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Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Amanda Plummer and Mercedes Ruehl star in Terry Gilliam's must-see comic masterpiece. Williams is Parry, a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Bridges co-stars as Jack, New York's No. 1 shock DJ, whose off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy which ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviours... Parry. And so the amazing story of the Fisher King unfolds - a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail, filled with humour, heartbreak and ravishing romance. - Director:
- Terry Gilliam
- Cast:
- Jeff Bridges, Caroline Cromelin, Kathleen Bridget Kelly
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Talented rock star John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson) has seen his career begin to decline. Too many years of concerts and managers and life on the road have made him cynical and the monotony has taken its toll. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman (Barbra Streisand). As one of his songs in the movie says "I'm gonna take you girl, I'm gonna show you how". And he does. He shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent. A love story for the time - and a great film it is. - Director:
- Frank Pierson
- Cast:
- Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey
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Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles Laughton) is the owner of a well established boot shop in nineteenth century Salford, Lancashire and the father of three daughters. The oldest, Maggie (Brenda De Banzie), shoulders both home and business responsibilities while Hobson whiles the time away at the local pub. The younger sisters are both being courted by neighbours, but Hobson refuses to give the couples settlements. Maggie becomes tired of his oafish behaviour and decides to take matters into her hands by seeking a husband. Much to the hilarity and consternation of her father, aged spinster Maggie sets her sights on shy Will Mossop (John Mills), Hobson's master boot-maker. Mossop is at first stunned by the suggestion, but eventually agrees to Maggie's authoritative persuasion, and together they set up a rival boot shop. - Director:
- David Lean
- Cast:
- Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie
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Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten) is a struggling and mostly failing New York artist until one day, in Central Park, he meets Jennie (Jennifer Jones). Jennie seems to possess an almost mystical quality and as Eben sketches her, his work shows more expression and emotion than anything he has ever done before. But before he knows it, Jennie has disappeared. Eben frantically searches for his mysterious model and when they meet again a few weeks later, Jennie seems to have aged several years. What then unfolds is one of the most unusual and unforgettable love stories ever told as they are both swept up in a strange love that even time cannot contain. - Director:
- William Dieterle
- Cast:
- Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore
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Convicted counterfeiter Tris Stewart (Lloyd Bridges) is offered early release from prison in return for helping the US Treasury Agents track down his former partners-in-crime. Unwilling to cooperate, Stewart manages to escape, unwittingly playing straight into the T-Men's hands. Directed with style and a documentary feel by Richard Fleischer, no-one is quite what they seem! 'Trapped' is superbly lit, with crisp, intelligent dialogue - a top notch Film Noir with an explosive ending. - Director:
- Richard Fleischer
- Cast:
- Lloyd Bridges, William Woodson, Barbara Payton
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Head Against the Wall (1959)La Tete Contre Les Murs
Mocky plays François Gérane, an aimless young man whose delinquent tendencies cause his father to have him committed to a psychiatric ward. There, under the cold command of Dr. Varmont, he finds himself fighting for his dignity, sanity, and freedom, barely holding on through the new-found love of his girlfriend Stephanie and the promise of rival Dr. Emery's more humane techniques. - Director:
- Georges Franju
- Cast:
- Pierre Brasseur, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Mocky
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Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the towns most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom... blood red. - Director:
- Ana Lily Amirpour
- Cast:
- Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh
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When career thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall) meets glamorous pickpocket Lily (Miriam Hopkins), their love soon takes on a professional dimension as they initiate a plot to rob beautiful perfume magnate Mariette Colet (Kay Francis). But as Gaston gets ever closer to his intended prey, his romantic confusion, as well as the threat that his past will catch up with him, throws their plan into jeopardy. - Director:
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Cast:
- Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
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Hour of the Wolf (1968)Vargtimmen
