Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Madigan movie storyline. In New York City’s Spanish Harlem, police detectives Dan Madigan and Rocco Bonaro break into a sleazy apartment and arrest Barney Benesch, a hoodlum wanted for questioning by a Brooklyn precinct. Momentarily distracted by the suspect’s nude girl friend, the two detectives are outwitted by Benesch, who escapes with their guns.
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The Departure movie storyline. Marc is a young hairdresser in Brussels who is crazy about cars. Hoping his boss will lend him his Porsche 911S, he has entered for a rally. However, his boss says he is using the car that weekend.
The Departure (1967) Read More
Beauty and the Beast movie storyline. When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until he discovers that young Jønne has taken some semi-nude photos of Mette and clearly is intending to go further in their relationship.
Beauty and the Beast (1983) Read More
First Name: Carmen movie storyline. Carmen, in a voice over paired with shots of the city and the sea, introduces herself as “the girl who should not be called Carmen.” Somewhere a string quartet is rehearsing the late string quartets of Beethoven.
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Cat People movie storyline. Irena Gallier (Natassia Kinski) is a young woman whom was raised by adoptive parents and is, for the first time since childhood, meeting her older brother Paul living in New Orleans. Paul (Malcolm McDowell) meets Irene when she arrives at the airport and drives her home to his apartment.
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Tomorrow Never Dies movie storyline. Agent James Bond 007 (Pierce Brosnan), the unstoppable action hero must prevent a tremendous disaster ripped from tomorrow’s headlines. Someone is pitting the world’s superpowers against each other, and only Bond can stop it. When a British warship is mysteriously destroyed in Chinese waters, the world teeters on the brink of World War III until 007 zeros in on the true criminal mastermind.
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) Read More
Armageddon movie storyline. A huge Comet is headed for earth. As it does not consist of one big piece, but of a cloud of rather small pieces plus a main rock the size of Texas, little impacts are recorded long before the big one is scheduled for collision with earth.
Armageddon (1998) Read More
In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June shuttles between Paris and New York trying to find acting jobs while Henry works on his first major work, “Tropic of Cancer,” a pseudo-biography of June. Anais and Hugo help finance the book, but June is displeased with Henry’s portrayal of her, and Anais and Henry have many arguments about their styles of writing on a backdrop of a Bohemian lifestyle in Paris.
Henry and June (1990) Read More
She’s Out of Control movie storyline. Widower Doug Simpson is a radio manager from California who lives with his two daughters, Katie and Bonnie. When Katie turns 15, she feels it’s time to start looking more grown-up. She’s been dating Richard, the boy next door, whom her father adores, since middle school.
She’s Out of Control (1989) Read More
Rooftops movie storyline. T, as most of his friends, lives in a self-constructed ‘house’, built on top of an old building in the city. Their one passion is ‘combat’. Combat is a dance/streetfight during which the contestants try to push each other out of the arena, while not allowed to actually touch each other.
Rooftops (1989) Read More