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tt3716530 | Elle | Michèle Leblanc is raped in her home by an assailant in a ski mask, then promptly cleans up the mess and resumes her life.
She is the assertive head of a successful video game company, where her male employees are alternately resentful of or infatuated with her. She feels detached from her son Vincent, who submits to t... | flashback | train | wikipedia | The performances in the film are all fantastic, and the direction is magnificent (Verhoeven actually took to learning French as a new language so he could utilise an entire French crew), the cinematography and soundtrack both make great accompaniments, but I personally think the film's structure was the only downside t... |
tt0167190 | Hellboy | The movie opens with the voice of Professor Broom (John Hurt) asking a question that will shadow the rest of the film: "What is it that makes a man a man'? Is it his origins- the way things start"??? The voiceover goes on to give some backstory: it is 1944, nearing the end of World War 2, and Hitler is resorting to the... | comedy, fantasy, gothic, murder, good versus evil, humor, action, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0085551 | Get Crazy | It is December 31, 1982, and the Saturn Theater is preparing for its big New Years Eve concert. The show's midnight finale is having technical problems that narrowly avoid injuring owner and master showman Max Wolfe (Allen Garfield, credited as Allen Goorwitz), who has operated the Saturn since 1968. Fortunately stage ... | cult | train | imdb | No one mentions it when you talk about cool '80s cinema, but it's better than a pack of "Fast Times" or a pair of "Breakfast Clubs" for my money.It's a rare thing to see three such beauties as Gail Edwards, Stacy Nelkin, and Anna Bjorn all adorning the same film, but who on Earth in 1983 could have thought it would be ... |
tt1313104 | The Cove | In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan lies a shocking secret that a few desperate men will stop at nothing to keep hidden from the world. In Taiji, Japan, former dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry has come to set things right after a long search for redemption. In the 1960s, it was O'Barry who captured and trained the 5 d... | inspiring, cruelty, storytelling | train | imdb | It is a prime example of constructed film-making with an overt agenda, filled with elements that at time make it feel like a heist movie or spy thriller.Having said that, there's no doubting just how real the horrors are.
The practice of mass dolphin slaying is indeed confirmed.Falsehood no.2: That the scenes from Taij... |
tt1687901 | The Awakening | 1921: England. Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a published author on supernatural hoaxes who works with the police to expose charlatans and debunk supernatural phenomena, having begun her foray into her profession upon the death of her lover in World War I. Upon a visit from Robert Mallory (Dominic West), a teacher... | suspenseful, horror, gothic, atmospheric, haunting | train | imdb | With so many shaky cam, found footage, reality show type horror/suspense movies hitting the box offices and living rooms around the world with poor character development, over the top torture and gore, plots so thin they are the only transparent ghosts in the picture.
There is a fine line to walk especially with a ghos... |
tt0091499 | Maximum Overdrive | On June 19, 1987 at 9:47 am Eastern Standard Time, planet Earth passes through the tail of a rogue comet, Rhea-M, for just over a week. In Wilmington, North Carolina, machines suddenly come to life and attack humans. A marquee sign about a bank displays an insult and an ATM calls a bank customer an "asshole." (The bank... | cult, violence | train | imdb | The movie does require major suspension of disbelief as some of the story elements don't work (for example: the honeymooner's car works just fine, but every other machine on earth, from lawn-mowers, electric knives, trucks, and even steam-rollers, go haywire).
A group of survivors is under siege of fierce trucks in the... |
tt0374546 | Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom | The film is divided into five segments (the five seasons of the title), each segment depicting a different stage in the life of a Buddhist monk (each segment is roughly ten to twenty years apart, and is physically in the middle of its titular season).Spring
We are introduced the of the very young Buddhist apprentice wi... | romantic, cruelty, murder, atmospheric | train | imdb | Through each season, director Ki-duk Kim shows us the journey of one young boy as he learns life through the hands and mind of an older monk.
This film is that profound, touching, and moving.Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...Spring is the most beautiful movie I have ever seen.
contemplative.the story appears to centre on ... |
tt1045670 | Happy-Go-Lucky | 30-year-old Poppy is a London schoolteacher who's more upbeat than anyone I've ever met in real life: She dresses in colourful retro-hippie clothing, smiles and waves at strangers on the street, and laughs incessantly. When she goes out clubbing, she stuffs her bra because she likes the way it feels.Poppy can't stand t... | dramatic, psychedelic, psychological, entertaining, feel-good | train | imdb | null |
tt0817177 | Flipped | Juli Baker meets Bryce Loski two weeks before the beginning of second grade; it's something about those blue eyes that attract her. Julianna knows it's love, while Bryce, like any seven-year-old boy, doesn't. Julianna stalks Bryce all through his childhood; staring at his house, asking him to play, following him at sch... | revenge, romantic, stupid | train | wikipedia | "All I ever wanted was for Juli Baker to leave me alone."Flipped is easily the best love story/relationship movie I've seen since (500) Days of Summer.
Eventually Bryce finds himself on the other side of the equation (flipped, get it?), and has to win back the girl he never knew he always wanted.How odd is it that a mo... |
tt1935859 | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | Florida teen Jake Portman (Asa Butterfield) feels he lives a mundane life. One day at work, he gets a phone call regarding his grandfather Abe (Terence Stamp). Jake calls Abe himself, and the old man sounds frightened and paranoid. Jake's supervisor Shelley (O-Lan Jones) gives him a ride to Abe's house.As they make it ... | gothic | train | imdb | null |
tt0065569 | Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht | The story starts with a shot of Count Dracula's castle and the following text:
Over fifty years ago, Bram Stoker wrote the greatest of all horror stories. Now, for the first time, we retell exactly as he wrote, one of the first — and still the best — tales of the macabre.
