Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The Extraordinary Seaman movie storyline. Lt. Commander Finchhaven, a ghostly relic from the First World War, he had fallen down dead drunk on his first assignment and been consigned from the great beyond to sail the seas until a further opportunity arises to redeem his actions.
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De Sade movie storyline. Hounded by the police on charges of inflammatory writing, the once handsome Marquis De Sade seeks refuge in an abandoned family mansion. This colorful movie depicts DeSade’s life from childhood to manhood. A life infamous for erotic behavior, going from woman to woman, seeking a love that eludes him.
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The Damned movie storyline. The power and fortune of the Von Essenbeck family remained intact even when Germany lost World War I, and during the depression that followed. Now it’s 1934, and the baron has summoned his family to a dinner that also brings a cousin rising in the Nazi party to the great house accompanied by a rising manager at the baron’s company.
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Blue Movie includes dialogue about the Vietnam War, various mundane tasks and, as well, unsimulated sex, during a blissful afternoon in a New York City apartment (owned by art critic David Bourdon). The film was presented in the press as, “a film about the Vietnam War and what we can do about it.” Warhol added, “the movie is about… love, not destruction.”
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Mayerling movie storyline. It’s the late nineteenth century Austria. The Emperor Franz-Joseph and his son, the Crown Prince, Archduke Rudolf, have never seen eye to eye. While the Emperor retains the traditions of the empire in the rapidly changing world keeping it a police state, Rudolf is liberal, wanting to see the people have a say in what happens in their lives.
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Candy Christian (Ewa Aulin) is an innocent young girl when she first hears MacPhisto, an alcoholic Welsh poet, talk of love and self-sacrifice. Candy narrowly escapes MacPhisto’s attempt to rape her, only to succumb to her father’s Mexican gardener, Emmanuel (Ringo Starr). When her father catches her with the gardener, he banishes her to a trip with his twin brother, Uncle Jack, and Jack’s wife Aunt Livia, who are headed for New York City.
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Faces movie storyline. The fourteen year marriage of upper middle class Angelenos Richard and Maria Forst has long been crumbling. They generally don’t talk about their problems, but both are well aware that their marriage is less than happy.
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Lady in Cement movie storyline. While diving off the Miami coast seeking one of the eleven fabled Spanish Galleons sunk in 1591, private investigator Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) discovers a dead woman, her feet encased in cement, at the bottom of the ocean.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang movie storyline. In England, circa 1910, eccentric Caractacus Potts works as an inventor, a job which barely supports himself, his even more eccentric father, and his two children, Jeremy and Jemima; but, they’re all happy. When the children beg their father to buy for them their favorite plaything – a broken down jalopy of a car sitting at a local junkyard – Caractacus does whatever he can to make some money to buy it.
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The Killing of Sister George movie storyline. “Sister George” is a BBC soap opera character who is “killed off” due to low ratings. The aging actress who portrays Sister George is a lesbian living with a childish middle-aged woman named Childie, who works in a factory when not playing with her doll collection.
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