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tt0074806 | The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane | Rynn (Jodie Foster) is a 13-year-old girl who lives in a semi-isolated cottage near the ocean. We see her preparing a birthday cake for herself, although there is nobody with her to celebrate. She is unexpectedly visited by a man named Frank Hallet (Martin Sheen), and before letting him in, Rynn lights a clove cigarett... | murder | train | imdb | Rynn Jacobs is a lonely, but well equipped 13-year old girl who lives with her poet father, while keeping a dark secret in the cellar.
This is when Rynn goes to any lengths to keep this lifestyle with the help from a local crippled boy Mario, to herself.This noteworthy gem of small-scale, mystery-thriller incorporates ... |
tt0988043 | One-Eyed Monster | A disclaimer in the opening shot reads: "In February 2007, ten people went to the remote mountains of Northern California to shoot an adult movie. What happened next was something no one expected, but everyone saw coming."On a snow-covered mountain, a bus, truck, and a few cars arrive at a remote camp area to film a po... | violence | train | imdb | If you like horror, comedy or feel-good penis movies....
Thankfully, the people behind One Eyed Monster have provided a magnum (condom) opus of fun.On a remote porn shoot, a killing spree begins at the "hands" of the titular character.
His purposefully wooden acting during the porn shoot perfectly balances the bit of h... |
tt0105104 | Passenger 57 | International terrorist Charles Rane (Bruce Payne) is about to undergo plastic surgery to change his appearance in order to evade the law. Outside, federal agents and SWAT teams close in to arrest him. It becomes apparent that the plastic surgeon and his staff are in on the plan. Rane becomes suspicious and makes his e... | murder, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, humor, action, suspenseful | train | imdb | When I first saw P57, rented on video in the mid nineties, I wasn't expecting a re-run of Die Hard, but i was pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable an action flick it was.Wesley Snipes and Bruce Payne spark well off each other as the troubled hero and psychotic villain.
That said, Ernie Lively does a nice turn as the l... |
tt0034272 | That Hamilton Woman | Emma Hart, a beautiful dance hall girl who's been passed around numerous nobilities, is sent by her latest lover, Charles Greville, to stay with his uncle Sir William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples. Emma is to learn French, Italian and upper-class manners in a month's time, then marry Charles.Sir William is... | tragedy, melodrama | train | imdb | It seemed strange how Emma (Vivien Leigh) could rise to such prominence in life to become a Lady Hamilton and eventually fall so low, yes and sadly.The movie begins at the lower rung, in her later life as she's caught stealing and put in prison where she recounts her story to others.
We are taken back in time to her yo... |
tt1800241 | American Hustle | The movie starts with a 70s Technicolor logo of Columbia Pictures, Atlas Entertainment, and Annapurna Pictures.A title caption reads that the following is loosely based on a true story.April 28, 1978:In a suite in the Plaza Hotel in New York City, a fat Jewish man named Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) is elaborately ... | comedy, neo noir, murder, flashback, melodrama, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0401792 | Sin City | The Customer is Always RightIn Basin City, The Man (Josh Hartnett) approaches the stunningly beautiful Customer (Marley Shelton) on the balcony of a penthouse apartment. They chat and seem to fall in love. The woman talks about how she's "tired of running." The Man suddenly shoots her with a silenced pistol, as she had... | comedy, cruelty, murder, bleak, cult, action, suspenseful, revenge, neo noir, horror, psychedelic, comic, tragedy, atmospheric, good versus evil, insanity, entertaining, storytelling, dark, realism, violence, romantic, sadist | train | imdb | Certainly not a film for the whole family, but for those of us who enjoy our movies rated R, this flick kicks the head and the gut like a mule.Here's hoping Sin City makes a mint, for there are 10,000 stories in the naked (sinful) city, and this is but a handful of them.
So I went to my local comic book store and bough... |
tt0892782 | Monsters vs. Aliens | A few minutes before her wedding to Derek Dietl (Paul Rudd), a TV weatherman, Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) is hit by a meteorite. The meteorite is infused with quantonium, a rare and powerful element that causes her to grow -- just as she begins to recite her vows -- to an enormous size. Targeted by the government ... | psychedelic, cute, entertaining | train | imdb | I'm tempted to describe this movie as "innocent," because it's such a nice story that doesn't have all the innuendos some other animated films have, yet still will make most adults laugh in many spots because there is some good humor that kids wouldn't get.
"Monsters Versus Aliens" shows one doesn't need "edginess" in ... |
tt0315327 | Bruce Almighty | (This synopsis contains spoilers.)"Bruce Almighty" is the story of a news reporter named Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) who covers fluff stories for TV news in Buffalo, New York. The story opens with Bruce in a bakery, spidery hairnet yanked over his forehead, diligently reporting on the largest cookie ever baked in Buffalo.... | comedy, fantasy, bleak, paranormal, humor, romantic, revenge, entertaining, sentimental | train | imdb | The results were not very promising, so it's nice to see someone in the movies setting a good example.Jim Carrey plays the part of Bruce Nolan, the nice guy mentioned above whose entire life seems to be falling apart.
Or even better, it seems to be breaking up by the blows of bad luck like an asteroid entering the atmo... |
tt1706620 | Snowpiercer | In 2014, an attempt to counteract global warming through climate engineering backfires catastrophically, unintentionally causing an ice age that extinguishes all life except the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a massive train powered by a perpetual motion engine that travels a circumnavigational track, created by the t... | allegory, violence, boring, psychedelic, plot twist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0131325 | Bowfinger | The movie opens with Bobby Bowfinger sitting alone in his office reading a script. As he finishes reading the script, he gets a twinkle in his eye, believing that he's found the perfect movie moment. The next day he gathers his staff and actors and tells them about the brilliant script called "Chubby Rain" that was wri... | comedy, satire, entertaining | train | imdb | Given Tom Cruise's recent unstable behavior, it might be the right time to revisit 'Bowfinger,' Steve Martin and Frank Oz's highly under-appreciated satire of the side of Hollywood we mere mortals aren't supposed to see.In Hollywood, there are no secrets--everyone knows who's secretly gay or insane, and who's slept wit... |
tt0846308 | Kit Kittredge: An American Girl | In June 1934, Kit Kittredge (Abigail Breslin) is determined to become a reporter, and she writes articles on the typewriter in her attic while drama unfolds beneath her. The mortgage on her house is about to be foreclosed because her father lost his car dealership and couldn't keep up with the payments. He has gone to ... | inspiring, depressing | train | wikipedia | The characters were believable, the plot interesting, there were humans instead of androids in this movie, there was no sex, violence, or bad language in it, and this old lady LOVED it.
