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tt0455612 | Madea's Family Reunion | After Madea (Tyler Perry) violates the terms of her house arrest (which she was subjected to in the previous film), the judge orders her to take in a troubled foster child named Nikki (Keke Palmer) in order to avoid jail.
Lisa Breaux (Rochelle Aytes), one of Madea's nieces, is engaged to, Carlos Armstrong (Blair Underw... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0039224 | Brute Force | On a dark, rainy morning at Westgate Prison, prisoners crammed into a small cell watch through the window as Joe Collins (Burt Lancaster) returns from his term in solitary confinement. Joe is angry and talks about escape. The beleaguered warden is under pressure to improve discipline. His chief of security, Capt. Munse... | violence, suspenseful, murder, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036628 | Bathing Beauty | In Los Angeles, popular songwriter Steve Elliott (Red Skelton) prepares to marry Caroline Brooks (Esther Williams), who has pledged to give up her job as a college swimming instructor once she has wed. Likewise, Steve plans to quit his songwriting career, even though New York producer George Adams (Basil Rathbone) has ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | One MGM musical of the time launched a career that flourished for the balance of the decade
A champion swimmer and a tall, strikingly pretty woman, Esther Williams had played small roles in two MGM films when she was starred in "Bathing Beauty." She played a swimming teacher at a girls' school whose husband (Red Skelt... |
tt0026407 | The Ghost Rider | Over one hundred years ago , The Devil, Mephistopheles, sends his bounty hunter of the damned, the Ghost Rider, to retrieve a document known as "The Contract of San Venganza", a list of a thousand corrupt souls. Seeing that the contract would give Mephistopheles the power to unleash Hell on Earth, the Rider refuses to ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Action packed Western featuring Franklyn Farnum. This is an action packed western featuring Franklyn Farnum whose entry shows 505 credits and a film career that started in 1916 and which still had another 25years to run.This is one of those westerns where the action continues apace from the fade in to the fade out.It i... |
tt0048140 | Guys and Dolls | === Act I ===
A pantomime of never-ceasing activities depicts the hustle and bustle of New York City ("Runyonland"). Three small-time gamblers, Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Benny Southstreet, and Rusty Charlie, argue over which horse will win a big race ("Fugue for Tinhorns"). The band members of the Save-a-Soul Mission, led... | psychological | train | wikipedia | The acting is impeccable, and what's more, almost believable (for a musical at least), the singing is pretty decent (well, Marlon Brando is another story, but I'll get to that) and the whole thing is just so amusing and entertaining that you'll be singing the tunes and quoting the lines long after you've finished watch... |
tt0112830 | Deadly Sins | Eleven girls have disappeared from an Eau Claire, Wisconsin Catholic school in the last five years. When one of them, an orphaned outsider named Gwendolyn (Telek), is found dead, hanged at the church bells, Seattleite deputy sheriff Jack Gates (Keith) is assigned to the task to the mystery. When he arrives, he is upset... | murder | train | wikipedia | Wonderful music and cinematography, good plot.
I really liked this thriller very much.
The actors are sympathic and good, the plot is thrilling and the settings are beautiful, as is the excellent photography.
I especially liked the music of this film, it's incredible!.
Mediocre slasher with bad plot and acting, but abo... |
tt0102848 | Scanners II: The New Order | During one of his classes, a young veterinarian intern named David Kellum (David Hewlett) discovers that he has mental abilities to read and control minds of others. When he moves from his country home to the city to continue his studies, he finds difficulty in controlling himself: the congestion of many minds and the ... | paranormal, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Yeah sure the connection to the first Scanners was kinda cheesy in execution, but this film is alot faster in pace and has more action than the very slow paced Scanners.
Overall Scanners II has good cinematography and a clever little story of world domination to entertain fans as well as the casual viewer.
I have alway... |
tt0140627 | Tomorrow Night | Charles is the misanthropic obsessive-compulsive owner of a photo shop. He lives alone, and at night sexually gratifies himself by sitting in a bowl of ice cream. One day, Charles notices an abundance of photos he has developed that have not been picked up. He begins to call each customer to remind them to pick up thei... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073626 | Revolver | Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta) is a gang boss involved in illegal gambling all over the city. With the help of three goons, known as "the three Eddies", he controls several games that take place in the underground. On one occasion, just before a big game, Macha loses his card man. With no chances left, Macha asks for help ... | romantic, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1690483 | Ibara no O | King of Thorn is a science fiction survivor drama. After a viral infection known as the Medusa virus lands in Siberia and spreads contagiously throughout Earth, 160 humans are chosen as candidates to experiment a cure against the virus by an organization called Venus Gate. As the story begins, Kasumi is selected as one... | psychedelic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | Visually impressive with great story.
King of Thorn is a new anime movie based on a short manga series about a new plague called Medusa that infects most of the planet.
It's 100% fatal once you're infected and it turns people to a somewhat fragile stone-like state in its last stage.
In this cataclysmic scenario, a comp... |
tt0161492 | The Dentist 2 | Dr. Alan Feinstone is in the maximum security mental hospital he was sentenced to at the end of the first film. While talking to the facility's psychiatrist, he remembers the murders he committed in his own mind, while convincing the doctor that it was another man who did those things. His remorseful story distracts he... | violence, suspenseful, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | Debuting on HBO like the first surprise, this is a pretty good sequel that brings that lunatic dentist (Corbin Bernsen) back in business after escaping a mental hospital and hiding in a quiet town, where he murders the dentist around the town because the guy did a poor job at filling one of his teeth in.
Corbin Bernsen... |
tt0416891 | The Kid & I | Former actor Bill Williams (Tom Arnold) is about to commit suicide over his ruined career. He throws out all his stuff and gives his clothes to a poor alcoholic. The man drinks Bill's vodka and takes half of his pills messing up his suicide plan and takes off. Bill drinks his alcohol and then takes the pills not knowin... | satire | train | wikipedia | Funny, heartfelt, appropriate family movie..
I saw 3 new movies this weekend (12/3/05), and of them all The Kid And I was the best.
This one is from the heart, and the only recent movie you could say that about.
It's based on the true experience of Tom Arnold (who appeared with Arnold Schwarzenneger and Jamie Lee Curti... |
tt0119125 | Firelight | In 1837, Swiss governess Elisabeth Laurier (Sophie Marceau) agrees to bear a child for an anonymous English landowner in return for money needed to pay her father's debts. They meet over three nights at a lonely island hotel. Despite their wish for detachment, they develop a deeply passionate connection during their lo... | gothic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | The title led me to expect "Firelight" would be a "chick flick", yet the inclusion of the beautiful Sophie Marceau made viewing imperative.
