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tt0104409 | Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth | After the confrontation in Hellraiser II, the Cenobite named Pinhead is trapped, along with the puzzle box, amongst the writhing figures and distorted faces etched into the surface of an intricately carved pillar - the Pillar of Souls. The pillar is bought by the rich and spoiled J.P. Monroe (Kevin Bernhardt), owner of... | good versus evil, cult, horror, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1424381 | Predators | Royce awakens to find himself parachuting into an unfamiliar jungle. He meets several others who arrived in the same manner: Mexican drug cartel enforcer Cuchillo, Spetsnaz soldier Nikolai, Israel Defense Forces sniper Isabelle, Revolutionary United Front officer Mombasa, San Quentin death row inmate Stans, Yakuza enfo... | insanity, revenge, action, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | It's clear they had a real long look at the original film and decided to keep the best pieces (the tension, the focus on group interaction, the music) but also try new things with it to attain the same feel of mystery the original was so good at.The visuals are gorgeous, the acting solid, the writing exciting.
I'm surp... |
tt0117802 | Swingers | Mike Peters (Jon Favreau) is a struggling actor who left New York, and a girlfriend behind, to find success in L.A. The move caused his girlfriend of six years to split up with him six months earlier and left him feeling alone and heartbroken.In the opening scenes of the film, Mike talks about his situation with his fr... | comedy, neo noir, cult, romantic, entertaining, storytelling | train | imdb | null |
tt1204342 | The Muppets | Walter, a puppet, lives with his brother Gary (Jason Segel), a human, in Smalltown. The two became Muppet fans when they watched The Muppet Show in their youths. As adults, Walter and Gary continue to live together in their home town of Smalltown. Gary plans a vacation to Los Angeles with his girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams... | comedy, cute, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0311519 | Mies vailla menneisyyttä | *************************************SPOILERS***********************As a non Finnish speaker I watched this with Finnish Subtitles to Finnish dialogue. This therefore is my limited understanding of the movie.A Man is attacked by three younger men. The attack is vicious and the first man is robbed and left for dead. He ... | comedy, boring, dramatic, violence, atmospheric, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0120885 | Wag the Dog | The movie starts with a scandal at the White House where the unseen and nameless The President of the USA is accused of fondling a young girl scout visiting the Oval Office just a few weeks before Election Day. Being the third party observers, we know the truth, he's guilty.Conrad Brean (Robert DeNiro), a notorious pol... | entertaining, comedy, satire, murder | train | imdb | And he does that very well in this movie; at the beginning, we may think Conrad Brean and Stanley Motss are real sleazebags, but at the end, while we deplore the action they take of faking a war just for political ends, we can't quite dismiss them either.Of course, a lot of that has to do with the performances of Rober... |
tt0080491 | Caligola | Pagan Rome, 37 A.D. Prince Gaius Germanicus "Caligula" (Latin term for 'Little Boots') (Malcolm McDowell) the 24-year-old young heir to the throne of the syphilis-ridden, 77-year-old, half-mad Emperor Tiberius (Peter O'Toole), thinks he has received a bad omen after a blackbird flies into his room early one morning. Sh... | violence, cult, murder, sadist | train | imdb | A lot of people say the colors are "dark" and "washed out", but I think that lends to the grittiness of the film.Danilo Donati's sets are big and well designed, it kind of shocks you to see someone getting a blow job in them.
Malcolm McDowell gives a great performance as the young Caligula who kills his way to the thro... |
tt0029947 | Bringing Up Baby | David Huxley (Cary Grant) is a mild-mannered paleontologist. For the past four years, he has been trying to assemble the skeleton of a Brontosaurus but is missing one bone: the "intercostal clavicle". Adding to his stress is his impending marriage to the dour Alice Swallow (Virginia Walker) and the need to impress Eliz... | comedy, romantic, humor, psychedelic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | "Bringing Up Baby" is a film I unconditionally love; it is so utterly sublime a comedy that I was truly sighing, awed, 'it can't get better than this...' at many points.
There is a beauty in the photography and simple choice of perspectives and angles that matches the There is not one actress in the annals of film who ... |
tt2120120 | Pixels | In the summer of 1982, a young Sam Brenner rides his bicycle to the home of his best friend Will Cooper to tell him the new arcade in town is open. They spend the whole day there, with Brenner dominating almost every game while Cooper excels at the crane machine and wins a Chewbacca mask. Seeing how awesome Brenner is ... | good versus evil, psychedelic, satire, flashback | train | imdb | Okay, I am actually a little upset I listened to IMDb on this and didn't see it when it first came out.This is my ideal type of movie, a Sci-Fi - Comedy, that is family appropriate.This movie was very well made, graphics were great, and the story line and characters were fun to watch and kept you involved throughout th... |
tt0804497 | It's Kind of a Funny Story | After contemplating suicide by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge, 16-year-old Craig Gilner (Keir Gilchrist), decides to go to the hospital to seek help. Craig tells Dr. Mahmoud (Aasif Mandvi) that he needs immediate help to which Dr. Mahmoud registers Craig for a one week stay in the hospital's psychiatric floor.[2][3] A... | psychedelic, entertaining, sentimental | train | imdb | Fortunately, he soon makes friends with an affable patient named Bobby (Zach Galifianakis) and casts his eye on a lovely young female Noelle (Emma Roberts), who bears telltale scars on her wrists.
You know what I would do just to be you, for just a day?"Despite the fact that most critics were underwhelmed with It's Kin... |
tt0100107 | Maniac Cop 2 | A man stumbles into a convenience store and shows the store clerk his shotgun and demands he empty the safe and cash register. The clerk says that he does not know the combination to the safe and he hits the silent alarm on the floor. With the register nearly empty, the potential thief forces the clerk to scratch off l... | cult, revenge, grindhouse film, murder, flashback | train | imdb | The film starts off with a recap of what happened at the end of the original Maniac Cop and this leads to the police force believing that Matt Cordell drowned and his body got washed away.
So, it's up to detective Sean McKinney and police psychologist Susan Riley to put a stop to this macabre madness."Maniac Cop 2" is ... |
tt0254455 | Lucía y el sexo | Lucía (Paz Vega), a waitress, is talking on the phone with her depressed writer boyfriend Lorenzo (Tristán Ulloa) after they had a nasty argument, where, afterward, she walked out. Since he's been in a 'funk' for a while, she's worried and goes home to console him. Finding an empty apartment, Lucía is frantic. She rece... | psychedelic, flashback | train | wikipedia | The title, I believe, refers to Lorenzo's past (The Sex and what happened as a result of it), and his present (Lucia).
