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Pierrot le Fou (1965)Pierrot Goes Wild / Crazy Pete
Based on Lionel White's novel 'Obsession', 'Pierrot le Fou' transforms a story about a couple on the run into an entertaining, existential romance. Tired of his bourgeois life, Ferdinand Griffon (Jean-Paul Belmondo) leaves his wife and elopes with his former baby sitter, Marianne (Anna Karina). When a dead body is found in Marianne's apartment, the two lovers flee to the South of France in a futile bid to escape Marianne's dangerous past. - Director:
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast:
- Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
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"Expresso Bongo" takes the lid off the seedier side of showbiz! Cliff Richard plays Bongo Herbert, a young singer, playing for peanuts in Soho's sleazy clubs with its striptease snows, clip joints and teenage dens. He becomes an overnight success when taken up by wide boy showbiz agent Johnny (a brilliant performance from Laurence Harvey) but at what price? Cliff's first role is packed with punch and the great soundtrack includes the hit single Voice in the Wilderness and I've Never had It So Good. His co-stars include Yolande Donlan, as man-crazy American singer Dixie Collins and Sylvia Syms cast against type as a dancer in a strip show. - Director:
- Val Guest
- Cast:
- Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan
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Yul Brynner stars as the legendary King Solomon in what is considered to be the most spectacular motion picture of its time. When Solomon is chosen to succeed his father, King David, he vows to rebuild Jerusalem and lead Israel to great strength. However, his jealous brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharaoh, and the seductive Queen of Sheba conspire against Solomon to bring down his throne. This mighty epic was director King Vidor's final film and colourfully portrays some of the greatest rulers, kingdoms and battles in biblical history. - Director:
- King Vidor
- Cast:
- Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders
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The true story of Elis Regina, undoubtedly the greatest Brazilian singer of all time, is told with all the energetic and pulsating rhythm of her music. Winner of eight 2017 Brazilian Academy of Cinema Awards, including Best Actress for Andreia Horta as Elis, the film tells of her ascension from humble origins in an impoverished village in the country to the glamour of Rio de Janeiro. Despite her fl swift rise to success and international recognition before the age of 20, Elis' life was filled with tumult and tragedy. - Director:
- Hugo Prata
- Cast:
- Andréia Horta, Gustavo Machado, Caco Ciocler
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Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)Doppelgänger
Sci-fi adventure and suspense has never been more exciting or intense as when you Journey to the Far Side of the Sun. One hundred years in the future two astronauts are sent to uncover the secrets of a "duplicate" Earth on the other side of the Sun. When they crash land three weeks earlier than they had planned they must embark on a life-or-death mission to determine whether they have arrived back home or on the strange mirror world. - Director:
- Robert Parrish
- Cast:
- Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Patrick Wymark
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Day for Night (1973)La nuit américaine
At the Victorine Studios in Nice, a French movie-maker, Ferrand (Francois Truffaut) starts shooting his latest film: "Meet Pamela". As ever, this proves eventful from the outset: ups and downs on the shoot, actors whims, complicated love-lives and the producer putting on the pressure... Ferrand wonders whether his film will ever get made. In 'Day for Night', Truffaut provides the answer to the question asked by all film lovers "what goes on behind the cameras?". He films the shoot as it really is, straightforwardly, without artefacts, with honesty and accuracy, making it seem like a documentary. Often funny, sometimes tragic, 'Day for Night' is one of Truffaut's most autobiographical films and won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1973. - Director:
- François Truffaut
- Cast:
- Jacqueline Bisset, Georges Delerue, Jean-Pierre Léaud
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Fathom Harvill (Raquel Welch), a beautiful skydiver, is in Spain with a U.S. parachute team. She is abducted by a man called Timothy (Richard Briers) and taken to see Douglas Campbell (Ronald Fraser), who says he is a Scottish agent working for NATO and wants Fathom to help him find a triggering mechanism for a nuclear weapon that has gone missing in the Mediterranean. The device is hidden inside a figurine known as the Fire Dragon. In hot pursuit of it is an Armenian man named Serapkin (Clive Revill) who is working on behalf of Communist Chinese interests. Fathom skydives into the villa of a second man, Peter Merriwether (Anthony Franciosa), who has a trusted Chinese assistant Jo-May Soon (Greta Chi), and is also searching for the figurine. Fathom discovers that the Fire Dragon was stolen from a Far East museum by a Korean War deserter who is now being tracked by a private investigator. Campbell is one and Merriwether the other, but Fathom needs to find out for certain which is which. After fending off a Serapkin knife attack and another from a harpoon, Fathom finds the figurine in a makeup case. She concludes that Campbell is the trustworthy one and boards a plane with Timothy and him, who promptly attempt to toss her from it. Merriwether arrives in another plane, disposes of Fathom's enemies and rescues her. - Director:
