Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Bay of Angels movie storyline. Jean Fournier (Claude Mann), a young bank employee, is encouraged by his friend Caron to take an interest in gambling. After winning money in a game of roulette, he decides to vacation in Nice, where he falls in love with Jackie (Jeanne Moreau), a divorced mother who rarely sees her child.
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Move Over, Darling movie storyline. Three years into their loving marriage with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when she is swept off the lifeboat she is on. Her body is not recovered. Fast forward five years.
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Last Year at Marienbad movie storyline. During a social meeting at a picturesque and cavernous château with wonderfully ornate rooms, high ceilings and a fine collection of artwork, “X”, an enigmatic charming man, approaches “A”, an alluring woman, with the intention to convince her that they are not strangers. As a matter of fact, “X” insists that they met the year before at the Czech spa-town of Marienbad,
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17th century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar (Charlton Heston), dubbed “El Cid” by his followers, vows to see his country at peace, free from the invaders. Vigorously brave and resourceful, the noble knight hates bloodshed and faces treason charges at court for the clemency shown to some emirs. His accuser, Gormaz (Andrew Cruickshank), father of his fiancée, Jimena (Sophia Loren), dies in the resulting duel.
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Accattone storyline. In a seedy section of Rome, Vittorio Cataldi – “Accattone” to those that know him – lives off the avails of prostitution, Maddalena being his one and only girl.
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A Woman is a Woman centers on the relationship of exotic dancer Angéla (Karina) and her lover Émile (Brialy). Angéla wants to have a child, but Émile isn’t ready. Émile’s best friend Alfred (Belmondo) also says he loves Angéla, and keeps up a gentle pursuit.
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This Sporting Life movie storyline. In drab early-1960s Wakefield, the volatile and aggressive young miner, Frank Machin, is determined to earn himself a place in the tough world of professional rugby and the local team
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Anne of the Thousand Days movie storyline. King Henry VIII (Richard Burton) of England is contemplating what to do about his nearly one thousand day union to his second wife, Anne Boleyn (Geneviève Bujold).
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie movie storyline. Jean Brodie (Dame Maggie Smith) is a dedicated, if eccentric, teacher at an all-girls school in Edinburgh in the 1930s. She has little time for the approved curriculum.
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Laughter in the Dark movie storyline. Set in London and the Riviera, Laughter in the Dark stars Nicol Williamson as Edward, a wealthy, knighted art dealer who falls hard for tartish usherette Margot (Anna Karina). She is kept by a glorified pimp (Jean-Claude Drouot), who conspires with the girl to take Edward for everything he’s got.
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