given by a man in a high ranking military uniform. He tells us the film is set 50 years into the future, when an overcrowded Earth will begin looking for other Earths. Flights will be made taking 25 to 50 years. This film is the story of one such flight IC 1 (Interstellar Colony ship One) It is... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0084602 | Rocky III | 'Rocky III' begins with the ending of the 15th round of the rematch between Rocky and Apollo Creed in Rocky II, with Rocky Balboa becoming the new heavyweight champion of the world. This is followed by an opening montage of scenes that explain what happened in the time between Rocky II and Rocky III: in the five years ... | comedy, bleak, violence, cult, flashback, romantic, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0032143 | The Women | Based on the 1936 play by Clare Boothe Luce, The Women follows the lives of a handful of wealthy Manhattan women, focusing in particular on Mary Haines (Norma Shearer), the cheerful, contented wife of Stephen and mother of Little Mary. After a bit of gossip flies around the salon these wealthy women visit, Mary's frien... | revenge, home movie | train | imdb | Director George Cukor sent Crawford home early when she caused a distraction by loudly clicking her knitting needles off camera as Shearer tried to do her close-ups.Crawford was proved right in taking the movie, it's one of her most memorable and, finally for once, villainous roles.
Roz gives the strongest performance ... |
tt0488120 | Fracture | Theodore "Ted" Crawford (Anthony Hopkins), a wealthy and talented Irish aeronautical engineer in Los Angeles, discovers that his wife Jennifer (Embeth Davidtz) is having an affair with police detective Robert Nunally (Billy Burke). After confronting his wife, Crawford shoots her, seriously wounding her. Police arrive o... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence, plot twist, action, romantic, revenge | train | wikipedia | "Fracture" (2007) is directed by Gregory Hoblit who has also made "Frequency" (2000), "Fallen" (1998) both of which I like and "Primal Fear" (1996) - his feature debut that I love.Crime /Thriller/Mystery /Court Drama are among my favorite genres and as long as the combination of these genres is clever, gripping, atmosp... |
tt0068699 | High Plains Drifter | A distant figure on horseback rides through shimmering, midday heat. He's nearer now, a bearded man in a dark cowboy hat and long dusty overcoat--the Stranger (Clint Eastwood).The Stranger enters the tiny western town of Lago and rides slowly down the main street. The townspeople stop and watch him pass. Freighter Jake... | dark, suspenseful, mystery, murder, bleak, western, violence, cult, flashback, psychedelic, revenge | train | imdb | Despite being a respected actor, nobody could have imagined that his talent as director was even superior to his acting skills, and after a fairly good debut in 1971 (the thriller "Play Misty for Me"), he crafted his first masterpiece in 1973 as a tribute to his own artistic mentors: the haunting western "High Plains D... |
tt0074802 | Lipstick | Twenty-one year-old Chris McCormick (Margaux Hemingway) is a top model for a company selling lipstick. McCormick has responsibility for her 14 year-old sister Kathy (Mariel Hemingway) as their parents were killed in a car crash. They share an apartment and Kathy attends a private, Catholic school.Kathy invites her hand... | revenge, cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | That was to show the audience that even a top fashion model who's used to exposing her body to the public and is anything but a Mother Teresa in her social life has as much right as a Cloister Nun to say no when she's put upon by someone and should have the same protection from the law and court system as well.Margaux ... |
tt1172571 | The Children | The film begins with a family of five, mother Elaine (Eva Birthistle), father Jonah (Stephen Campbell Moore), teenage daughter Casey (Hannah Tointon), and the two younger children Miranda (Eva Sayer) and Paulie (William Howes) heading up to a large house to spend New Year with some relatives. When they arrive, they are... | violence, murder | train | imdb | Music is by Stephen Hilton and cinematography by Nanu Segal.A Christmas holiday at a remote country home turns into a fight for survival when the children suddenly start to turn on the adults.....Could you kill your own kid?
Added kicker in the writing is that the only character in the set-up who grasps what is going o... |
tt1878841 | The Darkness | The film begins with a family of four being on vacation and having a cookout with some friends. While the parents talk about life and how fast their kids grow up and enjoy the food, Andrew (the teen son of the other two parents) decides to explore the canyon with Stephanie and Michael (the teen daughter and the young s... | haunting | train | imdb | I really don't know why people are writing comments slating this film.It is not a 'hardcore; horror that is likely to make you seek therapy for the rest of your life, but it is not dull or unwatchable either.The production is good, the acting is good, and it is the kind of film you can watch when you just fancy a 'movi... |
tt0993846 | The Wolf of Wall Street | The movie opens with a TV advertisement for Stratton Oakmont, Inc. It discusses the nature of Wall Street brokers, describing them as bulls or lions. A lion walks through one of the floors of the company.We next see a large group of brokers playing a game where they throw little people onto a board with a dollar sign f... | comedy, flashback, satire, romantic, entertaining, prank | train | imdb | His rise and fall is chronicled in The Wolf of Wall Street, based on the memoir of the same name.Under most circumstances, the actions of Belfort and his cronies (including Jonah Hill in a howlingly funny turn as Belfort's business partner) would be viewed as disgustingly abhorrent, but Martin Scorsese frames this tale... |
tt0093416 | The Lighthorsemen | The film follows Four Australians (Frank, Scotty, Chiller, and Tas) in Palestine in 1917, part of the 4th Light Horse Brigade of the British and Commonwealth Dominion forces. When Frank is wounded and dies of his wounds, he is replaced by Dave. Dave finds himself unable to fire his weapon in combat and is transferred t... | murder | train | wikipedia | Despite the ubiquitous appearance by Sigrid Thorton, and my having to eat crow over my previous comments on Anthony Andrew's acting ability (no scenery chewing or hamming it up here), I very much enjoyed this outstanding Aussie film.Simon Wincer has directed a wide variety of films, some bad (like the Cheryl Ladd waste... |
tt1535438 | Hope Springs | After 31 years of marriage, Kay and Arnold sleep in separate rooms, and he has lost interest in being intimate with her despite her efforts.Their lives in Omaha have become routine; their anniversary present to each other is a new cable TV package. He goes to work as an accountant and she tends to their home and his me... | psychological, adult comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0376541 | Closer | Dan (Jude Law) is a young writer walking down a street in downtown London. He spots a young woman (Natalie Portman) walking in the opposite direction and they make eye contact and begin to smile at one another. Not being used to cars drving on the left side of the road in the UK, she steps into traffic and gets hit by ... | dark, psychological, stupid, bleak, dramatic, flashback, psychedelic, romantic, melodrama, revenge, sentimental | train | imdb | She has the best chemistry with the men - whether it be purely sensual with Clive Owen, or innocence and affection with Jude Law. She comes alive with the two guys, and their scenes are ones to look forward to.Julia Roberts, whom everyone looks towards, is not bad in this film.
