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My Programs I'd Like To Watch Vol #2
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Volume No. #2 - The Movies - Made-For-Television Movies - Television Series - Streaming Series - LIVE Events - and All Other Genres That Are For My Taste And Mine Alone (Personal List - Favorite & Watch Somewhat Combined - Still going through them) But Any & All Are Welcome To Use As They See fit i.e. Reference, Similar Taste etc… NOTE: I will always be adding and possibly subtracting from list) ENJOY! p.s. anything you’d think I’d like please message me, Thanks!


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Movie: Der Mann mit dem Glasauge ( 1969 )
A pool-hall is used as the front for a white slavery ring.
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Movie: Paranoia ( 1969 )
A rich, alcoholic widow assuages her loneliness through a ménage à trois with two seductive step-siblings, whose true motives threaten her sanity and life.
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Movie: The Great Silence ( 1969 )
A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.
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Movie: I Start Counting ( 1969 )
A 14-year-old girl coming to terms with her sexuality, discovers that her adored older foster brother may be guilty of a series of bizarre sex crimes.
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Movie: Skidoo ( 1968 )
Infamous psychedelic all-star comedy about ex-gangster Tony Banks, who's called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.
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Movie: Hell in the Pacific ( 1968 )
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Following war logic, each time the crafty Japanese devises something useful, he guards it to deny its use to the Yank, who then steals it, its proceeds or the idea and/or ruins it. Yet each gets his chance to kill and/or capture the other, but neither pushes this to the end. After a while of this pointless pestering, they end up joining forces to build and man a raft...
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Movie: The Doors Are Open ( 1968 )
A British TV documentary that originally aired in 1968. The Doors are Open focuses on the bands performance at London's Roundhouse with rare backstage footage and interviews.
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Movie: Candy ( 1968 )
Candy, an innocent high-schooler, encounters numerous colorful characters and humorous sexual situations while attempting to find meaning in life.
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Movie: A Quiet Place in the Country ( 1968 )
An accomplished painter rents a dilapidated villa in the country, and soon finds himself absorbed in the property's history, particularly the murder of a sex-obsessed countess who died there decades prior.
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Movie: How to Make a Doll ( 1968 )
A nerdy professor who has no luck with women builds beautiful female robots to satisfy his sexual desires.
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Movie: The Doors (TV Special 1968) ( 1968 )
Concert by The Doors, performing in Denmark.
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Movie: The Pink Jungle ( 1968 )
A South American fashion photo shoot turns into a diamond mine seeking adventure for an American photographer and his model.
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TV Show: Joe 90 ( 1968 )
Joe McClaine is a 9-year-old boy whose adoptive father has developed a method of transferring specialist "brain patterns", and hence skills, into his son's mind. As a result, Joe is able to become a test pilot, brain surgeon, etc, as needed. Combined with his innocent appearance, he becomes an agent for the World Intelligence.
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Movie: Pretty Poison ( 1968 )
Dennis Pitt, now in young adulthood, has been conditionally released from a psychiatric hospital, where he had been institutionalized for an incident that occurred when he was fifteen. Despite the doctors believing he to be rehabilitated in not suffering from the fantasies which dominated his life, Dennis is still required to check in with his case officer, Morton Azenauer, once a week. Azenauer will do whatever he can to help Dennis survive in the outside world. A year following his release, Dennis violates the conditions of his release by moving without telling Azenauer, thus missing his weekly check-ins. He moves to Winslow, Massachusetts where he has gotten a job at Sausenfeld Chemical Co., his boss, Bud Munsch, the company, and his acquaintances in town not aware of his history. In not being truly rehabilitated, Dennis believes the company is part of an alien conspiracy to poison the water supply, including openly discharging chemical waste into the local lake next to the plant. Dennis spends much of his time gathering photographic evidence to support his belief. He also becomes infatuated with seventeen year old high school senior Sue Ann Stepanek upon first sight. In his "investigative" work, Dennis is able to convince Sue Ann that he is a secret agent, she who he co-opts into those investigations as they begin a romantic relationship. However, as Sue Ann deals with what she considers her repressed life, she, in her own slightly off kilter mental state and using her relationship with Dennis, works toward her own agenda, leading to tragic consequences.
