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tt0372784 | Batman Begins | The film's story is divided into three time-lines:-Blue represents the present-Red represents close flashbacks, which deal with Bruce Wayne 3 years earlier-Green represents distant flashbacks, which deal with Bruce Wayne aged 8 years oldIn the present and close flashbacks, Bruce Wayne is played by Christian Bale and Ra... | dark, mystery, gothic, murder, neo noir, realism, stupid, thought-provoking, cult, revenge, violence, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, action, philosophical, comic, suspenseful | train | imdb | After the quality Tim Burton films, the series pretty much went down the toilet, beginning a horrifically campy age of 'Bat credit-cards' and an armored Arnold Schwarzenegger tossing cringe-worthy puns at a Batman who seemed to be trying not to be embarrassed by the fact that his costume had nipples.
Nolan's knack for ... |
tt0051174 | Voodoo Woman | The title and credits are shown over an African village of native dancers. The opening scene shows a native girl, Zuranda (Jean Davis) participating in a ritual and placed on a table. A voodoo doll is placed on her chest. A chicken is waved over her and placed on her stomach and killed. Participating in the ritual is D... | murder | train | imdb | Let's face it, this is a pretty bad film.However if you go in ready to make fun of it you can survive the experience.Okay, you'll scream in agony a lot.African jungle fun in a dopey kind of way.Tom Conway (who spends most of the film wearing a funky chapeau) is using the local witch doctor and mad science to create a "... |
tt0037558 | Brief Encounter | In the latter months of 1938, Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson), a respectable middle-class British woman in an affectionate but rather dull marriage, tells her story while sitting at home with her husband, imagining that she is confessing her affair to him.
Laura, like many women of her class at the time, goes to a nearby ... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0088939 | The Color Purple | Celie is a poor, uneducated, 14-year-old girl living in the American South in the 1930s. She writes letters to God because her father, Alphonso, beats and rapes her. Alphonso has already impregnated Celie once, a pregnancy that resulted in the birth of a girl. Alphonso takes the baby girl away shortly after her birth. ... | romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1365030 | Madrasapattinam | An elderly English woman Amy Wilkinson (Carole Trangmar-Palmer), almost at her deathbed in London, wants to come down to Madras in search of a young man Ilam Parithi (Arya) whom she last saw on 15 August 1947 to return a thali (traditional wedding threads) of his mother, which he gave her as a sign of stating that she ... | violence, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0425112 | Hot Fuzz | Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is undoubtedly London's finest constable. His arrest record far surpasses that of any other officer, and he continues to undergo training to better his skills. This makes his fellow constables look bad, so they have him forcibly promoted and transferred to Sandford, a country village with th... | comedy, boring, murder, stupid, cult, violence, flashback, absurd, humor, action, psychedelic, brainwashing, entertaining | train | imdb | I still wasn't prepared to be quite as blown away by it as I was.This film works both as an out-and-out comedy but also as a high paced action film and also manages to showcase the directing talents of Edgar Wright and the acting of Simon Pegg (who can really *act*) The first half is a gentle build up but is generally ... |
tt1800763 | Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception | Two years after the previous game, Nathan "Nate" Drake (Nolan North) and Victor "Sully" Sullivan (Richard McGonagle) enter a pub in London to meet with a man named Talbot (Robin Atkin Downes), who is interested in purchasing Nate's ring belonging to his ancestor Sir Francis Drake. The duo accuse Talbot of offering them... | violence | train | wikipedia | And as they did alone came the new game that everyone was excited for was Uncharted 3 Drake's Deception.
This game proved to be a very great stealth based game and was more that Naughty Dog could deliver to it's gamers.Uncharted Drake's Deception is the best game of 2011.
You get to discover how great the story moves n... |
tt0185371 | House on Haunted Hill | The film is set in an abandoned asylum, the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane, where numerous murders were committed in the 1940s and 50s. The head of the facility, Dr. Richard B. Vannacutt, performed grotesque experiments and medical procedures on the patients, killing many in the process. The ... | comedy, gothic, murder, paranormal, violence, haunting, insanity, psychedelic, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | However it soon becomes evident that not all the scares are set up by Price himself.This remake of the old 1958 movie sees the plot expanded and made a lot more creepy and enjoyable.
Jensen, Diggs, Gallagher and Kattan all do well and the cast do better than the scream queens that usual inhabit these films.Overall the ... |
tt0091799 | Psycho III | The film begins with Maureen Coyle (Diana Scarwid), a mentally unstable young nun, on top of a bell tower about to commit suicide. When another nun tries to get her to come down, Maureen accidentally pushes her over the railing to her death. Another nun tells Maureen that she will burn in hell for what she did. She is ... | insanity, violence, murder, flashback | train | imdb | What the vast majority have seemed to miss is the subtlety and richness of a beautifully lensed film which provides one of the most chilling atmospheres to a mainstream horror movie.Anthony Perkins showcases just how adept he is both in front of and behind the camera in his directorial debut, and it is a crying shame t... |
tt1225822 | Extract | Cindy (Mila Kunis) is at a guitar store trying to find a guitar for her dad. The two employees are completely engrossed by her and ignore other customers. She doesn't seem to know a lot about guitars so they try to impress her by acting like guitar experts. She asks for a different color and they both go back to get it... | comedy, humor, entertaining | train | imdb | You know, inane neighbors, workplace politics, sexual frustration, male gigolos, and horse tranquilizers.Okay, maybe it's not all that subtle, but "Extract" is less boisterous than Judge's previous films while retaining their biting, sardonic banter and oddly believable caricatures.
Probably the reason the director's w... |
tt1045772 | I Love You Phillip Morris | The story begins with Stephen Russell (Jim Carrey), lying weak in a hospital bed, recalling the events of his life that led him there. He begins with his mundane life in Texas as a police officer with a pious wife (Leslie Mann) and a young daughter. Stephen spends his off hours searching for the biological mother who g... | comedy, queer, entertaining, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | If so, you should definitely go.The movie tells the true story—and trust me, you'll have trouble believing it's true—of Steven Russell, a gay man who just can't stop conning his way through life.
Ewan McGregor is equally astonishing as Phillip Morris - you'd swear you were watching the kind of unique romantic chemistry... |
tt0386789 | The Simpsons: Hit & Run | Mysterious happenings are occurring in Springfield, including wasp-shaped security cameras, mysterious black surveillance vans, crop circles, and a "new and improved" flavor of the popular soft drink Buzz Cola. A horde of these wasps descend upon the city at the beginning of the game. One enters the Simpsons' home and ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0086425 | Terms of Endearment | Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Debra Winger) are both searching for deep romantic love. The film opens with Emma's early childhood, Aurora reveals how difficult and caring she can be by nearly climbing into Emma's crib in order to make sure her daughter is breathingonly to be reassured when E... | romantic, suspenseful, sentimental, melodrama | train | imdb | Both actresses beautifully carry the film and they are brilliantly supported by fine actors like Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, John Lithgow and Jeff Daniels.What particularly appealed to me about 'Terms of Endearment' is the depiction of the mother-daughter relationship and the dynamic of it.
