Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage movie storyline. Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante) is an American writer vacationing in Rome with his English model girlfriend Julia (Suzy Kendall). Suffering from writer’s block, Sam is on the verge of returning to America, but witnesses the attack of a woman in an art gallery by a mysterious black-gloved assailant dressed in a raincoat.
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Just Before Nightfall movie storyline. Charles Masson (Michel Bouquet), an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed apartment in Paris and soon bumps into François in a nearby bistro.
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The Other movie storyline. In the summer of 1935, identical twins Holland and Niles Perry enjoy playing on their family farm. Earlier in the year the boys’ father died in an accident in the apple cellar.
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Chato’s Land movie storyline. After a deadly confrontation with the racist local sheriff in the town’s whites-only bar, the half-Apache, Pardon Chato, flees into the unforgiving desert. Hell-bent on making Chato pay, the famed former Confederate officer, Captain Quincey Whitmore, assembles an angry posse of blood-thirsty men.
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That Lucky Touch movie storyline. The generals are gathering for the NATO War Games in Belgium, so are the journalists and the salesmen. One of the first films to satirise NATO and the European Union in Brussels begins when a cynical arms dealer discovers he lives next door to an attractive pacifist from the ‘Washington Post’, whose best friend happens to be married to an American General.
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Mandingo movie storyline. It’s the mid-nineteenth century Louisiana. Falconhurst, a run down plantation, is owned by Warren Maxwell, and largely run by his son, Hammond Maxwell, who walks with a limp due to a childhood accident. Hammond is under pressure to get married and produce a male heir to continue the Maxwell legacy before Warren dies.
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Love and Death movie storyline. Despite his protestations, the aloof and politically ambivalent Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) is gradually drawn into the Russian army during the Napoleonic invasion of Russia, and despite his cowardly ways, he becomes a war hero.
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Capone movie storyline. On the evening of May 6, 1918, in Brooklyn, two police officers intercept a fur heist in an alleyway. Capone (Gazzara) had tipped off the heist so that he could ambush the cops on arrival. As the officers arrest the men, Capone violently attacks them, and this results in a fight which ends when they throw Capone through a window, resulting in Capone having several scars on the left side of his face.
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The Maids was one of Jean Genet’s most outstanding plays representing the avant-garde of French playwriting when it was written in 1946. On the surface the film is about two maids of a wealthy Parisian woman, who resentful of their servitude dream of their escape and their revenge on Madame.
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A group is invited, under false pretenses, to an isolated hotel in the Iranian desert. After dinner, a cassette tape accuses them all of crimes that they have gotten away with. One by one they begin to die, in accordance to the Ten Little Indians nursery rhyme. After a search is made of the hotel, they realize that the murderer is one of them. A few members of the group attempt to trust each other, but the question still remains, who can one trust? And who will leave the hotel alive?
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