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TV Show: Dad's Army ( 1968 )
A classic sitcom about a collection of elderly, unfit, or eccentric citizens unfit for military service who nonetheless plan, with no budget and incompetent training, to defend the British Isles from a possible German invasion at the height of World War II.
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Movie: Salt and Pepper ( 1968 )
After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper partake in a fumbling investigation and uncover an evil plot to overthrow the government. Can our cool, yet inept duo stop the bad guys in time?
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Movie: Wild in the Streets ( 1968 )
A young man gains significant political influence as the leader of a counterculture rock band with his rallying cry of voting rights for teenagers.
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Movie: Prudence and the Pill ( 1968 )
Prudence Hardcastle (Deborah Kerr) is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover, Prudence's husband Gerald (David Niven), or all of the above?
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Movie: Counterpoint ( 1968 )
A famous orchestra conductor is captured by the Germans in WW2, and is forced to perform at private concerts for the Nazi generals.
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Movie: Revolution ( 1968 )
A documentary that explores the counterculture of San Francisco in the mid-1960's. In HD.
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Movie: A Stranger in Town ( 1968 )
Unknown to anybody else but himself The Stranger arrives in an abandoned town where he witnesses the slaughter of Mexican soldiers by a gang led by Aguila. The Stranger threatens Aguila to denounce him if he does not accept to let him take part in the theft of a shipment of gold. The plan is a success but when The Stranger claims his due, he gets a good beating instead. However The Stranger manages to escape with the gold. The bandits, who want his skin, pursue him. But The Stranger is not the kind to get caught so easily...
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Movie: The Sweet Body of Deborah ( 1968 )
A newlywed couple returns to Geneva to visit the husband's home town. There he is accused of being responsible for his ex-lover's death and the couple starts receiving threats.
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Movie: Day of the Evil Gun ( 1968 )
A woman and two children are kidnapped by Apaches. The husband of the captured woman enlists the help of his neighbor to find the Apaches that seized his family; not knowing his neighbor has unknown reasons of his own for helping him.
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Movie: Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back ( 1968 )
Documentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan.
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Movie: The Young Warriors ( 1968 )
In World War II, a tough sergeant is put in charge of a squad of young recruits and assigned to lead them on a mission against the Germans.
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Movie: The Incident ( 1968 )
Late one night, two young toughs hold hostage the passengers in one car of a New York subway train.
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Movie: Jet Generation - Wie Mädchen heute Männer lieben ( 1968 )
In the "Swinging Munich" of the late 1960s: The young millionaire daughter Carroll Buchheim, an American, flew from the United States to Germany to visit her brother, who lives here.
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Movie: Like It Is ( 1968 )
This documentary on the "youth movement" of the late 1960s focuses on the hippie pot smoking/free love culture in the San Francisco Bay area. Included are discussions of the drug scene with some of the kids themselves and, naturally, several examples of the hippie philosophy of peace, love and gratuitous nudity.
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Movie: Cop-Out ( 1968 )
John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and defend him in court.
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Movie: Once Before I Die ( 1967 )
WW-II 1941: Shortly after Pearl Harbor the Japanese attack the Philippine islands. A group of Polo playing soldiers and their families are surprised far off in the countryside. Lt. Bailey leads them back to Manila, but the streets are jammed with fugitives. On the trip Bailey's fiancée Alex talks with a 22 years old shy soldier. He tells her of his fears to die and admits that he's never been with a woman. Only once before he dies, he'd like to have sex.
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Movie: The Exchange Student ( 1967 )
Charles Bosquier, a role apparently written for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial headmaster of a French strict boarding school. No father could be deeper shocked to find one of his own sons miserably failed his exams, and too embarrassed to enroll him for his own summer-school, so he sends Philippe to England as exchange student.