I have to admit that I watched this the first time because of my admiration for the performances of Sophie Marceau.
The artistry of this movie is not evident the first time you wat... |
tt0115141 | Command & Conquer: Red Alert | Command & Conquer: Red Alert takes place between 1946 and 1953 of a parallel universe.
Starting out at the Trinity Site in New Mexico in 1946 (in our timeline), Albert Einstein prepares to travel backward in spacetime. He activates his experimental time machine to find himself in Landsberg, Germany, on 20 December 1924... | alternate reality, alternate history | train | wikipedia | What a Prequel, What a Prequel....
This game is the prequel to the acclaimed Real Time Strategy game of 1995, Command & Conquer: Tiberium Dawn, it details the forming of the GDI and NOD forces and an alternate reality in which Hitler never rose to power, a more sinister force emerged, Stalin, and now he is marching acr... |
tt0281686 | Bubba Ho-Tep | An elderly man at The Shady Rest Retirement Home in East Texas is known to the staff as Sebastian Haff, but claims to be Elvis. He explains that during the 1970s, Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) grew tired of the demands of his fame and switched places with an Elvis impersonator named Sebastian Haff (also Campbell). He ... | comedy, cult, horror, flashback, psychedelic, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1499201 | Anjaana Anjaani | Anjaana Anjaani is the story of Kiara (Priyanka Chopra) and Akash (Ranbir Kapoor). Kiara is from San Francisco, while Akash lives in New York City. Akash is in need of $12 million, but he is unable to clear a loan due to a stock market crash. Unable to find any means, suicide seems the only option, and he decides to ju... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0290879 | Suriyothai | The story follows the course of the life of Suriyothai from her adolescence to her death. As Suriyothai is only known from three lines in a chronicle, most of the film relies on an invented story rather than claiming to be actual history. It presents a young woman, Suriyothai, of minor royal standing who has strong opi... | historical, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2388637 | Ain't Them Bodies Saints | Ruth Guthrie is walking across a field and is followed by Bob Muldoon, who tries to dissuade Ruth from leaving him to return to her mother's. Ruth is adamant and reveals that she is angry at Bob because he supposedly told Freddy that he was going to 'strike out on his own'. Bob reassures her that this isn't the case, t... | murder, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | David Lowery's cool sophomore feature, "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," resurrects the bad old days of outlaw love that has been portrayed in such seminal cinematic classics like Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" and, most notably, Terrence Malick's "Badlands." Unlike those films, though, Lowery concerns himself less with th... |
tt0427312 | Grizzly Man | Herzog used sequences extracted from more than 100 hours of video footage shot by Treadwell during the last five years of his life. He also conducted and filmed interviews with Treadwell's family and friends, and bear and nature experts. Park rangers and bear experts commented on statements and actions by Treadwell, su... | entertaining, murder, storytelling, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0043560 | Fourteen Hours | Early one morning, a room-service waiter at a New York City hotel is horrified to discover that the young man to whom he has just delivered breakfast (Basehart) is standing on the narrow ledge outside his room on the 15th floor. Charlie Dunnigan (Douglas), a policeman on traffic duty in the street below, tries to talk ... | suicidal | train | wikipedia | Here he is superb as a compassionate traffic cop.Richard Basehart plays a man threatening to jump from the ledge on a high floor of a hotel.
Jeffrey Hunter is likable as the man in the crowd outside the hotel who falls for her.This was Grace Kelly's first film role.
Although this film traffics in some of the worst movi... |
tt0137195 | Road Kill | Marcus (Xavier Samuel), his best friend Craig (Bobby Morley), and their friends, Liz (Georgina Haig) and Nina (Sophie Lowe) are driving through the Australian outback, when they are hit by a road train. The vehicle comes up behind their SUV and pushes them off the road, breaking Craig's arm. The truck stops some distan... | violence, comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0103959 | Chrome Hearts | The film is about an all-female motorcycle gang named the "Cycle Sluts", who cruise into the isolated town of Zariah looking for a good time. Here, an evil scientist-turned-mortician has been killing local townspeople with the aid of his long-suffering dwarf assistant ("If God wanted you to do normal things, he would h... | cult | train | wikipedia | If nothing else, the pure inventiveness of simply stapling a zombies mouth shut (He can't eat you if he can't open his mouth) is one of the best things I've seen in ages!The plot is, at best, thin.
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown is definitely one of those movies.
Blow me." "If you were supposed to do normal things, God ... |
tt0106375 | Beethoven's 2nd | In the home of the Newton family, George, Alice, their three children, and Beethoven are all well adjusted to living together. Beethoven sneaks out and meets Missy, a female St. Bernard whose owners are attempting to settle a divorce. Regina, who is seeking $50,000 in the settlement, has retained full custody of Missy ... | romantic, comedy | train | wikipedia | Okay I know a lot of people don't like this movie, but I don't see what is wrong with it.
The Newmans this time decide to take a family vacation and of course bring Beethoven along.
But the family sticks together to try and save the puppies.If you enjoy the first one then you will love this one.
It is a non stop laughi... |
tt2025526 | Choi-jong-byeong-gi hwal | The film begins with two children Nam-yi and Ja-in being chased by King Injo's guards and saved by their father Choi Pyeong-ryung, an officer of King Gwanghae and a skilled archer. He sends his own children to find a place of refuge with his best friend Kim Mu-seon. As they escape crying, Ja-in begs her brother to go b... | violence | train | wikipedia | This is a stylish and sleek movie that is unduly criticized by many, especially those from other Asian countries as can be seen among other reviews here.Most do not seem to understand the main point of this movie because they do not know the historical background this movie was set against and consequently they just th... |
tt0069866 | Charley and the Angel | Charley Appleby is a hardware store owner whose frugality and commitment to his job have enabled his family to avoid poverty during the Great Depression and Prohibition. However, his relationship with his children and wife Nettie (Cloris Leachman) is strained. They especially want to go to see the Chicago World's Fair.... | depressing | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0433664 | World of Warcraft | Intent on settling in Durotar, Thrall's Horde expanded its ranks by inviting the undead Forsaken to join orcs, tauren, and trolls. Meanwhile, dwarves, gnomes, and the ancient night elves pledged their loyalties to the Alliance, guided by the human kingdom of Stormwind. After Stormwind's king, Varian Wrynn, mysteriously... | violence | train | wikipedia | is it a great game you can spend days, weeks, months and even years on?
