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1492 - Conquest of Paradise (1922 )
Gйrard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver,
Armand Assante, Arnols Vosloo.
Big budget account of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the
Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the
discovery |
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5 Fingers (1952 )
James Mason, Danielle Darrieux .
Based on a true story. In neutral Turkey during WWII, the ambitious
and extremely efficient valet for the British ambassador forms a
plan to promote himself to rich gentleman |
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The African Queen (1951)
Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn.
In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat owner is
persuaded by a missionary to use his boat to attack an
enemy warship |
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The Apu Trilogy - Satyajit Ray (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The
World of Apu)
Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee
The Apu trilogy is the most celebrated work of Satyajit Ray, the
greatest filmmaker ever to have emerged from India cinema. |
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Bastard
out of Carolina (1996)
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Grace Zabriskie.
Tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother (Jennifer Jason
Leigh) and daughter, who
each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. |
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Bella Mafia (1997)
Vanessa Redgrave, Nastassja Kinski, Dennis Farina.
When Sofia marries into a Mafia family, she doesn't know what
she's getting into. |
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Chimes at Midnight - Falstaff (1965 Orson Welles)
Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret
Rutherford.
Sir John Falstaff is the hero in this compilation of extracts from
Shakespeare's 'Henry IV' and other plays |
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Colonel Redl (1985)
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Gudrun
Landgrebe.
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film
tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young
officer who proceeds up the ladder. |
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The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)
Richard Chamberlain, Tony Curtis, Kate Nelligan.
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. |
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The Conqueror (1956
)
John Wayne, Susan Hayward.
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the
love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis
Khan |
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Double
Dragon (1994)
Two brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. An
evil gang leader has the other half, and determines to get the brothers'
half and have a complete medallion so he can gain absolute power |
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The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
Anthony Higgins,
Janet Suzman.
An English noblewoman employs a
haughty artist to paint portraits of her husband's estate in
exchange for sex |
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Genevieve (1953
)
Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson.
It's time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally, and
Alan McKim and Ambrose Claverhouse are not going to let their friendship
stop them from trying to humiliate each other |
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Europa aka Zentropa (1991, Lars Von Trier)
Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa.
Just after WW2, an American
takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position
politically sensitive with various people trying to use him |
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Elvira
Madigan (1967)
Pia Degermark, Lennart MalmerThommy
Berggren.
Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre,
a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They
both decide to run away.. |
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The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
Jeff Bridges, Beau Bridges, Michelle
Pfeiffer.
Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small
clubs. They have never needed a day job. Times are changing and dates
are becoming more difficult to get so they interview female singers |
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Johnny Guitar (1989)
Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden.
Vienna has built a saloon
outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the
railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone.. |
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Last Exit
to Brooklyn (1989)
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Baldwin.
Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union
corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her
customers. |
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Malena
- Special Edition Unedited 2 DVD Set (2000)
Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro.
Malena, the young woman at the center
of the story, suffers that kind of sexual predatory practice from
all the men in the little town in Sicily where she lives. |
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Macbeth
(1948 Orson Welles)
Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan.
In fog-dripping, barren and sometimes macabre settings,
11th-century Scottish nobleman Macbeth is led by an evil prophecy
and his ruthless yet desirable wife to the treasonous act that makes
him king |
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Maytime
(1937)
Jeanette MacDonald , Nelson Eddy.
An elderly Miss Morrison recounts her life as the once young and
beautiful opera singer Marcia Morney. |
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Mediterraneo (1991)
An Italian ship leaves a handful of
soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships
and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island
seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the
soldiers begin to relax a little |
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Moby
Dick (1998)
Patrick Stewart, Bruce Spence.
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his
captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby
Dick. |
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The Tamarind Seed (1974)
Julie Andrews , Omar Sharif.
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself
falling in love with a Russian agent. |
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The Mountain (1956)
Spencer Tracy,
Robert Wagner.
When a plane crashes on a mountaintop
Chris wants to plunder the wreckage. His older brother Zachary has
given up mountain guide work but goes along rather than letting his
brother risk it alone... |
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The Music Teacher
(1988)
Josi van Dam, Anne Roussel.
Aging opera singer retires from the stage and
retreats to the countryside to school two young singers...
|
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A Tree grow in Brooklyn
(1945)
Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James
Dunn.