Jonathan Harker, a lawyer traveling from London... | gothic | train | wikipedia | Once more horror legend Christoper Lee is giving the demonic vampire lord and he´s as perfect as usual in the role, but the most impressive part has Herbert Lom as Dr. Van Helsing, what even makes Hollywood superstar Sir Anthony Hopkins looking like an old fogey!
christopher lee looks just like the description of the C... |
tt0216216 | The 6th Day | Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger) wakes on his birthday with his lovely wife. Adam's daughter informs him she wants a Simdoll, a lifelike, life-sized doll that acts almost human. The parents notice that the elderly family dog is not well, and express concern about it dying and how sad their daughter would be. It can ... | suspenseful, action, murder, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0115798 | The Cable Guy | Steven Kovacs has just moved into a new apartment after his girlfriend kicked him out. While waiting for the cable guy to arrive, a friend suggests that Steven slip the man $50 as a bribe to receive all the pay channels for free.Finally, Chip Douglas, the cable guy, shows up. He is very strange but obviously an expert ... | comedy, boring, stupid, bleak, cult, insanity, humor, satire | train | imdb | He takes the film from what would have been a run-of-the-mill comedy, to levels of greatness, and anyone that thinks I'm being too kind either doesn't like Carrey (it was the film that made me do a complete turn around), or needs to see the film again.The overall tone of the film is a bit of a mix, it gets darker as th... |
tt0430634 | Stick It | Haley Graham (Missy Peregrym) is a rebellious 17-year-old who has a run-in with the law when she and two friends go biking through a residential construction site. Haley is arrested and forced by a judge to return to the regimented world of competitive gymnastics. Haley was once considered one of the most talented gymn... | satire, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0082198 | Conan the Barbarian | During the Hyborean age, "a time of high adventure," a blacksmith, Nial (William Smith) creates a masterwork sword. The sword is completed, Nial shows it to his son, Conan (Jorge Sanz), teaching the boy about their god, Crom, who lives in the Earth, and "the Riddle of Steel" which every warrior must solve before they c... | fantasy, boring, murder, violence, cult, good versus evil, action, revenge, alternate history | train | imdb | It's quite easy to dismiss this film based on its genre (barbarian slash-em-up) and the limited acting ability of the star (Schwarzenegger), but Conan is nothing short of a masterpiece.Ok, the story is fairly standard, and the principal actors (Schwarzenegger, Sandahl Bergman & Gerry Lopez) are competent but not outsta... |
tt0101452 | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | The music of Bill and Ted's band, Wyld Stallyns, has created a utopian future society. Chuck De Nomolos, who detests this society, steals one of the time-traveling phone booths and sends two robots modeled after Bill and Ted back to the late 20th century to prevent Bill and Ted from winning the San Dimas Battle of the ... | cult, alternate history, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0293564 | Rush Hour 3 | Three years after the end of Rush Hour 2, James Carter is no longer a detective, but a traffic cop on the streets of Los Angeles. Lee is now the bodyguard for his friend Ambassador Han, the former Consul from the first film. Lee is still upset with Carter about an incident in New York City when Carter accidentally but ... | bleak, violence, comedy, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0082431 | Galaxy of Terror | On a desolate, storm-lashed planet called Morganthus, the last survivor of a crashed spaceship is attacked and killed by an unseen force.
On another planet a very long distance away, two figures are seen playing a strange game. One, an old woman named Mitri, is identified as the controller of the game while the other, ... | tragedy, cult, horror, violence, plot twist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1622979 | Final Destination 5 | The film opens up with a bunch of workers who are gathering together for a company retreat. Sam Lawton has prepared the breakfast before the bus ride. Sam is a fellow office worker and short order cook. His best friend Peter is awaiting everyone else's arrival for the trip. Molly Harper, Sam's girlfriend, arrives and s... | comedy, mystery, murder, violence | train | imdb | The FD franchise has it's fans trained to watch for every little thing in a scene that could cause someone's demise until your skin crawls--and FD5 gives the audience this "detective" feeling perfectly.To be honest, I wasn't expecting much out of this movie.
When you factor in the story and characters, the death and ma... |
tt0058618 | La strada per Forte Alamo | The Wild West, 1864. Bud (Ken Clark) is a drifter riding though sparse terrain, only to discover a carriage of murdered Union soldiers. Stopping to survey the damage, he notices that one of the men is still alive. The soldier dies before he can explain what happened, but Bud notices that he is clutching a satchel in hi... | western, murder | train | imdb | La Strada per mal melodrama.
I've only seen each of the 3 Bava spaghetti westerns once (neither among his best work or his preferred genre), but I disagree with many people who considered Nebraska Jim to be a better film.
Strictly from an entertainment sense, Arizone Bill (La Strada per Fort Alamo) held my interest not... |
tt0329774 | xXx: State of the Union | In Virginia, a rancher discovers dead bodies on his farm and is then killed by one of the assailants. The attackers use special explosives to break into an NSA bunker beneath the horse farm. Agent Augustus Gibbons fends off the attackers before barely escaping. Shavers, Gibbons' assistant, informs him that with the att... | violence, humor, action, murder | train | wikipedia | A film that should be retitled xXx2: Don't Say We Didn't Warn You.Opening with an impressive first 7-8 minutes, this film moves into cookie cutter territory at a frightening speed and continues to derail any opportunity for the audience to engage in the ridiculous plot or heavily computer generated action sequences.Ice... |
tt2404435 | The Magnificent Seven | In this remake of the 1960 film of the same name, the small town of Rose Creek is being terrorized by land baron Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard) and his men. The townsfolk meet in the church to discuss what they ought to to protect their land and families from Bogue. The man himself enters the church with some of h... | comedy, murder, violence, good versus evil, humor, revenge | train | imdb | Another MADE-FOR-TV movie brought to the screen.More of the same from Hollywood.Lets re-make a classic, but ensure it's politically correct and an absolute that it represents every race, so as not to step on any toes.Oh,and lets give everyone modern-day attitudes and dialects, because apparently no one has the capabili... |
tt0113409 | In the Mouth of Madness | In the midst of an unspecified disaster, Dr. Wrenn (David Warner) visits John Trent (Sam Neill), a patient in a psychiatric hospital, and Trent recounts his story:
Trent, an insurance investigator, has lunch with a colleague who preps him on his next assignment: investigating a claim by New York-based Arcane Publishing... | comedy, fantasy, gothic, murder, paranormal, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, psychedelic, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | After the box-office failure of "Memoirs of an Invisible Man" in 1992 forced him to work in TV (with the movie "Body Bags"), director John Carpenter returned to his roots in the horror genre and began working in what would be his return to the big screen with the 1995 horror film, "In the Mouth of Madness", a movie tha... |
tt0161860 | Nirgendwo in Afrika | The film begins in Africa, a picture of a boy riding his bicycle through the open plains carrying a note of great significance to the main characters. A once prominent Jewish family has been torn apart by the promise of war in their homeland. WWII is on the verge of breaking out across Europe and the Nazi party's stran... | cult | train | imdb | It is the best movie I've seen this year, and more than that, it was one of the most amazing film experiences of my life.It is Caroline Link's "Nowhere in Africa", which won the Best Foreign Film Award when, in actuality, it was far better than the Best Picture of the Year.
To call it a great or brilliant or majestic f... |
tt0910905 | In the Electric Mist | Iberia Parish's Sheriff Detective Dave Robicheaux (Tommy Lee Jones) is investigating the murder of a young woman and has a chance encounter with a pair of Hollywood stars, Elrod Sykes (Peter Sarsgaard) and his girlfriend Kelly Drummond (Kelly Macdonald). They are in the small town to make a Civil War film.
