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Gruppo di famiglia in un interno / Conversation Piece (1974) Luchino Visconti, Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, Drama, Romance
Retired professor of American origin lives solitary life in luxurious palazzo in Rome He is confronted by vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions: her lover, her daughter and daughter’s boyfriend and forced to rent to them an apartment on upper floor of his palazzo. From this point his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants’ machinations, and everybody’s life is taking unexpected but inevitable turn.
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Frontier Gambler (1956) Sam Newfield, John Bromfield, Coleen Gray, Kent Taylor, Western
A marshal investigating the death of a woman who owned a gambling house finds that he’s developing an attraction to the image of the dead woman, and then she shows up very much alive.
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Home (2005) Matt Zoller Seitz, Jason Liebrecht, Nicol Zanzarella, Erin Stacey Visslailli, Drama, Comedy
On a hot summer night in Brooklyn, singles and couples converge in a brownstone apartment to flirt, fight, hook uo and break up. A dreamy comedy-drama about sex, love and freedom, “Home” packs a lot of stories into just two floors.
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Bizarre (2015) Étienne Faure, Pierre Prieur, Adrian James, Raquel Nave, Drama, Musical, Romance
Maurice is a French teenager who escaped France and begins working at a hype club in Brooklyn called BIZARRE. He quickly becomes a sort of ‘mascot’ of this incredible club.The owner and the artists that perform there love him, but Maurice can’t love…because of the past…and his secrets.
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Flight to Fury (1964) Monte Hellman, Dewey Martin, Fay Spain, Jack Nicholson, Adventure
This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One of the men is an avaricious killer who has come to the islands to search for a fortune in diamonds. The other is an international adventurer. Now they must somehow overcome their vast personal differences and desires to survive in the steamy wilderness.
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Here Is My Heart (1934) Frank Tuttle, Bing Crosby, Kitty Carlisle, Roland Young, Musical, Comedy
A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.
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The Golden Bowl (2000) James Ivory, Uma Thurman, Jeremy Northam, Kate Beckinsale, Drama, Romance
Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie, an innocent abroad. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Charlotte Stant, an alabaster beauty with brains, no money, and a practical and romantic nature, is his lover. She and Amerigo keep it secret from Maggie that they know each other, so Maggie interests her widowed father in Charlotte, who is happy with the match because she wants to be close to Amerigo. Charlotte desires him, the lovers risk discovery, Amerigo longs for Italy, Maggie wants to spare her father pain, and Adam wants to return to America to build a museum. Amidst lies and artifice, what fate awaits adulterers?
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Manhattan (1979) Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Comedy, Drama, Romance
On the heels of Annie Hall, the Oscar-winning romantic comedy that rocketed Woody Allen to the front ranks of American filmmakers, Manhattan continued Allen’s romantic obsessions in a slightly darker, more pessimistic vein. Allen stars as Isaac Davis, a TV comedy writer sick of the pap he is forced to churn out and harboring dreams of being the great American novelist.
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Just Desserts (2004) Kevin Connor, Lauren Holly, Costas Mandylor, Dorie Barton, Comedy, Romance
Marco Poloni’s family owns a bakery in the Bronx and it seems that they have fallen on hard times and his family is considering selling the bakery. Marco then decides to enter a baking competition hoping that the money and publicity will help them. But he needs a partner, so he asks Grace Carpenter, the baker of a restaurant, although they started off on the wrong foot, she agrees. So they go to the competition and things seem to be looking good except for a few complications. One of the other contestant Jacques du Jacques is Marco’s former classmate at the Academy, whom he says betrayed him. Emil, one of the judges, is Marco’s former instructor at the Academy whom he did not leave a good impression on. And Marco’s temper, will they be able to pull it off? During this time, Marco also finds himself attracted to her, but she already has a boyfriend.
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