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Beautiful Josie Winters (Marlene Dietrich) inspires coal-mining buddies Cash Evans (Randolph Scott) and Pittsburgh Markham (John Wayne) to better their lots in life. Competing for Josie's affection, the men rapidly climb to the top of their profession. Josie eventually falls for Pittsburgh, who spurns her love to marry for power. While ruthlessness becomes Pitt's ruin, Cash marries Josie and builds a profitable business of his own. It wakes a world war to reunite the feuding friends, who won't let their patriotism be overshadowed by an age-old rift. - Director:
- Lewis Seiler
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- Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Randolph Scott
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The Eight Hundred (2020)Ba Bai
Shanghai 1937: it's been three months since Japan launched the invasion of China, and Japanese forces have been ordered to take control of a large central warehouse. Inside, a group of Chinese soldiers hold their ground, defending the city at any cost. 400 soldiers remain, yet they allow invaders to believe there are 800, confusing the enemy in an exhausting, bloody fight lasting four days and four nights. With the conflict playing out in full view of Chinese civilians and both Americans and Europeans living across the river, the battle of the "Eight Hundred heroes" made world headlines; the first to be broadcast live around the world. - Director:
- Hu Guan
- Cast:
- Zhi-zhong Huang, Zhang Junyi, Hao Ou
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The Dawns Here are Quiet (1972)A zori zdes tikhie
The setting is Karelia, (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWIl. Far from the front line action, Corporal Vaskov is stationed with a group of young women soldiers to guard an anti-aircraft artillery position. The quiet and serene wilderness is abruptly interrupted when one of the women discovers two German paratroopers nearby. Vaskov decides to take his group of five women to apprehend them but they run into a larger enemy patrol. Now, in this deadly fight he must engage the enemy with only his small band of outnumbered patriots. Each heroine has her own story to tell as they tight to save their motherland. - Director:
- Stanislav Rostotsky
- Cast:
- Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova, Olga Ostroumova
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Not Here to Be Loved (2005)Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé
Enormously charming and affecting, 'Not Here To Be Loved' tells the story of world weary Jean-Claude (Patrick Chesnais) who, tired of his job, decides on a whim to shake himself out of his rut by enrolling for tango lessons. Thee he meets Francoise (Anne Cosigney), who is learning to dance in preparation for her impending wedding. Recognising in each other a mutual longing for something more from life, Jean-Claude and Francoise put aside their natural reserve and a tentative friendship develops that may just turn their lives upside down. Played with great depth and subtlety by Chesnais and Consigny, Stephane Brize's film is a tender and beautifully observed study of two people who have never quite learned to love or be loved. - Director:
- Stéphane Brizé
- Cast:
- Patrick Chesnais, Pascal Praud, Anne Consigny
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Pigs and Battleships / Stolen Desire (1961)Buta to gunkan / Nusumareta yokujô
Imamura finally answered his true calling as Japanese cinema's most dedicated and brilliant chronicler of society's underbelly with the astonishing 'Pigs and Battleships' (Buta togunkan). A riotous portrait of sub-Yakuza gangsters battling for control of the local pork business in the U.S. Navy-occupied coastal town of Yokosuka, Imamura conjures a chaotic world of petty thugs, young love, tough-headed women, and underworld hypochondria, with one of the most unforgettable climaxes ever filmed. 'Pigs and Battleships' immediately became a cornerstone of the Japanese New Wave and remains perhaps Imamura's most well known work. The Masters oi Cinema Series is proud to present the film on its 50th anniversary in a Dual Format edition, alongside Imamura's rarely seen 1958 debut, 'Stolen Desire'. - Director:
- Shôhei Imamura
- Cast:
- Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima
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The Traitor (2019)Il Traditore
"The Traitor" tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino), the man who brought down the Cosa Nostra. In the early 1980's, an all out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazilian police, Buscetta makes a decision that will change everything for the Mafia: he decides to meet with Judge Giovanni Falcone (Fausto Russo Alesi) and betray the eternal vow he made to the Cosa Nostra. - Director:
- Marco Bellocchio
- Cast:
- Pierfrancesco Favino, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fausto Russo Alesi
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Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead in mysterious circumstances, the locals ascribe his demise to the ancient family curse - a paranormal hellhound, said to roam the moors searching for its prey. With the trusty aid of Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce), Holmes sets out to uncover the truth and solve the mystery of the terrifying hound - before another Baskerville falls victim to the family curse. - Director:
- Sidney Lanfield
- Cast:
- Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene
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Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Germany in the 1970's: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the foundations of the fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past.Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhumane means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. - Director:
- Uli Edel
- Cast:
- Ralf Tempel, Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu
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After washing up, penniless and destitute in Hong Kong in 1901, lheiji Muraoka (Ken Ogata) assimilates straight away into the local Japanese expatriate community, and is soon set up in the city as an apprentice barber. The Japanese consul has higher goals for him in mind, however, and he finds himself dispatched on a spying mission to investigate Russian military activity in Manchuria. After discovering an enclave of young Japanese women being held as prostitutes, lheiji spots an opportunity to prove his loyalty to the Emperor and make a quick buck in the process, partnering with his former sweetheart Shiho (Mitsuko Baisho) and rehabilitating a group of ex-convicts to build an enterprise that stretches to Malaysia and the Philippines. - Director:
- Shôhei Imamura
- Cast:
- Ken Ogata, Mitsuko Baishô, Chun Hsiung Ko
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At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commanding astronaut as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the astronaut's mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him. - Director:
- Egor Abramenko
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- Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov
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A two-fisted adventure tale set in South America, feature stars Cary Grant as the tough-talking head of an air-freight service operating in the dangerous Andes Mountains. Jean Arthur co-stars as a vacationing showgirl competing with Rita Hayworth for Grant's affections. A potent combination of humor, romance and action... - Director:
- Howard Hawks
- Cast:
- Jean Arthur, Cary Grant, Richard Barthelmess
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No Highway in the Sky (1951)No Highway
Considered a bit eccentric and therefore a tad unreliable, a Royal Aircraft Establishment metallurgist is still respected for his work on the company's newly designed Reindeer, aircraft. Unfortunately, the off-beat scientist has discovered that the new plane has a fatal flaw and that after spending 1,440 hours airborne, the metal in the rear will buckle and the tail will shear off. Now he must somehow convince skeptical executives that a terrible catastrophe will occur if they do not immediately ground all Reindeers. - Director:
- Henry Koster
- Cast:
- James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns
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Garbo Talks!, proclaimed ads when silent star Greta Garbo debuted in talkies. Nine years and 12 classic screen dramas later, the gifted movie legend was ready for another change. Garbo Laughs!, cheered the publicity for her first comedy, a frothy tale of a dour Russian envoy sublimating her womanhood for Soviet brotherhood until she falls for a suave Parisian man-about-town (Melvyn Douglas). Working from a cleverly barbed script written in party by Billy Wilder, director Ernst Lubitsch knew better than anyone how to marry refinement with sublime wit. "At least twice a day the most dignified human being is ridiculous", he explained about his acclaimed Lubitsch Touch. That’s how we see Garbo’s lovestruct Ninotchka: serenely dignified yet endearingly ridiculous. Garbo laughs. So will you. - Director:
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Cast:
- Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire
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Black Rain (1989)Kuroi Ame
In 1950, middle-age couple Shigematsu (Kazuo Kitamura) and Shigeko (Etsuko Ichihara) lead a tranquil village existence with Yasuko (Yoshiko Tanaka), the 25-year-old niece they have taken in as their own daughter. While Shigematsu seeks solace whiling away the long summer days with his companions and fellow bomb survivors at the local carp fishing pond, the dark oppressive clouds of the devastation of five years before loom ever present, as the couple find their repeated attempts to find a suitable marriage match for Yasuko fall through due to the suspicion that her blood is tainted from the blast. - Director:
- Shôhei Imamura
- Cast:
- Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara
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A Foreign Affair (1948)Operation Candy Bar
From the inimitable Billy Wilder (Double Indemnify, The Lost Weekend) comes this classic comedy that mixes romance with hard-boiled wit in a story about stiff-necked Iowa congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur -Shane) mired in jaded postwar Berlin. As she investigates the morale of American troops, Phoebe is cynically wooed by fellow Iowan Captain John Pringle (John Lund), who is trying to cover up his affair with Nazi-tainted chanteuse Erika von Schlutow (Marlene Dietrich). Filled with sharp dialogue and satiric jabs, 'A Foreign Affair' is one of Wilder's most beloved comedies... - Director:
- Billy Wilder
- Cast:
- Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund
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