
Marco Polo travels from Venice to Peking, where he quickly discovers spaghetti and gunpowder and falls in love with the Emperor’s daughter.
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The Man Between (1953) Carol Reed, James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

In the Post-World War II, the British Susanne Mallison travels to Berlin to visit her older brother Martin Mallison, a military that has married the German Bettina Mallison. The naive Susanne snoops on Bettina and suspects that she is hiding a secret from her brother.
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The Tao of Steve (2000) Jenniphr Goodman, Donal Logue, Ayelet Kaznelson, John Hines, Comedy, Drama, Romance
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In his early 30s, the beer-bellied Dex has things figured out. He’s widely read in philosophy, he’s studied Steve McQueen the prototypical cool American hero, and he’s distilled Buddhism and Taoism into three laws that make him a hit with women: don’t express desire, do something heroic in front of her, then retreat.
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Meet Me After the Show (1951) Richard Sale, Betty Grable, Macdonald Carey, Rory Calhoun, Comedy, Musical

Delilah Lee is the sar of husband Jeff Ames’ Broadway show when she starts to suspect he has been exchanging more than contracts with the show’s vampish backer. Alimony and amnesia become the order of the day.
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Lejos del mar / Far from the Sea (2015) Imanol Uribe, Elena Anaya, Eduard Fernández, José Luis García Pérez, Drama, Thriller

In 2009, and after 22 years in prison, a former ETA’s terrorist named Santi is released due to the Parot Doctrine (a polemic judicial resource to liberate activists and terrorists according their sentences and years in detention).
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Cover Girl (1944) Charles Vidor, Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Comedy, Musical, Romance

Rusty Parker, a red-headed leggy dancer at Danny McGuire’s Night Club in Brooklyn, wants to be a successful Broadway star. She enters a contest to be a ‘Cover Girl’ as a stepping-stone in her career. She reminds the publisher, John Coudair, of his lost love, showgirl Maribelle Hicks.
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Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941) Wallace Fox, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Comedy, Crime, Drama

East Side Kids: Fighters Danny Breslin and Muggs McGinnis, once boyhood chums, have drifted apart. Policeman Tom Brady – because his own former friend fell into a life of crime and got the electric chair – takes rough and tumble Muggs under his wing to turn the lad’s life around, but Danny, brother of Mary Breslin (whom Tom plans to marry), is also at risk.
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Arrebatos (1998) Jesús Mora, Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Documentary

Making-of documentary about Spanish auteur Iván Zulueta’s arthouse cult masterpiece “Arrebato” (1980) by Jesus Mora featuring interviews with cast and crew.
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Buried Alive (1990) Frank Darabont, Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton, Horror, Romance, Thriller

Clint is an every day working man whose wife Joanna is having an affair with a doctor. They plot to kill him and get the insurance money.
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What a Way to Go! (1964) J. Lee Thompson, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Comedy, Romance

This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she’s crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist.
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