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MV: "8.50 to Paddington Green" (1999)

PL: 'Ross Kemp' (qv) narrates this spin-off series about the everyday lives of
PL: two twelve year old girls, Lia Saville and Dominique Moore first
PL: introduced in the documentary series _"Paddington Green" (1999)_ (qv),
PL: who are seeking fame and fortune at the Sylvia Young Academy.  The
PL: academy is part school and part theatre booking agency and is well
PL: known for producing stars of film and television.

BY: Mark Smith <[e-mail]>

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MV: "Batman Beyond" (1999)

PL: At least 40 years after the "current" adventures of Batman and 20 years
PL: after Bruce Wayne retired from the role, his secret is discovered by
PL: troubled teen Terry McGinnis.  After McGinnis' father is murdered by
PL: the man who took over Bruce Wayne's company, McGinnis dons a high-tech
PL: Bat suit that Wayne last used, creating a new hero for a future Gotham.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: "Crusades" (1995)

PL: In this series, Terry Jones presents the recounting of the religious wars
PL: for control of the "Holy Lands" waged by Christian Europe against the
PL: Islamic world.  In addition, Terry Jones recreates specific aspects of
PL: those events by exploring the lives of pivotal figures, the technology
PL: and the politics of the era.  Furthermore, Terry Jones also shows how
PL: these acts of religious bigotry at its worst have led to many of the
PL: political and ethnic problems we have today.

BY: Kenneth Chisholm <[e-mail]>

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MV: "DNA^2: Dokokade nakushita aitsu no aitsu" (1994)
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MV: "Dog's Head Bay" (1999)

PL: Gary Sweet plays a headline-hugging criminal lawyer who invades a peaceful
PL: coastal retreat with his socialite wife (Susan Lyons) and brattish son
PL: (Sebastian Goldspink). Life in Dog's Head Bay will never be the same.

BY: Brendan Hill <[e-mail]>

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MV: "Get Your Act Together" (1999)

PL: Each week 'Ronan Keating' (qv) presents this talent show where two
PL: aspiring pop acts that have both benefited from the wisdom and
PL: experience of professional producers, stylists and choreographers in a
PL: bid to improve their particular act.  Culminating in a grand finale
PL: consisting of each week's winners, the finale winners will be awarded
PL: with a recording contract from a major record label.

BY: Mark Smith <[e-mail]>

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MV: "In the Red" (1998) (mini)

PL: A series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way
PL: up to Parliament.  And the killer regularly calls about his handiwork,
PL: but only to a street-wise, and usually rather tipsy, radio reporter,
PL: about to be sacked for his habitual irreverence toward his station and
PL: the BBC.  And while everything seems to point to a lead singer of a
PL: rock group famous for the "In The Red" music which has been connected
PL: to the killings, in typical British mystery fashion, there are also
PL: other sub-plots to be considered.

BY: Bob Stebbins

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MV: "Kidspeak" (1999)

PL: "Kids say and do the most unbelievable things and this is what Kidspeak is
PL: all about" says host Andrew Daddo of his latest venture which captures
PL: the young'uns up to all sorts of weird and wacky stuff. Sound familiar?
PL: Yes, kids do indeed say the darndest things but in this instance
PL: they're saying them with Australian accents.

BY: Brendan Hill <[e-mail]>

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MV: "Kopitiam" (1997)

PL: After her father's death, Marie inherits his old coffee-shop. She renovates
PL: it and calls it "Kopitiam". Her friends, Steven, a hairdresser, and
PL: Joe, an aspiring actor help her out. An annoying Singaporean lawyer,
PL: Susan, also joins the ride.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: "Pimeän hehku" (1996) (mini)

PL: Big national bank in on the verge of the fusion. Behind the scenes the game
PL: is getting rough and everyone plays by the rules most fit to
PL: themselves. Money and power make the people involved do desperate
PL: things and thus cause much harm to many innocent onlookers. This game
PL: has a connection to the daring attempt to smuggle a load of lethal
PL: plutonium from Russia to South Africa. When the carefully crafted plans
PL: start to fail the danger is more clear and present than anyone
PL: expected.

BY: T.J.A.

