While fighting in Britain, Roman forces commanded by Caligula capture the noble warrior, Glaucus. Read More »
Hu Du Men / Stage Door (1996) Kei Shu, Josephine Siao, Anita Yuen, Daniel Hiu Tung Chan, Comedy, Drama
Cross the Hu-du-men – the demarcation between the back and front stage in Cantonese opera, and you leave yourself behind to absorb totally in your character. Read More »
Deadfall (1968) Bryan Forbes, Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman, Crime, Drama
Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.
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Big Time Gambling Boss (1968) Kôsaku Yamashita, Sumiko Fuji, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin’ichirô Mikami, Action
The oyabun (yakuza capo) of the clan controlling gambling in the Tokyo district dies suddenly and his followers have to decide who will take his place. The mafiosos choose the honest and loyal Nakai, but he refuses the offer alleging that he’s not a direct disciple of the dead oyabun, and suggesting that they choose the next person in the line of succession, Matsuda, who’s currently doing time in prison.
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J’accuse! (1938) Abel Gance, Victor Francen, Line Noro, Marie Lou, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, War
After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war.
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Manhã Submersa / Morning Undersea (1980) Lauro António, Eunice Muñoz, Vergílio Ferreira, Canto e Castro, Drama
Estefãnia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him.
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Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites / Five Days, Five Nights (1996) José Fonseca e Costa, Paulo Pires, Sinde Filipe, Vítor Norte, Drama
Portugal by the end of the 40’s. André escapes from jail and has to leave the country. In Oporto, some of his friends find him a guide, a drunken quarrelsome smuggler named Lambaça, who knows Trás-os-Montes border well.
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A Costa dos Murmúrios / The Murmuring Coast (2004) Margarida Cardoso, Beatriz Batarda, Filipe Duarte, Monica Calle, Drama
During the war of in-dependency Evita (Beatriz Batarda) moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís (Filipe Duarte).
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Traveller (1997) Jack N. Green, Bill Paxton, Mark Wahlberg, Julianna Margulies, Crime, Drama, Romance
A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended.
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Can You Keep It Up for a Week? (1975) Jim Atkinson, Jeremy Bulloch, Neil Hallett, Jill Damas, Comedy, Erotic
The male protagonist here (Jeremy Bulloch) has a gorgeous, generously breasted fiancée (played by the gorgeous, generously breasted Jill Damas from “Sex Play”) who refuses to marry him unless he proves he can “keep it up for a week”, that is keep a job for a week (get your minds out of the gutter, people).
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Achtung! Banditi! / Attention! Bandits! (1951) Carlo Lizzani, Gina Lollobrigida, Andrea Checchi, Vittorio Duse, Drama, War
During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of weapons. Meanwhile, there’s a strike in the city and the Nazis are trying to suppress it violently. The factory becomes the scene of fighting between the Germans and the partisans but the latter, aided by the workers, will be able to get the better.
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Bad Dreams (1988) Andrew Fleming, Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Richard Lynch, Horror, Thriller
In the mid-’70s, a cult group called Unity Field commits mass suicide, but a young girl survives. After being in a coma for thirteen years she wakes up in a psyche ward, not remembering the incident.
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None But the Brave (1965) Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tatsuya Mihashi, Drama, War
American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations.
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The Proud Valley (1940) Pen Tennyson, Paul Robeson, Edward Chapman, Simon Lack, Drama, Music
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
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The Battle of the Sexes (1960) Charles Crichton, Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, Comedy
Man-eating businesswoman, Angela Barrows is sent by her US company to Edinburgh to investigate export opportunities. She meets businessman Robert MacPherson en route and he persuades her to help bring his company into the 20th century. The staff, lead by Mr. Martin, have other ideas and a battle between the old and new business methods breaks out.
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