
Joel McCrea plays a hotshot reporter who thinks he knows everything and Jean Arthur plays an actress who puts one over on him. It turns out the financier of her play is a notorious art collector who steals what he can’t buy and the play he’s financing is just a front for a job he is planning.
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Primitive London (1965) Arnold L. Miller, David Gell, Bobby Chandler, Terry Dene, Documentary

Exploitation film documentary on ‘Swinging London’ as it actually happened. Arnold Louis Miller, the director of ‘Nudist Memories’, interviews mods, rockers and beatniks.
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The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979) Frank De Felitta, Lindsay Wagner, Marc Singer, Alan Feinstein, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

This movie is about a woman who is trying to rebuild her shattered marriage. She and her husband move to an old Victorian style home, where she finds a beautiful dress in the attic, which has a tear in the shoulder.
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Madame Curie (1943) Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Lewin, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Biography, Drama, Romance

Biopic of the famed scientist and the work she did with her husband Pierre in the discovery of radium. Marie was a student at the Sorbonne studying for her Master’s degree in physics when they first met. She received permission to use space in Professor Pierre Curie’s laboratory. They soon fall in love and are married, working together on trying to isolate a radioactive substance Marie has identified as radium. Years of painstaking research and experimentation led to success and Marie and Pierre Curie shared the Nobel Prize in Physics. Sadly, Pierre was killed crossing the street in the rain when he was run over by a horse and wagon. Marie continued to work and make major contributions to science.
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Intimates / Ji sor (1997) Chi Leung ‘Jacob’ Cheung, Carina Lau, Charlie Yeung, Ya-Lei Kuei, Drama, Romance

Foon escapes an arranged marriage by walking the road of a Ji Sor. After an affair with Shing, she becomes pregnant. An attempted abortion nearly costs Foon her life. Wan, the young owner of a silk factory, rescues her. Wan and Foon share their romances, reflecting the experience of women during the 40’s.
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Contract on Cherry Street (1977) William A. Graham, Frank Sinatra, Martin Balsam, Jay Black, Crime, Drama, Thriller

The partner–and best friend–of a tough New York detective is murdered by killers working for a local mob. Infuriated at the inability of the Police Department to bring in the murderers, he decides–with the help of a few of his fellow detectives–to operate on his own, using whatever means necessary, to destroy the gang.
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Art for Teachers of Children (1995) Jennifer Montgomery, Lisa Anomaiprasert, Coles Burroughs, Duncan Hannah, Biography, Drama, Romance

Jennifer, an intelligent but insecure 14-year-old student at a boarding school, seduces her married dormitory counselor, a photographer who has offered to teach her about his art and winds up shooting her in the nude.
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The Perils of Pauline (1947) George Marshall, Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe, Biography, Comedy

Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she “opens” for a delayed Shakespeare play…with a comic vaudeville performance.
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Sex Files: Alien Erotica II (2000) Mark Delaroy, Kira Reed Lorsch, Axia, Scott Haynes, Romance, Sci-Fi, Erotic

In this sequel to The Sex Files, Agent Forrest continues her exploits with the special branch of the FBI. Basically two segments, in the first she investigates a fungus that exudes a powder that makes anyone touched by it irresistable.
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Angel Terminators II / Huo zhong (1991) Lau Chan, Chin-Ku Lu, Sibelle Hu, Moon Lee, Yukari Ôshima, Action, Thriller

When teens help a friend who’s been forced into prostitution they upset some very dangerous people. With the help of a renegade cop a bloody war ensues with tragic consequences.
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