Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The Devil’s Eye movie storyline. An actor presents a comedy in three acts. That story involves Satan who has developed a painful sty, which is the result of something tumultuous happening on earth. He learns from his advisers that that tumultuous thing is the pure chastity of twenty year old Nordic beauty Britt-Marie, the daughter of a vicar, she who is soon to be married to her longtime beau, Jonas.
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Les Bonnes Femmes tells the story of four attractive single Parisian women and their domestic and romantic encounters. Several of them work as saleswomen in an appliance store, one moonlights as an entertainer, and all are pursued by Parisian men both good and bad. Jane is pursued by men and portrayed as being more ditzy and happy go lucky.
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BUtterfield 8 movie storyline. The movie opening credits play, while we watch a sleeping Gloria (Elizabeth Taylor) snoozing in the morning. She wakes up, and surveys her surroundings purposefully – in search of a morning cigarette.
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Spartacus movie storyline. In 73 B.C., a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus (Sir Peter Ustinov). The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south.
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Exodus movie storyline. Following World War II, the life of the Jewish nation is uncertain. The United Nations is contemplating taking a vote on creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Until then, many Jews are exiled from much of Europe – especially Germany – and as they have no where to go, they are sent to detention camps among other places Cypress.
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The Innocents movie storyline. Victorian England. Since the death of their parents, adolescents Miles (Martin Stephens) and Flora (Pamela Franklin) have been under the guardianship of their wealthy selfish uncle (Sir Michael Redgrave), who admits he has no place emotionally for them in his life.
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Goodbye Again movie storyline. In this adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s best selling novel, Paula is a beautiful and highly successful 40-year-old businesswoman. She is deeply in love with Roger, her mature consort of five years. Roger is a very charming gallant who loves Paula but is too selfish to give up his freedom to be promiscuous.
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A Difficult Life movie synopsis. Silvio (Alberto Sordi) is an Italian partisan. He and his companions belong to the Italian resistance movement and are fighting against the fascists and the Nazis. They are at Lake Como. He is helped by Elena (Lea Massari). He spends three months hiding in Elena’s grandfather’s mill. They fall in love. Silvio is an idealist, probably communist, journalist writer. He goes back to war.
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The Comancheros mdcea synopsis. In 1843, roguish gambler Paul Regret (Whitman) flees to avoid a death penalty after a duel with Emil Bouvier (Gregg Palmer), the son of a Louisiana judge. Regret claimed that he would have only wounded Bouvier if he had not sidestepped.
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Two Women movie synopsis. To flee from yet another devastating attack during the Allied bombing of Rome on July 19, 1943, the widowed mother, Cesira, and her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta, leave behind the capital to find shelter in the rugged and mountainous region of Ciociaria; Cesira’s birthplace.
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