Due to Elrod... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077651 | Halloween | The film opens with a brief opening title/credits sequence showing a Jack-o-Lantern accompanied by John Carpenter's famous theme music. The shot slowly moves closer and closer. Once it stops, the lighting quickly changes to reveal that the eye and nose form the shape of a man holding a knife.The film begins on October ... | gothic, murder, cult, horror, violence, good versus evil | train | imdb | null |
tt0460745 | Chaos Theory | Frank Allen (Ryan Reynolds) is a professional speaker who lectures on time management. He lives by example: perfectly maximizing his efficiency through scheduling and planning his own life down to the minute. One day when his wife Susan (Emily Mortimer) decides to set the alarm clock back 10 minutes, in hopes of giving... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | This film is about a very organised man whose life is turned into chaos by an accidental revelation.Though there are a lot of comedic moments in the film, I think it is more of an drama about Frank finding out that organisation and efficiency does not make him any happier.
It never achieves greatness, but it is enjoyab... |
tt1033643 | What Happens in Vegas | In New York City, high-strung equity trader Joy Ellis McNally (Cameron Diaz) is dumped by her fiancé at a surprise birthday party she throws for him. At the same time, easy-going carpenter Jack Fuller (Ashton Kutcher) is fired from his job by his father, Jack, Sr. (Treat Williams). Both become emotionally distraught an... | comedy, cute, entertaining, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0409630 | Tekunoraizu | Texhnolyze is a Japanese anime television series directed by Hiroshi Hamazaki, from a screenplay by Chiaki Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda, with original character design by Yoshitoshi ABe.The events take place in the vibrant yet dilapidated underground city of Lux. Denizens of Lux have come to call it "The City"... | neo noir, murder, paranormal, violence, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0951216 | Mad Money | The film begins in medias res, with the suspects getting caught and being interrogated. Then it flashes back to three years earlier and the film continues forward from there, interspersed with occasional bits from the interrogation.
Three years before getting caught, Bridget Cardigan (Diane Keaton) lived a comfortable ... | satire, flashback | train | wikipedia | Once they get what they need, Bridget is so satisfied with how smooth everything went, she wants more and they go for it, but they should learn not to get so greedy since someone is on their tale.Mad Money is a chick flick, but it's one of the rare one's that I liked.
Queen Latifah was just so funny and Diane Keaton wa... |
tt0389828 | C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America | === War and Rebellion ===
In an alternate United States history, the "Confederate States of America" (C.S.A.) is formed after Republican Abraham Lincoln is elected president in the 1860 election, due to fears over the dissolution of the ownership of Negroes. They engage with the Union in "The War of Northern Aggression... | alternate reality, satire, alternate history | train | wikipedia | In an alternate universe, Jefferson Davis became president, the Confederates won the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was not shot and killed but becomes an escapee in blackface and dies in disgrace in Canada (not before recording his last words in 1905 -- a little anachronistic since sound in films did not occur until t... |
tt0322259 | 2 Fast 2 Furious | In Miami, Brian O'Conner makes a living by participating in illegal street races. Tej Parker organizes a local street race, involving Suki, Orange Julius, and Slap Jack, however, the race lacks a fourth driver. Tej later calls Brian, who agrees to be the fourth needed for the race. Brian wins, giving a few thousand of ... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0248808 | For the Birds | A flock of small, blue, birds land and sit on a telephone wire together. Two of them start to argue, push each other. Then they all take sides until a huge goofy bird lands on a nearby pole and wants to join them. As this long, lanky, unwanted guest flies over, the wire sags all almost all of the way to the ground. The... | entertaining | train | imdb | I recommend copying it from the DVD onto your hard drive, keep it handy."For The Birds" is another slick, colourful vignette from the wonderful Pixar animation studio, a delightful moral tale, and simply essential viewing for anyone following their remarkable output.A masterwork of lightening fast character sketching a... |
tt0964517 | The Fighter | As a welterweight from the wrong side of the tracks, Dickie Eklund is the pride of working class Lowell, Massachusetts. Living in his shadow is his half-brother and sparring partner Micky Ward. It's part of the Irish pride to let Dickie lead the way and win a championship belt first. However, after suffering a humiliat... | dramatic, home movie | train | imdb | First of all, the four principle characters: Micky, Dicky, Charlene and Alice are unlike anyone one has seen in this kind of film.They are wonderfully defined and the actors who portray them are cast against type and turn in their finest performance.
That's because most of the fighting in this film takes place out of t... |
tt0075809 | The Car | On the outskirts of Santa Ynez, two young people named Jimmy (Joshua Davis) and Suzie (Melody Thomas Scott) are riding bicycles along the highway. A vehicle comes from behind and drives right up on them, trapping them on a bridge. The sinister black sedan toys with them before killing them, crashing Suzie against the c... | paranormal, cult, murder | train | imdb | The Car was, as New York Press writer Jim Knipfel wrote, "If Ingmar Bergman had made a horror movie about a murderous automobile, he would have made The Car." The philosophical edge didn't turn the story into a joke, but rather gave some weight to a fantastic and desperate situation, balancing the dread and the actions... |
tt0113033 | Fast Money | Francesca Marsh (Yancy Butler) is a luxury car thief who's involved in a chase with the local California Highway police chasing her for her latest car theft. Having caused a major multi-car pileup on a local expressway, she flees from the scene on foot and latches onto journalist Jack Martin (Matt McCoy) who is on his ... | murder | train | imdb | Good for action movie (and Yancy Butler) fans.. I admit that I didn't have many expectations from this movie: I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, but just an ordinary, violent action movie, which also happened to have Yancy Butler starring in it(and that's even better.)And that was all I got. So I suggest this movie to a... |
tt1124035 | The Ides of March | Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) strolls up to a podium in an auditorium and begins to speak on his religious preferences. He then begins to whistle and whisper into the microphone. An audio technician comes up, and they adjust the volume. Stephen isn't a candidate but one of the main staffers for a candidate. He tells the... | mystery, dramatic, suspenseful, intrigue | train | imdb | null |
tt1212974 | Bitch Slap | Three girls, a down-and-out stripper named Trixie, a drug-running killer and ex-convict named Camero, and a corporate powerbroker nicknamed Hel, arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort massive riches from a ruthless sword-wielding killer named Pinky, who is also a notorious underworld figure. None of the three wom... | absurd, cult, comedy, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0059649 | Return from the Ashes | In the winter of 1945, on a train bound for Paris, a small boy kicks monotonously at the outside compartment door of a crowded compartment--and then opens the door and jumps from the train. His mother howls in anguish, an unnamed passenger pulls the brake cord, the conductor comes and escorts the distraught mother to a... | murder | train | imdb | "Return from the Ashes" is such a film.