I would have given this film a 10 if it hadn't been for the fact that the most pivotal scene is shot in an incredibly vague manner, which left me confused as to what had actually happened until much la... |
tt0472181 | The Smurfs | Sophie and her brother Sam discover that the doll their father brought home from Belgium is actually a living and breathing smurf. It's not just any smurf - Its Clumsy Smurf! Sophie tries to get her mom and dad to embrace Clumsy and a family member, but ultimately she realizes what he really wants is to reunite with hi... | good versus evil | train | imdb | I've seen him get restless before in the theatre, this one he was more or less falling asleep.When we got to the scene where Gargamel peed in the restaurant i was ready to check out, but i would brave it if my son was having a good time.Wonder of wonders, at that point he turned to me and said "Dad, i have to go to the... |
tt0114287 | Rob Roy | The story is set in early 18th Century Scotland. A group of Scots highlanders are tracking another clan who have stolen cattle from a lord. The protection of the lord's property, including his livestock, is managed by Robert Roy MacGregor, the man leading the trackers. One of his men, Alan McDonald, tells Rob and the r... | murder, cult, violence, atmospheric, action, romantic, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0378194 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | During the opening credits, we see the Bride's bloodied face again and hear her say "Bill, it's your baby." In the first scene, she drives an open Volkswagen Karmann Ghia and says there is only one left to kill (which tells us she believes that Elle is dead). She is on her way to Bill.Chapter 6: The Massacre at Two Pin... | comedy, boring, neo noir, murder, mystery, western, dramatic, cult, violence, atmospheric, flashback, psychedelic, action, philosophical, romantic, tragedy, revenge, storytelling | train | imdb | null |
tt0064949 | Scream and Scream Again | A London jogger suddenly collapses on the sidewalk and awakens in a
hospital where he finds that his right leg has been amputated. Shortly
thereafter, his left leg is amputed, followed by the amputation of both
arms. He can get no information from his zombielike nurse. Meanwhile,
somewhere in a Gestapo-like country in ... | murder, sadist, flashback | train | imdb | Believe it or not, all these seemingly unrelated plotlines eventually come together, and it's a wacky ride all the way.The biggest disappointment for me, is the scarce screen time of headliners Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
But, by the end of the film, most everything fits together quite nicely as a... |
tt1706687 | Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure | [Adapted from the trailer] The United States of America is the richest, freest nation the world has ever seen. But nowadays all signs point to the reality of a sickness in the soul of our country, and history tells us that we're headed for disaster if we don't change our course now.The set of ideas that is being advanc... | christian film | train | imdb | Kirk Cameron, in this new attempt at Christian revisionism, tried to suggest that the founders of America (and I don't mean the puritan settlers) wanted a theocracy, which is what the the Puritan community was.
Puritans believed teenage boredom and old feuds were a part of witchcraft, our forefathers did not.Then there... |
tt0067490 | The Night Stalker | From a tape made by reporter Carl Kolchak Darren McGavin]. "This is the story behind one of the greatest manhunts in history. Maybe you read about it--or rather what they let you read about it probably in some minor item buried somewhere on the back page. However, what happened in Las Vegas between May 16 and May 28 of... | murder | train | imdb | Las Vegas is a town where the unusual is considered normal.However when former top reporter Carl Kolchak played by Darren McGavin meets with police reluctance while covering the murder of a showgirl his curiosity is aroused.Suddenly there is a series of murders apparently committed by the vampire killer.The closer Kolc... |
tt2614684 | '71 | Gary Hook, a new recruit to the British Army, takes leave of his much younger brother Darren. Hook's platoon is sent to Belfast in 1971 in the early years of the Troubles. Under the leadership of the inexperienced Second Lieutenant Armitage, his platoon is deployed to a volatile area where Catholic Nationalists and Pro... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | It's about Private Hook, (a superb Jack O'Connell), a young British solider who, on his first day of active service in Belfast, is separated from his platoon and forced to go on the run in a totally alien landscape where he is seen as 'the enemy' to be hunted down and killed.
With an assured performance by rising star ... |
tt0118929 | Dark City | John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens in a hotel bathtub, suffering from amnesia. He receives a phone call from Dr. Daniel Schreber (Kiefer Sutherland), who urges him to flee the hotel to evade a group of men who are after him. During the phone talk, Murdoch discovers the corpse of a brutalized, ritualistically murdered ... | comedy, dark, gothic, murder, neo noir, fantasy, thought-provoking, cult, alternate reality, violence, atmospheric, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, philosophical, claustrophobic, suspenseful, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | (People who have seen the Matrix BEFORE this movie MUST see it, it is very similar in these three respects).I gave it a 9 out of 10 ONLY because I thought the ending fight scene was a bit weak.
Great for a fight scene, but because the rest of the movie focuses on John Murdoch's quest to discover his past and the eerie,... |
tt0120749 | Mercury Rising | A hostage situation in South Dakota: FBI Agent Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis), as the inside man, protects a teenage boy named James while trying to talk bank robber Edgar Halstrom (Richard Riehle) into surrendering. However, the FBI task force moves in, and in the ensuing firefight James and the robbers are killed. Jeffr... | violence, neo noir, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0410297 | The Lake House | Kate Forster is a Doctor in 2006, living alone in Chicago. She has moved into an apartment after living in a house built next to a scenic lake in a secluded countryside area. She writes a letter to the next tenant asking that they forward any mail, and that the paw prints and the box in the attic have always been there... | romantic, mystery | train | imdb | null |
tt0759364 | America's Got Talent | Tuesday night brings a whopping three hours of "America's Got Talent," including the final hour of auditions and a two-hour run through the Vegas round.First, 8-year-old Avery and the Calico Hearts, a singing trio, pile on the saccharin with a rendition of Justin Bieber's "Baby." The judges all enjoy it, even Piers, bu... | non fiction | train | imdb | Americas Got Talent (AGT) has proved to be an influential show for some who seek to show off their talent on live television, what with having genuinely great acts on their show.
It feels like you're watching some beautiful cake get iced over a thousand times than necessary; the show has its cheek turned away from tale... |
tt0053137 | On the Beach | The year is 1964. The nuclear war that was waged in the northern hemisphere has ended. An American nuclear submarine, The Sawfish, at sea in the mid-Pacific makes its way down the coast of Australia where there appear to be survivors. Docking at the port of Melbourne, the crew, commanded by Lt. Commander Dwight Towers ... | anti war | train | imdb | In retrospect, it may be that Julian was wrong: it may have indeed been the very presence of these terrible weapons that prevented a third world war.In any case, that aspect of the story never overshadows the movie's underlying theme, which is, rather, how each of us views the sum of our lives as our mortal end approac... |
tt0064211 | Daughter of the Mind | Professor Samuel H. Constable is shown leaving the cemetery where his ten-year-old daughter Mary is buried. She was killed in a car crash several months earlier. He was injured in the crash and spent several nights in the hospital.On the way home, Constable sees an apparition of his daughter standing in the road. He sw... | paranormal | train | imdb | Scientist Ray Milland believes he's seeing and speaking to his late young daughter in "Daughter of the Mind," also starring Gene Tierney and Don Murray.