I've had some really really great times playing wow and I've had some really really boring moments.
I admit there were some weeks and even months where I did nothing but play WoW.
I have friends who have done nothing but play WoW for over a year.
1... |
tt0085496 | Entre tinieblas | Yolanda, a cabaret singer, brings heroin to her lover who drops dead of an overdose. To escape from the police, the singer looks for refuge in a local convent. The Mother Superior, a fan of Yolanda, rapturously greets her. The mission of the order, called the Humiliated Redeemers (Redentoras humilladas), is to offer sh... | bleak, comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0034050 | Porky's Preview | Porky Pig has arranged the screening of a film in a film theater for an audience of barnyard animals. The public goes to the ticket booth. A chicken buys tickets for herself and her three "children" (eggs). A kangaroo tears the tickets (and even the hand that holds it) and throws them in his pouch. A firefly usher lead... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1462769 | The Odd Life of Timothy Green | The film is told from the perspective of Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton), as they explain their experience with Timothy (CJ Adams) in an effort to persuade an adoption agency to allow the couple to adopt a child.
Cindy, who works in the town's local museum, and Jim, who is employed at the town's h... | cute, fantasy, flashback | train | wikipedia | The Odd Life of Timothy Green is a great family movie to see, and it really gives you that warm feeling when you leave the theater..
By all means, this should had been a great, entertaining and heartfelt, modern fairy tale, for the whole family to enjoy but the movie handles certain themes poorly and make some odd choi... |
tt0048259 | The King's Thief | James (Niven), the Duke of Brampton and the richest man in England, is so trusted by King Charles II (Sanders), he is able to have two of the King's loyal friends executed for treason. The second is the father of Lady Mary (Blyth). She travels from France to London to seek justice. While there, she meets Michael Dermot... | violence, action, murder | train | wikipedia | Ok historical swashbuckler.
I watched The King's Thief for one reason only, and that was that I am a bit of a Roger Moore fan.
Alas, Roger isn't in the film very much, though what little he does he does well enough.
However, I still enjoyed it as an easy-on-the-brain swashbuckler, the type of thing that Errol Flynn mig... |
tt0094701 | Bad Dreams | In 1975, a cult called Unity Fields commits mass suicide in a horrific manner—by fire—at the behest of its psychopathic leader, Franklin Harris (Richard Lynch). Only one young woman named Cynthia (Jennifer Rubin), a child at the time of the fire, survives, though she lies in a coma for thirteen years.
After she wakes, ... | insanity, cult, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | In the mid-70s,the members of the love cult Unity Fields sought the ultimate joining by dousing themselves with gasoline and committing mass suicide.A young girl blown clear of the fiery explosion was the only survivor.Thirteen years later,Cynthia(Jennifer Rubin)awakens from a coma inside a psychiatric hospital with on... |
tt1814691 | Dragon Age II | === Setting ===
Set in the mythical world of Thedas, Dragon Age II tells the story of Hawke, who fled the nation of Ferelden during the events of Dragon Age: Origins and traveled across the Waking Sea to the Free Marches and the city of Kirkwall as a refugee. Within the span of a decade, Hawke would rise in power and i... | revenge | train | wikipedia | I had high, high hopes for this game.
The initial trailers blew me away, and rarely have I anticipated a game more.
DA2 is not a bad game, but neither is it nearly as good as its predecessor.
Furthermore, after the epic and Grandiose scale of the first game, this game seemed to add little to the overall scope of the wo... |
tt0078158 | Return from Witch Mountain | Tony and his sister Tia are in need of a vacation. Uncle Bené drops them off in their flying saucer at the Rose Bowl stadium in Los Angeles, California, after which the siblings quickly become separated from each other. A man named Dr. Victor Gannon (Lee) and his assistant Letha Wedge (Davis) happen to see Tony using h... | paranormal, brainwashing | train | wikipedia | This is a fine sequel to one of Walt Disney's better family projects Escape from Witch Mountain.
The adult stars are Bette Davis and Christopher Lee as an old dowager financing a mad scientist in some nefarious experiments.These two happen on the alien kids from Witch Mountain, Kim Richards and Ike Eisenman, when the k... |
tt0023158 | Love Me Tonight | The story describes an encounter between a Parisian tailor named Maurice Courtelin (Chevalier) and a family of local aristocrats. These include Vicomte Gilbert de Varèze (Ruggles), who owes Maurice a large amount of money for tailoring work; Gilbert's uncle the Duc d'Artelines (C. Aubrey Smith), the family patriarch; d... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0126604 | Pecker | Set in a Baltimore neighborhood known for having the thickest local accent, Pecker tells the story of an unassuming 18-year-old who works in a sandwich shop and takes photos of his loving but peculiar family and friends on the side. Pecker, so named for his childhood habit of "pecking" at his food, stumbles into fame w... | satire, prank | train | wikipedia | It is full of humorous characters and interesting situations, starting with the blithe, innocent Pecker (played appealingly by Edward Furlong) who likes to photograph almost everything he sees in every day life.
Other great characters include Pecker's friend Matt ("he's a thief, but he's really a nice guy"), Pecker's s... |
tt0040907 | The Truce Hurts | The cartoon starts with all furniture and things being thrown out of the house until Spike stops and questions why they cannot be friends with each other. The trio make a truce, sign a peace treaty and become allies.
As the three of them sleep together, Tom covers Jerry up, Jerry closes Spike’s mouth to stop him snorin... | comic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0117202 | Normal Life | Chris (Luke Perry), a young police officer, meets the attractive and sexy Pamela (Ashley Judd), and immediately falls in love with her. Even her drug and alcohol problems cannot affect his mad love for her, and they decide to marry. As the relationship continues, more problems arise. Their passionate love is accompanie... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0053354 | The 39 Steps | The story starts on 28 June 1914; Richard Hannay (Rupert Penry-Jones), a mining engineer and an intelligence officer during the Second Boer War, is in London following his recent return from Africa, finding England "cliquey", "class-bound" and "deathly, deathly dull". Evading German spies (Werner Daehn and Peter Stark)... | murder | train | wikipedia | First things first, Hitchcock's 'The 39 Steps' is and always will be a classic of the British cinema and Ralph Thomas's remake (it's unashamedly a remake, rather than an adaptation of the novel) fails to equal it.
Taina Elg's foreign heroine however, though very attractive is no Madeleine Carroll and is perhaps the mov... |
tt0044515 | Cosh Boy | Based on an original play by Bruce Walker, the film tells of the exploits of 16-year-old delinquent youth Roy Walsh (James Kenney) and his gang in post-World War II London.
The gang starts off by mugging women. Later, Roy becomes infatuated with Rene (Joan Collins), the sister of one of the gang members. Already having... | revenge, cruelty, violence | train | wikipedia | James Kenney, who I've seen in several movies, gives an outstanding performance of this young undisciplined hoodlum whose hysterical vileness and strutting arrogance propped up with a false bravado that finally cracks like a mirror at the end of the film....well, crime couldn't be shown to pay, could it?
And yes, the p... |
tt0891520 | Kuchisake-onna | As stories about the Kuchisake-onna ("The Slit-Mouthed Woman") spread through a Japanese town, an earthquake causes a corpse matching the entity's description (a woman with long hair, a trench coat, scissors, and a white mask) to break out of a closet in an abandoned house. As that occurs, Noboru Matsuzaki (Haruhiko Ka... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | She wears a mask over her mouth and shows up to people asking "Am I pretty?" Their answer almost always leads to their death.I loved this movie.
(She didn't have the hair over her face, nor did her hair seem to be alive.) The woman with the sliced mouth was a very cool visual.This has been one of my favorite Japanese h... |
tt0160401 | In Too Deep | Undercover cop Jeffrey Cole (Epps) is a recent graduate of the Cincinnati police academy who dreams of working undercover. Cole manages to get an undercover assignment the day of graduation and earns the praise of his superiors. Good at earning the trust of small-time drug dealer, Cole is given the task of taking down ... | violence | train | wikipedia | LL Cool J gives a good performance as "God" a ruthless crime lord as well as Omar Epps in a very different role but still manages to keep that street charisma that he has.
Nia Long's character Myra was perfect to draw the line between his police work and his personal life.
Those looking for a rousing shoot-em-up action... |
tt1800741 | Step Up Revolution | The movie begins on Ocean Drive in Miami, Florida. A flashmob, later identified as "The MOB", shuts down Ocean Drive by cutting off the streets with retro convertibles and dancing on cars to music blasted by DJ Penelope (Cleopatra Coleman). A few hours later, Sean (Ryan Guzman), Eddy (Misha Gabriel), and Jason Hardlers... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I got it and maybe better than I expected with robust routines blending 3-D performance and modern art to tell a story that moves from public display to public mission."The Mob" is a flash mob secretly doing percussive urban choreography at different times in Miami to publish the dance on YouTube and win $100K for the ... |
tt0423176 | Shijie | The World tells the story of two workers at Beijing World Park: a performer, Tao (played by actress Zhao Tao), and Taisheng (Chen Taisheng), a security guard and Tao's boyfriend. As the film begins, Tao is visited by her ex-boyfriend, who is on his way to Ulan Batur. Taisheng meets Tao and the ex-boyfriend at a small d... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | "The World" is set in the tacky eponymous Beijing theme park and details the lives of the alienated young workers who are spiritually and physically trapped there.
The central characters are so alone, alienated and unable to communicate in any meaningful way--much of the dialogue is spoken into the ubiquitous cellphone... |
tt0462582 | True Crime: New York City | The game begins in December 2000, with gangster Marcus Reed (voiced by Avery Waddell) arriving at the home of an associate who has betrayed him. Reed had been placed in charge of the organized crime empire run by his father, Isaiah "The King" Reed (Laurence Fishburne), who has been in prison for fifteen years. As an at... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1226774 | In the Loop | When both the UK and the US are suggesting military intervention in the Middle East, Simon Foster (Tom Hollander), the Minister for International Development, unintentionally states that a war in the Middle East is "unforeseeable" during a radio interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the Prime Minister's Director ... | boring, satire, realism | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0084893 | We of the Never Never | The film focusses on the life of Jeannie, a woman from the upper classes of society, and her story of adapting to life in the outback of Australia. Following her marriage to Aeneas Gunn who has just bought a 1 million acre cattle station near Mataranka, called Elsey Station, Jeannie follows him from Melbourne in 1902. ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Only the Aussies do it this well..
I had never heard of this film and spotted it on a shelf at a rental store some years ago.
I started watching it (first few minutes is need to get you to the outback) and suddenly was engulfed by it's brilliance.
I watched it all the way through then called three friends and threatene... |
tt0055618 | Whistle Down the Wind | The plot follows the lives of three Lancashire farm children who discover a fugitive hiding in their barn. The bearded man, referred to as "Blakey" by the police, is mistaken for Jesus Christ by the children, who are heavily influenced in this belief by stories they have heard told at Sunday school and by an initial ex... | allegory, murder | train | wikipedia | It seems to touch on deep themes which films rarely dare to nowadays - themes of belief, faith, and the meaning of love.The photography of the bleak Lancashire countryside is superbly crisp, the facial expressions of the actors (especially Mr Bates) let us know exactly what is going on in their minds but subtly, in a w... |
tt0218483 | Of Thee I Sing | === Act I ===
In the U.S. in the 1930s, a campaign parade is taking place to support "Wintergreen for President". John P. Wintergreen has been nominated for President and Alexander Throttlebottom has been nominated for Vice President, but he is of such little importance no one can remember who he is. Politicians meet i... | satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4242112 | Pinocchio | The story begins with an inventor named Geppetto making a robot, Pinocchio, as his son. Meanwhile, an evil mayor named Scamboli is building a technological city called "Scamboville" to get rid of nature. He also hates all children, except for his beloved daughter, Marlene. When Marlene expresses concerns to Scamboli ab... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | YOU HAVE A LOT OF WOOD. This is a German made TV mini series filmed in Turkey about an Italian toy maker and badly dubbed in English. I think ,most us know the story. This one includes the whale ending, the mules, and Coco the wood cricket. It was geared for a very young audience, maybe about 5 years old. It doesn't ha... |
tt0845046 | Son of Rambow | Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is a quiet and shy 11-year-old boy, and comes from a family that belongs to the strict Plymouth Brethren church. Will is forbidden from watching films or television and is made to leave his classroom when the teacher puts on a documentary. In the corridor, he meets Lee Carter (Will Poulter)... | psychedelic, prank, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | It follows similar themes to 'Stand by Me' (the classic starring River Phoenix), such as childhood loyalty and comradeship, but in a typically British fashion with understated humour, quirky comedy, and some nice references to 80s Britain.Genuine laugh out loud moments, poignant and uplifting, and it can also just be a... |
tt0455857 | When a Stranger Calls | On one side of town, a babysitter and the kids she is babysitting are brutally murdered. The police find that the murderer used his bare hands to tear them to shreds. The shot then changes to teenager Jill Johnson (Camilla Belle), who is going through a teenage crisis, having her boyfriend, Bobby (Brian Geraghty) cheat... | suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0165019 | Návstevníci | Bill Schmidt and his long-term girlfriend Martha Wayne and their young son Hal live in a small Connecticut farmhouse owned by Martha's overbearing father. One snowy winter Sunday, two of Bill's ex-army buddies, Mike and Tony, arrive. A few years ago, they had all served together in Vietnam in the same platoon but later... | prank | train | wikipedia | Best children entertainment.
This series is one of the best examples of the very good Czech children entertainment tradition.
Humorous, intelligent, exciting and imaginative.It is a pity, that this tradition got lost in late 80ies, and I hope it will grow up again someday - our children deserve better films than stupid... |
tt1244668 | Soul Kitchen | Zinos, a German of Greek descent, owns Soul Kitchen, a shabby, run-down restaurant providing working-class food in the Hamburg area, in an old warehouse space. The business is struggling financially, and tax inspectors ask Zinos for payments. Occasionally a punk rock band uses the restaurant as practice space, but neve... | comedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0094048 | Straight to Hell | The film opens with three hitmen, Willy, Norwood, and Simms (played by Dick Rude, Sy Richardson, and Joe Strummer, respectively) who are staying in a posh Los Angeles hotel. After failing a job, they take off in a car with a whiny pregnant woman named Velma (Courtney Love), who is in on their scheme. They then flee to ... | cult, comedy | train | wikipedia | Sy Richardson is as cool as ever, and the eclectic supporting cast (Cox semi-regulars like Sandoval, Berkeley, and Yeager, various musos and the king of weird movies, Dennis Hopper) make this worth watching for the "six degrees of separation" game alone.Now look, I DO like Leone, and I like punk rock and I love Peckinp... |
tt0079583 | Mr. Mike's Mondo Video | The film is largely plotless; a series of vignettes linked together by interstitial pieces featuring Mr. Mike discussing how upsetting and odd the sequences are. He introduces some of the pieces via voice-over, and some open with no introduction.
Sequences include:
Aykroyd displaying his webbed toes which he prodded wi... | comedy, cult, violence, psychedelic, absurd, humor, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0091859 | Rita, Sue and Bob Too | Rita and Sue are two teenaged girls in their final year of school who live on a run down council estate in Bradford. To earn some money, they babysit for Bob and Michelle (Lesley Sharp), a better-off couple who live in a detached house in a nicer part of town. When the couple return later, Michelle pays the girls and t... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Rita, Sue and Bob Too is an exemplary British '80s film.
I knew a lot of Ritas and Sues when I was growing up, and the two young actresses who play these parts do a stellar job.For me, a lot of the humour in the film derives from the depictions of "class" - from Sue's awful drunk father uselessly brandishing a baseball... |
tt2345737 | The Rover | 10 years after a global economic collapse that caused worldwide turmoil, the Australian outback is a lawless wasteland, crime and poverty are common and small military units patrol the outback attempting to maintain what little law and order is left. After a robbery gone wrong, Archie (David Field), Caleb (Tawanda Many... | bleak, suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0348662 | Kucch To Hai | Karan (Tusshar Kapoor) and Natasha (Anita Hassanandani) are childhood friends. Natasha has always loved Karan, albeit secretly and wanted to marry him. Karan, however, falls for Tanya (Esha Deol), the new admission in college. Meanwhile, Professor Bakshi (Rishi Kapoor), who is rumoured to have murdered his wife and hid... | revenge, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Expecting a thriller from Ekta Kapoor is like expecting dance from Sunny Deol or an original score from Bappi Lahiri.
Expecting a thriller from the director who gave you such sloppy television soaps like 'KKusum' and 'Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki' is like expecting dance from Sunny Deol, acting from Kareena Kapoor or an origina... |
tt0358345 | 4 inyong shiktak | Kang Jung-won (Park Shin-yang), an interior decorator, is overcome with inexplicable anxiety as his long-overdue wedding with Hee-eun (Yoo Sun) approaches. One evening, Jung-won falls asleep on the subway on his way home. He is barely able to wake up at the last station. As he comes round, he sees two young girls aslee... | insanity, psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | The movie tells a story where religion, psychology and supernatural elements mix together in an elegant cocktail of mystery, fear and love.
And it deals with the dilemma of helping people to reconcile with a part of themselves that should have been left forgotten, or should it?The true essence of the story isn't reveal... |
tt0120610 | Black Dog | The movie first starts out with FBI and ATF agents on a pursuit to stop a truck carrying illegal guns as part of an illegal arms operation. The result is the death of the driver, which leads to a disagreement with FBI and ATF agents on involvement with the case.
Jack Crews (Patrick Swayze) is a truck driver who has jus... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0043660 | The House on Telegraph Hill | Polish woman Viktoria Kowalska (Valentina Cortese) has lost her home and her husband in the German occupation of Poland, and has been imprisoned in the concentration camp at Belsen. She befriends another prisoner, Karin Dernakova (Natasha Lytess), who dreams of reuniting with her young son Christopher (Gordon Gebert), ... | murder | train | wikipedia | This movie begins a little like William Irish's aka Cornell Woolrich's " I married a dead man " (the novel was released well before Leisen's movie ,in 1948),the concentration camps replacing the derailment:and then a poor girl becomes an impostor in a wealthy family;then after introducing a Rebeccaesque governess,the s... |
tt0331338 | 16 Years of Alcohol | The opening scene shows Frankie being beaten by a small group of men, and the rest of the film is shown as a flashback leading up to that point. The film is split into three sections: Frankie's troubled childhood, his violent adolescence as a ska-loving skinhead who commands a small gang, and a period of change, in whi... | violence | train | wikipedia | He skirts cliché while playing with it, trying to show the violence endemic in that society and making many references to other films ('Clockwork Orange', westerns, 'Trainspotting', Martin Scorsese, etc.).
The cinematography is gorgeous and I was glad for the snippet of Skids on the soundtrack, though 'Love is the Drug... |
tt0150216 | Cradle Will Rock | At the height of the Great Depression, aspiring singer Olive Stanton (Emily Watson) dreams of getting a job as an actress with the Federal Theater Project (FTP). Playwright Marc Blitzstein (Hank Azaria) is working on his new musical, The Cradle Will Rock, but lacks the inspiration to finish it. While attending a public... | inspiring | train | wikipedia | Writer/director Tim Robbins, whose left-leaning sympathies are common knowledge in the film industry, has managed to create a screenplay of amazing complexity and depth, functioning on an enormous number of levels - political, historical, aesthetic, personal - without ever losing clarity and focus.
He has set up a dizz... |
tt1252317 | Ninja Gaiden II | One year after Ninja Gaiden Black, master blacksmith Muramasa is setting up shop in Tokyo, Japan. A CIA agent named Sonia enters the place and asks for Ryu Hayabusa's whereabouts, until members of the Black Spider Ninja Clan attack the shop and kidnap her. Enter the Dragon Ninja Ryu, who fails to stop Sonia's kidnappin... | good versus evil, insanity, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | A nicely done action game. I first had low expectations about Ninja Gaiden 2, I mean, it didn't seem so great that it was based on some old arcade them that has long been kicked out of the popularity list. But then as I started playing, I realised it wasn't such a failure after all; the graphics were exceptional, the g... |
tt2213054 | Kai po che! | Ishaan "Ish" Bhatt (Sushant Singh Rajput) is an ex district level cricketer who is a victim of politics in the cricketing selection fraternity, Omkar "Omi" Shastri (Amit Sadh) is the nephew of a Hindu politician (Bittu) who funds their business and Govind "Govi" Patel (Rajkumar Rao) is a geek with a penchant for busine... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0116015 | Dangan ranna | Alcoholic air marshal Bill Marks boards a Boeing 767 of British Aqualantic Airlines (cf. British Airways, Virgin Atlantic), from New York City to London Heathrow. He sits next to Jen Summers, who has switched seats so she can be by the window. After takeoff, Marks receives a text message on his secure phone stating tha... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | When everything turns out wrong, you got to run..
This is one of the movies that get better every time you see them.
It's packed with so many original and unconventional ideas that you always find a new detail.
As in Sabu's subsequent movies (I didn't see "Unlucky monkey" yet, but the other ones are as great) failure, ... |
tt0034245 | Sunset in Wyoming | The Wentworth Lumber Company has been clearcutting trees on Mount Warner without considering the consequences. After one heavy rain, the ranchers in the valley suffer flood damage to their lands, the result of recent logging activities. The ranchers approach company manager Phipps (John Dilson) and camp foreman Bull Wi... | murder | train | wikipedia | Tamer Than Usual. It's a rip-roaring opening and close, but the in-between smacks of tame, high-toned city life. Frog and Gene are out to help local ranchers save their land from timber harvesters who've de-nuded the hillsides, causing mudslides that ruin the land. Sounds like a modern environmental message, especially... |
tt0984118 | Snuff 102 | Animal experimentation footage is shown, followed by a video of a man dismembering a female body in a bathtub. It is implied that the man masturbates after the corpse has been sufficiently mutilated. Next, someone browses and clicks on the link for "Snuff Fantasy". Images of animals and people (mostly women) being tort... | violence, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119960 | The Proposition | Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, the movie follows a series of events following the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family, likely committed by the infamous Burns brothers gang.
The film opens in a remote wood building with a violent gunfight between the police and Charlie Burns' (Guy Pearce) gang, w... | violence, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0026641 | The Littlest Rebel | The film opens in the ballroom of the Cary plantation on Virgie’s (Shirley Temple) sixth birthday. Her slave Uncle Billy (Bill Robinson) dances for her party guests, but the celebration is brought abruptly to an end when a messenger arrives with news of the assault on Fort Sumter and a declaration of war. Virgie’s fath... | historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0920458 | Flammen & Citronen | Set after the Nazi invasion of Denmark, the film focuses on the Holger Danske resistance group's Bent Faurschou Hviid (known as Flammen) and Jørgen Haagen Schmith (known as Citron). In a bar, Bent flirts with a woman, who identifies herself as Ketty Selmer and disturbs him by saying his real name. Bent and Jørgen follo... | suspenseful, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Another good movie, occasionally but steadily coming from Denmark, Flammen & Citronen (Flame and Citron, 2008), not necessarily belonging to the genre, but still shot in a good old film-noir style ("black-and-white" detective or other crime stories, a film genre with its hey-days back in 1940's and 1950's, nevertheless... |
tt0084630 | Satte Pe Satta | Satte Pe Satta is the story of seven brothers living on a large farmhouse. The first half of the movie shows the life of the brothers who grew up under the leadership of their oldest brother Ravi (Amitabh Bachchan). Being orphans and uneducated, all seven brothers are unsophisticated bumpkins and lack social etiquette ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0039737 | Pursued | Set in New Mexico around the turn of the 20th century and told in flashback, the film tells the story of Jeb Rand (Mitchum), whose entire family was slaughtered when he was a child. In the aftermath of the massacre, Jeb is found by Mrs. Callum, a widow, who raises him in her family. Traumatized by the killings, Jeb doe... | revenge, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Looking at the other reviews for "Pursued", I don't think I have to repeat the plot summary for this dark, thoughtful 1947 western, directed by Raoul Walsh.
The story told in flashbacks and flashbacks within flashbacks with the narration of Robert Mitchum, a relentless villain, a hidden family mystery...plus gunfights ... |
tt0089853 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Set in New Jersey during the Great Depression in 1935, the film tells the story of Cecilia (Mia Farrow), a clumsy waitress who goes to the movies to escape her bleak life and loveless, abusive marriage to Monk (Danny Aiello), whom she has attempted to leave on numerous occasions.
The latest film Cecilia sees is a ficti... | fantasy, depressing, whimsical, psychedelic, humor, satire, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0092575 | Appointment with Fear | A man (Garrick Dowhen) in a white Ford van gets out and stabs his wife on the portico of a house. Before she dies, she gives her baby to Heather (Kerry Remsen) and urges her that he must be kept safe, knowing that his father will try to kill him. The case is followed by Detective Kowalski (Douglas Rowe), an off-beat, s... | murder | train | wikipedia | Uniquely weird slasher flick.
This movie is indeed an incoherent mess, but it's so weird in its very concept that I can't believe it is merely an exercise in incompetence (despite the bad reviews and the "Alan Smithee" directorial credit).
But neither is it one of those annoying, would-be "cult" films that tries very s... |
tt1833879 | Scary or Die | === The Crossing ===
Buck (Bill Oberst Jr.) and his friends have made a pastime of trolling the Mexico-United States border in search of anyone they believe to be an illegal immigrant. Upon catching someone, the group murders them and buries the body in the hopes of sending out a personal message to anyone else that wa... | violence, murder, haunting | train | wikipedia | Although not entirely original at parts, Scary or Die is a modern "Vault of Horror" or "Trilogy of Terror." We are presented with five tales of the macabre as a zombie clicks on the clips on a you-tube like site.
The Crossing: When three Mexican hating rednecks murder two innocent Latino men at their dump site, they ar... |
tt0032153 | You Can't Get Away with Murder | In New York's Hell's Kitchen, young Johnny Stone (Billy Halop) goes against the advice of his sister Madge (Gale Page) and hooks up with mobster Frank Wilson (Humphrey Bogart).
First, Johnny and Frank steal a car, and then hold up a gas station. Later, Johnny takes a gun belonging to Madge's fiancé Fred Burke (Harvey S... | murder | train | wikipedia | In this film Bogart plays a small time hood named Frank Wilson whom is followed by Johnny {aka Leader of the Dead End Kids featured in other early Bogart movies}.
Johnny is a teenager heading down the wrong path and gets into big trouble when Frank murders someone at a botched heist job.
"You Can't Get Away with Murder... |
tt0046806 | The Bridges at Toko-Ri | U.S. Navy Lieutenant Harry Brubaker (William Holden) is a Naval Reserve officer and Naval Aviator who was called back to active duty from his civilian profession as an attorney to fly fighter-bombers in the Korean War. Returning from a mission with battle damage, he is forced to ditch into the sea and is rescued by a S... | anti war | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3379456 | Redeemer | Former hit man Nicky Pardo regularly plays Russian roulette with a stylized pistol. Flashbacks reveal that, during a confrontation, he accidentally killed the son of a rival hit man known as the Scorpion. In revenge, the Scorpion tortures both Pardo and his pregnant wife, forces Pardo to kill his wife to end her suffer... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0029880 | Army Girl | Capt. Dike Conger and M/Sgt. "Three Star" Hennessy are sent with their new light tank for tests against horse cavalry under desert conditions. In an extended hell for leather race amongst a variety of obstacles, their tank wins against Col. Armstrong's 31st Cavalry.
During this period the Colonel's daughter Julie masqu... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0025965 | We're Not Dressing | Spoiled socialite Doris Worthington (Lombard) is sailing the Pacific with her friend Edith (Merman) and her Uncle Hubert (Errol), while being courted by Prince Michael (Milland) and Prince Alexander (Henry). She is bored, however, and finds entertainment in verbal sparring with one of the sailors, Stephen Jones (Crosby... | comedy | train | wikipedia | You add some well-known actors like George Burns and Gracie Allen, Leon Errol, and a twenty-something Ethel Merman for some comic relief.
Simple plot, Bing's a sailor on the Lombard yacht and he, Lombard, her uncle Leon Errol, her friend Ethel Merman and two princes/gigolos, Ray Milland and Jay Henry are shipwrecked af... |
tt2896416 | The Great Seer | The Great Seer begins during the reign of King Gongmin (Ryu Tae-joon). But despite being about seers, geomancers, divinators and the like, this drama is less about the fantasy and more about the political movers and shakers — people who had the power to advise, and therefore control, kings. Yi Seong-gye (Ji Jin-hee) is... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038747 | Monsieur Beaucaire | Act I
The setting is Bath in the early 18th Century. Beaucaire is posing as a barber employed by the French Ambassador. He is actually the Duc d'Orleans, the son of the King of France, a fact only known to his valet and his friend, Molyneux. Beaucaire is in love with Lady Mary Carlisle, who is herself courted by the Du... | action, satire | train | wikipedia | A Good Bob Hope Comedy.
This film was done when Hope was at or near the peak of both his film popularity and his comic abilities.
Based on a Booth Tarkington novella, which had served Rudolph Valentino with mixed results in 1924 (he acted well, but the part labeled him as gay with certain male critics), the story is ho... |
tt0061810 | In Like Flint | After observing the launch of a new space platform, Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organisation World Intelligence Espionage) Chief Lloyd C. Cramden joins President Trent (Andrew Duggan) for a game of golf. While on the links they are interrupted by a small group, two women disguised as boys and an actor disguised as an old man, al... | brainwashing | train | wikipedia | It's filled with silly stuff like exploding golf balls, brainwashing via hairdryers, Flint talking fluent dolphin and Lee J.
"In Like Flint" is a sequel to the spy parody film "Our Man Flint" starring James Coburn.
To achieve and establish it, they kidnap and replace the U.S. President, discredit the Head of the Z.O.W.... |
tt0128232 | Ghostkeeper | Jenny, Marty, and Chrissy are spending their New Year's Eve on a snowmobiling trip in the Rocky Mountains. After talking with a storekeeper at a ski shop, the three decide to go riding before dark, but end up caught in a blizzard. Looming before them is a seemingly abandoned hotel at the top of the snow trail, isolated... | insanity, murder, storytelling | train | wikipedia | They meet an old lady (played by Georgie Collins, who actually gives a really scary performance) who is living there with her unseen son, but she is hiding a ghostly secret.Definitely one of the better '80s horror films, this unknown little chiller should be a familiar entry in the genre, but sadly is seen by hardly an... |
tt0077381 | The Prince and the Pauper | Tom Canty, youngest son of a poor family living in Offal Court, London, has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest (who has taught him to read and write). Loitering around the palace gates one day, he sees a prince (the Prince of Wales – Edward VI). Coming too close in his intense excitement, T... | action, satire, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | "Crossed Swords" is a lavish and lively adaptation of the Mark Twain classic "The Prince and the Pauper".
Mark "Oliver" Lester is too old and stiff to give a truly authentic performance in the dual role of Prince Edward and pauper Tom Canty, but he doesn't spoil the film.
Oliver Reed is a hearty and touching Miles Hend... |
tt1781827 | Hands of Stone | The film follows the life of Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Durán, who made his professional boxing debut in 1968 as a 16-year-old and retired in 2001 at age 50.
