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#2:WEIRD, Rare, HARD-To-Find Big & Small Screen
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Part TWO: These are the movie, TV Series, Made-For-Television Movies, Specials, Documentary, Drive-In Mature/Action/Grindhouse, Disney, Music (Concerts). Just overall some things that were things I’ve seen over my LONG lifetime to things I’ve discovered…Enjoy! (I will ALWAYS be adding)~~ Please be sure to check out my other playlists - Thanks For looking!~~


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Movie: Blackout ( 1985 )
A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident is in reality the same man who committed a quadruple murder several years before.
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Movie: Nightbreaker ( 1989 )
Dr. Alexander Brown (Martin Sheen) arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells Brown he was a test subject during the 1950's, exposed to atomic bomb radiation in the Nevada desert-- will Brown help the man uncover the truth? In 1950's Nevada, Brown (played by Emilio Estevez) is a young psychiatrist and a guest of the U.S. Army, where soldiers were routinely exposed to excessive radiation. The young Brown and a colleague interview soldiers, who show their ignorance and insouciance in the face of this danger. The movie intercuts scenes between the young Alexander Brown and older Alexander Brown, some thirty years after the nuclear tests. Will the decorated psychiatrist finally speak out on the atrocity he witnessed?
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Movie: Night of the Cobra Woman ( 1972 )
After being bitten by a cobra in the Philippines, Lena can turn herself into a snake and she stops aging. The curse comes with a price. The priestess Lena must consume cobra venom and vital young men to stay young.
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Movie: World Without End ( 1956 )
Astronauts returning from a voyage to Mars are caught in a time warp and are propelled into a post-Apocalyptic Earth populated by mutants.
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Movie: Blue Angel Cafe ( 1989 )
Raymond Derek is a up and coming hotshot young politician who seems to have it all. A great career, a wife, friends and a expensive home. But that all changes when he encounters sexy cabaret singer Angie. The two begin a steamy affair until the press find out and it becomes front page news. As his life falls to pieces, Raymond and Angie try to build a life together, but some things just weren't meant to last.
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Movie: Cannery Row ( 1982 )
Monterey, California in the 1940's. Cannery Row - the section of town where the now closed fish canneries are located - is inhabited primarily by the down and out, although many would not move away even if they could. Probably the most upstanding citizen in the area is Doc, a marine biologist who...
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Movie: Goodbye, Columbus ( 1969 )
An intelligent graduate and working-class army veteran has an affair and clashes with a 'nouveau riche' young woman, who does not care about birth control or the use any other precautions to avoid pregnancy.
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Movie: Switching Channels ( 1988 )
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
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Movie: One on Top of the Other ( 1969 )
An unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.
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Movie: Ladykillers ( 1988 )
A brutal live stage murder is committed on one of the hot male dancers at whats considered to be the hottest club in L.A., a place where the guys strip and the woman cheer.
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Movie: Song of the Thin Man ( 1948 )
Nick and Nora investigate the murder of a bandleader in New York.
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Movie: The Witches of Breastwick ( 2005 )
A man and wife are sucked into a whirlpool (in the wife's case, hot tub) of supernatural sex by a trio of randy, well-endowed witches.
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Movie: The Hit ( 1984 )
Ten years later, after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
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Movie: 7 Faces of Dr. Lao ( 1964 )
A mysterious circus comes to a western town bearing wonders and characters that entertain the inhabitants and teach valuable lessons.
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Movie: Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. ( 1966 )
Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house, finds an abandoned submarine with lots of gadgets that he can use, and also finds a marooned chimp from the US Space program and a native girl named Wednesday who was exiled by her father. Wednesday thinks Crusoe wants to marry her, and when her father arrives on the island to collect her and Crusoe refused to marry her, chaos ensues.
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Movie: Mad Doctor of Blood Island ( 1968 )
A man who loves to travel, travels to an island where a mad doctor is creating zombies.
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Movie: Shampoo ( 1975 )
Lovers undo a hairdresser from Beverly Hills around Election Eve in 1968.
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Movie: The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 )
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
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Movie: Raid on Entebbe ( 1977 )
True story of a daring Israeli commando assault on the Entebbe Airport in Uganda to free hostages of a terrorist hijacking.
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Movie: Attica ( 1980 )
The behind the scenes of the 1971 prisoners revolt at the Attica prison.
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Movie: To All a Goodnight ( 1980 )
A group of teenagers at a party find themselves being stalked by a maniacal killer in a Santa Claus costume.
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Movie: Scream Blacula Scream ( 1973 )
The vampire Mamuwalde (Blacula) is stirred by African voodoo, and is forced to kill again.
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Movie: Bill Bailey: Limboland ( 2018 )
Limboland is a place where we find the gaps in life.. From a fantastically downbeat version of Happy Birthday - via a hilarious tale of a disastrous family trip to see the Northern Lights - to a heart-rending country and western ballad on the nature of love, Bill explores our expectations of happiness with his trademark wit and musicality.
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Movie: A Fine Madness ( 1966 )
Samson Shillitoe, mad genius of a poet irresistible to women, but plagued by writer's block, agrees to see a psychiatrist, and his beautiful wife.
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Movie: Blaze ( 1989 )
A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.
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Movie: Countess Dracula ( 1971 )
In 17th-century Hungary, elderly widow Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy maintains her misleading youthful appearance by bathing in the blood of virgins regularly supplied to her by faithful servant Captain Dobi.
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Movie: The Carey Treatment ( 1972 )
At a Boston hospital, Dr. Carey becomes an amateur sleuth to help clear a colleague who's accused of botching an illegal abortion that kills a 15 year old girl.
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Movie: Beyond Evil ( 1980 )
An architect and his wife move into a colonial mansion, where the demonic presence of the original owner's wife takes residence.
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Movie: The Ghost of Flight 401 ( 1978 )
An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Soon passengers and crew on those aircraft report seeing what they believe to be the ghost of the wrecked airplane's flight engineer.
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Movie: By the Sword ( 1992 )
A mysterious man, Suba, gets himself a job at a fencing academy, and as he learns the way of the students, the school, and its maestro, they learn that there's more to him than meets the eye. He gains (or regains?) his fencing skills and his philosophy of teaching clashes with the maestro's. As they are thrown into conflict, Suba and the maestro's past appear to be linked. And the resolution of their mysterious relationship may be a duel to the death.
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Movie: Racquet ( 1981 )
Centred around a former tennis champ who swings with the girls and volleying straight sets with the rich and famous while set on owning his own tennis court.
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Movie: Boca ( 1994 )
Enthusiastic American journalist goes to Brazil as the Carnival starts to investigate mass executions of street kids. She meets a savage crime boss called Boca who seemingly wants to help the children and falls under his brutal charm.
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Movie: Ants! ( 1977 )
An old-fashioned, lakeside hotel targeted for purchase by an unsavory gambling casino promoter and situated next to a construction site, is attacked by an army of poisonous ants. Efforts to contain the ants and rescue those trapped in the hotel are hampered by the progress of the creepy crawlers upward from floor to floor.
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Movie: Tobruk ( 1967 )
A Canadian POW major is rescued by a special British military unit made up of Germans to help lead an attack on a major Nazi fuel depot in Tobruk, Libya.
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Movie: Coast to Coast ( 1980 )
A wealthy neurotic woman escapes from a New York mental asylum, and hitches a ride back to California with a moody down-on-his-luck cowboy trucker. They fall in love with each other while on the run from bounty hunters and a repo man.
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Movie: Madhouse ( 1974 )
A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.
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Movie: Blades ( 1989 )
Somewhere in New Jersey, a killer lawnmower stalks a small town's golf course.
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Movie: Peeper ( 1975 )
In 1947, a smart-mouthed Brit working in L.A. as a private eye (or peeper) is on a case to find the long lost daughter of a shady client pursued by two dangerous goons. The case leads him to a rich oddball Beverly Hills family.
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Movie: Last Woman on Earth ( 1960 )
Ev, along with her husband, Harold, and their lawyer friend Martin, are scuba diving while on vacation in Puerto Rico. When they resurface, they gradually conclude that an unexplained, temporary interruption of oxygen has killed everyone on the island... maybe even the world!
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Movie: Leonor ( 1977 )
A female vampire rises from her crypt every night in search of children as her victims.
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Movie: Real Life ( 1979 )
A film crew sets out to record a year in the life of an average family, but things quickly start going wrong.
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Movie: Crystal Heart ( 1986 )
A 22 year old man who has lived inside a crystal room because of a rare illness, meets an up and coming rock star, and the two fall in love.
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Movie: Remember My Name ( 1978 )
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.
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Movie: Exiled ( 1998 )
NYPD Detective Mike Logan, who was demoted to a beat on Staten Island after punching a corrupt politician, seeks to solve the grisly murder of a prostitute and thereby help regain his old job in Manhattan.
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Movie: Konga ( 1961 )
Dr.Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga' to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and reaks havoc all over the city of London!!
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Movie: The Groundstar Conspiracy ( 1972 )
A government investigator tries to find out the truth behind the break-in at a top secret research facility.
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Movie: My Favorite Wife ( 1940 )
Missing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the day of her husband's second marriage.
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Movie: The Night That Panicked America ( 1975 )
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles's radio play "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provokes mass panic.
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Movie: Club Life ( 1986 )
A young man from a small town goes to Hollywood to make his fortune. He gets hired as a bouncer at a disco club, but soon finds himself caught up in drugs, gangsters and eventually has to flee when his boss and another bouncer are murdered by drug dealers, who are soon after him.
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Movie: Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen ( 1981 )
Detective Charlie Chan helps SFPD solve the many bizarre murders. His clumsy grandson Lee, who's getting married, "helps" him. Is the Dragon Queen behind this?
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Movie: Enrapture ( 1990 )
A struggling actor, working as a chauffeur, finds himself pulled into a tangled web of murder when he becomes fascinated with a female client.
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Movie: The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond ( 2008 )
Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation. She tries to pass him off as an upper-class suitor to appease the spinster aunt who controls her family's fortune, but when she loses a diamond, it places their tenuous relationship in further jeopardy.
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Movie: Tap ( 1989 )
Just released from prison, Max Washington must decide which of his previous professions to return to: burglar or tap dancer.
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Movie: The Naked and the Dead ( 1958 )
Set during the Pacific War against the Japanese, this WW2 drama discerns between achieving one's mission at any cost versus preserving the lives under one's command and enforcing discipline through fear as opposed to mutual respect.
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Movie: Beyond Therapy ( 1987 )
A few unusual characters and their unconventional therapists cross paths resulting in hilarious interactions.
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Movie: A Prayer for the Dying ( 1987 )
Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.
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Movie: My Man Godfrey ( 1936 )
A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
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Movie: The Happiest Millionaire ( 1967 )
A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the unusual antics of her father--especially since the nice young men around town all fear him. Wouldn't you fear a father-in-law that keeps alligators for pets and teaches boxing at his daily Bible classes? Cordelia decides to run off to boarding school and promptly finds the man of her dreams. Unfortunately, his family doesn't approve of Biddle's outrageous antics, either. A Disney musical punctuated by snappy songs and an energetic debut by Tommy Steele. This is reportedly one of the last live- action films Walt Disney personally oversaw.
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Movie: Getting Straight ( 1970 )
A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests.
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Movie: Dead End Drive-In ( 1986 )
In the near future, a teenage couple are trapped in a drive-in theater which has become a concentration camp for social outcasts. The inmates are treated to drugs, exploitation films, junk food, and new wave music.
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Movie: Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming ( 1990 )
Ian Fleming's life (1908-64) as journalist and naval intelligence officer was a lot like the womanizing James Bond, he would later write 12 spy novels about.
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Movie: Who Was That Lady? ( 1960 )
Ill-advised by a pal, a chemistry professor falsely claims he is an undercover FBI agent in order to cover-up his marital infidelity but his lie, although swallowed by his wife, gets him in trouble with the real FBI, the CIA and the KGB.
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Movie: Naked Lie ( 1989 )
They are the perfect, and politically correct, couple. He is a judge, she is a high profile attorney. When she takes on a sensational murder case, the trail leads right to her own front door.
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Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 2019 )
Young lovers, a troupe of actors, and fairies have romantic encounters in the forest on summer's night.
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Movie: The Pyjama Girl Case ( 1978 )
Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes inquiries; also, Linda, a waitress and ferry attendant, has several lovers and marries one, but continues seeing the others. The police have a suspect in the murder, but the retired inspector is convinced they're wrong; he continues a methodical investigation. Linda and her husband separate, and there are complications. Will the stories cross or are they already twisted together?
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Movie: Duel of the Titans ( 1961 )
Twin half-mortal boys are placed in a basket and abandoned in a river. A she-wolf rescues and nurtures them until they are recovered by a shepherd, who brings the two boys up as his own. Twenty years later in 733 BC, Romulus and Remus now lead a band of theives against the two tyranical kings of the Sabines. When they meet their mother just before she dies, she tells them that they are destined to be the founders of a great city, called Rome.
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Movie: The Domino Principle ( 1977 )
A Vietnam War veteran, imprisoned for murder, is offered his freedom if he accepts to undertake a contract killing for a shady organization.
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Movie: The Man Who Loved Women ( 1983 )
A womanizing sculptor named David goes to seek help from a psychiatrist, Marianna, to cure him of his obsession with women.
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Movie: Operation Crossbow ( 1965 )
This is the story of the methods used to defeat Hitler's V1 (doodlebug) and V2 (rocket) "revenge weapons" towards the end of World War II. Even though the Nazis were in retreat, these weapons could have turned their defeat into victory. This movie includes references to Hannah Reich, who was a German test pilot in real-life.
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Movie: Django, Prepare a Coffin ( 1968 )
A gunfighter forms a gang of "deceased" execution victims to get revenge on the politician and outlaw who killed his wife.
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Movie: Best Friends ( 1975 )
Mature, stable Jesse, his nutty and impulsive longtime best friend Pat, Jesse's caring fiancé Kathy, and Pat's fragile gal pal Jo Ella all decide to embark on a cross country road trip in a Winnebago prior to facing the challenges of encroaching adulthood. Relationships between everyone become increasingly strained as things take a turn for the worse and the journey turns into a severely bum trip for everyone involved.
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Movie: The Green Slime ( 1968 )
After destroying a giant asteroid heading towards Earth, a group of scientists unknowingly bring back a strange green substance that soon mutates into a monster.
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Movie: Ghost Writer ( 1989 )
A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously, but had been murdered by her boyfriend. The ghost asks the writer's help in proving her boyfriend the killer.
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Movie: Damn Yankees ( 1959 )
A frustrated fan of the hopeless Washington Senators makes a pact with the Devil to help the baseball team win the league pennant.
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Movie: The Victors ( 1963 )
War has no victors, only survivors. Killing destroys the killers as well as the killed; because it murders decency, self-respect and ultimately life itself. The story follows in the footsteps of a squad of young American solders from the early days of the Battle of Britain, through the fierce fighting in Italy and France, to the uneasy peace of Berlin.
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Movie: The Blue Max ( 1966 )
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
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Movie: Mark of the Witch ( 1970 )
A 300-year-old witch terrorizes a college town to get revenge on the descendant of the man who persecuted her.
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Movie: Fame: The Musical ( 2020 )
The international smash hit sensation following the lives of students at New York's High School For The Performing Arts as they navigate their way through the highs and lows, the romances and the heartbreaks and the ultimate elation of life. This bittersweet but uplifting triumph explores the issues that confront many young people today: prejudice, identity, pride, literacy, sexuality, substance abuse and perseverance.
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Movie: The Curse of Her Flesh ( 1968 )
A weapons dealer who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife's lover.
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Movie: Castle Keep ( 1969 )
During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.
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Movie: Abducted ( 1986 )
City girl Renee is enjoying a jog in the peace and quiet of the Canadian Rockies when she suddenly finds herself being chased by a crazed mountain man named Vern. Try as she might to escape, Vern soon catches her and takes her away to his remote cabin hideout. All may look lost for Renee, but Joe, his outdoorsman father, is determined to come to her rescue.
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Movie: Fire ( 1977 )
A convict starts a fire in a forest to cover his escape, but the fire goes out of control and threatens to destroy a small mountain community.
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Movie: Once Upon a Spy ( 1980 )
Ted Danson plays a computer genius who gets involved in the theft of an important N.A.S.A. computer, then thrust into the world of espionage with Sir Christopher Lee.
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Movie: The President's Analyst ( 1967 )
When the overworked and stressed-out White House presidential shrink runs away, the CEA and the FBR scramble to retrieve him before he could be abducted by various competing foreign intelligence services.
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Movie: The Fortune ( 1975 )
The early 1900s with its Mann Act (disallowing women to be transported across state lines for immoral reasons) brings a married man to devise a scheme for taking his upper-class girlfriend away with him. He simply has her marry his unmarried buddy. However, it doesn't take very long before both men start laying claim to her affection. Until, that is, she's about to be cut out of her parents' fortune. So, a new scheme is devised, which only adds to their problems, as well as to the sly whimsy of this movie.
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Movie: Love Me Deadly ( 1972 )
A young socialite struggling to control her necrophiliac urges is torn between her affection for a kind businessman and the mortician who supplies her with bodies.
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Movie: Pork Chop Hill ( 1959 )
During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.
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Movie: Hard Contract ( 1969 )
A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for 'one last score'. His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract
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Movie: The Boy in the Plastic Bubble ( 1976 )
The girl next door makes a teen born with immune deficiencies want to leave his germ-free bubble.
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Movie: Doug Stanhope: Deadbeat Hero ( 2004 )
Doug Stanhope performs at Seattle's Comedy Underground
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Movie: Starting Over ( 1979 )
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.
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Movie: Rough Night in Jericho ( 1967 )
A former deputy and a strong-willed widow determine to stop a ruthless town boss.
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Movie: Ironmaster ( 1983 )
A violent man is ejected from his tribe after killing two of its elders, but he discovers a way to make weapons out of iron, and begins waging war against all the tribes in the region. His arch rival manages to escape and vows to stop him.
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Movie: How to Murder Your Wife ( 1965 )
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband. When after several months he decides to kill off Bash's wife in the cartoon, his wife misinterprets his intentions and disappears. Which leads the police to charge him with murder.
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Movie: Count Dracula's Great Love ( 1973 )
Four women spend the night in an old deserted sanitarium on a mountain. They each in turn fall into the the evil hands of a doctor who forces them to suck each others blood and to whip innocent village virgins so they can lick the oozing cuts clean.
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Movie: Scorpio ( 1973 )
During the Cold War, the CIA orders free-lance operative Scorpio to assassinate his former CIA mentor Cross and a deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues.
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Movie: Love Translated ( 2010 )
On the dating tour to Odessa, Ukraine, Ten North American and European men have 10 days to find a partner for the rest of their lives. How: Social gatherings introduce the men to hundreds of skimpy dressed young and beautiful Ukrainian girls, not to mention a bikini contest. Now, the men have to choose the women to go on dates with, overcome the language barrier, cultural differences, age gap and filter out the scammers. Four couples are formed but can they go the distance? Come on this personal journey and discover that not all men are losers, not all women are scammers and the romantic Odessa is dangerously seductive. After the intoxication of the tour is over only one couple will stay together, but it is not the one you would have guessed.
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Movie: Lifepod ( 1981 )
The first interplanetary cruise ship malfunctions halfway to Jupiter, forcing most of the crew and passengers to abandon ship. A handful of people are trapped onboard.
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Movie: Legalese ( 1998 )
When a sexy actress is charged with murder, a charming celebrity lawyer uses trickery to defend her against the press as well as the prosecution.
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Movie: Screams of a Winter Night ( 1979 )
An anthology in which a group of college coeds spending a winter's night in a remote cabin pass time by telling scary stories to each other.