I suspect this was a pilot for a series on psychic phenomenon that was to star Murray; hence the "guest starring" credits for Tierney and Milland.This is an intriguing... |
tt0102585 | Omen IV: The Awakening | Virginia congressman Gene York (Michael Woods) and his attorney wife Karen (Faye Grant), after numerous failed attempts to have children, go to a nun-owned orphanage where they adopt a child that they name Delia from a nun named Sister Yvonne (Megan Leitch). At first, other than Delia scratching Karen and the later hea... | paranormal, good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Previous and much better versions are the following : The immensely superior original 'Omen'(Gregory Peck, Lee Remick)by Richard Donner; 'Damien'(William Holden, Lee Grant) by Don Taylor; 'Final conflict'(Sam Neil and Tisa Harrow) by Grahame Baker.
but, chances are, you're not going to get an auteur at the wheel of a T... |
tt0261392 | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | The film opens in the early 1970s in front of the Quick Stop Groceries and the Record Rack stores in Leonardo, NJ. A kindly mother leaves a stroller with her toddler son, Bob, in front of the store while she goes inside to buy food. She gives the boy a baseball cap that she puts on his head with the visor turned backwa... | cult, humor, satire, comedy, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0031580 | The Little Princess | Sara's army captain father must put her in boarding school because he has been ordered to the Boer war. He brings her to the "best" girls' school in England, but the owner, Miss Minchin only accepts her after he emphasizes his financial and social status. He instructs Miss Minchin that he will reimburse her for additio... | melodrama | train | imdb | A small child, affectionately known as THE LITTLE PRINCESS, must endure great hardship after her father is killed in the Boer War.Shirley Temple had her last great box-office triumph in this splendid Technicolor adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett childhood classic.
With wrinkled brow & tremulous lip or bouncing ... |
tt0365514 | Moon Child | In the year 2014, Japan suffers a major economic collapse and people are forced to emigrate to mainland China. The movie introduced the story with two vampires, Kei and Luka, of whom the first was probably made a vampire by the former, and in later Kei's flashback is revealed that Luka decided to end his existence by w... | tragedy, revenge, murder, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | I did not expect the performances of Gackt and Hyde to be as well done as they were, nor did I expect them to be cast in such an artistic well-developed movie with enough plot to keep you interested and enough diversity to make it original.
The two stars of the movie Moon Child Gackt (ex Malice Mizer, solo artist) and ... |
tt0107688 | The Nightmare Before Christmas | Pumpkin king Jack Skellington (speaking voice Chris Sarandon, singing Danny Elfman), an elegantly attenuated skeleton, has delivered another scary Halloween. But he receives the adulation of Halloweentown with no enthusiasm -- something is missing from Jack's life and he's tired of doing the same old Halloween thing ye... | comedy, dark, gothic, fantasy, whimsical, cult, horror, atmospheric, psychedelic, humor, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt1258197 | Exam | Eight candidates for a top job at a mysterious company are gathered in a windowless room with two rows of desks. They have passed previous requirements not mentioned in the film. They each choose a seat and upon each desk is a piece of paper which identifies them as, "Candidate 1", "Candidate 2", etc. The invigilator, ... | violence, psychological, claustrophobic, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0485947 | Mr. Nobody | In 2092, humanity has conquered mortality through the endless renewal of cells. The world watches in fascination as the 118-year-old Nemo Nobody, the last mortal on Earth, edges towards death. Curious to know of life before quasi-immortality, they interview Nemo. Dr. Feldheim, a psychiatrist, uses hypnosis to help Nemo... | murder, cult, alternate reality, psychedelic, philosophical, romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | There were laugh out loud moments during a movie with themes concerning choice, destiny, and metaphysics.I was enamoured by the love story, it was feel good without being Hollywood.The visuals were amazing.
Any movie with "Mr. Sandman" and "Where is my mind?" is alright by me.The movie was extremely imaginative, origin... |
tt1323592 | Cornered | Death works in mysterious ways.Some reach their end peacefully.Others die horribly, in a frantic fight for survival. Cornered is a suspense driven thriller set in present day Los Angeles.The pace of the film is swift. The plot is drenched in tension.It is fueled by witty dialogue, and hip connotations. THE PLAYERS A... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0162973 | Get Real | A 10/10 must see/have gay film! Meet Steve - a troubled teen coming to terms with his sexuality. Taunted & bullied, fate entwines him with John the school jock who, surprisingly, is having similar feelings. So their story unravels as they try to lead double lives as what society expects of them and how they are with on... | queer | train | imdb | What I didn't expect was how true to life this movie really is!"Get Real" is the story about a 16-year old gay teenager named Steven Carter (played by the boyishly adorable Ben Silverstone) who has known about himself since he was 11-years old and is perfectly fine with it.
Only his best friend Linda (Charlotte Brittai... |
tt0241303 | Chocolat | Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche), an expert chocolatier, drifts across Europe with her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol), following the north wind. In the beginning of the Lenten season in 1959, "fifteen years after the War," they travel to a quiet French village that closely adheres to tradition, as led by the villag... | cute, violence, magical realism, flashback, feel-good, psychedelic, romantic, historical, storytelling | train | wikipedia | I don't think it's any more predictable than an average Hollywood film; I find most action films much more predictable and shallow.The most beautiful thing about the movie (as about Hallström movies generally) is the wise, warm-hearted story about things that matter: love, sincerity, tolerance, standing up for the thin... |
tt0069289 | Snoopy Come Home | Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang go to the beach for the day. Once there, Snoopy promises to go back to the beach the next day to meet up with Peppermint Patty. After Charlie Brown has gone home to play Monopoly with the others, he notices Snoopy is late and remarks he is tired of Snoopy being late. The next day... | psychedelic, cute | train | wikipedia | I was crushed, especially by the scene at the farewell party for Snoopy, when Charlie Brown goes to the podium and tries to find the words to say goodbye to his dog, his friend.
I was choking up really bad, having had a collie for some years at that time, I could not fathom not having him around, so it hit home.Now whe... |
tt0072979 | Female Trouble | Dawn Davenport (Divine) is a rebellious bad-girl teenager who smokes cigarettes, uses hairspray, and doesn't care about school. Dawn and her two best friends, Chicklette (Susan Walsh) and Concetta (Cookie Mueller), discuss the upcoming Christmas holiday. All three of them intend on using Christmas simply for financial ... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, insanity, psychedelic, absurd, satire, queer | train | imdb | "Female Trouble" is one of John Water's best movies, probably the best of his pre-respectable (read: pre-"Hairspray") flicks.
Posessing a much more strong (and bizarre) plotline than the also brilliant "Pink Flamingos", "Female Trouble" documents the exploits of Dawn Davenport, a horrible juvenial delinquent turned cri... |
tt0082334 | The Entity | The movie begins as single mother Carla Moran (Barbara Hershey) is violently raped in her home by an invisible assailant. A subsequent episode of poltergeist activity causes her to flee with her children to the home of her friend Cindy (Margaret Blye).