Growing up in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor "Plo... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Not exactly what I was expecting at first from a sports movie but in the end it turned out to have the heart I expect from a sports film.Based on the story of Roberto Duran, a poor street kid from Panama who became that country's symbol of greatest as a boxing champion.
It follows his career from his glory days to how ... |
tt0056693 | Wild Guitar | Bud Eagle (Arch Hall Jr.), a young singer-songwriter, arrives in Hollywood on a motorcycle. At Marge's Koffee Kup Cafe, he meets Vickie (Nancy Czar), an aspiring dancer, who quizzes him about his "gimmick" and promises to give him the "inside dope" on the music industry. He attends her performance at a television varie... | cult | train | wikipedia | At times the marriage between the Arch Halls and Ray Dennis Steckler seems to have been a bit rocky.
Arch Jr.'s frustration shows through in certain scenes, such as the one in which he plays opposite the criminal `lemon grove kids' and seems to be asking `what, am I supposed to direct this thing myself?' It's too bad, ... |
tt0143127 | Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero | Since his last encounter against Batman, Mr. Freeze has found a home in the Arctic and started a family (of sorts) with the still cryogenically-encased Nora, an Inuit boy named Koonak, and two pet polar bears, Hotchka and Shaka. Nora's condition begins to rapidly deteriorate due to a submarine accidentally emerging fro... | cult, comedy, violence | train | wikipedia | Not as dark as the previous animated film, but it was like the way Batman acts in the comics and show.
Alongside Mask of the Phantasm, this movie is a great tribute to the Animated Series that brought Batman into children's lives.
Just goes to show the difference between a great movie and director, and a horrible movie... |
tt0062380 | Tony Rome | Tony Rome is an ex-cop turned private investigator who lives on a powerboat in Miami called the Straight Pass. This a reference to the fact that Tony also has a gambling problem.
He is asked by his former partner, Ralph Turpin (Robert J. Wilke), to take home a young woman who had been left unconscious in a hotel room.
... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0844653 | Legend of the Seeker | The story takes place in the world created by author Terry Goodkind in his fantasy novel series, The Sword of Truth. The three main provinces are Westland, the Midlands and D'Hara. Westland is separated from the Midlands by a magical boundary, which was created to prevent any magic from entering Westland. On the other ... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0062893 | Dillinger è morto | Glauco, a middle-aged industrial designer of gas masks, is growing tired of his occupation. Having discussed alienation with a colleague at the factory, he returns home. His wife is in bed with a headache but has left him dinner, which has become cold. He is dissatisfied with the food and begins preparing himself a gou... | psychedelic, cult, murder, violence, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0344864 | Atlantis: Milo's Return | After the decline in Atlantean culture following the sinking, Kida (Cree Summer), now Queen, and married to Milo Thatch (James Arnold Taylor), is using the heart of Atlantis to restore her city's former glory. Suddenly, Milo's comrades and Mr. Whitmore (John Mahoney) arrive in Atlantis; while their arrival is unexpecte... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | If you've seen Atlantis 1, then you'd know that what made that film truly great was brilliant animation and a good script.
The only good thing about this movie is that our favorite characters from "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" are back.
Several of the bad things about this movie are that it has horrible characters, it ha... |
tt1163560 | Maria sama ga miteru | === Setting and themes ===
The setting for Maria-sama ga Miteru is Lillian Girls' Academy (私立リリアン女学園, Shiritsu Ririan Jogakuen), a fictional Catholic school founded in 1901 in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan; the school is depicted as an elegant, clean, pure, and very prestigious institution. Among the facilities of Lillian, a... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0325655 | Gin gwai | Sydney Wells is a successful classical violinist from Los Angeles who has been blind since she was five years old, caused by an accident with firecrackers. Fifteen years later, after celebrating conductor and pianist Simon McCullough's birthday during rehearsal, Sydney undergoes a cornea transplant, which causes her ey... | atmospheric, flashback | train | wikipedia | In an age when American horror flicks are starting to look weary from over-use of CGI special effects or are toned down by self-censorship to reach a wider audience, The Eye comes in as a deftly woven real cardiac-stimulation shocker.
If you like horror movies and want to experiment, this is a good chance, and one of t... |
tt0094075 | Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | The film covers Karen Carpenter from the time of her "discovery" in 1966 to her untimely death by cardiac arrest (secondary to anorexia nervosa) in 1983. The movie begins with a quasi-first person recap of her mother Agnes Carpenter discovering Karen's body in her parents' Downey, California home on February 4, 1983, a... | cult | train | wikipedia | I think it has less to do with "unauthorized" use of Carpenter songs then the fact that Karen's family comes across as monsters and largely responsible for her death.Quite simply this film is a kick in the face, a punch to the gut and utterly heartbreaking.
A marvelous film made by Todd Haynes, a Brown University stude... |
tt0107501 | The Man Without a Face | The film takes place in 1968. For the past seven years, Justin McLeod (Gibson) has been living an isolated existence as a reclusive painter following a car accident which left him disfigured on the right side of his face and chest by burns sustained in a post-crash fire.
Young Chuck Nordstadt (Nick Stahl) endures a dys... | dramatic, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2292822 | Left Behind | University of Central Arkansas student Chloe Steele (Cassi Thomson) has flown in from college to surprise her father, pilot Rayford Steele (Nicolas Cage), for his birthday party. However, her mother Irene quickly calls to inform her that her father cannot make it. While at the airport waiting for him, Chloe meets up wi... | christian film | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0453978 | Yakeen | Rajesh is a scientist. He is injured following instructions of Dr Sharma in a secret experiment & granted leave. Rajesh lives with his dog, cook Bhola and loves Rita. Rajesh goes to meet Rita & asks for her hand from her mother who agrees. He finds his things spread on bed on returning to his hotel room. Shetty fools B... | flashback | train | wikipedia | A Watchable Romance and Thriller movie!!!!!!!!!.
Yakeen was a romance and thriller.
I absolutely loved it because Arjun Rampal and Priyanka Chopra made an awesome and hot couple on-screen.More than just a handsome face, the lead star of "Yakeen", Arjun Rampal, has always been a very versatile actor.
He played the obses... |
tt2905838 | Bang Bang | The film opens in UK where Colonel Viren Nanda (Jimmy Shergill) goes to meet a wanted terrorist Omar Zafar (Danny Denzongpa) in his holding cell. As Viren informs Zafar that he will be extradited back to India for his crimes, Zafar's men enter his holding cell, led by Hamid Gul (Jaaved Jaffrey), killing all guards arou... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
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