Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Separate Tables movie synopsis. In Bournemouth, England, the Beauregard Hotel is located three minutes from the sea and managed by Pat Cooper. It is off-season and only the resident guests are lodged in the hotel. The timid Sibyl is a spinster and hysterical woman totally controlled by her arrogant and snobbish mother Mrs. Maud Railton-Bell that does not want that she works.
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Gigi movie synopsis. Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
Gigi (1958) Read More
The riveting true story of brazen bad girl Barbara Graham, a perpetual offender who tries to go straight but is sent to death row after being implicated in a murder. When journalist Ed Montgomery, whose initial newspaper articles on Barbara’s crime played up her recklessness, becomes convinced that she may be innocent, he begins a desperate campaign to save her from the gas chamber.
I Want to Live! (1958) Read More
À Nos Amours movie synopsis. Suzanne (Sandrine Bonnaire) is sixteen years old Parisian girl who is enjoying life, sneaking out to fool around with her boyfriend, flirting with sailors until two key events alter her life and drive her into a unfulfilling cycle of pleasure seeking.
À Nos Amours (1983) Read More
Another Time, Another Place movie synopsis. This story of a World War II romance in the Scottish highlands develops in a gradual but lyrical manner as Janie (Phyllis Logan), a Scottish woman married to a cold and remote man, starts an affair with Luigi (Giovanni Mauriello), an Italian confined to Janie’s small community until the war is over.
Another Time, Another Place (1983) Read More
Celine and Julie Go Boating begins with Julie sitting on a park bench reading a book of magic spells when a woman (Céline) walks past, and begins dropping (à la Lewis Carroll’s White Rabbit) various possessions. Julie begins picking them up, and tries to follow Céline around Paris, sometimes at a great pace (for instance, sprinting up Montmartre to keep pace with Céline’s tram).
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And Now My Love movie synopsis. Russian ballet dancer Tatiana (Rita Poelvoorde) loses a competition to become her school’s #1 ballerina, but marries Boris Itovich (Jorge Donn). The war blights their lives, but their son Sergei (Donn) eventually becomes a top dancer himself.
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Live and Let Die movie synopsis. When James Bond investigates the murders of three fellow agents, he soon finds himself a target, evading the vicious assassins as he closes in on the powerful Kananga. Known as “Mr. Big”, Kananga is coordinating a globally threatening scheme using tons of self-produced heroin.
Live and Let Die (1973) Read More
Lady Ice movie synopsis. Three million dollars worth of diamonds provide the focal point of this lively caper film. The jewels have been purloined and now an insurance investigator must bring them back. The search leads the investigator to Miami and then the Bahamas. Eventually, he meets the fence’s daughter and decides to be a jewel thief too.
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull movie synopsis. Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his sea-gull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. Since he doesn’t fit in, the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets out to discover the world beyond the horizon in quest for wisdom.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973) Read More