She seemed to get it, and loved the way the story had a good ending where the main character had a personal triumph and a family endur... |
tt3809294 | Board to Death | The camera begins with blinds suddenly opening up. This establishes the starting point of the film where we are brought into a world of lust, envy and crime. The camera slowly tracks back to reveal a woman smoking from the left side of the screen and a man looking intensely at her on the right inside a house. Hard shad... | revenge, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0285492 | Cube 2: Hypercube | The film starts with a young woman named Becky (Greer Kent), shown to be trapped in the Cube. She enters another room, but unknown to her, the room has reversed gravity, as she is pulled up, and it is implied that she is killed.
Some time later, a woman named Kate (Kari Matchett), detective Simon (Geraint Wyn Davies), ... | psychological, murder, violence, alternate reality, psychedelic, claustrophobic, romantic | train | wikipedia | Even more, the Cube's logical image has been destroyed, replaced by this machine gone horribly wrong in the fourth dimension.The best part of the film is how it continually keeps you on your feet, long after you've seen it.
I think that the script writers managed very well to combine interesting evolving inter-personal... |
tt0074383 | Death Machines | Three separate duo's of karate kick-boxers fight it out under the watchful eye of glamorously sinister Madame Lee, (Mari Honjo) an ersatz Asian "Dragon Lady." Her handsome and dapper Asian assistant, Mr. Lu, also stands observing nearby. They watch two Asian kickboxers fight, two African kickboxers fight, and two Cauca... | violence | train | imdb | They don't really make films like Death Machines anymore and that's a bit of a shame.
Its story centres on three fighters – the death machines - who are directed by a female crime boss by way of a mind control drug.
There are lots of martial arts fights; heads and arms are chopped off; a truck is driven through restaur... |
tt5052448 | Get Out | In the opening scene, a young black man named Dre (Keith Stanfield) is walking alone at night through a perfectly manicured suburban street. A little sports car pulls up and starts slowly tracking him. Andre gets spooked, says, "fuck this shit", and changes directions to briskly walk back the way he came. When he turns... | murder, violence, horror, flashback, satire, revenge | train | imdb | The film, while mostly horror, is actually completely hilarious in some parts, making it the funniest AND scariest movie I have seen in ages (no easy feat).
Probably the timely social commentary is going to loom heavily when discussing the film; however this shouldn't conceal the fact that this is a masterclass cinemat... |
tt0099423 | Die Hard 2 | The story opens with a car being towed away from a restricted parking zone at Washington Dulles International Airport. Lt. John McClane (Bruce Willis) comes running out of the terminal -- it's his car that is being written up. He argues futilely with the airport cop (Robert Costanzo) writing the ticket, but is interrup... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, humor, action, tragedy, suspenseful, entertaining, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0113492 | Judge Dredd | A scrolling and narrated prologue opens the film: in the Third Millennium (the 21st Century), the Earth's ecosystem has become polluted and altered, leaving much of the world's landmass a barren desert called the Cursed Earth. Most people have moved to a few "mega" cities, where, due to the rampant population increase,... | comedy, murder, cult, revenge, good versus evil, humor, romantic, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0283897 | Assassination Tango | John J. is a New York City hitman aging into retirement, with a loving 40-something girlfriend who has a young daughter that he dotes on. He keeps his gangster life a secret from both of them.One night he stabs a man in line at a club and swiftly gets away with the murder. Not long after, he goes to his boss for anothe... | murder | train | imdb | Two viewings within a year has not changed my opinion.This movie is just different, a unique portrait of strange older hit-man and the people in his life.
I am not surprised a number of viewers did not like this film, even fans of Robert Duvall.
A pity that as of this review in October of 2005, this is still her only s... |
tt0796366 | Star Trek | In the year 2233 a Federation starship, USS Kelvin, investigates a "lightning storm" in space, which the crew soon realizes is a black hole. A massive vessel, the Narada, emerges, creating an alternate timeline. The Narada, possessing advanced weaponry, opens fire on the Kelvin, inflicting heavy damage. The Narada's Ro... | entertaining, comedy, murder, realism, alternate reality, plot twist, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, action, romantic, revenge, alternate history | train | imdb | I must admit that I was skeptical at first about taking such iconic characters and recasting them, even in younger iterations, because most people think of the characters of Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu and Chekov with the actors that originally portrayed them.
But any cheesy bits (of which there were relati... |
tt0134928 | Rasen | Following the events of Ring, the body of Ryūji Takayama, former husband of Reiko Asakawa and father of Yōichi Asakawa, is examined by his friend and rival, pathologist Mitsuo Andō. After he finds a cryptic note in Takayama's stomach, Reiko and Yōichi also turn up dead. Andō soon learns of a mysterious cursed videotape... | good versus evil, romantic, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Set almost immediately after the events of Ringu (1998), Rasen/Spiral tells us the story of Mitsuo Ando (Koichi Sato), a forensics doctor who gets wrapped up with the "Ring curse" when his the body of an old friend, Ryuji Takayama (Hiroyuki Sanada, reprising his character from Ringu), makes its way onto his autopsy tab... |
tt0028950 | La grande illusion | During the First World War, two French aviators, the aristocratic Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay) and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal (Jean Gabin), set out on a flight to examine the site of a blurred spot found on photographs from an earlier air reconnaissance mission. They are shot down by a German aviator... | anti war, romantic, murder, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0060942 | Savage Pampas | The movie starts out with deserter gaucho soldiers bringing women and treasures to a rebel named Padron who lives with a Native American Indian tribe. A loyal pair of soldiers confront Padron but he convinces them to desert also by offering them the women of their choice. One of the soldiers chooses a girl that a Nativ... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt1659338 | The Numbers Station | CIA operative Emerson Kent is sent to kill a man who owns a bar. Before being killed by Kent, the man reveals he is a former agent who wanted to retire. A witness flees the scene, accidentally leaving his wallet behind. Kent finds the wallet and tracks the witness to his home, where he kills him. Kent spares the life o... | suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback, claustrophobic, revenge | train | wikipedia | A definite case of poor marketing.John Cusack plays a burnt out CIA black ops guy that is assigned to watch over Malin Akerman after screwing up a job.