Just let me wet your appetite by saying that Maximilian Schell plays a young amoral polish guy who seduces a French, older, wealthy widow, played for real by a great Ingrid Thulin.
When Schell asks her to marry him, she laughs it off as a surprisingly conventional request but he ... |
tt0172495 | Gladiator | In AD 180, Hispano-Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius leads the Roman army to victory against the Germanic tribes near Vindobona on the Limes Germanicus. Now weary of battle, Maximus only desires to retire to his estate. But Emperor Marcus Aurelius tells him that his own son and heir, Commodus, is unfit to rule and... | boring, cruelty, murder, dramatic, violence, cult, psychedelic, action, revenge, historical | train | wikipedia | If you can't feel something for the character, than the audience is lost.Luckily, in Ridley Scott's case, Russel Crowe is so captivating and convincing as a general loved by his troops and as a slave loved by the people that the movie really works.
Phoenix will surely be put on the map with Gladiator.But the real shini... |
tt0047127 | Jail Bait | In the opening shot, a police car moves through the streets of Alhambra, California. The car stops at a police station, and the officers inside it transport their drunk prisoner to the station. Inside the station, Marilyn Gregor (Dolores Fuller) meets with Inspector Johns (Lyle Talbot) and Lt. Bob Lawrence (Steve Reeve... | revenge, cult, murder | train | imdb | Horrible, but In A Good Way. Last night I decided to watch Ed Wood's crime film, "Jail Bait." Now, much like Wood's other films, the storyline, acting, direction, music and just about everything else are completely weak.
A lot of people like to go on about how Ed Wood is the worst director of all time, but how can this... |
tt0099052 | Arachnophobia | A photographer named Jerry Manley arrives in Venezuela, to be part of an expedition party, led by Doctor James Atherton (Julian Sands). Proceeding deep into the jungles, Jerry is instructed to take photographs of the animals and environments.Eventually, in a deep part of the jungle, the group come across a series of st... | horror, cult, suspenseful, action, comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0059250 | The Hallelujah Trail | The film opens with a narrator using a documentary style description of the events of November 1867. He tells us there were all indications that it will be a hard winter and citizens of Denver are concerned about the lack of whiskey in town. A bad winter might close the mountain passes leaving the city dry until late s... | violence, comedy | train | imdb | Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves sending up every possible western myth!The stunning look of the film, which must have been breathtaking in UltraPanavision 70mm, the beautiful rousing score a cast of thousands and a script that is truly awful!All these elements just don't come together but the individual scenes... |
tt0054387 | The Time Machine | The movie opens with a man walking down the street having just left a building in late-Victorian era London. It's wintertime, and the man pulls his coat around himself and hurries across the street. He knocks on the door of a house there, and a woman in late middle age lets him in. There he joins three other men who ar... | cult, sci-fi, psychedelic, alternate history, flashback | train | imdb | Since time travel stories always fascinate me, my favorite part of the film is when "George" (Rod Taylor) is actually in his time machine and experiments with it, slowing it down here and then and then stopping it a couple of times to observe World War I and then WWII.
It was a great way to keep us entertained and out ... |
tt2382009 | Nymphomaniac: Vol. II | This film is a continuation of Nymphomaniac: Vol. I, split up for length. It does not stand alone and will not make sense without having reviewed the first part.Young Joe (Stacy Martin) is in bed naked, eyes wide open. Jerôme (Shia LaBeouf) is now living with Joe but all of her lovers still try to contact her knocking ... | flashback | train | imdb | Nymphomaniac Volume II failed to satisfy my taste despite the fact that it has sex and porn.What I really hated about this movie is the reality that it is filled with boredom and absence of analysis.Most people who saw it were completely disappointed and unhappy with the unjustifiable ending.The conversation and dialog... |
tt2547584 | The Light Between Oceans | The movie opens in 1918 with Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) traveling by boat to a remote village off the coast of Western Australia. He has accepted the temporary position of lighthouse keeper on the island of Janus Rock. Janus Rock is a small island linked to the mainland, and only visited by boat four times a y... | flashback | train | imdb | Both Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander put in two very strong performances, along with Rachel Weisz in a supporting role, and the film completely captures the period after the First World War. To me it seemed very much in the mode of 'The Piano' and equally as strong in terms of its dramatic dynamics and conflicts... |
tt0040724 | Red River | In 1851, Tom Dunson (John Wayne) and friend Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), join a wagon train in St. Louis (or near St. Louis), headed for California. After three weeks, they approach north Texas, where the land looks good to Tom. He decides he wants to break away from the wagon train and go find a place to start a ran... | revenge, murder | train | imdb | In "Red River," "Rio Bravo," and "The Big Sky" Howard Hawks is far from the magnitude of Ford's "The Searchers." Under Ford's instruction, John Wayne is fluent and moderate, refined in conduct and manners as in "The Quiet Man." With Hawks, Wayne's character prevails differential tendency toward passion and fury...It is... |
tt0289043 | 28 Days Later... | In Cambridge, three animal liberation activists break into a medical research laboratory. A scientist in the lab desperately warns them against releasing the captive chimpanzees, which are infected with a highly contagious rage-inducing virus. Ignoring his pleas, the activists release a chimp, which infects a female ac... | mystery, murder, allegory, cult, violence, horror, thought-provoking, atmospheric, insanity, romantic, suspenseful, entertaining, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | But seeing them occur in the place you call home is something that gives it an entirely new sense of reality, and one I was previously unaccustomed to.Still, judging 28 Days Later entirely on its merit as a film, it's easy to arrive at the conclusion that it's a fantastic achievement, as well as a coming-of-age of sort... |
tt0477348 | No Country for Old Men | The film opens with a shot of desolate, wide-open country in West Texas in June 1980. In a voice-over, the local sheriff, Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), tells of the changing times: in the old days, some sheriffs never wore guns, as did his late father, who was the sheriff before him; in the modern day and age, howeve... | comedy, dark, neo noir, murder, boring, suspenseful, realism, dramatic, violence, mystery, atmospheric, plot twist, good versus evil, insanity, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | I would have liked a bit more development in his character, but what little there is helps his performance greatly.Supporting turns from Woody Harrelson and Kelly Macdonald are also done well, but are overshadowed by the main cast by both Brolin and Jones.And even more of an overcast is Bardem as the ruthless Chigurh.
