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tt0472399 | The Mechanic | The film opens following a man as his plane lands at a private hangar and he makes his way to his mansion with his armed guard escort. The man changes into his swimwear and proceeds to get into his private pool to have a swim. As he swims he notices his watch at the bottom of the pool and swims down to retrieve it. An ... | revenge, action, murder, violence | train | imdb | It was marketed as an action film, with good death scenes, mildly intriguing characters, and a simple plot and it delivered exactly on cue.
In the last decade, Statham has consistently delivered hard hitting B Action films and if your a fan of the old school, 80's/90's R rated action, the mechanic is a must watch.
Ben ... |
tt1213856 | Du saram-yida | A young girl is followed by a "curse" that is killing off many of her family and friends in the most brutal ways imaginable. Will she be able to discover the secret behind this murderous mystery before she too becomes it's victim?The movie begins with a child witnessing a woman's mysterious murder with her blood smeari... | mystery, cruelty, gothic, suspenseful, murder, cult, horror, violence, haunting, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, romantic, tragedy, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | Pretty good K-Horror film starring Yoon Jin-Seo as Ga-in, a young lady who seems to have a good life.
She does okay in school, has parents, a younger sister and a good boyfriend.
The story begins unfolding when her aunt is thrown from a balcony on her wedding day by her own sister.
If you like horror check this out.
If... |
tt0111257 | Speed | In a downtown office building, an express elevator's cables are blown, and 13 people are trapped inside. Los Angeles Police dispatch their men, including Officer Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) and Detective Harry Temple (Jeff Daniels). Capt. McMahon (Joe Morton) briefs the men on the situation: bombs have already knocked o... | comedy, boring, mystery, murder, cult, revenge, violence, good versus evil, humor, action, claustrophobic, romantic, suspenseful | train | imdb | I just love this movie, alongside with The Matrix, Johnny Mnemonic and Point Break is one of my favorite action film of Keanu Reeves.
Speed is simply similar to other sequel movie like are Die Hard With A Vengeance (1995) that come out one year later, when Sandra was handcuffed on the train and Keanu was saving her, th... |
tt0331811 | 11:14 | The film involves a series of interconnected events that converge around two car-related accidents at 11:14 p.m. The connections between the events are not apparent at first, but are gradually revealed by a series of progressively receding flashbacks:
=== Part 1 ===
11:13 - 11:33
Jack (Henry Thomas), who has been drink... | mystery, violence, comedy, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | It's actually 5 stories that all take place in a small town in middle America at around 11pm on a random night.Characters keep running into each other and bad bad things happen, but the stories are all strung together in really clever, often darkly funny ways.
We haven't seen Crash, but it looks like we should, and whi... |
tt0381061 | Casino Royale | The movie begins in a black-and-white sequence in the city of Prague, Czech Republic, where James Bond has tracked down an MI6 section chief, Dryden, who has been selling information to enemies for profit. They chat about what it takes to be a 00- agent (one of the requirements is making two confirmed kills) and Bond c... | mystery, murder, realism, violence, cult, intrigue, plot twist, flashback, action, romantic, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0068716 | Tower of Evil | The movie opens with a boat cruising through heavy fog, on a spooky night. The boat lands on a rocky island (Snape) and two older seaman go on shore. Soon they find a severed hand with a large spider on it. After they see the male body it was attached too, they decide to go into the lighthouse to investigate. Sure enou... | good versus evil, violence, murder, flashback | train | imdb | As early 70s horror flicks go, Tower of Evil (a.k.a Horror of Snape Island) has a greater-than-expected amount of sex and gore.
Once there, the archaeologists soon learn that their lives are in grave danger, as they are picked off one by one by an unknown killer.Tower of Evil has become a cult film, probably because it... |
tt0088206 | Supergirl | Kara Zor-El lives in an isolated Kryptonian community named Argo City, in a pocket of trans-dimensional space. A man named Zaltar allows Kara to see a unique and immensely powerful item known as the Omegahedron, which he has borrowed without the knowledge of the city government, and which powers the city. However, afte... | good versus evil, cult, psychedelic, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | I am forced to scream at the screen however; Why the hell do you wear a camera if you aren't going to use it when a major news piece flies into your lap?I remember being dismissive of Supergirl when I was younger; due in part to the use of magic which has no part in the Superman films, but mainly I suspect due to the l... |
tt0036244 | The Ox-Bow Incident | The Ox-Bow Incident takes place in Nevada in 1885 and begins with Art Croft (Harry Morgan) and Gil Carter (Henry Fonda) riding into the town of Bridger's Wells. They go into Darby's Saloon and find that the atmosphere is subdued, in part because of the recent incidents of cattle-rustling (the stealing of livestock) in ... | cult, murder | train | imdb | Too many filmmakers these days think that a long running time is what makes a great film; but Wellman has proved that tight plotting and an important story are the far more important aspects.
Henry Fonda is quite good, as usual, in the closest thing the movie has to a main character, but it seems pointless to single hi... |
tt0081114 | Maniac | A young couple are lying on a beach, being watched by an unseen man lurking on the dunes. The woman asks the man to fetch some wood for their fire. While he is gone, the unseen man approaches the woman and suddenly slits her throat with a razor. After gathering some driftwood from the surf, the guy returns to the campf... | realism, murder, violence, cult, horror, sadist | train | imdb | This guy has a lot of heart, and it shows.Maniac isn't the fastest paced movie, but it has some of the most awesome graphic violence that 80's horror produced (thank you Tom Savini!).
I'd first like to applaud Tom Savini for his work here; MANIAC contains some of the most realistic and unrestrained gore fx I've seen; p... |
tt3044882 | Nasha | The story is set in Panchgani, a hill station. Saahil and his gang of friends are a bunch of teenagers in school who have their share of fun and pranks. Saahil has a girlfriend called Tia. During the summer break, he and his friends are introduced to Anita, the new dramatics teacher. She decides to make them do a play.... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0046931 | Dragnet | On Saturday April 9, 1954, Miller Starkey, a small-time hood who works for West Coast mob second-in-command Max Edward Troy, is palling with Troy in a field when he sees hitman Chester Davitt appear over a nearby hill, sawed-off shotgun in hand. Starkey turns but is pushed by Troy and is promptly shot by Davitt.Sgt. Jo... | murder | train | imdb | Jack Webb is fantastically straight as Joe Friday; he never had a better role.
Everyone in the movie is great, but the standouts are Virginia Gregg as the murdered man's alcoholic and handicapped wife, Stacy Harris as Max Troy, insincere head of the crime syndicate, and Richard Boone as the police captain, who says to... |
tt0444653 | Keeping Mum | In the opening scene, as pregnant young Rosie Jones (Emilia Fox) rides on a train, her very large trunk starts leaking blood. When questioned by the police, she calmly reveals that the two dismembered bodies inside are of her unfaithful husband and his mistress. She is then sentenced by the judge (Roger Hammond) to a s... | comedy, revenge, dark, murder | train | wikipedia | The rest of the cast play their archetypal characters or in the case of Patrick Swayze's caricature well.Though I was able to predict the overall plot, the story is entertaining and there is a gentle message about marital problems, the generation gap and hypocrisy.
