
Ever since 17-year-old Rachel Levy, an Israeli, was killed four years ago in Jerusalem by a Palestinian suicide bomber, her mother Abigail has found hardly a moment’s peace. Read More »
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L’ultimo gladiatore / Messalina vs. the Son of Hercules (1964) Umberto Lenzi, Richard Harrison, Marilù Tolo, Philippe Hersent, Adventure, Drama

While fighting in Britain, Roman forces commanded by Caligula capture the noble warrior, Glaucus. Read More »
Traveller (1997) Jack N. Green, Bill Paxton, Mark Wahlberg, Julianna Margulies, Crime, Drama, Romance

A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended.
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Can You Keep It Up for a Week? (1975) Jim Atkinson, Jeremy Bulloch, Neil Hallett, Jill Damas, Comedy, Erotic

The male protagonist here (Jeremy Bulloch) has a gorgeous, generously breasted fiancée (played by the gorgeous, generously breasted Jill Damas from “Sex Play”) who refuses to marry him unless he proves he can “keep it up for a week”, that is keep a job for a week (get your minds out of the gutter, people).
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Bad Dreams (1988) Andrew Fleming, Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Richard Lynch, Horror, Thriller

In the mid-’70s, a cult group called Unity Field commits mass suicide, but a young girl survives. After being in a coma for thirteen years she wakes up in a psyche ward, not remembering the incident.
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The Proud Valley (1940) Pen Tennyson, Paul Robeson, Edward Chapman, Simon Lack, Drama, Music

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
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In Love and War (1958) Philip Dunne, Robert Wagner, Dana Wynter, Jeffrey Hunter, Drama, War

Three Marines take shore leave in San Francisco during World War II. Frankie O’Neill visits his lower-class dysfunctional family; Nico Kantaylis visits his pregnant fiancée; and the upper-class Alan Newcombe visits his high-living playgirl girlfriend.
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Cavite (2005) Neill Dela Llana, Ian Gamazon, Edwin Lagda, Edgar Tancangco, Thriller

Adam, a security guard, travels from California to the Philippines, his native land, for his father’s funeral.
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BBC Play of the Month: The Millionairess (1972) William Slater, Maggie Smith, Peter Barkworth, James Villiers, Drama

Epifania is the richest woman in England. She’s also strong-willed, highly intelligent, fiercely determined and an expert at Judo, which makes her hard to live with.
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BBC Play of the Month: You Never Can Tell (1977) James Cellan Jones, Robert Powell, Kika Markham, Ernest Clark, Drama

You Never Can Tell is an 1897 four-act play by George Bernard Shaw that debuted at the Royalty Theatre. It was published as part of a volume of Shaw’s plays entitled Plays Pleasant.
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