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tt0807758 | Partner | Prem (Salman Khan) is a Love Guru who solves the love issues of his clients. He meets Bhaskar Diwakar Chaudhary (Govinda) who comes to Prem for help in his love life. Bhaskar loves his boss Priya Jaisingh (Katrina Kaif) but is unable to express his love to her as she is the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Prem initi... | humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0092133 | Under the Cherry Moon | At the Venus de Milo nightclub in Nice on the French Riviera, gigolo Christopher Tracy (Prince) raises a glass for a toast and plays piano for the patrons. A voiceover says he lived for money, entertaining rich women of all types, but died for just one woman after learning the true meaning of love. As he plays, a myste... | cult, psychedelic, romantic | train | imdb | An example is the scene in which Tracy and Tricky (Prince and Jerome Benton) meet Tracy's refined love interest at a posh restaurant and grill her: "Where do you go if you want to get a Sam Cooke album?" Tricky holds up a sign reading "Wrecka Stow" and finally, writhing in discomfort, she gets it and reluctantly answe... |
tt0071230 | Blazing Saddles | In the American Old West of 1874, construction on a new railroad led by Lyle (Burton Gilliam) runs into quicksand. The route has to be changed, which will require it to go through Rock Ridge, a frontier town where everyone has the last name of "Johnson" (including a "Howard Johnson", a "Dr. Samuel Johnson", a "Van John... | comedy, cult, flashback, good versus evil, absurd, satire, comic, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt2226417 | Insidious: Chapter 2 | In flashback, we see Josh (Patrick Wilson) Lambert, as a kid, is having trouble with the old lady with blood red lipstick, who killed Elise at the end of the first film. Elise and a man named Carl, are summoned to help with the problem, because Josh's mother, Lorraine, is worried. In time, they find out he's a special ... | paranormal, horror, murder, flashback | train | imdb | Overall, Chapter 2 makes several improvements on the first, and while, depending on your tastes, this sequel may or may not be as scary as the first, I think it's tough to deny that this is a all-around better, more entertaining movie.
There are some moments that may make you jump a little, thanks to some good camer... |
tt0374339 | Mou gaan dou III: Jung gik mou gaan | Infernal Affairs III uses parallel storytelling, flashing between the past and the present.Five months before Yan's deathYan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) seeks to uncover the link between Triad boss Sam (Eric Tsang) and the mysterious mainland triad boss Shen (Chen Daoming). Since Sam's ascension to the seat of triad lord was... | violence, flashback | train | imdb | Infernal Affairs 3 builds cleverly on the plotline of the first movie, but with its complex story and frequent switches between past and present, is likely to seriously confuse anyone who comes to it without having seen Part 1 first to understand the two main characters.
With frequent flashbacks, the film focuses on ex... |
tt0875034 | Nine | Nine tells the story of Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis), a world famous film director as he confronts an epic mid-life crisis with both creative and personal problems. He must balance the many women of his life, including his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penélope Cruz), his film star muse (Nicole Kidman), hi... | pornographic, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | And the performance objective is relied upon Daniel Day Lewis who carries it off easily with the help of a great supporting cast like Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard and Judi Dench.
His late mother (Sofia Loren), his wife Marion Cotillard, his mistress (Penelope Cruz), his costume designer and closest friend (Judi Denc... |
tt1431181 | Another Year | Tom Hepple, a geologist, and Gerri Hepple, a counsellor, are an older married couple who have a comfortable, loving relationship. The film observes them over the course of the four seasons of a year, surrounded by family and friends who mostly suffer some degree of unhappiness. Gerri's friend and colleague, Mary, works... | romantic, boring, depressing | train | wikipedia | Their friends and family, by contrast, all struggle to some extent with unhappiness, and a sense that their best years may be behind them.The film is a story of ageing; the small events that can make life either comforting or unbearable; and the refuge that companionship can offer.Rut Sheen's role as Gerri is superb.
J... |
tt0100685 | State of Grace | Terry Noonan (Penn) returns to Hell's Kitchen in New York City after a 10-year absence, where his unpredictable childhood friend Jackie Flannery (Oldman) is involved in an Irish crime organization (based on The Westies) run by his older brother Frank/Frankie (Harris). Terry also rekindles an old relationship with Jacki... | violence, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Three actors were given that opportunity in State of Grace: Ed Harris, Gary Oldman and Sean Penn.
Oldman completely and utterly loses himself in the role of Jackie Flannery, a small-time Irish gangster that happens to be the younger, impulsive, reckless brother of the head boss of the Irish mob in Hell's Kitchen, Frank... |
tt0116514 | Hellraiser: Bloodline | In 2127, Dr. Paul Merchant, an engineer, seals himself in a room aboard The Minos, a space station that he designed. As armed guards attempt to break through the door, Merchant manipulates a robot into solving the Lament Configuration, destroying the robot in the process. The guards break through the door and apprehend... | gothic, violence, horror, flashback, good versus evil, sadist | train | wikipedia | So the space thing is not so bad.As I mentioned in my review for "Hellraiser 3", I dislike how writer Peter Atkins introduced new cenobites.
Seeing this undeservedly LOW score here made me feel that I really had to 'say' something.First off, YES, I am indeed a BIG fan of the first three films; before these just recentl... |
tt0478216 | Nightmare Man | Ellen believes there is a supernatural creature trying to kill her named the "Nightmare Man". However, her husband and doctors believe she is a paranoid schizophrenic.
On the way to a psychiatric ward, the Morris' car breaks down. When her husband goes to get gas, Ellen stays behind and is attacked by the mysterious, h... | paranormal, insanity, violence | train | wikipedia | Anyhow, Rolf seems to have a much lower budget on this one than on The Hazing, be he economises well and the make up and effects are good and it works to the films benefit that they are sparingly used until the climax.Story concerns an unstable young woman who uses a wacko ancient fertility mask to try and improve her ... |
tt0237572 | The Pledge | Retired police detective Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson) is seen mumbling to himself, apparently drunk, sitting on a bench outside a disused gas station. The scene then shifts to events in the recent past. The Department has thrown him a retirement party, and the police captain gives Jerry a fishing trip in Mexico as a gi... | insanity, mystery, murder, sentimental | train | wikipedia | But if you're into seeing an intense character study bolstered by impressive acting and clever directing (kudos, Sean Penn), you've come to the right place.I read one IMDB review calling this film Nicholson's worst ever.
I had rather low expectations for The Pledge - even though I've admired Penn as an actor (Dead Man ... |
tt0088272 | Tightrope | The film opens with a young woman, Melanie Silber (Jamie Rose), walking home late one night in New Orleans down a deserted street. A sound startles her and she drops her packages. A man approaches her. She relaxes when she sees he is wearing a police uniform. He watches her enter her house, then the camera pans down an... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence, cult, revenge | train | imdb | Here is a very, very tense thriller about a New Orleans cop (Clint Eastwood) finding a serial killer.....and vice-versa.This is a very dark (literally) film with a big film-noir look and feel.