The shifty, funny/serious ... |
tt0059126 | Dr. Who and the Daleks | It's an ackward moment at Dr. Who (Peter Cushing)'s home, as he is about to meet Ian (Ron Castle), who happens to be the boyfriend of his daughter Barbara (Jennie Linden). She tells her younger sister, Susan "Susy" (Roberta Tovey) to tend to the door up. This is no ordinary family, as Susy had been reading a huge book,... | good versus evil | train | imdb | There was a sequel the next year but little did I know that this film would be my first experience into the world of Doctor Who. In Los Angeles, California 1977 on a local TV station, I would be able to watch that TV Serial and would remain a Dr. Who fan even after the series ended in 1989.
That particular wrinkle wasn... |
tt0386005 | San ging chaat goo si | 《新警察故事》The film begins with a highly intoxicated Hong Kong police Inspector Chan Kwok Wing (Jackie Chan) drinking one whiskey after another at a bar. Later, he collapses in an alley, and is found by a stranger (Nicholas Tse).The timeline then moves back a year, to show the heroics of Hong Kong 'Supercop' Inspector Chan... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, cult, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, melodrama, tragedy, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0367479 | After the Sunset | After the Sunset begins with master thieves Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) and his beautiful accomplice, Lola Cirillo (Salma Hayek), retiring to Paradise Island in the Bahamas after one last big score, having lifted the second of the three famous Napoleon diamonds. Their financial future is set, their career in crime a t... | flashback | train | imdb | Take Pierce Brosnan - a great showman and a guy with asense of humor, add sexy as she's ever been Salma Hayek, add Woody Harrelson in good form, top it off with decent screenplay that does not take itself too seriously or risk falling into pretentious or shallow territory and you have yourself a very entertaining littl... |
tt1572315 | Texas Chainsaw 3D | The movie opens with a montage of the original movie. We see each kill happen in 3D as it did in the original movie. It also shows the infamous final scene from the original movie with Sally riding away in the back of the pickup truck while Leatherface swings his chainsaw maniacally in the middle of the road. Next we c... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | I rushed to the theater on opening night super excited because the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D facebook page shared a lot of information about the making of the movie and I expected it to be the best one yet.
Also the makers of the movie made a huge error with the the main character's age (should be at least 40.) The ki... |
tt1723121 | We're the Millers | David Clarke (Jason Sudeikis) is sitting on his couch watching funny YouTube videos when he starts getting hit up for weed. He goes around town making the deliveries while scoring a large amount of cash. That evening, David runs into an old college friend named Rick Nathanson (Thomas Lennon). Rick mentions his life as ... | humor | train | imdb | There's nothing to it, if all you're looking for witty/clever/subtle/deep humor, and you hate sexual/stupid/slapsticky type humor...you will probably still like We're The Millers.It's not a gold mine of comedy by any means, but it did the job it told us it would do: Make us laugh and give us a fun ride.
The film just w... |
tt0085356 | Conquest | In a mystical land, a handsome youth, named Ilias (Andrea Occhipinti), embarks on a quest, leaving behind his paradise home for a fog-shrouded wilderness. From the God Cronos, he receives a magic bow to mark his passage into manhood. He enters a strange land where small tribes are terrorized by werewolf-like creatures,... | violence, revenge, cruelty, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt1216520 | Womb | As children, Rebecca and Tommy establish a fairy-tale romance. After being separated for many years, they are reunited as adults, but their passionate relationship is short-lived when Tommy is killed in a freak car accident. Devastated, Rebecca feels that life cannot go on without him. Her consuming love compels her to... | romantic, atmospheric | train | imdb | null |
tt0112527 | Blood & Donuts | Boya Zsekely [Gordon Currie] is a vampire. He can live forever...if he chooses.
Sometimes he chooses to sleep for awhile. Last time he went to bed was in
1969, when Neil Armstrong destroyed the romanticism of the moon by walking
on it. Boya stuffed his personal effects into a suitcase, buried it in a
cemetery, then wra... | cult | train | imdb | Original and charming vampire flick.
It's not every day you see something original and clever done with the vampire genre, but this does it and then some.
This is a unique, low-key, low-gore, charming little movie.
Gordon Currie is very likable (and *real* easy on the eyes!) as Boya, the vampire who went into hibernati... |
tt0059800 | Thunderball | James Bond attends the funeral of Colonel Jacques Bouvar, a SPECTRE operative. Bouvar is alive and disguised as his own widow, but Bond identifies him. Following him to a château, Bond fights and kills him, escaping using a jetpack and his Aston Martin DB5, conveniently driven up by French agent, Madame La Porte.
At a ... | cult, humor, murder, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0218817 | Antitrust | Working with his three friends at their new software development company Skullbocks, Stanford graduate Milo Hoffman is contacted by CEO Gary Winston of NURV (Never Underestimate Radical Vision) for a very attractive programming position: a fat paycheck, an almost-unrestrained working environment, and extensive creative... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | 2) It was probably "The Net 2." It looked like another computer-based movie that would be as realistic as "Hackers," but with a more obvious plot.
(This is not an anti-corporate movie, it is anti- a ~particular~ corporation, and if you can't guess which one, maybe you should go back to exploring the Kalahari or whateve... |
tt0058586 | A Shot in the Dark | Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) is called to the country home of millionaire Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders) to investigate the murder of his chauffeur, Miguel Ostos. The chauffeur was having an affair with one of the maids, Maria Gambrelli (Elke Sommer), and attacked her in her bedroom after she broke off with him... | comedy, mystery, murder, violence, comic | train | imdb | null |
tt0327679 | Ella Enchanted | Ella Enchanted is a modern-day Cinderella fairy tale staring Anne Hathaway. Ella is given the gift of obedience by her fairy godmother (Vivica A. Fox). Ella must obey any orders that are given to her by anyone. Her mother knew about the spell and did not use it to hurt Ella. Ella's mother dies and a few years later, he... | violence, action, feel-good, fantasy, comic | train | imdb | And is therefore not to be taken seriously, it should be watched for the pure enjoyment of getting away from the daily humdrum.I have seen this movie twice and both times the audience was literally buoyed by the fun of the movie, though I must say the best parts and lines come from Uncle Edgar(a deliciously evil Cary E... |
tt0120768 | The Negotiator | Lieutenant Danny Roman, a top Chicago Police Department hostage negotiator, is approached by his partner, Nate Roenick that according to an informant (whom he refuses to name), members of their own unit are defrauding large amounts of money from the department's disability fund, for which Roman is a board member. When ... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, psychological, mystery, violence, plot twist, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | When he's framed for a crime he didn't commit, against his fellow police officers no less, he knows that the only way out is to bring in an equally tough negotiator, Lieutenant Chris Sabian played by Kevin Spacey, who's from another precinct and who therefore could not have been contaminated by the bad elements within ... |
tt0109809 | FleshEater | A group of teenage kids are taking a hayride in the countryside on Halloween. They pay the local farmer to take them to a secluded area of the forest. The kids arrive and begin drinking, telling the farmer to come back after dark to pick them up. As the party wears on the group separates to find their own little love n... | violence, murder | train | imdb | I think it was just as good as The Dead Next Door(a B grade zombie flick that gets a lot of attention as being an unknown classic).
