Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The Fixer movie storyline. Set in Czarist Russia in 1911, and based on the true story of Russian-Jewish peasant Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime, the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant-handyman’s life in prison, and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
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For Love of Ivy movie storyline. Ivy Moore, a 26-year-old African American woman, has worked as a maid for the white, upper-middle-class Austin family of Long Island, New York for nine years, since arriving from Florida where she was raised by her grandmother.
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A Lovely Way to Die movie storyline. In continuing battles with his highers up about what they see as his heavy handed tactics, womanizing Jameson Schuyler resigns as a Detective with the NYPD rather than be reprimanded or fired.
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Mississippi Mermaid movie storyline. In Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, the owner of a cigarette factory Louis Mahé is engaged through correspondence with Julie Roussel and he does not know her.
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Shoot the Piano Player movie storyline. While playing piano in a bar, the pianist Charlie Kohler is approached by his crook brother Chico Saroyan, who has been chased by two gangsters. Charlie helps him to escape, but he upsets the two criminals, and they watch Charlie and the waitress Lena, who is in love with him.
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Kiss Me, Stupid movie storyline. Dino (Dean Martin), the charming and lecherous Las Vegas singer, stops for gas on his way to Hollywood in Climax, Nevada. The oily gas station attendant is Barney Millsap, a would-be lyricist who writes pop songs with Orville Spooner (Ray Walston), the local piano teacher. By disabling Dino’s car, Barney contrives a scheme to have Dino sing one of their songs on an upcoming TV special.
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Charade movie storyline. Regina Lampert (a stunning Audrey Hepburn in the chicest Givemchy) in gorgeous Megève, has decided to divorce her husband, Charles, because of all his secrets and lies. Before she can, Charles is found dead – pushed off a train.
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Shock Corridor movie storyline. Journalist Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) is out to solve a murder at an insane asylum but the only way he can do so is to have himself committed to the institution and solve the crime from the inside. He spends a full year being coached by professionals to convince psychiatrists that he is a fetishist who desires his sister sexually.
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55 Days at Peking movie storyline. During the 1899 to 1901 Boxer Rebellion, Peking is an open city with the Chinese, and several European countries vie for control. The Boxers, who oppose Christianity and the western powers, who still exercised complete sovereignty over their compounds and their citizens.
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The Art of Love movie storyline. Painter Paul Sloan (Dick Van Dyke) feels he’s a failure, since nobody will buy his paintings. His art dealer informs him, that the works of an artist become much more wanted and valuable if the artist is dead. Therefore, Paul, together with his friend Casey Barnett (James Garner), plans to fake his own suicide.
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