They return to Carla's home and the following day, Carla is nearly ... | good versus evil, paranormal, cruelty, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0124298 | Blast from the Past | In 1962, Dr. Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken), an eccentric scientist who, like so many people at the time, thinks that a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is imminent, has built a large, fully functional fallout shelter in his backyard deep underground. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, thinking the c... | cult | train | wikipedia | Seeing the past come alive in the form of music, baseball cards and even the furniture makes you feel like a window has been opened and you're actually watching family life in the early 60s.
See the movie to find out why, but Brendan Fraser's crazy dad has had him underground for thirty years in an elaborate bomb shelt... |
tt0366721 | Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei | The film opens with a plan -sequence reminiscent of the one at the beginning of The Travelling Players. A large group of people carrying suitcases and trunks walks from a sea shore to a foreground river bank. At the head of the group walks its leader and spokesman, Spyros (Vassilis Kolovos) and his wife, Danae (Thalia ... | romantic, flashback | train | imdb | Theo Angelopolous, the Greek director, undertakes the colossal task of putting in a film some thirty years of history in his country.
The director has a poetical way to present his story, which was written in collaboration with some of the best minds of the business, namely, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Silvani and Petros Ma... |
tt0403702 | Youth in Revolt | Nick Twisp, a 16-year-old teen, who is forced to spend a week in "cabin" in a trailer park which isn't a cabin, it's a trailer. While staying the week there, Nick meets the girl of his (wet) dreams, Sheeni. Nick, a lonely virgin, who hasn't kissed, held hands, or had sex with a girl. Sheeni and Nick suddenly become int... | romantic, alternate reality, entertaining, flashback | train | imdb | That is exactly what happens to Nick Twisp (Michael Cera), but instead of meekly accepting his fate like a good little nerd he decides to fight back by creating a persona his French-loving would-be girlfriend cannot resist, Francois Dillinger.
Don't be fooled that this is movie for teens only; there is lot more here go... |
tt1555149 | Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora é Outro | Captain Roberto Nascimento (Wagner Moura), top member of BOPE, narrates the film, briefly explaining how the police and the drug lords of Rio de Janeiro cooperate with each other (policemen collect periodic bribes and drug lords are left free to operate) in the 1990s.
In 1997, in medias res, officer Captain Oliveira (M... | suspenseful, realism, murder, thought-provoking, violence, flashback, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0081505 | The Shining | Former teacher and recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) interviews for a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel in an effort to rebuild his life after his volatile temper lost him his teaching position. The hotel manager, Mr. Stuart Ullman (Barry Nelson), warns Jack that he and his family will be snowbound ... | dark, psychological, mystery, murder, paranormal, cult, horror, haunting, atmospheric, good versus evil, insanity, psychedelic, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0060438 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Set in Rome during the first century A.D. during the early years of the Roman Empire, the film opens with one of the musicals most famous songs, "Comedy Tonight," performed by Pseudolus. The lyrics tell the audience they will see some familiar things, others peculiar, some appealing, others appalling, some gaudy, and d... | historical fiction | train | imdb | Some people complain that Lester altered the original show too much, cutting songs and dialogue alike, but this is the only way people can see Zero Mostel's fantastic -- and frenetic -- performance, so count your blessings.
And the fond look at slapstick (speeded up film, drag, pratfalls, etc.) is especially apt here c... |
tt0140352 | The Insider | In Lebanon, Hezbollah militants escort producer Lowell Bergman (Pacino) to Hezbollah founder Sheikh Fadlallah, where Lowell convinces him to be interviewed by Mike Wallace (Plummer) for CBS show 60 Minutes. In Louisville, Kentucky, Jeffrey Wigand (Crowe) packs his belongings and leaves his Brown and Williamson office, ... | mystery, dramatic, suspenseful, intrigue | train | imdb | null |
tt0075651 | Schock | Dora (Daria Nicolodi), is a woman who has suffered a nervous breakdown following the death of her husband Carlo, a drug addict who abused her. Carlo died under mysterious circumstances; he apparently committed suicide by throwing himself off a boat while at sea. After an year-long extended stay in a sanatorium, Dora is... | revenge, psychedelic, violence, romantic | train | imdb | I suppose it's because Mario Bava's direction was not flashy and concentrated more on telling his story and keeping us guessing.Finally, my enjoyment of this film has encouraged me to seek out Bava's other films and that can only be a good thing..
In Shock, we do know for certain that a mother, Dora, her cute little so... |
tt0251031 | Series 7: The Contenders | Lampooning the tendencies of 'reality television' to become ever more shocking, 'Series 7: The Contenders' is a movie of an imagined reality show in which the contestants, tracked by cameramen, must kill to win.Selected at random and seemingly with government approval, the contestants are real people, dropped into a re... | murder, cult, absurd, satire, melodrama, romantic, home movie | train | imdb | Like `Survivor,' the name of the game here is, well...survival; but with one significant difference from any of the shows you've seen on television: The winner in `Series 7, The Contenders,' written and directed by Daniel Minahan, will be the only one from among the contestants still standing at the end of the show, m... |
tt0399327 | The Man | A man named Andy Fiddler (Eugene Levy) is in his bathroom, preparing a speech. He works for a dental supply company, and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He will soon be giving a speech to investors in Detroit, and is very nervous.In Detroit, ATF agent Derrick Vann (Samuel L. Jackson), whose partner was recently murdered... | comedy, action | train | imdb | null |
tt0075148 | Rocky | Philadelphia Pennsylvania, home to the number one underdog fighter, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stalone). The date is November 25, 1975, Rocky is fighting Spider Rico in a prize fight at a local church arena. The fight goes smooth through the first couple of rounds. Before beginning the next round, Rocky and Spider get up ... | dramatic, cult, violence, melodrama, inspiring, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt3643216 | Batman Beyond | Terry fly's into the Batcave to find Bruce Wayne on the floor, and the computer screen damaged. Terry says that Bruce is hurt which Bruce reply's that he is just groggy. Terry then asks Bruce who caused the damage. Bruce says it was him. A Batman clone beats up Terry. Terry eventually gets a hit on the Batman clone, re... | sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0469111 | I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer | In a small Colorado town, Amber Williams (Brooke Nevin), her friends Zoe (Torrey DeVitto) and Roger (Seth Packard), and her boyfriend Colby Patterson (David Paetkau) stage a prank at the town carnival, with Roger faking the return of the "Fisherman" killer. However, their friend P.J. Davis (Clay Taylor) is accidentally... | violence, murder | train | imdb | Our lead girl gets 52 text messages which say *shock* "I know what you did last summer." She decides to group up again and investigate and then one by one they are all killed off.I'm not going to spoil the revelation of who the killer is, but let me tell you now, it is without a doubt the stupidest twist you will ever ... |
tt0108188 | Sonatine | Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo-based yakuza enforcer who has grown tired of gangster life. He is sent by his boss to Okinawa, supposedly to mediate a dispute between their allies, the Nakamatsu and Anan clans. Murakawa openly suspects the assignment is an attempt to have him removed and even beats up one of his colleag... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0758786 | Stuck | Thomas Bardo (Stephen Rea) has been down on his luck ever since the company he worked for had closed. He has been without a job, his unemployment had run out, and he seems to be lost in the system as he tries finding a new job. He is forced out of his ghetto apartment by a heartless landlord (Wayne Robson), and he take... | cult, violence | train | imdb | Is fear an acceptable reason for selfishness, brutality and a headlong flight from responsibility?Gordon deals admirably with this dilemma using a crafty balance of horror and humor in a bloody film about a hit & run driver who becomes inhuman while the victim remains human and humane through relentless pain, shock, & ... |
tt0046264 | Sadko | Sinbad the sailor, known for sailing the world and seeing many wondrous and magic things, returns to the city of Kovasahn, with nary a piece of gold to his name. Sinbad soon sees that many of the people of the city are poor and hungry, while the city's merchants are still quite rich. Sinbad proposes that the merchants ... | fantasy | train | imdb | The original Russian version with subtitles is one you should consider watching than the English dubbed version of Sadko called the ''magic voyage of Sinbad''.
