cryptexcode/MPST huggingface dataset:
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
Tags: violence, murder

Plot synopsis:
Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (Antonio Banderas) finds himself without adequate funding to finance his war against the military-run government. He also finds himself at odds with the Americans because of the Hearst media empire's press campaign against him. To counter both of these threats, he sends emissaries to movie producers to convince them to pay to film his progress and the actual battles. Producer D.W. Griffith (Colm Feore) is immediately interested and convinces Mutual Film Studios boss Harry E. Aitkin to send a film crew. Aitkin's nephew Frank Thayer is initially a mere errand boy for the studio, but he makes a good impression with Villa, who demands that Thayer be placed in charge of the project. Thayer and a camera crew team film Villa leading his men to victory in battle. Despite the failure of this initial footage (which draws derisive laughter from potential backers) Thayer convinces Aitkin to invest even more money in a second attempt, and also convinces Villa to participate in making a more narrative film.
Thayer returns to Mexico with a director, actors, producers, cameramen and screen writers, and begin to film Villa's previous exploits using a younger actor, future film director Raoul Walsh (Kyle Chandler). The filming goes well, although Villa becomes angry that the screenwriters and the director have changed history to make a more dramatic film. However, he agrees to do a cameo appearance as an older version of himself. Meanwhile, Frank begins a romance with actress Teddy Sampson (Alexa Davalos) whom he's had a crush on since they first met. One night Villa announces that they will attack a Federal held fort at Torreon and win the revolution. The film's director and his crew tell Villa that they are not coming with him to film the battle. Villa scares them into going to the battle by having a firing squad shoot over their heads.
The next morning, Villa assembles his men to attack Torreon. Thayer and his team go into film the action. After a skirmish on the way to the fort, Villa's army arrives at Torreon and lays siege to the fortress. Villa orders an attack and personally leads the charge. Villa's army is initially successful, but they suffer heavy casualties and are forced to withdraw. That night, Villa orders his army to bombard Torreon into submission, and, after a long, brutal bombardment, Villa's cavalry finish off the last of Torreon's Federal defenders. However, Thayer and his camera crew team witness Villa personally shooting a Mexican widow in cold blood with his handgun during the aftermath of the battle. Disgusted, the team leaves.
'The Life of General Villa' is shown in theaters in America, and to great success, although Thayer and his camera crew members regret making the film.
Nine years later General Villa is driving his car with an associate and two of his bodyguards through Parral, Chihuahua. His car is flagged down by a Mexican civilian, when several Federals suddenly appear with machine guns. Villa reaches for his pistol, but is shot several times and is killed.
Candy from Strangers
Tags: romantic

Plot synopsis:
A strange boy is being chased by a suspicious white van. He hides from his pursuers, stumbling upon a young girl playing outside with her 2 best friends. He motions her towards him. For a split second, the young girl thought she saw the boy's eyes change yet she remains unafraid as he was the most beautiful boy she had ever seen. As quickly as he came, he was gone but he leaves her with a gift. A single, mysterious blue lollipop.Fast forward 10 years. The young girl and her friends now grown up, decide to embark on a coming of age road trip adventure. As they drive on the open highway, they come upon a lone hitchhiker. Locking eyes with the mysterious stranger, the girl hit with a sudden pang of dejavu. Though she would never pick-up someone she didn't know, she ignores her friends' pleas and offers the strange boy a ride. As he gets in the car, he opens his duffle full of candy that he offers the girls.The "candy" lets those (the stranger allows) have temporary access into his "world". They see what he sees, feel what he feels, (and for a short time), they in essence become what he is.Who or what is the mysterious Candyman? Where is he from? No one knows. And no one can predict what happens when you take candy from a stranger.
The Trouble with Harry
Tags: comedy, murder

Plot synopsis:
The film follows the quirky but down-to-earth residents of a small village in Vermont in the autumn, as they deal with the freshly dead body of a man, which has inconveniently appeared on the hillside above the town. The problem of what to do with the body, and more importantly how and why he was killed, is the eponymous "Trouble with Harry".Three of the main characters in the film imagine that they are the one who actually killed this person. Captain Albert Wiles (Edmund Gwenn) is sure that he must have killed the man with a stray shot from his rifle when rabbit hunting. Miss Ivy Gravely (Mildred Natwick) feels that the man died after a blow from her hiking boot, and so on. Sam Marlowe (John Forsythe), an attractive and free-spirited artist, is quite open-minded about the whole event, and is prepared to help his good-natured friends and neighbors in any way he can.It turns out that the dead man is in fact Harry, the estranged husband of an attractive and feisty young woman called Jennifer Rogers, (Shirley MacLaine), who lives in the village along with her small son Arnie (Jerry Mathers). Jennifer Rogers thinks that her husband may possibly have died after she hit him with a bottle. In any case, no-one is actually upset about what has happened.However, none of the principal characters want this death to come to the attention of the "authorities" in the form of cold, humorless, Deputy Sheriff Calvin Wiggs (Royal Dano). The main characters conceal the body by burying it, and then have to dig it up again. This happens several times. The body is also concealed at one point by hiding it in a bathtub.In the end we discover that Harry actually died of natural causes, and no foul play was involved. In the meantime, Sam and Jennifer have fallen in love, as have the Captain and Miss Gravely. Sam has been able to sell his paintings to a passing millionaire. The artist refuses to accept money, and instead requests a few simple gifts for his friends and himself.Overall, the film is a light-hearted meditation on death as an intrinsic part of the natural cycle of things, within the harmonious landscape of autumn, a time of year when nature is dying, only to be reborn in spring. The Vermont town seems to be a little Utopia or one kind of paradise, where sex and death are not shocking and dramatic, but simply the natural order of things.
The Murder of Princess Diana
Tags: intrigue, mystery, murder, historical fiction