Yes. Once you get past that, most people already know and accept there are secret killings, so you can simply enjoy the story (except for the product placement, of cour... |
tt0120907 | eXistenZ | At a Antenna Company seminar, Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is introduced as the "goddess of the gamepod". She carries a single ski boot and describes eXistenZ, which is a new game system (metaflesh). Almost everyone in the room volunteers to test the new system. At the door, a game company worker Ted (Jude Law... | comedy, mystery, murder, violence, intrigue, alternate reality, psychedelic, action, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0048973 | Baby Doll | Archie Lee Meighan (Karl Malden), a middle aged cotton gin owner, lives with his teen bride, Baby Doll (Carroll Baker) and her eccentric Aunt Rose Comfort (Mildred Dunnock) in a dilapidated plantation house in Tiger's Tail County, Mississippi. Archie Lee and Baby Doll have yet to consummate their marriage; they have se... | comedy, cruelty, violence, satire, romantic, revenge, storytelling | train | imdb | null |
tt0837562 | Hotel Transylvania | In the aftermath of the death of his wife Martha (Jackie Sandler) at the hands of an angry human mob, Count Dracula (Adam Sandler) commissions and builds a massive five-star, monsters-only hotel in Transylvania in which he raises his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) and to serve as a safe-place getaway for the world's mon... | romantic, cute, entertaining, flashback | train | wikipedia | The story is about Count Dracule trying to raise his only child safe and sound away from terrifying humans and invites all the monsters to his hotel to relax and celebrate his very young daughter's 118th birthday which is accompanied by a surprise visitor!
I recommend this movie to anyone who like monsters ( so afraid ... |
tt0475276 | United 93 | On the morning of September 11, 2001, passengers board United Airlines Flight 93, bound for San Francisco, at Newark Liberty International Airport, including Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham, Todd Beamer, Jeremy Glick, Richard Guadagno, Louis J. Nacke, II, William Joseph Cashman and Patrick Joseph Driscoll. Four al-Qaeda terr... | tragedy, violence, psychedelic, murder, sentimental | train | wikipedia | I don't think I've had such a profound and sober movie going experience like this since I saw The Passion of the Christ, and when the film was over how did the audience react?
The casting of the film includes a number of real life United pilots, stewardesses, air traffic controllers and military personnel, many of them... |
tt0057193 | It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World | "Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante), an ex-convict wanted by police in a tuna factory robbery fifteen years ago and currently on the run, careens his 1957 Ford Fairlane off twisting, mountainous State Highway 74 near Palm Springs, California and crashes. Five motorists stop to help him: Melville Crump (Sid Caesar), a denti... | comedy, insanity, absurd, satire, comic, revenge | train | wikipedia | Though lots of dialogue is amusing and all the performances are outstanding, but the movie suffers from a common delusion of people outside comedy, as Stanley Kramer was, that the mere vision of cars crashing is somehow funny in itself.
Again, some milk their small roles for what they are worth, giving the movie an und... |
tt0091069 | Fortress | In a dystopian 2017, ex-army officer John Henry Brennick and his wife Karen are attempting to cross the Canada–United States border to Vancouver to have a second child. Strict one-child policies forbid a second pregnancy, even after their firstborn has died, so Karen wears a magnetic vest to trick the security scanners... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | I loved watching this movie growing up as a kid, and every time I watched it I was freaked out yet I couldn't get enough of it.
I knew the movie was based on a true story, and the country school setting reminded me of a place where I used to go camping.
I haven't seen it in years but remember the whole movie back to fr... |
tt0959337 | Revolutionary Road | The movie begins at a house party, where Frank Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio) eyes April (Kate Winslet) from across the room. They go to the corner, introduce themselves and chat. She says she is learning to be an actress.Next scene we jump immediately to the end of a play, as the curtain is about to come down. We see Apr... | boring, depressing, flashback | train | imdb | There are many themes in this film, mainly being love, marriage, relationships, and life.DiCaprio and Winslet give powerhouse performances.
April (Kate Winslet) finds unreserved determination to leave to Paris and although her character seems at times erratic, we gradually come to understand that she is in fact the str... |
tt1262981 | World's Greatest Dad | Lance Clayton (Robin Williams) is an aspiring writer that has never gotten any of his works published so he settles for working as a poetry teacher at the school his son, Kyle (Darly Sabara), attends. One morning Lance walks into his son's room to find him masturbating and practicing autoerotic asphyxiation. Lance thin... | comedy, depressing, adult comedy, absurd, satire, plot twist | train | imdb | So when, as in this movie, he plays someone who is sweet and kind and weak and crawling through moral quicksand, the resulting conflict you feel has you laughing out loud and wringing your hands with anxiety all at the same time.The plot is original and comes with a couple of unforgettable twists.
From this year's Sund... |
tt0097733 | Lethal Weapon 2 | The story opens in the middle of a car chase through the 4th Street tunnel in downtown Los Angeles. Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover), partners in the LAPD's homicide division, are in pursuit of a red BMW, while their colleagues are converging on the car from the opposite direction. It's a sus... | comedy, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, humor, action, revenge, home movie | train | imdb | They can't arrest them because of diplomatic immunity, so Riggs goes in and shoots up the place where they're staying.Riggs finds himself a new girl (Patsy Kensit), while Murtaugh protects a federal witness named Leo Getz (Joe Pesci), a lovable little blabbermouth who likes being one of the cops.
Of course Riggs and Mu... |
tt0036025 | I Dood It | Bumbling hotel pants-presser Joseph Rivington Renolds (Red Skelton) is obsessed with Broadway performer Miss Constance 'Connie' Shaw (Eleanor Powell) and routinely "borrows" his customers' fancy clothes in order to follow her around town. The temperamental Connie, however, is oblivious to Joe, preferring the company of... | romantic | train | imdb | It's full of laughs, music and Red Skelton.
I've never been a Red Skelton fan but when I saw this film on TCM I was hooked.
Between the music, the dancing, and slapstick I can't say which one was better.