Directed by Clint's protégé Richard Tuggle (who wrote the screenplay to the earlier Siegel-Eastwood classic ESCAPE FROM ALCATRA... |
tt0105682 | Un coeur en hiver | "Un Coeur en Hiver" translates as "A Heart in Winter". The three main characters are: the enigmatic violin craftsman (luthier) Stéphane (Daniel Auteuil); the charismatic violin shop owner Maxime (André Dussollier); and the impossibly beautiful violinist Camille (Emmanuelle Béart). Stéphane and Maxime are men perhaps in... | romantic | train | imdb | Brother, can you spare a heart?In Un Coeur en Hiver, the late Claude Sautet looks into the heart of Stephane, a master violin craftsman (Daniel Auteuil), and finds only ice.
While the lovely sonatas and trios of Maurice Ravel form a haunting background, there is a lifeless quality to Stephane and ennui is a palpable pr... |
tt0089173 | Friday the 13th: A New Beginning | A young Tommy Jarvis (Corey Feldman) stumbles upon a graveyard while walking through the woods on a rainy night, where he witnesses two grave robbers digging up the corpse of Jason Voorhees. Jason rises from the grave and murders the two graverobbers before advancing towards Tommy.Awakening from his nightmare, fifteen-... | boring, grindhouse film, murder, cult, horror, violence, alternate reality, insanity, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | Friday the 13th: A New Beginning is very underrated and a really good horror film.
I have enjoy this film and however I feel now it is better then Friday the 13th Part 2 because the killer wasn't so clumsy and the chainsaw worked in this movie.
I love the singing on the crapper part, the mod chick doing the robot, the ... |
tt0347048 | Gegen die Wand | The movie starts off with a Turkish singing group at the edge of the water in what appears to be Istanbul. After a story telling song from the group the movie goes into a night club where a band has just finished playing. It is here where we first meet our main character Cahit Tomruk (Birol Unel). Cahit is picking up a... | dark, murder, cult, violence, atmospheric, romantic | train | imdb | Cahit Tomruk (the sublimely attitudinizing Birol Ünel) is a purposeless rock 'n' roll loving boozer with a dead-end job collecting bottles at a club, and Sibel Güner (the wiry, intense Sibel Kikulli) is a young woman with conservative Turkish parents who wants to escape family pressures.Both are total drama queens and ... |
tt0457297 | The Butterfly Effect 2 | Julie Miller (Erica Durance) and her boyfriend, Nick Larson (Eric Lively), are celebrating Julie's 24th birthday on a camping trip with another couple, Trevor Eastman (Dustin Milligan) and Amanda (Gina Holden). Nick and Julie walk away from the campsite for a bit of privacy, and she begins to tell him something importa... | flashback | train | imdb | The acting is frigid, there is little character development, and predictably leads the viewer to little enjoyment, and lots of confusion.It would appear the director of this film has not even seen the first one, considering the frequent mistakes, and plot jumps.Save your money, skip this one.
The main character's abili... |
tt0374887 | Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. | As the sun rises over the city of Mumbai, an ordinary day begins. A jogger suddenly finds himself being stalked by a dangerously armed hoodlum and runs into a taxi driver, whom he begs to save him. The taxi driver drives him to a building... and traps him there! The jogger discovers that it was all a set up by the taxi... | cult, avant garde | train | imdb | He has always been good in comedy, and his movies make you laugh without having to take help of double meaning dialogues or crossing the line into bitchiness.
All the characters, be it "Circuit" (Arshad Warsi) or the "Dean", or Sunil Dutt, have been portrayed well enough in the movie.
Some of the scenes, like the one ... |
tt0111282 | Stargate | Egyptologist and linguist Daniel Jackson, Ph.D. is invited by Catherine Langford to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs on cover stones that her father had unearthed in Giza, Egypt in 1928. Jackson is taken to a U.S. Air Force installation, and told the project is classified information by its commander Special Operations C... | violence, cult, suspenseful, action, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | With a capable cast, solid script and excellent set design, this is a big-budget adventure for viewers looking for pure escapist fun.The ever reliable Kurt Russell plays the square-jawed, world weary Jack O'Neil, who is responsible for leading the military mission to another world.
At the time, this was a different typ... |
tt0139156 | The Dig | On a deep space tracking station in Borneo, a moving object is discovered in space. Computer programs identify it as an asteroid that will impact on Earth within three weeks. Some time later, a Space Shuttle is launched. A news broadcast explains that the asteroid has been nicknamed Attila, after the historical war lea... | insanity | train | imdb | null |
tt0078224 | Sella d'argento | South Texas Border, the 1850s. A poor man and his young son arrive exhausted at a small outpost. There, the man confronts Luke Fletcher (Donald O'Brien), a sneering crook in the employ of a rich and powerful landowner called Barret. The man tells Fletcher that Barret has swindled him and his son out of money for some n... | western, violence, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt1951261 | The Hangover Part III | Two years after the events in Bangkok, Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong) escapes from a maximum security prison, using a riot as cover. Meanwhile, in the United States, Alan Garner (Zach Galifianakis) causes a 20-car freeway pileup after he purchases a giraffe and accidentally decapitates it on a low overpass. Alan's father Sid ... | comedy, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0203119 | Sexy Beast | Ex-con and expert safe-cracker Gary "Gal" Dove (Ray Winstone) completed his prison time and has happily retired to a Spanish villa with his beloved ex–porn star wife DeeDee (Amanda Redman). He shares the company of long-time best friend Aitch (Cavan Kendall) and his wife Jackie (Julianne White). Two scenes foreshadow a... | cult, comedy, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | In `Sexy Beast,' Ben Kingsley delivers a bone-chilling performance as the man everyone loves to hate, a role for which he earned not only universal critical acclaim but a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination as well.
Cleverly, writers Louis Mellis and David Scinto have paved the way for this entrance by introducing L... |
tt0068713 | Horror Express | In 1906, Saxton (Lee), a renowned British anthropologist, is returning to Europe by the Trans-Siberian Express from China to Moscow. With him is a crate containing the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature that he discovered in a cave in Manchuria. He hopes it is a missing link in human evolution. Doctor Well... | plot twist, gothic, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0031491 | Intermezzo: A Love Story | Renowned violinist Holger Brandt (Leslie Howard) finishes the final concert of his tour to ardent applause. He informs the fervid New York audience that this was the last performance of his accompanist, friend and mentor, Thomas Stenborg (John Halliday), who will now retire from touring. Holger himself will embark upon... | melodrama | train | imdb | After a successful tour ended in New York, the famous violinist Holger Brandt (Leslie Howard) returns to his home in Stockholm.