- Leslie H. Martinson
- Cast:
- Anthony Franciosa, Raquel Welch, Ronald Fraser
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Professional photographer Thomas saw nothing. And he saw everything. Enlargements of pictures he secretly took of a romantic couple in the park reveal a murder in progress. Or do they? Blowup is an influential, stylish study of paranoid intrigue and disorientation. It is also a time capsule of mod London, a mindscape of the era's fashions, free love, parties, music (Herbie Hancock wrote the score and The Yardbirds riff at a club) and hip langour. David Hemmings plays the jaded photog enlivened by the mystery in his photos. Vanessa Redgrave is the elusive woman pictured in them. And the enigma of what you see, what you don't see and what the camera sees is yours to solve. - Director:
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Cast:
- David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles
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Rex Black (Laurence Harvey) has successfully faked his death in a plane crash and escaped to sunny Málaga under a new identity, waiting for his wife Stella (Lee Remick) to arrive with £50,000 of life insurance money. It's the start of a blissful, trouble-free new life for the couple - until Stephen (Alan Bates), the insurance agent in charge of investigating Rex's death, suddenly arrives in town. Is he just holidaying in Spain, as he claims, or is he on assignment to foil Rex's scheme? - Director:
- Carol Reed
- Cast:
- Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates
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Desperate to win the girl of his dreams, timid short order cook Stanley Moon sells his soul to the devil (aka George Spiggott) for seven wishes. With the magic words 'Julie Andrews' he becomes everything from a rock star to an intellectual to try and impress her. But the 'horned one' has a wicked sense of fun (he tears the last page out of Agatha Christie novels) so things never quite go according to plan. - Director:
- Stanley Donen
- Cast:
- Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron
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The Criminal (1960)Concrete Jungle
Ex-con Johnny (Stanley Baker) used his time in prison wisely - to plan the biggest robbery of his career. The robbery goes smoothly and Johnny goes to bury the money in a field until the heat is off, as agreed with friend and racketeer Mike Carter (Sam Wanamaker) and the rest of the gang. In a moment of weakness, Johnny pockets five hundred odd pounds from the haul. Coupled with a tip-off from his ex-girlfriend (Jill Bennett) this proves to be his undoing and Johnny is soon back in prison. The rest of the gang try in vain to get the location of the money out of him without success until Mike hits upon the idea of a break-out using Johnny's new love Suzanne (Margit Saad) as bait. - Director:
- Joseph Losey
- Cast:
- Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan
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A later collaboration between James Mason and Carol Reed, 'The Man Between' is often considered a companion piece to The Third Man thanks to its atmospheric portrayal of a city struggling to survive in a grim post-war reality of poverty and mistrust The action is transposed to a divided Berlin, and to the beginning of the Cold War. Unlike the devilish Harry Lime, Mason's world-weary dealer Ivo Kern is ultimately still a decent man, compelled by his love for a naive schoolteacher (Claire Bloom) to make one last misguided trip through the Brandenburg Gate, with potentially tragic consequences. - Director:
- Carol Reed
- Cast:
- James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef
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France 1940. As Hitler's armies take control of Paris and bring total occupation to France, Lucile (Michelle Williams) awaits news from her husband who is being held a prisoner of war. Living with her mother-in-law (Kristin Scott Thomas) and leading a stifled existence in a town struggling to cope with their terrifying German rulers, Lucile's life is turned upside down when a handsome and charming German officer (Matthias Schoenaerts) is posted to live with them. Despite their hopeless situation they find themselves drawn to each other, until the desperate realities of war threaten to destroy them. - Director:
- Saul Dibb
- Cast:
- Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Margot Robbie
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Montag (Oskar Werner), a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden books, meets a revolutionary school teacher (Julie Christie) who dares to read. Suddenly, he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between his rebellious mistress and his pleasure-seeking conformist wife (also played by Julie Christie), but between personal safety and intellectual freedom. - Director:
- François Truffaut
- Cast:
- Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack
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In the 1960s, no star burned brighter than original "It" girl Edie Sedgwick. Starring Sienna Miller in a "captivating, compelling and absurdly sexy" performance (Terry Lawson), Factory Girl follows Edie's meteoric rise from art student to the top of New York's fashion scene. As the muse of pop artist Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce), Edie paid a steep price for fame. An intoxicating journey through pop-culture history, Factory Girl takes us inside Warhol's legendary studio, where the worlds of art, fashion and celebrity all collided. - Director:
- George Hickenlooper
- Cast:
- Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen
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