L'étrangleur / The Strangler (1970)

April 16, 2015, 9:20 am

≫ Next: My Sister Eileen (1955)

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

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Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile (Jacques Perrin), a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective (Julien Guiomar) assigned to track down the killer resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man. In one instance, he impersonates a psychologist on a TV show he and Emile appear on together and attempts to provoke Emile into revealing himself.

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My Sister Eileen (1955)

April 16, 2015, 10:43 am

≫ Next: Prazske noci / The Nights of Prague (1969)

≪ Previous: L'étrangleur / The Strangler (1970)

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Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment (such as it is!), but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about her gorgeous sister Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she, (a "spinsterish old-maid writer") and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.

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Prazske noci / The Nights of Prague (1969)

April 16, 2015, 11:11 am

≫ Next: Seul contre tous / I Stand Alone (1998)

≪ Previous: My Sister Eileen (1955)

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Prague - mystical city. It was here in the Middle Ages, alchemists and magicians gathered. Rumor has it that the house of Prague hide secret obtain the philosopher's stone, and complex multi-level labyrinth of underground tunnels and cellars keep many unsolved mysteries and untold treasures. Prague just full of ghosts and phantoms. Let us slightly lift the veil that hides the secrets and little to satisfy your curiosity, get acquainted with some legends of Prague.

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Seul contre tous / I Stand Alone (1998)

April 16, 2015, 11:42 am

≫ Next: Sister Kenny (1946)

≪ Previous: Prazske noci / The Nights of Prague (1969)

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The Butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and moves to Lille suburbs with his mistress. She promised him a new butcher shop. She lied. The butcher decides to go back to Paris and find his daughter.

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Sister Kenny (1946)

April 16, 2015, 2:07 pm

≫ Next: Sky Murder (1940)

≪ Previous: Seul contre tous / I Stand Alone (1998)

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Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio, but can't get official recognition or sanction for her techniques and theories. For more than three decades (while she tells her fiancée she can't marry him, and repeatedly confronts the pigheaded orthopedic specialist Dr. Brack), she is prevented from treating acute cases and is ridiculed, while she seeks formal recognition for the efficacy of her treatment.

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Sky Murder (1940)

April 16, 2015, 3:22 pm

≫ Next: Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

≪ Previous: Sister Kenny (1946)

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Pat Evans is a German expatriate who is loyal to her new adopted home, the United States. A shadowy German bund operating in the Long Island area tries to recruit as the sophisticated but lecherous Andrew Hendon tries to physically coerce her into joining. While she is flying in the private plane of Cortland Grand, a rich friend of Nick Carter's, she knocks Hendon unconscious in self defense, but leaves him alive in a rear compartment of the plane. When the steward discovers the body, he finds Herndon stabbed in the throat by a nail file.

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Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

April 16, 2015, 3:48 pm

≫ Next: The Cops are Robbers / Good Cops, Bad Cops (1990)

≪ Previous: Sky Murder (1940)

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Rising reporter Michael Ward is a key witness in the murder trial of young Joe Briggs, who is convicted on circumstantial evidence while swearing innocence. Mike's girl Jane believes in Joe and blames Mike, who (in a remarkable sequence) dreams he is himself convicted of murdering his nosy neighbor. Will his dream come true before Jane can find the real murderer?

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The Cops are Robbers / Good Cops, Bad Cops (1990)

April 16, 2015, 3:58 pm

≫ Next: Wo ai chu fang / Kitchen (1997)

≪ Previous: Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

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This fun, intriguing action flick tells the tale of a ragtag group of disillusioned Boston police officers who, in 1980, got together and pulled one of the largest bank heists in American history. Ed Asner, James Keach, and George Kennedy star in this 1990 drama, which is based on a fascinating true story.

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Wo ai chu fang / Kitchen (1997)

April 17, 2015, 6:05 am

≫ Next: Cat Chaser (1989)

≪ Previous: The Cops are Robbers / Good Cops, Bad Cops (1990)

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The lives of Louis (Jordan Chan), a hairdresser women, and transgender "mother" (Law Kar-ying) inevitably change with the arrival of a beautiful orphan who will stay at home (Yasuko Tomita). Aggie wants to be a professional cook, but after the death of her grandmother, falls into a deep depression. With the help of Louis and his mother, begins to understand that life is unpredictable.