No one seems to point out that his film is a remake of an earlier film Buster Keaton made for MGM titled "Spite Marr... |
tt0446313 | Mang lung | The film begins with INTERPOL agent Wang Sun-Ho stating this is his first mission and all the audience sees is a messy laundry hallway filled with fluff as if a gunfight took place there. The begins and shows a team of young INTERPOL agents arrive in Hong Kong to give testimony to a recently captured crime boss Tiger D... | violence, revenge, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0313196 | El crimen del Padre Amaro | El Crimen Del Padre Amaro is a film based off the 19th century Portuguese novel O Crime do Padre Amaro, recreated with a modern touch. Although critics have scolded this movie for not precisely recreating the novel, director Carlos Carrera does a great job at bringing the novel into a modern context and highlighting is... | murder, storytelling, melodrama | train | imdb | From a novel by the 19th century Portuguese well-known novelist Eça de Queirós, the Mexican director Carlos Carrera made this good movie in which to the main ingredients present at all times everywhere (lust, the temptations of the flesh haunting Catholic priests, religious hypocrisy, love and bourgeois prejudices) he ... |
tt1013743 | Knight and Day | Knight and Day follows the adventures of Roy Miller (Tom Cruise), a rogue spy, and June Havens (Cameron Diaz), a car restorer. We see Miller watching Havens, and he bumps into her a couple of times as they go through security at Wichita Airport. Havens is making her way back home to Boston from Wichita after picking up... | comedy, boring, murder, stupid, violence, good versus evil, psychedelic, action, entertaining | train | imdb | It seemed that every time I was about to think "when's the next action scene" the movie would stop the thought with a well timed laugh or another action sequence making me never feel like I was waiting for the story or the action to resume.It was also refreshing to see Tom Cruise play a part that wasn't meant to be alm... |
tt0068638 | The Getaway | Bank robber "Doc" McCoy (Steve McQueen) is paroled from a Texas state prison, somewhat to his surprise. His wife, Carol (Ali McGraw), has arranged for his parole by sleeping with the politically well connected but corrupt Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson). McCoy is aware of her actions, and it eats at him over the next several... | neo noir, cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0084503 | Pink Floyd: The Wall | Pink is a rock star, one of several reasons behind his apparent depressive and detached emotional state. He is first seen in an unkempt hotel room, motionless and expressionless, watching television while the Vera Lynn recording of "The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot" plays. It is later revealed that Pink's father,... | dark, avant garde, depressing, psychological, dramatic, cult, violence, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, romantic, historical, prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0107362 | Last Action Hero | The movie opens at night as a police car screeches to a halt in the middle of a deserted street. It is not the first unit to arrive - the entire street is clogged with police units, and officers are training their weapons at an elementary school where an axe-wielding serial killer named Ripper is holding several childr... | dark, comedy, fantasy, murder, stupid, cult, violence, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, action, satire, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | It's sort of every film buff's fantasy, one that we get to enjoy through young Danny Madigan(Austin O'Brien) as he meets up with clichéd action hero Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger, of course).
A lot of people looked at this as a cheap Arnold action movie, and while it's not a great film it's certainly a good one wi... |
tt0462590 | Step Up | Tyler Gage (channing tatum) is from the wrong side of the tracks, caught up in a world of drugs,violence and crime.After leaving a party Tyler and his two friends end up outside the Maryland school of the arts they break in and find themselves in the theater where they destroy the set. the boys are busted by a rent a c... | romantic | train | imdb | Having painfully seen similar dance-themed teen movies in the past (Take the Lead, Save the Last Dance, etc.), Step Up does justice to its genre by not pulling any stops in delivering a truly enjoyable movie.
Finally, we are entertained by a dance flick where the leads (Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum) are both beautifu... |
tt0287665 | Sangre Eterna | There's going to be a total lunar eclipse over Santiago, Chile next Monday.
The astrologers predict that there will be emotional consequences
and changes all around.Professor Romero [Jorge Denegri] has given an assignment that his journalism students
aren't too happy about...to conduct an interview with
someone...anyon... | gothic | train | imdb | I popped this disk in not expecting much, I only bought it because it was dirt cheap and I'm a fanatic about vampire movies.
I was *very* pleasantly surprised that the movie takes place within the "goth" subculture, and even more so at how authentic the subculture was represented.
You'd think more horror movies, especi... |
tt0242285 | El arte de morir | Un grupo de amigos se reune medio a escondidas en una casa derruida. Uno de ellos, Nacho (Gustavo Salmerón), muere. Él es un joven pintor, con unas ideas muy intensas y oscuras sobre la vida y la muerte. Los otros seis chicos y chicas presentes en el incendio de la casa podrían haber hecho algo para salvarle, pero no l... | suspenseful | train | imdb | Intelligent edition, attractive scenarios and slick utilization of shock images make this one, an acceptable thriller plenty of killings.
Spanish Slasher full of thrills , suspense , grisly killings , chills , intrigue and plot twists .
It gives a terrifying and disturbingly youthful view of fears in which posses an el... |
tt0469494 | There Will Be Blood | It is 1898. In the New Mexico wilderness, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) works his silver mine. After blasting out the small mine with dynamite, Plainview falls and breaks his leg. After finding the silver ore, he drags himself to town to sell it. He hires a crew, including a man caring for an infant son. When the... | comedy, depressing, realism, murder, violence, atmospheric, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0045566 | A Blueprint for Murder | Young Polly Cameron is rushed to the hospital, accompanied by her stepmother Lynne. All the while she is screaming "Don't touch my feet!" Doctors cannot pinpoint the cause of her illness but believe she was poisoned. The following morning her uncle, Whitney Cameron (known as Whit), arrives at the hospital. By this time... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1767354 | Odd Thomas | Odd Thomas (Yelchin) is a psychic who lives in a small town in California. He describes his ability as, "I see dead people, but then, by God, I do something about it." One morning the ghost of a teenage girl, Penny Kallisto, silently leads him to Harlo Landerson. Odd accuses Harlo of raping and murdering Penny. Harlo f... | comedy, neo noir, murder, paranormal, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0489327 | Venus | The plot concerns Maurice (Peter O'Toole), an elderly actor who finds himself increasingly attracted to his friend Ian's great-niece Jessie (Jodie Whittaker) while simultaneously finding himself in deteriorating health due to prostate cancer. Maurice's friend describes the great-niece as a trouble maker and a nuisance,... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt3713166 | Unfriended | The Universal Studios logo plays but starts breaking up, an homage to the broken Skype video that will take place in the film.The movie starts with someone's video desktop. (Note: the entire movie takes place from the point-of-view of a laptop computer screen). They are on LiveLeak website being told that the video the... | revenge, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0092610 | Bad Taste | The New Zealand Astro Investigation and Defence Service (AIDS) sends Derek, Frank, Ozzy, and Barry to investigate the disappearance of everyone in the town of Kaihoro, North Island, New Zealand. They find the town has been overrun by space aliens disguised as humans. Barry kills one of the aliens and is attacked by oth... | cult, comedy, violence | train | imdb | It seems fitting that in the wake of the excellent Lord of the Rings films, that we should have a look at just what started director Peter Jackson on the road to being one of the worlds greatest visionaries.
Jackson started small, very small, and clawed his way up the movie ladder using nothing more than pure determina... |
tt0080388 | Atlantic City, USA | The opening close-up shot shows a knife slicing lemons. The camera pans out to Sally (Susan Sarandon) washing herself with the lemon juice in front of the window at her kitchen sink in an apartment building in Atlantic City. She is listening to the operatic soprano aria Casta Diva from Norma. From the next apartment, a... | neo noir, murder | train | imdb | Burt Lancaster gives an astonishing performance aching with melancholy in this lovely, quiet little film by Louis Malle.
