Il segno di Venere / The Sign of Venus (1955)

April 7, 2015, 9:00 am

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Cesira lives with her cousin Agnese. Agnese is beautiful, while Cesira, dreamy and sentimental, is unattractive. Agnese attracts to itself all eyes, cesira, however always goes unnoticed. However, Cesira dreams of one day finding the man of her life, because a fortune teller told him that is in the "sign of Venus". One day, he meets Romolo, a boy who lives records, and Alessio, a mature man who considers poet and conquer your way of being indifferent and superior. A freak accident lets you know Ignazio, a handsome firefighter, but he, when he meets Agnese, you dedida full attention. One night all your friends are casually gathered ...

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Inazuma / Lightning (1952)

April 7, 2015, 9:06 am

≫ Next: It's Always Fair Weather (1955)

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Kiyoko and her family live in the central district of Tokyo. He is 23 years old, bus conductress, but yearns to something more in life. Their model is Katsuura, a tenant who lives at home and reading, looking and listening to his records. Tired of the constant friction of their families for economic reasons, moved to the suburbs and rented a room to an elderly widow.

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It's Always Fair Weather (1955)

April 7, 2015, 2:30 pm

≫ Next: Perfect Strangers / Vacation from Marriage (1945)

≪ Previous: Inazuma / Lightning (1952)

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Ted, Doug, and Angie are three ex-G.I.s who vow to meet again at a New York bar on October 11, 1955. They all show up on the appointed day, but quickly find that their friendship isn't what it used to be. However, a program coordinator wants to bring the three men together again on a live TV show. Circumstances are further complicated by a group of gangsters who are after Ted.

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Perfect Strangers / Vacation from Marriage (1945)

April 7, 2015, 2:38 pm

≫ Next: Sugata Sanshirô / Judo Saga (1943) [Repost]

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Robert and Catherine have a quiet little marriage until WWII separates them for three years. Serving in the navy dramatically transforms both of them and they realize how much they resented their old mundane life together. Both dread their inevitable reunion and separately decide to ask for a divorce, but is the marriage really over?

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Sugata Sanshirô / Judo Saga (1943) [Repost]

April 7, 2015, 2:46 pm

≫ Next: Szabla od komendanta / The Commanders Sword (1996)

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Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. His first night, he sees Yano in action, a master of judo, a more spiritual art, and he begs to be Yano's student. As the youth learns technique, he must also learn "satori," the calm acceptance of Nature's law. If he can balance strength and control, then judo may become the training regimen for the city's police, Sanshiro can gain respect from an old teacher in a jujitsu school, and he can win the hand of Sayo, that teacher's daughter, who is also sought by jujitsu's finest master, the implacable Higaki, who vows to kill Sanshiro in a midnight fight on a windswept mountainside.

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Szabla od komendanta / The Commanders Sword (1996)

April 7, 2015, 3:36 pm

≫ Next: Talking Head (1992)

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Old Jakubek is a celebrated military officer who wants to die so he can be reunited with his great love, but before he can rest he must fulfill the local tradition of passing his saber to his grandson. Unfortunately, Jakubek has no grandson, as his son is unmarried and there are few prospects for marriage. When a potential bride moves into the neighborhood, the old man and his comrades engage in a little scheming and matchmaking.

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Talking Head (1992)

April 7, 2015, 3:44 pm

≫ Next: The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)

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Talking Head (1992) is a live action film written and directed by Mamoru Oshii. Its a surreal meta-film mystery involving the production of an anime called Talking Head. In legendary director Mamoru Oshii's TALKING HEADS, the director of the most-talked about anime movie of the year disappears, and the studio desperately searches for his replacement. However, they soon have ...

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The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)

April 7, 2015, 3:51 pm

≫ Next: The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)

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June Cameron has written a best seller about spinsters: women are men's equals and don't need them for fulfillment. Through a series of errors and misunderstandings, the press believes she's married Tim Sterling, a university instructor she's just met. Her publisher wants to let the mistake go uncorrected for a few weeks so she can write a best seller about being married; Tim cooperates because, in hidebound academia, being married may help with a promotion. The flies in the ointment are June and Tim's instant enmity, Tim's stubbornness, and his girlfriend Marilyn, who may not let the charade play out. There's no way everyone can get what they want.

