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North by Northwest (1959)Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest / Breathless / In a North West Direction / In a Northwesterly Direction / The CIA Story / The Man in Lincoln's Nose
Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is not a spy. And he's certainly no murderer. Nevertheless, Thornhill's a wanted man: enemy agents want him dead, the police want him arrested, and a cool, mysterious blonde (Eva Marie Saint) just plain wants him. A victim of mistaken identity, Thornhill can't afford to make any mistakes of his own - so he embarks on a death-defying run for his life. Relentlessly pursued by plane, train and automobile, Thornhill's cross-country chase finally ends atop Mt. Rushmore where, if he doesn't watch his step, he could be in for a terrible fall. - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
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Nine-year-old Abel (Christopher Ruíz-Esparza) hasn't spoken since his father left home. But then, believing himself to be the head of the family, his speech returns. As he supervises his siblings' homework and interrogates his sister's new boyfriend, no one dares challenge this miracle. Then one day, a man shows up at the door: his father. - Director:
- Diego Luna
- Cast:
- Christopher Ruíz-Esparza, Karina Gidi, José María Yazpik
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Beautiful Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the strange and horrible death of her cousin. Catherine's aunt, Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn) tries to influence Dr. Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift), a young neurosurgeon, to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilising injections of Sodium Pentothal, Dr. Cukrowicz discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true. He then must confront Violet about her own involvement in her son's lurid death... - Director:
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Cast:
- Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
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When a young actress (Kristy McNichol) adopts a stray white Alsatian she hit with her car, she soon discovers that the dog has been conditioned to attack any black person on sight. Its only chance is Keys (Paul Winfield), an animal trainer focused on breaking the dog's behaviour and finding a way to eradicate its vicious instincts. - Director:
- Samuel Fuller
- Cast:
- Kristy McNichol, Christa Lang, Vernon Weddle
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Angel and Tony (2010)Angèle et Tony
Angele (Clotilde Hesme) arrives at a remote Normandy fishing village and meets trawler owner Tony (Gregory Gadebois) via a lonely hearts ad. Finding "true love" is the last thing on her mind, and her crude attempt to seduce Tony fails. Much to the dismay of his mother, Tony gives Angele a room in their house and a job working on the port. Angele has come to Normandy in an attempt to reconnect with her estranged son, who lives with his paternal grandparents due to her tumultuous past. When the truth is finally revealed, Tony has to decide if he should help her fulfill her dream. - Director:
- Alix Delaporte
- Cast:
- Clotilde Hesme, Grégory Gadebois, Evelyne Didi
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Frank Borzage: Vol.2: Lucky Star / Liliom (1930)Lucky Star / Liliom
Frank Borzage, the sensitive actor-turned-director famed for his mystical romanticism, created some of Hollywood's most acclaimed and sensual films.
Lucky Star (1929)Feature sees the great romantic screen pairing of Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell for a third time. The chemistry is palpable in this tale of a poverty-stricken girl (and budding crook) who is transformed through her friendship with a wheelchair-bound Great War veteran.