He plays a one-time gangster (in his own mind at least quite a big shot) who, like the city that gives the film its title, isn't what he used to be.
Susan Sarandon, in an early-career performance, pl... |
tt0393109 | Brick | Present Day: Brendan sits by a tunnel, staring at a dead girl (Emily) lying in the water.Flashback (2 days previous): Emily slips a note in Brendans locker telling him to go to a specific phone booth. She calls the phone booth, and they talk for a little. She says shes in trouble, but uses words Brendan doesn't know to... | boring, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, flashback, clever, psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0454876 | Life of Pi | The novel begins with a note from the author, which is an integral part of it. Unusually, the note describes entirely fictional events. It serves to establish and enforce one of the book's main themes: the relativity of truth.
Life of Pi is subdivided into three sections:
=== Part one ===
In the first section, the main... | boring, depressing, magical realism, flashback, psychedelic, storytelling, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0064866 | Queimada | Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is called to the island of Queimada in the Antilles to foment a rebellion against Portuguese rule, to benefit British sugar traders. He singles out a porter named José Dolores (Evaristo Márquez) and tries to insult and humiliate him to goad him into betraying some rebellious spirit. W... | allegory, avant garde, murder, historical fiction | train | imdb | Marlon Brando's involvement in the making of "Burn" came about directly as the result of his politician idealism and his desire to make films with a comment on the human situation
In 1968 he was deeply concerned in supporting civil rights causes, particularly those to have reference to black and Indian conditions, and... |
tt0048545 | Rebel Without a Cause | Behind the opening credits, the film opens on a suburban Los Angeles street with teenager Jim Stark (Dean) drunkenly lying down on a sidewalk. He is arrested and taken to the juvenile division of the police station for "plain drunkenness". At the station he meets John "Plato" Crawford (Mineo), who was brought in for sh... | cult, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | It certainly added more to the disjointed feeling and wasn't just there for style purposes like todays movies.The only point at which the film falters is the pat resolution between Jim and his parents at the end.
His actions provide an easy way for the director/writer to answer all questions about his character, and th... |
tt0244244 | Swordfish | Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) is a highly skilled computer hacker. Having served time for infecting the FBI's Carnivore program with a computer virus, he is now on parole but forbidden from using computers. His alcoholic ex-wife Melissa (Drea de Matteo), who married a rich porn producer and is currently a part-time por... | murder, cult, violence, flashback, psychedelic, action, entertaining | train | wikipedia | (A Great Scene, Not Explict, just cool)Anyway, he is recruited by John Travolta to hack into a dormant DEA Fund worth 9.5 Billion Dollars to finance his terrorist activities.Full of Slick Dialogue, cool Direction and the simply gorgeous Halle Berry, this turns out to be a very enjoyable Thriller, with some clever twist... |
tt1059836 | Transit | The film opens up with an armored truck coming across a car accident in the middle of a road. The driver finds this suspicious and prepares to drive off, but the truck is suddenly attacked by masked robbers. The driver tries to make a break for it, but his partner is revealed to be in on the heist. They execute the dri... | violence, boring, murder | train | imdb | Coming into the movie, I suspected mediocre acting at best, a semi-terrible script, and illogical actions and decisions from the characters - keeping in mind that I had never heard of this movie until I stumbled across it by chance.
The characters did things that seem implausible - but the action and suspense of the mo... |
tt0164184 | The Sum of All Fears | During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Egyptian and Syrian forces are on the verge of defeating Israel. As a last-ditch precautionary measure, a nuclear-armed A-4 Skyhawk is launched to ensure that Israeli ground forces are not completely overrun. The fighter jet is engaged by a Syrian surface-to-air missile battery and shot ... | cult, humor, murder, suspenseful | train | imdb | I read the book "The Sum of All Fears" with fascination--Palestenians discover an Isreali nuclear device lost when the aircraft is shot down in the six day war, sell it to Al Queda, and the arab terrorists proceed to blow up Denver with said nuke.I was very much looking forward to this movie, only to find that for fear... |
tt0096028 | Salaam Bombay! | Before the start of the film, Krishna has set fire to his bullying elder brother's motor-bike. This has landed him in big trouble with his mother. She has taken him to the nearby Apollo Circus and told him that he can only come home when he earns 500 rupees to pay for the damaged bike. Krishna agrees and works for the ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1265990 | The Roommate | At the University of Los Angeles, new freshman Sara Mathews (Minka Kelly) is moving into her dorm. Her roommate isn't there yet, so Sara chooses her side of the room and settles in. She meets another freshman, Tracy (Ali Michalka) and her roommate Kim, and the three go to a frat party. Sara drinks and dances and catche... | mystery, murder | train | imdb | When Sara returns to her room, she meets her roommate Rebecca Evans (Leighton Meester) and they become friends.
If you took any kid in school sat them down and told them to write a scary horror movie that is set on a university/college campus this is pretty much what they would come up with exactly.
That is the case in... |
tt1686327 | The Oregonian | An unnamed Oregonian (Lindsay Pulsipher), the protagonist, leaves behind an abusive past as she delves into her unknown future. She wakes up bloody behind the steering wheel of a crashed Station Wagon. There are two dead people in front of the car. Did she run them over?Dazed and confused, she begins her journey to fin... | psychedelic, violence | train | imdb | Young Lindsay Pulsipher on her farm in rural Oregon is hearing and seeing many strange things so she leaves the place, rifle in hand and face bloodied to see what's going on.
On the way she encounters a lot of weird people and the question is whether this is real or hallucination.I think the person who wrote and create... |
tt1384929 | Rokland | Böddi (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) returns to the village of Krókur after 10 years of studies in Germany and he's going to change the way Icelandic people think. On his blog he preaches noble, highbrow German ideals mixed with Viking-Era romanticism. He's a bit too enthusiastic and is fired from his teaching position at the... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt1311067 | Halloween II | In a short flashback, Deborah Myers (Sheri Moon Zombie) visits her son, a young Michael Myers (Chase Wright Vanek), at Smith's Grove Sanitarium. Deborah gives Michael a white horse statuette as a gift. Michael says that the horse reminds him of a dream he had of Deborah's ghost, all dressed in white and leading a horse... | insanity, violence, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0253474 | The Pianist | "The Pianist" begins in Warsaw, Poland in September, 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War, first introducing Wladyslaw (Wladek) Szpilman, who works as a pianist for the local radio. The Polish Army has been defeated in three weeks by the German Army and Szpilman's radio station is bombed while he plays live on... | murder, dramatic, cult, violence, historical | train | imdb | null |
tt1234719 | Red Dawn | In the opening shots, there is a montage of news reports and politicians speeches about North Korea, interlaid with the opening credits and finally, the title of the movie itself appears on the screen.Spokane, Washington. There is a high school football game where Matt Eckert's (Josh Peck) team loses because he gets co... | revenge, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0053084 | The Mouse That Roared | The Mouse that RoaredThe world's smallest nation, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, which lies on the Swiss-French border, is quietly and prosperously ruled by the Grand Duchess Gloriana XII (Peter Sellers), with the assistance of the Hereditary Prime Minister, Count Rupert of Mountjoy (Peter Sellers), the Hereditary Field M... | anti war, satire | train | imdb | null |
tt0058092 | Father Goose | It's 1942, and the war in the Pacific is not going well for the Allies. At the moment, the British are evacuating the island of Salamaua, taking what they can and destroying the rest. In all the confusion, scruffy beachcomber Walter Eckland (Cary Grant) arrives, ties his launch to the pier and begins helping himself to... | comedy | train | imdb | He was nicely paired with Leslie Caron, and the two struck an engaging chemistry for these capers.Grant also had the good sense to say farewell to these leading man parts (being aware that he could never become a "character" actor) threw in the towel and moved on to better things, like Fabrege.