In the birthday party of his beloved daughter Ann Marie (Ann Todd), he feels attracted by and plays with her piano teacher, Anita Hoffman (Ingrid Bergman), who is waiting for a music scholarsh... |
tt1527788 | Ajeossi | Cha Tae-sik leads a quiet life running a pawnshop. His only friend is a little girl, So-mi, who lives next door. So-mi's mother, Hyo-jeong, is a heroin addict who steals drugs from a feared organized crime group. She pawns her camera bag to Tae-sik; he does not realize it has the stolen drugs inside. Crime lord Oh Myun... | mystery, neo noir, murder, violence, action, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0079855 | Savage Weekend | Marie Pettis (Marilyn Hamlin) has recently divorced her politician husband named Greg, who had been involved in a scandal in New York City. To decompress, she leaves for a weekend trip in upstate New York with her new stockbroker boyfriend Robert (Jim Doerr), her sister Shirley (Caitlin O'Heaney), and their openly gay ... | violence, cult, murder, plot twist, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4145324 | Bound | Michelle Mulan (Charisma Carpenter) is a 40-year-old real estate broker who has recently been promoted as a chairperson to a failing firm, even though she is fully qualified, she had only been promoted because of her father Walter's (Daniel Baldwin), status as chairman. While other chairmen want to sell the firm, she s... | pornographic | train | imdb | Cordelia with boandage.
This is a lame attempt to make a low budget 50 shades of Grey.But all it does, is remind you of those god awful movies,those so called erotic thrillers, that came in the wake of basic instinct's success, but was really just glorified softcore porn.
But the difference is those were made with youn... |
tt1087842 | Eden Log | A quote appears on the screen: "So the Lord God banished him from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he had been taken" (Genesis 3:23).The sound of water dripping, and a man gasping; flashing images are shown of a man waking up in a muddy waterhole in a dark cave. We learn later that his name is Tolbiac ... | dark | train | imdb | null |
tt0073918 | The Yakuza | Retired detective Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) is called upon by an old friend, George Tanner (Brian Keith). Tanner has been doing business with a yakuza gangster, Tono (Eiji Okada), who has kidnapped Tanner's daughter to apply pressure in a business deal involving the sale of guns. Tanner hopes that Kilmer can rescue... | cult, neo noir, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | Only Robert Mitchum could have done justice to the role of Harry Kilmer, a retired detective returning to Japan for the first time in many years to rescue his old Army friend Tanner's daughter, who has been kidnapped by the Yakuza in a dispute over a debt Tanner owes them.
Ken is a lone wolf, an ex-Yakuza who now runs ... |
tt0288477 | Ghost Ship | In May 1962, aboard the Italian ocean liner SS Antonia Graza, dozens of wealthy passengers dance to the song "Senza Fine" sung by Francesca, an Italian singer. A young girl, Katie Harwood, sits alone until the ship's captain offers to dance with her. Elsewhere, a hand presses a lever that unravels a thin wire cord from... | boring, murder, cult, violence, haunting, flashback, suspenseful, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Diver Maureen spotted a young girl on board is only the first of several strange things to occur and soon the crew find themselves in deeper than they planned.Opening with a scene so brutal and gory (made all the worse for me knowing it was coming) that I literally couldn't watch, this film had me hooked at the same ti... |
tt1349460 | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | A beaten and disoriented Nathan Drake awakes in a tattered train seat. He looks around the car in confusion, then glances down to see a bullet wound in his stomach. His head rolls back as the pain hits him, and he notices that snowflakes drifting outside the window appear to be falling...sideways. Right on cue, his sea... | violence, humor, flashback | train | imdb | Not only because of the mind-blowing presentation Naughty Dog gave the gaming-press during the E3 event, but also because of the games' predecessor with which, despite having it's share of mistakes, they've set a pretty high standard for themselves.Well, Uncharted 2 blows that standard completely to pieces.
The formula... |
tt1260365 | On the Inside | Allen Meneric (Nick Stahl) is sent to a hospital for the criminally insane to be evaluated after he brutally murders his girlfriend’s alleged rapist. He very quickly becomes surrounded by evil psychopaths, people with seemingly mild personality disorders, sarcastic guards and indifferent doctors.
In a courtyard Allen h... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1129442 | Transporter 3 | The film begins with a ship in the ocean. Two workers think that they are transporting alcohol, and want to have a little taste. They open a container and find numerous drums inside. One of the drums is knocked over. They pick it up and open it, only to get a face full of toxic waste. The captain and crew hear an alarm... | murder, stupid, violence, flashback, psychedelic, action, entertaining | train | imdb | They completely took the humour out of all the potentially very humorous moments through the more 'arty' editing, over the top score dramatic score (soundtrack definitely plays a big part of the different tone in the 3rd movie) and generally lousy script.This leads on to the pacing, which is far too slow at times.
Jaso... |
tt0385002 | Hooligans | Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood), a journalism major, is expelled from Harvard University after cocaine is discovered in his room. However, the cocaine belongs to Jeremy Van Holden (Terence Jay), his roommate. Buckner is afraid to speak up because the Van Holdens are a powerful family, and Jeremy offers him $10,000 for takin... | revenge, psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | Both ID in 1995 and last years FOOTBALL FACTORY either failed to convince or just went down the familiar exploitative road of glamorising the buzz and thrill of violence.HOOLIGANS as the title suggests depicts what these aforementioned films centre upon with the added value of having a story and characters you care abo... |
tt0078492 | The Wild Geese | Colonel Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton), a middled-aged British mercenary and former Army officer, arrives in London from Switzerland to meet the rich and ruthless merchant banker Sir Edward Matherson (Stewart Granger). The latter proposes an operation to rescue Julius Limbani (Winston Ntshona), imprisoned former leade... | revenge, murder, violence | train | imdb | A British multinational seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa as hires the much-wanted mercenary Colonel Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton miscast as chief of mercenaries) , as he travels to London invited by the British millionaire Sir Edward Matherson (Stewart Granger) to rescue the African President J... |
tt2241351 | Money Monster | Lee Gates (George Clooney) is the host of the financial TV discussion show "Money Monster". He tells his viewers about the downfall of the corporation Ibis, which has seen its stock plummet and a loss of $800 million in shares, and its CEO Walt Camby (Dominic West) is in Geneva, unable to comment on the situation of hi... | revenge, suspenseful, neo noir, comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0071824 | McQ | About an hour before dawn just outside Seattle in 1973, a man dons sunglasses and fits a silencer to a pistol. He then drives into the city and eventually to a corner where a policeman sees his car and approaches - and is promptly shot dead by the man. He then drives to a police impound lot where another officer, Wally... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence, humor, revenge | train | imdb | However having made a string or westerns in succession John Wayne was eager to broaden his horizons and undertake a new project, the project was to be a contemporary detective drama titled 'McQ'.McQ is set in Seattle and follows Lon McQ (Duke) in his pursuit of the gangsters whom murdered his friend and colleague Stan ... |
tt0349467 | Freedomland | Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore), a single mom works at a day care at Armstrong housing project in Dempsy, New Jersey. Brenda lives in the small blue-collar town of Gannon, which is connected to Dempsy, but Gannon is considered the better of the two communities. After work, Brenda walks into the emergency room with blood... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0082096 | Das Boot | The movie opens with a screen noting that 40,000 Germans went out on submarines in WW2, and that 30,000 never came back. Then you find out that it is near the end of 1941, and the German Atlantic U-Boat fleet is a mere 12 subs.Now cut to the officers of U-96 driving down a dark road by the shore. Enlisted sailors are d... | realism, anti war, cult, thought-provoking, atmospheric, claustrophobic, suspenseful | train | imdb | After being in the Navy for four years, serving with around 350 different men, and being acquainted with a further 200-300, all of them submarine sailors, I think that I can state with absolute certainty that this film is the ONLY submarine movie that ALL submariners take seriously.
