Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The Swimmer movie storyline. Ned Merrill, a former stock broker from the valley has been released from a mental hospital after suffering a break-down. No longer having a car he develops in his mind that his former wife and estranged grown daughters are leaving to play tennis.
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War and Peace movie storyline. Eight-hour epic based on the book of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, who is unhappy in his marriage. Another is the “Great Patriotic War” of 1812 against the invading Napoleon’s Armies.
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Up the Down Staircase is a 1967 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Eileen Heckart, and Jean Stapleton. The plot concerns the first, trying assignment for a young, idealistic teacher. Tad Mosel wrote the screenplay adaptation of the novel of the same name by Bel Kaufman.
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The Taming of the Shrew movie storyline. Baptista (Michael Hordern), a rich Paduan merchant, announces that his fair young daughter, Bianca (Natasha Pyne), will remain unwed until her older sister, Katharina (Elizabeth Taylor), a hellish shrew, has wed.
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The Ugly American storyline. An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan.
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow movie storyline. An original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. Witty and unforgettable, this gem from master filmmaker Vittorio de Sica was the 1964 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film. This is the lightest of any De Sica film I had seen up until this point and interestingly enough it was split up into three narratives.
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The Sadist movie storyline. Three high school teachers, Ed, Doris, and Carl, are driving through California’s Antelope Valley on their way to a Dodgers game in Los Angeles. The group’s Chevrolet Bel Air has some trouble and they are forced to pull off to a gas station/junkyard on the side of the road.
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Sunday in New York movie storyline. One Sunday, twenty-two year old virgin Eileen Tyler decides to take the train from her home in Albany to visit her older brother, airline pilot Adam Tyler, in New York City. The surprise visit is in part to commiserate about the break-up with her fiancé, Russ Wilson, but also to ask Adam for some advice about the issue which led to her and Russ’ break-up: if it’s all right to have premarital sex.
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Suzanne’s Career movie storyline. Bertrand is an 18-year-old student of pharmacology. He is shy, innocent and kind-hearted, the opposite of his best friend, Guillaume, who is a crafty lady-killer. At a café they meet a girl named Suzanne, who quickly yields to Guillaume’s flirtation.
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The Prize movie storyline. In Stockholm, Sweden to collect his Nobel Prize in Literature, American writer Andrew Craig stumbles across a plot to kidnap a fellow Nobel laureate. On arrival at the hotel, he meets physicist Prof. Max Stratman. They have a pleasant conversation and agree to meet for drinks the next day. When they meet again however, the Professor acts as if he’s never met Craig.
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