Lieutenant Niki of the Austrian royal guard has a new girlfriend, Franzi. He’s crazy about her and is smiling at her while on duty in the street.
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Comedy
Johanna D’Arc of Mongolia (1989) Ulrike Ottinger, Badema, Lydia Billiet, Christoph Eichhorn, Comedy, Drama
A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.
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All Through the Night (1942) Vincent Sherman, Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne, Action, Comedy, Crime
Broadway gambler Gloves Donahue wants to find who killed the baker of his favorite cheesecake. He sees nightclub singer Leda Hamilton leaving the bakery. When her boss Marty’s partner Joe is murdered, Leda and her accompanist Pepi disappear. It turns out that beneath all the mystery is a gang of Nazi operatives planning to blow up a battleship in New York harbor.
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991) Simon Callow, Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Cork Hubbert, Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing medicine. She takes in her half-sister’s son, a diminutive crook-back named Lymon. He suggests they open a café in the downstairs of her large house.
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Shark Alarm at Müggel Lake / Hai-Alarm am Müggelsee (2013) Leander Haußmann, Sven Regener, Henry Hübchen, Michael Gwisdek, Uwe Dag Berlin
Up to now Snake Müller (Uwe Dag Berlin) has been a shark hunter in Hawaii – even though his name suggests something entirely different. Unlike – lets say: Crocodile Dundee (in a 1986 film directed by Peter Faiman), Snake Müller actually has a ’bitten off limb’ to show for the dangers of his job.
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Tessera Mavra Kostoumia / 4 Black Suits (2010) Jenny Diagoupi, Renos Haralambidis, Eleana Karandinou, Comedy
Four bankrupt gravediggers organize their final funeral that will give them the opportunity to change their lives by leaving the profession – which they originally started out as a temporary gainful solution, but stayed in this for life.
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Smala Sussie / Slim Susie (2003) Ulf Malmros, Tuva Novotny, Jonas Rimeika, Björn Starrin, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Erik has to return to the rural village where he grew up, when he is told that his younger sister Sussie has disappeared without a trace.
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Is There Sex After Death (1971) Alan Abel, Buck Henry, Marshall Efron, Comedy, Erotic
Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, searches out luminary figures in the world of sex.
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Bad Girls from Mars (1990) Fred Olen Ray, Edy Williams, Oliver Darrow, Brinke Stevens, Comedy, Erotic
Someone is killing off the female leads of the movie production “Bad Girls from Mars.” The producers feel they should try to finish the film, even though they’re making a lucrative amount from insurance payoffs, so they fly in European sex bomb Emanuelle as the new lead.
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Wes Anderson, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Comedy, Drama, Adventure
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down — which might not be such a bad thing.
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