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When newly weds (Ian Carmichael) and Peggy (Janette Scott) face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid (Sid James) and Sandra (Liz Fraser) on a local trip down the river to Folkstone, but somehow they end up in France. With no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate measures to sail their way back home. - Director:
- C.M. Pennington-Richards
- Cast:
- Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Sidney James
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Peter Sellers plays both Sir John Kennaway and the tragic-comic trade union leader Fred Kite. The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satiric edge, lampooning the then-burning issue of industrial relations. Bertram Tracepurcel (Dennis Price) plans to make a fortune from a missile contract, a scheme that involves manipulating his innocent nephew Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) into acting as the catalyst in an escalating labour dispute, from which the socialist Mr. Kite (Irene Handl) is only too keen to make capital. - Director:
- John Boulting
- Cast:
- Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers
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The Passenger (1975)Professione: reporter
When a fellow traveler dies suddenly, burned-out journalist David Locke (Jack Nicholson) assumes his identity. Using the dead man's datebook as a guide, Locke travels throughout Europe and Africa, taking meetings with dangerous gun runners and falling for a beguiling young woman (Maria Schneider). But his exciting newfound freedom carries a fateful price as Locke gradually realizes he is in over his head. - Director:
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Cast:
- Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre
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Experience Orson Welles' timeless masterpiece, 'Touch of Evil', complete and uncut with restored footage for the first time ever! This exceptional film noir portrait of corruption and morally-compromised obsessions stars Welles as Hank Quinlan, a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. Charlton Heston plays an honorable Mexican narcotics investigator who clashes with the bigoted Quinlan after probing into his dark past. A memorable supporting cast including Janet Leigh as Heston's inquisitive wife, Akim Tamiroff as a seedy underworld leader, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Marlene Dietrich as an enigmatic gypsy complete this fascinating drama engulfed in haunting cinematography and a magnificently eerie score by Henry Mancini. - Director:
- Orson Welles
- Cast:
- Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh
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Robert Redford is Mister Straight. Jane Fonda is his new wife, who dedicates her life to the pursuit of fun. As the ecstasy of the honeymoon gives way to the reality of setting up housekeeping in a five-flight walk-up, the harmony of marriage turns to comical discord. The mother-in-law complains meekly. The middle-aged Lothario upstairs flirts. Joy turns to anguish. There is little doubt that the young people will kiss and make up by the end of the picture, just as there's little doubt that the mother and the neighbour will find each other. - Director:
- Gene Saks
- Cast:
- Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer
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Jubilee Close, a drab street of decaying houses in London's Battersea, is home to a cross-section of working-class families. Yearning to escape from this depressing environment is the pretty, ambitious Margery Graham (June Ritchie); the victim of an enforced marriage, she is tied to a lazy, boorish husband and young daughter. Margery lives next door to her widowed mother who, in order to make ends meet, has taken in a lodger, Harry (Ian Hendry) - a slick, unscrupulous salesman with a roving eye and a more-than-neighbourly interest in Margery... - Director:
- Sidney Hayers
- Cast:
- Ian Hendry, June Ritchie, Avice Landone
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After saving the lives of his platoon during the Korean War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) is hailed as a bona fide American hero. This couldn't have come at a better time for his mother (Angela Lansbury) who is hell-bent on boosting the career of his stepfather, a senator straight from the McCarthyite wing of the US political spectrum with designs on the Presidency. So far so familiar - but why does Shaw's former captain (Frank Sinatra) have recurring nightmares that suggest that his distinguished comrade-in-arms might not be all that he seems? - Director:
- John Frankenheimer
- Cast:
- Frank Sinatra, Paul Frees, Laurence Harvey
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The letter of the title is written with a poisonous pen: the three women (portrayed by Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, and Ann Sothern) receive a note stating that one of their husbands has run off with a woman named Addie Ross - which husband in particular, however, remains unmentioned, though each husband had their own affinity for Ross. And so amid the women's mounting anxiety commences a series of flashbacks, each telling the story of how the three individual marriages had come in their own way to be so strained at the present... - Director:
