Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Love at Twenty unites five directors from around the world to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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Light in the Piazza movie storyline. Upper class Americans Noel (Barry Sullivan) and Meg Johnson (Olivia de Havilland) have a twenty-six year old daughter named Clara Johnson (Yvette Mimieux). Clara suffered a head injury as a child which resulted in her being mentally disabled. Clara’s mental capacity is equivalent to that of a ten year old. In many social situations, Clara’s disability can be passed off as a simple joy of life.
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Knife in the Water movie storyline. Well off Andrzej and Krystyna’s marriage is at a stage where familiarity breeds contempt, that contempt which is outwardly shown only behind closed doors and only when an incident of some sort sets off one or the other.
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Jessica movie storyline. When her husband dies in Sicily while on their honeymoon, Jessica, a nurse, decides to remain there rather than return home. She decides to become a midwife in the village of Forza d’Agro. Men of the town pay quite a bit of attention to the attractive Jessica, causing women to resent her presence.
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In 1912 Paris, the French bon-vivant Jim meets the insecure German Jules and they begin a great friendship. When they meet the fickle, independent French Catherine, they immediately fall in love with her. However Jules’ naiveness and fragility attracts the amoral Catherine and she marries him. With the First World War, best friends Jules and Jim are separated, but after the war they reunite in Jules’s cottage in Germany.
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Eclipse movie storyline. After an all night talk to discuss their relationship issues, Vittoria leaves the apartment of her long time fiancé, Riccardo, for good, she telling him that she no longer loves him, but she can’t really express her feelings, most specifically why, beyond that. Riccardo accepts the news but doesn’t really like it.
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David and Lisa is a 1962 American drama film directed by Frank Perry. It is based on the second story in the two-in-one novellas Jordi/Lisa and David by Theodore Isaac Rubin; the screenplay, written by Frank Perry’s wife Eleanor Perry (née Rosenfeld), tells the story of a bright young man suffering from a mental illness.
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Birdman of Alcatraz movie storyline. In 1912, the notorious and violent prisoner Robert Franklin Stroud is transferred to the Leavenworth Prison convicted for murdering a man.
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All Fall Down movie storyline. Twenty-something Berry-Berry Willart (Warren Beatty) has left his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, primarily to get away from his overbearing mother and alcoholic father, Annabell (Dame Angela Lansbury) and Ralph Willart (Karl Malden), as Berry-Berry doesn’t like the way they treat him as the prodigal son.
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That Touch of Mink movie storyline. On a rainy day, currently unemployed working girl Cathy Timberlake is furious when a passing limousine, driving through a puddle, splashes her resulting in her dress and raincoat to get all muddy. She is even more furious when the limousine fails to stop, even though she knows the limo’s passenger saw her get splashed.
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