Terrain vague / Wasteland (1960)

April 14, 2015, 4:28 pm

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The members of a criminal gang teenagers gather every day in an old warehouse, where the girl that leads gives the appropriate commands for each day. A young fresh from the reformatory attempt join the group.

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The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)

April 14, 2015, 4:36 pm

≫ Next: The Man in Possession (1931)

≪ Previous: Terrain vague / Wasteland (1960)

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Scatterbrained Sally Elliott gets a job as a Fuller brush girl and, as expected, her attempts at selling cosmetics door-to-door are disastrous. Things get worse when one of her customers is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect. She and her poor fiancé Humphrey find themselves dodging the police while trying to catch the real killer.

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The Man in Possession (1931)

April 15, 2015, 2:06 am

≫ Next: The Old Dark House (1963)

≪ Previous: The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)

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Recently released from jail, Raymond Dabney is the black sheep of his family. His father and brother want him out of England and out of their hair. Only his mother seems to harbor some affection for him. Looking for work in London, Raymond gets a job assisting a bailiff in collecting debts. Crystal Wetherby, a lovely young woman living outside her means, hopes to romance a wealthy man in order to pay her bills.

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The Old Dark House (1963)

April 15, 2015, 2:40 am

≫ Next: Träumerei (1944)

≪ Previous: The Man in Possession (1931)

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An American who sells cars in England receives a mysterious invitation from an old, eccentric millionaire to visit his house in which he lives with his twin brother.

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Träumerei (1944)

April 15, 2015, 4:12 am

≫ Next: Varastettu kuolema / Stolen Death (1938)

≪ Previous: The Old Dark House (1963)

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Clara Wieck meets the talented Robert Schumann in her father’s Leipzig music school. And entirely against her father’s wishes, who thinks only of her future artistic career, she falls in love with Robert. The final break comes after a successful tour as a pianist at the side of Franz Liszt. She returns to Leipzig shortly thereafter and marries Schumann. She’s happy and lives only for her family. Her husband writes his best pieces during this time, too.

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Varastettu kuolema / Stolen Death (1938)

April 15, 2015, 5:32 am

≫ Next: With a Song in My Heart (1952)

≪ Previous: Träumerei (1944)

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Thriller about activists, turn of the century, Finland fought to liberate the tyranny of Czarist Russia.

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With a Song in My Heart (1952)

April 15, 2015, 8:37 am

≫ Next: Women Are Trouble (1936)

≪ Previous: Varastettu kuolema / Stolen Death (1938)

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Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane's popularity soars, and she leaves on a European tour... but her plane crashes in Lisbon, and she is partially crippled. Unable to walk without crutches, Jane nevertheless goes on to entertain the Allied troops in World War II.

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Women Are Trouble (1936)

April 15, 2015, 8:46 am

≫ Next: Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)

≪ Previous: With a Song in My Heart (1952)

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When Prohibition ends, the mobsters move into the "protection" racket. Those who do not pay are knocked off. Small town reporter Ruth wants a job at the big city paper, but the editor will not hire her. So she looks for a story and sees the murder of Liquor Board Commissioner Eldridge. After she gets the job, she gets the picture of the killer who knocks off Murty, the driver who knocked over Eldridge. Ruth is in the thick of the investigation and one step ahead of Casey.

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Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)

April 15, 2015, 3:39 pm

≫ Next: High Flyers (1937)

≪ Previous: Women Are Trouble (1936)

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Dr. Jimmy Kildare is back at work at Blair General hospital, though several people admit that he is not himself since suffering his loss. He's taken a liking to a young intern, Don Winthrop, and tries to help him out when he transports an accident victim, socialite Cynthia "Cookie" Charles, to Blair General from outside the hospital's agreed territory. When the other hospital complains, Winthrop is fired. Soon after, his girlfriend, Nurse Anabelle Kirke, is also let go when she too misapplies hospital policy. Kildare pleads their case with the hospital Board but with little luck. He then gets the well-connected Cookie, who has a thing for him, to help to sort it out

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High Flyers (1937)

April 15, 2015, 3:44 pm

≫ Next: Immer nie am Meer / Forever Never Anywhere (2007)

≪ Previous: Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)

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Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.