I chuckled all the way home - think I'll go see it aga... |
tt1220628 | I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell | Two police officers are called to report to a domestic disturbance, with the possibility of a severe case of animal abuse. Neighbors are reporting noises which sound like an animal being cruelly abused. The police barge into the apartment and find Tucker Max (Matt Czuchry) having rough sex with a girl doggy style. The ... | comedy | train | imdb | Having read the book a couple of years ago, I followed the movie's production blog with great excitement.Tucker mentioned possible Oscar nomination for the script, more than $200M at the box office and revolutionizing Hollywood.I walked into the theater with 2 other male friends in late 20s - both lawyers, one of whom ... |
tt2562232 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | In the opening shot, what appears to be booster rockets from a space shuttle shoot through the sky.Note: Almost everything from here until the final scene is designed to look like one continuous shot -- long takes by a single camera, edited together to look like one seamless shot, similar to Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 exp... | comedy, dark, psychological, violence, alternate reality, magical realism, psychedelic, satire | train | imdb | It seems to me that the majority of moviegoers who have chosen to review here are only capable of viewing a movie at face value.This movie is clearly a satirical look at Hollywood and the constant need to remain relevant in the entertainment industry.I will admit that the film does appear unnecessarily "artsy" in place... |
tt1692504 | Wir sind die Nacht | The film opens with several images of three young women. The images date further and further back until ending in the late 18th century.In a private airplane, the people and the pilots are dead. The only survivors, three young women, are the obvious killers. The leader of these women finds an air-hostess still alive. A... | dark, gothic | train | imdb | null |
tt2908446 | Insurgent | Picking up shortly where the first film, 'Divergent' ended, Jeanine Matthews (Kate Winslet) sends a message to every faction in the city. She says that after the war, peace seemed unattainable. Now, she feels the opposite way, and that peace can be achieved so long as they purge the city of their one enemy - the Diverg... | suspenseful, murder, stupid, violence, revenge, flashback, good versus evil, action, romantic, sci-fi | train | imdb | And after seeing Insurgent, that sadness was justified.Robert Schawkle or whatever his name is did an awful job making the 2nd book into a movie.
This movie strayed so far from the story in the book, title should be Insurgent Undone.They even had a bigger budget for this film, yet made it shorter in length, cramming sc... |
tt0454824 | Flyboys | World War I began in Europe in 1914, but by 1917, the United States had still not entered the war. However, many brave young American men went to France to fly and fight for the Allied powers. They joined the Lafayette Escadrille fighter squadron. The Germans had better planes, weapons, and pilots. The average life exp... | revenge, romantic | train | imdb | These men had a sense of adventure and romance of war, and they believed in "dying with honor." The movie uses a composite of these qualities of the actual pilots, and yes, there really was a black pilot in the squadron.
I think the writers could have used the real pilots' stories and names, and it would have been a be... |
tt0020668 | The Bat Whispers | The Bat has struck again, making off with a priceless necklace even after warning the police that he would rob the safe at precisely 1 a.m., after which he intends to go to country in order to give the police a rest. On his way through the village of Oakdale, the Bat notices someone robbing the Oakdale bank. Intrigued,... | melodrama | train | imdb | West filmed The Bat in 1926 as a silent, with great success.
(Being willing to "go with it" is pretty much a necessity in general for this film, which was a wild and unrealistic ride in its time, and deliberately so.) The photography benefits from a number of technical innovations, including a lightweight camera dolly... |
tt0074156 | Assault on Precinct 13 | The story takes place on a Saturday in Anderson, a crime-infested ghetto in South Central Los Angeles. Members of a local gang known as 'Street Thunder' have recently stolen a large number of assault rifles and pistols. The film begins at 3 a.m. that morning, as a team of heavily-armed LAPD officers ambush and kill six... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence, cult, good versus evil, claustrophobic, tragedy, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | Set in gang-riddled Los Angeles in the 1970s, director John Carpenter was inspired to make a film that was basically a combination of Rio Bravo (1959) and Night of the Living Dead (1968) with rookie cop Ethan Bishop in John Wayne's Rio Bravo role/Duane Jones' Ben, a recently vacated police precinct as the small town ja... |
tt0056443 | Tsubaki Sanjûrô | Nine young samurai, including his nephew, believe that the lord chamberlain, Mutsuta, is corrupt after he tore up their petition against organised crime and argued that maybe he himself was behind the crimes. One of them tells the superintendent of this and he agrees to intervene. As the nine meet secretly at a shrine ... | comedy, cult, violence, atmospheric, humor, satire | train | wikipedia | Not a few Japanese actually prefer the former to the latter, and it's easy to see why: It is stylistically more polished and smarter than Yojimbo and Mifune is 'cooler' as well - he shows a brilliant leadership and every Mifune fan would be really delighted to see how his young, naive disciples run after him like chick... |
tt0119558 | Lolita | Set in the 1950s, the film begins in medias res near the end of the story, with a confrontation between two men: one of them, Clare Quilty, drunk and incoherent, plays Chopin's Polonaise in A major, Op. 40, No. 1 on the piano before being shot from behind a portrait painting of a young woman. The shooter is Humbert Hum... | tragedy, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0084412 | Night Shift | The movie opens with pimp Franklin (Julius LeFlore) being chased through the New York City night by gangsters Cleon (Badja Djola) and Pig (Richard Belzer). They catch him and punish him for not giving them a cut of his prostitution profits by dropping him out a high-rise window. As the body is transported to the New Yo... | neo noir | train | imdb | null |
tt0027545 | Dracula's Daughter | NOTE: "Dracula's Daughter" picks up from where "Dracula" (1931) ends.Two constables find Professor Van Helsing [Edward van Sloan] in the crypt standing over the bodies of Dracula and Renfield. They take Van Helsing into custody because "this is a case for Scotland Yard." Dracula's body is stolen by his daughter, the Co... | comedy, murder | train | imdb | Van Helsing seeks the aid of his old student, psychiatrist Jeffrey Garth, to prove his innocence.Meanwhile, in a truly unusual scene, the body of Count Dracula is stolen from a pair of bumbling policemen by Countess Marya Zaleska and her pale, sinister servant Sandor.
Most tellingly, he notes that her apartment does no... |
tt0448157 | Hancock | John Hancock (Will Smith) is an alcoholic man with superhero powers, including flight, invulnerability, and super-strength. Though he uses his powers to stop criminals in his current residence of Los Angeles, his activity inadvertently causes millions of dollars in property damage due to his constant intoxication. As a... | revenge, violence, plot twist | train | wikipedia | Well, from the looks of it, Smith also guarantees you at least a mildly entertaining film, which is what we get in his latest movie, Hancock.
