Paddy O'Day (1935)

April 19, 2015, 4:20 am

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≪ Previous: Le corniaud / The Sucker (1965)

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Withers is an immigrant who learns on arrival in the U.S. that her mother is dead. Friends help her survive as an entertainer, and success is a good argument against the immigration officials.

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Redemption (1930)

April 19, 2015, 5:21 am

≫ Next: Sinbad the Sailor (1947)

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Fedya wins Lisa away from her fiance, Victor Karenin. But after Fedya weds Lisa, he becomes infatuated with a gypsy girl, Masha. His duplicity leads to tragedy.

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Sinbad the Sailor (1947)

April 19, 2015, 6:18 am

≫ Next: The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)

≪ Previous: Redemption (1930)

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Sinbad is a story teller who weaves great adventures about - himself. Whether they are true or not, no one knows. For this is the story of the eight adventures of Sinbad - as told by Sinbad. A ship saved by Sinbad and Sabu. A treasure map to the treasure of Alexander the Great, which mysteriously disappears from the ship. The beautiful Shireen - the woman who has stolen the heart of Sinbad. The evil Amir who wants the treasure for himself to own the world. The deadly Melik, who will stop at nothing and kill anyone to have the treasure. A perilous voyage to a mysterious island where the treasure is said to be held.

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The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)

April 19, 2015, 6:43 am

≫ Next: The House Across The Bay (1940)

≪ Previous: Sinbad the Sailor (1947)

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Victor Florescu is a talented, Brussels-based composer of serious music under the tutelage of respected Professor Bertier at the Music Conservatory. He is hoping to have his yet uncompleted operetta, "The Cat and the Fiddle", produced by famed impresario, Jules Daudet. Victor's focus in life changes when he meets Shirley Sheridan, a New Yorker just arrived in Brussels, she who moves into the pensione next to his own.

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The House Across The Bay (1940)

April 19, 2015, 10:02 am

≫ Next: The Single Standard (1929)

≪ Previous: The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)

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An aircraft designer falls for the wife of an imprisoned gangster. All goes well until the gangster gets out of prison...

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The Single Standard (1929)

April 19, 2015, 10:14 am

≫ Next: The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

≪ Previous: The House Across The Bay (1940)

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The wealthy Arden Stuart is bored in a party; after refusing the wedding proposal of Tommy Hewlett, she drives her car with her driver to a lonely place. She has one night stand with him and returns to the party; then she witnesses the driver being fired by a relative and committing suicide. In a rainy day, Arden goes to an exposition and meets the painter and aspirant boxer Packy Cannon. They sail to the South Seas together in his sailboat and Arden falls in love for him.

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The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

April 19, 2015, 11:36 am

≫ Next: West of Broadway (1931)

≪ Previous: The Single Standard (1929)

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In 1860 Paris, chemist Louis Pasteur is considered a quack within the medical community for advocating that doctors and surgeons wash their hands and boil their instruments to destroy microbes that can kill their patients. He came across this belief when discovering microscopic organisms in sour wine, the organisms which could be killed if heated sufficiently. The belief among the scientific community at large is that the organisms are the result of disease and not the cause.

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West of Broadway (1931)

April 19, 2015, 12:55 pm

≫ Next: When Tomorrow Comes (1939)

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Jerry Seevers returns from World War I service broken in health and his doctor tells him he has only six months to live. His fiancée jilts him and he sets out to drink himself to death. In one of his binges he wakes up to find himself married to what the assumes is a gold-digger after his money. He leaves her and goes to a ranch in Arizona and get rid of his new bride, who is really in love with him. He sets up divorce proceedings and then realizes he actually loves her.

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When Tomorrow Comes (1939)

April 19, 2015, 1:03 pm

≫ Next: Djevojka i hrast / The Girl and the Oak (1955)

≪ Previous: West of Broadway (1931)

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Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philip Chagal accidentally meets Helen Lawrence in a restaurant where she is a waitress. Unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness, he is attracted to her and they make a date to go sailing, arriving at Philip's country home just as a storm is breaking. Helen learns who he is for the first time, a celebrated-and-famous concert pianist and, falling in love with him, decides to leave before matters go further.

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Djevojka i hrast / The Girl and the Oak (1955)

April 20, 2015, 10:35 am

≫ Next: Bizim büyük çaresizligimiz / Our Grand Despair (2011)

≪ Previous: When Tomorrow Comes (1939)

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Smilja is a little girl living in Dalmatian Zagora. One day, her mother dies under a small oak tree and she is left without parents. Luckily, she gets adopted and continues to nurture the oak where her mother died. Many years later, Smilja is a handsome woman, but her jealous stepbrother Josip kills her boyfriend Ivan and rapes her. Ivan's brothers swear revenge.

