Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
All Quiet on the Western Front movie storyline. This is an English language film (made in America) adapted from a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque. The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher.
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A Different Story movie storyline. Episodic look at an unlikely couple trying to make it in L.A. during the late 1970s. He’s Albert, an illegal alien from Belgium, serving as chauffeur and lover to a string of powerful men. She’s Stella, a real estate agent with several women lovers.
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Interiors movie storyline. Homage to Ingmar Bergman in this family drama involving a fashionable Long Island interior designer who tries to impose her overbearing, critical standards on her husband and her three grown daughters.
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Same Time, Next Year movie storyline. A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year.
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McCabe and Mrs. Miller movie storyline. It’s the turn of the nineteenth into twentieth century. John McCabe, who largely lives off what he is able to win in gambling, has just rode into the relatively new mining town of Presbyterian Church, nestled in the mountains of Washington.
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A Very Private Affair movie storyline. Brigitte Bardot, the French actress / bombshell of the 1960s, stars in this semi-biographical film of her life. Eighteen-year-old Jill enjoys a comfortable upper-class existence with her widowed mother in Switzerland and develops a crush on Fabio, a friend’s husband. She heads off to Paris to become a model and dancer.
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Taras Bulba movie storyline. A “Romeo and Juliet” story that takes place in the late 16c. Ukraine. Taras has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. Though not wealthy, he is able to send his son Andrei away to a Polish school.
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Clint Lorimer, New York advertising executive, loses his job when his boss, J. D. Jocelyn, learns he is planning to steal a profitable dairy account and start his own business. Infuriated, Clint decides to have his revenge by promoting a small dairy, Cloverleaf, into a powerful force in the milk world.
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Long Day’s Journey into Night movie storyline. One day in the early 20th century in the life of the outwardly “loving” yet dysfunctional Tyrone family – parents James and Mary, and their two surviving adult sons Jamie and Edmund – at their Connecticut seaside summer home is presented. Mary has recently been released from a sanatorium for addiction to morphine.
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L’Amour avec des Si storyline. It is dark. A silhouette crosses the wall of the Health prison. Later, driving a D.S., a man listens to the radio announcing the escape of a dangerous sadist.
L’Amour avec des Si (1966) Read More