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Movie: Ulysses ( 1967 )
James Joyce's masterpiece incarnated: The story of two seperated Dublin wanderers, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, struggling to control their personal lives.
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Movie: Le gros et le maigre (Short 1961) ( 1967 )
A small and thin barefoot slave (played by Polanski) plays a flute and beats a drum to entertain his large master who rocks in a rocking chair in front of his mansion. The slave jumps and leaps like a madman, wipes his master's brow, feeds him, washes his feet, shades him from the sun with an umbrella and holds a urinal for him.
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Movie: Hour of the Gun ( 1967 )
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton gang in a fight. In revenge, Clanton's thugs kill the Marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
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Movie: I Am Curious (Yellow) ( 1967 )
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.
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Movie: Robbery ( 1967 )
A group of British criminals plans the robbery of the Royal Mail train on the Glasgow-London route.
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Movie: Our Mother's House ( 1967 )
When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father, Charlie, reappears...
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Movie: Last of the Badmen ( 1967 )
Kitosch is charged with a crime he did not commit and joins up with Joshua Tracy, a vicious outlaw. When Tracy kidnaps and blackmails his former employer Kitosch redeems himself by saving them.
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Movie: Welcome to Hard Times ( 1967 )
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.
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Movie: Date for a Murder ( 1967 )
Vince Dreyser, an American detective in Rome, agrees to meet an old chemist friend, who is also in the city to marry a woman named Lidia. When his friend fails to show up, Dreyser begins searching for him, only to be attacked by two gangsters.
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Movie: I Deal in Danger ( 1967 )
During World War II, an American who sympathizes with the Nazi cause defects to Germany, where he is greeted as a hero and given a job broadcasting propaganda to the West. What the Nazis don't know is that he is actually a double agent.
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Movie: Hombre ( 1967 )
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
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Movie: Enter Laughing ( 1967 )
A young would-be actor seeks his first break.
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Movie: The Dacians ( 1967 )
The Dacian kingdom lies at the eastern border of the Roman Empire.Only the river Danube separates the two mortal enemies.The Dacian king Decebalus knows that soon the vastly superior Roman legions will cross the river and attack Dacia.
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Movie: Hot Rods to Hell ( 1967 )
While on a business trip just before Christmas, Tom Phillips gets into a car accident, which was caused by the reckless driving of the other car involved. Although Tom suffered no paralysis from his back injury, he did come out of the accident with...
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Movie: Good Times ( 1967 )
Sonny and Cher spoof many Hollywood classic movie scenes.
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Movie: Shame ( 1967 )
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Movie: Daisies ( 1966 )
After realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?
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Movie: Alice in Wonderland ( 1966 )
A girl named Alice (Anne-Marie Mallik) falls down a rabbit-hole and wanders into the strange Wonderland.
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Movie: The Brides of Fu Manchu ( 1966 )
Fu Manchu blackmails several industrialists and scientists into helping him construct a super-weapon by kidnapping their daughters and wives.
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Movie: The Professionals ( 1966 )
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
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Movie: La Grande Vadrouille ( 1966 )
Several ordinary Frenchmen, helping British pilots avoid Nazi captivity, go on an epic voyage through the occupied country to the Swiss border.
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Movie: Blithe Spirit ( 1966 )
The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book.
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Movie: Troublemakers ( 1966 )
A documentary from a group of film students who work to organize a group of the under advantaged citizens of Newark New Jersey.
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Movie: Cul-de-sac ( 1966 )
In search of help, two wounded gangsters on the run find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
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Movie: Alvarez Kelly ( 1966 )
During the Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until Confederate Colonel Tom Rossiter's hungry men force Kelly to change his customers.
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Movie: Loves of a Blonde ( 1966 )
A factory manager in rural Czechoslovakia bargains with the army to send men to the area, to boost the morale of his young female workers, deprived of male company since the local boys have been conscripted. The army sends reservists, mostly married middle-aged men - and the local beauty Andula, spurns those bold enough to try to win her, for the jazz pianist, newly c...Read all
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Movie: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( 1966 )
A wily Roman slave schemes to earn his freedom by romantically uniting his master with a courtesan. But matters get complicated and he ends up dragging in his neighbors around him, leading to chaos.