Here is a movie that explores herois... |
tt0055184 | The Misfits | In Reno, Nevada, Roslyn Tabor (Monroe) is a 30-year-old woman who has just gotten a quickie six-week divorce from her inattentive husband Raymond (McCarthy). After leaving the Washoe County Courthouse, Roslyn's best local friend, Isabelle Steers, (Ritter), who is also a divorcee, takes her to a bar at Harrah's Reno for... | allegory, romantic, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | "The Misfits" is literally about four people who don't fit into society
A divorcée (Monroe) meets cowboy Langland (Gable), who is getting too old for his job
They decide to live together
A former rodeo star (Clift) and an unemployed mechanic (Wallach) join in the drifting
Huston's masculine images are stripped of t... |
tt2726560 | The Longest Ride | In the opening scene, Luke (Scott Eastward) is riding a bull and falling off of it; the commentators seem concerned as his fall seemed unsafe.Then the movie cuts to Sophia, a young college student at Wake Forest College. She is in her room at her sorority house with her best friend handing her a pair of boots and beggi... | melodrama, flashback | train | imdb | Their love story is entwined with the memories of a relationship of love long ago, told and acted by Alan Alda, who plays Ira, as he reads letters he wrote to his dear wife, Ruth.
The Longest Ride is definitely not the perfect film, and in the end is another Nicholas Spark's novel come to life.
Based on Nicholas Sparks... |
tt0069933 | La tumba de la isla maldita | When Professor Bolton [Mariano Garcia], an archeologist doing research on Vampire Island (somewhere between Africa and India), is killed, his son Chris [Andrew Prine] comes to the island to bury his father, something not easily done since the professor's body is pinned under several tons of tomb. The tomb belongs to Ha... | violence | train | imdb | DVD title: Young Hannah, Queen of the Vampires.
An archaeologist (Andrew Prine) visits Vampire Island to bury his father, who has died under mysterious circumstances.
He ignores the warnings of a schoolteacher (Patty Shepard) and, prodded by an historical novelist (Mark Damon), he opens the tomb of the 13th-Century vam... |
tt0316655 | Spider-Man | Nerdy high school student Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) becomes the amazing superhero Spider-Man after being bitten by a radioactive spider during a class field trip. His life instantly becomes different. In order to impress his redhead crush Mary Jane Watson (Catherine O'Connor), Peter enters a wrestling match competit... | good versus evil, violence, murder, romantic | train | imdb | This game is great.
This game is great.
Not only do Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe lend their voices, but the animation is amazing, the scenery of New York City is so cool, and there is lots of cool extras on the game too.
It's also kid-friendly.I recommend this game to everyone!.
Here comes the Spiderman indeed.
I pla... |
tt0053285 | Sleeping Beauty | King Stephen and his wife have been blessed with the birth of a daughter, Princess Aurora. Many travel to pay their respects to the birth of the Princess. Also attending the event, are King Hubert, and his son, Prince Phillip, who have journeyed from a neighboring kingdom. Through an agreement between the two rulers, P... | good versus evil, psychedelic, fantasy | train | imdb | When I was a little girl, Sleeping Beauty was my all time favorite Disney film.
I really miss these old Disney movies where the animation was so bright and beautiful, the characters were so lovable, and the story was so magical.
Sleeping Beauty is just a timeless story and has so much wonderful romance, I guess since I... |
tt0107150 | House of Secrets | Marion Ravinel is married to Dr. Frank Ravinel, an arrogant abusive doctor. Together they run a physical rehab spa at what was once Marion's family home in New Orleans. But a congenital heart condition forces Marion to curtail her activities. The condition is controlled with medication but she must still use a wheelcha... | revenge, cruelty, murder | train | imdb | Diabolique ripoff.
The big screen and television never tire of recycling the plot of the classic French film, Le Diabolique.
This is the second (at least) TV movie based on the Diabolique plot, the other that I know of being Reflections of Murder with Tuesday Weld and Joan Hackett from some years ago.
Diabolique was re... |
tt1428538 | Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters | Abandoned by their father deep in a forest, young Hansel and Gretel enter a gingerbread house and are captured by a cannibalistic witch. The witch forces Hansel to continuously eat candy to fatten him up, and enslaves Gretel by ordering her to prepare the oven. The siblings outsmart her and incinerate her in the fire o... | comedy, fantasy, gothic, murder, paranormal, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, action, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | I seriously enjoyed this film-- it had more gore than Mel Gibson could shake a fist at, some very cute actors, and didn't waste time with excessive back-story and details, and gave me many good laughs.Its not an intellectually stimulating movie...
In my opinion this is the type of movie to see if: 1)You love and suppor... |
tt1084950 | Rachel Getting Married | Kym Buchman (Anne Hathaway) is released from drug rehab for a few days so she can go home to attend the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt). At home, the atmosphere is strained between Kym and her family members as they struggle to reconcile themselves with her past and present. Kym's past drug and alcohol ... | violence, psychological, realism, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Now the newly colored spotlight falls on Anne Hathaway and her powerful turn as Kym in Rachel's Getting Married.The film is a slice of life piece detailing a small space of time, only a few days, where Kym returns home from a rehab clinic just in time for her sister Rachel's wedding.