Don't expect great acting,top quality production, and whatever else most people think it takes to make a good film.
I was surprised to see one of the zombies in this movie was Bill Hinzman... |
tt1321865 | Carlos | Part one of the mini-series version (98 min.)Ramírez Sánchez, who has fought alongside the Palestinians in Jordan, carries out a series of attacks in London in 1973. He moves to Paris where the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) puts him in charge of its European branch under the command of a Lebanese... | avant garde | train | imdb | null |
tt0380599 | Oliver Twist | In the 1800s, young orphan Oliver Twist is forcibly brought to a workhouse in an unidentified town In England on his ninth birthday. He and the other resident children are treated poorly and given very little food. Facing starvation, the boys select Oliver (through a lottery) to ask for more food at the next meal, whic... | tragedy, murder | train | wikipedia | It is one of my all time favorite stories and plays and I have been disappointed with the past Oliver Twist films.
Also, finely performed were the parts of the artful dodger (Harry Eden), Mr Brownlowe (Edward Hardwicke) and of course Oliver Twist (Barney Clarke).
The cinematography is as accomplished as always in a Pol... |
tt0122690 | Ronin | In a Montmartre, Paris café, an Irish woman named Deirdre (Natascha McElhone) meets five men, taking them to a warehouse and briefing them on a mission. The men, Spence (Sean Bean), Larry (Skipp Sudduth), Gregor (Stellan Skarsgård), Vincent (Jean Reno) and Sam (Robert De Niro), are all former Special Forces soldiers or... | mystery, neo noir, murder, violence, action, suspenseful | train | imdb | Ronin returns to the gritty, rustic and deadly serious actioners of the Seventies, much like Frankenheimer's own French Connection 2.The title refers to Samurai warriors in ancient Japan who were left with no cause, or purpose, if their master was killed.
Simultaneously lonely, seductive and mysterious, it surely is on... |
tt0071402 | Death Wish | Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) and his wife Joanna (Hope Lange) vacation in Hawaii. They return to New York City, where Paul works as an architect.Joanna and their daughter Carol Anne (Kathleen Tolan) shop for groceries at D'Agostino's. Three hooligans (one played by Jeff Goldblum) are wreaking havoc in the supermarket.... | revenge, cult, neo noir, murder, violence | train | imdb | Death Wish (1974) is a classic, realistic powerful cinema action drama about a men and origins of how he become one-men army type to fight against hoodlums and criminals at night on the street of New York.
It's not the action-packed thrill-fest that movies like "Kill Bill" or "The Punisher" seek to be, instead it's a h... |
tt0410097 | Hustle & Flow | DJay (Terrence Howard) is a pimp and drug dealer who is dissatisfied with his life. After acquiring a keyboard and reacquainting himself with an old friend from school, Key (Anthony Anderson), who has become a sound technician, DJay decides to try his hand at making hip hop songs.
Key and his sound-mixer friend Shelby ... | tragedy, violence, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | When he comes into the possession of an electronic keyboard, DJay plays around with it and finds he has a talent for writing and performing hard, violent lyrics.On its face, this seems like a typical "man rises from the ashes of his hardscrabble life to experience success and then watches it all crash down around him" ... |
tt0032390 | The Devil Bat | Dr Paul Carruthers [Bela Lugosi] appears to all of Heathville as a kindly doctor and research scientist for Heath-Morton Cosmetics, Ltd. But in his secret laboratory, Carruthers is actually conducting personal experiments--one of which is a formula for an oriental shaving lotion; another is the creation of a giant bat ... | revenge, cult, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0219854 | The Kid | Russ Duritz (Bruce Willis) is blunt, demanding, obnoxious and rich; a highly sought out image consultant. He is also a workaholic, single, and doesn't stop to smell the roses. He requires the same kind of commitment from his staff, expecting them to jump to his every whim even at 3.00 in the morning.
Into his well orde... | humor, melodrama | train | imdb | null |
tt0068615 | Frogs | Wildlife photographer Pickett Smith (Sam Elliott) is canoeing alone through a swamp off the coast of Florida, taking pictures of the local flora and fauna. He notices a number of instances of pollution, documenting these as well. Siblings Clint and Karen Crockett (Adam Roarke, Joan Van Ark) are driving in a speedboat n... | cult, revenge, grindhouse film, boring, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0415978 | Me and You and Everyone We Know | The structure of the film consists of several subplots which all revolve around an intertwined cast of characters.
The film begins by introducing Richard (John Hawkes), a shoe salesman and recently separated father of two. After being thrown out by his wife Pam (JoNell Kennedy), he gets an apartment of his own to share... | psychedelic, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2278388 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | A young woman walks into a cemetery in the Republic of Zubrowka, a place said to have fallen on hard times. She passes a bench with three men singing and then approaches a memorial with several hotel keys attached to it, dedicated to a man known only as Author. The woman puts a key on the memorial and then takes out a ... | comedy, boring, fantasy, murder, whimsical, violence, flashback, absurd, humor, psychedelic, entertaining | train | imdb | This marvelous attention to detail, the way he composes his shots( tracking shots, the symmetry, the characters running in slow-motion), chase scenes, love story, nostalgia, explanatory montages, the colourful set design and the prevalent theme of every one of his films: family.
Though the tale (with Tom Wilkinson as t... |
tt0263975 | Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalim | A classic and endlessly watchable love story that never dates Inspired by the novel of acclaimed writer Cengiz Aytmatov, Atif Yilmaz adapts one of history's greatest love stories to the screen with the greatest finesse. It is said, in fact, that the French poet Aragon described The Girl With The Red Scarf as "the world... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt1024715 | Choke | Victor Mancini is a sex addict who works as a reenactor of life in Colonial America. He works with his best friend, Denny, who is also a reformed sex addict. To support his hospitalized mother, Ida, Victor cons others by intentionally choking at restaurants to get money from his rescuers.