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Cat Chaser (1989)

April 17, 2015, 7:58 am

≫ Next: État de siège / State of Siege (1972)

≪ Previous: Wo ai chu fang / Kitchen (1997)

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An American veteran (Weller) of the Dominican Republic intervention (LBJ era) is running a hotel in Miami, and is trying to put the memories of the intervention behind him. He gets involved with a former Dominican Republic general's wife (McGillis). He then gets duped through a series of intricate plot twists into helping a group of people trying to rip the general off. Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard.

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État de siège / State of Siege (1972)

April 17, 2015, 2:05 pm

≫ Next: Golden Boy (1939)

≪ Previous: Cat Chaser (1989)

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In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerillas.

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Golden Boy (1939)

April 17, 2015, 2:11 pm

≫ Next: House of Sand and Fog (2003) [Repost]

≪ Previous: État de siège / State of Siege (1972)

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Joe Bonaparte's father wants him to pursue his musical talent; but Joe wants to be a boxer. Persuading near-bankrupt manager Tom Moody to give him a chance, Joe quickly rises in his new profession. When he has second thoughts Moody's girl Lorna uses feminine wiles to keep him boxing. But when tough gangster Eddie Fuseli wants to "buy a piece" of Joe, Lorna herself begins to have second thoughts...for that and other reasons. Is it too late?

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House of Sand and Fog (2003) [Repost]

April 17, 2015, 2:28 pm

≫ Next: Maîtresse / Mistress (1975) [Repost]

≪ Previous: Golden Boy (1939)

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An emotionally broken woman, Kathy, suddenly finds herself homeless after her house is wrongly repossessed and auctioned. Seeking respite from his marriage, Lester, a sympathetic sheriff's deputy comes to the aid of Kathy and becomes intimately involved in her situation. Soon, Behrani, a proud emigrant Iranian and his family move into the house only to find their new lives burdened by harassment from Lester and Kathy as they attempt to reclaim her former home.

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Maîtresse / Mistress (1975) [Repost]

April 17, 2015, 2:37 pm

≫ Next: Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)

≪ Previous: House of Sand and Fog (2003) [Repost]

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A common thief (Depardieu) breaks into the house of a professional dominatrix (Ogier), and begins to help her "train" her clients. Though this world is alien to his experience, he finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually he discovers that she does this in order to support her son, and he attempts to help her out of this life, which she is not sure she really wants to leave.

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Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)

April 17, 2015, 2:46 pm

≫ Next: Night Watch (1973)

≪ Previous: Maîtresse / Mistress (1975) [Repost]

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Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at he age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.

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Night Watch (1973)

April 17, 2015, 2:53 pm

≫ Next: One Million Years B.C. (1966)

≪ Previous: Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)

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Ellen Wheeler, a rich widow, is recovering from a nervous breakdown. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does anybody believe her?

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One Million Years B.C. (1966)

April 17, 2015, 3:20 pm

≫ Next: Prison (1987)

≪ Previous: Night Watch (1973)

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Caveman Tumak is banished from his savage tribe. He finds a brief home among a group of gentle seacoast dwelling cave people until he is banished from them as well. Missing him, one of their women, Loana leaves with him, deciding to face the harsh prehistoric world with its monsters and volcanos as a couple.

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Prison (1987)

April 17, 2015, 3:31 pm

≫ Next: Shattered Image (1998) [Repost]

≪ Previous: One Million Years B.C. (1966)

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After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.

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Shattered Image (1998) [Repost]

April 17, 2015, 3:38 pm

≫ Next: Souls for Sale (1923)

≪ Previous: Prison (1987)

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Confusing realities surface in this paranoid film dealing with the fragile nature of a young woman (Anne Parillaud) recovering from rape and an apparent attempted suicide. In one reality, she is a killer destroyer of men. In another she is the new wife on a Jamaican honeymoon with her husband (William Baldwin), who is trying to help her recover. Which is real is the question as the story unfolds.

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Souls for Sale (1923)

April 17, 2015, 3:53 pm

≫ Next: The Black Stallion (1979)

≪ Previous: Shattered Image (1998) [Repost]

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On board a train en route to Los Angeles, runaway bride Remember Steddon, believing now that she married in haste, abandons her husband, Owen Scudder, not knowing at the time that Scudder had previously married and murdered solely for money. Unprepared to be on her own, Mem, as she is known to her friends, accidentally stumbles across the outdoor set of a Hollywood movie directed by Frank Claymore. Mem is welcomed onto the set by the cast and crew.

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