That technique gave the movie a cer... |
tt2649554 | Midnight Special | The glow of a television set illuminates an otherwise dark motel room. On the news, the story of a missing boy named Alton Meyer (Jaeden Lieberher) last seen with a man named Roy, traveling in a primer grey Chevelle.Roy (Michael Shannon) pulls back duct tape covering the peephole in the door and sees that its night. He... | psychedelic, suspenseful, murder, cult | train | imdb | You start to understand that, in spite of the hype, movies are not as good as they used to be -- more like production-line white-bread, all mapped out and pre-sold into the appropriate distribution channels before the first viewer ever even gets a look -- and that in the same time period, TV has come to surpass film in... |
tt0051378 | Ascenseur pour l'échafaud | Florence Carala and Julien Tavernier are lovers who plan to kill Florence's husband, Simon Carala, a wealthy industrialist who is also Julien's boss. Julien is an ex-Foreign Legion parachutist officer and a veteran of the Indochina and Algeria wars. After working late on a Saturday, with a rope he climbs up one storey ... | atmospheric, suspenseful, claustrophobic, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | It's a mother lode textbook of how-to for noir genre filmmakers as he creates his own style from what he's learned from other masters.Malle pays tribute to the tense murder style of Hitchcock with Billy Wilder's cynicism of selfishness a la "Double Indemnity" plus Graham Greene-like, post-war politics from "The Third M... |
tt0338751 | The Aviator | The Aviator has no opening credits other than the title. The film begins in 1913 with nine-year-old Hughes being bathed by his mother, who warns him of disease: "You are not safe."The film next shows him in 1927, as a 22-year old preparing to direct Hell's Angels. Hiring Noah Dietrich (John C. Reilly) to run Hughes Too... | dramatic, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | Martin Scorcese has created a seminal work -- one that brings the harrowing, big-studio, adult movie making of the 1970's and totally reinvents and reinvigorates it for today's audience.The story traces the rise and demise of billionaire Howard Hughes as he struggles to find meaning and purpose in a life unfettered by ... |
tt0833960 | Gardens of the Night | At the age of eight, a girl named Leslie Whitehead (Ryan Simpkins) is kidnapped by Alex (Tom Arnold) and Frank (Kevin Zegers). Alex says he needs help finding his dog, then he and Frank take her to school. While driving, Alex tells Leslie her dad is their boss, thus earning her trust. After school, Alex and Frank find ... | psychedelic, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0101272 | The Addams Family | Gomez Addams laments the 25-year absence of his brother Fester, who disappeared after the two had a falling-out. Gomez's lawyer Tully Alford owes money to loan shark Abigail Craven, and notices that her son Gordon closely resembles Fester. Tully proposes that Gordon pose as Fester to infiltrate the Addams household and... | comedy, gothic, paranormal, cult, horror, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The kind who has the right look, the perfect comedic timing, and the ability to deliver lines so deadpan it almost hurts.Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, and a young Christina Ricci somehow ALL manage to deliver.
In this case, Morticia (Anjelica Huston) and Gomez (Raul Julia) are raising their family, when long lost Uncle ... |
tt0104714 | Lethal Weapon 3 | Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) are sergeants with the Los Angeles Police Department. As the show opens, they respond to a call of a bomb at the ICSI Building. The building had already been evacuated and the bomb squad had been called, but Riggs wanted to go in and check it out himself. Murt... | comedy, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, action, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0036855 | Gaslight | Why does the flame go down? Lights in the London house are from fixtures with gas flames, and when you light one light, it reduces gas supply to the other lights in the house that are close by, and the light dims. Yet no one in the house has lit any other lights! And there are also footsteps overhead, from a nailed-clo... | insanity, suspenseful, horror, murder, atmospheric | train | imdb | The movie is really about their back and forth, with Joseph Cotten making his appearance as a necessary line of safety and hope because we can't stand to see the woman go down without a fight.Most of the film occurs in an old, lavishly decorated house, and the lights and camera-work are dreamy, dripping in rim light an... |
tt0104321 | Gas, Food Lodging | Nora, (Brooke Adams) a waitress with two teenage daughters, struggles to raise them in a trailer park as a single parent after her husband abandons the family. After repeatedly skipping school to go on dates, Trudi (Ione Skye) quits school and gets a job as a waitress alongside her mother. Meanwhile, young Shade (Fairu... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | Allison Anders motivation in making this film may be obscure, but I'm glad she made it.
This, her debut feature, runs like a meandering stream through rivulets of teenage angst and single-mother frustration in small town New Mexico.
Maybe its' the Mexico bit that made this movie seem more foreign than traditional actio... |
tt0367631 | D.E.B.S. | Four co-eds are about to graduate from a secret academy, where they have been trained since high school to become spies in the paramilitary group D.E.B.S. (Discipline, Energy, Beauty, and Strength). Candidates are selected through a test hidden in the SATs that measures an applicant's ability to fight, cheat, lie, and ... | romantic, entertaining, queer | train | imdb | Yes. Slender girls in microskirts with long hair of course!For those who like tattooed trash or twerking, er, women there are 100 other films (or indeed walk around your downtown) for those who love action and dialogue and eye candy, which is the point of cinema and entertainment, here is a film you need to own on DVD.... |
tt3824386 | Lava | This Pixar short opens with a scene of a giant, male volcano in a Hawaiian bay. The music and song began. this sad volcano watches two sea turtles and other pairs in love and wishes for someone too. Then he looks to the sky and sing" I have a dream I hope it will come true that you're here with me and I'm here with you... | romantic | train | imdb | This short film alone is more than enough reason to go see Inside Out.When I went to the theater to see Inside Out tonight, little did I realize that the best part of my evening would be when they showed the short, Lava, before the feature film.
However, like Inside Out, I doubt if Lava will resonate very well with sma... |
tt2184339 | The Purge | In 2014, the New Founding Fathers of America, a totalitarian political party portraying themselves as successors to the Founding Fathers of the United States, are voted into office following an economic collapse and pass the 28th Amendment which sanctions an annual national civic tradition called "The Purge," the first... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence, satire, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1104001 | Tron | 1989: Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), now CEO of ENCOM, tells his seven year-old son, Sam (Owen Best), about his adventures in the Grid, a completely digital world within the Tron computer system that Flynn created. Flynn explains to Sam that, with his counterpart Clu (Jeff Bridges, body performance; John Reardon) - the se... | murder, allegory, violence, alternate reality, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, philosophical, prank, sci-fi | train | imdb | However, the movie starts in the the real world with a "young" Kevin Flynn telling his son the story of Tron/The Grid, and you can plainly tell the drastic difference between a real and fake Jeff Bridges.
Nevermind too that the fantastic world and great ideas aren't expanded upon some more, as well as the fact that the... |
tt1615147 | Margin Call | An unnamed Wall Street firm begins a mass layoff on the trading floor during a normal business day. Among those let go is Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci), head of risk management. Dale attempts to contact his former employer to look into his most recent and unfinished project, but an uninterested human resources staff tells ... | entertaining, suspenseful, boring, realism | train | wikipedia | Set at a Wall Street firm on the night in 2008 when the leaders realize that changes in the market will wipe them out if they don't immediately stop selling the products that have been making them all rich, the movie centers on the moral dilemma - recognized by some characters but dismissed by others - that they face i... |
tt0093066 | G.I. Joe: The Movie | G.I. Joe faces a new enemy as an ancient society of snake people known as Cobra-La try to forcefully take back the earth from those who drove them underground eons ago.
The leader of Cobra-La, Golobulus, sends out Cobra Commander and the Cobra forces to steal the Joe's BET, Broadcast Energy Transmitter, but they have f... | good versus evil, psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0036711 | Christmas Holiday | Lt. Charles Mason has a few days' leave before being sent overseas. His plans to marry his fiancee in San Francisco are shattered when he receives a telegram announcing her marriage to another man. He decides to make the trip anyway so he can confront her. But the plane is forced to land in New Orleans on Christmas Eve... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | "Christmas Holiday" (Universal, 1944), directed by Robert Siodmak, is an interesting drama with "film noir" elements, (based on the story by W.