He can make you laugh, cheer, cry, and even root for his character (who is a total ass, as he is reminded a number of times throughout the movie) no matter what kind of shenaniga... |
tt0422720 | Marie Antoinette | Based on the award-winning biography Marie Antoinette: The Journey by British author, Lady Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette is a sympathetic account of the private life of the last queen of France before the Revolution.Opening in the year 1770, Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna (Kirsten Dunst), affectionately known as Ant... | alternate reality, intrigue, atmospheric, historical, alternate history, storytelling | train | imdb | null |
tt0377092 | Mean Girls | Cady (Lindsay Lohan) is the 16-year-old home-schooled daughter of zoologist parents (Ana Gasteyer and Neil Flynn). They have returned to the United States after residing in Africa for 12 years for their research. Cady is unprepared for her first day of public high school. With the help of Janis (Lizzy Caplan) and Damie... | comedy, dramatic, cult, clever, humor, satire, romantic, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0070039 | El espanto surge de la tumba | France, mid-1400s: As the executioners read off a list of the nefarious crimes of the blood-drinking sorcerer Aleric du Marnac [Paul Naschy] and his mistress Mabille de Lancré [Helga Liné], Aleric curses his brother Armand [Paul Naschy] and friend Andre Roland [Vic Winner], the two who denounced him, and all their desc... | paranormal, revenge, gothic, murder, violence | train | imdb | A nightmare ensues for a group of people as the head sets forth to reunite with it's body.Sadly, most people in this world will never know the immense joy that this film can bring...but for the luckier few of us, this zany little Gothic horror picture delivers the goods with the very best of them.
Grand entertainment, ... |
tt0110255 | Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor | The camera pans along the outside of Sante Federal Penitentiary and into the cell of David Sloane (Sasha Mitchell). David is writing a letter to his wife, Vicky (Deborah Mansy), talking to her about how he was framed for a crime he didn't commit, at the hands of Tong Po. David begins talking about events that began whe... | revenge, cult, violence | train | imdb | You're a fool if you expect something like this to be very good.There's a lot of action in this movie, and a lot of fighting.
Sasha mitchell is surprisingly good, doing a decent impression of someone playing a leading man, but it's his high kicks we want to see, and we get them in spades.Before i go any further, you sh... |
tt2140553 | The Last of Us | In September 2013, an outbreak of a mutant Cordyceps fungus ravages the United States, transforming its human hosts into cannibalistic monsters known as infected. In the suburbs of Austin, Texas, Joel (Troy Baker) flees the chaos with his brother Tommy (Jeffrey Pierce) and daughter Sarah (Hana Hayes). As they flee, Sar... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0120776 | One True Thing | A very true movie. So true I could not watch it until now. From someone who has been there, seen it, lived through it, I can say it was written by someone who was there as well. The story is of a young woman, Ellen (Renee Zellweger) who comes home for the weekend from her busy life in the city and with a possible writi... | tragedy, romantic, melodrama | train | imdb | What impressed me the most about "One True Thing" was how up-front it was when the daughter mentions her mother's cancer at the beginning of the movie.
As depressing the subject matter was, it was a refreshing change of pace instead of being blindsided with the revelation about a character's fatal illness 2/3 into the ... |
tt0102005 | Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man | In Texas, a man hears a news report about a new designer drug called Crystal Dream, highly addictive and administered by rubbing small amounts in the eyes. He leaves a woman he'd shacked up with and rides across the American Southwest region, avoiding major highways & staying on a route that runs parallel to the Mexica... | cult, comedy | train | imdb | They also help each other regardless if it will cost their live because in their mind "It's better to be dead and cool, than alive and uncool." (Harley Davidson) Of course this attitude brings them nothing but trouble but those two take it the macho-way and stand to whatever comes up.
Fortunately, the characterizations... |
tt0081698 | Used Cars | The New Deal Used Car lot in Arizona is in danger of being taken over by the Roy L Fuchs car dealership across the roadway where they do business. Both dealerships are run by twin brothers, Roy L Fuchs and Luke Fuchs (both played by Jack Warden). However, Roy L's dealership is easily the more lucrative than his brother... | cult, satire, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0093870 | RoboCop | The movie opens with a news report advertising the way of life in this future, which seems to be far from ideal. Among other stories, three police officers have been murdered and a fourth, Frank Frederickson, has been left critically injured in an attack by unofficial Old Detroit crime boss Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, action, satire, romantic, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt1054588 | Flash of Genius | On his wedding night in 1953, an errant champagne cork renders college engineering professor Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) almost completely blind in his left eye. A decade later, he is happily married to Phyllis (Lauren Graham) and the father of six children. As he drives his Ford Galaxie through a light rain, the cons... | romantic, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1270835 | Hatchet II | Picking up immediately where the first film ended, Marybeth (Danielle Harris) is attacked by Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder), but manages to escape. Jack Cracker finds her, pulls her out of the river, and takes her back to his cabin. After finding out her last name, he forces her to leave, telling her that if she wants he... | violence | train | wikipedia | Chet's Hat. It started off quite different to the first; after spending some time explaining things about the killer however, things returned to campy slasher territory.This time, Tony Todd takes hunters into the woods so the cast consists of older people mostly.Perhaps because of watching many films commissioned by sc... |
tt0105428 | Sleepwalkers | "Sleep'walk'er n. Nomadic shapeshifting creatures with human and feline origins. Vulnerable to the deadly scratch of the cat, the sleepwalker feeds upon the lifeforce of virginal human females. Probable source of the vampire legend." - Chillicoathe Encyclopedia of Arcane Knowledge, 1st edition, 1884.Ever-so-virginal Ta... | horror, cult, dark, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0107497 | Malice | A young college coed is leaving school for the day. She jumps on her bike and heads home. Upon arriving, she calls out to her cat to come for her meal. She spies the cat cowering under a table, growling softly. Just as she comes close to reassure her cat, a mysterious figure comes out from the shadow and violently atta... | revenge, intrigue, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | The first time through, MALICE is a great psychological thriller, with twists and turns through a plot that contains rape, murder, life-and-death trauma, and a fight to the death...all within the first 45 minutes.
The second time through, though, provides a look at all the things you might have missed the first time ar... |
tt0090274 | Volunteers | Lawrence (Tom Hanks), a partying, womanizing, college student with a gambling problem, runs up a large bill with a powerful gangster who has waited long enough for his money. The obnoxious, smart mouthed Lawrence was born into a lot of money, but his father refuses to bail him out of this one. When a thug comes to coll... | brainwashing | train | imdb | I don't see why this film has such a bad reputation, and is probably regarded as the worst in Tom Hanks' career.
Adding to the comic relief are Gedde Watanabe (of "Sixteen Candles") and the always-funny John Candy.