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Bizim büyük çaresizligimiz / Our Grand Despair (2011)

April 20, 2015, 10:54 am

≫ Next: Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)

≪ Previous: Djevojka i hrast / The Girl and the Oak (1955)

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The peaceful cohabitation of bachelors Ender and Cetin is disrupted when they allow a friend's sister to move in with them. The 30-something longtime friends are overwhelmed by the presence of the uncommunicative Nihal. What possessed them to accept the responsibility of a university student in their home? Especially a girl struggling with the trauma of recently losing her parents in a car accident. But simple daily rituals like sharing meals eventually bring the three roommates together for more pleasant moments.

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Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)

April 20, 2015, 11:10 am

≫ Next: Greetings (1968)

≪ Previous: Bizim büyük çaresizligimiz / Our Grand Despair (2011)

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About the only thing kept in this film from Preston Sturges original story for "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" is a girl that gets drunk, gets married, gets pregnant and doesn't even remember any of it. A major difference is that "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" was a classic comedy and "Rock-a-Bye Baby" isn't. This time out, Clayton Poole is a small town TV repairman who is still in love with his former hometown sweetheart, Carla Naples, who is now a famous movie queen.

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Greetings (1968)

April 20, 2015, 11:39 am

≫ Next: Les deux timides / Two Timid Souls (1928)

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An offbeat, episodic film about three friends, Paul, a shy love-seeker, Lloyd, a vibrant conspiracy nut, and Jon, an aspiring filmmaker and peeping tom. The film satirizes free-love, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, and amateur film-making.

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Les deux timides / Two Timid Souls (1928)

April 20, 2015, 11:50 am

≫ Next: Maddalena... zero in condotta / Maddalena, Zero for Conduct (1940)

≪ Previous: Greetings (1968)

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Garadoux has beaten his wife. His lawyer Fremissin is young and very shy, and therefore, not very efficient... Two years after, Garadoux is trying to seduce Cecile, but she prefers Fremissin...

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Maddalena... zero in condotta / Maddalena, Zero for Conduct (1940)

April 20, 2015, 12:41 pm

≫ Next: Blonde Fever (1944)

≪ Previous: Les deux timides / Two Timid Souls (1928)

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A young man studying in an academy secretarial practice makes writing letters addressed to an imaginary recipient who supposedly lives in Rome. One day, just for fun, it gets to write a love letter and, by chance, that letter is mailed and arrives at the hands of someone who, moved by curiosity, decided to inform the sender.

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Blonde Fever (1944)

April 20, 2015, 3:31 pm

≫ Next: Budapesti Tavasz (1955)

≪ Previous: Maddalena... zero in condotta / Maddalena, Zero for Conduct (1940)

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Peter owns a small but upscale café on the road between Reno and Lake Tahoe in Nevada. He is a heavy gambler and his marriage is rocky. Into is life come a waitress named Sally.

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Budapesti Tavasz (1955)

April 20, 2015, 3:39 pm

≫ Next: Die Austernprinzessin / The Oyster Princess (1919)

≪ Previous: Blonde Fever (1944)

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The film begins a few days before the end of the Second World War and tells the story of the people of Budapest, how trying to survive these days, and just when the Germans van and a ruined city is waiting for new times.

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Die Austernprinzessin / The Oyster Princess (1919)

April 20, 2015, 3:45 pm

≫ Next: Duffy of San Quentin (1954)

≪ Previous: Budapesti Tavasz (1955)

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Oyster-king Quaker cannot be impressed anymore. He is so rich that he even has a special butler holding his cigar while he is smoking. The only thing Quaker would be impressed by is if his daughter Ossi were to marry a real prince. He makes an offer to the poor prince Nucki, who sends his friend Josef to get a clear idea of the woman.

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Duffy of San Quentin (1954)

April 20, 2015, 3:51 pm

≫ Next: Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

≪ Previous: Die Austernprinzessin / The Oyster Princess (1919)

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Based on the book and the reflections of San Quentin Prison Warden Clinton T. Duffy, the film is episodic and rambling in nature but, unlike most prison dramas, there are touches of humor. Duffy, whose "time" at San Quentin covered over 50 years was initially appointed on a thirty-day basis, which makes him one of the best job-huggers of all time.

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

April 20, 2015, 3:58 pm

≫ Next: Maman Colibri / Mother Hummingbird (1929)

≪ Previous: Duffy of San Quentin (1954)

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An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that transformed his life.

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