It's also blackly funny in many places.Wi... |
tt0090305 | Weird Science | Nerdy social outcasts Gary Wallace (Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt Donnelly (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) are publicly humiliated by Ian (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Max (Robert Rusler) for swooning over their girlfriends Deb (Suzanne Snyder) and Hilly (Judie Aronson). Dejected and disappointed at their direction in life and want... | pornographic, cult, comedy | train | wikipedia | Come back with me if you will to a time when Anthony Michael Hall was still fielding calls and Kelly LeBrock was French for sexy.Weird Science has everything that an eighties comedy needs: A least one hot girl, a few actors who are no longer working or who do anything that will come along, plenty of dashing eighties th... |
tt0108052 | Schindler's List | The relocation of Polish Jews from surrounding areas to Krakow begins in late 1939, shortly after the outbreak of World War II, when the German Army defeats the Polish Army in three weeks. Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a successful businessman, arrives from Czechoslovakia in hopes of using the abundant cheap labour fo... | cruelty, murder, depressing, realism, bleak, dramatic, violence, thought-provoking, atmospheric, good versus evil, melodrama, historical, sadist, sentimental | train | imdb | Various other films have tried to show the true horrors of the Holocaust, but none of them succeeded the way that Schindler's List did.
The true goal of all Holocaust films is to make you feel sorrowful, and Schindler's List did that to me.
It shows how people can just triumph over anything with just some help from one... |
tt0117628 | She's the One | The film tells the story of Irish-Catholic Fitzpatrick brothers, Mickey (Edward Burns) and Francis (Mike McGlone) and the tribulations of love, family and betrayal. Mickey is a New York City blue-collared taxi driver, unhappy over an act of infidelity committed by Heather (Cameron Diaz), his ex-fiancée. Francis is a wh... | romantic | train | imdb | The characters are well developed, Tom Petty's sound track is very good and there are the gorgeous gals of course (Diaz, Anniston, Bahns), but there's more to it.
Edward Burns is to be admired for directing this (in places) wonderful "slice of life", examining the intricacies of relationships, the ideas of romantic lov... |
tt2381111 | Brooklyn | The movie opens in the 1950's somewhere in Ireland. Eilis (pronounced EYE-lish) seems unhappy as she prays in church with her mother and sister. She then goes to work at a store, run by the mean old Mrs. Kelly, who is very judgmental and critical. Eilis, who had tried to talk to Mrs. Kelly before her shift started but ... | melodrama | train | imdb | null |
tt0083067 | Shock Treatment | A Texan-accented narrator introduces the viewers to the shadowy Denton TV executive Farley Flavors (Cliff De Young), who has lived his life "fast" but still feels incomplete without a certain woman... who belongs to someone else. As Flavors watches from his office, his television studio... which now encompasses the ent... | comedy, boring, allegory, cult, insanity, psychedelic, satire, brainwashing | train | imdb | When Janet wakes up and realizes she wants her real life back, another cute chick is pimped up and easily accepted."Shock Treatment" is a very smart movie that works on the intellectual level RHPS did not.
"Shock Treatment", if you give it a chance, will make you think about the media's grip on society, make you take a... |
tt0087800 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | The film opens with a bizarre sequence where we see an unidentified individual, visible only by his hands, creating a strange weapon: a glove with sharp knives for fingers. Tina, a young girl in a nightgown, is rushing down ominous alleyways filled with steam and shadows. Suddenly the bizarre man lunges at her, brandis... | avant garde, gothic, murder, paranormal, cult, horror, violence, good versus evil, psychedelic | train | imdb | A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) for me will be always in the genre the best slasher classic horror film written and directed by Wes Craven.
The first film is so original, realistic, and overall terrifying horror classic slasher flick that is actually happening in dreams, a sociopath child killer with sharp clawed glov... |
tt0094631 | Alien Nation | The story takes place in Los Angeles in 1991. Three years prior an alien craft crash-landed on Earth. The saucer housed 300,000 "Newcomers", an extraterrestrial race of hard labor workers. With no way to return to their home planet, the Newcomers were first quarantined and then finally released to live among humans in ... | comedy, neo noir, murder, allegory, violence, thought-provoking, psychedelic, philosophical, revenge | train | imdb | It shows how hatred and ignorance over race can transform one's personality, like the lead character played by James Caan.Alien Nation asks questions about ourselves as humans.
