Sassy Dixie Daisy is the hot new attraction at a former opera house that’s been turned into a burlesque theater. She’s popular with the customers, although not with Lolita La Verne, a stuck-up diva who was hoping she’d get the top spot. Also complicating matters is the return of the Princess Nirvena, the show’s former star who once had a fling with the boss. When the Princess blackmails her way into the top spot, Dixie is none too pleased. When both Lolita and the Princess are murdered, Dixie becomes a prime suspect. She then sets up a trap to nail the real killer.
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Monthly Archives: June 2016
The Farmer’s Daughter (1947) H.C. Potter, Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Drama, Romance
Swedish-American farmer’s daughter Katrin ‘Katie’ Holstrom leaves the farm to study nursing in the big, wicked city. Thanks to a chiseling acquaintance, her tuition and expense money disappears the first day, and she’s forced to get a job…as a domestic for congressman Glenn Morley. Impressed by her political awareness as well as her many charms and capabilities, Glenn is soon infatuated with Katie, and she with him, but their feelings remain unspoken…until Katie speaks up at a party rally and is abruptly thrust into politics herself.
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Jaws 2 (1978) Jeannot Szwarc, Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
The small island resort town of Amity is trying to bounce back from the financial troubles that suffered after becoming known as the site of shark attacks four years earlier. Mayor Larry Vaughn is welcoming developer Len Peterson and his new resort to Amity. Two scuba divers are exploring the area where the Orca sank after police chief Martin Brody killed a huge shark four years ago. A shark shows up and devoured the two divers, but not before one of the divers takes a close-up picture of the shark’s eye, and sometime later, while a mother is driving a boat that’s pulling her water-skiing teenage daughter, the shark devours the daughter and causes the mother to accidentally blow up the boat, then a killer whale is found on the shore with a huge bites on it. After Brody sees this, he knows there’s another huge great white shark in Amity’s waters, but Vaughn and Peterson explain these attacks away as non-shark accidents, because the thought of another shark in Amity’s waters would drive…
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Fait d’hiver (1999) Robert Enrico, Charles Berling, Claude Brasseur, Jean-François Stévenin, Drama
A la fin d’un week-end, Louis Riquier, père divorcé refuse de rendre ses enfants à leur mère. Armé, barricadé dans sa maison, il tient tête à un escadron de gendarmerie. Les médias s’emparent de l’affaire, la tension monte et la situation s’envenime. Riquier menace de tuer ses enfants…
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Amy’s Orgasm (2001) Julie Davis, Nick Chinlund, Caroline Aaron, Comedy, Romance
Story of a 29-year-old Ivy League-educated, self-help author as she grudgingly falls for a shock-jock radio host with a reputation for hitting on his bimbo guests.
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Der Teufel in Miss Jonas / The Devil in Miss Jonas (1976) Erwin C. Dietrich, Jürg Coray, Marianne Dupont, Christa Free, Horror, Mystery, Erotic
Young girl. She is a nymphomaniac and condemned to death by a tribunal of some sorts and then beheaded. She arrives in hell, is greeted by the devil himself. He discovers however that she did arrive too early. She is sent back to earth for a final night of sex, nightmares and sex
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That Cold Day in the Park (1969) Robert Altman, Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns, Susanne Benton, Drama
A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there.
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Hot Target (1985) Dennis C. Lewiston, Simone Griffeth, Steve Marachuk, Bryan Marshall, Crime, Thriller
Wife of successful NZ businessman is seduced by fellow American after “chance” meeting in park. However, Greg has more than love-making with the beautiful Christine in mind.
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Guang yin de gu shi / In Our Time (1982) Yi Chang, I-Chen Ko, Te-chen Tao, Edward Yang, Emily Y. Chang, Sylvia Chang, Chi Chen, Sheng-wen Lan, Drama
Four short films from four different directors, spanning from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio (1971) Eric Jeffrey Haims, Sebastian Brook, Mady Maguire, Donn Greer, Horror, Mystery, Erotic
A cult kidnaps four girls from Manilla. At first they think that they will be sold on the slave market. However, the cult has a few things a little ghastlier up their sleeves.
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Noche / Night (2013) Leonardo Brzezicki, Flavia Noguera, Jair Toledo, María Soldi, Drama
The six friends of suicide victim Miguel gather to clear out his things, guess his motives and celebrate his life. Uneasy and sultry atmosphere in this psychological drama whose soundtrack surrealistically erases the boundaries between past and present.
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The Blazer Girls (1975) Jean-Paul Scardino, Mary Mendum, Sandra Gartner, Judy Rauch, Comedy, Erotic
A group of private-school seniors want to raise money to buy a new bell for their school, so they hit on the idea of prostituting themselves (naturally).
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EQUUS (1977) Sidney Lumet, Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Drama, Mystery
Sidney Lumet directed this film version of Peter Shaffer’s dramatic play, transforming theatrical symbolism into cinematic realism. Richard Burton received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance as Martin Dysert, a psychiatrist determined to unravel the disturbed mind of Alan Strang (Peter Firth), a young stableboy. In a fit of rage, Strang has blinded a stable of six horses. The court then assigns Dysert to probe the young man’s mind in order to understand why he committed such a violent act. But the doctor, who is battling demons of his own, wonders if he can save the boy–and whether saving him at all is the right thing to do. Joan Plowright stands out as Dora Strang, the young boy’s mother.
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Macunaíma / Macunaima (1969) Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Grande Otelo, Paulo José, Jardel Filho, Fantasy, Comedy
Our story begins with Macunaima’s miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Born full grown, he discovers his life’s purpose which leads him and his family/followers on a journey to the Big City. On the way, more miracles occur, but Macunaima still has the heart and mind of a child. In the Big City, he is co-opted by terrorists who enlist him in their revolutionary schemes. In the Big City he learns that nuts are not always food and other hilarious lessons of life.
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Superchick (1973) Ed Forsyth, Joyce Jillson, Louis Quinn, Thomas Reardon, Action, Comedy, Erotic
A mild-mannered airline stewardess becomes an insatiable tigress when she touches down for a layover.
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