Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Carve Her Name with Pride movie storyline. Violette Bushell (Virginia McKenna) is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War II. She meets a handsome young French soldier in the park and takes him back for the family Bastille day celebrations.
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Bell, Book and Candle movie storyline. Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak) is a modern-day witch living in Greenwich Village. A publisher named Shep Henderson (James Stewart) moves into the apartment above hers and she becomes interested in him. When she learns he is going to marry her college nemesis, Merle Kittridge (Janice Rule), the next day, Gillian uses her cat, Pyewacket, to cast a love spell on Shep.
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The Big Country movie storyline. Retired, wealthy sea Captain James McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate dislike to him.
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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness movie storyline. In the 1930s, working-class Englishwoman Gladys Aylward leaves Liverpool and arrives in London, hoping to join the China Missionary Society and be sent to China. But she’s rejected because she’s had only ordinary schooling and lacks qualification to the position.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof movie storyline. The family of “Big Daddy” Pollitt (Burl Ives) convenes at his and Big Momma’s (Dame Judith Anderson’s). Among the attendees is alcoholic son, Brick (Paul Newman); an ex-football player, who spends his time drinking and avoiding the ministries of his libidinous wife.
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Le Beau Serge movie storyline. In France, François Baillou returns to his village to spend the winter as part of his treatment of tuberculosis. On the arrival, François sees his former best friend Serge and greets him, but Serge is drunk and does not recognize him.
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Laughter in the Dark movie storyline. Set in London and the Riviera, Laughter in the Dark stars Nicol Williamson as Edward, a wealthy, knighted art dealer who falls hard for tartish usherette Margot (Anna Karina). She is kept by a glorified pimp (Jean-Claude Drouot), who conspires with the girl to take Edward for everything he’s got.
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The Touch storyline. In a Swedish town, physician Andreas Vergerus and his wife Karin Vergarus have a loving yet somewhat pedestrian fifteen year marriage.een year marriage which has spawned two now early teen children.
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The Fixer movie storyline. Set in Czarist Russia in 1911, and based on the true story of Russian-Jewish peasant Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime, the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant-handyman’s life in prison, and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
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In Case of Adversity movie storyline. A petty criminal aged 22, the attractive Yvette is caught after robbing a watchmaker’s shop with a toy pistol and felling his old wife. To defend her, she asks for André Gobillot, a leading member of the Paris bar.
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