"Volunteers" successfully spoofs more classic films than any other - from Casablanca, through Bridge over... |
tt0368891 | National Treasure | As the movie opens, the young Benjamin Franklin Gates (Hunter Gomez) is snooping around an attic when his grandfather, John Adams Gates (Christopher Plummer) catches him. Ben wants to hear the story of the Gates family history, so his grandfather begins reciting:In 1832, Charles Carroll --- the last surviving signer of... | cult, action, historical, boring, flashback | train | imdb | together with Riley, they provided the tickles that brought the audience through the entire film.with no explicit language and scenes, National Treasure is well-suited for family entertainment!
This was a fun film, sort of like an Indian Jones movie, but the treasure hunter must figure out clues.
The plot is just like ... |
tt0075936 | Desperate Living | In an affluent Baltimore suburb, all hell is about to break loose in the home of the Gravels. Bosley Gravel (George Stover) has a discussion on the front porch with Dr. Evans (Al Strapelli). Gravel has had his wife Peggy (Mink Stole) released from a mental institution; Evans feels she should have stayed for a while lon... | comedy, murder, allegory, cult, violence, insanity, absurd, psychedelic | train | imdb | All of John Waters' early films, beyond being purposefully shocking and repulsive, have this really tangible dirty, raunchy quality to them.
Waters has a special gift for compiling the most disgusting items and the most disgusting combinations of items (lesbian glory holes, marshmallows and Cheez-its, egg-addicted 250-... |
tt0079219 | Going in Style | Joe (George Burns), Al (Art Carney), and Willie (Lee Strasberg) are three senior citizens who share a small apartment in Brooklyn, New York City. They are three retirees who live off monthly social security checks and spend their summer days sitting on a bench in a nearby park, reading newspapers, feeding pigeons, and ... | comedy, satire | train | imdb | A short preview of this film on television might suggest a zany comedy in which old age-jokes fly fast and furious, but "Going in Style" is in fact a serious film, with only bits of humor thrown in here and there.
George Burns is Joe, a man who suggests to his two roommates (Art Carney and Lee Strasberg) that they rob ... |
tt0106342 | Bai fa mo nu zhuan | A narrative voice explains that in the Shun Chi years of the Ching Dynasty, the Emperor of China had fallen gravely ill. In pursuit of a legendary rose, which blossomed once every twenty years and which supposedly has the power to restore life to the nearly dead, an envoy was sent to Mount Shin Fung, where the flower w... | tragedy, revenge, cult, violence | train | imdb | This movie is a perfect, heart felt, tragic love story.
What is so great about this movie is the brilliant acting, incredible cinematography, great music and the most un-like Hollywood ending you'll ever see.
Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Lin played their character very well and their acting was great.
Oscar Winner Peter ... |
tt0440963 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Following his pursuit by Kirill (in The Bourne Supremacy), Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) evades Moscow police while wounded, and deals with more flashbacks of when he first joined Operation Treadstone. Six weeks later, CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) divulges the audiotaped confession of Ward Abbott, the late... | mystery, boring, murder, violence, flashback, action, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070547 | Il plenilunio delle vergini | Karl Schiller [Mark Damon] thinks he may have located Wagner's Ring of Nibelungen
at Castle Dracula in the Carpathian mountains and plans to go looking for
it. Karl's seedy twin brother Franz [also Mark Damon] reminds him that Transylvania is the
land of vampires, but Karl laughs off such superstitious ideas. Besides,
... | gothic | train | imdb | Two brothers searching in Transylvania for the legendary 'Ring of Nibelungen' fall under the spell of the sexy and evil Countess De Vries(Rosalba Neri)who uses the ring to attract the local virgins to her foreboding castle where they fall victim to her bloody rituals.This soft core piece of Italian erotica offers plent... |
tt0070328 | Live and Let Die | Three British MI6 agents, including one "on loan" to the American government, are killed under mysterious circumstances within 24 hours while monitoring the operations of Dr. Kananga, the dictator of a small Caribbean island called San Monique. One is killed at a meeting of the United Nations. The second is stabbed on ... | paranormal, blaxploitation, cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt4160708 | Don't Breathe | Three Detroit friends, Rocky (Jane Levy), Alex (Dylan Minnette), and Money (Daniel Zovatto), break into the home of wealthy owners. After Alex disables the security system, they begin to grab the nicest-looking items they can get their hands on. When they're done, they throw a rock through the plate glass door and run.... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, flashback | train | imdb | Fede Alvarez just gave Green Room a run for its money with Don't Breathe, an incredibly intense film and glorious exercise in suspense.
Other than that, Don't Breathe is best viewed going in knowing as little as possible.This is Alvarez's first film in three years since his violent and solid remake of Evil Dead, and it... |
tt0062622 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | To Richard Strauss' tone poem "Thus Spake Zarathustra," the title sequence shows the sun rising behind the Earth, which is behind the moon.The Dawn of ManIn a sere African landscape, a group of ape-like hominids and some tapirs compete for the meagre green plants. A leopard attacks an ape. While one group of apes is dr... | avant garde, mystery, murder, boring, realism, paranormal, cult, atmospheric, flashback, psychedelic, philosophical, sci-fi | train | imdb | For anybody to dismiss 2001: A Space Odyssey as "boring" they must have no interest in science, technology, philosophy, history or the art of film-making.
It is our shame that the year 2001 did not look like the film 2001, not Kubrick's.Besides the incredible special effects, camera work and set design, Kubrick also pr... |
tt0060168 | Billy the Kid Versus Dracula | When Franz [Walter Janovitz] and Eva [Virginia Christine] Oster's daughter Lisa [Hannie Landman] is killed by Dracula, the Osters swear to fight this menace. Dracula shows up again in the guise of Uncle James Underhill [John Carradine], newly arrived in town to help out at the Double Bar B Ranch. Dracula has assumed th... | revenge | train | imdb | MORD39 RATING: ** out of ****Okay, we know that this is a silly premise with an elderly John Carradine in the Count Dracula role, but as far as "bad" movies go, it's definitely much more fun than most other trash.
Right from someplace like "Eddie's House of Horrors" on Hollywood Boulevard, probably where they also go... |
tt0230600 | The Others | The movie begins with Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) waking up from a nightmare. It is 1945 in Jersey, and her husband was fighting in France but he has yet to return home, even though the war has ended. She lives in a big, creepy house alone with her two kids, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley). Recently,... | dark, mystery, gothic, murder, paranormal, dramatic, alternate reality, horror, haunting, atmospheric, clever, claustrophobic, suspenseful | train | imdb | It makes the film completely opposite than other ghost stories, with Grace not afraid of the dark, and making sure to keep the light out, to save her children.
This movie is chilling, very spooky, with a few moments that will make you jump, but it's a movie that works itself up, and by the end of the movie you feel sca... |
tt0083336 | Wolfen | Former NYPD Captain Dewey Wilson (Albert Finney) is brought back to the force and assigned to solve a bizarre string of violent murders after high-profile magnate Christopher Van der Veer (Max M. Brown), his wife (Anne Marie Pohtamo), and his bodyguard are slain in Battery Park. Executive Security, Van der Veer's clien... | suspenseful, psychological, gothic, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | As in the book, the Wolfen are both terrifying and yet somehow noble, and you respect the antagonism between them and the human characters (played very well by Albert Finney and co.), and while the ending is somewhat anticlimactic as opposed to its book counterpart, I was still quite pleased with the film as a whole.