Alien Nation was one of those films that expertly grasped the the sci-fi/mystery sub genre with a decent story and good visuals.The casting in ... |
tt0098635 | When Harry Met Sally... | In 1977, Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) graduate from the University of Chicago and share the drive to New York City, where Sally is beginning journalism school and Harry is starting a career. Harry is dating a friend of Sally's, Amanda (Michelle Nicastro). During the drive, they discuss thei... | cute, entertaining, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3799694 | The Nice Guys | The setting is the city of Los Angeles, California in the year 1977.A young boy, Bobby (Ty Simpkins) sneaks into his father's room and takes out a porno magazine from under his bed. Bobby checks out the centerfold, adult film star Misty Mountains (Murielle Telio). In the distance, a car rolls down a hill. The car then ... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, humor, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | But it's clear that Amelia is at the centre of a tornado of intrigue, since her mother Judith (Kim Basinger) is head of the Justice department and there are some heavies from New York and Detroit looking for Amelia too.As the film's tag-line admits "The Nice Guys" are "far from nice", and this is a sort of bromance bud... |
tt1219836 | Virtuality | The story is set aboard the Phaeton, Earth's first starship, on a ten-year journey to explore a distant planetary system. In order to help the 12 members of the crew endure the long mission, a system of virtual reality modules is installed aboard the starship. These modules allow the crew to assume various identities a... | suspenseful, murder | train | imdb | The pilot seemed like an interesting beginning to a potentially more complicated series.
The problem with a science fiction movie/show based off human drama, is that on a mission of earth shattering importance, the crew are almost entirely antagonistic whiny incompetents, who have no business being responsible for a tr... |
tt0395125 | Crimen ferpecto | Rafael is a model salesman. He is confident, cocky, and enjoys the perks of single life - women, freedom. He is arrogant and women love him. He has or had his way with all the pretty sales girls who work with him. All except one - Lourdes. Everything is going well, and he is pitched against another non-glamorous salesm... | comedy, satire, murder | train | imdb | Rafael, a women's department manager at a Spanish clothing store, is a womanizer concerned only with his own personal advancement and achieving what he believes to be a perfect life, is thwarted by Lourdes, a sales clerk in the same store, and a rather unattractive woman, blackmails Rafael into a relationship, after di... |
tt1825157 | The Double | Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg) is a young Canadian man living in London, England who exits a tube train, gets his briefcase caught in the door and loses it because the handle breaks off and the train rushes off. Going into work, he is forced to start signing in without his proper ID badge, which is still in his briefcas... | comedy, neo noir, suicidal, plot twist, psychedelic, romantic | train | imdb | Next, he knows how to get off to a great start, build a fascinating world, get you involved with his people, but third, he doesn't quite find ways to make his third acts pay off as interestingly (or powerfully or emotionally) as the first two-thirds of the film promise.
In the end things play out in a way that has been... |
tt0076618 | The Rescuers | The story begins in a swampy bayou, where a little girl is seen on an abandoned riverboat, dropping a bottle over the side of the boat. The bottle is the carried away by the waters, and after some time, arrives along the shores of New York City, where several mice find it.The bottle is then brought before the Internati... | good versus evil, revenge, tragedy, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0053459 | Les yeux sans visage | Eyes Without a Face begins at night as a young woman eases her car down a back road near a river. She stops and manages to pull out of the car a woman's body wrapped in an overcoat and dumps it into the river. We are then introduced to a medical professor giving a lecture before a rapt group of admirers. The woman is L... | gothic, murder, violence, horror, atmospheric, claustrophobic, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0113981 | Night Hunter | Young Jack Cutter's parents are vampire hunters. His parents' parents and their parents before them were vampire hunters. It's what they do. But when Jack's parents are annihilated by vampires, Jack [Don "The Dragon" Wilson] is the last in the line. He is entrusted with "the bible", a list of names of vampires, and he ... | cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0072251 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | In New York City, four heavily armed men with code names (Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Brown), wearing disguises of eyeglasses, fedora hats, and fake moustashes, board at different station stops (the Green Line at 59th Street, Grey Line at 51st Street, Brown Line at Grand Central, and finally Blue Line at 28t... | comedy, realism, murder, humor, claustrophobic, suspenseful | train | imdb | Its truly a shame most people aren't familiar with this movie and it doesn't have the allure or big star power to draw in new fans seeking out a great film to watchIf you happen to run across The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three though, do not pass it up!
And he proves fully capable during the crisis.The crisis is four m... |
tt0067592 | La plus longue nuit du diable | Baron von Rhoneberg (Jean Servais), a former World War II German general, sacrificed his daughter as the war ended. This condemned his family to be placed under a terrible curse. Many years later, he tells the story to a reporter who wishes to write an article about it and take pictures of his castle. However, the Baro... | plot twist | train | wikipedia | It turns a fun, entertaining Euro-horror into a throughly frustrating experience.Trivia: Though it was released in Europe in 1971, this film did not hit the U.S. until 1974, when Hemisphere released it as Devil's Nightmare to coattail The Exorcist..
There's bad & incoherent plotting, macabre set-pieces, a mild Gothic a... |
tt0450259 | Blood Diamond | Set during the Sierra Leone Civil War in 1999, the film shows a country torn apart by the struggle between government soldiers and rebel forces. The film portrays many of the atrocities of that war, including the rebels' amputation of people's hands to stop them from voting in upcoming elections.The film begins with th... | brainwashing, violence, avant garde, action, murder | train | imdb | This is a film that, while concerned with the political situation in Africa, focuses more on how the obsessive search for a large, rare pink diamond consumes those who get too close to it.DiCaprio is excellent as a Rhodesian (HIS description) mercenary and arms dealer working in Sierra Leone.