Somerset Maugham which changes the local from Paris to New Orleans), starring two performers long associated with musical-comedy, Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly (on loan from MGM... |
tt0125022 | Heartbreakers | The movie opens with Sigourney Weaver getting married to Ray Liota. The wedding night comes and Sigourney falls asleep before the two can have sex. Ray wakes up and goes to work where his secretary (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is waiting in a tight dress. He cannot overcome his urges and starts making out with Jeniffer. Sigo... | revenge | train | imdb | Plus you get to look at Jennifer Love Hewitt a lot.Mother/daughter grifter duo Sigourney Weaver and JLH are on the verge of splitting up, but agree to do One Last Big Score (isn't it always the way) in order to get out of trouble with the IRS and part sufficiently loaded; Gene Hackman, as a chain-smoking pensionable zi... |
tt2938522 | Yonderland | An average Mom suddenly discovers there is an entire world in the back of her kitchen larder. Taken beyond the portal by a helpful elf, and a grumpy talking stick, she is soon to discover that she is the chosen one who's coming was written, and only she can save the people of Yonderland.Two of Yonderland's characters m... | fantasy | train | imdb | null |
tt0317248 | Cidade de Deus | Taking place over the course of over two decades, City of God tells the story of Cidade de Deus (Portuguese for City of God), a lower class quarter west of Rio de Janeiro. The film is told from the viewpoint of a boy named Rocket (Busca pé in Portuguese) who grows up there as a fishmonger's son, and demonstrates the de... | comedy, dark, neo noir, murder, depressing, realism, mystery, dramatic, cult, violence, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, romantic, tragedy, revenge, storytelling | train | imdb | It simply is, in my opinion, one of the best contemporary films ever made.Based on true events and characters who live in the overlooked and poverty stricken slums in the shadows of Rio de Janiero, where life expectancy doesn't reach the 30's and drug dealers are kings.The tale of the City of God, and its myriad of cha... |
tt2246549 | Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies | After his mother Nancy Lincoln (Rhianna Van Helton), falls victim to an illness that requires her to be tied to her bed, vicious and cannibalistic, 10-year-old Abe Lincoln (Brennen Harper) sees his father Thomas Lincoln (Kent Igleheart) commit suicide at her bedside. Taking up a scythe, the distraught young Abe tells h... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0058576 | Seven Days in May | (Monday, 12 May) The United States is in a state very close to turmoil. Strikes threaten to shut down the entire coal industry--and on Pennsylvania Avenue (still open in front of the White House in the film setting), two opposing forces of demonstrators meet, first in stony silence, then with taunts shouted back and fo... | mystery | train | imdb | In the story, we have Gen. James Mattoon Scott, (Burt Lancaster) (in what certainly became a custom tailored role for him) who firmly believes that the president of the United States has criminally endangered the country by agreeing to a nuclear disarmament treaty.
Kirk Douglas is a Marine Colonel that suspects the Joi... |
tt0092991 | Evil Dead II | The first 15 minutes of the film acts as an edited account of The Evil Dead. This alternate version starts with protagonist Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams (Bruce Campbell), and girlfriend Linda (Denise Bixler), driving to an abandoned cabin high in the mountains. Within the cabin plays a piano while Linda dances in underwear... | comedy, avant garde, dark, murder, cult, horror, violence, haunting, atmospheric, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, tragedy, suspenseful, sadist | train | imdb | The first time I watch it, this film really confused me a lot because I thought it was sequel to The Evil Dead but it had a lot of changes, which I love that.
On some level, the film certainly works as a nightmare that has to be replayed by our poor reluctant hero Ash. second Evil pairing of writer-director Sam Raimi a... |
tt0100802 | Total Recall | Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a construction worker in the distant future. He is happily married to Lori (Sharon Stone), but is dissatisfied with his place in life. She teases him about a recurring nightmare about being on Mars with a beautiful woman who is not his wife. On the way to work he sees an adverti... | comedy, murder, stupid, paranormal, cult, violence, alternate reality, good versus evil, psychedelic, action, brainwashing, suspenseful, sci-fi | train | imdb | Luckily, Arnold Schwarzenegger talked Carolco into picking up the project for him, with Paul Verhoeven--who'd already proved his mettle on the similarly toned RoboCop (1987)--on board as director, because this is an excellent film.While Total Recall certainly has influences, including "The Martian Chronicles" (1980), D... |
tt0118583 | Alien: Resurrection | Hundreds of years after the events of Alien³, doctors aboard a spaceship called the USN Auriga are working on a secret project for the military; they have been attempting to produce a clone of Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) working from a blood sample that was collected from Fiorina "Fury" 161, the planet where she di... | boring, paranormal, cult, horror, violence, action | train | imdb | Thinking back, the first three films all had very solid overall stories and well developed characters while Resurrection has a very solid concept but can't seem to build a coherent movie around it.
Ron Pearlman is always fun to watch and makes a good comic duo with Dominique Pinon, but Winona Ryder absolutely kills thi... |
tt0816692 | Interstellar | A group of elderly people are giving interviews about having lived in a climate of crop blight and constant dust reminiscent of The Great Depression of the 1930's. The first one seen is an elderly woman stating her father was a farmer, but did not start out that way.The scene changes. We are introduced to a farmer and ... | thought-provoking, flashback, psychedelic, action, romantic, inspiring, suspenseful, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt0066160 | La noche de Walpurgis | The corpse of Waldemar Daninsky [Paul Naschy] bears the mark of the werewolf (a
pentagram on his chest), so two disbelieving coroners remove the silver
bullets to prove to themselves that there are no such things as
werewolves. Of course, the werewolf is immediately revived and kills
the two coroners on his way out the... | gothic | train | imdb | While it is painfully slow, It place as a low budget flick and the devotion of Paul to the old-time horror feal makes this more of a labor of love, than a b-movie.