When he visits his mother one ... | pornographic, comedy, flashback, absurd, psychedelic, romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1229822 | Jane Eyre | === Introduction ===
The novel is a first-person narrative from the perspective of the title character. The novel's setting is somewhere in the north of England, late in the reign of George III (1760–1820). It goes through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically... | insanity, cruelty, gothic, flashback | train | wikipedia | I have seen most of them, some multiple times–-both out of my deep love for the tale, and as part of the research for my novel "The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë," the true story of Charlotte's remarkable life, her inspiration behind "Jane Eyre," and her turbulent, real-life romance.Every screen version of JANE EY... |
tt0092965 | Empire of the Sun | The story begins in 1941, just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Jamie Graham is a precocious and privileged boy living with his parents in Shanghai. His father is a rich British businessman and the family lives in a mansion on the outskirts of the city and Jamie attends an exclusive prep school. Much has b... | psychedelic, depressing, murder | train | imdb | This film makes use of the talents of Miranda Richardson and gives some early exposure to the likes of John Malkovich and Ben Stiller, but young Christian Bale steals the show.
I had put off watching this until recently, I do not know why, I had not read reviews and for some reason imagined it to be a movie about a you... |
tt0066315 | Roy Colt & Winchester Jack | California, the 1870s. Roy Colt (Brett Halsey) and Winchester Jack (Charles Southwood) are outlaws and although they are good friends, they cannot get along peacefully. The opening sequence shows both of them engaged in a fistfight over who will become sole leader of their gang. Although Jack wins the fight, he falls t... | dark | train | imdb | null |
tt0469966 | Rolling | The giddy highs and crushing lows of Ecstasy use are felt by a group of people looking to escape their troubles in this independent drama. It's Friday night in Los Angeles, and a handful of young hipsters are on their way to a massive rave party at a Los Angeles warehouse. Twentyish Summer (Rachel Hardisty) is looking ... | melodrama | train | imdb | null |
tt0076759 | Star Wars | Note: Italicized paragraphs describe scenes added for the film's 1997 special edition and updated for its DVD release.An opening title card reads:'A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...'It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galact... | fantasy, murder, cult, atmospheric, good versus evil, humor, action | train | imdb | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) is a classic phenomenal arguably the best sci-fi film in trilogy away, the one that started all and arguably changed the face of cinema forever.
This movie is what it is, a perfect 10, because it takes the vision of one of the most imaginative directors on Earth, and realizes t... |
tt0113636 | Leprechaun 3 | PlotIn a Las Vegas pawn shop, a decrepit old man with one leg and hand shows up and pawns the shop owner Gupta with a statue wearing a medallion around its neck. The old man claims the statue is his good luck charm and warns Gupta to never touch the medallion it's wearing. When the old man leaves, Gupta cannot resist t... | good versus evil, cult, murder | train | imdb | There isn't even a thread of a narrative to connect the movies other than there's an evil leprechaun who speaks in ridiculous rhymes and needs his gold and will kill anyone in his way to get it.
I enjoyed where the plot was going, the Leprechaun was throwing some classic one-liners, the deaths were highly amusing, but ... |
tt0049674 | Richard III | The play begins with Richard (called "Gloucester" in the text) standing in "a street", describing the accession to the throne of his brother, King Edward IV of England, eldest son of the late Richard, Duke of York.
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lou... | murder | train | wikipedia | . .": and the movie wouldn't be right without it.The other actors, Britain's elite of the time, seem to be tyrannized by the boss; and the text should have been edited better, because if you don't know the play and practically the whole history you'll get lost.
Because "Richard III," like "Patton" or "Scarface," is es... |
tt0469916 | Hollow Man II | At a plush cocktail party at Reisner Institute, a government think tank based in Redmond, Washington DC, the guests and scientists present are enjoying themselves. One such scientist, Dylan, suddenly begins to become manipulated by an invisible force, which creates a scene to the guests and drags the scientist into the... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0316465 | Radio | Radio is a good human-interest story that was inspired by events in 1976 in Anderson, South Carolina. Cuba Gooding, Jr., who plays the mentally challenged Radio, does such a good acting job, you will believe he is the real Radio. His real name is James Robert Kennedy, and he was nicknamed Radio, because of his radio co... | cruelty | train | imdb | 'Radio' tells the true life story of a high school football coach who befriends a severely mentally retarded young man (whom they nickname 'Radio' because he loves listening to the radio so much), lets him hang out with the team, and, thereby, changes not only the boy's life but the lives of just about everyone in the ... |
tt0102926 | The Silence of the Lambs | FBI trainee Clarice Starling is pulled from her training at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia by Jack Crawford of the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit. He assigns her to interview Hannibal Lecter, a former psychiatrist and incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer, whose insight might prove useful in the pursuit of ... | dark, suspenseful, gothic, murder, neo noir, psychological, mystery, dramatic, cult, violence, horror, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, romantic, revenge | train | wikipedia | It is a powerful example of how great a movie can be when superb writers, directors, actors, and others work at the top of their craft.`Silence of the Lambs' is the story of a young FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) who is summoned to help find one serial killer called `Buffalo Bill.' by interviewing another... |
tt0465142 | American Dreamz | On the morning after his re-election, US President Joseph Staton (Dennis Quaid) decides to read the newspaper for the first time in four years. This starts him down a slippery slope. He begins reading obsessively, reexamining his "black-and-white" view of the world in a more "gray-seeming" way, and holing up in his bed... | comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0375735 | Enduring Love | On a beautiful cloudless day, a couple are celebrating their love with a picnic. Joe (Daniel Craig) has planned a picture-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire (Samantha Morton); but, as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air b... | tragedy, violence, haunting, flashback | train | wikipedia | I have not read the book, but for my money the film did this pretty well, producing plenty of good dialogue that meant the film was more about the character of Joe than it was about Jed. This is not say it is totally perfect because it isn't; the fatal attraction thing easily takes the focus meaning that some parts of ... |
tt0065073 | Taste the Blood of Dracula | NOTE: Sequel to "Dracula Has Risen from the Grave" (1968).A peddler named Weller (Roy Kinnear) is riding in a coach with two other passengers and attempts to sell some goods, but is unceremoniously thrown from the moving vehicle. Recovering from his tumble down an embankment, he witnesses a vampire succumbing to impale... | gothic, murder, cult, violence, good versus evil, revenge | train | imdb | The compellingly clever plot is well thought out to begin with (great intro) and there are some unpredictable moments, but then it does seem to follow the usual pattern of the earlier Hammer Dracula's and ends rather unconvincingly after it looked like there was going to be an exciting finale.