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies
despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism |
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Paradise (1982)
Willie Aames, Phoebe Cates.
David and Sarah travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus. At
an oasis the white-slave agent 'Jackal' raids them, mainly to add
the beautiful young Sarah to his harem |
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Phantom
of the Opera (1990 TV Mini Series)
Burt Lancaster, Teri Polo.
Count de Chagnie has discovered
Christine's singing talent on a market place and sent her to his
friend Carriere |
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Possession (1981)
Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill.
A young woman left her family for an
unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and
starts following his wife. |
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Rapa
Nui (1994)
Jason Scott Lee, Esai Morales.
Based on the legends of Easter Island,
Chile, this story details a civil war between the two tribes on the
island: the Long Ears and the Short Ears |
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Rebecca (1940
Alfred Hitchcock)
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine.
When a naive young woman marries a rich widower, they settle in his
gigantic mansion, where she finds the memory of the first wife
maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants. |
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Return
of Martin Guerre (1982)
Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye.
During the medieval times, Martin
Guerre returns to his hometown in the middle of France, after being
away in the war since he was a child. Nobody recognize him, and the
people who knew him suspect he is not Martin |
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Rose
Marie (1936 )
Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald.
Opera singer (Marie de Flor) seeks out fugitive brother in the
Canadian wilderness. During her trek, she meets a Canadian mountie |
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Rose
Marie (1954)
Fernando Lamas, Howard Keel , Ann Blyth.
Tomboy Rose Marie Lemaitre, the orphaned ward of Mountie Mike
Malone, falls in love with him, and he with her. But when she goes
to "learn to be a lady", she meets outlaw trapper James Duval, who
also falls in love with her |
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Romero (1989)
Raul Julia.
The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great
personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador |
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Scream of Stone (1991)
Donald Sutherland.
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one is an experienced
mountaineer the other a free climber, and a journalist results in
a bet on which of the two is the best climber |
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Sissi (1955)
Ernst Marischka , Romy Schneider.
16 year old princess Elisabeth, follows her mother and sister
Helene to the Austrian court in Ischl...
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Sissi the Young Empress (1956)
Ernst Marischka , Romy Schneider.
Sissi is slowly adapting to life as empress of Austria but
finds it hard to live with her stepmother..
|
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Sissi the
Fateful Years of the Empress (1957)
Ernst Marischka , Romy Schneider.
The Last Part of Sissi Trilogy |
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Sissi Trilogy - 3 DVD Set
Romy Schneider. |
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Shoah
(a Film by Claude Lanzmann) - 4 DVD Set
Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the
Holocaust |
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The Student Prince (1954)
Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom.
The World's Greatest Love Musical. A student prince falls in
love with a lowly barmaid. |
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Taxi (1998)
Luc Besson, Gйrard Pirиs.
Daniel, an ancient pizza delivery boy, changes job to become a taxi
driver, but his dream is to become an F1 pilot. Caught by the police
for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector
on the track of German bank robbers |
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Three
Seasons (1999, Tony Bui)
An American in Ho Chi Minh City looks
for a daughter he fathered during the war. He meets Woody, a child
who's a street vendor, and when Woody's case of wares disappears, he
thinks the soldier took it |
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The
Tragedy of Othello (1952, Orson Welles)
Orson Welles, Suzanne Cloutier, Michel
MacLiammir.
Orson Welles' magnificent screening of Shakespeare's immortal
tragedy |
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Trapeze
(1956)
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina
Lollobrigida.
Mike Ribble was once a great trapeze artist - and the only to
have completed a triple somersault - before his accident. Tino joins
the circus, and manages to covince Mike to teach him the 'triple |
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Ulysses (1957)
Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn.
A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about
Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of
war |
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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan.
Based on the popular L.Frank Baum stories, Dorothy and her
dog Toto are caught in a tornado's path and somehow end up in the
land of Oz |
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The World
in his arms (1952)
Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn.
Sea captain Jonathan Clark, who poaches seal pelts from Russian
Alaska, meets and woos Russian countess Marina in 1850 San Francisco |
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Yamakasi (2001)
Luc Besson.
They are the Yamakasis, modern samurais. With acrobatic
skillfulness and adrenaline pumping belief in their own immortality,
they throw themselves out from incredible heights, and jump from
roof to roof... |
