Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
What’s New Pussycat storyline. Michael James, the editor of a Paris fashion magazine, is in love with ESL teacher Carole Werner, but despite Carole and her parents’ want for them to get married,
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Boccaccio ’70 storyline. Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970 Decameron. Working-class lovers Renzo and Luciana marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room.
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Le Train movie storyline. In May 1940 a packed train takes refugees from a French village near the Belgian border fleeing advancing German forces. The passengers include Julien, a short-sighted radio repairer, his daughter and pregnant wife. The women are assigned to a carriage for women at the front while he has to scramble into a cattle truck at the rear. There he becomes entranced by a mysterious and beautiful young woman travelling alone.
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Triple Cross movie storyline. Safecracker Eddie Chapman’s priorities in life are himself and carousing with beautiful women. In the first year of his possible fifteen year incarceration at a Jersey prison for a series of safecracking crimes committed in London, the Nazis take control of the island. With his special skill set, Eddie tries to negotiate working for the Nazis – for a fee and for his obvious release – against the British.
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10:30 P.M. Summer movie storyline. Restless married couple Maria and Paul take a road trip through Spain with their friend Claire. While Paul and Claire carry on a clandestine affair, Maria becomes obsessed with a recent murder in a small town along the way. What begins as a vacation ends as a meditation on tragedy and infidelity in screenwriter Marguerite Duras’s adaptation of her novella, directed by Jules Dassin.
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Purple Noon movie storyline. With no money of his own, Tom Ripley (Alain Delon) lives comfortably enough off the kindness of his wealthy companions. For a fee of $5,000, he is hired by the father of his childhood friend, Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet), to retrieve Philippe from Rome and bring him back to San Francisco..
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That Most Important Thing: Love movie storyline. Freelance photographer Servais (Fabio Testi) meets luckless Nadine Chevalier (Romy Schneider) an aging, world-weary, would-be movie star who thus far has only been able to find work in cheap exploitation movies. Trying to win her affection, Servais borrows the money from his underworld employers to launch a theatrical production of Richard III starring Nadine as Lady Anne.
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Good Neighbor Sam movie storyline. Sam Bissel is a wholesome family man with a loving wife, Minerva, and two loving daughters. They lead a happy suburban life. The only part of Sam’s life that he is not happy about is his job as a lowly cog in the art department of the advertising firm of Burke & Hare.
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The Things of Life movie storyline. The structure of the film involves frequent jumps in time – between the time of, and after, the car crash, and before the crash. The opening sequence jumps between the period immediately after the crash, and the crash itself.
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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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