T... |
tt3062074 | Sharknado 2: The Second One | Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) and April Wexler (Tara Reid) are on a plane headed for New York City for a signing of April's book, "How To Survive A Sharknado". The flight attendant (Kelly Osbourne) is a fan and asks for an autograph. She calls Fin a hero, but the events of the last "sharknado" in L.A. have left him rather ... | absurd | train | imdb | The ultimate in guilty pleasure, Sharknado 2 is equally as bad (good) as the original although you can tell they had a bigger budget for the sequel because the special effects are better and there are a ton of cameos.Ian Ziering, I have to give it to him here, he really gives his all and was fun as hell to watch runnin... |
tt1029120 | Henry Poole Is Here | HENRY POOLE is HERE is a comedic drama about a disillusioned man who goes hiding in placid suburbia only to discover he cannot escape the forces of hope. Returning to the middleclass neighborhood where he grew up, Henry chooses to live in indulgent isolation. Real life, however, refuses to cooperate with his plans. Nos... | romantic, magical realism, flashback | train | imdb | But veteran Mexican actress Adriana Barraza steals the show as the deeply religious and well-intentioned neighbor, Esperanza (meaning "hope" in Spanish, which is only slightly more subtle than the grocery checkout girl whose name is Patience, or the Rhada Mitchell character named Dawn).If you don't mind slow movies, He... |
tt0257106 | Scary Movie 2 | A teenage girl named Megan Voorhees (Natasha Lyonne) becomes possessed by the spirit of Hugh Kane, the house's previous owner. During a formal dinner party she emerges in her pajamas, insults her mother and the guests, then proceeds to urinate profusely on the floor. In response, Megan's mother (Veronica Cartwright) se... | comedy, murder, stupid, bleak, cult, horror, humor | train | wikipedia | But again like most brainless comedies, I walked in the theater with a good mood and expecting a laugh and I got that with "Scary Movie 2".
I mean people are being so harsh on this film, I understand, I know this isn't the greatest movie or comedy.
But if you aren't expecting fun and laughter, I think normally you just... |
tt0036775 | Double Indemnity | Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), a successful insurance salesman, returns to his office building in downtown Los Angeles late one night. Visibly in pain and sporting a gunshot wound on his shoulder, he begins dictating a confession into a Dictaphone for his friend and colleague, Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilli... | mystery, boring, murder, bleak, cult, atmospheric, flashback, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Barbara Stanwyck (as Phyllis Dietrichson, the murderous femme fatale in Double Indemnity) and Fred MacMurray (as Walter Neff, her victim'), have amazing chemistry on screen.
This is one of the best-liked classic films of all time and I am among that large group of fans as well.Few movies have ever had dialog this ente... |
tt0377107 | Proof | The movie opens with Catherine (Gwyneth Paltrow) talking to her father Robert (Anthony Hopkins) after he startles her watching TV in the middle of the night. He gives her a bottle of champagne for her birthday, which she starts drinking from the bottle, commenting on how bad it is. They chat for a while about the natur... | insanity, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | But if this movie is worse than its stage counterpart, it must have made one damn fine play.The acting in this film is its major attribute, and director John Madden is wise enough to realize the talent of his ensemble and stand out of their way.
But mostly, he lets the actors strut their stuff, and the four principals ... |
tt0479952 | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | The movie starts in the past, in an African reserve, when Alex the Lion was just a little cub, being tutored in the art of being a lion, by his doting father, Zuba, who is also the Alpha Lion. Alex is full of life and more interested in playing the fool, by dancing around and doing the "happy face/angry face" gag with ... | comedy, humor, queer | train | imdb | Rarely have I seen animated family sequel movie that's as good or better than its predecessor but speaking as a movie freak who didn't like the first installment, I gotta say I'm very much entertained by MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 Africa and it way funnier than the original movie.
Kids will love it, Parents will be glad abou... |
tt0119978 | The Rainmaker | Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon) was brought up in a slum. His father, who was a severe alcoholic, abused him and his mother. After studying at Austin Peay State University, Rudy, who has an interest in social justice and civil rights, decides to attend law school. When he graduates from the University of Memphis State Law Sch... | revenge, comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0050825 | Paths of Glory | A voice-over narrator explains that Germany and France entered World War I in August, 1914 and, with the construction of a continuous line of fortified trenches stretching from Switzerland to the English Channel, a costly military stalemate set in. By 1916, "successful attacks were measured in thousands of yards and pa... | bleak, anti war, boring | train | imdb | Although Kubrick's films are marked by their massive variation of genre and tone, one theme that crops up again and again is a strong anti-war sentiment, and this was never stated more strongly than in Paths of Glory.
This excellently staged and wonderfully acted production is as much an acting showcase for Douglas as ... |
tt1288403 | Universal Soldier: Regeneration | A group of terrorists led by Commander Topov (Zahari Baharov) kidnap the Ukrainian prime minister's son and daughter and hold them hostage, demanding the release of their imprisoned comrades within 72 hours. In addition, they have taken over the crippled Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and threaten to detonate it if thei... | suspenseful, murder, violence, cult, good versus evil, action, revenge | train | wikipedia | From the moment the movie starts, the action never lets up until the very end.The story is brief: The Russian Prime Minister's children get kidnapped by terrorists looking to extradite prisoners in exchange, to make things serious they plan to detonate a nuclear plant in Chernobyl.
Amazingly enough I went into this mov... |
tt0120657 | The 13th Warrior | Ahmad ibn Fadlan is a court poet to the Caliph of Baghdad, until his amorous encounter with the wife of an influential noble gets him exiled as an "ambassador" to Northern Barbarians. Traveling with Melchisidek, his caravan is saved from Turkic raiders by the appearance of Norsemen (presumably Varangian). Taking refuge... | fantasy, murder, violence, cult, good versus evil, action, romantic | train | wikipedia | Its easily the most underrated movie I have come across, and can best be described as a hidden gem for the ones who like historical adventure/action-movies (Braveheart/Gladiator/Kingdom of Heaven/Robin Hood) and fantasy-movies.
It should be viewed as a fantasy, even though the vikings portrayed and their buildings/sett... |
tt0085937 | Microwave Massacre | Donald (Vernon) is a construction worker with a big problem: his shrew of a wife May (Claire Ginsberg) has started to only cook gourmet foods in a Hyacinth Bucket-style misguided effort to make themselves seem classier than they are. While his friends Roosevelt (Loren Schein) and Phillip (Al Troupe) dine on simple bolo... | violence, murder, comic | train | wikipedia | It makes Ed Wood (R.I.P.) movies look like the best movies out there.The movie follows a construction worker named Donald as he kills his wife when he is mad at her and accidentally eats some of her flesh while looking for a snack.
