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Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris’ suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who’s been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution.Read More »
Dr. Conway has perfected a machine that predicts earthquakes, and has determined that one will strike California within 24 hours. A computer analysis determines that the entire world would explode within a little more than 28 days.Read More »
Two girls with the same name-Nadezhda (Hope) -live in the same apartment. Great Nadezhda is isolated from other people. She has no other aspirations than to marry a much older than her man. Over time, she will realize that this is her father, whom her mother is hiding. A small Nadezhda is the complete opposite of a great Nadezhda. She lives for others. Take care of Grandpa. She opposes rudeness and meanness. Gradually, the two girls change places. They become two parts of one whole.Read More »
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On April 27, 1937, in the midst of a grueling and increasingly brutal Spanish Civil War, the
ancient Basque town of Guernica was subjected to an extended duration bombardment
campaign by German forces in an unrelenting aerial campaign designed to demoralize the
collective psyche of the Basque nation and to also show camaraderie (and military
alliance) with the nationalists under Generalissimo Francisco Franco.Read More »
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Domineering Harriet Craig holds more regard for her home and its possessions than she does for any person in her life. Among those she treats like household objects are her kind husband Walter, whom she has lied to about her inability to have children; her cousin Claire, whom she treats like a secretary; and her servants whom she treats like slaves.Read More »
A deceitful and unemployed 40-year-old man returns to the house of his mother, who has recently passed away, to spend time with his alcoholic father and with a strange monster that oozes skin pieces, employed as fabric on the family’s tailor shop business.Read More »
John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather, Part Two, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Deer Hunter – each was nominated for Best Picture. Yet today most people don’t even know his name. I KNEW IT WAS YOU is a fresh tour through movies that defined a generation.Read More »
A refugee arrives at the home of an upper-class family in London and seduces each member of the family. When he suddenly is gone, he leaves behind a void that the rest try to fill in different ways.Read More »
Period action/melodrama. In 1840, retainers of the Tokugawa Shoganate harshly compete with each other in deciding the successor of the 14th Shogun Iemochi. Among them is Lord Nakano, known as the Baron of Mukōjima. To establish his grandson, Inuchiyo, as the most promising candidate, he makes efforts to get the official permission from Ienari, a retired Shogun, but who is still seizing power in place of sickly Iemochi. For Nakano, the most reliable underling is his daughter-in-law, Lady Omiyo, who has long been gaining Ienari’s favor. But not only because Ienari has problems in his health for his age, but because Omiyo’s servant, Tomi, is indeed a spy sent by Shimada Matazaemon, the rival of Nakano, he cannot advance the scario as he originally planned. Read More »