Plot synopsis:
It is three weeks away from the Oslo convention and Bill Clinton is on the verge of signing a treaty to ban the production of landmines, a dream many thought impossible, a dream brought about by the help of one woman, Princess Diana.Rachel Visco, a Red Cross worker and tireless anti-landmine campaigner, knows that Diana has achieved more for this cause in a matter of weeks than others have in years. . When she hears that Diana is heading to Paris, amidst a flurry of negative press, Rachel travels there herselfIn Paris Rachel contacts Thomas Silvestre, her ex-lover and a Lieutenant in the French Police. Charged with the protection of Dodi and Diana whilst in Paris, he has a formidable task just to keep up with the whereabouts of the secretive couple, let alone offer them any protection. Run ragged by the couples constant change of plans, Silvestre finally gives into Rachels offer of help and allows her past the swarming paparazzi at The Ritz hotel as an extra pair of eyes and ears. There Rachel notices a number of curiosities.At approximately 12:25am the Mercedes 280S, in which Princess Diana and her boyfriend were travelling, crashes in the Alma tunnel killing Dodi and the driver, Henri Paul, outright. Rachel arrives at the scene moments later to find chaos. She is rounded up with a group of paparazzi, accused of being complicit in the accident.
The next morning Rachel is called upon to give a statement to the police, but they seem uninterested in what Rachel has to say.Silvestre unearths a number of anomalies that only deepen the conspiracy. Silvestre is dismissed by Bertrand, his senior on the French police. Leaving his office for the last time, he meets a man (Anthony) who has been seen at a number of key locations over the past few days.Returning to his apartment, Rachel finds a gun man waiting for her (whom she easily disarms) and Silvestre already dead.Not knowing whom to trust, Rachel tracks down Anthony who turns out to be another pawn in a game of the highest stakes.© Delux Studios
(www.delux.lu)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Tags: revenge, murder

Plot synopsis:
A murderous western outlaw (Mitchell), his wife (Baxter), a disgraced gambler (Robertson) and a faded dance hall floozie (Hopkins), along with a few other socially undesirable characters, are trapped in a snowbound mountain cabin. As the chances for rescue fade, the true natures of the cabin's occupants rise to the surface. A murderous western outlaw, Ryker, leaves death and destruction behind after a robbery in Poker Flat and leaves the loot with his wife, Cal, before riding off. A while later, the shaken town decides to banish all undesirables. They include gambler John Oakhurst, saloonkeeper and madam The Duchess and the town drunk, as well as Cal, who had been spotted with Ryker, even though no one knows they are husband and wife.
The others follow Oakhurst, not knowing what else to do. They come across young Tom Dakin and pregnant sweetheart Piney, who were headed for Poker Flat to be wed. In a snowstorm, John leads them to a remote cabin. They have no horses, so Tom takes off for Poker Flat on foot to get help, given $500 of the stolen money by Cal in case he needs to pay someone to form a rescue party.
Ryker turns up, also on foot. He is shocked to find Cal, becomes suspicious and beats her, as well as bullying the others and eating all of their remaining food. He shoots the drunk just for taking a bottle of whiskey. Cal develops a bond with Oakhurst and eventually reveals her situation to him. A fight begins after Ryker shoots and kills The Duchess in cold blood, and Oakhurst is able to strangle him to death. Some head back toward town, while Oakhurst and Cal go the other way.
Phone Call from a Stranger
Tags: flashback

Plot synopsis:
After his wife Jane (Helen Westcott) admits to an extramarital affair, Iowa attorney David Trask (Gary Merrill) abandons her and their daughters and heads for Los Angeles. His flight is delayed, and while waiting in the airport restaurant he meets a few of his fellow passengers. Troubled, alcoholic Dr. Robert Fortness (Michael Rennie), haunted by his responsibility for a car accident in which a colleague, Dr. Tim Brooks (Hugh Beaumont) was killed, is returning home to his wife Claire (Beatrice Straight) and teenage son Jerry (Ted Donaldson), and plans to tell the district attorney the truth about the accident.
Aspiring actress Binky Gay (Shelley Winters) is hoping to free her husband Mike Carr (Craig Stevens) from the clutches of his domineering mother, former vaudevillian Sally Carr (Evelyn Varden), who looks down on Binky. Overly loud traveling salesman Eddie Hoke (Keenan Wynn) shares a photograph of his young, attractive wife Marie (Bette Davis) wearing a swimsuit. When a storm forces the aircraft to land en route, they continue to share their life stories during the unexpected four-hour layover. They exchange home phone numbers with the idea that they may one day have a reunion.
Upon resuming their journey, the aircraft crashes and Trask is one of a handful of survivors; most of the passengers and crew are killed, including Trask's three acquaintances. Trask contacts their families by phone and invites himself to their homes. Despite Claire's objections, Trask tells Jerry the truth about his father's past, but assures him that his father was a good man determined to right the wrong he had committed. Hoping to change Sally's opinion of her late daughter-in-law, he tells her Binky had been cast as Mary Martin's replacement in South Pacific on Broadway and had recommended Sally for a role.
Trask's final visit is to Marie, who he discovers is not the beautiful girl of Eddie's photograph, but an invalid paralyzed from the waist down. Marie reveals that early in her marriage she had left Eddie, whom she found to be vulgar and tiresome, for another man, Marty Nelson (Warren Stevens), who deserted her after she hit her head on a dock while she was swimming. While in the hospital, she was confined to an iron lung and feeling hopeless about her future when Eddie arrived to take her home. Marie tells Trask that despite his often obnoxious behavior, Eddie was the most decent man she had ever known, and had taught her the true meaning of love.
Marie's story teaches Trask a lesson about marital infidelity and forgiveness, and he calls Jane to tell her he's returning home.
Frankenstein Created Woman
Tags: revenge, cruelty, murder, gothic, romantic

