Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Fragment of Fear movie storyline. One-time heroin addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) has kicked the habit with the help of his rich, widowed aunt, and, having written a best-selling autobiography which has made him famous, is taking a vacation in Italy with his aunt prior to getting married to his girlfriend, Juliet Bristow (Gayle Hunnicutt).
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Black Sabbath movie storyline. A trio of atmospheric horror tales about: A woman terrorized in her apartment by phone calls from an escaped prisoner from her past; a Russian count in the early 1800s who stumbles upon a family in the countryside trying to destroy a particularly vicious line of vampires; and a 1900-era nurse who makes a fateful decision while preparing the corpse of one of her patients – an elderly medium who died during a seance.
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Le Cercle Rouge movie storyline. On the eve of his release after five years imprisoned, the thief Corey is contacted by one guard of the prison that offers him a jewelry heist. However Corey seeks out his former boss Rico and steals money from him. Rico sends two gangsters to hunt Corey down and retrieve the stolen amount.
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The Bakery Girl of Monceau movie storyline. A bashful, young man is infatuated with an unknown woman he meets every day in the streets. After a brief encounter he knows that she is interested in him as well. The next day she has disappeared. He paces the streets up and down for three weeks, but no sign of her. His despair is growing and so is his hunger.
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The L-Shaped Room movie storyline. Jane (Leslie Caron), a young French woman, pregnant and unmarried, takes a room in a seedy London boarding house, which is inhabited by an assortment of misfits. She considers getting an abortion, but is unhappy with this solution.
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Tom Jones movie storyline. In eighteenth-century England, “first cousins” Tom Jones and Master Blifil grew up together in privilege in the western countryside, but could not be more different in nature. Tom, the bastard son of one of Squire Allworthy’s servants Jenny Jones and the local barber Partridge, was raised by virtuous Allworthy as his own after he sent Jenny away.
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The Cardinal movie storyline. Stephen Fermoyle has grown up in Boston at the turn of the twentieth century knowing that his destiny lies with the Catholic priesthood. Finally finishing his studies in Rome, he returns to America full of certitude and ambition to one day join the College of Cardinals. But his road to that office is a long one, paved with crises.
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The Leopard movie storyline. In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding rise to eminence of the enormously wealthy ex-peasant Don Calogero Sedara.
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In the French Style movie storyline. The young American student Christina James (Jean Seberg) comes to Paris to live in the art scene. After six months in Paris, she meets sixteen-year-old Guy (Philippe Forquet) at a crowded gallery showing and their romance develops. Later, she enjoys encounters with European men.
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Freud: The Secret Passion movie storyline. This pseudobiographical movie depicts five years from 1885 on in the life of the Viennese psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure hysteric patients, because they believe they’re just simulating to gain attention.
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