The result can be devastating if you've already seen the original (Sadko 1952).There are good and bad comments about this film, thanks to the re-dubbed version.... |
tt0090264 | A View to a Kill | James Bond (Roger Moore) is sent to Siberia to locate the body of 003 and to recover a microchip. Upon doing so, he is ambushed by Soviet troops but flees in a submarine built to resemble an iceberg.After Bond returns to England a week later, Q (Desmond Llewelyn) has the microchip analysed and informs M (Robert Brown),... | violence, cult, murder, sadist | train | imdb | It is very underrated and I know that Roger Moore him self has stated that A View to a Kill is his at least favorite James Bond film because Christopher Walken was machine gunning everyone.
He did 100% off him and he is acting was decent it wasn't so much goofy or terrible in my opinion.A View to a Kill is the 14th ent... |
tt0083254 | Under the Rainbow | It is 1938, and the USA is still gripped by the great economic depression. A corrugated iron barn surrounded by mud and puddles, in the middle of a fallow field somewhere in Kansas, is serving as a refuge and hostel for a community of the destitute, homeless and unemployed, as well as a post office and bus station.Dimi... | dark | train | imdb | Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Pat McCormack, Billy Barty, Eve Arden, Joseph Maher, Adam Arkin, Cork Hubbard, Robert Donner how could it not be good.
The temporary manager (Arkin) of the Culver Hotel, across from MGM in 1939, changes its name to Hotel Rainbow to take advantage of the publicity surrounding the soon-to-be... |
tt0018455 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | In the summertime, described as vacation time, a Woman from the city (Margaret Livingston) travels to the country to sight see.She lingers in one particular town for weeks. One day she dresses up, asking the wife of her landlord to shine her high heeled shoes, and wanders through town. She arrives at the house of a far... | murder, atmospheric, sentimental | train | imdb | Margaret Livingston (who she?) is also quite realistic as a believably enticing city girl vamp (of modest means) who tries to lure the hero away from his deserving wife.The DVD has more extras than a Criterion issue, including a tentative reconstruction of Murnau's missing American masterpiece 'The Four Devils' (a circ... |
tt1228987 | Let Me In | March 1983. Los Alamos, New Mexico. A group of police cars, with sirens wailing, escort an ambulance to Los Alamos Memorial Hospital. They are carrying an unidentified 50-year old man with acid burns to the face. He is placed on a respirator because the toxic fumes from the acid have seared his lungs and thus compromis... | tragedy, dark, horror, atmospheric | train | imdb | null |
tt0096149 | Space Mutiny | Set sometime in the distant future the intra-galactic space-colony-ship Southern Sun (which bears a strong resemblance to the Battlestar Galactica) is on a multi-generational trip to a new settlement. Tired of his fate to live and die on the ship, Kalgan (John Philip Law), the head of the Enforcers who are tasked with ... | cult, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0352314 | Ek Hasina Thi | Karan is a rich, suave businessman. But he can also be very possessive of Sarika. His temper can flare at slightest pretext. After Karan involves Sarika in looking after a suitcase full of illegal firearms belonging to his friend, a hitman, she is arrested for having links with the underworld and is remanded to judicia... | revenge, murder, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | It is gritty, realistic, gripping, and it successfully adopts the style of Ram Gopal Varma's film-making.
It is about a young independent woman, Sarika (Urmila Matondkar), who falls for a young suave man, Karan (Saif Ali Khan) who is actually not the one he appears to be.
The film does not have any unnecessary subplots... |
tt0058262 | The Killers | Two professional hit men, Charlie (Lee Marvin) and Lee (Clu Gulager), enter a school for the blind and terrorize the principal until she reveals the whereabouts of a teacher, Johnny North (John Cassavetes). As the hitmen walk toward North's upstairs classroom, the teacher receives a phone call from the blind principal'... | violence, neo noir, murder, sadist, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1483013 | Oblivion | In the year 2077, Jack Harper (Tom Cruise), is a drone technician living in a tower high above the clouds, with his assigned partner Victoria/Vika (Andrea Riseborough). They are the last people left on Earth after it was destroyed by aliens known as the Scavengers/'Scavs', who wanted Earth's resources. The Scavs destro... | murder, sentimental, violence, atmospheric, flashback, plot twist, psychedelic, action, melodrama, suspenseful, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0051631 | Frankenstein's Daughter | The movie opens on a scene at night with a man kissing a woman on a sidewalk. Suzie Lawler (Tally Todd) rebuffs her lothario, so he storms off in his car. As Suzie turns to walk home she sees the visage of a cavewoman in a nightgown. She screams, not recognizing her girlfriend, Trudy Morton (Sandra Knight). Trudy is da... | insanity, murder | train | imdb | As much fun as I knew the family and neighbors were having outside, I couldn't have cared less; I was riveted to an old-fashioned television set watching FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER and adding this night to my memory banks.
A backyard barbecue scene again struck a chord, and was particularly appropriate on this festive eve... |
tt0242527 | The Hole | 17-year-old Dane Thompson, his 10-year-old brother Lucas, and their mother, Susan, move from Brooklyn to the quiet town of Bensenville where Dane and Lucas befriend their next door neighbor, Julie. While exploring their new home, Dane and Lucas discover a trapdoor with several locks along each side in the basement. Ope... | insanity, prank, flashback | train | wikipedia | I am assuming that it wanted to be a psychological horror, but the film is so lightweight that it appears to have been written with twelve-year-olds in mind which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I assume that Ms. Birch was brought in to add international appeal' but she stifles and flounders around with her leading r... |
tt0120751 | Mighty Joe Young | As a child, Jill Young witnesses the death of her mother, Ruth Young and the mother of Joe, an infant mountain gorilla, at the hands of poachers led by Andrei Strasser, who loses his right thumb and trigger finger to Joe, swearing revenge.
Twelve years later, Jill has raised Joe, now grown to a height of 15 feet (4.6 m... | romantic, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Mighty Joe Young is a big, big gorilla who gets time in L.A. escaping poachers who are after him in his home hill in Africa.
This is a remake of a remake of King Kong (1933), which was made in 1949 as the original Mighty Joe Young.This latest version is a remarkable computer and animatronic invention, justly nominated... |
tt0106664 | The Dark Half | Castle Rock, Maine. 1968. 13-year-old Thad Beaumont is a junior high school student who wants to become a writer and spends many hours in his bedroom writing violent-themed stories. His mother buys him a typewriter to use and soon, Thad starts having violent headaches and hearing strange noises... like hundreds of smal... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0251114 | Hart's War | During World War II, U.S. Army intelligence officer First Lieutenant Thomas Hart (Farrell) is captured by German forces. While interrogating Hart, the Germans coerce him to divulge intelligence by taking away his boots, causing his feet to become frostbitten and badly injured, and leaving him, naked, in a very cold cel... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | The stellar performances by Bruce Willis and Marcel Lures stole the show away from the title character, Lt. Hart (played well by Colin Farrel).
Other Kommandants during this time may not have been as "humane," but, because of his background, Visser's lack of brutality (again, with exceptions) is understandable.Bruce Wi... |
tt0093605 | Near Dark | One night, Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar), a young man in a small town, meets an attractive young drifter named Mae (Jenny Wright). Just before sunrise, she bites him on the neck and runs off. The rising sun causes Caleb's flesh to smoke and burn. Mae arrives with a group of roaming vampires in an RV and takes him away. ... | comedy, dark, gothic, murder, neo noir, cult, revenge, violence, atmospheric, good versus evil, insanity, romantic, claustrophobic, suspenseful, sadist | train | wikipedia | One of the best modern vampire flicks around is this stylish, funny, and all around adventurous cult classic.Young cowboy is literally bitten by a beautiful stranger and ends up joining a band of blood-suckers who roam the American heartland.Although Near Dark is often over-shadowed by the ultra-hip vampire movie The L... |
tt0337697 | The Prince & Me | The movie opens with med-student bound Paige Morgan receiving a birthday cake from her teachers and colleagues. She suddenly realizes she is late for something and hurries out of the school and drives home. She has no time to talk to her mother as she goes to her room, grabs a dress from her closet, and hops in her tru... | romantic, melodrama | train | imdb | I not only found it entertaining, but by the end, as corny is it may sound for a film like this, it did leave me guessing a little as to what would happen.Although I don't usually care for Julia Stiles, I found her to be delightful in this piece, and the right person to play the part.
The two actors worked very well to... |
tt0077745 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | On an unidentified planet, a strange lifeform in the shape of gel-like spores drifts up into the atmosphere, where it moves slowly through space, drifting until it reaches Earth. The spores enter the atmosphere and are swept downward, emerging in a rainstorm in San Francisco. On the ground, the spores begin to develop,... | horror, violence, humor, murder, flashback | train | imdb | I'm always sceptical about remakes of classic horror and SF films, but this version by Philip Kaufman is much better than one would expect, and ALMOST as good as the original.
Scripter W.D. Richter and director Philip Kaufman give away the "twist" immediately, and there are a number of statements from characters in thi... |
tt0120347 | Tomorrow Never Dies | On the border region of Russia, a large bazaar of illegally obtained weapons are being sold to international terrorists. Far away, in an observation room, M, her assistant, Charles Robinson and a British admiral, Roebuck, are watching the operation through cameras placed by an agent they've sent into the area. They ide... | murder, violence, cult, humor, action, revenge | train | imdb | The original title of the film was "Tomorrow Never Lies", which makes sense when you consider media mogul Elliot Carver was creating the next day's headlines in advance, then causing those events to happen , but a typo on an early script draft was adopted by the producers, and ¨Tomorrow never dies¨ was used instead .
T... |
tt0078841 | Being There | Chance (Peter Sellers) is a middle-aged man who lives in the townhouse of an old, wealthy man in Washington, D.C. He is simple-minded and has lived there his whole life, tending the garden. Other than gardening, his knowledge is derived entirely from what he sees on television. When his benefactor dies, Chance naively ... | psychedelic, satire, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1262416 | Scream 4 | Sherrie and Trudie (Lucy Hale and Shenae Grimes), two high schools girls, are stalked and then brutally killed by Ghostface, but this is the opening scene to "Stab 6", which Rachel and Chloe (Anna Paquin and Kristen Bell) are watching. Rachel nags on about horror movie cliches, then Chloe gets out a knife and stabs her... | comedy, mystery, murder, cult, revenge, violence, satire, romantic, suspenseful | train | imdb | No matter how mordantly self-aware the movies are (and believe me, Scream 4 gets a little tediously indulgent in its postmodern cleverness), there's an inevitable predictability to some of the proceedings but anybody who's a genre-savvy horror fan will appreciate how brilliantly everything is executed.
The opening sequ... |
tt0145531 | Stigmata | A man walks into a church that is filled with worshipers, all holding candles and staring at a sculpture at the front altar. He steps forward and observes a white statue of the Virgin Mary, with two streams of red tears flowing out of its eyes. As another priest greets him, you learn that the man is Father Andrew Kiern... | comedy, mystery, gothic, violence, cult, insanity, psychedelic | train | imdb | There's nothing conventionally religious in the experience portrayed here -- in fact, the victim is an athiest.But, having bypassed the conventional, the movie is only partially successful in bringing the experience of the stigmata to the screen.
It was suprisingly "non-hollywood" in many respects and very understated ... |
tt0089092 | Enemy Mine | Enemy Mine opens to a panorama of outer space along with an opening monologue by Willis Davidge (Dennis Quaid). In this monologue he says that all of Earth's nations had achieved peace by the end of the 21st century, and had begun working together to explore and colonize outer space. Unfortunately, Earth wasn't alone o... | revenge | train | imdb | I hate being nostalgic about movies, but I do remember a time when imagination was evident in every part of a production, when film posters were dynamic, visceral and iconic, when films looked like they were shot on film and not an HD camera with a sunset tint, when scores were done by orchestras instead of synthesizer... |
tt0073707 | Sholay | The Thakur recruits Veeru and JaiFormer police chief Thakur Baldev Singh (Sanjeev kumar) summons an old colleague and requests him to track down a pair of small-time thieves he once apprehended in the line of duty.
The two petty criminals, Veeru (Dharmendra) and Jai (Amitabh Bachchan), are close pals who work together ... | tragedy, revenge, cult, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt2872732 | Lucy | In the opening shot, we see a cell split up into multiple other cells. Then we see a proto-human in prehistoric times drinking from a lake. Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) narrates by saying that life began billions of years ago, and ponders just what we have done with it since then.In the present, Lucy is a young American w... | comedy, murder, violence, psychedelic, absurd, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | I am able to watch a fiction movie, am I not?Some people review this film negatively for its scientific value, ignoring the fact that this isn't a documentary.