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The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)

April 7, 2015, 3:57 pm

≫ Next: Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)

≪ Previous: The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)

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This comedy-drama is partially a gentle satire on America's drive to change the world in the post-war years. One year after World War II, Captain Fisby is sent to the village of Tobiki in Okinawa to teach the people democracy. The first step is to build a school -- but the wily Okinawans know what they really want. They tell him about their culture and traditions -- and persuade him to build something they really want instead: a teahouse. Fisby has a hard time breaking this news to his superiors.

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Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)

April 7, 2015, 4:09 pm

≫ Next: Un uomo da bruciare / A Man for Burning (1962)

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Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.

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Un uomo da bruciare / A Man for Burning (1962)

April 7, 2015, 4:16 pm

≫ Next: Wong gok ka moon / As Tears Go By (1988)

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Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a troublemaker...

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Wong gok ka moon / As Tears Go By (1988)

April 8, 2015, 6:03 am

≫ Next: Gladiatorerna / The Gladiators (1969)

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A low-level triad "big brother" has a hot-tempered "little brother" who can't keep out of trouble, and consequently is in constant need of being bailed out by his protector. The "big brother" is super cool, but lacks the ambition to rise in the ranks of the triad societies - and once he meets his cousin from Kowloon and falls in love with her, he even thinks about leaving "the life".

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Gladiatorerna / The Gladiators (1969)

April 8, 2015, 2:02 pm

≫ Next: Jun'ai Monogatari / The Story of Pure Love (1957)

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Some time in the future, East and West have stopped maintaining standing armies and nuclear weapons. Instead, to settle their differences they pit different teams of crack combat specialists against each other.

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Jun'ai Monogatari / The Story of Pure Love (1957)

April 8, 2015, 2:09 pm

≫ Next: Lady from Louisiana (1941)

≪ Previous: Gladiatorerna / The Gladiators (1969)

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Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.

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Lady from Louisiana (1941)

April 8, 2015, 2:39 pm

≫ Next: The Exile (1947)

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Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.

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The Exile (1947)

April 8, 2015, 3:08 pm

≫ Next: The Flame of New Orleans (1941) [Repost]

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Maria Montez was accorded top billing in this film by contractual agreement, although she is in the picture only long enough to take a bath in a tricky 17th century bathtub while sipping coffee with Charles Stuart and delivering dialogue in a barely-understandable French-accent.

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The Flame of New Orleans (1941) [Repost]

April 8, 2015, 3:19 pm

≫ Next: The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)

≪ Previous: The Exile (1947)

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French farce comes to the New World in 1840 as Claire Ledoux convinces the middle-aged banker who is her fiance that she is two different women -- a deception made necessary by the arrival of a man acquainted with the swath she cut across Europe. Giraud has been about to foreclose on a $150 loan made to a sea captain who needed the funds to court Claire. Get Claire's "cousin" out of New Orleans before the wedding, Giraud tells the sea captain and the debt will be paid.

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The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)

April 8, 2015, 3:28 pm

≫ Next: The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)

≪ Previous: The Flame of New Orleans (1941) [Repost]

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Set in the early '40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as the second World War has begun to intensify. Mamie settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life. Though her prospects look good when she falls in love with a science-fiction writer who treats her with the respect she deserves, the dawning war and the fallacies of her previous lifestyle complicate their budding romance. Mamie cannot fully remove herself from her former profession, and provides some of her old services to the sailors stationed in town. Searching for another means of financial security, Mamie invests in several pieces of real estate and becomes quite wealthy, though her bad reputation has not been forgotten by the locals.

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The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)

April 8, 2015, 3:35 pm

≫ Next: The River's Edge (1957)

≪ Previous: The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)

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In 1745 a German princess, renamed Catherine, arrives to marry Grand Duke Peter of Russia, whom she initially likes. But his suspicious, unstable nature gradually estranges them, and Peter finds solace with pretty courtiers. Catherine invents her own (fictitious) lovers, temporarily improving matters. Alas, accession to the throne brings out the worst in Peter, and loyal Catherine is urged to assume power.

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The River's Edge (1957)

April 8, 2015, 3:42 pm

≫ Next: The Song of Songs (1933)

≪ Previous: The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)

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A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico. Accompanying them is the rancher's wife, who happens to be the killer's former girlfriend.

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