With a set of natural inst... |
tt0338097 | Head in the Clouds | In a prologue set in Paris in the year 1921, a young 14-year-old Gilda Bessé (Charlize Theron), the daughter of a French aristocrat and an emotionally unstable American mother, reluctantly is told by a fortune teller that the life line on her palm doesn't extend past the age of 34. Fast forward to a rainy night in 1933... | boring, murder, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | Writer and Director John Duigan has added to his cinematic stature with this recent film about the interrelated responses of three countries - England, France, Spain - to the early phases of WW II and in doing so gives some inadvertent insight into how the continent was so endangered by the little known bad boy Hitler ... |
tt0116922 | Lost Highway | In the opening scene, Fred Madison (Bill Pullman), a saxophonist, is seen sitting in his house one morning, smoking a cigarette, looking disheveled when the intercom from the front door of his house buzzes. Over the intercom, a distorted man's voice says: "Dick Laurent is dead." When Fred looks out a window, police sir... | dark, avant garde, neo noir, murder, mystery, boring, cult, violence, atmospheric, clever, insanity, psychedelic | train | imdb | This is, in my opinion, what good art can do.Like a dream, Lost Highway has as many plots as it does viewers with their own individual interpretations and perspectives.
Lynch himself uses the phrase 'psychogenic fugue' when describing the movie as he says the hero is 'inventing a fantasy because his real life is so scr... |
tt1227637 | Impact | During a meteor shower said to be the most spectacular in 10,000 years, an asteroid hidden by the meteor field strikes the Moon. Fragments of the asteroid and of the Moon itself penetrate Earth's atmosphere and make impact. The initial damage is minimal, though significant physical damage to the lunar surface can be se... | melodrama | train | imdb | This is one of the few disaster movies that makes "Armaggeddon" look like it was written by geniuses and "The Core" like it was made as an instructional film for use in college geology courses.
The wide liberties taken with actual fact (and common sense) make for a rollicking time, but it scares me that we're failing i... |
tt0089421 | King Solomon's Mines | South Africa, the 1910s. Allan Quatermain (Richard Chamberlain) is a white big-game hunter and explorer who is hired by Jesse Huston (Sharon Stone) a young American who wants to help her find her father who was belived to be lost on an expedition to find the fabled King Solomon's Mines. Together with his African compan... | good versus evil, action | train | imdb | I think that many of those who are complaining that King Solomon's Mines is so bad are those who are too young to remember and appreciate these movies that came out in around that period or those who decided it's not "cool" to like cheesy movies.Of course you can't compare the effects to that of Raiders of the lost Ark... |
tt0329200 | Home Alone 4 | At the McCallisters' house, Peter (Jason Beghe) is about to get divorced from Kate (Clare Carey) and announces that he's living with his new and rich girlfriend Natalie (Joanna Going) at her mansion. He tells his three children Buzz (Gideon Jacobs), Megan (Chelsea Russo), and Kevin (Mike Weinberg) that they are hosting... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0079574 | Moonraker | The 1st part of the pre-title teaser shows a space shuttle (called a "Moonraker") being carried on a large cargo plane. Inside the shuttle, two men emerge from hidden compartments and start launch procedures for the shuttle. They fly off, destroying the cargo plane they were being ferried on. The shuttle was built for ... | good versus evil, cult, suspenseful, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0239625 | Mermaid | Based on a true story, the poignant film stars Jodelle Ferland as Desiree Gill. Desi was just 3 years old when her father died. It is now a year on, she is still struggling to accept her fathers absense. Her mother (Samantha Mathis) who has recently moved away with her daughter to live with her parents, is concerned th... | melodrama | train | imdb | It's based on a true life story!.
What are the odds of a "Mermaid" helium balloon traveling from Yuba City, Ca.(on Nov 8th,1993) and landing 4 Days later,(on Nov. 12) in MERMAID, Prince Edward Island, Canada.(Approx.
4000 miles).
This movie helps not only children cope with losses, but older people as well.
Hope everyo... |
tt0032904 | The Philadelphia Story | Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) is the elder daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia Main Line socialite family. She was married to C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant), a yacht designer and member of her social set, but divorced him two years ago, because he did not measure up to the exacting standards she sets for all her friend... | romantic, comedy | train | wikipedia | Through a little judicious blackmail they're invited to this premier society wedding, but both feel out of place and used.After The Philadelphia Story, Katharine Hepburn was a movie name the rest of her long life.
The wedding is supposed to be a private affair, but Tracy's ex-husband C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) blac... |
tt0424908 | Copying Beethoven | It is set in 1824 as Beethoven (Ed Harris) is finishing his Ninth Symphony. He is plagued by deafness, loneliness and personal trauma. A fictional character, a new copyist, Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger) is engaged to help the composer finish preparing the score for the first performance. Anna is a young conservatory studen... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0101414 | Beauty and the Beast | In the prologue, told through stained glass windows, an old beggar woman arrives at the castle of a French prince. The woman asks for shelter from the cold, and in return, offers the young prince a rose. Repulsed by her appearance, the prince turns her away. The beggar warns him not to judge by appearances, but the Pri... | fantasy, whimsical, cute, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, romantic, sci-fi | train | imdb | They look at Bell as the perfect opportunity for the beast to find a true love, but he must learn to be a gentleman, but Bell brings out the best in him and it turns out that this might be a happy ending after all.This was actually the first movie that I ever cried in, the ending was just so beautiful and heart felt, y... |
tt0120802 | Le violon rouge | Cremona, 1681 (Language: Italian)
Nicolò Bussotti is a violin-maker whose wife, Anna Rudolfi, is pregnant. Anna asks her servant Cesca to foretell her unborn child's future. Cesca cannot determine the future of someone not born, but she does offer to read Anna's future using tarot cards. The first, The Moon, signifies ... | avant garde, historical, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2280378 | The Punisher: Dirty Laundry | Frank Castle (Thomas Jane) is sleeping in the back of a van, having a nightmare about a child calling his name and gun shooting. He sharply wakes up and comes out of the van with some clothes he has to wash. While going to a nearby coin laundry, Frank sees a gang arriving on cars: the leader of the gang, called Goldtoo... | revenge, murder, violence | train | imdb | I always loved Thomas Jane as the punisher character Frank Castle but felt that the rest of the movie wasn't done as well as it could have been.