Plot synopsis:
Abetted by the elderly Dr. Hertz (Thorley Waters) and handyman Hans (Robert Morris), Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) determines that the soul does not immediately leave the body upon death, and can be transplanted from one body to another with a special apparatus he has developed. Hans is in love with Christina (Susan Denberg), the disfigured daughter of a local innkeeper. Christina's father disapproves of their relationship because Hans's father was executed for murder -- an execution Hans witnessed as a young boy. One night, while visiting Christina at the inn, Hans fights with three upper class snobs -- Anton (Peter Blythe), Johann (Derek Folds) and Karl (Barry Warren) -- when they insult her. Later that night, the three snobs sneak back into the inn and assault Christina's father, killing him.Hans is arrested for the murder. Despite the sterling character references of Dr Hertz and Frankenstein, the testimony of Anton, Johann and Karl persuade the jury. Because Hans will not reveal his whereabouts during the time of the murder -- he was making love with Christina -- he is sentenced to die at the same guillotine that killed his father some twenty years earlier.Frankenstein sees this as an opportunity to test his new machinery on a human, and he has Dr Hertz arrange to receive Hans's dead body. Christina, unaware that Hans had been sentenced to death, stumbles upon the execution site and sees Hans die. Distraught, she throws herself off a bridge and drowns. Frankenstein and Hertz successfully trap Hans' soul. The authorities bring Christina to Dr Hertz's office. Frankenstein persuades Hertz to trap her soul; once they have healed her injuries and facial disfigurements, they will restore her soul to her body.The procedure is a success. At first Frankenstein refuses to reveal to Christina who she really he is or allow her to leave Hertz's house, but after a few weeks he takes her to see the guillotine. When Christina sees the device she cries out "Papa!" and faints. Frankenstein's suspicions are proven: both Hans's and Christina's souls are in her body. As Frankenstein devises more experiments, Hans's soul overtakes Christina's and urges her to avenge her father. She dresses up like a promiscuous woman, seduces Anton and Johann and kills them.Christina scrawls "Hans" in blood next to Johann's name, leading authorities to assume that Hans had sent someone else to the guillotine and had survived himself. They go to Hertz and Frankenstein, assuming their complicity. Frankenstein reveals the truth: Hans's soul is controlling Christina. He then tracks Christina to the woods where she has taken Karl for a picnic. He arrives too late: Christina has killed Karl and is now "speaking" with Hans's severed head which "informs" her that her work is done. Shocked at what she has done, Christina's soul resumes control and rushes to the river bank. Frankenstein promises to help her, but she cannot endure her guilt and throws herself to her second watery death. Frankenstein walks sadly away.
My Little Duckaroo
Tags: psychedelic

Plot synopsis:
As the film begins, the Masked Avenger (Daffy) and his guitar-playing, donkey-riding Comedy Relief (Porky) are riding through the desert. Daffy stops his horse, Tinfoil, and observes a Wanted poster for a criminal named Nasty Canasta. He decides to track Canasta down and bring him to justice, for a healthy sum of $10,000.Daffy tracks Canasta to his hideout, a small shack in the middle of nowhere. He tells Porky that he is going to "fix his little red wagon", and barges inside. Daffy's ranting and raving does not bother Canasta, who is sitting at a table playing cards. Daffy exits, and re-emerges as the "Frisco Kid", threatening to whip Canasta. Instead, Daffy gets tangled in his whip when he uses it. He leaves, and re-emerges as "Superguy", but Canasta is still unfazed.Giving up, Daffy decides to join Canasta in his game of cards. He takes all but one of the cards in the deck, and gets "a royal straight flush full house with four aces high", but he is beaten by Canasta's single card-- a three of clubs. Daffy is then bested in an arm wrestling match by Canasta, and also accidentally fires his own revolver at himself.At this moment, Porky comes in and says, "Why don't you plain old arrest him?" Daffy agrees, and decides to carry this out. Canasta snaps the handcuffs Daffy puts on him without difficulty, and will not budge from his spot no matter how much Daffy tries to coax him to move.Daffy gives up, and gets into a fist fight with Canasta. Canasta is much, much stronger than Daffy is, and wins the fight with no effort. Daffy stumbles out of the house, saying, "I told you I'd fix his little red wagon," and wheeling a little red wagon behind him, commenting on its former state of disrepair. He mutters, "Now I'm going home to mother." Iris out.
Young Ones
Tags: violence, boring, murder, romantic