Liliom (1930)
Based on Ferenc Molnar's celebrated play which was later remade as the much-loved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel, charts the troubled relationship between Farrell's Liliom (Charles Farrell), a fairground barker, and Julie (Rose Hobart), the woman who loves him despite his flaws.- Director:
- Frank Borzage
- Cast:
- Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Paul Fix, Hedwiga Reicher
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The Beaches of Agnes (2008)Les Plages d'Agnès
Weaving present day sequences with photography, scenes from her own films and portraits of her friends and family, the legendary French auteur Agnes Varda takes us on a memorable voyage through her life, during which she confronts the joys of creation and artistic success and the pain of personal loss and ageing. It is a singular and stirring trip through events of the second half of the 20th Century: China and Cuba Revolutions, Women's Movement, New Wave cinema history and so on... - Director:
- Agnès Varda
- Cast:
- Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier
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The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)Bad Ma Ra Khahad Bord
Film documents the arrival of an engineer and his colleagues from Tehran in a remote village in Iranian Kurdistan. Assumed by the locals - with whom they form an ambivalent relationship - to be archaeologists or telecom engineers, the visitors' behaviour and keen interest in the health of an ailing old woman appear strange and their true motives are shrouded in mystery. Haunting and visually stunning, feature is an absorbing, abstract meditation on life and death and the divisions between tradition and modernity. - Director:
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast:
- Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi
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When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than any they've ever encountered. Mother Nature! - Director:
- Roland Emmerich
- Cast:
- Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum
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The Girl from Paris (2000)Une hirondelle - a fait le printempts
Fed up with city life, Sandrine (Mathilde Seigner) decides to leave Paris and live out her dream of becoming a farmer. It's love at first sight when she comes across a farmstead on the Vercors plateau, which she takes over from cantankerous farming veteran Adrien (Michel Serrault). Sandrine is confident she can run the farm by herself but Adrien is sceptical; the trials of the oncoming winter will prove them both wrong. - Director:
- Christian Carion
- Cast:
- Michel Serrault, Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Paul Roussillon
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Barbershop: A Fresh Cut (2016)Barbershop: The Next Cut
It's been more than 10 years since our last appointment at Calvin's Barbershop. Calvin (Ice Cube) and his longtime crew, including Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer), are still there, but the shop has undergone some major changes. Most noticeably, our once male-dominated sanctuary is now co-ed. The ladies bring their own flavour, drama and gossip, challenging the fellas at every turn. Despite the good times and camaraderie within the group, the surrounding community has taken a turn for the worse, forcing Calvin and his crew to come together to not only save the shop, but their neighbourhood. - Director:
- Malcolm D. Lee
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- Ice Cube, Regina Hall, Anthony Anderson
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To the enigmatic question "Who are Seconds?", the film's original poster responded: "The answer is almost too terrifying for words.... The story of a man who buys for himself a totally new life. A man who lives the age-old dream - If only I could live my life all over again. " John Frankenheimer directs Rock Hudson as a "second": that is, the newly plastic-surgery altered "reboot" of, in this instance, a listless banker named Arthur Hamilton. Such procedures are carried out by a secret organization known only as "The Company," with the promise of giving an individual a chance at making a fresh start at life... but at what cost? Master lighting cameraman James Wong Howe provides the paranoiac atmosphere to the skewed reality of what came to be widely considered one of Frankenheimer's very best films. - Director:
- John Frankenheimer
- Cast:
- Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph
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From Rachel Field's fact-based bestseller, the story follows Henrietta (Bette Davis), governess at the Paris home of the Duc de Praslin (Charles Boyer) and his jealous wife (Barbara O'Neil). When governess and nobleman are drawn to each other, the Duchess erupts in fury...and meets a bloody fate. Soon Henriette and the Duc face a world eager to believe the Duc murdered his wife. And that gentle Henriette was a willing accomplice. - Director:
- Anatole Litvak
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- Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn
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The Watermelon Woman was the name given to the mythical Fae Richards, a beautiful yet elusive black actress from the 1930's. In all her films it was her only billing. Why should that be? It is a mystery that perplexes Cheryl , a young black film maker. She sets out to solve the mystery by making a documentary about this forgotten star. Her research takes her from the depths of a terrifying "lesbian archive", to the heights of academia, with the irrepressible Camille Paglia giving an impromptu lecture on the hidden meaning of "watermelons". Cheryl has a full time job that supports her aspiring film making career, working in a local video store. There she meets and falls deeply in love with Diana , one of her customers. A sizzling affair ensues and while Cheryl's research answers many secrets about the actress's life, each answer opens a Pandora's box of questions; about Fae and also about Cheryl, her relationship with Diana and her future. - Director:
- Cheryl Dunye
- Cast:
- Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker
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Cowardly scholar Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) has the hots for the beautiful Sonja (Diane Keaton), but cold feet for the Napoleonic Wars. Devastated by news of Sonja's plans to wed a foul-smelling herring merchant, Boris enlists in the army only to return home a penniless hero! Finally agreeing to marry him, Sonja settles down with poor Boris to a rich life of philosophy, celibacy and meals of snow. But when the French troops invade Russia and Sonja hatches a zany scheme to assassinate Napoleon, Boris learns - in a hilarious but fatal coup attempt - that God is an underachiever, there are no girls in the afterlife and the Angel of Death just can't be trusted! - Director:
- Woody Allen
- Cast:
- Woody Allen, Norman Rose, Diane Keaton
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