Most of the performances ... |
tt0387131 | The Constant Gardener | Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), a shy, low-level British diplomat and horticultural hobbyist posted in Kenya, is one to avoid making a fuss until he learns that his wife Tessa (Rachel Weisz) was found dead in the veld. Tessa has been murdered at a crossroads along with her Kenyan driver. Her doctor colleague Arnold Bluh... | suspenseful, mystery, murder, realism, dramatic, violence, atmospheric, flashback, romantic | train | wikipedia | The jittery, hand-held camera sequences added to the dramatic tension and underscored the urgency of coming to terms with poverty and disease.The romantic portion of the film was anchored by the two characters played by Ralph Fiennes (Justin) and Rachel Weisz (Tessa).
Ralph Fiennes stars as a British diplomat whose com... |
tt1448755 | Killer Elite | In 1980, mercenaries Danny Bryce (Jason Statham), Hunter (Robert De Niro), Davies (Dominic Purcell), and Meier (Aden Young) are in Mexico to assassinate a man. Danny unwittingly kills him in front of his young child, then is injured during the getaway. Affected by this outcome, Danny retires and returns to his native A... | murder, violence, revenge, flashback, action, romantic | train | wikipedia | And a story that's somewhat better than you usually find in this particular kind of film.Don't know that Jason Statham's a great actor, exactly, but he's definitely a presence and he's got others to do the acting around him, and he performs in a several action scenes that come right up to the edge without getting silly... |
tt0266489 | Duplex | Alex Rose (Ben Stiller) and Nancy Kendricks (Drew Barrymore) are a young, professional, married New York couple in search of their dream home. When they finally find the perfect Brooklyn brownstone, they are giddy with anticipation. The duplex is a dream come true, complete with multiple fireplaces, except for one thin... | bleak, cult, comedy | train | wikipedia | In Danny De Vito's "Duplex," Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore play a young couple who buy a "dream apartment" in Brooklyn whose amenities include everything two upwardly mobile yuppies could possibly want: ample space, solid wood floors, three glorious fireplaces, and, above all, a quiet environment where Alex, a budding... |
tt2140479 | The Accountant | The film begins with a man walking through a bar with multiple dead bodies on the ground, having been shot in the head. He slowly makes his way upstairs, hearing someone begging for his life. He passes more bodies, making his way to the door of the room where the begging man is. An abrupt sound is heard and the begging... | violence, neo noir, plot twist | train | imdb | It has flashes of John Wick action, but it most certainly isn't an all out action movie, however, it also isn't primarily a drama focusing on his autistic/accounting side of things; I felt they did a really good job of combining both elements into a movie that swings back and forth between the two.I thought the acting ... |
tt3294200 | The Falling | Set in 1969 in a rural British girls school, []The Falling [/i] explores what lies behind a mysterious fainting and twitching outbreak that rapidly spreads amongst the pupils. At the centre of the epidemic are intense and clever Lydia Lamont (Maisie Williams) and admired and rebellious Abbie Mortimer (Florence Pugh), b... | insanity | train | imdb | Set in a 1969 girls school, when the promiscuous student Abbie, played by Florence Pugh, accidentally gets pregnant, she begins to suffer from fits of fainting seemingly at random.
Her best friend Lydia, played by Williams, deals with the consequences after the epidemic spreads across the school with girls fainting out... |
tt0468492 | Gwoemul | In 2002, an American military pathologist orders his Korean assistant to dump 200 bottles of formaldehyde down a drain leading into the Han River. Over the next four years, there are sightings of a strange amphibious creature in the waterway, and the fish in the river die off. A suicidal man, just before jumping into t... | comedy, realism, cult, horror, violence, satire | train | wikipedia | You might begin to think as I tend to that the rest of your cinema going days will be spent avoiding such appalling Hollywood "Crap-busters" such as Godzilla or (enter current relevant movie here ;-) This film proves that adults can still be taken back...taken back to staring at the silver screen in wonder.
The central... |
tt1366365 | The Cold Light of Day | Will Shaw (Henry Cavill) owns a consultancy business in San Francisco. During the summer break, he reluctantly visits his family in Spain for a holiday. He is met there by his father, Martin Shaw (Bruce Willis), who is himself an advisor for the government. That evening, a phone call to Will concerning his company's in... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | To be honest Bruce Willis is by far the best actor and carries the film for the first 20min giving some hope it will become a good action film, unfortunately it did not.I have never walked out on a film but after a number of laugh out loud moments ( at the film ), I was seriously contemplating it.
I have to disagree wi... |
tt1188729 | Pandorum | The film begins in space with title cards appearing, referencing the technological evolution of space travel. Along with the population on Earth growing to the point of it exceeding the carry capacity and humanity has fought over the last natural resources. In the year 2174, a ship called Elysium is launched. In space,... | gothic, murder, cult, violence, horror, atmospheric, flashback, insanity, action, suspenseful | train | imdb | The acting was good without going over the top.I loved the way this movie started; guy wakes up from hyper-sleep
his memory is not fully functional, he knows things are not right and has to save the day.I thought the story was great in that they did not over-explain everything like they have in so many sci-fi movies.
T... |
tt0117951 | Trainspotting | Set in Edinburgh, the film begins with Mark Renton's (Ewan McGregor) narration as he and his friend, Spud (Ewen Bremner) sprint down Princes Street, pursued by security guards. Renton states that unlike people who 'choose life' (traditional families, materialistic possessions and financial stability), he decided live l... | dark, comedy, adult comedy, bleak, violence, cult, psychedelic, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | 'Trainspotting' is as hilarious as it is deeply disturbing, but most importantly (and unlike many other films concerned with addiction) it's one hell of an entertaining flick and doesn't drag for a second.We all know drugs are bad.
'Trainspotting' is the first movie I remember watching that actually conveyed that seduc... |
tt3231054 | Risen | Set in the year of Jesus' crucifixion, the Roman Tribune Clavius (Joseph Fiennes) is walking through the Judean Desert. He appears disheveled and overwhelmed. He comes across the home of a innkeeper and is allowed to stay for a while. Clavius begins to recount the recent events he just witnessed.We see Clavius fighting... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0110638 | Nell | When stroke victim Violet Kellty dies in her isolated cabin in the North Carolina mountains, Dr. Jerome "Jerry" Lovell, the town doctor, finds a terrified young woman hiding in the house rafters. She speaks angrily and rapidly, but seems to have a language of her own. Looking at Violet's Bible, Jerry finds a note askin... | psychological | train | wikipedia | The most outstanding feature of the film is Jodie Foster's performance in the title role- a remarkable one even by the standards of this talented actress.