Plot synopsis:
In a post draught-apocalyse USA, people would literally kill for water. Ernest Holm lives with his son Jerome and daughter Mary in their small town house and field. While everybody has left, Ernest stays, believing that the land will grow once more if only theres irrigation. Ernest gets water for his family by trading supplies with the water people who extract water from deep wells. When his mule breaks its legs and he has to kill it, Ernest goes to the auction and buys a robotic carrier machine to replace it, beating the offers of Flem, a young man whos been seeing Mary without his consent. Ernest rejects Flems offer to rent the machine. One morning Ernest finds his machine is missing, and he goes looking for it. When he gets to the water people, Ernest is accused of stealing. He wins a fight with the water peoples leader Caleb and takes his knife.Continuing on, he finds his machine and Flem with it, transporting a supply of water. Flem is taking it somewhere. Ernest takes Flem tied up but he soon gets weary due to refusing to take a drink from the water theyre carrying. Flem, wanting to continue his smuggling run, then throws a bottle at Ernest killing him. Time went by, the people found and buried Ernest, but the machine has gone missing. Flem marries Mary after helping the family build an irrigation system thus saving their farm. But the machine, limping and mangled, didnt shut down, and its default protocol makes it walk to a store in town. The store owner reaches Jerome in the Holm residence, informing about the machine. After tricking his way to town over border patrol, Jerome gets to the store to find the store owner has repaired the machine.Jerome gets interested to the machines laser sensor. It turns out the sensor can behave like a video recorder. Curious about the machines adventure, Jerome plays the recording and finds the truth about Flem and Ernest. Arriving home before Flem, Jerome picks on him as how did the machine find its way home. Flem lies further, which only infuriates Jerome even more. But he doesnt take any action. One day Flem goes on a supply run with the machine, and accidentally falls into a pit, breaking his legs. As he cries for help, Jerome, who has been secretly following him, comes at the pits mouth. As Jerome only stands there, Flem realizes that Jerome already knows about what happened to Ernest. Flem tries to talk his way into Jeromes mercy. Eventually Jerome shoots him in the head, and decides not to tell anything, even about Ernest, to Mary.
Lobo
Tags: violence, humor, satire, murder

Plot synopsis:
"Sunny Jim Story Arc":
Lobo made a bet with an escaped con named Sunny Jim to which one could have sex with a human waitress first. Lobo carved up Sunny Jim's face badly so Sunny can lose the bet. However, he took Darlene from Dooley-7 so he can sell her for 2,000 credits at Tubo's Swap Meet. Lobo followed the con to the Interstellar Managers Planet, home to the ravenous MBA. Lobo destroyed all the MBA and killed Sunny Jim in a bloody pulp. Lobo took Darlene to Big Ahmet's for some sex but Darlene took Lobo's bike and left off."Oblivion Story Arc":
Lobo met an alien named Sniff who hired Lobo to free Sniff's little brother Slaz from jail in exchange for Cuban cigars. The prison is known as Obilvion Intergalactic Correctional Facility. Lobo arrived at Slaz' cell and saw his favorite and now retired rock star: Major Snake. Snake is a gay lover of Slaz. Slaz told Lobo that they should not leave since Snake's birthday is happening. Lobo hurried the two up to his bike and eventually killed Snake since only two people can ride on Lobo's bike. Lobo returned Slaz to Sniff, but as the two brothers gave each other a hug, they were impaled by their spikes."Lobo For President":
Lobo was appointed as a candidate for Intergalactic President but he was sick of the false marketing as he was seen killing aliens and Intergalactic Congressmen."Mudboy Story Arc":
At Fat Whutzat's shop, Lobo cannot get his bike back since he did not pay his dues. Lobo decided to find a Porkan criminal known as Mudboy. Lobo used six Space Penguins to get to where Mudboy was. So, he found Stumpy's Arms and bought a tracking device from Stumpy. Lobo encountered a giant Snake who ate Mudboy. He made the Snake vomit his quarry and eat the penguins. At Whutzat's shop, Lobo paid the credits but he had none left. Lobo took off with his bike and the Nutcracker Sisters.

Review: A Second look. Well I decided to watch the rest of the show today and it's not really that bad as I thought it was.Lobo this show is definitely not for kids as due to the over excessive violence and strong language.Overall it's not a bad mini series but they could learn to animated and draw better because that seems to be the only downfall here. Also some of the voice acting good do some improvement.. The best DC related series ever!. After sixteen years, the relatively unknown Lobo series had got its act not found in other DC animation. Unlike most of the DCAU, it is notable for using graphic violence, profanity and not safe for work jokes. Lobo is an amazing, violent and hilarious bounty hunter who cannot be destroyed. Somehow, the web series made an influence on the aesthetics of the Deadpool film with its similar sensitive matter and graphic violence. The voice-acting and writing was top notch with the detailed Easter eggs found on the flash files before the website was shut down since 2002. The website and Gotham Girls were the first successful web cartoons but Lobo deserves more appreciation with the retrospective predictions found in the cartoons.
The Cat Came Back
Tags: psychedelic

Plot synopsis:
Old Mr. Johnson is busy practicing his Tuba, when an incessant knocking is heard at his door. Unable to concentrate, he angrily flings the door open, only to find a little yellow cat in a purple bassinet on his doorstep. Intrigued by the cute cat, Mr. Johnson brings him inside. Finding an old baby rattle of his, Mr. Johnson gives it to the cat to play with, but with one swipe of it's paw, the heirloom shatters. Angered by this, Mr. Johnson takes the cat outside, figuring it'll wander off.However, no sooner has he turned his back, then the cat scampers through the mail slot, and begins to slowly wreak his house. This time, Mr. Johnson takes the cat to a nearby forest, and tries to abandon the cat. In the process, Mr. Johnson ends up lost himself, and in finally getting back to the house, finds that the cat has come back, and is continuing to wreck his abode.Mr. Johnson then takes a fish on the wall, and uses it to lure the cat into a bag. Heading out for the nearest body of water, Mr. Johnson intends to drown the cat. However, a mishap with the ship's anchor sends him over the side. Once he returns to his home, he finds the cat has come back, and still is making a shambles of things.Next, placing the cat into a bicycle, Mr. Johnson peddles to the site of a hot-air balloon, hoping to send the cat aloft and out of his life. However, he ends up being sent aloft, and the balloon slowly leaks air, sending him on a spiraling journey. When he returns home again, he finds the cat has once again found it's way back!Now slowly losing his sanity, Mr. Johnson places the cat on a handcar, and speedily heads along the rails for the highest point of the nearest mountain range. However, a mishap with a cow on the tracks causes him to plummet off the top of a high precipice, and into an open mine shaft. Lighting a match, Mr. Johnson finds the mine shaft filled with dozens of rats. Mr. Johnson runs for his life and makes it back to his home, only to find it completely destroyed inside, as the cat has come back yet again to continue it's rampage.At the end of his rope, Mr. Johnson grabs numerous sticks of dynamite, hoping to blow the cat to kingdom come. However, he ends up blowing himself up, as well as his house. As his dead body flies into the air, Mr. Johnson appears in the form of an angel, and then returns to Earth, to mock the cat (who is still intact). As Mr. Johnson laughs at this, his dead body falls to Earth, crushing the cat. As he looks on, his eyes widen in horror, as the cat comes back...in 9 angelic forms! (Cats have 9 lives after all).Finally snapping, Mr. Johnson screams, flying off to heaven with the 9 cats following behind him.
Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu
Tags: cult, historical

Plot synopsis:
Cinemas propagandistic power is in full effect in Andrei Ujicas montage epic, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, a contemporary fresco starring Romanias fallen ruler and his wife, Elena. A radical and chilling project, the film concludes the filmmakers trilogy exploring the end of communism which began with the landmark Videograms for a Revolution, co-directed with German film essayist Harun Farocki. Autobiography defies categorization and functions closest to a Vertovian film-object wherein fragments of reality are edited together from an inventory of images in order to illustrate a higher truth. But what constitutes reality when its images have been stage-managed into baroque pageantry or quasi-Hollywood musicals by a delusional dictator?
Nicolae Ceausescus megalomania and self-aggrandizement are legendary. As Romanias tyrannical President from 1965 to 1989, he created a bizarre and seemingly infectious cult of personality for himself. As Romania plunged into mass poverty under his draconian austerity programme and his banning of contraception (which caused widespread child abandonment, botched clandestine abortions and countless AIDS/HIV-infected orphans), Ceausescu continued to be fêted the world over. He was knighted by the Queen of England, visited by President Nixon (during the Cold War, no less) and was received warmly by Charles de Gaulle, Mao Tse-tung and most auspiciously by the North Koreans, whose welcoming ceremonies for him rivaled those of the Beijing Olympics.
Autobiography begins with the infamous television footage of the frail-looking Ceausescus in captivity undergoing a mock trial prior to their execution on Christmas Day. The film opens onto scenes of pomp and circumstance, chronicling Ceausescus twenty-five-year reign. Eschewing voice-over commentary, the films brilliant montage and subtle sound reconstruction create a sui generis film, lying somewhere between Godards Histoire(s) du cinéma and Vertovs Man With a Movie Camera.
Four years in the making and culled from one thousand hours of archival footage both state sanctioned and private this spellbinding adventure unfolds as if from the nostalgic, solipsistic memory of Ceausescu himself.Official description, Toronto International Film Festival 2010, by Andrea Picard
Halloween Is Grinch Night
Tags: psychedelic

Plot synopsis:
In Whoville, on a night known as "Grinch Night", which commences when a "Sour-Sweet Wind" blows and a chain of events causes the Gree-Grumps and Hakken-Krakks to prompt The Grinch into terrorizing the Whos, as he believes such nights are the perfect nights for a Grinch Night. Later, Euchariah, a polite little Who with a slight astigmatism, goes to use the outhouse (referred to as "the euphemism" in the story), but is swept away to Mt. Crumpit by the wind.
On the road he encounters the Grinch, who is busy picking Brickles out of his fur after failing to hunt down the "Wuzzy Woozoo". Along with the Grinch's dog, Max, who is in the process of bringing a large wagon called the "Paraphernalia Wagon" down to Whoville. Euchariah decides to stall the Grinch from reaching Whoville. After some persistence from Euchariah, the Grinch tricks him into getting a strange trance in the Paraphernalia Wagon.
Inside the wagon, Euchariah is confronted by surreal imagery, numerous monsters and the Grinch's mocking voice. Although he is scared out of his wits, Euchariah bravely keeps on his toes long enough for the Sour-Sweet Wind to die down, thus forcing the Grinch to pack up and retire to his cave. Max on the other hand, who had been abused and overworked by the Grinch, goes home with Euchariah. Back in Whoville, the residents (including Euchariah's grandfather Josiah and his grandmother Mariah) celebrate the little Who's courage in preventing the Grinch from releasing the Paraphernalia Wagon's full horrors on their town and up in the mountains the Grinch, who is hauling the wagon home himself, ominously notes that one day there will be another Grinch Night when the Sour-Sweet Wind blows once more.
The Hillz
Tags: violence, comedy, murder

Plot synopsis:
The film follows the experiences of a promising athlete named Steve and his friends who live in a small southern California town. Steve's three friends, Duff, Seb, and T, all come from wealthy families and spend most of their time getting high, drinking at parties, and harassing Ahkmed, a convenience store clerk. After finding a gun in a girl's house, Duff starts violently pursuing a life of crime with T, the loudmouthed instigator with a Napoleon complex, at his side.
After Duff kills a kid who volunteers at the police department, the story fades away and we come back to find Steve returning home from college a year later just after being successful in college baseball. Steve came back to get his dream girl, Heather Smith, who told him that if he made it as a baseball player she would consider dating him. Steve runs into Duff's gang. Things spiral out of control for Steve as we learn that Duff and T have become submerged in what they think is one of the hardest gangs ever. In fact, shortly after Steve joins up with Duff and T, he witnesses them kill a man in broad daylight in the middle of the street over $80.
As the story unfolds, it is clear that Heather is being used and abused by her new boyfriend Todd, whom she is reluctant to leave for Steve. Later Steve convinces Seb, who broke his ties with Duff's crew, to come out and party with Duff and the old gang for a night. T insults two Korean men by calling them Gooks, who then fire an Uzi into Duff's car, killing Seb. Duff and T were later sold out to a crooked undercover cop and the older brother of the man who was previously shot over $80. They killed T and then a narcotics officer, and his team busted the door down and were all killed.
The end of the movie has Steve and Duff driving along the street when a couple of young kids throw something at Duff's car causing the two get to out of the car and chase after them. As they get near the kids, one of them turns, pulls a gun, and shoots Duff and Steve, killing them both.
Grace Unplugged
Tags: romantic

Plot synopsis:
Grace Unplugged is an Inspirational movie starring Amanda AJ Michalka as 18 year old Christian singer/songwriter, Grace Rose Trey. Beautiful, highly talented and restless, Grace is so far undiscovered outside church. She performs there each Sunday with her gifted father Johnny, the praise music director at Freedom Community Chapel, a small town Alabama church. A former rock star, Johnny Trey charted a Billboard number one single 20 years before. When the hits stopped coming he crash landed hard, a one hit wonder. Johnny found Christ and a new life for his family, far from the Hollywood Hills.
One day without warning, Grace leaves for Los Angeles. She has landed a record deal with the help of Johnnys ruthless former manager and producer Frank Mossy Mostin. Mossy sees in Grace a potential pop superstar the next Katie Perry. Cutting off contact with her parents, Grace seems prepared to walk away from her Christian faith and music to achieve her long-suppressed fantasy of Hollywood superstardom. Will the experience cause her to reject her faith, or rediscover it?
The Trap
Tags: violence, mystery, murder

Plot synopsis:
Calamity ensues at the beach villa in Malibu, California, where Cole King's theater ensemble resides, when one of the showgirls, Adelaide, is challenging Marcia, who is Cole's girl and the star of the show.Marcia retaliates by threatening to reveal Adelaide's secret marriage to a doctor by the name of George Brandt. She also steals a letter to Adelaide from said Brandt, using one of the other showgirls, Lois, who is hiding the fact that she is under eighteen.When Marcia vanishes and Lois' dead body is found by one of the other members of the group, San Toy. The cause of death is strangulation, and the technique used is used by the French and the Chinese. Immediately, the French Adelaide and Chinese San Toy are placed under suspicion as possible perpetrators.Also living under the same roof are the group's press agent Rick Daniels and costume chief Mrs. Thorn. Daniels suggests they make Lois' death look like drowning, but San Toy contacts her friend Jimmy, who is the "Number Two" son of reputed sleuth Charlie Chan, asking for help to solve the murder mystery. Chan starts his investigation, and soon both his assistant, Birmingham, and San Toy are attacked, but without a mortal ending. Another member of the theater group, Clementine, discovers Marcia dead and strangled on the beach, with a silk cord still around her neck.Daniels tries to get rid of Marcia's robe, and is seen by Chan, who concludes it was the belt from the robe that was found around Marcia's neck. Daniels claims he is innocent and that someone put the robe in King's room to frame him for the murder. King starts to believe Daniels is the killer trying to get rid of the evidence.Chan finds out that doctor Brandt was previously accused of murdering his ex-wife but was cleared from suspicion. However, it destroyed his future career as a physician. He changed his identity, enlisted and went to Europe, where he met Adelaide and they married.Chan talks to Dr. Brandt, who admits to finding his wife Lois' body, but not to killing her. To catch the real killer Chan decides to set a trap. Everything works as planned, and the killer tries to strangle San Toy that night, but Chan's son Jimmy comes to San's rescue and accidentally destroys foils the trap.Chan, Birmingham and Jimmy then chase the killer, and it turns out it is Mrs. Thorn, who was previously married to King. She left him and wasn't allowed back after that, but had to serve as head of costumes. She killed the women because they were involved with her former husband, out of jealousy and to hurt King. Brandt is cleared of all suspicion, and Chan promises to get his license back by talking to the Board of Medical Examiners.
Jungfrukällan
Tags: psychological, suspenseful, murder, paranormal, violence, good versus evil, tragedy, revenge