Far from being the worst horror film of all time, and really not much of a horror movie ... |
tt0092546 | Amazon Women on the Moon | Fictional television station WIDB-TV (channel 8) experiences problems with its late-night airing of science-fiction classic Amazon Women on the Moon, a 1950s B movie in which Queen Lara (Sybil Danning) and Captain Nelson (Steve Forrest) battle exploding volcanoes and man-eating spiders on the moon. Waiting for the film... | cult, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0295178 | Austin Powers in Goldmember | Dr. Evil plans to travel back in time to 1975 and bring back Johan van der Smut, aka "Goldmember", who developed a cold fusion unit for a tractor beam which Dr. Evil names "Preparation H". He intends to use the tractor beam to pull a meteor into the Earth, striking the polar ice caps and causing a global flood. Moments... | comedy, cult, flashback, humor, satire, entertaining, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0866439 | Made of Honor | On Halloween night, 1998, at Cornell University, Tom Bailey, Jr. (Patrick Dempsey), in costume as Bill Clinton, slips into bed with his pre-arranged date, Monica. It turns out to be the wrong woman, Monica's roommate Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), and Tom likes her because she is so honest and does not fling herself at hi... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The one thing I did really enjoy about it was that this wasn't a sad girl trying to get the guy like many other movies like this are, it was shown through the guy's perspective which isn't quite as over done.I won't give out any details you don't already see in the trailer for the movie: Patrick Dempsy's character is g... |
tt3894340 | Ellos Volvieron | Ellos Volvieron (They Returned) starts with three children, Lucio (Lauro Veron), Lionel (Juan Ignacio Molina) and Sabrina (Valentina Sartorelli), aged about 11 years of age playing near a vast abandoned hospital in the woods in Argentina. As it gets dark, the children do not return home, and using a series of cut-aways... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0129871 | Desperation | In the Nevada desert, a couple, Peter (Henry Thomas) and Mary (Annabeth Gish) Jackson are driving and pass by a 50 mile speed limit sign which a dead cat has been tied to. Mary points it to Peter, who was driving and didn't see it. Soon they are followed by a police car. Without rhyme or reason, they are stopped by a s... | insanity, violence, murder, storytelling, flashback | train | imdb | Besides a mediocre performance from Tom Skeritt this adaptation of Steven Kings 600+ page novel is up to par with some of his best big screen productions.
If you read the book you'll notice that they changed little things to get with the times, like the hitchhikers shirt instead of being Pete Tesh is Bob Dylan, and the... |
tt0390521 | Super Size Me | As the film begins, Spurlock, age 32 at the time the movie was filmed in 2003, is physically above average, as attested to by three doctors (a cardiologist, a gastroenterologist, and a general practitioner), as well as a nutritionist and a personal trainer. He enlists all three to track his health during the month-long... | comedy, boring, entertaining, clever | train | imdb | My only fear of this film is that many viewers will look at McDonalds and say 'they are to blame, lets get them' and simply ignore that it is very easy to eat an unhealthy diet go to any supermarket and you'll find 'easy' food served up quickly but without the things your body needs.
I was challenged because I can ea... |
tt0097814 | Majo no takkyûbin | After listening to a portable radio one afternoon, a young witch named Kiki goes to her parents, claiming that the evening would be perfect for her to leave home. Kiki's request is due to the custom that when a witch turns 13, she is to leave home and find a new place to settle. Naturally, Kiki's parents are sad to see... | comedy, fantasy, cult, feel-good, psychedelic, romantic | train | imdb | Having already been familiar with and a great admirer of some of Miyazaki's other Ghibli films, including Princess Mononoke, I turned to Kiki's Delivery Service on the recommendation of someone who suggested it as "light-hearted" fun.
Being an eighteen-year-old male, I didn't think it would be much more than thata gui... |
tt0022100 | M | It's noon. Concerned parents are lined up outside the schools waiting to escort their kids home for lunch. Signs along the street ask "Wer ist der Morder?" (Who is the murderer?) of eight children killed over the past year. Little Elsie Beckmann [Inge Landgut] has just become victim number nine.Who is the murderer? It ... | good versus evil, cult, murder, atmospheric, bleak | train | imdb | null |
tt1020072 | Selma | In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) accepts his Nobel Peace Prize. Four black girls walking down stairs in the Birmingham, Alabama 16th Street Baptist Church are killed by a bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan. Annie Lee Cooper attempts to register to vote in Selma, Alaba... | tragedy, violence, historical, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0338095 | Haute tension | College girlfriends Marie (Cécile de France) and Alex, or Alexia (Maïwenn Le Besco), are on their way to stay at Alex's parent's house for the weekend. When they arrive, Alex gives Marie a tour of the house before they settle down for dinner. After dinner, Marie and Alex get ready to go to bed.As Alex sleeps, Marie lie... | suspenseful, murder, stupid, violence, horror, plot twist, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, romantic, sadist | train | imdb | It is a very irregular film, but it still boasts good style and good manners in atmosphere-building, even if it doesn't really live up to meet the expectations, at least for me.The story goes about Marie and Alexia, best friends who drive up to Alexia's parents' countryside house, hoping to find some peace for studying... |
tt0080116 | Wanda Nevada | Set in 1950s Arizona, the story follows a drifter and gambler named Beaudray Demerille (Fonda). In a card game he wins the movie's title character Wanda Nevada (Shields), a 13-year-old orphan with dreams of singing at the Grand Ole Opry. Despite his best efforts, Wanda sticks to Demerille, accompanying him to a pool ha... | violence | train | wikipedia | The silly and animated acting reminds me somewhat of "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken", another great adventure film.
It is not meant to be a "romance movie" as it is too ridiculous, but more an adventure, with breathtaking scenery.
Peter Fonda's part of a 35 year old or so gambler, never does anything to abuse or hurt Wan... |
tt0042041 | White Heat | Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) is the ruthless, deranged leader of a criminal gang. Although married to Verna (Virginia Mayo), Jarrett is overly attached to his equally crooked and determined mother, 'Ma' Jarrett (Margaret Wycherly), who is his only real confidant. When he has one of his splitting headaches she consoles h... | insanity, revenge, cult, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0051459 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | In the opening scene, Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman), a former high school football star, spends a drunken night jumping hurdles on the school athletic field in a tragic attempt to recapture his glory days. He falls and injures his right leg.Some days later, Brick and his older brother, Gooper (Jack Carson), visit the fam... | sentimental | train | imdb | Burl Ives gives the greatest portrayal of a literary character in film history, and he wasn't even recognized by an Oscar nomination, further evidence of the Academy's complete lack of credibility as an arbiter of screen excellence.The casting is brilliant:Tennessee Williams's Big Daddy was indeed big - larger than lif... |
tt0097626 | Johnny Handsome | Petty career crook John Sedley (Mickey Rourke) is called Johnny Handsome because of his deformed face. His knack for observing and planning gets him and his friend into a robbery of a collectable coin store with Sunny Boyd (Ellen Barkin) and Rafe Garrett (Lance Henriksen) but the job goes sideways. Rafe and Sunny doubl... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence | train | imdb | Mickey Rourke gives an astonishing performance as John Sedley a deformed thug who gets a chance at a normal life when a kind Doctor (Forrest Whitaker) asks to do plastic surgery on Sedley.
