Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The Godfather Part II movie storyline. The continuation of the Godfather saga with two focuses: the ongoing story of the Corleone family, and Michael in particular, and Vito Corleone’s (Michael’s father) backstory. Regarding the ongoing Michael Corleone story, it is about seven years since the events that concluded The Godfather.
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Friend – Arkadaş movie storyline. After betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Cemil (Kerim Afşar) has become a successful businessman and has found a place in the sun among the bourgeoisie. Azem (Yılmaz Güney), his childhood friend, has followed a quite different way. refusing the rat race, he has remained close to people of humble origin.
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La Nuit Américaine movie storyline. In Nice, the Studios La Victorine is producing the film “Je Vous Presente Pamela”, about a French man that marries the English Pamela in England and brings his wife to France to introduce her to his parents. However, his father and Pamela fall in love with each other and she leaves her husband to live with him.
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The Barefoot Executive movie storyline. At the offices of struggling television studio United Broadcasting Corporation, mailboy Steven Post routinely annoys programming director Francis X. Wilbanks with his “tips” on how to revive the flagging ratings.
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Bleak Moments movie storyline. Shrewdly observed and brilliantly understated, “Bleak Moments” is a rare early work from Academy Award nominated British filmmaker Mike Leigh (“Secrets and Lies”, “Naked”).
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The Adolescent movie synopsis. The summer of 1939. Marie (Simone Signoret), at 13, goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it’s an idyllic place. Marie’s parents are constantly making love.
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The Rose movie synopsis. Bette Midler plays The Rose, a female rock star strikingly similar to Janis Joplin. This movie follows Rose’s career during her last tour, as she’s determined to return to her Florida hometown. Although a success, she’s exhausted and lonely, but continued working by her gruff and greedy manager.
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Thirty-one year old widowed mother Norma Rae Wilson (Sally Field) lives in the southern US town of Henleyville, which contains one major employer, O.P. Henley Textiles. Like most of her friends and family, she works in Henley’s mill – eight hundred on the line – those jobs on which the townsfolk rely to survive.
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage movie synopsis. In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, Monica Ranieri, a couple of days before returning home.
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Celine and Julie Go Boating begins with Julie sitting on a park bench reading a book of magic spells when a woman (Céline) walks past, and begins dropping (à la Lewis Carroll’s White Rabbit) various possessions. Julie begins picking them up, and tries to follow Céline around Paris, sometimes at a great pace (for instance, sprinting up Montmartre to keep pace with Céline’s tram).
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