If you're a Luc Besson fan, you won't be disappointed.Bad-*** car chase, science-fiction, sex appeal my goodness, Morgan "the man" Freeman, Chow Yun-Fat worthy ... |
tt1355630 | If I Stay | Mia Hall (Chloe Grace Moretz) begins by saying that Beethoven was deaf at the age of 26, but that didn't stop him from pursuing his dream of being a composer. This is what has driven Mia to pursue her dream of being a skilled cellist. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her parents, Denny (Joshua Leonard) and Kat (Mirei... | flashback | train | imdb | Chloe does a wonderful job portraying everything she's going through and she moved me to tears many times.This film makes me think about my own family and everything I would do for them.
Anyone interested in this film already knows the premise by now if they have read this far, so I won't rehash it.All I will say is th... |
tt0381392 | Ma mère | The story revolves around pious, young Pierre (Louis Garrel) who has just left a Catholic boarding school to live with his wealthy parents at their villa on the island of Gran Canaria. Pierre's father (Philipe Duclos) dies early in the movie, leaving his mother, Hélène (Isabelle Huppert) to care for him. Pierre soon le... | murder, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0134619 | Disturbing Behavior | Steve Clark (James Marsden) is a high school senior whose family moves to Cradle Bay, a picturesque island community in Washington state's Puget Sound. It has been nearly one year since Steve's older brother, Allen (Ethan Embry), committed suicide, which traumatized the family.
During Steve's first day at his new high ... | insanity, violence, cult, brainwashing, murder | train | wikipedia | The reverse theme of bad kids turning good was fascinating, and the paranoid performance by Nick Stahl was worth watching and intrigued me.
The first half of the film, which by itself I would have given an 8 or 9 out of 10, was more of a grown-up horror movie, where the situation and plot rather than actions dictated t... |
tt1172203 | Sita Sings the Blues | === The Ramayana ===
The film uses a pared-down adaptation of the legend that retains many of its finer details while adopting a perspective sympathetic towards Sita; in the director's words, the film is "a tale of truth, justice and a woman’s cry for equal treatment."
The plot joins the legend at the exile of prince R... | tragedy, psychedelic, fantasy, murder | train | wikipedia | "Sita Sings the Blues" shows how one person with a laptop computer and something to say can make a far more satisfying work than 90% of the garbage that gets cranked out by people with a thousand times the money but one-thousandth the inspiration.
It isn't simply "background" to the telling of a story from the Ramayana... |
tt0898367 | The Road | The movie opens in a flashback where we see the Man (Viggo Mortensen) in bed with his wife (Charlize Theron). The man wakes up to a sound and a glow coming from outside the window of their room. He walks to the window and looks out. In a hurry, he then runs into the bathroom where he begins to fill the sink and bathtub... | dark, boring, depressing, murder, suspenseful, bleak, suicidal, violence, flashback, romantic, sentimental | train | imdb | The wonderful thing about the Road is that it will more than likely please the two camps: the one that has not read Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer prize-winning book, and the one that has.
There's the nervous feeling one gets when watching the theatrical trailer, though - will it be this super action-packed spectacle, will... |
tt0245429 | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi | Ten-year-old Chihiro (voice: Daveigh Chase in the 2002 English dub) and her parents (voices: Lauren Holly and Michael Chiklis) drive to their new home. Chihiro is whiny and unhappy about the move, especially when she notices that the bouquet her friend gave her as a good-bye gift is wilting. In sight of their new house... | fantasy, whimsical, cult, alternate reality, magical realism, atmospheric, psychedelic, entertaining, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0357182 | Rx | Andrew and Melissa are a young couple coping with college and, in Andrew's case, finances. Jonny is a friend to botyh and also the local drug dealer. In a desperate attempt to get enough money to get through another semester Andrew steals money from his job as a valet and arranges with Jonny to travel to Mexico and inv... | murder | train | imdb | I'm not sure what "Rx" stands for, but in New Zealand, the film is released as "Simple Lies" which is an appropriate title, as lies are plentiful in this slick thriller in which three early-20 year-olds venture to Mexico with various intentions, mainly which involve getting drugs to take back to the States and sell for... |
tt0119223 | Great Expectations | The movie begins with young Finnegan "Finn" Bell (Ethan Hawke) exploring the beaches of the Gulf Coast of Florida. An escaped convict (Robert De Niro) suddenly pops out of the water and overpowers him, making Finn promise to bring back food and medicine and a bolt cutter to get the iron shanks off his leg next day. Fin... | revenge, murder, romantic | train | imdb | I have never read Dickens' "Great Expectations," but I can tell you that this is one of the best movies I have ever seen.
It is my understanding that this movie is loosely based on the Dickens' book, but that it does follow the themes, just not the exact story.
It is always going to be a challenge to take a classic nov... |
tt1227537 | The Simpsons Ride | You show up at the old "Back to the Future... The Ride" building, to find the building painted blue, a giant Krusty the Clown head at the entrance, and KRUSTYLAND lit up in big letters. It can only be one thing- The Simpsons Ride!Visitors show up and get in line, prepared to ride Krusty's new rollercoaster at Krustylan... | revenge, humor | train | imdb | An entertaining ride. I miss the old Back to the Future ride at Universal Studios Hollywood, but this ride is an enjoyable one. You take on the role of tourists at Krustyland, which is under attack by the evil Sideshow Bob, who has sworn to kill the Simpsons. The ride is full of plenty of classic Simpsons humor and fea... |
tt0274117 | Sur mes lèvres | The film is set partially in the business offices and partially in the underworld of Paris. Carla, a lonely woman burdened by lack of respect from her co-workers and her only friend, Annie, begins to change after a younger man enters her life.
Carla is introduced immediately with a shot of her putting in her hearing ai... | revenge, intrigue, violence | train | wikipedia | You won't regret it.What French director Jacques Audiard has done is create a taunt noir thriller with a romantic subplot intricately woven into the fabric of the main plot, told in the realistic and nonglamorous manner usually seen in films that win international awards.
The romance is of the counter-cultural sort see... |
tt0289879 | The Butterfly Effect | Growing up, Evan Treborn and his friends, Lenny and siblings Kayleigh and Tommy Miller, suffered many severe psychological traumas that frequently caused Evan to black out. These traumas include being coerced to take part in child pornography by Kayleigh and Tommy's father, George Miller (Eric Stoltz), being nearly str... | dark, psychological, suspenseful, murder, mystery, stupid, dramatic, cult, alternate reality, violence, thought-provoking, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, romantic, revenge, sadist, home movie | train | wikipedia | In any case, this discussion just the other day led to a friend recommending The Butterfly Effect, a film that puts both a stylistic and sinister spin on the idea that even the mere flapping of a butterfly's wings can result in drastic changes in another place or time.
