“Then I won’t be a girl. And I won’t be weak and I won’t be silly. I’ll be a boy and rough and hard. I won’t care what I do. Don’t worry! I’m ready for anything.”
– Sylvia (Katharine Hepburn)

Sylvia Scarlett is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, based on The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett, a novel by Compton MacKenzie. Directed by George Cukor, it was notorious as one of the most famous unsuccessful movies of the 1930s. Hepburn plays the title role of Sylvia Scarlett, a female con artist masquerading as a boy to escape the police. The success of the subterfuge is in large part due to the transformation of Hepburn by RKO make-up artist Mel Berns.

This film was the first pairing of Grant and Hepburn, who later starred together in Bringing Up Baby (1938), Holiday (1938), and The Philadelphia Story (1940). Cary Grant’s performance as a dashing rogue sees him incorporate a (rather unconvincing) Cockney accent and remains widely considered the first time Grant’s famous personality began to register on film. (Grant only used the Cockney accent in a few other films, notably 1939’s Gunga Din and Clifford Odets’ None but the Lonely Heart in 1944.) Cockney was not, however, Cary Grant’s original accent. He was born and grew up in Bristol, which has a very different accent from that of London, although it was much closer to Grant’s pre-Hollywood accent than the voice he used in most films, an essentially successful product of his attempting to sound more American in order to broaden the range of roles for which he could be cast.

	
Sylvia Scarlett.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/E53FF2FF35B3CA9/Sylvia_Scarlett.mkv

Language(s):English, French
Subtitles:English French

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A girl named Jung-min writes to a young man named Hyun-jun, who is serving in the army. She lies about her age and claims to be a teacher. As Jung-min turns twenty, a 30-year-old man, who has eyes filled with sadness moves into her village. Every night, he sends letters through a pigeon to a deceased woman he loved dearly. He sends them high up in the sky, knowing that he will never get a reply. Then one day, like magic, he receives a letter. The letters sent through pigeons reveal someone’s loneliness and sadness. And the two people meet each other by sheer chance…

White.Valentine.1999.1080p.NAVER.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-PandaMoon.mkv

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Korean 2.0ch AAC LC @ 320 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/3ECDC5603308EDB/White.Valentine.1999.1080p.NAVER.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-PandaMoon.mkv

Language(s):Korean
Subtitles:English

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The tale of a female trio singing and dancing in night city of Hong Kong’s everyday life.

Hong.Kong.Nocturne.1967.DVDrip.x264.mkv

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Chinese 5.1ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/E2307D0CA151F1A/Hong.Kong.Nocturne.1967.DVDrip.x264.mkv

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English, Chinese

The post Umetsugu Inoue – Xiang jiang hua yue ye AKA Hong Kong Nocturne (1967) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This film is based on a short story of the same name by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, and is the second time the novel has been brought to the screen

Moviewalker wrote:
Autumn in the early years of the Showa era. Mizuhara, a first-year high school student, came to Izuji to visit a senior novelist Sugimura, who was visiting Shuzenji. It was here that Mizuhara met a troupe of travelling entertainers, Eikichi, and together they travelled down the Izu Road from Yuka-jima to Yuka-no.

The innocent beauty of Kaoru, a dancer in the troupe, blended in with his sad travel feelings. Mizuhara walked shoulder to shoulder with Kaoru and whistled along with her singing. At night, the dancers were invited to banquets. Listening to the sound of the taiko drums, they were troubled by the thought that they might be a comfort to the drunken guests. Kaoru also felt a faint infatuation with Mizuhara, and refused an offer from Nut Junsaku of the hot-spring inn in Yukano, who was fond of her, to take her in.

	
Dancing.Girls.of.Izu.1954.1080p.WEB-DL.x264.AAC-PTerWEB.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/4F33802BB1AEADB/Dancing.Girls.of.Izu.1954.1080p.WEB-DL.x264.AAC-PTerWEB.mkv

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Subtitles:None

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EVE (1953) heralds the arrival of cinematic modernism in Europe, in the same way that Agnes Varda’s Pointe-Courte, is now considered in the bibliography to be the forerunner of the French Nouvelle Vague. Eve is the filmmaker’s first work with a plot set in the present and based on an original script that explores themes of betrayal and marital oppression through the story of a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage who begins a passionate affair. Maria Plyta created a radical representation of female sexual desire, female self-actualization, and presenting the male body as a source of visual pleasure. Additionally, with Eve, Plyta raises concerns about the institution of marriage, which can trap two people in a daily life full of anger, depression, and even hatred.

EYA (1953).mkv

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2.0ch MP2 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/0010688CEE6216D/EYA_(1953).mkv

Language(s):Greek
Subtitles:none

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letterboxd wrote:
The story of Tamikawa, a professionally and artistically burned out singer, who embarks on a search for a director named Goda. During the journey, the man not only experiences a lot of adventures, but also tries to find himself and answer the question whether he still sees his career in show business.

You.Gotta.Chance.1985.Kazuki.Omori.BDRip.mkv

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Subtitles:None

You.Gotta.Chance.1985.Kazuki.Omori.BDRip.x264.AAC.2.0.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/B247E2974BC67D7/You.Gotta.Chance.1985.Kazuki.Omori.BDRip.x264.AAC.2.0.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

Many thanks to @Evan for these copies.

The post Kazuki Ohmori – You Gotta Chance (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.

Wuthering.Heights.2026.720p.MA.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.Atmos.H.264-BYNDR.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	2h 16mn
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https://nitro.download/view/23F8E0845F405CC/Wuthering.Heights.2026.720p.MA.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.Atmos.H.264-BYNDR.mkv

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Subtitles:Multi Language

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