Yoshiwara (1937)

April 10, 2015, 7:04 am

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Late nineteenth century. Young Kohana is sent to Yoshiwara, a suburb of Tokyo where exercise the profession of geisha. With the money you earn hopes to save the family estate. When she meets Serge Polenoff, a Russian lieutenant, falls in love with him.

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Il medico della mutua / Be Sick... It's Free (1968)

April 10, 2015, 2:33 pm

≫ Next: La donna più bella del mondo / The World's Most Beautiful Woman (1955)

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Dr. Guido Tersilli had to give up and apply for mutual. Once inside, not having many economic means, it is very hard to get mutual patients. So he moved to the area of the city with fewer physicians mutual and, with the help of his mother and his girlfriend, gradually get done with patients ...

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La donna più bella del mondo / The World's Most Beautiful Woman (1955)

April 10, 2015, 2:41 pm

≫ Next: La legge è legge / The Law Is the Law (1958)

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Rome, 1905. Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to Paris where she becomes the star of the "Folies-Plastiques". Sergei finds Lina back in the French capital and, as a play and game, makes her his mistress. When she understands the truth Lina runs away with tenor Silvani. Mad with jealousy, Doria kills Silvani and the young singer who thinks Sergei is responsible for Silvani's death, decides to devote her life to her career. Going from success to success, Lina arrives one day in Saint Petersburg where she is to sing before the Tsar. There she meets Sergei again...

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La legge è legge / The Law Is the Law (1958)

April 10, 2015, 2:50 pm

≫ Next: La vache et le prisonnier / The Cow and I (1959)

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Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.

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La vache et le prisonnier / The Cow and I (1959)

April 10, 2015, 3:15 pm

≫ Next: Le amiche (1955)

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In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.

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Le amiche (1955)

April 10, 2015, 3:29 pm

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Clelia comes from Rome to her native Turin, to set up a new fashion salon. On her first night, the woman in the next room of her hotel takes an overdose of pills. Clelia becomes involved with this woman, Rosetta, and three of her rich women friends, Momina, Nene, and Mariella. Momina is older than the others, and lives apart from her husband. Her current lover is Cesare, the architect of Clelia's salon.

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The Red Danube (1949)

April 10, 2015, 3:38 pm

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Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael 'Hooky' Nicobar is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet authorities to repatriate citizens of the Soviet Union, many of whom prefer not to return to their home country. Billeted in the convent run by Mother Auxilia, Nicobar, and his military aides Major John 'Twingo' McPhimister and Audrey Quail, become involved in the plight of a young ballerina who is trying to avoid being returned to Moscow. Nicobar's sense of duty is tested as he sees first hand the plight of the people he is helping return to the Soviet Union; his lack of religious faith is also shaken by his contact with the Mother Superior.

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The Spoilers (1942)

April 10, 2015, 3:46 pm

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In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.

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The Woman in the Window (1944)

April 10, 2015, 3:54 pm

≫ Next: Två människor / Two People (1945)

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Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to the men's club. Wanley happens to meet the woman while admiring her portrait, and ends up in her apartment for talk and a bit of champagne. Her boyfriend bursts in and misinterprets Wanley's presence, whereupon a scuffle ensues and the boyfriend gets killed. In order to protect his reputation, the professor agrees to dump the body and help cover up the killing, but becomes increasingly suspect as the police uncover more and more clues and a blackmailer begins leaning on the woman.

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Två människor / Two People (1945)

April 10, 2015, 4:08 pm

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When the prestigious Dr. Arne Lundell ends the most important work of his life, a colleague from the University of Stockholm, Dr. Sander, lodged a complaint against him for plagiarism. Marianne, wife of Arne, does everything possible to encourage her distraught husband who does not understand the reasons for this unjust accusation. In these circumstances, Sander found dead. It seems that this is a suicide, but soon finds that it actually has been murdered. Suspicion falls on Dr. Arne fatally. The dramatic situation begins to unravel when Arne discovered, by chance, a letter by which discovers that his wife was the secret lover of the missing professor.

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Two-Faced Woman (1941)

April 10, 2015, 4:15 pm

≫ Next: Un garibaldino al convento / A Garibaldian in the Convent (1942)

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While at a ski lodge, Larry Blake sees instructor Karin Borg and decides to sign up for private lessons. The next thing he knows, she is Mrs. Blake. When he announces that he is going back to work on his magazine in New York the next day, Karin refuses to go with him. She later comes to New York, buys expensive clothes, and goes to meet him when she sees he is with old flame Griselda. Caught by Blake's business partner, O.O. Miller, before she can leave, she explains that she is really Karin's twin sister Katherine. Hard to believe, but that is what she tries to make everyone, including Larry, believe. Larry, however, has serious doubts, but plays the game to the hilt as the worldly Katherine tries to take him away from both Griselda and Karin.

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Un garibaldino al convento / A Garibaldian in the Convent (1942)

April 11, 2015, 2:48 am

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An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.

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Undercurrent (1946)

April 11, 2015, 3:08 am

≫ Next: Winter Meeting (1948)

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Middle-aged bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her.

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Winter Meeting (1948)

April 11, 2015, 3:47 am

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Spinster poetess Susan Grieve lives in a Manahattan apartment where naval hero Slick Novak comes with her for a nightcap. Next morning they visit her Connecticut farm where Novak tells her he always wanted to be a priest. After some turmoil she advises him to follow his dream which he does.

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Black Bart (1948)

April 11, 2015, 8:28 am

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Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo gold shipments. One fateful day, the stage he robs carries old friends Lance and Jersey...and notorious dancer Lola Montez, coming to perform in Sacramento. Black Bart and Lance become rivals for both Lola's favors and Wells Fargo's gold.

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I sequestrati di Altona / The Condemned of Altona (1962)

April 11, 2015, 9:21 am

≫ Next: La belle Américaine / The American Beauty (1961) [Repost]

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A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact. However, no deception can last forever.

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La belle Américaine / The American Beauty (1961) [Repost]

April 11, 2015, 10:44 am

≫ Next: Ouranos / Glory Sky (1963)

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Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertible by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in possession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumption, his wife trying to sell it to make ends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidentally riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.

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Ouranos / Glory Sky (1963)

April 11, 2015, 12:27 pm

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Small chronicle of the defeat of the Greeks in the Greco-Italian War of 1940-1941, from the intimacy of the vanquished and the burden of melancholy to which usually the director.

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Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)

April 11, 2015, 1:13 pm

≫ Next: The Naked Edge (1961)

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At the end of the Second World War six German ex-soldiers return to Berlin and set up as a bomb disposal group. The pressure of the dangerous work starts to affect them, the more so as they have agreed to pool half their pay so that if only one survives he takes it all. Casualties and friction are inevitable, and having to handle British 1000lb bombs seems particularly bad news.

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The Naked Edge (1961)

April 11, 2015, 1:25 pm

≫ Next: Duze zwierze / Big Animal (2000)

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George Radcliffe's testimony sends Donald Heath to prison for murder and the theft of over 60,000 pounds. Soon after, Radcliffe invests a large sum of money in an ultimately profitable business venture. Martha Radcliffe begins to suspect her husband of the crime.

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