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Immer nie am Meer / Forever Never Anywhere (2007)

April 15, 2015, 3:52 pm

≫ Next: In My Father's Den (2004)

≪ Previous: High Flyers (1937)

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Three men are injured with his car on the road in the desert, trying to avoid hitting a woman. The car goes off the road and crashed into a tree. The problem is they can not get out of it because it is an armored Mercedes Benz. The film takes an unexpected turn when, suddenly, the three men a young child begins to use these men as guinea pigs, instead of rescuing them become objects of fun.

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In My Father's Den (2004)

April 15, 2015, 4:05 pm

≫ Next: Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé / Not Here to Be Loved (2005) [Repost]

≪ Previous: Immer nie am Meer / Forever Never Anywhere (2007)

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Paul, a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families, frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance.

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Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé / Not Here to Be Loved (2005) [Repost]

April 15, 2015, 4:21 pm

≫ Next: Cape Forlorn / The Love Storm (1931)

≪ Previous: In My Father's Den (2004)

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The fifty years old Jean-Claude has a boring life, working in a notary office of his own and as court official evicting tenants or seizing properties, or spending the Sundays afternoons in the retirement home with his sour, rude and bitter father. When he has a minor heart problem, his doctor advises him to exercise, and Jean-Claude begins to have tango lessons in a studio in front of his office. He meets the charming forty and something years old Françoise, who is also having classes for her wedding party, and she recalls she was her neighbor in her childhood. They become close and love flourishes between them, changing their lives.

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Cape Forlorn / The Love Storm (1931)

April 16, 2015, 2:44 am

≫ Next: Danger by My Side (1962)

≪ Previous: Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé / Not Here to Be Loved (2005) [Repost]

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Based on a play by Frank Harvey, this is the story of William, a taciturn lighthouse keeper who marries dance-hall girl Eileen. Their already shaky relationship is further damaged when the husband hires a handsome young assistant named Gordon, who immediately inaugurates an affair with the wife. When Gordon is arrested for a killing committed by Eileen, she leaves her husband and returns to the dance-hall whence she came, there to patiently await her lover's release from jail.

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Danger by My Side (1962)

April 16, 2015, 3:19 am

≫ Next: Gaolbreak (1962)

≪ Previous: Cape Forlorn / The Love Storm (1931)

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With the help of the Metropolitan Police, a girl starts to track down the gang who had her detective brother killed by a speeding car. The trail leads to Nicky's club in Soho and to diamond smuggling.

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Gaolbreak (1962)

April 16, 2015, 3:56 am

≫ Next: Je te mangerais / You Will Be Mine (2009)

≪ Previous: Danger by My Side (1962)

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A family of burglars and safecrackers plan a heist at a jewelry store. When one of the family--who is the safecracking expert--gets arrested and jailed, they hatch a plan to break him out so he can take part in the robbery.

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Je te mangerais / You Will Be Mine (2009)

April 16, 2015, 4:09 am

≫ Next: Johanna (2005) [Repost]

≪ Previous: Gaolbreak (1962)

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Marie leaves home to study the piano at the conservatory in Lyons. Through lack of money, she is obliged to share an apartment with Emma, a friend of the family who has lived alone since the death of her father. The two young women develop a strange fascination for one another, which soon develops into an intense mutual need...

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Johanna (2005) [Repost]

April 16, 2015, 8:40 am

≫ Next: La France (2007) [Repost]

≪ Previous: Je te mangerais / You Will Be Mine (2009)

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Johanna, a young drug addict, falls into a deep coma after an accident. Doctors miraculously manage to save her from death's doorstep. Touched by grace, Johanna cures patients by offering her body. The head doctor is frustrated by her continued rejection of him and allies himself with the outraged hospital authorities. They wage war against her but the grateful patients join forces to protect her.

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La France (2007) [Repost]

April 16, 2015, 8:50 am

≫ Next: Le jardin qui bascule / The Garden That Tilts (1975)

≪ Previous: Johanna (2005) [Repost]

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In France in the darkest days of the Great War Camille receives an alarming letter from her soldier boyfriend. Disguising herself as a man she sets off to try and find him. As she lives near the Western Fromt she hooks up with a passing group of French soldiers without too much trouble. But there's something a bit odd about these stragglers, and it's not just their habit of bursting into song at every opportunity.

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Le jardin qui bascule / The Garden That Tilts (1975)

April 16, 2015, 9:02 am

≫ Next: L'étrangleur / The Strangler (1970)

≪ Previous: La France (2007) [Repost]

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Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approaches her but fails to kill her. Instead, he falls in love and becomes her lover ...

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