Just after the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln asks two former enemies–a Union officer and a former Confederate–to drive a herd of cattle from Texas to Kansas, to help feed civilians who are short of food.
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Asphalt (1929) Joe May, Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Drama
Joe May’s sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a simple and essentially melodramatic story and turn it into something more complex and inherently cinematic.
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Eréndira (1983) Ruy Guerra, Irene Papas, Claudia Ohana, Michael Lonsdale, Drama
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother’s house catches on fire and burns to the ground.
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I Went Down (1997) Paddy Breathnach, Brendan Gleeson, Peter McDonald, Antoine Byrne, Action, Comedy, Crime
Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git’s girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He’s now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog.
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Times Square (1980) Allan Moyle, Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, Drama, Music
Two girls run away from a mental institution and forge a relationship on the streets of New York. They soon begin enjoying their punk-rock life until the powers that be start nosing around, looking for them, unsettling their already delicate mental states. Will the Sleez Sisters be torn apart? Or will they tear themselves apart?
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The Hunt for Red October (1990) John McTiernan, Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Action, Adventure, Thriller
Soviets create a new nuclear submarine that runs silent due to a revolutionary propulsion system. Russian sub captain defects, goal of taking it to the U.S.A. to prevent the Russians from using the sub to wreak nuclear (missile) war against the U.S. Lots of plot turns and twists in this high-tech thriller.
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L’Avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni, Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Drama, Mystery
A group of rich Italians head out on a yachting trip to a deserted volcanic island in the Mediterranean.
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Kelly’s Heroes (1970) Brian G. Hutton, Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Action, Adventure, Comedy
During World War II a German Colonel is captured by the Americans but before he can be interrogated an artillery barrage hits the camp.
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Secret Games 2 – The Escort (1993) Gregory Dark, Martin Hewitt, Marie Leroux, Amy Rochelle, Drama, Erotic
A married performance artist begins an obsessive relationship with a call girl. The film uses the annoying technique of having the characters stop and discuss their situation with the audience as if they were a psychiatrist.
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For Single Swingers Only (1968) Donald A. Davis, Sharon Sanford, Heide Andersen, Leslie Dee, Drama, Erotic
“Uninhibited unmarrieds” Gracie and Gloria move into an apartment complex reserved For Single Swingers Only where the bed-hopping’ neighbors include studs-in-residence Arty and Dave, “everybody’s playmate” Connie, and Ruth, the lesbian landlady who’s also a “peek freak.”
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