Plot synopsis:
In medieval Sweden, prosperous Christian Per Töre sends his daughter, Karin, to take candles to the church. Karin is accompanied by her pregnant servant Ingeri, who secretly worships the Norse deity Odin. Along their way through the forest on horseback, Ingeri becomes frightened when they come to a stream-side mill and the two part and Karin sets out on her own.
Ingeri encounters a one-eyed man at the stream-side mill. When Ingeri asks about his name he enigmatically responds he has none "in these days". The man tells Ingeri that he can see and hear things others can not. When the man makes sexual advances towards her and promises her power, Ingeri flees in terror. Meanwhile, Karin meets three herdsmen, two men and a boy, and invites them to eat her lunch with her. Eventually, the two older men rape and murder Karin while Ingeri watches, hidden, from a distance. The two older men then leave the scene with Karin's clothing. The younger boy is left with the body and to watch the goats, but he takes the situation poorly and quickly becomes sick with guilt.
The herders then, unknowingly, seek shelter at the home of the murdered girl. Her parents discover that the goat herders murdered their daughter when the goat herders offer to sell Karin's clothes to her mother. After they fall asleep, the mother locks the trio in the chamber. Ingeri returns to the farm and breaks down in front of Töre. She tells him about the rape and confesses that she secretly wished for Karin's death out of jealousy. In a rage, Töre stabs one of the herders to death with a butcher knife before killing the other two with his bare hands.
That same day, the parents set out to find their daughter's body with the help of Ingeri. Töre vows that, although he cannot understand why God would allow such a thing to happen, he will build a church at the site of his daughter's death. As her parents lift her head from the ground, a spring begins to flow from where she was lying. Ingeri then begins to wash herself with the water and Karin's parents clean their daughter's muddied face.
Birds Anonymous
Tags: psychedelic

Plot synopsis:
Sylvester is in another chase with Tweety, and is just about to eat him when he is interrupted by his friend Sam, who tells Sylvester to return Tweety to his cage. Sylvester does this, and listens to Sam explain how he can become addicted to birds and "suddenly, without realizing it, you're a victim." Sam gives Sylvester a card linking to an organization called Birds Anonymous, and advises Sylvester to join if he wants to curb his addiction to birds.Sylvester attends a meeting of "B.A." and listens to several cats recount how becoming a member of the organization helped them greatly (one cat even petting a bird on the head). Sylvester proudly tells the club members, "From now on, my motto is 'Birds is strictly for the birds!'", leading to rapturous applause.Sylvester returns home, greeting an astonished Tweety on the way in, convinced that nothing is going to tempt him to chase and eat Tweety now. He turns on the television, to discover a show on cooking birds is playing. The program immediately fills him with temptation. He tries to go after Tweety, but slaps himself repeatedly to stop himself. He turns on the radio to try and get his mind off birds, but the radio happens to be playing songs that mention birds in the title ("Bye, Bye, Blackbird" and "When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along", to be specific). Sylvester then handcuffs himself to a radiator so he is unable to get at Tweety. This prompts the yellow bird to ask Sylvester, "Don't you like me anymore?" This drives Sylvester into an insane rage, and he snaps away from the radiator and captures Tweety. Before Sylvester can eat him, Sam intervenes and fires a plunger into Sylvester's mouth. He apologizes, but admits it was necessary because Sylvester seemed to be weakening.That night, Sylvester is completely unable to sleep because of his obsession with birds. He snatches Tweety again, convincing himself that just one more bird would be okay before he quits. Sam stops him by pouring alum into his mouth, causing his mouth to pucker up. Sylvester then tries to suck Tweety through a straw, but the straw breaks. Sylvester then breaks down in tears, pounding on the floor and screaming, "I gotta have a bird!" Sam attempts to lecture Sylvester on how cats and birds can live together, and proves his point by kissing Tweety. However, upon doing this, his allegedly quashed desire reawakens, and laughing maniacally, attempts to eat Tweety. Sylvester restrains Sam, holding him down and yelling at him to control himself. Tweety, watching all of this take place from a distance, remarks, "Like I said before-- once a bad ol' putty tat, always a bad ol' putty tat." Iris out.
Why, Charlie Brown, Why?
Tags: psychedelic

