As a man returns home to see his dying father, the story of the alienation between father and son is told in flashback. Purposely letting his daughter’s lover get lynched, shooting the lynched man’s father when he threatens him with a gun, and the bullying tactics used by him as a Sheriff causes the son to leave. The son now plans to ruin his father and get his Sheriff’s badge removed.
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I like the Girls who Do / Liebesjagd durch 7 Betten (1973) Hans Billian, Alena Penz, Gunter Ziegler, Franziska Stömmer, Comedy, Erotic
Johnny has been left a hefty inheritance from his recently deceased uncle – an infamous ladies’ man. But there is a unique stipulation standing in the way of its collection. The sexually inexperienced Johnny has seven days to bed the last seven women that his uncle had seduced. All of them are young, lusty and insatiable beauties who gladly obey the uncle’s dying request and show Johnny all there is to know about around-the-clock lovemaking and more! But as Johnny’s triumphs and pleasures mount from girls one through six, he discovers that his seventh and final conquest – the most luscious vixen of all – may be a little harder to achieve. Will Johnny fulfill his uncle’s wish and secure untold financial and sexual rewards beyond his wildest dreams? Or will his bedcount fall one short?
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Marguerite de la nuit / Marguerite of the Night (1955) Claude Autant-Lara, Michèle Morgan, Yves Montand, Jean Debucourt, Drama, Fantasy
An updating of the Faust legend, with a dash of Fritz Lang’s “Der Müde Tod”, to a 1950’s Paris recreated in vividly abstract expressionistic sets.
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Baal (1970) Volker Schlöndorff, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue, Margarethe von Trotta, Drama
Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
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Akutô / A Scoundrel (1965) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Kyôko Kishida, Eitarô Ozawa, Drama, Romance
A provincial warlord who has seized power after success in battle is our titular ‘scoundrel’. His court lady is one of those fallen down from her days in the imperial court and he intimidates her to help him seduce another ex-court woman now married to a smaller lord. She is a great beauty and his lust for her consumes him. However, true love cannot be corrupted by power and lust. The resulting tragedy unfolds as the wheel of dharma turns.
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Fotografando Patrizia / The Dark Side of Love (1984) Salvatore Samperi, Monica Guerritore, Lorenzo Lena, Gianfranco Manfredi, Drama, Erotic
The sexual relationship between a successful woman and her brother, an introvert, hypochondriacal youth, who is also a pornophile.
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Haut bas fragile / Up, Down, Fragile (1995) Jacques Rivette, Marianne Denicourt, Nathalie Richard, Laurence Côte, Comedy, Musical, Mystery
The film follows the story of three girls in contemporary Paris. One searches for her lost mother since she knows she’s adopted. The other has come out of a coma and needs to have a love relationship aside from his mysterious father. The third one is a crook who redeems herself through love. The action is commented by songs and dance routines.
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Atlantic. (2014) Jan-Willem van Ewijk, Fettah Lamara, Thekla Reuten, Mohamed Majd, Drama
A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
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Gurov and Anna (2014) Rafaël Ouellet, Andreas Apergis, Sophie Desmarais, Carlo Mestroni, Drama, Romance
With his marriage to Audrey almost at an end, Ben begins a torrid affair with Mercedes, a young French student in his writing class. The affair soon spins out of control, their emotions and Ben and Audrey’s family hanging in the balance.
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Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen / Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) Werner Herzog, Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig, Comedy, Drama
The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable and disturbing elements of our nature come forward. The film shows how justifiable revolt may be empowering, but may also turn to chaos and depravity. The allegory is developed in part by the fact that the film is cast entirely with dwarfs.
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