Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The Buddy System movie storyline. A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy’s attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy’s mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the mother.
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A Passage to India is set in the 1920s during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj. Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft) and Adela Quested (Judy Davis) sail from England to India, where Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers), the older woman’s son and younger woman’s fiancé, is the local magistrate in the provincial town of Chandrapore.
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China is Near movie storyline. A pair of working class lovers – a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry. Their targets are a professor, Vittorio Gordini Malvezzi ,(Glauco Mauri), who is running for municipal office as a Socialist candidate, and his sister Elena, (Elda Tattoli), a great lady who lets every man in town climb on top of her but won’t marry because socially they’re all beneath her.
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Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) is hired by his ex-partner on the police force Ralph Turpin, they are now both private dicks, to remove a drunk girl, Diana, from his hotel and keep the hotel’s name out of it. Tony takes the girl home for $200 where he meets the entire Kosterman family including her husband Donald Pines, and Ann Archer, a party guest from the previous night’s party.
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Reflections in a Golden Eye movie storyline. U.S. Army Major Weldon Penderton (Marlon Brando) is stationed on a base in the American south. He and his wife Leonora Penderton (Elizabeth Taylor) are in an unsatisfying marriage.
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A Very Special Favor movie storyline. Michel Boullard (Charles Boyer) meets Paul Chadwick (Rock Hudson) while going against him in a court case in France. To win the case, Chadwick woos the attract female judge, and this becomes known to attorney Boullard.
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Repulsion movie storyline. In London, Belgian immigrant Carol Ledoux shares an apartment with her older sister Helen, and works as a manicurist at a beauty salon. Helen uses the word “sensitive” to describe Carol’s overall demeanor, which is almost like she walks around in a daze, rarely speaking up about anything.
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Nightmare Castle movie storyline. Muriel Hampton Arrowsmith (Barbara Steele) has entered the lab of her husband Dr. Stephen Arrowsmith (Paul Muller) with a drink. He chastises her for entering without permission, commenting on her drinking. She acknowledges that he is leaving for a scientific conference where he will be with other fanatical good-for-nothings like yourself she taunts.
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I Saw What You Did movie storyline. With true William Castle-style flamboyance the advertisements for I Saw What You Did intrigued non-etymologically inclined audiences by warning them that this suspenseful thriller was about uxoricide. He then had some of the theaters where the film was shown equipped with seat belts so frightened audience members wouldn’t flee the theater in a panic. It was a spooky film, but wasn’t all that scary.
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Love Has Many Faces movie storyline. Married couple Kit and Pete are questioned by the Acapulco police when the body of Billy Andrews, a beachboy, washes ashore. Kit had an affair with Billy, and Pete accuses Kit of causing Billy’s suicide because she ended their affair. Pete is a former beachboy who married Kit for her money and is now having second thoughts about his way of life.
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