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TV Show: The Baron ( 1966 )
The show starred an American actor, Steve Forrest, as John Mannering, an antiques dealer and sometime undercover agent working in an informal capacity for the head of the fictional British Diplomatic Intelligence, Templeton-Green (Colin Gordon). He is assisted by Cordelia Winfield (Sue Lloyd) and David Marlowe (Paul Ferris).In Creasey's original novels Mannering was British and, after the few first entries, married. In transforming him into a bachelor and casting a Texan in the role, the producers decided that 'The Baron' would be nicknamed after the cattle ranch once run by his grandfather that was described as being "200,000 acres (809.371 km2) 300 miles from Dallas". In the books he was a reformed jewel-thief (the first few novels described that "career" from Mannering's decision to steal to his going straight) whose criminal ties served him well in investigating jewel, art or antiques-oriented mysteries. For the TV series, Mannering's persona was depicted as absolutely straight with no suggestion of past criminality, a fact underlined by his co-opting by British intelligence. In the episode Red Horse, Red Rider it is revealed that Mannering was in the US Army in World War II in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program where he recovered art works from the Nazis. Following the war he owned three antique stores and was a "charter member of the jet set.
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Movie: Kaleidoscope ( 1966 )
Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers in the gambling places of London and the Riviera. Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.
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Movie: Alfie ( 1966 )
An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.
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Movie: Assault on a Queen ( 1966 )
A motley crew of treasure hunters plan to rob the cruise-liner RMS Queen Mary, using a recovered WW2 German submarine.
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Movie: The Third Eye ( 1966 )
A young count living with his domineering mother spirals into madness after his mother and fiancée are killed by his jealous, lovesick servant.
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Movie: Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! ( 1966 )
A seductive starlet flees Hollywood and causes chaos for a real estate agent.
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Movie: Knives of the Avenger ( 1966 )
A mysterious, knife-throwing Viking warrior protects a young peasant woman and her son from the clutches of a evil regent bent on claiming the title of King and the woman for himself.
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Movie: Line of Demarcation ( 1966 )
1941. A little town in the Jura is cut in half by a river that forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the free zone.
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Movie: Kazdy mlady muz ( 1966 )
Jurácek's feature debut is shot in two parts. In the first, a corporal accompanies a new recruit with a sore Achilles tendon for his physical, and all the girls or young women they see are played by the same actress (Ruzickova). In the longer second segment, shot with the help of the Czechoslovakia army, the soldiers pass the time during basic training and maneuvers by talking about girls. At the end of their training they plan a large dance on their base with women bused in from the local village.
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Movie: The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini ( 1966 )
A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.
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Movie: The Hired Killer ( 1966 )
Hit-man Clint Harris has one more job to do before he can retire. He's to kill an ex-employee who has become a snitch for the police. At first Harris refuses, but when his brothers assassinated, he's forced to accept. He's assigned an assistant, whom he teaches the ropes as they pursue their prey. When a beautiful woman identifies the target, it turns out it's the wro...Read all
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Movie: Masculin Féminin ( 1966 )
A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.
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Movie: Raiders from Beneath the Sea ( 1966 )
A down-on-his-luck California apartment house manager hatches a plan to rob a Catalina Island bank--and escape with his accomplices using scuba gear.
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Movie: The Chase ( 1966 )
Most everyone in town thinks that Sheriff Calder is merely a puppet of rich oil-man Val Rogers. When it is learned that local baddie Bubber Reeves has escaped prison, Rogers' son is concerned because he is having an affair with Reeves' wife. It seems many others in town feel they may have reasons to fear Reeves. Calder's aim is to bring Reeves in alive, unharmed. Calder will have to oppose the powerful Rogers on one hand and mob violence on the other, in his quest for justice.
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Movie: A Study in Terror ( 1966 )
Sherlock Holmes (John Neville) and Dr. John H. Watson (Donald Houston) join the hunt for the notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper.