Throughout the film Foster speaks only in Nell's unearthly-sounding private language, but is able to use this, together with gestures and facial expressions, to conv... |
tt0102975 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | The story opens with an immense explosion somewhere in space. Huge shock waves radiate out from the blast site. On board the USS Excelsior, Captain Hikaru Sulu (George Takei) makes an official entry in his log, noting that his mission of "cataloging gaseous anomalies in Beta Quadrant" is over and they are returning to ... | cult, mystery, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0062765 | Bullitt | Ambitious politician Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) is about to present a surprise star witness in a Senate subcommittee hearing on organized crime. The witness, Johnny Ross, a defector from the Organization in Chicago, is put under San Francisco Police Department protective custody for the weekend, 40 hours until his... | neo noir, realism, murder, cult, violence, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Calling your hero Bullitt might seem an unsubtle way to emphasise his macho qualities, but in fact Steve MacQueen plays him as a quiet man, not some wise-talking maverick: he does what he has to do, but takes no pleasure in his actions; and survives the roughness of his work not by becoming a monster, but simply by bec... |
tt0425061 | Get Smart | Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell), the top analyst of the top secret American intelligence agency CONTROL, hopes to become a field agent like his idol, Agent 23 (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), but despite scoring extremely well in the acceptance tests Max is denied the promotion because the Chief of CONTROL (Alan Arkin) thinks... | murder, stupid, bleak, violence, flashback, humor, entertaining | train | imdb | I know sometimes a preview looks pretty good and then the movie stinks (hello, Indiana Jones IV?) but this one does not disappoint.I remember enjoying the "Get Smart" TV series when I was a kid, and like some other reviewers here, I feared the remake might screw it up (even though watching a couple of 5th-season episod... |
tt0428870 | Nae meorisokui jiwoogae | A heart broken girl probably would like get the bitter past erased, but what if it happened on a 27 years old woman. In A Moment to Remember, the young couple Sui Jin and Cheol-soo struggled in combat with the fatal Alzheimer which was ruining their marriage step by step.
Cheol-soo could save Sin Jin from a bitter past... | melodrama | train | imdb | Having watched so many Korean movies and dramas that end with someone having a terminal illness (Autumn in My Heart, I'm Sorry I Love You, remember those?) I thought I'd discovered all the tearjerker tricks...
I don't know why some people think it's too fast-paced cos it is possible for people to fall in love and get m... |
tt0060865 | Circus of Fear | Clarification:- This is a plot summary for the English language version of Circus of Fear / Psycho-Circus only. The German language version may have a different ending.In London a gang of criminals carry out a daring, armed robbery of an armoured car - during which one of the security guards is shot dead. Scotland Yard... | murder | train | imdb | As almost everybody has already noted, "Circus of Fear" is not a horror movie, despite the title, the advertising and the presence of Christopher Lee (in a secondary role).
this movie proved to be a surprisingly effective spin on the then popular german genre of the "krimi": a series of films, often from edgar wallace ... |
tt2294629 | Frozen | The Walt Disney Pictures logo and the movie title appear to the Norwegian song "Vuelie".In a winter landscape, ice harvesters use saws and hooks to cut blocks of ice from a lake, chanting as they work about how ice is a powerful force that's both beautiful and dangerous ("Frozen Heart"). They load the ice blocks onto t... | cute, fantasy | train | imdb | When people speak of their favorite Disney movies, the big four of the Renaissance and films of the Golden Age of animation are likely to be mentioned.
Songs that progress the story and an essential part of it.So you have meticulously crafted breath taking animation, an affecting tale of the bond of family, romance, hi... |
tt1706365 | Feeding Frenzy | The film begins with Mr. Plinkett, a strange old cripple who owns a hardware store, meeting a hooker in a motel. The hooker strips for him, but he murders her with a secret blade in his cane. He then drags her to the basement of his hardware store leaving a trail of blood behind him.We then cut to our main character, J... | violence | train | imdb | The film hits all the notes of a B-movie horror classic.
Messy/unbelievable gore, ridiculous looking monster effects, off beat dialog and out of place erotic scenes.But the movie has some features that most B-movies don't have: Good acting, a plot that makes sense, a lot of funny moments(intentional ones), a good pace,... |
tt0368709 | Elizabethtown | The film begins with a recall of Mercury Worldwide Shoes' latest product, designed by Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom). Drew is brought before the head of Mercury, Phil Devoss (Alec Baldwin), who explains to Drew that the company is expected to lose $978 million due to the failure of the shoes that he designed.After being f... | romantic, comedy, boring, storytelling, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0427582 | El método | In Madrid seven candidates report for a job interview as protestors rise up in public protest in the street over the IMF-World Bank Summit attempting globalization of workers unions. As the group interview begins high above in a corporate meeting room, one of the candidates refuses to continue to fill out seemingly ide... | romantic, psychological | train | imdb | null |
tt0318411 | The Magdalene Sisters | Set in Ireland, beginning in 1964, so-called "fallen" women were considered sinners who needed to be redeemed. The film follows the stories of four young women - Margaret (raped by her cousin), Bernadette (too beautiful and coquettish), Rose (an unmarried mother) and Crispina (an intellectually disabled unmarried mothe... | historical, insanity, violence, cruelty, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0081207 | My Bodyguard | Clifford Peache (Chris Makepeace) lives in an upscale Chicago luxury hotel with his father (Martin Mull), who manages the hotel, and his eccentric but loving grandmother (Ruth Gordon). Clifford spends his nights with his family relaxing on the rooftop patio and spying on the neighbors through a telescope. He is the new... | revenge | train | wikipedia | In his debut performance, Adam Baldwin does a wonderful job portraying the alienated Ricky Linderman, who is seen as a hulking, violent "psychopath" by most of his peers.
Baldwin's acting abilities are impressive and he touches the heart of the viewer by showing us Ricky's emotions.Ruth Gordon is a joy to watch as Clif... |
tt0083033 | Saturday the 14th | Thursday the 12th: Waldemar (Jeffrey Tambor) and his wife Yolanda (Nancy Lee Andrews), two vampires from Transylvania, are just about to close the deal on a house in Erie, Pennsylvania when they learn that it has been inherited by a family of four who are moving in as the two vampires stand there discussing the deal wi... | cult, humor | train | imdb | null |
tt0089489 | Lifeforce | It's August 9, 1985 in the year of Halley's Comet. The space shuttle Churchill, on a joint British-American mission, approaches the comet. While investigating, the crew finds a 150-mile long alien spaceship hidden in the tail of the comet. Upon entering the alien spacecraft, the crew finds hundreds of dead and shrivell... | cult, humor, psychedelic, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1232783 | Sorority Row | After finding out that her boyfriend Garrett (Matt O'Leary) has cheated on her, Theta Pi sorority sister Megan (Audrina Patridge) enlists the help of her friends and fellow sorority sisters Cassidy (Briana Evigan), Jessica (Leah Pipes), Ellie (Rumer Willis), Claire (Jamie Chung), and Garrett's sister Chugs (Margo Harsh... | violence, comedy, murder, prank | train | wikipedia | It is well shot, the death sequences are well put together and inventive, there are the comical moments, characters you hate and can't wait to meet there makers and the who is the murderer guessing game.Don't get me wrong the film is not special, it's no Oscar nominee and has so many plot holes it is swiss cheese but w... |
tt0089907 | The Return of the Living Dead | Louisville, KentuckyThere is a new employee in a medical supplier company, Uneeda, which says that "You need it --- We got it". It provides universities with corpses so that students can learn, and for experiments. There are also dead animals' corpses, for vets. It's the 3rd July 1984, 17:30 Eastern Daylight time. In t... | cult, comedy, violence, humor | train | imdb | They are misfits and outsiders, the kind of kids who probably go to horror movies every day and make fun of the faceless, stupid, oversexed victims who populated the majority of the slasher films made in the 1980s.
The nihilistic punk rock teens can identify with the zombies, and even though it is their ultimate fate t... |
tt1007029 | The Iron Lady | A frail and elderly Margaret Thatcher is at breakfast with her husband Denis. The small change of married life comprises their sporadic conversation. We glimpse the house staff and perhaps assume Thatcher is still at the height of her powers if no longer actually in office but their attitude doesn't seem to correspond;... | historical, sentimental, flashback | train | imdb | The ones who never heard of Margaret Thatcher, and there are, two of them were sitting next to me in theater, I think they thought "The Iron Lady" was the female version of "Iron Man" but even them surrendered to the character trough the glories of this other giant of our generation, Meryl Streep..
She was called 'the ... |
tt1823672 | Chappie | Set in an undeterminate year of the near future in South Africa, Johannesburg is the first city to use a robot police force. Tetravaal is the company that develops and supplies the robots to the city. The deployed robots are called Scouts. Created by Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) these robots are completely automated and hav... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, psychedelic, revenge, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt0035640 | The Ape Man | Famed psychic and ghost hunter Agatha Brewster (Minerva Urecal) returns home to the U.S. and is met at the docks by a gaggle of press wanting to interview her. Young news reporter Jeff Carter (Wallace Ford) catches her interest though as he says he is researching a story about the disappearance of her brother, the scie... | murder | train | imdb | To be certain, poor Bela wants spinal fluid for regressing the advancing stages of apeness, and he and his gorilla friend kill with this goal in mind.
One of Bela Lugosi's low budgeted Monogram films, THE APE MAN is entertaining in a so-bad-it's-good way.
It's a riot to see poor Bela, so down on his luck by this point ... |
tt0058700 | The Last Man on Earth | Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is the last man on earth, as far as he can tell. A plague killed everyone else on the planet several years ago. He was immune to it, and can only guess why. Vampires that were formerly human attack Morgan's home every nightMorgan's days are spent shoring up his home against the vampire hor... | flashback, home movie | train | imdb | null |
tt1408101 | Star Trek Into Darkness | The USS Enterprise is sent to explore the "Class M" planet Nibiru. What started out as a mission to investigate and observe the inhabitants of the planet turns into a quest to save the planet from a volcano that could potentially wipe out the planet and all life that inhabits it. McCoy and Kirk are on a reconnaissance ... | boring, murder, violence, revenge, good versus evil, action, romantic, sci-fi | train | imdb | We watched ' Star Trek - Into the Darkness this afternoon (May 9th 2013).I am not going to reveal specific details because this film is so new that I am aware that many people still have not had the opportunity to watch it, and I do not wish to ruin their experience.Having read the points raised in the 'maddog' review ... |
tt0082817 | Nighthawks | The story revolves around the lives of two NYPD police detectives, Det. Sgt. Deke DaSilva (Sylvester Stallone) and Det. Sgt. Matthew Fox (Billy Dee Williams) who work undercover, and a terrorist Heymar Reinhardt, alias Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer). In the prologue, set in the late night to early morning hours on New Year's E... | violence, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1082601 | Fighting | Present day New York City: Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum) is a street hawker. One day while selling counterfeit goods at the corner of Radio City Music Hall, a group of young men attempt to force Shawn to relocate with his merchandise. These boys work for Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard), a ticket scalper who control... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0477347 | Night at the Museum | The movie opens in Brooklyn with Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) going to his car to discover it has a boot on the tire. He then runs to his friend to ask where his son Nick (Jake Cherry) is. His friend tells him that his ex-wife's new boyfriend took him home. Larry returns to his ex-wife's house only to reveal that he may g... | whimsical, fantasy, historical, bleak | train | imdb | Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Robin Williams, Dick VanDyke, Mickey Roney, Bill Cobbs...I'm not a Stiller fan, but in this one he was really great, he steps out of his usual shtick to really anchor this movie.
I was impressed by the trailers and I got really pumped when I saw people like Stiller, Wilson, Robins, Rudd and mo... |
tt0482571 | The Prestige | The Prestige begins with shots of several dozen top hats inexplicably strewn about in a forest.Cutter (Michael Caine), in voiceover, explains the three parts of a magic trick while performing a disappearing bird trick for a little girl. Part one is the pledge, where the magician shows you something ordinary, like a bir... | dark, mystery, fantasy, murder, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, flashback, philosophical, romantic, tragedy, revenge, entertaining, storytelling, sci-fi | train | imdb | The Prestige only helps solidify his standing as one of the landmark directors of his generation.Told in a narrative that jumps between various points along its time line, playing out like a magic act itself, the story is that of two magicians on the rise in their careers.
With narration by several characters, each add... |
tt0033787 | King of the Zombies | A small plane crash lands onto a small island and into a cemetary. The survivors James McCarthy and his servant Jeff (Dick Purcell and Mantan Moreland) and the pilot (John Archer) are greeted by Dr. Sangre (Henry Victor) and asked to stay in the mansion until a boat arrives.Jeff is asked to go sleep in the kitchen with... | comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt2025690 | The Finest Hours | This film is based on a true story.Wellfleet, Massachusetts, November 1951.Bernie Webber (Chris Pine) and his friend are meeting two ladies for a date. Bernie hasn't met this woman yet and is nervous that she won't like how he looks. When they do meet, they are instantly attracted to each other. Her name is Miriam Pent... | tragedy, romantic | train | imdb | If you have seen the movie's trailer (which as been inescapable in the theaters in recent weeks), you know exactly what you are in for: a bigger-than-life, against-all-odds rescue attempt of the crew of the Pendleton tanker, which has split in two, by a four man crew of the Coast Guard in Chatham, MA.