This short has the atmospheric tension and drama that the movie was missing, as the street thugs continue to run rampant the suspense and tension continuously builds until it ... |
tt0111419 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina is worried that there is no one her size so her mother tells her a story of fairies. That night the fairy prince comes to her window and hears her singing. They instantly fall in love and go flying and singing together where toads and bugs see them. Prince Cornelius promises to come back the next day after t... | fantasy | train | imdb | null |
tt0379786 | Serenity | The pre-title teaser provides backstory for those unfamiliar with the Firefly TV series. The events in the teaser occur prior to the first episode of the TV series: The Universal logo changes to show ships leaving 25th Century Earth as a teacher's voice-over describes the exodus from "Earth that was" and the terraformi... | comedy, murder, paranormal, dramatic, cult, revenge, flashback, good versus evil, clever, psychedelic, humor, action, romantic, suspenseful, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0056195 | Lonely Are the Brave | The movie opens with modern day cowboy Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) stretched out beside a dying campfire at dawn, awakened by the roar of fighter jets above the vast, open scrublands of New Mexico. Burns is a cowboy ill at ease with the modern world of the early 1960s. He rolls his own smokes and cuts through fences when... | tragedy, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0104431 | Home Alone 2: Lost in New York | In Chicago, Illinois, the McCallister family is preparing for a Christmas vacation in Miami. On the night before their departure, the entire family gathers at Peter and Kate's home, where their 10-year-old son Kevin sees Florida as contradictory to Christmas because he thinks there are no Christmas trees in Florida. Du... | comedy, boring, stupid, cult, psychedelic, revenge, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Now I'm aware that Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is the exact same plot as the first Home Alone, and not to mention how silly it seems that these folks would leave their kid behind, but come on, this movie was all in good fun.
Not to mention the Plaza Hotel plot was so great and fun to watch.Kevin and his family are h... |
tt1235189 | Wild Target | Victor Maynard (Bill Nighy) is an experienced and efficient assassin living a lonely life in accordance with his family's business. Victor follows a family line of professional assassins, and he completes his assignments quickly and without remorse. One afternoon, after killing one of his targets, he hesitates in killi... | revenge, comedy, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0086190 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | The opening crawl reveals that Han Solo's friends are engaged in a mission to rescue the smuggler from Jabba the Hutt and that the Galactic Empire is building a new armored space station which is even larger and more powerful than the first Death Star.Near the forest moon of Endor the new Death Star is being constructe... | fantasy, dramatic, cult, violence, good versus evil, action, tragedy | train | imdb | A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.....There was a boy who was only two years old when the original "Star Wars" film was released.
It's now legendary in this boy's family how the last action figure he needed, Anakin Skywalker, stopped being produced and carried in stores, and how this boy went for about ten yea... |
tt0104652 | Kurenai no buta | Marco Pagot (voice: Michael Keaton in the Disney English dub), a WWI pilot who has lost faith in humanity and acquired a curse that turned him into a pig, is now known as Porco Rosso. Porco has become an airborne bounty hunter, offering his services from a small island hideout for a fee. When word comes that some sea p... | psychedelic, action, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt1300851 | The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day | After the McManus brothers, Connor and Murphy, and their father, Noah (a.k.a. "Il Duce"), assassinated Joe Yakavetta, they fled to Ireland. Eight years later, their uncle Father Sibeal arrives to inform them that a renowned Boston priest was murdered by a mysterious assassin who attempted to frame the Saints by using t... | comedy, stupid, cult, violence, flashback, revenge | train | wikipedia | But the southern accent is so thick I had a hard time focusing on anything else.I would like to make a special note of how ridiculous it is for someone to dual-wield Desert Eagles, even if they have compensators attached.Still, none of my complaints stopped me from enjoying the movie.
I took it for what it is, and I th... |
tt0099291 | Come See the Paradise | In 1936, Jack McGurn (Quaid) is a motion picture projectionist, involved in a campaign of harassment against non-union theaters in New York City. One such attack turns fatal, as one of his fellow union members starts a fire. McGurn's boss, knowing that the feelings of guilt would likely cause Jack to go to the police, ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | "Come See The Paradise" is a forgotten gem of a film that takes place during one of the United States' darkest and most shameful times.
At the onset of World War II, Japanese-Americans were put into internment camps This injustice lasted for several years.
It tells the story of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quaid), an Irish-Amer... |
tt0091149 | The Great Mouse Detective | The year is 1897. The place is London. The setting is not our world, but the world of England's mouse population, who live lives not so different from ours, in the mouse holes and basements of the British Empire.Hiram Flaversham, a master toymaker, is kidnapped on his daughter Olivia's birthday. The young girl has no o... | psychedelic | train | imdb | Kids may not understand half of the things he's saying, but it's fun to watch.Olivia is the little heroine mouse who starts Basil on his case, losing her father to a mysterious peg-legged bat of whom Basil is aware of.