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Movie: The Horror of It All ( 1966 )
American salesman and his English fiancee visit her eccentric family who live in a remote old mansion in the countryside. The American soon realizes that someone is trying to kill everyone there to get the family fortune.
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Movie: Dracula: Prince of Darkness ( 1966 )
Dracula is resurrected, preying on four unsuspecting visitors to his castle.
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Movie: Une étudiante d'aujourd'hui ( 1966 )
An examination of the lifestyles of female college students in 1966.
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Movie: Cyborg 2087 ( 1966 )
Earth's civilization of the future sends a cyborg back to the 1960s to change the future.
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Movie: Made in Italy ( 1965 )
A group of Italians--tourists and immigrants--take a flight to Sweden. Two bourgeois couples choose a typical Italian restaurant by its name, 'La Trattoria', and are disgusted by the untidiness and poor service. An elegant lady in her splendid Ferrari is accosted by an Italian and imagines a flirtation, but he's all eyes--for the car. An Italian wife finds her husband...Read all
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Movie: Doc, Hands of Steel ( 1965 )
While being pursued by a bounty hunter, Doc, a gambler, accidentally sees bandits killing a sheriff. Doc pretends to be the sheriff so the bounty hunter will stop his chase. The bandits however still believe the sheriff is alive.
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Movie: That Darn Cat! ( 1965 )
After a kidnapped bank teller uses a neighbor's wandering cat to send an SOS, the FBI assigns a cat-allergic agent to the case.
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Movie: Return from the Ashes ( 1965 )
In Paris, a Polish gigolo marries a rich Jewish doctor and stands to inherit her estate when she is deported to Dachau by the Nazis.
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Movie: The Bedford Incident ( 1965 )
Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub in the depths and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to the breaking point. This one's grim tension to the end.
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Movie: A Rage to Live ( 1965 )
A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.
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Movie: Mirage ( 1965 )
An accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Major.
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Movie: Morituri ( 1965 )
A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.
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Movie: Libido ( 1965 )
A young man goes with his wife to a spooky house, an inheritance from his father.
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Movie: The Art of Love ( 1965 )
Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.
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Movie: Once a Thief ( 1965 )
San Francisco ex-con Eddie Pedak wants to go straight but local cop Mike Vido, motivated by a personal vendetta, keeps harassing him while Eddie's brother, Walter, wants Eddie for one last major heist.
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Movie: Cinderella ( 1965 )
Although mistreated by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella is able to attend the royal ball through the help of a fairy godmother.
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Movie: Freewayphobia #1 ( 1965 )
Goofy demonstrates how not to drive on the freeway: first, the overly timid driver, then the overly aggressive driver, and finally the inattentive driver, shaving or eating. Some of the advice is a bit dated: following distances are still in car lengths instead of time, and of course cell phones aren't mentioned directly.
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Movie: John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums ( 1965 )
John F. Kennedy's years as president.
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Movie: Kiss Me, Stupid ( 1964 )
Jealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town.
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Movie: The Time Travelers ( 1964 )
In 1964, a group of scientists create a portal that takes them to a barren, mutant inhabited, Earth in the year 2071.
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Movie: Red Desert ( 1964 )
In an industrial area, Giuliana, an unstable woman, attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.
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Movie: Send Me No Flowers ( 1964 )
A hypochondriac believes he is dying and makes plans for his wife which she discovers and misunderstands.
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Movie: Agent 8 3/4 ( 1964 )
Czech-speaking, out-of-work Briton Nicholas Whistler (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is unwittingly sent on a secret mission to Prague by British Intelligence.
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Movie: Man in the Dark ( 1964 )
When the wife of a blind composer discovers that her husband will cut her out of his estate, if he discovers that she is having an affair with a young artist, she and her lover plan to commit the perfect murder.
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Movie: This Special Friendship ( 1964 )
THIS SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP tells of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclass man who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.
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Movie: Cartouche ( 1964 )
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.
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Movie: The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 )
The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire.