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Movie: My Best Fiend ( 1999 )
In the 1950s, an adolescent Werner Herzog was transfixed by a film performance of the young Klaus Kinski. Years later, they would share an apartment where, in an unabated, forty-eight-hour fit of rage, Kinski completely destroyed the bathroom. From this chaos, a violent, love-hate, profoundly creative partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972). Four more films would follow. In this personal documentary, Herzog traces the often violent ups and downs of their relationship, revisiting the various locations of their films and talking to the people they worked with.
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Movie: Bronco Billy ( 1980 )
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.
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Movie: Sordid Lives ( 2001 )
As three generations of a family in a small Texas town gather for a funeral, we learn the hilarious, sad, trashy truth of their "Sordid Lives."
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Movie: Sink the Bismarck! ( 1960 )
The World War II story of the British Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.
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Movie: Accidents Happen ( 2010 )
There are dysfunctional families... and then there are the Conways. After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Billy Conway has become the de facto glue between his bitter mom, distant brother, and stoic dad. But when Billy starts to act out, everything changes for him and his family.
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Movie: Pandora and the Flying Dutchman ( 1951 )
A seductive woman falls in love with a mysterious ship's captain.
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Movie: Rising Damp ( 1980 )
Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers Cooper, an arts student, and Philip, a medical student making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, Miss Jones, now flirts with both boys rather than the old goat, despite his pitiful attempts to woo her.
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Movie: Let Us Prey ( 2015 )
Rookie cop Rachel is about to begin her first night-shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish backwater town--the kind of place where the tide has gone out and stranded a motley bunch of the aimless, the forgotten, the bitter-and-twisted who all think that they really deserve to be somewhere else. They all think they're there by accident and that, with a little luck, life will get better. Wrong on both counts. Six is about to arrive--and all hell will break loose.
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Movie: Stick ( 1985 )
Released from prison, Stick meets up with a friend and joins him on a job delivering a bag. His friend gets killed in the setup. Stick gets away and is ready to forget all and see his daughter, but they won't forget.
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Movie: Stardust Memories ( 1980 )
While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
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Movie: Honeymoon in Vegas ( 1992 )
Jack loses $65000 in poker in Las Vegas, where he's marrying Betsy. The wedding'll have to wait as the poker winner wants the weekend with Betsy to cancel the debt. She accepts. Whom will she marry?
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Movie: Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 )
Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
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Movie: The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared ( 2015 )
Based on the internationally best-selling novel by Jonas Jonasson, the unlikely story of a 100-year-old man who decides it's not too late to start over. For most people it would be the adventure of a lifetime, but Allan Karlsson's unexpected journey is not his first. For a century he's made the world uncertain, and now he is on the loose again.
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Movie: Carry on Girls ( 1973 )
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.
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Movie: The Stunt Man ( 1980 )
While on the run from the police, Steve Railsback hides in a group of moviemakers where he pretends to be a stunt man. Both aided and endangered by the director (Peter O'Toole) he avoids both the police and sudden death as a stuntman. The mixture of real danger and fantasy of the movie is an interesting twist for the viewer as the two blend in individual scenes.
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Movie: Tony Rome ( 1967 )
Tough Miami P.I., Tony Rome's hired by a millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter. In the search, he has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami's police
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Movie: Critical Care ( 1997 )
A hospital resident is put in the middle of a legal battle between two half-sisters on whether to pull their comatose dad's life support. But more seems to be at stake than dad's life - his inheritance.
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Movie: Defense of the Realm ( 1986 )
A reporter Mullen 'stumbles' on a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent. In fact it is also linked to a near Nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and an Americal USAF base. Has there been a Government cover-up,Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam the MP's assistant to find out the truth.
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Movie: King Creole ( 1958 )
A rebellious young man takes a job as a nightclub singer to make ends meet, attracting the attention of a local crime boss.
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Movie: Thieves' Highway ( 1949 )
A war veteran turned truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.
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Movie: Black Snake ( 1973 )
Story of a slave revolt on a 19th-century Caribbean island.
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Movie: Broken Arrow ( 1950 )
Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.
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Movie: The Ballad of Cable Hogue ( 1970 )
A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert.
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Movie: The Fountainhead ( 1949 )
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Movie: The Unbelievable Truth ( 1990 )
A man returns to his home town after serving a prison sentence for homicide, and finds that the details of the crime have been forgotten and replaced with local legends and rumors.
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Movie: The Man Who Sued God ( 2001 )
Billy Connolly plays Steve Myers, a lawyer who became a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was 'an act of God'. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and the church under the guise of God, defending himself. The accident leads him to a friendship and eventual relationship with a journalist, Anna Redmond (Davis).
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Movie: The Day the Earth Caught Fire ( 1961 )
When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.
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Movie: The Wings of the Dove ( 1998 )
An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.
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Movie: The Unloved ( 2009 )
Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow Lucy's struggle to cope with the system. Her saving is her self-belief and her certainty that she is being watched over and protected by the holy spirit. Hers is a heroic quest for love, beauty and transcendence.
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Movie: The Fly ( 1958 )
A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.
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Movie: Churchill: The Hollywood Years ( 2004 )
In this irreverent parody, the British court and war government consist mainly of idiots and/or traitors. Hitler moves into Buckingham palace and plans to marry into the Windsors. A US Army officer claims the cigar-smoking iconic PM was an actor, Ray Bubbles, impersonating his own father, USMC lieutenant Winston Churchill, a genius spy who stole an enigma code machine and almost single-handedly won a very alternative battle for Britain.
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Movie: The Most Dangerous Game ( 1932 )
An insane hunter arranges for a ship to be wrecked on an island where he can indulge in some sort of hunting and killing of the passengers.
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Movie: Hopscotch ( 1980 )
Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.
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Movie: Shine a Light ( 2008 )
A career-spanning documentary on The Rolling Stones, with concert footage from their "A Bigger Bang" tour.
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Movie: Stardust ( 1974 )
The rise and fall of the rock singer Jim Maclaine, in the mid 60s, with his manager, Mike, and his group, "The Stray Cats."
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Movie: Telefon ( 1977 )
A Russian officer is sent to the U.S. to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.
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Movie: The Front Page ( 1974 )
As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence.
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Movie: Alien Autopsy ( 2006 )
Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.
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Movie: Carry On Again Doctor ( 1969 )
Dr Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.
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Movie: Rampage: President Down ( 2016 )
Bill Williamson is back, alive and well and doing a recon mission around D.C. This time he wants to cause a major population disruption within the USA which result in devastating consequences reverberating throughout the world. His new mission this time to bring down The President of the United States and his Secret Service detail. Bill brings with him all the freak-in havoc and acidity of the previous 2 movies.
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Movie: The Emerald Forest ( 1985 )
After the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.
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Movie: The Accidental Tourist ( 1989 )
An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.
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Movie: The Incredible Shrinking Man ( 1957 )
Scott Carey and his wife Louise are sunning themselves on their cabin cruiser, the small craft adrift on a calm sea. While his wife is below deck, a low mist passes over him. Scott, lying in the sun, is sprinkled with glittery particles that quickly evaporate. Later he is accidentally sprayed with an insecticide while driving and, in the next few days, he finds that he has begun to shrink. First just a few inches, so that his clothes no longer fit, then a little more. Soon he is only three feet tall, and a national curiosity. At six inches tall he can only live in a doll's house and even that becomes impossible when his cat breaks in. Scott flees to the cellar, his wife thinks he has been eaten by the cat and the door to the cellar is closed, trapping him in the littered room where, menaced by a giant spider, he struggles to survive.
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Movie: My Favorite Year ( 1982 )
A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show.
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Movie: The Wrong Box ( 1966 )
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so.
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Movie: Journey to the Far Side of the Sun ( 1969 )
The European Space Exploration Council sends two astronauts to explore a planet similar to the Earth but located on the opposite side of the sun.
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Movie: Robin and Marian ( 1976 )
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
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Movie: 101 Reykjavík ( 2000 )
Will the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in Reykjavík? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.