Haunted by demons past and present, artist Johan Borg (Max Von Sydow) fights a losing battle to retain his sanity and maintain his artistic prowess. His wife Alma (Liv Ullmann), desperate to help him, finds herself starting to share his hallucinations. But as Johan's mind continues to unravel, Alma is forced to choose between her love... and her life. - Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
- Cast:
- Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh
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Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)Di qiu zui hou de ye wan
Luo (Jue Huang) returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years before. Luo recalls the death of an old friend, Wildcat (Hong-Chi Lee), and searches for his lost love Wan Qiwen (Wei Tang) who continues to haunt him. Bi's film sculpts time and space with huge virtuosity. With talismanic cues and motifs of uncanny doubling, the film is bisected, its first half recast in the second through a vertiginous, trance-inducing, hour-long single take in 3D. A hypnotic study of hazy memory, lost time, and flight, 'Long Day's Journey into Night' take you on a nocturnal, labyrinthine voyage. - Director:
- Gan Bi
- Cast:
- Wei Tang, Jue Huang, Sylvia Chang
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Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki (2016)Owaranai Hito: Miyazaki Hayao
In 2013, Academy Award-winning (2014: Honorary Award; 2002: Best Animated Feature, Spirited Away) film director and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, creator of such legendary films as 'Howl's Moving Castle' and 'My Neighbor Totoro', suddenly announced his retirement. But still he couldn't shake his burning desire to create. After an encounter with young CGI animators, Miyazaki embarks on a new project using these techniques. But the artist, who has been adamant about hand-drawn animation, confronts many challenges that threaten to cancel the film. Can an old master who thinks he's past his prime shine once again? Shot over two years, 'Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki' provides a unique, fascinating glimpse into the mind and creative process of one of animation's most iconic storytellers. - Director:
- Kaku Arakawa
- Cast:
- Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki, Yuhei Sakuragi
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After a brutal raid on a Hatton Garden diamond merchant, a man lies dead and the finger of guilt points straight towards Janine Heining (Janine Gray), an employee who's conveniently gone missing. But Janine is innocent; she's is suffering from amnesia after being struck during the hold-up. And the cops aren't the only ones who want to find her: the ruthless villains are hot on her trail. As she stumbles through London trying to remember who she is, the net draws ever tighter... - Director:
- John Gilling
- Cast:
- Janine Gray, Glyn Houston, Dyson Lovell
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Alice in the Cities (1974)Alice in den Städten
Philip Winter (Rüdiger Vogler), a journalist with writer's block, becomes the guardian of eight year-old Alice (Yella Rottlander) when her mother leaves the girl with him briefly at an American airport, only never to return. Back in Germany, an unlikely friendship develops between the two as they embark on a journey to find Alice's grandmother. - Director:
- Wim Wenders
- Cast:
- Yella Rottländer, Rüdiger Vogler, Lisa Kreuzer
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From Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon, it's the tail end of the psychedelic '60s and paranoia is running the day from the desert to the sea of sunny Southern California. With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, the FBI, LAPD detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, a group of Beverly Hills dentists and a mysterious entity called The Golden Fang, everything's gone from "groovy" to "where you at, man?" in what seems like a matter of moments. So when private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady Shasta Fay shows up at his door with a story about her current billionaire land-developer boyfriend and his wife and her boyfriend...well it all starts to get a little peculiar after that. Maybe you'll just want to see the movie? - Director:
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Cast:
- Joaquin Phoenix, Alina Gatti, Josh Brolin
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The Ghost (2010)The Ghost Writer
Following the tragic death of his ghost writer, British ex-prime minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan) hires a journalist (Ewan McGregor) to complete his memoirs. No sooner has he arrived at the Lang's isolated island retreat to begin the job, when scandal arises, and a huge political storm breaks. With reporters and protesters swarming to the Martha's vineyard mansion where Lang is staying with his wife Ruth (Olivia Williams) and his media-handler turned mistress Amelia (Kim Cattrall), the ghost is trapped within the confines of the estate and is quickly drawn into the political and sexual affairs at play there. More troubling still, as the ghost researches his subject begins to uncover clues suggesting his predecessor had stumbled on a dark secret in Adam Lang's past. Suddenly, it begins to seem likely that his untimely death might not have been an accident after all… - Director:
- Roman Polanski
- Cast:
- Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams
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