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Cast:
- Celeste Holm, Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell
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Rock Hudson and George Peppard star in this explosive hard-hitting World War II epic. Based on a true incident, this exciting drama follows a convoy of British and German-Jewish commandos as they cross 800 miles of the Libyan desert to blow up a key Nazi fortress at Tobruk, which is guarded by General Rommel's crack troops. Hudson plays a Canadian officer who is shanghaied into joining the daring raid, while Peppard plays the determined leader of the German-Jewish unit, battling Allied prejudice along with enemy fire. Directed by Arthur Hiller, this suspense-packed adventure against all odds climaxes in one of the most spectacular fiery finales ever to hit the screen. - Director:
- Arthur Hiller
- Cast:
- Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green
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From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis). The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend (Gary Merrill), her playwright (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife (Celeste Holm). Only the cynical drama critic (George Sanders) sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit. Thelma Ritter and Marilyn Monroe co-star in this acclaimed classic, which won six Academy Awards and received the most nominations (14) in film history. - Director:
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Cast:
- Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
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Bed and Board (1970)Domicile Conjugal
Antoine Doinel has married Christine Darbon. He's working for a florist tinting flowers in the courtyard of the building where they live. Their neighbours are an eccentric bunch including an opera singer and his wife, a man in voluntary confinement, a waitress in love, and a mysterious man nicknamed "the strangler". Antoine begins working for an American company and shortly afterwards finds that Christine is to have a baby. But here Antoine and Christine's happiness ceases as Antoine become obsessed with Kyoko a beautiful, exciting Japanese girl he meets at work and becomes more and more distant from Christine. - Director:
- François Truffaut
- Cast:
- Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut, Claude Jade
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The Wild Child (1970)L'Enfant Sauvage
At the National Institute For The Deaf and Dumb in Paris, a barely clothed and dirty young boy is admitted. Found in a forest, the child is unable to speak, communicate or function in society. Christened Victor by the hospital staff, his case is taken up by Doctor Itard, a lone physician who has an unyielding dedication to re-integrating the lad into society. But the road to tame the beast is a rocky one and Itard will have to work tirelessly to teach Victor how to reclaim his place in the world...even if it means staking his reputation on it! - Director:
- François Truffaut
- Cast:
- François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol, Françoise Seigner
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Love on the Run (1979)L'amour En Fuite
The last instalment of the Antoine Doinel story, Love On The Runs see Antoine and his wife Christine in the final stages of their divorce after five years together. When, Antoine by chance meets up with his first love Collette, they reminisce on his past relationships including his infidelities and Antoine realises that he wants to share his life with his new love Sabine. - Director:
- François Truffaut
- Cast:
- Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier
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A Journey Through French Cinema (2016)Voyage à travers le cinéma français
French director, screenwriter, actor and producer Bertrand Tavernier looks at the rich history of French cinema and its impact on his life, from his youth as a movie buff to his own career as a filmmaker. Along the way, he explores the works of acclaimed French directors such as Jacques Becker, Jean-Pierre Melville, Claude Sautet, Frangois Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard. - Director:
- Bertrand Tavernier
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- Bertrand Tavernier, André Marcon, Thierry Frémaux
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Inspired, inspiring, tender and touching, 'Stories We Tell' is a brilliant documentary portrait of a complicated yet deeply loving family from Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley. Taking her cue from a family joke about-not resembling her father, Polley sets out to uncover the truth about her mysterious mother and her own uncertain lineage. Playfully yet pointedly interrogating a cast of blood relatives and family friends, she slowly pieces together a puzzle of conflicting stories, myths and memories until she makes a discovery that will shake her family to the core.
At once an exploration of the function of storytelling, the elusive nature of truth and what it means to be part of a family, 'Stories We Tell' is funny, profound, poignant and one of the most original films of the year.- Director:
- Sarah Polley
- Cast:
- Michael Polley, John Buchan, Mark Polley
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