
While attending their respective parent’s funeral in London, two strangers discover their parent’s secret love affair spanning across three decades and two continents.
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Monthly Archives: February 2017
Always Leave Them Laughing (1949) Roy Del Ruth, Milton Berle, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman, Comedy, Drama

Kip Cooper, a successful comedy star, is the hit of the nation starring on his own television show. His agent, in flashback, tells a young, inexperienced comedian how Cooper rose to the top, mostly running over others on the way.
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Cocoon (1985) Ron Howard, Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Sci-fi

A group of aliens return to earth to retrieve cocoons containing the people they’d left behind from an earlier trip. These cocoons had been resting at the bottom of the ocean. Once retrieved, they stored these recovered cocoons in the swimming pool of a house they’d rented in a small Florida town. Their mission is hampered by a number of elderly people from a nearby retirement community who had been secretly using the pool, and who discover unusual powers from within these cocoons.
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Ganja & Hess (1973) Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, William Gunn, Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Dr. Hess Green, an archaeologist overseeing an excavation at the ancient civilization of Myrthia, is stabbed by his research assistant, who then commits suicide. When Hess wakes up, he finds that his wounds have healed, but he now has an insatiable thirst for blood, due to the knife carrying ancient germs. Soon after, Hess meets his former assistant’s wife, Ganja. Though Ganja is initially concerned about her missing husband, she soon falls for Hess. Though they are initially happy together, Ganja will eventually learn the truth about Hess, and about her husband. Will she survive the revelation? Will Hess?
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The Spirit of ’76 (1990) Lucas Reiner, Mark Mothersbaugh, Gerald V. Casale, Carl Reiner, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this “ideal” civilization. 70’s jokes, props and stars abound.
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Chrieg / War (2014) Simon Jaquemet, Sascha Gisler, Benjamin Lutzke, Ella Rumpf, Drama

The whole world is against Fifteen-year-old Matteo. He has no friends and his parents seem to live in a different universe.
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Die Buntkarierten / The Girls in Gingham (1949) Kurt Maetzig, Camilla Spira, Werner Hinz, Liselotte Lieck, Drama

The increase in industrialisation in the Germany of the early 20th century made the difference in poor and rich much more apparent.
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Onmyoji / The Yin Yang Master (2001) Yôjirô Takita, Mansai Nomura, Hideaki Itô, Hiroyuki Sanada, Action, Fantasy, Drama

In a time when demons and ghosts threaten to bring total devastation to a powerful kingdom, betrayal from within the powerful ranks of the ruling emperor threatens to bring an entire civilization to its knees in this supernaturally charged martial arts epic from director Yojiro Takita.
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Matters of the Heart (1990) Michael Ray Rhodes, Jane Seymour, Chris Gartin, James Stacy, Drama, Romance

In a Vermont small-town, talented Steven Harper dreams of nothing less than a concert pianist career. His father, Glenn, a wheelchair Vietnam vet, would rather he take over the hardware store he runs with uncle Frank.
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Another Way / Egymásra nézve (1982) Károly Makk, János Xantus, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Ildikó Bánsági, Grazyna Szapolowska, Biography, Drama, History

Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia’s husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy. Eva gets a job as a writer. She meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.
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