Dawson is, of course, Watson in mouse form, and helps Basil in his first case, being this movie.Ratig... |
tt0402057 | Beowulf & Grendel | In 500 A.D., Hrothgar, king of Denmark, and a group of warriors chase a large and burly man, whom they consider a troll, and his young son, to the edge of deep cliff. The father directs his young son, Grendel, to hide from the attackers' view; whereupon The Danes shoot the father dead, and his dead body plunges onto th... | good versus evil, revenge | train | wikipedia | The ensuing Logic would then dictate that War is merely a lazy solution to a problem better addressed by examining our own psyches.Beowulf is portrayed with astonishing depth by the Scottish actor, Gerard Butler, who is accumulating an impressive array of credits from Attila (the highest-rated U.S. mini-series) to Phan... |
tt1484522 | 8: The Mormon Proposition | As California's anti-gay marriage proposition 8 languished in the polls, Mormon Prophet Thomas S. Monson issued a call from Salt Lake City to millions of Mormons all over the world. His was an order to action containing the secret code language of the highly secret Mormon temple ceremony. The action alert commanded Mor... | romantic, queer | train | imdb | Obviously, this is a movie that I wanted to see because I had these two elements of my life fighting with each other, both in private (in my own mind) and in public (LDS Church vs.
A lot has to be said for the documents from the 1990's proving that the anti-gay marriage group in Hawaii was created, staffed, and funded ... |
tt0085936 | Mickey's Christmas Carol | On Christmas Eve in 19th-century London, Ebenezer Scrooge, a surly money-lender, does not share the merriment of Christmas. He dismisses two gentlemen's collecting money for charity and declines his nephew Fred's invitation to Christmas dinner. His loyal employee Bob Cratchit requests to have Christmas Day off, since t... | horror | train | wikipedia | As with any adaption of a Christmas Carol, the less seen of annoying Tiny Tim, the better.Carl Barks' Scrooge McDuck plays Ebenezer Scrooge as various other Disney Characters teach him to be kind and not miserly with the tried and true 3-celebrity ghosts formula.
He is haunted by his former partner Jacob Marley ( playe... |
tt0101862 | Father of the Bride | George Banks (Steve Martin) is the owner of an athletic shoe company in San Marino, California, whose 22-year-old daughter, Annie (Kimberly Williams), returns from Europe, telling them she is engaged to Bryan MacKenzie (George Newbern), a man from an upper-class family from Bel-Air, despite them only having known each ... | comedy | train | imdb | This is Martin's second favorite film that he has starred in (behind "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and followed by "Little Shop of Horrors"), and I can see why.Martin stars as George Banks, a wealthy upper-class businessman living in Suburban America with a gentle wife (Diane Keaton) and feisty son (Kieran Culkin).
... |
tt0117324 | Persons Unknown | Former cop Jim Holland (Joe Mantegna) is trying to keep his small security company afloat and away from foreclosure by the bank. When Jim leaves his favorite bar he bumps into Amanda (Kelly Lynch), a good-looking woman on blades. When she falls down he offers to help her ice her bruised ankle and they hit it off and sp... | neo noir | train | imdb | null |
tt0443536 | Hoodwinked! | An old film projector is heard running in the background. The image fades to show the cover of a copy of Red Riding Hood showing Little Red screaming as she is attacked by a menacing Wolf. An unseen narrator tells us, "Red Riding Hood. You probably know the story. But there's more to every tale than meets the eye. It's... | clever, fantasy, flashback | train | imdb | However, no matter how good it looks, if it's not a good story, it's still a crappy film.Like the old saying goes: "you can polish a turd, but in the end all you're gonna have is a shiny turd." I've seen Hoodwinked.
Hoodwinked is an ultra low budget affair compared to the average 3D CGI-animated film (it was shot for a... |
tt0054067 | La maschera del demonio | In 1630 Russia, Princess Asa (Barbara Steele), a beautiful, dark-haired, young woman is condemned for practicing witchcraft. The grand inquisitor is none other then her estranged brother, Prince Vajda, who renounces his ties to his sister. As the executioner ties her down to the stake, Asa defiantly swears retribution ... | neo noir, revenge, cult, gothic, atmospheric | train | imdb | null |
tt0109847 | A Friend to Die For | In the fictional town of Santa Mira, California, a man witnesses student Stacey Lockwood (Tori Spelling) (whom he drove home after she went to his house to telephone her parents) being stabbed by an unseen 'friend', who followed them to her house. When her family arrive home, they find paramedics and police gathered ou... | murder | train | wikipedia | Other than the obvious, Angela Delvecchio (Kellie Martin) as the odd girl out, desperately attempting to be popular (Unfortunately, her parents and teachers never told her this would cease to matter in 2 years anyway), with Tori Spelling as the "popular girl" for that year.
We see his dismissal of Delvecchio (Martin) a... |
tt0082677 | Looker | A young blonde model called Lisa Convey (Terri Welles) appears in a commercial for Ravish, (narrated by John Erwin's voice) a perfume who claims to fulfill women's deepest desires. The model goes to Dr. Larry Roberts (Albert Finney), a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon with very specific demands, in the range of millimeter... | psychedelic, intrigue, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt2582802 | Whiplash | The films opens with Andrew Neimann (Miles Teller) playing the drums at Shaffer Conservatory of Music, the music school in USA and he's just an alternate drummer in some school band. Andrew abruptly stops playing drums when the band conductor, Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) appears at the door in front of him and aski... | suspenseful, psychological, psychedelic, realism | train | imdb | Miles Teller, who's been steadily growing on me since The Spectacular Now, stars as Andrew Neyman, a 19-year-old aspiring jazz drummer who's pushed and inspired by the abuse and aspirations of his school band leader Fletcher, played by the ferocious J.K. Simmons like we've never seen him before.