Cary Grant and Leslie Ca... |
tt1411697 | The Hangover Part II | Two years after the events of the first movie in Las Vegas, Stu Price, Phil Wenneck, Alan Garner and Doug Billings travel to Thailand to celebrate Stu's upcoming wedding to Lauren. Much to Alan's dismay, they are joined by Lauren's younger brother, Teddy. At the rehearsal dinner, Lauren's father's reveals his disapprov... | bleak, violence, boring, flashback | train | wikipedia | Two years ago, director Todd Phillips presented a highly creative, hilarious, raunchy, unique film comedy called The Hangover.
Bangkok instead of Vegas.Now I fully understand WHY most sequels follow the formula created by the successful original film.
not re-treads.The key characters are all back and played by the same... |
tt0082245 | Deadly Blessing | Martha (Maren Jensen) and Jim Schmidt (Douglas Barr) live on an isolated farm named 'Our Blessing', where most of the neighboring population are "Hittites", an austere religious community who according to one of the characters "make the Amish look like swingers". Jim was a Hittite, but left the community when he got ma... | violence, cult, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0117500 | The Rock | On a rainy morning at Arlington National Cemetery, Brigadier General Francis Hummel (Ed Harris) visits the grave of his wife, Barbara, who had recently passed away from an illness. He tells her that he misses her, but there is something he has to do now, and most of the world isn't going to like it. He hopes that where... | comedy, mystery, murder, violence, action, revenge | train | imdb | The name alone sounds powerful, and behind it is two hours of incredible special effects, superb acting, great action set pieces, and good dosage of writing, and Michael Bay on top of his game.Few action movies carries as much morality and questionable circumstances as this one.
The supporting staff helps as well, as w... |
tt0027387 | Born to Dance | The film's plot involves three submarine mates, Ted Barker (James Stewart), Gunny Saks (Sid Silvers), and Mush Tracy (Buddy Ebsen), arriving in New York City after four years at sea. The film opens as their sub reaches New York harbor with the sailors singing "Rolling Home." Featured in the number are Gunny, Mush, Ted ... | romantic | train | imdb | Regardless, BORN TO DANCE ranks the best of the trio, thanks to a fine score by Cole Porter, witty dialogue, particularly from the secondary characters (Sid Silvers and Una Merkel), as well as the very young James Stewart surprisingly effective singing through his soft-spoken Fred Astaire-ish style of vocalizing.The se... |
tt0167404 | The Sixth Sense | Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist in Philadelphia, returns home one night with his wife, Anna, after having been honored for his work. Anna tells Crowe that everything is second to his work, and that she believes he is truly gifted. A young man then appears in their bathroom, and accuses Crowe of failing him. Crowe r... | psychological, mystery, boring, paranormal, dramatic, cult, horror, plot twist, flashback, atmospheric, psychedelic, tragedy, suspenseful, sentimental | train | wikipedia | The surprise ending to "The Sixth Sense" has gotten so much attention that it threatens to overshadow the film.
When I first saw this film back in early 2000, I knew nothing about it other than that it was about the relationship between a psychiatrist played by Bruce Willis and a child with some sort of psychic power.
... |
tt1872194 | The Judge | Hank Palmer (Robert Downey Jr.) is one of the best defense attorneys in Chicago. He's in the bathroom at the courthouse when the prosecuting attorney Mike Kattan (David Krumholtz) questions his ethics and the fact that he defends so many guilty people. Hank tells him that innocent people can't afford him. Kattan asks h... | melodrama, flashback, plot twist, murder, home movie | train | imdb | Not a simple courtroom drama at all, the story is more about Hank Palmer (Downey)'s struggle to understand his relationship with his father and to accept where he came from.
This movie is definitely worth sitting through for amazing performances by both Downey and Duvall, who could both be up for Oscar nominations for ... |
tt2176668 | Er ci pu guang | Song Qi is a young woman with a sad past, having been orphaned in tragic circumstances. Her father was lost at sea when she was a child; years later, she witnessed the murder of her mother.Currently, Song Qi lives in Beijing, where she works for a plastic surgeon doing computerized facial reconstructions. Her boyfriend... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1699231 | Quarantine 2: Terminal | Los Angeles. Jenny and Paula are two female flight attendants on their way to LAX for a flight to Nashville, at the gate they meet George. George frequently flies to his parents on either side of the country and rejects Jenny's attempts at kindness and guide of control. Aboard the plane, we meet the rest of the crew an... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0203009 | Moulin Rouge! | In the year 1900, a British writer named Christian (Ewan McGregor), suffering from depression, begins writing on his typewriter ("Nature Boy"). As Christian narrates, the film flashes back to one year earlier upon Christian's move to the Montmartre district of Paris to become a writer among members of the area's Bohemi... | dramatic, flashback, psychedelic, satire, tragedy, sentimental | train | wikipedia | The cast fills their roles with relish, even when the entire scene totters on the edge of overkill--but oddly enough, it is the focus that sets "Moulin Rouge" apart from other films these days.
A telling comparison: Luhrmann has Nicole Kidman and Ewen MacGregor sing the film's love song.
Witness Luhrmann's audacity: th... |
tt0109412 | Chik loh go yeung | ''Basic Instinct'' meets ''Nikita'' with a touch of ''Vertigo'': a cop with various male-related problems finds himself involved with a group of feuding female assassins, and is convinced one of them is his former girlfriend !Kitty (Chingmy Yau) is a vicious young woman who has no qualms about stabbing girlfriend-bully... | neo noir, cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | If you've been wondering what all the fuss is about Hong Kong cinema, but didn't know where to start, watch this very sexy very action packed film about a bunch of too beautiful to believe lesbian hit women.
Sure, John Woo did make the best Hong Kong films around, but this is the sexiest.
There is one watershed scene (... |
tt2193215 | The Counselor | A high-level cartel lawyer (never addressed by any name except as "the Counselor") and his girlfriend Laura are talking sexily in bed. Meanwhile, somewhere in Mexico, cocaine is packaged in barrels and concealed in a sewage truck, driven across the border and stored at a sewage treatment plant.
After the Counselor goes... | neo noir, philosophical, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | With three of his novels being adapted into critically acclaimed films, Cormac McCarthy has opted to try his hand at screen writing, and the fruits of his labor can be seen in The Counselor.
Directed by Ridley Scott, the film stars Michael Fassbender as a high-priced lawyer who decides to dabble in something a bit less... |
tt0301976 | The United States of Leland | The film begins with a flashback narrated by Leland P. Fitzgerald, describing how he could not remember the details of the day that he killed an intellectually disabled boy named Ryan Pollard. Leland is arrested. Ryan's parents, Harry and Karen, sisters Becky and Julie, and Julie's live-in boyfriend Allen grieve the lo... | murder, bleak, violence, revenge, flashback, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077269 | The Boys from Brazil | Young, well-intentioned Barry Kohler (Steve Guttenberg) stumbles upon a secret organization of Third Reich war criminals holding clandestine meetings in Paraguay and finds that Dr Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), the infamous Auschwitz doctor, is with them. He phones Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), an aging Nazi hunter... | murder | train | wikipedia | A lesser actor would find playing the part of a Nazi Death Doctor, responsible for some of the worst atrocities in human history, a perfect excuse to ham it up and click into the black-hatted, moustache-twisting token villain.The less impressive acting of Steve Guttenberg overacting into a telephone and Jeremy Black wi... |
tt0052169 | The Screaming Skull | Eric and Jenni Whitlock arrive at the stately home that he shared with his former wife to ostensibly recapture his happiness and reinvigorate the abandoned home. Eric's new wife, Jenni is a sensitive and impressionable person who needs encouragement and companionship. They appear to be very much in love and Eric declar... | cult | train | imdb | Comments about a lack of gore and such are pretty telling as to the age and tastes of those who hate this flick so passionately.The Screaming Skull is a creepy, atmospheric tale that relies on mood rather than effects to generate chills.
"The Screaming Skull" IS NOT A BAD MOVIE!"Mystery Science Theater 3000" is not the... |
tt1340138 | Terminator Genisys | In the year 2029, John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human Resistance against Skynet launches a massive final offensive on Los Angeles. He is notified by his unit, Tech-Com, that Skynet will attack on two fronts in the past and future, thereby changing warfare forever. Connor sets up two attack forces, one to st... | good versus evil, humor, murder, sci-fi, flashback | train | imdb | As the tough leader of the human resistance sends Sgt. Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) and safeguard the future, an incredible turn of deeds creates a fractured time-line .
I probably won't be watching it like 30 times like Judgement Day, but its not like I expected it to ... |
tt0094715 | Beaches | The story of two friends from different backgrounds, whose friendship spans more than 35 years through childhood, love, and tragedy: Cecilia Carol "C.C." Bloom (Bette Midler), a New York actress and singer, and Hillary Whitney (Barbara Hershey), a San Francisco heiress and lawyer. The film begins with middle-aged C.C. ... | melodrama, sentimental, flashback | train | wikipedia | Some of us may never find our romantic long-lasting "soul mate", but this movie makes the excellent point of showing that if you find a true friend in life you are truly blessed..
from the hilarious 'Otto Titsling' song (which had me in creases!) to the powerful and emotional ending to the film, in which 'Wind Beneath ... |
tt1038043 | Mammoth | Leo and Ellen are a successful New York couple, totally immersed in their work. Leo is the creator of a booming gaming website, and has stumbled into a world of money and big decisions. He has to board a business flight to Thailand in order to sign a contract. What ensues in the next few days is a critique on the socia... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0052784 | El esqueleto de la señora Morales | Pablo Morales (Arturo de Cordova) is a quiet down-to-earth taxidermist who enjoys his humble work and loves children and animals. His wife Gloria (Amparo Rivelles) is a hypochondriac who suffers psychologically from a physical deformation and sees her husbands work as well as his mild affection as pornographic. Their l... | comedy, murder | train | imdb | The director/writer had one brilliantly mad sense of humor..
This film is charmingly macabre, about a taxidermist with a sincere love and lust for life, and his terrible antithesis of a wife.
The performances are absolutely convincing, and the pompous catholic padre is unforgettable during the confession at the end, as... |
tt2051879 | Europa Report | The whole movie is made to look like it was made from a collection of recovered video footage. The movie begins with an introductory screen saying, "The Europa One mission was the first attempt to send men and women into deep space." Various camera feeds are shown of the ship's interior and exterior. In one video, Engi... | boring, storytelling, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt2404181 | Belle | Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay was born in 1761, the natural daughter of Maria Belle, an enslaved African woman in the West Indies, and Captain Sir John Lindsay, a British Royal Navy officer. After the death of Dido's mother, Captain Lindsay takes Dido to England in 1765 and entrusts her to his uncle William Murray, 1st ... | historical | train | imdb | null |
tt0060616 | La lama nel corpo | THE MURDER CLINIC aka THE BLADE IN THE BODY [MORLEY 1870]
As the lights go down at night in a remote mental asylum, Ivan (Germano Longo as Grant Laramy) is in bed with Katty (Rosella Burgamonti as Patricia Carr), one of the nurses. He begs her to stay longer, but she tells him she must get back to work. Dr. Vance gets ... | gothic, murder | train | imdb | Sadly neglected Gothic giallo..
Mary is a new nurse at the prestigious Vance Clinic which is run by Dr. Robert Vance and his wife Elizabeth.A female thief named Giselle is put in the clinic by Dr.Vance.She begins to hear strange sounds in the attic and discovers badly disfigured woman there.In the meantime a mysterious... |
tt0177789 | Galaxy Quest | Galaxy Quest was once a popular "geek" TV show that eventually got cancelled but was so popular among a a cult group that it has spawned 18 annual conventions where fans gather, often in costumes based on the shows, to watch old episodes, meet cast members and actors who played even bit parts on single episodes. At Ga... | comedy, murder, cult, feel-good, good versus evil, satire, entertaining | train | imdb | While it poked fun at science fiction and its fans, it never resorted to the kind of mockery you see in other films.Galaxy Quest is a solid, funny movie.
