In melodramatic fashion, the film tells the tale of a young German woman who finds herself alone in the world when the rest of her family is killed in a WWII air raid. Helping an American military man escape the Gestapo, she finds herself on the run from the Russian Army. Escaping to the American (and safe) side of Berlin, she registers herself as a prostitute (unknowingly) and finds herself caught between the German officer who thinks she is for sale and the American officer who she saved and is now in love with her.
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Drama
Force of Arms (1951) Michael Curtiz, William Holden, Nancy Olson, Frank Lovejoy, Romance, War, Drama
Winter, 1943. The German army has halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; back-and-forth combat decimates Joe Peterson’s platoon. On leave in Naples, Joe meets WAC lieutenant Eleanor MacKay; initially cool, she begins to melt during a bombing raid. Their romance develops despite Joe’s periodic returns to the front. But whether he’ll come back in the end becomes more than doubtful…
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Amor eterno / Everlasting Love (2014) Marçal Forés, Joan Bentallé, Aimar Vega, Sonny Smith, Drama, Mystery
This film from the director who made Animals (2012), replicates the same quietly brooding atmosphere as aforementioned film. A shy introvert teenage boy accidentally crosses paths with his teacher in a cruising area in the local woods, and thereafter attempts to strike up a love affair with him. The romance that ensues is of a tenebrous kind. Moreover, strange secondary characters and bizarre incidents foreshadow something gloomy to occur.
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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) Fritz Lang, Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Theodor Loos, Fantasy, Drama, Adventure
Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter, King of Worms, Kriemhild. On his way to Worms, he kills a dragon and finds a treasure, the Hort. He helps Gunther to win Krimhild, a mask that makes him invisible proves to be very useful. But because Brunhild is cursing Kriemhild, she tells her what really happened. Now Brunhild wants Siegfried’s head. Is Gunther going to do her that favor?
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Sid and Nancy (1986) Alex Cox, Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Biography, Drama, Music
Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death and Sid is arrested for her murder.
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Digging for Fire (2015) Joe Swanberg, Jake Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Orlando Bloom, Drama
The discovery of a bone and a gun send a husband and wife on separate adventures over the course of a weekend.
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Under Eighteen / Under 18 (1931) Archie Mayo, Marian Marsh, Anita Page, Regis Toomey, Romance, Drama
A wealthy theatrical producer entices a desperately poor young woman to visit his penthouse. The innocent girl doesn’t realize that the lecherous fellow is planning to do much more than have a drink with her. Fortunately, her friend the grocery boy isn’t so naive and manages to arrive in the nick of time.
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A Night to Remember (1958) Roy Ward Baker, Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Action, Drama, History
On April 14, 1912, just before midnight, the “unsinkable” Titanic struck an iceberg. In less than three hours, it had plunged to the bottom of the sea, taking with it more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers. In his unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord’s book of the same name, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the ship’s last hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night to Remember is cinema’s subtlest and best dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.
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I’m Going to Change My Name / Alaverdi (2012) Mariya Saakyan, Arina Adju, Mariya Atlas, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Drama
Evridika, a neglected teenager, lives with her mother Sona in Alaverdi, a small Armenian town. While Sona, a conductor of a world famous choir, is often away, Evridika struggles with her blossoming sexuality, suicidal thoughts and the search for the father she has never known. Each day she drowns deeper inside herself and sees no reasons to live until she meets Pyotr, Sona’s ex-lover. He will become the key to Evridika’s new perception of the world.
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Irréversible / Irreversible (2002) Gaspar Noé, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.
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