Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Enchanted Island movie storyline. Two 19th-century sailors, Abner (Dana Andrews) and Tom (Don Dubbins), jump ship after their captain, Vangs (Ted de Corsia), refuses them shore leave and warns them what a dangerous place this particular island is. They disobey him and soon discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
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The Fly movie storyline. After her husband Andre Delambre (David Hedison) is crushed to death in a mechanical press, his wife Helene (Patricia Owens) recounts to his brother Francois Delambre (Vincent Price) and police Inspector Charas (Herbert Marshall) the events of the previous few months. They were very much in love and with their little boy, a very happy family.
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The Bravados movie storyline. Jim Douglass (Gregory Peck) has been tracking four men who he believes killed his wife six months ago. He arrives in a small town where he learns the men he’s been tracking are set to be hanged. They escape and Douglas leads a posse after the men. They commit further crimes, murdering and raping.
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Indiscreet movie storyline. Anna Kalman (Ingrid Bergman) is a London based actress. She has been unable to find love in her life. The reason why she came home early from a vacation to Majorca fits into that theme, as the man she met there and was initially attracted to ended up not being who she thought he was as a man. Upon her arrival home, she meets the suave Philip Adams (Cary Grant), a financier who is a work acquaintance of her brother-in-law, diplomat Alfred Munson ( Cecil Parker).
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Peyton Place movie storyline. It’s the pre-WWII era. Peyton Place is a small town in New England, whose leading adult citizens rule the town with their high moral standards, which they try to pass on to their offspring. The adults, especially those that wield power largely through their positions and/or through their wealth, will not tolerate anything they believe morally improper.
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Triple Cross movie storyline. Safecracker Eddie Chapman’s priorities in life are himself and carousing with beautiful women. In the first year of his possible fifteen year incarceration at a Jersey prison for a series of safecracking crimes committed in London, the Nazis take control of the island. With his special skill set, Eddie tries to negotiate working for the Nazis – for a fee and for his obvious release – against the British.
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Wings movie storyiine. Forty-one-year-old Nadezhda Petrukhina (Maya Bulgakova), a once heroic World War II Soviet fighter pilot, is now living a quiet, but disappointingly ordinary life as a school principal at a construction-oriented trade school.
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Is Paris Burning? movie storyline. Shortly after the failed 20 July plot to assassinate him in 1944, Adolf Hitler appoints General der Infanterie Dietrich von Choltitz as military governor of occupied Paris. Hitler believes Choltitz will obey his order that the Allies should not be allowed to capture Paris without the Germans destroying it completely, similar to the planned destruction of Warsaw.
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Cul-de-sac movie storyline. With the taste of failure in his mouth; on the run from the police, and with a dying accomplice in his hands, the wounded brute gangster, Dickie, will eventually discover the perfect hideout: a magnificent and seemingly deserted castle by the sea, now home of the feeble ex-factory owner, George, and his frivolous French wife, Teresa.
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10:30 P.M. Summer movie storyline. Restless married couple Maria and Paul take a road trip through Spain with their friend Claire. While Paul and Claire carry on a clandestine affair, Maria becomes obsessed with a recent murder in a small town along the way. What begins as a vacation ends as a meditation on tragedy and infidelity in screenwriter Marguerite Duras’s adaptation of her novella, directed by Jules Dassin.
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