Tim Allen doing William Shatner doing a Heroic Spaceship Captain is worth the rental all by itself, not to mention Alan Rickman's memorably dry performance as the I-A... |
tt3381008 | Grimsby | The opening scene shows Nobby Butcher (Sacha Baron Cohen) and his wife Dawn (Rebel Wilson) having passionate sex. Turns out they're in a mattress store testing out the product, to the disgust of one of the store's employees. They buy the mattress and take it home, where their children help them with taking it upstairs.... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, absurd, humor, satire, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0324133 | Swimming Pool | Sarah Morton, a middle-aged English mystery author, who has written a successful series of detective novels, is having writer's block that is impeding her next book. Sarah's publisher, John Bosload, offers her his country house near Lacoste, France for some rest and relaxation. Sarah takes him up on the offer, hinting ... | pornographic, cruelty, murder, dramatic, flashback, psychedelic, plot twist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0072195 | Space Is the Place | A spaceship travels through space. Sun Ra Arkestra singer June Tyson sings, "It's after the end of the world - don't you know that yet?" The camera tracks over a painting of a forest.Sun Ra walks through a forest, followed by a mirror-faced person. Strange alien life forms surround him. Sun Ra says the planet he is on ... | cult, psychedelic, blaxploitation | train | imdb | null |
tt0405094 | Das Leben der Anderen | The Lives of Others is at once a political thriller and a human drama. The film opens in East Berlin in 1984 with a sequence that alternates scenes from an interrogation with scenes from a training class for aspiring officers of the Stasi, or secret police. Stasi Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), code name HGW XX/7, ... | psychological, suspenseful, murder, mystery, dramatic, intrigue, flashback, humor, romantic, historical | train | imdb | Many of these snitches were blackmailed or other pressures exerted (threats to children and loved ones) and a few obliged voluntarily.What is truly amazing is that this is Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's directorial debut, and he maintains a masterful hand throughout and keeps the story and the tension rolling from ... |
tt0775536 | Skid Marks | "SKID MARKS" is the hilarious tale of two rival ambulance companies and their misfit medics; the Bayside Ambulatory Life Services ( B.A.L.S) team and the Downtown Intensive Care (D.I.C.) Unit. When budget cuts strike their quiet town of Bayside, it's clear one ambulance unit must go. Now with their jobs on the line, th... | cult, sadist, prank | train | imdb | For me, it felt very much like the 1980's comedies of which when I was closer to my son's age just loved.
Titles that came to mind were Police Academy, Moving Violations, Stripes (Ox/John Candy being the Karl character, Rich being the Bill Murray character, the female love interest the nudity and raunchiness in general... |
tt0097722 | Lean on Me | In 1987, Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, is plagued with numerous problems, especially drugs and gang violence. Furthermore, the students scored poorly on the state's test of minimum basic skills.During the opening credits sequence, after a teacher is brutally beaten in the cafeteria for trying to break u... | violence | train | imdb | Lean on Me is based around the experiences of Joe Clark (Morgan Freeman), who becomes the principal of a destitute New Jersey high school plagued with violence, drugs, and abysmal academic performance.
Despite outside resistance Clark becomes a pillar of hope for numerous students inspired by his harsh but ultimately u... |
tt0410764 | Tideland | Jeliza-Rose lives in Los Angeles with her junkie parents. Their only income is from her father's rock concerts and Jeliza-Rose only has a few belongings, mostly just broken toys and a hardcover copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. When she isn't imagining things in her mind, she's busy looking after her parents an... | fantasy, avant garde, cult, alternate reality, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, storytelling | train | imdb | null |
tt0458481 | Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | Like the first Sin City film, this one is made up of sub-stories that, in some way or another, tie in to the main plot.Just Another Saturday Night:Marv (Mickey Rourke) is thrown from a vehicle. He has no idea how he got there or what just happened. There's a dead body lying near him. He grabs his pills and pops several... | comedy, dark, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, revenge | train | imdb | It's both.) I don't get all the criticism of how this "look" has grown tiresome --not for me in 3D.All the actors in big roles to small look like they are having a sinful amount of fun, but Joseph Gordon-Levitt is almost as strong as Green in a new role in one the new stories written for the movie.
If you saw "Looper" ... |
tt0378230 | The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration | Littlefoot has nightmares involving the "Great Circle", and when he mentions it to his grandparents, they reveal they are sharing the experience, with Grandpa lamenting that they need to go somewhere. Led only by their instinct, they leave the next day. Out of curiosity, Cera, Spike, Ducky, and Petrie follow them. Duri... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The Great Longneck Migration.
The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration, the tenth installment in the Land Before Time series.
This is the best sequel I have seen so far!
Seriously, this is a really good animated film and deserves a higher rating.
Again, I am so confused, when I started watching these movies... |
tt0164912 | Stuart Little | The film opens with Fredrick and Eleanor Little (Hugh Laurie and Geena Davis) and their son George (played by Jonathan Lipnicki) on the day they are intending an adoption. George wants to go to the orphanage with them, but has to go to school. While George is at school, the Littles go to the orphanage where, among all ... | psychedelic, comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0989757 | Dear John | Special Forces Army Sergeant John Tyree (Channing Tatum) is home on a two-week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John is smitten by Savannah and falls in love at first sight. Savannah is a college stude... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0036241 | The Outlaw | In 1880, in Lincoln, New Mexico, newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett (Thomas Mitchell) is pleased to see his old comrade Doc Holliday (Walter Huston) arriving on the stage coach.Doc Holliday has had his horse Red stolen and has a hunch the horse may be in Lincoln.In town, they get a lead that a horse fitting Doc's desc... | revenge, murder | train | imdb | Vintage alone gives the film status.There's nothing wrong with anecdotal (vignette) - points-of-view movies, but in "The Outlaw", it was like watching one of those lumbering, exasperating silent films: where the actors stand across from each other, and each speaks their lines as if orchestrated by an off-stage conducto... |
tt0808510 | Tooth Fairy | Derek Thompson (Dwayne Johnson) is a minor league hockey player nicknamed the "Tooth Fairy" for hitting opposing players so hard that he knocks out their teeth. One night, Derek steals a dollar from his girlfriend Carly's (Ashley Judd) six-year-old daughter Tess (Destiny Whitlock) that had been left for her lost tooth ... | fantasy, entertaining | train | wikipedia | I don't know what the rest of these reviewers were watching but I took my 11-year-old to see this at the theater; and she used her hard-earned money to buy it on DVD as soon as it became available.It's a feel-good story of a jaded and cynical man who realizes that it's okay to dream; it's okay to believe in things you ... |
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