|
|
Short movie titles
|
 |
|
 |
| Rating: 8.4 |
|
Johnnie loves his train ("The General") and Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War begins he is turned down for service because he's more valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks it's because he's a coward. Union spies capture The General with Annabelle on board. Johnny must rescue both his loves. |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 8.2 |
|
Wordless (save for the song "Walking in the Air") animated adventure about a young English boy who makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, only for it to come to life that night and take him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus. |
| Helpmates
[1932,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| When the cats are away, the mice start looking up telephone numbers |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.9 |
|
Oliver's house is in a shambles after a wild party, and his wife is due home at noon. He calls Stanley to help him fix the place up, and the typical catastrophies ensue. Somehow, however, Stanley manages to complete the job by the time Oliver leaves to pick up his wife at the train station. As a finishing touch, Stan decides to start a nice fire in the fireplace, using a can of gasoline to hurry the process along. |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.9 |
|
Laurel and Hardy are in the fish business. They drive around town seeing if they can sell any. Stan suggests they catch their own fish and could keep all the profits when selling them to people. Ollie likes the idea so they buy a boat at the junk yard and try, sometimes unsuccessfully, to fix it up. When the boat is finally fixed up, the whole operation goes south. |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.8 |
|
Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese and this provides an excellent excuse for the animated duo to take their holiday on the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.6 |
|
Mississippi, just before Pearl Harbor. Two brothers, Pete, about 19 and Willie, about 10 years younger. They are clearly close friends. The news arrives, and Pete goes to enlist. Willie wants to come along, but is told he cannot. After his brother leaves, the boy walks 30 miles to the nearest town, where the sheriff eventually puts him on a bus to Memphis where his brother is. At the recruiting office, Willie proves even more determined to see his brother; eventually, sympathetic Col. McKellogg takes care of him. |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.5 |
|
In Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction. |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.4 |
|
Set in London, England, good Samaritan Dan Wolf (Jude Law), a struggling writer, takes Alice Ayres (Natalie Portman), a shady young woman and part-time stripper, to the hospital when she's hit by a car, and they fall in love. One year later, Dan meets photographer Anna Cameron (Julie Roberts) and tries to pick her up, but she rebuffs him. In revenge, Dan sets Anna up for an embarrassing encounter with sex-addicted dermatologist Larry Bagley (Clive Owen), but the two end up seeing each other. Then another year later, Dan and Anna begin an affair of their own, and relationships between the four collapse. Over the next year, all of them become obsessed with hurting each other and wreak some heavy emotional damage. Will any of them be strong enough to put this destructive sequence of events to a stop? |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.4 |
|
Anthony Burgess created the primitive language for the early humans in this prehistoric adventure about a trio of warriors who travel the savanna, encountering sabre-toothed tigers, mammoths and cannibalistic tribes in search of a flame that would replace the fire their tribe has lost. |
| County Hospital
[1932,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| Mr. Hardy fell on his leg and was laid up for two moths. Mr. Laurel fell on his head and hadn't felt better in years. |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.3 |
|
Visiting Oliver in the hospital where he's recovering from a broken leg, Stanley wreaks havoc on both his friend (getting Oliver strung up from the ceiling by his cast-encased leg) as well as the doctor, who winds up dangling out the window. After they're ordered out, Stanley tries to drive Oliver home, unaware that he's just accidentally injected himself with a powerful sedative. |
| Any Old Port!
[1932,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| In port -- Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy were just home from a whaling voyage -- Mr. Hardy shipped as head harpooner; Mr. Laurel went along as bait. |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.2 |
|
Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord (Long). They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose. |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.2 |
|
Mrs. Hardy is irate that her husband Oliver spends more time with his friend Stanley than with her. Oliver decides to adopt a baby, hoping that it will keep his wife occupied so that he and Stanley can continue to carouse. But upon returning home with the infant, they find a process server with a divorce summons, and spend a sleepless night caring for the squalling baby. |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.1 |
|
In this comic-within-comic book read by one of 'Watchmen' characters, a mariner survives an attack from the dreaded pirates of the Black Freighter, but his struggle to return home to warn it has a horrific cost. |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.1 |
|
Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion. The drunk can't find his key, but the boys find a way in, sending the surprised woman inside into a faint. They revive her with what they think is water, but is actually gin, and all get tipsy in the process. Outside, the drunk realizes he's at the wrong house and stumbles off. Eventually, the real homeowner arrives, none other than Judge Beaumont. |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.0 |
|
Val Resnick (Gregg Henry), a member of a powerful criminal syndicate, must pay off a debt to his bosses. He draws his old pal and smart criminal partner, Porter (Mel Gibson), into a $140,000 heist from a Chinese gang. Assisted by Porter’s wife, Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger), they successfully rob the mob’s car. But the greedy and lowdown Resnick arrives at a conclusion that having all the money is better than half. Val, like a subtle psychologist, shows Lynn a photo of her husband in the arms of a fancy lady (Maria Bello) and gets what he has bargained for: the jealous, betrayed wife kills her own husband with two shots in the back. Without feeling a shred of guilt or remorse, they take all the dough and leave Porter for dead. Nonetheless, Porter survives the attack and five months later he is back, seeking his share and revenge on his ex-partner.
|
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.0 |
|
Seasoned, cynical political correspondent Pierre Peders (Steve Buscemi) feels chagrined at being sidetracked by his editor and assigned to interview a young, attractive B-list soap opera star named Katya (Sienna Miller). Pierre has never worked with celebrities from the world of show business therefore an average interview goes haywire and transforms into a fierce battle of wits and sensual wills. It is not very obvious who the hunter is and who the hunted is in this verbal cat-and-mouse game... |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 7.0 |
|
This short film were presented at the Belfast film festival. THE FOUR HORSEMEN is a futuristic allegory adapted from the Book of Revelations which illustrates the struggle of 'Life' when pitted against 'War', 'Famine', 'Death' and 'Pestilence'. The novel is directed by Robert Kelly, lasts 16 minutes, and was produced in Ireland, 2006. |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 6.8 |
|
While having a consultation with psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor), deranged college student and amateur artist Henry Lethem (Ryan Gosling) claims to have killed both of his parents. He also informs Sam about his plan to follow the lead of his idol and commit suicide in three days, on his 21st birthday. Wanting to prevent the suicide of the troubled patient, Sam decides to help him break free from his obsession. While investigating the intriguing case, he gradually gets drawn into the web of Henry's nightmarish illusions, standing on the sharpest edge of death or life.
|
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 6.7 |
|
The animated sequel of the adventures of Riddick (Vin Diesel) and his companions Imam (Keith David) and Jack (Rhiana Griffith). The threesome is captured by the spaceship of Antonia Chillingsworth, a woman who loves to catch the wanted criminals and freeze them making the statues of human flesh. Riddick and his friends have to fight the great army of Antonia's warriors not to become the displays in her on-board collection. |
|
 |
|
|
| Rating: 6.5 |
|
When Matt Whitlock (Denzel Washington), the well-intentioned chief of police in a small town, makes a few fatal mistakes, he finds his life turned topsy-turvy. When he starts investigating arson and a double homicide, the respected cop unexpectedly becomes the prime suspect. He soon comes to realize that he has fallen prey to a brilliant evil machination. Matt knows that time is not on his side therefore he races to find the real offender in order to prove his innocence. |
| Records found: 36, viewing from 1 to 20 |
Page:
1
2
|
|