... |
tt0087928 | Police Academy | Due to a shortage of police officers, the newly elected mayor of an unnamed American city has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits, effectively abolishing fitness requirements, educational levels, and medical standards. Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new... | comedy, cult, violence, absurd, comic, romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1001526 | Megamind | Megamind is shown falling at the beginning of the film and he explains how. Many years ago, Megamind was a super-intelligent alien who was evacuated from his homeworld as a baby, as was Metro Man; the two later arrive on Earth, falling into the paths of super villainy and superheroism respectively and grow up as rivals... | comedy, cute, feel-good, good versus evil, satire, romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Some of the great parts of the movie are present in the first few minutes of the film, where we see how Megamind came to be a villain.
It also enables the rest of the film to explore the development of Megamind's established character and whether he is really stuck with the 'role' he's been given--and it all plays out ... |
tt0384642 | Kicking & Screaming | Phil Weston (Will Ferrell), is an average person who had to endure his father Buck Weston's (Robert Duvall) over-competitiveness throughout his childhood, an upbringing which has left permanent mental scars. Now middle-aged and married, with a young son named Sam, Phil runs a small vitamin store, while Buck operates a ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | He takes over coaching his son's Little League soccer team and goes nuts trying to win at all costs.Kicking & Screaming seemed like it wanted to be the Anchorman of kid's movies, but it just lost me.
There were some really funny parts, one involving the team needing to help out at the Italian kids family butcher shop, ... |
tt1261862 | Icarus | There were those who called him Icarus. Everyone else knew him as a divorced father working for an investment company. But they didn't know his other side his dark side. Because Icarus (Dolph Lundgren) was at his best when he was killing people. For years, he'd worked as a sleeper agent in America but when the Soviet E... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1441953 | Testament of Youth | The film starts with the image of a cheering crowd, celebrating the end of the war in 1918. Vera Brittain goes through the crowd, the only one not cheering, and ends up in a church, where several women are praying.
In 1914 Vera fights to become a student at Somerville College, Oxford. While her father is against it, he... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0455275 | Prison Break | Season 1The first season follows the rescue of Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell), who is accused of murdering Terrence Steadman (Jeff Perry), the brother of the Vice President of the United States. Lincoln is sentenced to death and is incarcerated in Fox River State Penitentiary where he awaits his execution. Lincoln's... | murder | train | imdb | Prison Break is one of the best new series.
What few people knows is that Michael is the architect of the prison and so he knows his way around.The characters are really good.
Wentworth Miller also does a great job as Lincoln's brother, Michael Scofield.The story may seem a little incredible and some facts may be wrong... |
tt0079475 | The Little Convict | An old artist (Rolf Harris) sets up some paintings at Luna Park, Sydney, planning to sell them, but has trouble attracting any people until he performs "Jake the Peg". Most of the crowd move on again when the performance finishes, being uninterested in his paintings, so he starts telling his granddaughter about their o... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0117665 | Sleepers | Told through the narration of a grown-up "Shakes", four young boys: Lorenzo "Shakes"(Joseph Perrino), Michael (Brad Renfro), Tommy (Jonathan Tucker), and John (Geoffrey Wigdor) are the best of friends growing up in Hell's Kitchen in New York City. Their family lives are hard, involving broken homes and spousal abuse, a... | cruelty, murder, neo noir, sentimental, thought-provoking, sadist, violence, flashback, revenge, storytelling, prank | train | imdb | I believe that one reason that Sleepers(1996) didn't get the praise it deserved is the film deals with things that were already present in Mean Streets(1973) and Once Upon a Time in America(1984).
I wasn't expecting it to be so deep and emotional but the story is told in such a way that you can really feel the fear and... |
tt1608290 | Zoolander 2 | The film starts in Rome, where two assassins on motorcycle are chasing Justin Bieber (playing himself) through the streets. The singer kills one of the villains before heading to the home of Sting for sanctuary, but nobody comes for him. Justin is cornered at gunpoint, but he tells the assassin that they will be stoppe... | murder, intrigue, flashback, absurd, satire, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0045883 | Hondo | At a remote ranch in the desert of New Mexico, homesteader Angie Lowe (Angie Lowe) and her six year-old son Johnny (Lee Aaker) come upon a stranger (John Wayne) drinking water from their river, carrying only a saddle and a rifle. The man tells them only his last name, Lane, and that he is part Apache and was exploring ... | cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | The colors are rich and vibrant including the many Mexican blue sky shots.The story has a tired and horseless army scout Hondo Lane (John Wayne) coming upon an isolated ranch where he meets Mrs. Lowe (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and her young son Johnny (Lee Aaker).
Along the way they are attacked by the Apache and............. |
tt1131729 | The Boat That Rocked | he movie opens with the information that during the 1960s, even though British rock was at its peak, British radio refused to play rock music. This led to the creation of pirate radio stations, which kept their ships anchored off the coast and played rock music 24/7.A boat approaches the Pirate Radio ship and drops off... | comedy, entertaining | train | imdb | Although the film received its fair share of criticism for its historical inaccuracies and feeble plot, in my view, the film does exactly what its authors set out to achieve and - not only in terms of the soundtrack - rock it really does.If you're looking for an evening of pure escapist fun, feeling generally nostalgic... |
tt0103939 | Chaplin | The film is structured around lengthy flashbacks as the elderly Charlie Chaplin (now living in Switzerland) recollects moments from his life during a conversation with fictional character George Hayden, the editor of his autobiography.
Chaplin's recollections begin with his childhood of extreme poverty from which he es... | dramatic, cult, flashback | train | wikipedia | You can't help noticing how this corresponds with the constantly youthful look of the Tramp (in Modern Times, for example, Chaplin was in his late 40s but looked like a teenager), and the coins tossed on stage may have played a significant role in helping him realize that this could be a good way to make money.Charlie ... |
tt3393786 | Jack Reacher: Never Go Back | A small crowd of people is gathered outside a diner. The police arrive and find four men on the ground beaten up. An onlooker tells the cops that one man took them all on and beat them down within seconds. Sheriff Raymond Wood (Jason Douglas) and his deputy enter the diner to find Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) sitting by t... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence, intrigue, flashback, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0084516 | Poltergeist | In the suburban housing development of Cuesta Verde, California, the homes are modern and comfortable. Steve Freeling (Craig T. Nelson) is a successful real estate agent who works for a firm headed up by Teague (James Karen), a developer. Steve lives in one of the Cuesta Verde homes with his wife, Diane (JoBeth William... | mystery, paranormal, cult, horror, haunting, good versus evil, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0079944 | Stalker | A "stalker" is a guide who takes people through "The Zone," a place located outside an unidentified city, the result of an extra-terrestrial incursion. The State has closed it off from the outside world with barbed wire and it is closely guarded by armed police and soldiers. Inside The Zone there is "The Room," which i... | dark, psychological, boring, paranormal, psychedelic, philosophical | train | imdb | null |
tt0077928 | Midnight Express | This movie is based loosely on Billy Hayes' book Midnight Express about his five year experience in the Turkish prison system. The movie was exaggerated for dramatic effect.October 6, 1970. Opening scene has a xenophobic soundtrack of machine guns, Muslim prayer cries, and synthesizer music and a glimpse of Istanbul, T... | cruelty, murder, bleak, violence, cult, philosophical, romantic, claustrophobic, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | I've read an interview and I learnt that the real Billy Hayes was truly disappointed with the portrayal of Turkish people in the film.