Plot synopsis:
Janice Emmons is a new friend and classmate of Charlie Brown and Linus, who loves to play on the swings. The special begins with Charlie Brown, Sally, Linus and Janice waiting for the school bus. As Janice boards the bus, she hits her arm on a railing, causing it to bruise; Linus notices that Janice has been bruising easily lately. When they arrive at school, Janice starts feeling ill. She tells Linus that she is feeling tired and has a fever, so she is sent to the school nurse and is later picked up by her mother. Three days later, the class is told that Janice is in the hospital.
After school, Linus and Charlie Brown decide to visit Janice in the hospital, where she tells them that she has cancer (specifically leukemia). Janice explains what tests the doctors did to discover that she had leukemia (blood test, bone marrow test and X-ray). She then shows them her IV line and explains her chemotherapy. Despite her illness, Janice is determined to recover and return to school, so she can play on the swings and be with her friends again.
The news of Janice's illness hits Linus especially hard, as he appears to be falling for her. As Charlie Brown and Linus leave the hospital, Linus asks: "Why, Charlie Brown, Why?". He then walks home feeling both sad and angry, thinking about Janice's condition. When he arrives home, he challenges the ignorance of his sister Lucy towards Janice's illness and tells her cancer doesn't spread like the cold or flu. Some months later, Janice's health has improved enough for her to return to school, but she has lost her hair because of the chemotherapy, and wears a cap to cover her bald head.
At school, this attracts the attention of a schoolyard bully, who teases Janice for her baldness. Linus stands up for Janice and confronts the boy, angrily telling him about Janice's illness and asking him if he would like to go through what Janice has gone through. Then, the boy apologizes to Janice and Linus. As Christmas approaches, Linus goes to Janice's house to give her a present, but one of Janice's two sisters informs Linus that she is at the hospital again, receiving treatment. The other sister complains of the attention Janice has been receiving, and later admits she and her other sister feel left out since Janice got sick. Linus gives her the present and leaves.
By the beginning of spring, Janice returns again and tells Linus she has a surprise for him, and she reveals the surprise at the end of the special while playing on the swings. The surprise fills Linus with joy, as Janice's cap falls off revealing that her long blond hair has grown back even longer than it was before, marking the end of her chemotherapy, and presumably meaning that she has recovered. As the credits roll, the cap falls to the ground, and Janice laughs for the last time.
The Quest
Tags: violence, intrigue

Plot synopsis:
Comments by Actor / Writer Roy C. PetersonThis a very good movie with Jean Claude Van Damme as the hero triumphing against all odds. Van Damme also directed and did a very fine job. It's like a synthesis of Indiana Jones with Bloodsport. The story is set in the 1920s and the tournament is not the Kumite, but an equivalent called the Ghang-gheng. The script is actually based upon an amended version of the Bloodsport story which never got produced. The pageantry here is greater. Really exotic settings with a more spectacular tournament venue. More diverse ethnicity via costume. I don't know enough about any of this to comment upon authenticity. For some reason I enjoyed this movie much more the second time I saw it.
The Missouri Breaks
Tags: violence, revenge, murder, sadist, romantic

Plot synopsis:
Tom Logan is a rustler experiencing hard times. He and his gang are particularly upset by the hanging of a friend by Braxton, a land baron who takes the law into his own hands.
Logan's men pull off a daring train robbery, only to lose much of the money. They decide to seek vengeance against Braxton by killing his foreman Pete Marker and by buying a small property close to Braxton's ranch, then rustling his stock. First the gang, without Logan, rides off across the Missouri River and north of the border to steal horses belonging to the North West Mounted Police. In their absence, Logan plants crops and enters into a relationship with Braxton's virginal daughter, Jane.
Braxton is obsessed with both his rustling problem and his daughter. He sends for Robert E. Lee Clayton, a notorious "regulator" who, for a price, will take care of rustlers personally. Clayton arrives with a fancy wardrobe, a perfumed scent, an Irish brogue and a Creedmoor rifle (a Model 1859 Sharps rifle) with which he is deadly accurate from a very long distance.
Quickly suspicious of Logan, who doesn't strike him as a farmer, Clayton dons a variety of disguises and begins to pick off Logan's gang, one by one. Identifying himself as "Jim Ferguson," he kills Logan's young friend Little Tod by dragging him with a rope through the raging Missouri.
Clayton spies on Logan with binoculars and taunts Braxton about his daughter's affair with a horse thief. Braxton attempts to discharge him but Clayton is determined to finish what he starts. He amuses himself by shooting two more of Logan's partners, Cary and Cy, from a distance and then by wearing a "granny" dress while brutally killing Logan's closest friend, Cal, with a handmade weapon.
Logan knows it's kill or be killed. He also wants vengeance against Braxton for having hired the regulator in the first place, despite his feelings for Jane. One night after a campfire goes dark with Clayton serenading his horse, Logan slits his throat. He then comes after Braxton, who has lost his mind — perhaps having suffered a stroke — as well as losing his daughter. Braxton pulls a weapon on Logan, but is himself shot in the chest.
Logan abandons his farm and packs up to leave. He acknowledges to Jane the possibility that they can renew their relationship another time, another place.
Don
Tags: cult, murder

Plot synopsis:
Don (Shahrukh Khan) is a ruthless criminal, wanted by police in many countries. DCP D'Silva (Boman Irani) and Detective Malik (Om Puri) are two cops who will do anything to capture Don. Don soon brutally murders one of his own men Ramesh (Diwakar Pundir) as well as his fiance Kamini (Kareena Kapoor). By doing so, Don makes an enemy out of Ramesh's sister Roma (Priyanka Chopra) who swears to kill Don no matter what it takes.Don is soon injured in a police pursuit and is admitted to hospital in a coma. D'Silva tracks down a look alike of Don named Vijay (also Shahrukh Khan). He persuades Vijay to enter Don's gang posing as Don. Vijay agrees to hand over a disc to D'Silva, a disc which contains vital information about the gang - this disc may be a way for the cops to arrest the gang. Roma attempts to kill Vijay, but stops when she learns about D'Silva's plan.During a police raid, Vijay and the gang members are all arrested by Malik. During the raid, D'Silva is killed. This causes problems for Vijay - D'Silva was the only person who could prove Vijay is not the real Don. Will Vijay be able to prove his innocence?