
When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he’s a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he’s a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment.
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Yom Yom / Day after day (1998) Amos Gitai, Moshe Ivgy, Hanna Maron, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Comedy, Drama

A slice of life – day after day – in Haifa, where Moshe and Didi’s marriage is on the rocks, affairs are casual, and Moshe’s angst about health, his parents, sex, communication, and business are pervasive and existential.
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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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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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The Spirit of ’76 (1990) Lucas Reiner, Mark Mothersbaugh, Gerald V. Casale, Carl Reiner, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this “ideal” civilization. 70’s jokes, props and stars abound.
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Chrieg / War (2014) Simon Jaquemet, Sascha Gisler, Benjamin Lutzke, Ella Rumpf, Drama

The whole world is against Fifteen-year-old Matteo. He has no friends and his parents seem to live in a different universe.
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François Premier / Francis the First (1937) Christian-Jaque, Fernandel, Mona Goya, Alexandre Rignault, Comedy

Honorin (Fernandel) is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera “Francis I, or the Loves of the Beautiful Ferroniere”.
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Los pianos mecánicos / The Uninhibited (1965) Juan Antonio Bardem, Melina Mercouri, Hardy Krüger, James Mason, Drama

Vincent, a young man from Paris, arrives at the small Spanish village of Caldeya. where his has been loaned a home by his friend, Reginald.
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Flamingo Road (1949) Michael Curtiz, Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, Drama, Romance

Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt political boss Titus Semple. Lane becomes romantically involved with sheriff Fielding Carlisle, a weakling whose career is being driven by Titus.
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The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) Archie Mayo, John Cromwell, Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, Adventure, Biography, Romance

Marco Polo travels from Venice to Peking, where he quickly discovers spaghetti and gunpowder and falls in love with the Emperor’s daughter.
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