However, as a person who has spent time in Turkey and read the book upon which the film is based, I know that it is a fictional story.
It begins with a caption "a true story" but the on... |
tt0058267 | Kitten with a Whip | ** CONTAINS SPOILERSJODY DVORAK, 17, escapes from a juvenile facility after knifing a MATRON. Hopping a freight, pursued by COPS, Jody gets away. Desperate, she stumbles upon the lavish home of DAVID STRATTON, a senator wannabe, off on a business trip and whose wife, VIRGINIA, is currently away with their child, rethin... | cult | train | imdb | null |
tt0901476 | Bride Wars | The movie begins with a montage of shots of wedding items from a scrapbook box then a voice over from Candice Bergen tells the story of two girls (Emma and Liv) who went to the Plaza Hotel with their mothers for lunch in June and saw a wedding. They then fell in love with the idea of having their weddings in June at th... | comedy, entertaining, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are two life-long best friends who've dreamed of a June wedding at the Plaza since they were kids.
Apparently, if you're a woman and live in Manhattan, the ultimate dream of your life is to get married at the Plaza in June, so when best friends Liv (Kate Hudson with a Paris Hi... |
tt0486051 | Wind Chill | Prior to Christmas break, a young woman Emily Blunt (listed in credits simply as "girl") accepts the idea from a cell phone texting session to use the campus "Ride Share" program as an alternative to riding the bus back home to Delaware. Finding a posting on a bulletin board, she catches a ride home from a stranger, As... | paranormal, suspenseful, flashback | train | imdb | But I thought it was fun and weird and full of unexpected depth.I'm not certain in which direction "Wind Chill" is pointing the horror movie--maybe in the direction of the late 60s/early 70s "just slightly off" horror like "Rosemary's Baby" or the old "Night Gallery" TV series--rather than in the direction of grind hou... |
tt1663662 | Pacific Rim | The film begins in 2013. Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, a fissure opens up, that leads to another dimension. Through the fissure, a giant monster appears, and destroys portions of San Francisco. After many days and countless lives, the creature is defeated by human military forces.However, what seemed to be an isolate... | violence, revenge, flashback, good versus evil, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | etc.The battle sequences are epic, the monsters and robots are amazing, Kids especially will love them, and the action goes on and on.The dialogue is cheesier and hammier than a 60 foot pizza monsters, and coupled with the extended scope of this film can make watching it gruelling if you are not instantly gripped.This ... |
tt0088161 | Splash | While on a boat at Cape Cod in 1964 with his family, Allen Bauer sees something in the water and dives in, much to the alarm of his family. Unknown to them, Allen has actually seen a little mermaid. However, no one else sees her as Allen is plucked from the water and returned to his parents, much to the sadness of the ... | romantic, entertaining, flashback | train | imdb | Tom Hanks is charismatic and likable enough and was perfectly cast as Allan Bauer, a successful businessman who falls in love with a beautiful mermaid named Maddison.
SPLASH (1984) **** Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Shecky Greene.
Excellent fantasy comedy directed by Ron Howard about produce salesma... |
tt1054122 | Goemon | As a child, Ishikawa Goemon's (Yōsuke Eguchi) entire family was assassinated for political reasons. His mother (Ryo) sent Goemon away for safety minutes before he witnessed her death. Running away with his caretaker, they were attacked by bandits but he was saved by the great Nobunaga Oda (Hashinosuké Nakamura). Goemon... | depressing | train | wikipedia | I rather hate those movies that pack the trailer with best they have and then there's nothing left than those 30 seconds of glory.A pity I can't talk about the story to avoid spoilers, at this time I would just explain why it was excellent for me:*the way Kiriya re-wrote this little piece of history and made a great th... |
tt0144117 | The Boondock Saints | This film opens with mass in a Boston Catholic church, where Irish American fraternal twin brothers Connor McManus (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy McManus (Norman Reedus) pray while a sermon is read, mentioning Kitty Genovese, a real-life crime victim brutally murdered while her neighbors watched without intervening.... | comedy, dark, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, flashback, insanity, revenge, queer | train | imdb | The Boondock Saints is one of the most pleasant surprises I've had in my years of watching indies, and it proves conclusively that you don't need a massive budget to do a terrific action film!Two blue-collar Boston Irish brothers (Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus, who are both terrific!) rid their favorite pub of... |
tt0099395 | Def by Temptation | Joel [James Bond III] is almost to the end of ministry school when he feels the need
for a break before taking on the final plunge, so he calls his brother
"K" [Kadeem Hardison], an aspiring actor in New York City, and asks "K" whether he can come
stay with him for a little while. "K" is only too happy to show his litt... | cult, blaxploitation | train | imdb | I thought the casting was perfect, particularly in Kadeem Hardison (who's career I had thought should have been, by rights, much larger), and Cynthia Bond, who's feature turn as the succubus was terrific—both terrifying and seductive at the same time.
There were references to this film being firmly in the genre of "bla... |
tt0368933 | The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement | Five years after the first film, Crown Princess of Genovia Amelia "Mia" Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) has just graduated from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and is returning to Genovia with her bodyguard Joe (Héctor Elizondo) and beloved cat Fat Louie. There, she will await her reign once her grandmother, Q... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0082398 | For Your Eyes Only | While visiting the grave of his deceased wife, Tracy (whom was killed in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service), James Bond (Roger Moore) is called back to MI6 headquarters. A helicopter arrives to transport him. During the flight the pilot is killed by electricity that surges through his headset and a familiar voic... | revenge, murder, violence | train | imdb | It is definitely the best Roger Moore's James Bond 007 film since The Spy Who Loved Me!
Great actors like are: Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Julian Glover, Topol ,Lynn-Holly Johnson, Michael Gothard, Jill Bennett, John Wyman and Walter Gotell.
Aiding Bond is the beautiful sharpshooter Melina Havelock (Carole Bouquet) an... |
tt0039109 | Willie the Operatic Whale | As the story opens, strange operatic vocals are soon heard far out at sea. Some sailors soon report something that leaves many flabbergasted: the vocals are emitting from a whale!The public and a number of notable people are split: some refuse to believe, while others accept the miraculous story.The story soon reaches ... | psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0107178 | I Can Make You Love Me | At 22, Laura Black seems to have it made. After graduating UC-Davis in engineering, she leaves her parents' home in Virginia to head for KEI Systems, a Silicon Valley hi-tech firm specializing in defense contracting for the armed services. On the first day at her new job, her supervisor, Chris, introduces her to Richar... | violence, romantic | train | imdb | This type of film could seem over-the-top, but thanks to a believable performance by Richard Thomas, and a surprisingly decent performance by Brooke Shields, the viewer is interested in the story, and not distracted by personalities.You will see some interesting information regarding stalking, as well.
This film was ma... |
tt0048127 | Gojira no gyakushû | Two pilots named Shoichi Tsukioka and Koji Kobayashi are hunting for schools of fish for a tuna cannery company in Osaka. Kobayashi's plane malfunctions and is forced to land near Iwato Island, an uninhabited strip of rocks formed by volcanic eruptions. Tsukioka then looks for Kobayashi and finds him safe, with only a ... | cult | train | wikipedia | Tsukioka informs scientists (including Dr. Yamane from the first "Godzilla" film) and the army about Godzilla and an unknown monster that looks like a prehistoric Ankylosaurus.
Many pilots die in the final battle against the monster, as the army tries to cause an avalanche to bury Godzilla...This is the little-known se... |
tt0138524 | Intolerable Cruelty | Donovan Donaly (Geoffrey Rush) a TV soap opera producer, surprises his wife Bonnie (Stacey Travis) being intimate with an ex-boyfriend. He files for divorce, and Bonnie hires Miles Massey (George Clooney), a top divorce attorney and the inventor of the "Massey pre-nup", a completely foolproof prenuptial agreement. Mile... | revenge, comedy, satire, entertaining, romantic | train | wikipedia | With Clooney hired to represent her soon to be ex husband, he inevitably falls for the gold diggers charms.Directed by the Coen brothers, a directorial team who have helmed oddball comedies such as 'Fargo' and 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' this is the team's first branch in to a high profile Hollywood film.
However, des... |
tt0455760 | Dead Silence | This movie starts out with Jamie and Lisa receiving an anonymous package in the mail. They decide that the only way to find out who it is from is to open it up. When they open it, they find a ventriloquist doll.Later on, after Jamie leaves their residence, Lisa hears it get dead silent, then starts to hear voices comin... | revenge, horror, gothic, murder, flashback | train | imdb | There just aren't enough horror films these days about menacing old ventriloquist ladies that are buried with their creepy dolls, who have come back from the dead to seek vengeance on the families that put her in the grave, by tearing out their tongues.
The atmosphere is heavy, the creepy music is provided by SAW'S Cha... |
tt0064169 | Le clan des Siciliens | In Paris, bloodthirsty jewel thief Roger Sartet (Alain Delon) escapes from custody with the help of the Manalese, a small-time but well-organised Sicilian Mafia clan led by patriarch Vittorio (Jean Gabin), which includes his sons Aldo (Yves Lefebvre), Sergio (Marc Porel), and son-in-law Luigi (Philippe Baronnet). While... | revenge, murder | train | imdb | Classic French gangster film with the three greatest stars : Gavin, Delon and Ventura.
Picture talks about a tough criminal convict -Alain Delon- who escapes and contacts a Siciliens clan ruled by an intelligent old man - Jean Gabin - to prepare a spectacular heist ; then they're pursued by an obstinate Police Inspecto... |
tt0481499 | The Croods | Eep (Emma Stone) is a girl in a family of cavemen living and hunting in pre-historic times. Her family is one of the few to survive, mainly due to the strict rules of her overprotective father, Grug (Nicolas Cage). In their cave home, Grug tells a story to the family, which includes his wife Ugga (Catherine Keener), hi... | inspiring, comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0083550 | Amityville II: The Possession | The Montelli family; father Anthony (Young), mother Dolores (Alda), elder son Sonny (Magner), elder teenaged daughter Patricia (Franklin) and two younger kids, move into what they think would be the house of their dreams. Initially things begin well, but everything changes after it is discovered that there is a tunnel ... | gothic | train | wikipedia | The Montelli's are no typical American family, you see this from the start when Sunny returns from buying a pack of cigarettes and has an arguement with his father who threatens to "kick his ass".Yes, "Possession" did copy parts of The Exorcist, but it's still a good film with more gory scenes than the original.If you ... |
tt0466909 | The Omen | Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber), an American diplomat stationed in Italy, is told that his son died soon after birth. To spare the anguish of his still unconscious wife, Katherine (Julia Stiles), Robert accepts the suggestion of the hospital's Catholic priest, Father Spiletto (Giovanni Lombardo Radice) to secretly adopt ... | violence, murder | train | imdb | (SPOILERS FOLLOW) There are elements of "Final Destination", but the original Omen was in fact the first to play with this type of death scene(s), where things mysteriously happen to people through strange accidents,etc.
Having said that, these scenes are a little different from the original (most of them anyway) and a... |
tt1161443 | Pagafantas | La película empieza con un seudo-documental de naturaleza en que se describe la operación "cobra", es decir, inclinarse hacia adelante para robar a un beso a la persona que esta enfrente tuya. El docu dice que cada dos minutos alguien en el mundo intenta esa técnica.José María, llamado también Josemari o Chema (Gorka O... | comedy, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0081748 | Where the Buffalo Roam | The film opens in the mountain cabin of one Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Bill Murray), gonzo journalist extraordinaire. He is holed up with his dog Bronco and a plethora of alcohol and drugs, struggling with a looming deadline to produce a magazine article about his eccentric former attorney, Carl Lazlo, Esq. (Peter Boyle).... | flashback | train | imdb | The plot is peppered with "respectable" places being dragged into mayhem, and "respectable" folks trying (unsuccessfully) to cope behind plastic smiles.It even ventures into some higher themes, such as innocent kids being jailed by a heartless criminal system, and Thompson's own struggles between being a practical repo... |
tt0265086 | Black Hawk Down | In 1993, following the ousting of the central government and start of a civil war, a major United Nations military operation in Somalia is authorized with a peacekeeping mandate. After the bulk of the peacekeepers are withdrawn, the Mogadishu-based militia loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid declares war on the remaining UN ... | murder, realism, anti war, violence, dramatic, tragedy, suspenseful, historical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0099871 | Jacob's Ladder | Helicopters at Nam. We are at the Mekong Delta, 1971. Suddenly, all the soldiers have splitting headaches and go wild. They are attacked. Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) doesn't even move; he just stares at the mess and cruelty of war. He survives but has to run away on his own. He is wounded.He wakes up alone at a dirty un... | psychological, gothic, violence, cult, horror, alternate reality, haunting, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, tragedy | train | imdb | It is like hypnotism, you have no choice...you are unable to think, act, or even believe apart from the intense feelings Jacob's Ladder inspires.Tim Robbins is Jacob Singer, a warm and genuinely likable Vietnam veteran who, in spite of earning a doctoral degree, chooses to find employment working for the U.S. Postal Se... |
tt0036376 | Son of Dracula | Kay Caldwell [Louise Allbritton] and Frank Stanley [Robert Paige] have always been in love, even since they were children. But when Kay returns from traveling in Hungary, she seems changed. First, she begins to express a morbid curiosity with the supernatural. Then, she brings back with her a gypsy fortune teller, Mada... | gothic, murder | train | imdb | Its star, Lon Chaney Jr., famous for his previous role in the horror cycle as Lawrence Talbot in THE WOLF MAN (Universal, 1941), which would be followed by some more sequels throughout the 1940s, might have seemed an unlikely choice in playing the blood- sucking vampire, but on the contrary, Junior Chaney brings new li... |
tt0390384 | Primer | Four engineers- Aaron (Shane Carruth), Abe (David Sullivan), Robert, and Phillip who work for a large corporation during the day, run a side business from Aaron's garage at night, building and selling JTAG cards. With the proceeds of this work they fund pet science projects that they hope will yield applications suffic... | boring, thought-provoking, cult, clever, flashback, psychedelic | train | imdb | then here comes "Primer," like a ghost in the night.It's too early to tell where this movie will reside in cinematic history-- revered, forgotten, or somewhere in between-- but it's already won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance (where it beat out 'Garden State'), and just won't go away.
Remember, Shane Carruth had no id... |
tt1294688 | Last Night | Joanna is a writer who is married to Michael, a commercial real estate agent. They live in New York. The film begins with Joanna and Michael attending a party with Michael's colleagues. Joanna notices Michael spending most of his time chatting with the beautiful Laura, one of his colleagues, whom he has never mentioned... | thought-provoking, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt0074811 | Le locataire | Trelkovsky (Roman Polanski), a quiet and unassuming Polish immigrant living in France, rents an apartment in Paris whose previous tenant, Egyptologist Simone Choule, attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself out the third-floor window and through a pane of glass below. He visits Choule in the hospital but finds h... | dark, comedy, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, atmospheric, insanity, psychedelic, satire, claustrophobic, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0083630 | The Beastmaster | The gates to the city of Aruk are raised, and Maax (Rip Torn), high priest of the city's patron god, Ar, rides in with two underling priests. He goes to the central ziggurat that serves as the city's temple, and meets with three witch-women in its interior. The witches appear as shapely women with hideously disfigured ... | cult | train | imdb | null |
tt0035317 | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon | At a cafe in Switzerland, two Gestapo agents plot with a man disguised as an old bookseller to abduct Dr. Franz Tobel (William Post Jr.), the inventor of a new bomb sight. However, the bookseller is really Holmes (Basil Rathbone), who sends the Nazis after decoys while he and Tobel drive to a rendezvous with an RAF pla... | good versus evil, murder | train | imdb | When the scientist and his formulae goes missing, Holmes becomes involved in a rush to rescue the man and prevent nemesis Professor Moriarty getting hold of the rest of the formulae.Although I'm not a major fan of the Holmes films where he finds himself in the modern day world, this is one of the better ones I have see... |
tt0114194 | The Prophecy | Thomas Dagget, a Catholic seminary student, loses his faith when he sees disturbing visions of a war between angels. Years later, Thomas is a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Two angels fall to Earth: one, Simon, enters Thomas' home and warns him of coming events, before disappearing. The second, Uziel... | comedy, gothic, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, psychedelic, suspenseful, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073629 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Over the opening credits a large set of a woman's lips in red lipstick sing the opening song ('Science Fiction-Double Feature').Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) are two "normal, ordinary, healthy kids" in November 1974 from the small town of Denton, Ohio whom they first meet in Dr. Scott's ... | comedy, murder, cult, insanity, psychedelic, queer | train | imdb | null |
tt1017460 | Splice | Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by splicing animal DNA to create hybrids for medical use at the company N.E.R.D. (short for Nucleic Exchange Research and Development). Their work previously yielded Fred, a dog-sized vermiform creature intended as a mate for their female specimen, Ginge... | violence, comedy, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | That it remains intellectually stimulating, even when the surface-area film dips into more traditionally hokey horror territory, is its greatest strength.What's so interesting about the story, in spite of what the trailer suggests, is that the creature artificially spawned by genetic engineers Clive and Elsa (Adrian Br... |
tt0265349 | The Mothman Prophecies | Newspaper columnist John Klein (Gere) and his wife Mary (Messing) are involved in a car accident. Mary, the driver of the vehicle, swerves her car to avoid hitting something in the road. A brain scan reveals a tumor and she subsequently passes away. Later, John discovers an assortment of mysterious drawings which she c... | paranormal, boring | train | imdb | Richard Gere stars as a Washington Post reporter who inexplicably finds himself in a small West Virginia town where a series of strange goings-on have been happening.
Bizarre, well-made supernatural thriller is all the more chilling for the fact that it's rooted in actual events.Washington reporter ends up in a small W... |
tt0458339 | Captain America: The First Avenger | Bright headlights cut through a thick sheet of snow-flakes. A scientist, bundled as warmly as possible, treks through the sleet. Two other men, in matching black cold-weather uniforms, approach the scientist. He leads them to an excavation site which is easily the size of a football field; at the center of the site app... | murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, action, romantic, sci-fi | train | imdb | Fortunately the film, instead of getting to political, is more old-fashioned pulp like Indy or "Sky Captain," which thankfully never takes itself too seriously (which was one of the flaws of "Thor").I had my doubts that Chris Evans could pull off the modesty and heart needed for the role, but I was wrong.
Falling in li... |
tt0090881 | Crawlspace | A young woman walks through the hallways of an apartment building, looking for "Mr. Gunther". She walks into a room in the attic and the door closes and locks behind her. Inside the room, she finds rats in cages, as well as a woman (Sally Brown) in cage. Karl Gunther (Klaus Kinski) appears and says of the caged woman: ... | violence | train | imdb | No one with a German accent is.He plays the Dr. Karl Gunther, son of a Nazi war criminal, who's escaped to America from Argentina and becomes an apartment manager.
There's also a woman he holds captive in an animal cage up in the attic, who he keeps as company after he's cut out her tongue.Then innocent Lori Bancroft (... |
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