
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.
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Tag Archives: USA
Mister 880 (1950) Edmund Goulding, Burt Lancaster, Edmund Gwenn, Dorothy McGuire, Comedy, Crime

The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don’t know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.
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My Demon Lover (1987) Charlie Loventhal, Scott Valentine, Michele Little, Robert Trebor, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Denny has yet again been left by her thug boyfriend Chip. It seems as if she is doomed to be stuck with awful guys, this time she has to choose between nerdy Charles and the strange Kaz, who turns into a monster when sexually aroused.
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Abbas Kiarostami: A Report (2013) Bahman Maghsoudlou, Kurosh Afsharpanah, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Godfrey Cheshire, Documentary, History

An analysis of the style and vision of Abbas Kiarostami, the world’s most iconic Iranian filmmaker, through the lens of his earliest work, including his first short film (Bread & Alley, 1970) and, particularly, his first feature, The Report. This early example of Kiarostami’s work gives insight into his poetic, humanistic tendencies, combining allegorical storytelling with a documentary, neo-realist sensibility, and often exploring the very nature of film as fiction, that have pervaded his work ever since, including such recent international sensations as A Taste of Cherry and Certified Copy. Exclusive interviews with film critics, historians and scholars (including the late great Andrew Sarris) and those directly involved in the making of The Report provide a look at how the career of this master independent auteur began and was shaped.
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Joe Hill (1971) Bo Widerberg, Thommy Berggren, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave, Biography, Drama, History

In the early 1900’s, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers without trades. It is forbidden to demonstrate and to speak in public but Joe gets around that by singing his manifests with the Salvation Army. He manages to get more and more people to get on strike with him but he also makes powerful enemies doing that. Finally he gets connected with a murder and during the trial he fires his lawyer and takes upon himself to become his own defender.
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Terror at Orgy Castle (1972) Zoltan G. Spencer, Bambi Allen, Ron Darby, John Dullaghan, Fantasy, Horror, Erotic

A young couple on a European vacation get mixed up with a countess and a hunchbacked servant at a castle where black masses are held.
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Barbie’s Fantasy (1974) Claude Goddard, Jenny Lane, Maureen Anderson, Sue Kelly, Nina Michaels, Jamie Gillis, Jeffrey Hurst, Brad Fuller, Butch Brady, Adult

This lovely teenager has a series of lewd ideas – being gang-banged, having sex with several guys at the same time, lesbian sex, oral sex, and so on. Her shrink advises her to get rid of these daydreams as he masturbates to them. Then he tells her to experience on of her fantasies in order to free herself. Barbie seduces her little brother and is magically cured.
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Splash (1984) Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Allen Bauer is rescued from drowning as a young boy off Cape Cod by a young mermaid. Years later, he returns to the same location, and once again manages to fall into the sea, and is rescued once more by the mermaid (Allen isn’t sure what he has seen and what he has imagined). Using maps from a sunken ship, the mermaid decides to search for Allen in New York City, sprouting legs when her tail dries. On finding Allen, they fall in love, but she has a secret, which will no longer be a secret if she gets her legs wet.
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Lorna (1964) Russ Meyer, Lorna Maitland, Mark Bradley, James Rucker, Drama, Erotic

Lorna has been married to Jim for a year, but still hasn’t been satisfied sexually. While Jim is working at the salt mine, she is raped by an escaped convict, but falls in lust with him. Meanwhile Jim’s buddies are giving him a hard time about Lorna’s supposed infidelity, not realizing how close to the mark they really are. Trouble starts when Jim gets home early from work because it’s their anniversary.
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Rope (1948) Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley and as a consequence decide to murder him. Together they strangle David with a rope and placing the body in an old chest, they proceed to hold a small party. The guests include David’s father, his fiancée Janet and their old schoolteacher Rupert from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As Brandon becomes increasingly more daring, Rupert begins to suspect.
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