I have to agree with others that this film is much better than "Fury of the Wolfman" - in fact it's one of Paul Naschy's best films - specifically his werew... |
tt0051818 | King Creole | Nineteen-year-old high school student Danny Fisher (Elvis) works before and after school to support his surviving family: his father (Dean Jagger) and sister Mimi (Jan Shepard). After Danny's mother died, his grieving father lost his job as a pharmacist, and moved his impoverished family to the French Quarter in New Or... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0775529 | The Savages | In sunny Arizona, elderly Lenny gets mad at his girlfriend's home health care aide and writes in feces on his bathroom wall.Lenny's daughter Wendy works as a temp in New York City and is an aspiring playwright. Her married boyfriend Larry comes by and she lies that she's had an abnormal pap smear.Wendy calls her brothe... | romantic, magical realism, realism, sentimental | train | imdb | Philip Seymour Hoffman (Jon, the professor) and Laura Linney (as Wendy, aspiring playwright)are perfectly cast in the roles of the sister and brother who have to deal with their obnoxious, foul-mouthed elderly father, Lenny, played by Philip Bosco in a riveting performance.Their childhoods have been difficult, abuse is... |
tt0081677 | L'ultimo squalo | While wind surfing near an unnamed seaside community, a young man is killed by a giant great white shark with the power to make the sea explode. Author Peter Benton (James Franciscus) and occasionally Irish-accented professional shark hater Ron Hamer (Vic Morrow) realize the truth but ambitious mayor William Wells (Jos... | cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | Released in the U.S. under the title, "Great White," in 1982, the movie went as quckly as it had come into theatres at the time due to Steven Spielberg and Universal Studios having the film barred from distribution due to the blaring similarities to JAWS and JAWS 2.
The stock footage of real sharks sometimes helps but ... |
tt1238834 | Wuthering Heights | The movie begins differently than the book. It begins with Heathcliff (Tom Hardy) having a nightmare which he seems to have had many times: something enters the house, and goes upstairs to the room where Heathcliff lies, and the voice of a woman - Cathy's (Charlotte Riley) - whispers urgently: let me in! At that moment... | revenge, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0780571 | Mr. Brooks | Earl Brooks (Kevin Costner) is an upstanding business owner and family man, recently honored as the Portland, Oregon Chamber of Commerces Man of the Year (the movie itself was filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana). In his secret life, Brooks is a serial killer, encouraged by his id, manifested as a gleefully sadistic alter ... | cruelty, murder, cult, alternate reality, violence, plot twist, flashback, romantic, suspenseful, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0052600 | Ballada o soldate | A middle-aged farm woman walks through her village and gazes down a country road. A voiceover reveals that her son was killed in the war and buried in a foreign land.
On the Eastern Front, nineteen-year-old soldier Pvt. Alyosha Skvortsov (Vladimir Ivashov) single handedly destroys two attacking German tanks, more out o... | romantic | train | wikipedia | (The Red Army did not give its soldiers any time off in the ordinary way.) He tries to get back to his home village long enough to put a new roof on his mother's shack of a house, but is delayed en route, and has time only to greet her and say goodbye before returning to duty and death.Alyosha is swimming against the t... |
tt0102510 | The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear | Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) is honored at the White House, where President George H. W. Bush (John Roarke) announces that he will base his recommendation for the country's energy program on Dr. Albert Meinheimer's (Richard Griffiths) advice at the National Press Club dinner the following week. The heads of the coal a... | cult, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0059464 | Monster a-Go Go | A space object is circling Earth - it looks like a helicopter. Col. Steve Connors (Phil Morton) tries to communicate with it. They speak to a radio dispatcher. They find that the capsule of Frank Douglas, the astronaut has fallen down to Earth. Ginny (Lois Brooks) visit Ruth Douglas (June Travis), Frank's wife. Dr Chri... | cult, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1598822 | New Year's Eve | The film opens with a shot of a horse-drawn carriage, then a montage of other New York City locations at Christmas time. We hear Jessica Biels voice saying, Some people swear theres no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then how do you explain the whole world coming together to celebrate the hope of a new year?Cut to ... | feel-good | train | imdb | After his last holiday-themed box-office smash Valentine's Day in 2010, director Garry Marshall has carbon-copied the exact same formula for his latest film New Year's Eve which uses its gigantic ensemble cast to document various different relationships and states of emotions over the course of a single day and night i... |
tt0051792 | Jalsaghar | Huzur Biswambhar Roy (Chhabi Biswas) is a middle-aged aristrocrat in India. His estate is suffering financially, but he continues to engage in the indulgences that he thrives off of. He has a palace that includes an opulent music room, replete with a huge chandelier, mirrored walls and various rugs. He also loves ridin... | flashback | train | imdb | The Greatest Film You Never Heard Of. At the time I post this, only 123 people have cast a vote of any kind for The Music Room.
What a shame.Satyajit Ray is one of the greatest directors of all-time and The Music Room is his masterpiece.
Correction: The Music Room is a masterpiece of world cinema.How to describe this m... |
tt0082307 | ...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà | New Orleans, Louisiana, 1927. An enraged posse of men descend on the isolated Seven Doors Hotel deep in the swamps. They grab an artist called Schweik (Antoine Saint John), who is cloistered there. Accusing him of being a warlock, Schweik is dragged down to the cellar where he is savagely beaten with heavy chains, tort... | dark, avant garde, cruelty, gothic, murder, bleak, cult, violence, horror, atmospheric, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | A couple of years back (late 90's), I had the pleasure of experiencing Fulci's The Beyond the way it was meant to be watched...on the big screen at the Angelica Movie Theater in Soho (NYC) at midnight, in all of its uncut glory (thanks to Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Films).For a couple of hours, I was taken aba... |
tt1135985 | Sex Drive | Ian Lafferty (Josh Zuckerman) is an 18-year-old recent high school graduate. He searches for a girl online making it seem as if he is attractive and strong, although he's sweet and unassuming. He soon meets "Ms. Tasty" (Katrina Bowden) and agrees to meet her in person. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, while he lives ... | comedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | Zuckerman plays Ian, a young virgin with no luck with the ladies, a crush on his childhood friend Felicia (Crew), a jerk of an older brother (Marsden), and is best friends with an Austin Powers-esquire Casanova by the name of Lance (Duke).
Ian's character has the usual nerdy teen virgin-in-a-movie problems: falls for t... |
tt0091223 | House | A dettached house is shown with eerie music. A careless boy who hits the fence with his moped brings a bag of groceries into the home. The grocery boy (James "Jim" Calvert) calls for Mrs Elizabeth Hooper (Susan French), saying that he'll collect the money next week. the boy thinks he has heard some noise upstairs so he... | comedy, murder, violence, cult, flashback, absurd, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | I found it scary and dark and mysterious and funny and i think i've added too many 'ands' to this review already.This is about a horror writer (Roger Cobb) who is working on his next book about his experiences in the Vietnam War. His Aunt seemingly has committed suicide and has left the house to him in her will so Roge... |
tt1890342 | 476 A.D. Chapter One: The Last Light of Aries | After General Flavius Aëtius' Last Victorious Campaign against Attila the Hun, at the Battle of Chalons in 451 A.D. Once again, Order and Safety is restored within the Roman Empire. However, with increasing political power and popularity of General Flavius Aëtius, known as "The True Savior of Rome", Flavius becomes a t... | violence, murder, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | It's definitely not the best movie out there, but when you take in consideration the ultra low budget behind its creation, which according to IMDb was at only 100k, it's actually not bad at all.
