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1960s Movies

What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)

November 6, 2020January 5, 2023 - by greatmovies

What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? movie storyline. Pete (George Peppard) is a former advertising executive living a Beatnik–Bohemian life, as part of a commune in a New York City loft. Since living in the commune, Pete has turned into a cynical, misanthropic artist. The members of the commune are seemingly aimless, indolent or melancholy while waiting for the world to end; one member (Gillian Spencer) lives her life in a burlap sack, with only her bare feet protruding.

1960s Movies

Sweet Charity (1969)

July 25, 2020January 22, 2023 - by greatmovies

Sweet Charity movie storyline. Charity Hope Valentine works as a taxi dancer in a sleazy dance hall alongside her two best friends, Nickie and Helene. They have no illusions that what they are doing is renting out their bodies to any man who will pay.

1980s Movies

Blow Out (1981)

June 27, 2020February 12, 2023 - by greatmovies

Blow Out movie storyline. This stylish Brian De Palma thriller plays off the theme of the unsuspecting witness who discovers a crime and is thereby put in grave danger, but with a novel twist. Jack Terry is a master audio technician who makes his living by recording unique sounds for grade-B horror movies.

1970s Movies

All the President’s Men (1976)

April 8, 2020July 17, 2023 - by greatmovies

All the President’s Men movie storyline. On June 17, 1972, the Washington DC police apprehend five men who broke into the National Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building.