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Movie: American Splendor ( 2003 )
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
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Movie: Callan ( 1975 )
David Callan top agent/assassin for the S.I.S., was forced to retire because he had lost his nerve. Now, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a German businessman. His former boss promises Callan that he'll be returned to active status if he follows orders, but as always Callan refuses to act until he knows why Schneider has been marked for death.
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Movie: Plenty ( 1985 )
A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.
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Movie: Boiling Point ( 1990 )
Two disquieted junior baseball players seek revenge on the local yakuza for attacking their coach.
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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: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ( 1975 )
A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
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Movie: The Sugarland Express ( 1974 )
A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.
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Movie: Animal ( 1977 )
The funny misadventures of a dating duo of movie stunt professionals in France.
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Movie: Female Agents ( 2008 )
London, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.
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Movie: Amateur ( 1995 )
An amnesiac wakes up on an NYC alley. He meets Isabelle, an ex nun now erotic writer, at a diner and follows her home. She helps him find his identity. Then there's Sofia, the porn star.
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Movie: Train ( 2009 )
In Europe, a group of American college athletes unknowingly board a train that will become one deadly ride.
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Movie: Ride the High Country ( 1962 )
An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
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Movie: A Wedding ( 1978 )
The daughter of a Louisville truck driver marries the scion of a very wealthy family, but the reception at the family estate is boycotted by the invited guests.
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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: Beast Cops ( 1998 )
One of the most universally acclaimed motion pictures in the history of Hong Kong cinema. Ruthlessly realistic, and vivid and unremitting in its uncompromising brutality and honesty, Beast Cops is a visceral and hard-hitting exploration of the dichotomous existence of two cops charged with upholding the law, while balancing on a moral knife-edge. Compelling and controversial, with a breakout performance of startling intensity from leading man Anthony Wong, this raw and enticing action-thriller has mesmerized audiences worldwide with its disturbing...
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Movie: Carry on at Your Convenience ( 1971 )
This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...
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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: Road to Zanzibar ( 1941 )
Chuck and his pal Fearless flee a South African carnival when their sideshow causes a fire. After several similar escapades, they've finally saved enough to return to the USA, when Chuck spends it all on a "lost" diamond mine. But that's only the beginning; before long, a pair of attractive con-women have tricked our heroes into financing a comic safari, featuring numerous burlesque jungle adventures...
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Movie: Ulzana's Raid ( 1972 )
After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.
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Movie: Cookie's Fortune ( 1999 )
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
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Movie: Anything for Her ( 2008 )
With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
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Movie: Eureka ( 1983 )
In 1925, a lone and obsessed Arctic prospector Jack McCann finally strikes gold. Twenty years later, he begins spiraling out of control when his only daughter becomes engaged to a man he strongly dislikes.
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Movie: Without Evidence ( 2000 )
The story revolves around a possible conspiracy behind the real life murder of the Oregon's Head of Corrections Michael Francke.
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Movie: The Last Wave ( 1977 )
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions.
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Movie: Breakout ( 1975 )
Jay Wagner is framed by the mob and sent to prison in Mexico. His wife, Ann tries to get him out. She then turns to bush pilot Nick Colton for help. And Colton is all to eager to do it. But the men who framed Jay will do what they have to make sure he doesn't escape.
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Movie: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 )
From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
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Movie: The Brice Man ( 2005 )
A wannabe surfer parties on the French Riviera while awaiting the perfect wave.
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Movie: The Boston Strangler ( 1968 )
A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.
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Movie: Topaz ( 1969 )
A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
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Movie: Loch Ness ( 1996 )
A scientist tries to prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster.
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Movie: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre ( 1967 )
Al Capone's Valentine Day surprise for the rival Bugs Moran gang in 1929 Chicago.
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Movie: Morgan's Ferry ( 2001 )
Three escaped convicts hide out in the home a reclusive woman as they wait to catch a ferry.
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Movie: Triple Cross ( 1966 )
During WW2, convicted bank robber Eddie Chapman becomes a triple agent working for both the British and the Germans.