Sedley accepts and is torn between going straight or getting revenge on the two(Lance Henriksen and Ellen Barkin) that killed his f... |
tt0080516 | The Changeling | John Russell (George C. Scott), a composer living in New York, New York, moves cross-country to Washington state following the deaths of his wife and daughter in a traffic accident while on a winter vacation in upstate New York. In suburban Seattle, John rents a large, old and eerie Victorian-era mansion and begins pie... | suspenseful, gothic, murder, paranormal, cult, horror, haunting, flashback, atmospheric, revenge | train | wikipedia | Very few actors could have pulled it off better then Scott.The supporting cast is headed by Melvyn Douglas (in one of his last roles) and Scott's wife, Trish Van Devere who projects a look of total terror as well as anyone I have seen.Two moments that stand out are the séance scene which is eerie and the unexpected arr... |
tt0095583 | Maniac Cop | In the opening credits scene reminiscent of 'Maniac', a man is shown putting on a policeman's uniform with a badge, gun belt, and cap. That same night, a young woman, named Cassie Phillips (Jill Gatsby), leaves a local bar at night where she is attacked by two punks on the street who try to rob her. She runs and hides,... | neo noir, grindhouse film, murder, cult, violence, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0383222 | BloodRayne | Rayne (Kristanna Loken) is a "dhampir", the offspring of a human mother and a vampire father. Her father is Kagan (Ben Kinsley), and Rayne watched him slay her mother when she was about seven years old. Ever since, Rayne has vowed to avenge her mother's death by killing her father. There are others who are also fightin... | gothic, murder, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, revenge | train | imdb | The root canal work of movie making, the Xanadu of awfulness....Meatloaf trying to character-act.I checked out the other movie-goers...hmmm, not many left....and they were all, very much like myself, staring wide eyed and open mouthed at witnessing the birth of a legend.
Boll at least knows that the audience for a film... |
tt0381707 | White Chicks | The plot begins in a convenience store where two FBI agents and brothers, Kevin Copeland and Marcus Copeland (Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans), try to capture members of an organization that sells drugs inside ice cream boxes, posing as Dominican clerks. Unfortunately, the first arrival turns out to be a genuine ice cre... | comedy, humor, satire, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Anyone who dissect the plot and put the acting and screenplay of this film under a microscope is missing the entire point of this movie.This is a comedy, not a documentary or an historical saga, this is plane humor, dumb with a bit of a slapstick taste...
This is a fun movie to watch with a "stupid" yet hilarious story... |
tt0195231 | Satya | Mumbai is in the midst of a turf war between two gangs, collectively referred to as the Mumbai underworld when Satya (J.D Chakravarthy), a man without a past, comes to the city looking for employment. While waiting tables at the local dance bar, he gets involved in a scuffle with Jagga (Jeeva), bag man for dreaded don ... | murder, violence, cult, humor, romantic, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4178092 | The Gift | Simon and Robyn Callum (Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall) are a married couple moving from Chicago to California while recovering from a recent miscarriage. They find a nice home near the place Simon used to live and decide to settle in.While getting furniture for their house, a man (Joel Edgerton) approaches Simon and c... | sadist, revenge, suspenseful, violence, flashback | train | imdb | The premise is also deceptively simple, turning more intricate and involving as the film progresses.Edgerton, who also wrote the screenplay, refuses to adhere to genre conventions, constantly subverting audience's expectations on how the story plays out.
Excellently directed and very well acted,this clever little well ... |
tt0246578 | Donnie Darko | Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhall) is a troubled teenager in suburban Maryland. A schizophrenic with a history of violence, he has recently stopped taking his medication and as a result is sleepwalking. His parents, Rose and Eddie (Mary McDonnell and Holmes Osborne) and his sisters, Elizabeth and Samantha (Maggie Gyllenhal... | entertaining, dark, avant garde, gothic, murder, psychological, mystery, boring, allegory, cult, thought-provoking, magical realism, atmospheric, good versus evil, insanity, psychedelic, satire, philosophical, revenge, alternate history, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt1187064 | Triangle | The film opens with Jess (Melissa George) at home with her autistic son, Tommy (Joshua McIvor). We watch (sound unheard) as Jess goes about cleaning up after her son. Suddenly, there is a buzz at the front door. Jess goes to see who it was, but finds no-one there. Asking a neighbor who was working in his yard, he claim... | violence, psychedelic, mystery, murder, atmospheric | train | imdb | null |
tt1127715 | Sin nombre | Willy, nicknamed El Casper, is a member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang and lives in Tapachula, a Mexican town near the border with Guatemala. He introduces a young boy into his gang, and the boy is given the nickname Smiley after a violent initiation. Casper later helps Smiley to complete this initiation by helping him e... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | The same people that after having spewed their vitriol, hatred and bile against immigrants have no problem with Juan mowing their lawn and Consuela looking after their snot-nosed mortally obese children, and Miguel picking-up all the s*it they leave in the streets, malls and every other place one can throw garbage in.M... |
tt0139414 | Lake Placid | In Aroostook County, Maine, Marine fish and Game officer Walt Lawson is attacked and bitten in half by something unseen in Black Lake. Sheriff Hank Keough (Brendan Gleeson), Fish and Game officer Jack Wells (Bill Pullman), American Museum of Natural History paleontologist Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda), and mythology prof... | cult, comedy, violence | train | wikipedia | Also, the interplay between Oliver Platt and the actor playing the sheriff are priceless.Contrary to what others have written - I think the special effects go just fine with the overall campy and comedy feel of the movie and the amount of gore is also appropriate.
Gleeson is great fun bouncing off Platt and Betty White... |
tt2265171 | The Raid 2: Berandal | The film opens in a large field, where two cars drive up to a man digging a large hole. Two men pull a man with a bag over his head out of the car and push him to the ground next to the hole. It is revealed that the one who is responsible for this private meeting is a self-made Jakarta gang lord called Bejo; having tak... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, action, revenge | train | imdb | The choreography here is some of the best ever put on film.There is no question that Uwais is currently the premiere martial arts star, and there is certainly no question that Gareth Evans is the greatest action director on the planet.
This movie is a great combination of a gangster flick with a very well coordinated m... |
tt0111503 | True Lies | Location: Lake Chapeau, SwitzerlandLate on a wintery night, security guards are screening cars for their official invitations for a black-tie event at a château. Other security guards armed with submachine guns and guard dogs patrol the grounds, and spotlights shine around. Underwater in a canal that passes through the... | comedy, mystery, neo noir, violence, psychedelic, action, entertaining | train | imdb | "True Lies" is mainly fun and entertaining and on top of that, the action is top class!Finally a movie of which I can say: "Budget well spend!" The action really jumps off the screen but it never feels overdone or forced, which is thanks to action-director veteran James Cameron.