After seeing Damien Cha... |
tt0040897 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Three down-and-out Americans – Curtin, Dobbs, and Howard – meet by chance in the Mexican city of Tampico and discuss how to overcome their financial distress. They then set out to discover gold in the remote Sierra Madre mountains. Once in the desert, experienced old-timer Howard quickly proves to be the toughest and m... | suspenseful, violence, humor, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Having had his day as an idolized star and romantic leading man, it was now time for Bogart to get down to the serious business of acting
For eighteen years it had usually been Bogart playing Bogart in various shadings
Now that Bogart was gone and in his place was an older and far less romantic figure, one who found ... |
tt0999913 | Straw Dogs | This movie is a remake of the 1971 movie of the same name (released 40 years prior) now set in modern day Mississippi. The film opens with shots of Mississippi swampland. Classical music underscores the shots and foreshadows the conflicting styles of the movie's two leading men.In the same swampland, Charlie (Alexander... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | If you have seen Sam Peckinpah's classic 1971 original with Dustin Hoffman and Susan George, it is impossible to watch this remake without comparing the two films.
After all, it's been 40 years and most people watching this new version have never seen the original.Director Rod Lurie follows the Peckinpah version pretty... |
tt1590089 | Kokuhaku | Junior high school teacher Yuko Moriguchi (Takako Matsu) announced to her class that she would resign before spring break. Moriguchi revealed that because the HIV-positive biological father of her daughter Manami was ill, she used to bring Manami (Mana Ashida) to school with her. One day, after school, she returned to ... | revenge | train | imdb | The subject matter is heavy, the characters are morally-reprehensible and the feel of the movie is wholly somber – from the greys and dull blues which saturate each and every scene to the melancholy (albeit perfectly-suited) soundtrack which works its way infectiously into your mind and makes the horrific scenes before... |
tt1790886 | The Campaign | North Carolina's 14th district is about to select it's new Congressman - but they're unfortunately stuck with Camden Brady (Will Ferrell), who's about to win his fourth term simply by running unopposed. All he has to do to win the election is simply appear in front of a judge and sign a few papers. But a recent whistle... | humor, satire, entertaining | train | imdb | The election period in the United States has traditionally been a fountain of humorous material exploited to the maximum by the comedians, most of them on TV, but also in cinema, as we can see this year in the film The Campaign, directed by Jay Roach, whose filmography includes some excellent comedies (the Austin Power... |
tt0143348 | Kozure Ôkami: Oya no kokoro ko no kokoro | In this fourth 'Lone Wolf and Baby Cart' movie we are introduced to Oyuki, a tattooed female assassin and the renegade member of a daimyo's personal bodyguard detail who is killing every man that is sent up against her. Along with her deadly use of the short blade, she strips to the waist while fighting to reveal elabo... | good versus evil, violence | train | imdb | The Shogun's executioner vs.
an army of evil.
The fourth in the long-running LONE WOLF & CUB series that so far shows no sign of flagging.
BABY CART IN PERIL has everything that made the previous films so memorable: iconic characters, humour, sharply drawn personalities, a straightforward plot and battle sequences deli... |
tt0349710 | Ladder 49 | The film opens with firefighter Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) saving a man's life in a massive four-alarm fire in a 20-story concrete grain elevator/warehouse in the Canton waterfront neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland; however the grain being stored in the warehouse explodes, sending Jack falling through several fl... | melodrama, action, flashback | train | wikipedia | Ladder 49 starts with a fire in a large Baltimore factory where multiple firemen have charged to look for survivors and extinguish the posing threat.Lead by seasoned veteran Jack Morrison (Pheonix), the firemen are able to rescue a helpless employee before the floor gives way trapping Morrison within the building infer... |
tt1980209 | Pain & Gain | In 1995, schemer Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) is a recently released convict who had served time for Medicare fraud. Sun Gym owner John Mese (Rob Corddry) hires him to increase membership and make the gym more fitness-based. Lugo increases the gym's membership by 75% within six weeks and befriends trainer Adrian Doorbal... | comedy, murder, flashback, humor, satire, revenge, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Michael Bay's "Pain and Gain" is a very bleak, very dark comedy about three knucklehead bodybuilders in pursuit of their own American dream, even if the road there is paved with sex, drugs, torture, humiliation, and even murder.Bay is shamelessly reputed for huge explosions, choppy editing, excessively flashy/glitzy ci... |
tt0808279 | Funny Games | George and Ann Farber, their son Georgie, and their dog arrive at their lake house. Their next-door neighbour, Fred, is seen with two young men, Peter and Paul, who seem to be friends or relatives. They find Fred reacting somewhat awkwardly. Fred and Paul come over to help put the boat into the lake. Lucky, the dog, ke... | dark, mystery, murder, thought-provoking, violence, insanity | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1203523 | Streets of Blood | During the rage of Hurricane Katrina, Detective Andy Devereaux (Val Kilmer) discovers the body of his former partner in a close to underwater warehouse. Quickly forgetting about his discovery, he joins a newly transferred detective named Stan Johnson (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) trying to end a conflict involving looters... | violence, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0020142 | The Manxman | The film tells the story of two close childhood friends, a handsome but poor fisherman, Pete Quilliam (Carl Brisson), and a well-educated middle-class lawyer, Philip Christian (Malcolm Keen); Both the young men are smitten with beautiful and lively Kate (Anny Ondra), the pub owner's daughter. In Pete's case, Kate is al... | romantic | train | wikipedia | excellent love triangle on the Isle of Man. Hitchcock's final silent, 'The Manxman', has two stars you'll see elsewhere in his films - Carl Brisson, from 'The Ring', and Anny Ondra, from 'Blackmail'.
Malcolm Keen plays the friend who finds his loyalties tested while he strives to make good in his chosen career of the l... |
tt0088846 | Brazil | The story is set in a dystopian near-future of an indeterminate year of the 21st century in a nameless authoritarian European country during the Christmas season. Terrorist bombings are frequent and the government's war on these enemies of the state has lasted for a few decades. In a government office a man sitting in ... | comedy, dark, neo noir, murder, fantasy, thought-provoking, cult, alternate reality, atmospheric, insanity, psychedelic, absurd, satire, humor, sci-fi | train | imdb | A virtual celebration of writer/director Terry Gilliam's singular creative vision and seemingly limitless imagination, Brazil is a unique movie experience.
Like many other dystopian sci-fi films (e.g. Fahrenheit 451, Equilibrium, The Hunger Games), Brazil depicts a totalitarian society, but that's about as far as the s... |
tt0104389 | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | Claire Bartel (Annabella Sciorra), her husband Michael (Matt McCoy), and their 6-year-old daughter Emma (Madeline Zima) live in a large house in Seattle, Washington. One sunny morning, there is a knock at the door. No one answers the door, because they're so busy that they don't hear the knocking. A few seconds later, ... | revenge, mystery, neo noir, murder, haunting | train | imdb | DeMornay is so effective in her role you just can't wait to see her exposed for who she is and justice done to her.I did think Sciorra's character would have needed more to go on to come to the right conclusion near the end, but, usually every film has some question marks regarding credibility.
None of the supporting p... |
tt0475738 | Super Bowl IX | Super Bowl IX was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Minnesota Vikings to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1974 season. The Steelers defeated the Vikings by the score of 166 t... | non fiction | train | imdb | Defense!. If you want an offensive football game do NOT watch SB IX. The game is full of defense. That's no surprise considering the two teams that met on January 12th 1975. "The Steel Curtain" Vs "The Purple People Eaters" The Steelers allowed The Vikings only 17 yards rushing the entire game and forced 5 turnovers. T... |
tt0114151 | Poison Ivy II | Moans and sexual noises in the half-light. Lily Leonetti (Alyssa Milano) is making love to a man. After the act, he gets up and tells her that "it's not working out". She looks devastated for a moment.Cut to Lily arriving to another place. She is a sheltered art student from Michigan attending college in Los Angeles, C... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0041218 | 'C'-Man | Customs Investigator Cliff Holden (Dean Jagger) returns from holiday to be given a new assignment by his chief, Customs Inspector Brandon (Walter Vaughn). Cliff's friend and colleague, Steve Regan, has been knifed to death in Marseilles while investigating the theft of a necklace. Its owner, Mrs Lydia Brundage (Edith A... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0068909 | Man of La Mancha | In the late sixteenth century, failed author-soldier-actor and tax collector Miguel de Cervantes has been thrown into a dungeon by the Spanish Inquisition, along with his manservant. They have been charged with foreclosing on a monastery. The two have brought all their possessions with them into the dungeon. There, the... | tragedy, insanity | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3007512 | The Water Diviner | The film begins in 1919, just after World War I has ended, and centres around Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe), an Australian farmer and water diviner. His three sons Arthur (Ryan Corr), Edward (James Fraser), and Henry (Ben O'Toole) served with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during the military campaig... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1064932 | Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis | Philippe and Julie Abrams are a married couple with a young child who live in a small town in the South-East of France. Philippe works as an executive for the national post services and tries to be transferred to a different location on the sea side, thinking that Julie, who is depressed, will be happier and that their... | cult, comedy, satire, humor | train | imdb | null |
tt0094651 | Amsterdamned | Opening in a point of view, a murderer looks around the city of Amsterdam at night through the canals the city is famous for. He sneaks into a Chinese restaurant's backdoor and steals a butcher knife while the cooks aren't looking. The killer finds his first victim in a local prostitute who, after refusing advances fro... | insanity, violence, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0048055 | The Far Country | In 1896, Jeff Webster (James Stewart) sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef. He and his friend Ben Tatum (Walter Brennan) drive a cattle herd from Wyoming to Seattle, by ship to Skagway and through the mountains to Dawson City.On the way, he annoys town boss and self... | murder | train | imdb | Stewart is a Wyoming cattleman who dreams to make enough money to buy a small ranch in Utah ranch
His only real companion is his sidekick Ben Tatum, the great Walter Brennan
To accomplish that, they drive the cattle clear to Alaska and on to Dawson, in Canadian territory, where they sell them...Along the way they mee... |
tt0452694 | The Time Traveler's Wife | The movie opens with a woman singing while driving with her young son in the backseat. It's dark and snowing out, and it's Christmas Eve. The young boy in the backseat is five years old, and tells his mother that she has a beautiful voice. It's pretty clear that the boy (Henry) and his mother love each other very much.... | thought-provoking, psychedelic, melodrama, tragedy, romantic, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt0110322 | Legends of the Fall | Sick of betrayals the United States government perpetrated on the Native Americans, Colonel William Ludlow leaves the army and moves to a remote part of Montana. Along with One Stab, a Cree friend, he builds a ranch and raises his family. Accompanying them are hired hand and outlaw Decker, Decker's wife, and daughter I... | murder, dramatic, romantic, melodrama, tragedy, revenge, sentimental | train | wikipedia | I watch a lot of movies & I can't remember the last time a film held me so spellbound.
Star billing or even an Oscar should also have been awarded to the spectacularly beautiful scenery of Montana for the vast majesty it bestowed.This complex saga of love, grief & loyalty is narrated with stark simplicity by old Stab, ... |
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