According to the cinematographic quality, from the very beginning, it is obvious that it is a low budget art/indi film, howev... |
tt0978759 | Frozen River | The film is set shortly before Christmas in the North Country of Upstate New York, near the Akwesasne ('Where the Partridge Drums') St. Regis Mohawk Reservation and the border crossing to Cornwall, Ontario. Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is a discount store clerk struggling to raise two sons with her husband, a compulsive gamb... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | The town where Frozen River takes place is Massena, New York, a few miles from the Canadian border in the middle of a Mohawk reservation, and in the winter it's every bit as cold and grey as the film depicts.
'Frozen River' is a grim little tale of a middle aged woman (Melissa Leo)who's good for nothing, substance abus... |
tt0251075 | Evolution | A meteor falls to Earth. At the same moment, a young man called Wayne Grey (Seann William Scott) is pretending that his mother has burned the house down because of falling sleep while smoking in bed. The mother is a dummy. He sees the meteor fall and runs away, runs because the meteor fell right over his car, leaving a... | cult, comedy, entertaining, boring, stupid | train | imdb | While this film is far from a masterpiece, Evolution deserves better ratings than it currently enjoys here at IMDb. The cast and crew contribute superior work, and the storyline is quite inventive.
I anticipated another lame comedy and a cheap imitation of "Men in Black." "Evolution" can be compared to "MIB" in certai... |
tt0264464 | Catch Me If You Can | A pre-credits scene shows an episode of the popular game show 'To Tell the Truth' set in 1977 where three contestants appear claiming to the panelests to be the legengary Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) who impersonated an airline pilot, a lawyer, and doctor, as well as scammed people on three continents for mil... | comedy, dramatic, cult, flashback, feel-good, tragedy, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | Although it is important to remember (as with any such film) that this is only 'inspired' by a true story and not told word for word from one, the plot is fascinating and keeps you laughing, crying and wondering until the end.Frank Abagnale Jr. is an astounding and interesting character.
From the charming animated titl... |
tt0066026 | MASH | It's August, 1951, the Korean War. Over the noise of incoming helicopters carrying wounded U.S. soldiers, Colonel Henry Blake (Roger Bowen), the commanding officer of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M.A.S.H.), located just three miles from the front lines, is shouting at Corporal Radar O'Reilly (Gary Burghoff... | comedy, anti war, cult, suicidal, psychedelic, satire | train | imdb | The Robert Altman film with Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye, Elliott Gould as Trapper John, and Radar as Radar.
Script, direction, casting, music and acting are all at their very best in this satirical take on the Korean War - ironically, there is no army action played out during the movie, just the escapades of Elliot Go... |
tt0350258 | Ray | The film opens in 1948. Young Ray Charles Robinson (Jamie Foxx), the blind son of a sharecropper, boards a bus in Florida. Ray lies to the racist bus driver about loosing his sight an Omaha Beach in 1944 during the war to get a cheap ride. He travels to Seattle, Washington where he uses his unexpected talent for the pi... | romantic, historical, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0172396 | The End of the Affair | Novelist Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) is writing "This is a diary of hate" as he starts a new book as well as the film's narration.It's 1946 when Bendrix has a chance meeting one rainy night in London with Henry Miles (Stephen Rea), husband of his former mistress Sarah (Julianne Moore). Two years before, she had abr... | romantic, flashback | train | imdb | One of the great joys in movie watching lies in stumbling across films that, by their very nature, should be nothing more than clichéd, hackneyed versions of stories we have seen a thousand times before yet, somehow, through the insightfulness of their creators, manage to illuminate those tales in ways that are wholly ... |
tt1606378 | A Good Day to Die Hard | In Moscow, Viktor Chagarin, a high-ranking, but corrupt, Russian official plans to incriminate former billionaire and government whistleblower Yuri Komarov in an imminent rigged trial unless Komarov hands over a secret file believed to contain evidence incriminating Chagarin. Separately, Jack McClane, who has been arre... | revenge, humor, action, murder | train | wikipedia | The fifth instalment in the beloved "Die Hard" saga ends up as the worst of the series so far; it falters thanks to a weak characterization, even weaker screen writing, lack of worthy villains, absurd action sequences and incoherent direction.
Not even the R-rating and the return of the famous "Yippie ki yay" line in f... |
tt0299458 | All the Real Girls | Paul and Noel have fallen in love.He is a young man living in a small North Carolina town. She is a teenager who has returned from boarding school after six years.Noel's older brother, Tip, is Paul's best friend. Tip and Paul drink beers and tell stories, doing little else until friends begin noticing that Paul is spen... | romantic, boring | train | imdb | null |
tt1400515 | Don't Let Him In | What if you invited a serial killer on holiday?Handsome, charming and arrogant, Tristan has picked up Mandy on a one-night stand. The love- struck girl invites him to a rural getaway with her brother Calvin and his girlfriend Paige, an emergency room nurse.But Tristan has secrets. He needs to get out of the city. And s... | suspenseful, dark, cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | So, my interest piqued – I enjoy even below average horror films, mostly – I look at the synopsis.
And I think, "Sounds good." So I set it to record, and look forward to watching it.
Because, like my own private horror movie, this keeps happening to me.I keep recording Don't Let Him In, having forgotten that I've seen ... |
tt1361313 | The Extra Man | Louis is a young bookish prep school teacher who is relieved of his job after accidentally handling a brassiere in the headmaster's office. He soon relocates to Manhattan and moves into a room with Henry, a greying but handsome older man who is so conservative that he feels women should not be educated.Henry is a wildl... | flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0089880 | Rambo: First Blood Part II | Set around five years after 'First Blood', John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is working in a labor camp prison somewhere in the USA when he gets a visit from his former commander, Colonel Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna). Trautman offers Rambo the chance to be released from prison after being convicted by a military court a... | murder, violence, cult, humor, action, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0091653 | Nothing in Common | Happy-go-lucky advertising executive David Basner, who recently got a promotion at his Chicago ad agency, returns to work from a vacation. He is carefree, until his parents split up, after 36 years of marriage. It soon becomes apparent that he must care for his aging, bitter father Max, as well as support his emotional... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1667353 | Mirror Mirror | In the opening animated segment, the Queen (Julia Roberts) begins by telling us the story of Snow White's birth (throwing in some sarcastic comments with modern day slang). Her mother died. She was spoiled, and the kingdom was a very happy place. Her father was grooming her for the kingdom, when he met the Queen. They ... | good versus evil, fantasy | train | imdb | Snow White (Lily Collins) is treated horribly by her wicked stepmother The Queen (Julia Roberts) who is ruling the kingdom since her father's mysterious death.
I am not familiar with the actress that played Snow White or the Prince but they were both adorable and funny.This movie was entertaining for any age, full of a... |
tt0033873 | Man Hunt | On July 29, 1939, renowned British big game hunter Captain Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) slips through the forest undetected near the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's residence near Berchtesgaden. Getting the dictator in his telescopic sight, he pulls the trigger on his unloaded rifle and gives a wave. He ponders a moment, th... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
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