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Movie: Lady in Cement ( 1968 )
During an ocean dive, Miami gumshoe Tony Rome finds a woman's body with its feet encased in a concrete block and sets-out to solve the murder case.
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Movie: Amsterdamned ( 1988 )
A hard-boiled police detective sets out to capture a gruesome serial killer terrorizing the canals of Amsterdam.
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Movie: Loot ( 1970 )
Based on the play by Joe Orton, this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately one of them works in a funeral parlor and they have a coffin to spare. Then there's the gold-digger nurse and the gonad-grabber detective and a host of other wonderful characters.
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Movie: Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 )
A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.
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Movie: Tom Jones ( 1963 )
In eighteenth-century England, "first cousins" Tom Jones and Master Blifil grew up together in privilege in the western countryside, but could not be more different in nature. Tom, the bastard son of one of Squire Allworthy's servants Jenny Jones and the local barber Partridge, was raised by virtuous Allworthy as his own after he sent Jenny away. Tom is randy, chasing anything in a skirt, he's having a sexual relationship on the sly with Molly Seagrim, the peasant daughter of Allworthy's gamekeeper. Tom is nonetheless kind-hearted and good-natured, he who is willing to defend that and those in which he believes. Blifil, on the other hand, is dour, and although outwardly pious, is cold-hearted and vengeful. Despite his randiness, Tom eventually falls in love with Sophie Western, who has just returned to the area after a few years abroad. Despite Sophie's love for Tom, Squire Western and his spinster sister would rather see Sophie marry Blifil rather than a bastard, who Western nonetheless liked before he knew that Tom liked Sophie. Based on half truths, Tom, out of circumstance, is forced to leave his home and strike out on his own in London. While Sophie sneaks away in search of Tom, and Squire Western and Miss Western go off in search of Sophie, Tom gets into one misadventure after another on his way to London, some involving his randiness, and some which will reveal certain aspects of his life previously unknown to him. Through it all, Sophie, deep down, is never far from his mind, even when his life is in danger.
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Movie: Leningrad ( 2009 )
When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad.
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Movie: Pack of Lies ( 1987 )
London in the early 1960s. The life of a couple is upset by the coming of a British Secret Service Agent who moves in across the street.
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Movie: Moon Zero Two ( 1969 )
A space salvage expert and his partner become involved with a group of criminals intent on hijacking a small asteroid made of sapphire and crashing it into the moon for later recovery. The only place that they can bring the asteroid down without drawing attention to themselves is a far side mining claim. But first they must dispose of the miner. Little known to them, however, is the fact that the miners sister has hired the same salvage team to help her locate her missing brother.
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Movie: Freebie and the Bean ( 1974 )
San Francisco police detectives Freebie and Bean are determined to bust local crime boss Red Meyers at any cost, even if this means destroying the whole city in the process.
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Movie: I Like Money ( 1962 )
Mr. Topaze ('Peter Sellers') is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that if what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
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Movie: Heavens Above! ( 1963 )
A minister is accidentally appointed to a snobbish parish.
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Movie: Dead Innocent ( 1997 )
Suzanne, a single parent and succesful lawyer, returns home to find her daughter missing. About to call the police, she is confronted by a disembodied voice warning her that if she attempts to leave or seek help, her daughter will die. Suzanne discovers she is being monitored through surveillance cameras operated by the tyrannical voice. The voice informs her that in order for her daughter to live, Suzanne must commit suicide. In a race against time Suzanne must think of a scheme to get a message to the outside world...
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Movie: Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson ( 1976 )
A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.
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Movie: Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1967 )
Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.
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Movie: Avanti! ( 1972 )
A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.
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Movie: Carry On Cowboy ( 1965 )
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a "sanitary engineer" (plumber) by the name of Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal! Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids - revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise...
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Movie: The Sapphires ( 2012 )
It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.
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Movie: The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash ( 1978 )
Charts the adventures of the prefab four, possibly the most famous band of all time.
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Movie: Please Sir! ( 1971 )
Mr Hedges takes his class on a field trip, with disastrous consequences.