The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) Ken Annakin, Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch, Action, Adventure, Family

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King’s palace. On the way home his father is murdered by hench men of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father’s death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.
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Dear Mr. Gacy (2010) Svetozar Ristovski, William Forsythe, Jesse Moss, Emma Lahana, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)
1993. Overachieving college student Jason Moss, fascinated by serial crime, decides to write his criminology class term paper on John Wayne Gacy, who is on death row and scheduled to be executed in six months time. Jason’s criminology professor, Mr. Harris, will only allow Jason to write his paper on Gacy if Jason can come up with a fresh angle, as he himself believes the topic of serial killers is already overexposed.
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Yeonsangun / Prince Yeonsan (1961) Sang-ok Shin, Yeong-gyun Shin, Sung-il Shin, Dong-won Kim, Drama

Yeonsangun (1961)
This is a typical historical drama from the early 1960s on Yeonsangun (Shin Young-kyun), a king who had a life of extreme ups and downs. He is a son of King Seongjong (Kim Dong-won) and in great shock as he finds out that he is the son of deposed queen Yoon (Ju Jeung-ryu). As soon as he ascends the throne, Yeonsangun tries to restore the queen title of his mother but faces opposition from his grandmother, Queen Dowager Insu (Jeon-Ok), and her courtiers, which turns him into a violent king.
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Kamilla og tyven / Kamilla and the Thief (1988) Grete Salomonsen, Veronika Flaat, Dennis Storhøi, Agnete G. Haaland, Drama, Family

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Orphan Kamilla moves in with her rich uncle who lives in Kristiansand, Norway in the early 1900, Norway. Her uncles wife however does not approve of Kamilla and want to send her to a boarding school in Denmark. Her uncle instead decide to send her to his sister who lives in the countryside. On her way there she meet Sebastian who is a good hearted thief, who want to turn his life around.
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El cine soy yo / The Moving Picture Man (1977) Luis Armando Roche, Juliet Berto, Domingo Del Castillo, Freddy Galavís, Drama

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After practicing various professions, Jacinto becomes a movie projectionist. This versatile man converts his truck into an audiovisual whale in order to show films on the street. El Cine Soy Yo (The Moving Picture Man) are the adventures, both tender, cruel and Romanesque of a unique family travelling in the belly of an extraordinary autovisual fish.
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Jamás leí a onetti (2010) Pablo Dotta, Documentary

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Jamás leí a Onetti (I have never read Onetti) is a documentary-homage to this great Uruguayan writer, which is enacted with testimonies, words, drawings and music, all part of the Onettian legacy. With the link between different kinds of writing as a starting point, the movie also asks about the means and the ends of all creative process.
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