Also make sure to... |
tt0065979 | The Liberation of L.B. Jones | Steve and Nella Mundine arrive in Somerton, Tennessee, where Steve is to join the law firm of uncle Oman Hedgepath. Arriving on the same train is Sonny Boy Mosby, a young black man bent on avenging a childhood beating inflicted by white policeman Stanley Bumpas. Hedgepath is persuaded by Steve to accept the divorce sui... | murder, violence, melodrama, tragedy, revenge, blaxploitation | train | imdb | William Wyler had such a diverse and non-stereotypical career.
He painted on a grand canvas with "Ben-Hur," "Funny Girl," and "The Big Country," romped about with fluff on "Roman Holiday" and "How To Steal A Million," and reined in on tight dramas like "Jezebel," "Detective Story," and "The Collector", all to name but ... |
tt0096446 | Willow | A prophecy states that a female child with a special birthmark will herald the downfall of the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda. Bavmorda imprisons all pregnant women in her realm to prevent fulfilment of the prophecy. When the prophesied child Elora Danan is born, the mother begs the midwife to hide the infant and smuggl... | fantasy, cult, good versus evil, psychedelic, romantic, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | I have enjoyed it with each viewing, mainly because I just take it for what it is to me namely, just a fun, escapist fantasy flick that whisks you away to a magical kingdom where all kinds of mystical, cute, clever, and at times even sinister things are happening, all against a backdrop of remarkably beautiful scener... |
tt0074860 | Marathon Man | Thomas Levy (Dustin Hoffman), nicknamed "Babe" in the film, is a history Ph.D. candidate researching the same field as his father, who committed suicide after being investigated during the Joseph McCarthy era. Babe is also an avid runner, which lends the film its title. Babe's brother, Henry (Roy Scheider), better know... | suspenseful, murder, violence, horror, flashback, revenge | train | imdb | Schlesinger made a great action-suspense film and married it to the artistry of unique talents
Hoffman was, by then, a dynamic, young and incredibly versatile film actor with three Academy Award nominations already under his belt for "The Graduate," "Midnight Cowboy," and "Lenny." But the key to "Marathon Man" was the... |
tt0338013 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Shy, soft-spoken Joel Barish and the unrestrained free-spirit Clementine Kruczynski begin a relationship on a Long Island Rail Road train from Montauk, New York to Rockville Centre. They are almost immediately drawn to each other despite their different personalities, though both had felt the need to travel to Montauk ... | comedy, fantasy, psychological, dramatic, cult, alternate reality, thought-provoking, flashback, clever, feel-good, psychedelic, philosophical, brainwashing, romantic, entertaining, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1714206 | The Spectacular Now | Sutter Keely (Miles Teller) is a high school senior, charming and self-possessed. He is the life of the party and loves his job at a men's clothing store. However, he has no plans for the future and is a budding alcoholic, which causes his girlfriend, Cassidy (Brie Larson), who is unable to cope, to dump him. Drinking ... | romantic, realism, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2119532 | Hacksaw Ridge | The film starts with very VERY graphic, visceral images of warfare. Soldiers are blown apart, burnt alive, and getting shot to pieces. The voice of Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield) speaks about how God will not grow tired or weary of his children, no matter how bad things are. We see Desmond being carried away on a st... | anti war, violence, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | You have to make something very special to be mentioned in the same sentence as films like those and in Hacksaw Ridge, I think Mel Gibson has made one of the all time great war films.Some war films use a particular war from history to tell a fictional story, all three of the above for example however, a war film for me... |
tt0119528 | Liar Liar | In Los Angeles, California Fletcher Reede (Jim Carrey) is a career-focused lawyer and divorced father. He loves spending time with his young son Max (Justin Cooper); they often play a game where Fletcher makes his hand into "the Claw" and pretends to chase Max with it. But Fletcher has a habit of giving precedence to h... | comedy, humor, entertaining, adult comedy | train | imdb | Jim Carrey puts so much energy and pure comedic brilliance into this movie that we hardly noticed how corny and hackneyed was the plot or how wearily didactic was the moral lesson for all fathers who neglect their children for the goddess of success.
To laugh at something deeply troubling in our nature is a way of deal... |
tt0053994 | Kidnapped | The central character and narrator is 17-year-old David Balfour. (Balfour is Stevenson's mother's maiden name.) His parents have recently died, and he is out to make his way in the world. He is given a letter by the minister of Essendean, Mr. Campbell, to be delivered to the House of Shaws in Cramond, where David's unc... | cult, action, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0373926 | The Interpreter | Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is an interpreter working at the United Nations in New York City. She was raised in the Republic of Matobo, a fictional African country, but has dual citizenship. The U.N. is considering indicting Edmond Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), Matobo's president, to stand trial in the International Crimin... | suspenseful, mystery, murder, violence, intrigue, flashback, action, revenge, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Speaking of characters, I love the understated performances in this film by Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman.
I love also the moments in this film, such as when Penn's character in a country-western bar unplugs the jukebox to stop the noise of some country-pop crap then restarts it in order to play Lyle Lovett's wonderful "... |
tt2125435 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | In a forgotten yet defiant bayou community called the Bathtub, cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, six-year-old Hushpuppy(Quvenzhané Wallis) exists on the brink of orphan-hood. Her mother is long gone, and her beloved father Wink(Dwight Henry) is a wildman on a perpetual spree. When Wink is home, h... | psychedelic, magical realism, storytelling, sentimental | train | imdb | Containing outstanding performances, great cinematography, and a fantastic score, the film is just so engrossing.Hushpuppy feels her connection not only to nature and animals, but also to the prehistoric era, represented throughout the film by her interest in cave drawings and—more fancifully—prehistoric beasts called ... |
tt0079367 | The Jerk | Navin R. Johnson, a homeless man, directly addresses the camera and tells his story. He is the adopted white son of African American sharecroppers, who grows to adulthood naïvely unaware of his obvious adoption. He stands out in his family not just because of his skin color but because of his utter lack of rhythm when ... | absurd, cult, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Johnson, the white son of a black family, Steve Martin leaves home to find "his special purpose." By the end of the movie, we all know what that was...to entertain his fans the way he has!
The naive, ambitious Navin Johnson is the role that Steve Martin was born to play.
The Jerk - 4.5/5 Country: US Language: English ... |
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