Being initially sceptical because of the generally... |
tt0829150 | Dracula Untold | Before the Renaissance, Vlad Țepeș is the Prince of Wallachia and Transylvania. As a child, he was a royal hostage in the palace of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and was trained to be a soldier in the Sultan's elite Janissary corps, where he became their most feared warrior. He was called Vlad the Impaler after slau... | gothic, murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, romantic, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | For all who says that this movie is bad because it doesn't follow the Dracula story we all know from the past I say, it's not suppose to.
That reviewer wrote in his comment : "The film might captivate some audiences who are looking for a fun time, but there is nothing memorable or legendary about it." isn't that all a ... |
tt0068327 | Cabaret | Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) is an American-singer and dancer who lives in Germany in the between-wars period. She dreams of becoming rich and famous, but has a clear drinking problem. She works at the Kit-Kat cabaret, a seedy place with suggestive musical numbers. The Master of Ceremonies (Joel Grey), introduces and p... | romantic, depressing, historical, queer | train | imdb | The musical number "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" is so effective an illustration of the appeal this new Nazi hope held for impoverished suffering Germans, and yet we have The Master Of Ceremonies' evil nodding grin to remind us, in retrospect, what it really led to.Just as every musical number (aside from being so beautiful... |
tt0073768 | Supervixens | Gas station attendant Clint Ramsey, who works at Martin Bormann's Super Service in the desert, finds himself too irresistible to a series of girls, all of whom have the word "Super" in their given names. In the beginning, he is married to the hypersexual, demanding, and jealous SuperAngel (Shari Eubank), who constantly... | pornographic, dark, cruelty, murder, cult, violence, psychedelic, satire, comic, sadist | train | wikipedia | After the brutal murder of his promiscuous wife, Clint (Charles Pitts) is forced to flee a small town
Harry (Charles Napier), a wicked look-alike who committed the killing, had little trouble to put the blame for the murder on Clint
Clint falls into a number of adventures, getting caught in the act with the mail-orde... |
tt0147612 | Happiness | Happiness is an ensemble drama that skips around between multiple storylines. The protagonist, Joy, is the youngest of three sisters. The film opens with her breaking up with a man. He responds with unreasonably malicious vitriol and ultimately takes his own life a few days later. In an attempt to contribute more to so... | pornographic, comedy, dark, cult, flashback, humor, satire | train | imdb | I wasn't going to write a comment for this one, but after reading all the nasty things said about it, and considering that _Happiness_ was the basis for one of my final undergraduate philosophy papers, I feel a duty to defend it.First of all, what you've heard is true: this movie is very graphic and almost impossible t... |
tt0947798 | Black Swan | The movie opens as Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman), a young ballerina in her mid twenties, is dancing the prologue to Swan Lake. Swan Lake is a ballet in which a princess is turned into the White Swan and can only be turned back if a man swears eternal fidelity to her. In the ballet, she is betrayed by the Black Swan, th... | dark, psychological, mystery, murder, dramatic, cult, horror, atmospheric, insanity, psychedelic, suspenseful, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt0095655 | Moonwalker | The movie starts with Michael Jackson singing his hit song "Man in the Mirror." After that song is over a montage starts of Michael as a kid and works it's way up to present day. After the montage is over, the music video for "Bad" is being remade by various child performers with the name "Badder." After the video is o... | neo noir, cult, psychedelic | train | imdb | Michael Jackson may be considered a freak these days, but, after all, this was the man who gave us Thriller (considered by many to be the greatest music video of all time) and set trends with Billie Jean and Beat It.
With Moonwalker, he and the filmmakers and artists who collaborated with him once again took his music ... |
tt0065761 | Il gatto a nove code | Franco Arno (Karl Malden) a middle-aged blind man is walking down a street at night with his niece Lori (Cinzia De Carolis) when they pass by a man in a car. Franco overhears him mention blackmail. Franco bends over, feigning tying his shoes and asks Lori to describe the man in the parked car. Lori does, but says that ... | avant garde, cruelty, murder, neo noir, cult, horror, sadist, violence, insanity, psychedelic, humor, romantic, suspenseful, storytelling | train | imdb | null |
tt0093974 | Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 | On Christmas Eve, Ricky Caldwell (Eric Freeman) is sitting in a interrogation room and smoking a cigarette when an orderly enters and places a tape recorder on a table. Dr. Henry Bloom (James L. Newman) enters, puts a reel of tape in the machine, sets up a microphone and tells the orderly to leave. The doctor introduce... | cruelty, murder, violence, revenge, entertaining, sadist | train | imdb | Half of the movie a recap of the original SNDN (I had never seen SNDN @ this time so it didn't bother me and still doesn't) The new footage is 100% camp gold.
Eric Freeman's eyebrows and nostrils chew up every frame they're in and his over the top delivery makes brilliant catch phrases out of something as simple as 'RE... |
tt3622592 | Paper Towns | Quentin's life changed the day Margo Roth Spiegelman moved next door. He considered her his one true love. They were both close in age, they became close friends and did everything together, until one day they discovered a dead body. Apparently, the man couldn't cope with his impending divorce. Quentin didn't flinch, b... | revenge, romantic | train | imdb | She is defined by her absent gazes into the world, her love for "random capitalization" in her writing because "the rules are so unfair to the letters in the middle of words," and her statements about her town, Orlando, Florida, being a paper town with "paper houses and paper people." She also happens to be the apple o... |
tt0105410 | Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker | Late one night in December, a young boy named Derek Quinn (William Thorne) hears the doorbell ringing and goes downstairs and finds a Christmas present that has been addressed to him on the porch. His father Tom (Van Quattro) reprimands him for being up so late and opening the door, sending him off to bed. Instead Dere... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0087065 | Cloak & Dagger | Davey Osborne (Henry Thomas) is an 11-year-old who lives in San Antonio, Texas with his father, Hal Osborne (Dabney Coleman). His mother has recently died, leaving just him and his father, a military air traffic controller who has problems relating to his child. Davey is a lonely child and is still grieving over his mo... | psychedelic, murder | train | wikipedia | Its amazing how, as kids, we saw this movie in the 80s where a child is being chased, shot at, almost stabbed, threaten to have his knee caps blown off and shot in the gut, kill 3 guys (2 not by him but caused by him)and be held hostage...and it was a family film rated PG!
A movie made like this today would make the ki... |
tt0057591 | Les tontons flingueurs | A Public Works Plant in Montauban, in the South-East of France. Late in the evening, the boss, Fernand Naudin (Lino Ventura), takes his car to go to Paris on some urgent matter. Which bothers his assistant because of the annual Fair on the next week-end.Early in the morning, Fernand arrives in Paris on the Champs-Elysé... | cult | train | imdb | It seems like everyone makes a big deal about having to speak french, understand older french slang, etc.
in order to enjoy this movie.
I know about ten words of French, and still found this movie hilarious.
To assert that the dialogue is the central virtue of the film does the actors a HUGE disservice, in addition to ... |
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