Just like the James Bond movies, it does... |
tt0056111 | Ivanovo detstvo | As the film opens, a 12-year-old boy is running through an open field laughing and strolling in a carefree manner. As he runs around, he encounters his mother and informs her that there is a cuckoo in a tree. The boy, Ivan Bondarev (Nikolay Burlyaev) suddenly wakes up, revealing that the previous scene was a dream. He ... | bleak, anti war, flashback | train | imdb | As I said before the film uses many ellipses to show Ivan's fractured life - he plays in the fields, his mother calls him and smiles; a water well, he stares down at the water and his mother stands beside him and tells a story about the stars; we hear a gun shot, someone lying on the grass; Ivan is wading through a swa... |
tt0069895 | The Crazies | In the town of Ogden Marsh, Iowa, local sheriff David Dutten (Timothy Olyphant) is enjoying a baseball game when it is interrupted by a local resident (known as the town drunk) Rory Hamill, who enters the outfield with a shotgun. David attempts to dissuade Rory, but is forced to kill him when he raises his weapon. Davi... | comedy, suspenseful, grindhouse film, murder, cult, violence, insanity, absurd, psychedelic, revenge | train | wikipedia | Very cheaply made film by Director George Romero about a virus, known as Trixie, that has somehow leaked out in a small town in Western Pennsylvania.
Romero's zombie classics 'Night Of The Living Dead' and 'Dawn Of The Dead' are two of the best horror movies ever made, but they really cast a huge shadow over his career... |
tt0228786 | Les rivières pourpres | Detective Superintendent (Commissaire Principal) Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno), an investigator well known in Paris, is sent to the small rural university town of Guernon in the French Alps to investigate a brutal murder. The victim's body is found bound in the fetal position and suspended high on a cliff face, his eyes r... | mystery, suspenseful, action, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | This is especially true for the leading roles which are portrayed by two of the most talented French actors: Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel.The plot is based on a novel by Jean-Christophe Grange who, together with director Mathieu Kassovitz, also developed the screenplay.
Unfortunately, many of the novel's explanatory sc... |
tt0410730 | Taxidermia | The focus of Taxidermia is mood, tone and visuals rather than a specific plot narrative. The summary presented here relays the events in the film, but the manner in which they are presented in the film is equally if not more important that the events themselves. This summary should not be considered an adequate substit... | comedy, dark, allegory, absurd, psychedelic, satire | train | imdb | null |
tt0091344 | King Kong Lives | The movie starts where King Kong ended.Ten years after King Kong fell from the Twin Towers, we see him at the Atlanta University kept alive by doctors. Amy Flanklin (Linda Hamilton) is in charge of keeping King Kong alive. They build a heart in order to transplant it inside Kong, because his is finished. The problem is... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0412019 | Broken Flowers | Don Johnston (Bill Murray), a former Don Juan who made a small fortune in the computer industry, wants to live in quiet retirement. He is content to lounge around watching old movies and listening to classical or easy listening music. His current girlfriend, Sherry (Julie Delpy), is ending their relationship and moving... | comedy, boring, depressing, paranormal, dramatic, atmospheric, psychedelic, humor, philosophical, storytelling | train | wikipedia | So, yes, it's wonderful minimalism, but perhaps a bit too slight of a movie to have any lasting resonance.Bill Murray has added another very good performance to his career, and Jim Jarmusch has made another compact little gem (unlike some of his more recent films).
The film, helmed under the more effective title "Dead ... |
tt0104348 | Glengarry Glen Ross | ACT IThe movie begins in a Chinese restaurant somewhere in Chicago with character Shelley Levene (Jack Lemmon), a veteran real estate salesman, attempting to contact a doctor for his daughter. In the phone booth next to him is Dave Moss (Ed Harris) attempting to sell properties in Rio Rancho Estates. They both go into ... | cult, boring, realism | train | imdb | It is adapted from the stage play, and I appreciate the way in which it was shot, retaining so much of the raw appeal that can only be felt at the theatre, as opposed to the cinema.This movie is a veritable who's who of acting, with Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Jonathan Pryce - not to me... |
tt0364517 | Jeux d'enfants | The film begins in Liège in Belgium, where a little girl, Sophie, is being bullied by other children. Only a bus driver and a boy, Julien, help her collect her books that the others have thrown into a puddle.
To cheer Sophie up, Julien gives her a small tin box, a gift from his fatally ill mother. Because it is importa... | comedy, humor, dark, romantic, prank | train | wikipedia | The movie does not ask you to take it seriously, but simply to watch as Julien and Sophie play with the elements of conventional life.
This bittersweet comedy about love is in line with great recent French movies such as Amelie or L'Auberge Espagnole, But Jeux d'Enfants is not trying to copy any of the previous.
In fac... |
tt0238936 | Devdas | In the early 1900s, Kaushalya (Smita Jaykar) hears that her younger son, Devdas (Shah Rukh Khan), is to return home after he had left at age 10 for law school in England. Kaushalya tells her neighbor Sumitra (Kirron Kher), who is overjoyed. Sumitra's daughter, "Paro" Parvati Chakraborty (Aishwarya Rai) and Devdas have ... | melodrama, insanity, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0499549 | Avatar | Opening scene: a camera sweeps high across the treeline of a lush, green world. Intercut is a sequence of images of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a crippled war veteran and former Marine. He wakes up in a giant spaceship on its way to Pandora, a lush Earth-like moon orbiting Polyphemus, a blue planet similar to Jupiter... | suspenseful, cruelty, murder, boring, fantasy, allegory, violence, dramatic, thought-provoking, good versus evil, insanity, psychedelic, action, romantic, revenge, entertaining, sadist, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0057372 | The Nutty Professor | Professor Julius Kelp is a nerdy, scruffy, buck-toothed, accident-prone, socially awkward university professor whose experiments in the classroom laboratory are unsuccessful and highly destructive. When a football-playing bully embarrasses and attacks him, Kelp decides to "beef up" by joining a local gym. Kelp's lack o... | absurd, cult, satire, entertaining, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0486576 | 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer | The movie opens out in space as a strange alien planet slowly fades away and implodes. A mysterious blue entity leaves the planet prior to its destruction, and is next seen flying through the atmosphere over Earth. At the same time, a number of strange circumstances unfold (the China Sea freezes over and the Sphinx is ... | good versus evil, murder | train | imdb | But it wasn't so bad either; it's just that after Marvel Comics' recent domination of the film genre, it's natural for one to expect that each of its characters having a shot at the big screen would present something legitimately entertaining to the audience.
(And while I personally don't think it's an issue, I imagine... |
tt1754123 | Lidice | At the beginning of the story Lidice is just one of many small Czech villages trying to survive the war as best as it can. Day-to-day existence within the Protectorate flows along almost serenely and the biggest upheaval is a pub brawl where by accident a drunk father kills his own son. The crime is justly punished and... | murder | train | imdb | null |
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