Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Days of Wine and Roses movie storyline. This thoroughly depressing drama concerns the battles of a young couple against the insidiousness of alcohol addiction. Joe (Jack Lemmon) and Kirsten (Lee Remick) are young newlyweds with a seemingly bright future.
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Cléo from 5 to 7 movie storyline. Two hours from 17:00 to 19:00h on the longest day of the year in the life of a young Parisienne is presented. Florence Victoire, who is better known by her stage name Cléo Victoire (as in Cleopatra), is a singer with three hit singles to her name, and as such some renown.
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The Chapman Report movie storyline. The sexual and romantic lives of four women residing in the upscale San Francisco suburb of Briarwood are presented against the backdrop of Dr. George Chapman and his associates coming to town to compile data through anonymous interviews for his sex survey and resulting report on sex and the American woman, especially as it relates to marriage.
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A Kind of Loving movie storyline. Victor ‘Vic’ Brown (Alan Bates) is a draughtsman in a Manchester factory who sleeps with a typist called Ingrid Rothwell (June Ritchie) who also works there. She falls for him but he is less enamoured of her.
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Sweet Bird of Youth movie storyline. Self-professed to be from the wrong side of the tracks from St. Cloud, Florida, Chance Wayne loves Heavenly Finley, the daughter of wealthy ‘Boss’ Thomas J. Finley, a corrupt and ruthless politician who rules the town.
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Who Was That Lady? movie storyline. Sarah Alexander catches her straight-laced husband, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Chemistry Randy Alexander, kissing another woman. From Russ’s perspective, he was the one being kissed innocently, the woman in question being a grateful transfer student. However, Ann wants a divorce.
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Please Don’t Eat the Daisies movie storyline. University drama professor Laurence Mackay and his wife Kate Mackay prefer the quiet of home life – however quiet theirs can be living in a New York City apartment with four rambunctious adolescent and/or infant sons and a sheepdog – than the high life often associated with the New York theater. That is why they plan to move to the country whenever they can find a suitable house.
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The Lady with the Dog movie storyline. In the Nineteenth Century, at the seaside resort of Yalta, the upper class Dimitri Gurov from Moscow meets Anna Sergeyovna walking with her little dog. Both have unhappy marriages: Dimitri has a marriage of convenience arranged by the family when he was a college boy and Anna married a lackey for love that has gone, and they have a love affair.
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It Started in Naples movie storyline. Mike Hamilton (Clark Gable), a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged “black sheep” brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an eight-year old little boy named Nando, who is being raised by Michael’s sister-in-law Lucia Curcio (Sophia Loren).
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From the Terrace movie storyline. In Philadelphia in 1946, Alfred Eaton returns home from the war to find his mother Martha a wretched alcoholic, the victim of years of neglect and abuse from her husband Samuel, the owner of a prestigious iron and steel company.
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