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MV: "PJs, The" (1999)

PL: Thurgood Stubbs lives with his wife Muriel in the housing project where he
PL: is the chief superintendent.  The show, created by Eddie Murphy (who
PL: provides Stubbs' voice), follows the adventures of the Stubbs family
PL: and the others in the building, animated through a process called
PL: 'Foamation.'

BY: Brian Barjenbruch <[e-mail]>

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MV: "Potato Factory, The" (1999) (mini)

PL: Based on Bryce Courtenay's novel of the same name, this four-hour
PL: miniseries tells the story of Ikey Solomon (Ben Cross), his wife Hannah
PL: and his mistress Mary (Lisa McCune).  Set in London and Tasmania in the
PL: middle 19th century it is the first in a trilogy of novels to be made
PL: into a mini-series.

BY: Brendan Hill <[e-mail]>

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PL: The plot basically revolves around the Pruitt family living in Long
PL: Island, who live like royalty in a huge
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PL: raise money & keep it from the IRS. As you can imagine, it
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MV: "Raccoons, The" (1982)
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PL: death of his beloved fiancee, attempts a novel form of therapy to overcome
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MV: "Royal Family, The" (1991)

PL: Al Royal (Redd Foxx) and his wife Victoria (Della Reese) had just settled
PL: down to retire when their daughter Elizabeth, newly divorced from a man
PL: that Al had always hated, moved back home with her three children,
PL: Curtis, Kim, and Hillary. Life became turbulent for Al and Victoria,
PL: who had worked so hard to "get their children out of the house."
PL: Stories revolve around Al and his grandkids, and Victoria and
PL: Elizabeth rebuilding their mother/daughter relationship.

BY: Michael Cheek

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MV: "See How They Run" (1999) (mini)

PL: Six-part thriller about a family in the Witness protection program which is
PL: uprooted from a small village in Northern England and transported to
PL: Sydney.  Based on the novel by Australian writer, David McRobbie, it
PL: stars Peter O'Brien and Anne Looby.

BY: Brendan Hill <[e-mail]>

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MV: "Tribe" (1999) (mini)

PL: Four hour action/adventure epic starring Craig McLachlan, Nadine Garner and
PL: Rachel Blakely alongside ex-Melrose Place star Antonio Sabato Jr.  Shot
PL: on Queensland in Australia the story is about a group of young sailors
PL: who are attacked by pirates and then marooned on a desert tropical
PL: island still set with booby traps from World War II.

BY: Brendan Hill <[e-mail]>

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MV: "Turkey TV" (1988)
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MV: "Virgin of the Secret Service" (1968)

PL: The dashing adventures of the British Secret Service's most heroic officer,
PL: Captain Robert Virgin. Aided in his task by the fiesty Mrs Cortez and
PL: his loyal batman Doublett, Virgin traveled the world battling evil in
PL: the name of the British Empire; frequently, this evil was represented
PL: by the dastardly Von Brauner & his twisted aide Striebeck.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: 19 djevojaka i 1 mornar (1974)

PL: A number of wounded men are escorted through a dangerous mountain path by
PL: the remaining partisans, just one man (who is the leader), and nineteen
PL: young women. Nature and the Nazi invading army are deadly enemies to be
PL: fought with determination and bravery.

BY: Artemis-9

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PL: Gambler Van Morgan runs a little card game in town but one night things get
PL: out of hand. A stranger amateurishly tries to cheat and, though Morgan
PL: tries to stop it, his fellow players string him up. The gambler leaves
PL: town but returns when he hears that the other players are being killed
PL: off one by one. It could be that someone will soon be after him too.

BY: Jeremy Perkins <[e-mail]>

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PL: Tom Welles, private eye, is hired by a wealthy widow, whose well-known
PL: husband passed away recently. She has found a reel of S8-film in a
PL: safe. On the film is a cruel slaughtering of a young girl, who
PL: obviously does not pretend or act: A snuff-movie. Welles takes up
PL: investigation, which leads him to the girl's mother and from there to
PL: Hollywood, into the office of a porn flick producer. Welles' rising
PL: obsession to solve the case also carries him away from his wife and
PL: new-born daughter. But when finally names are at hand, Welles suddenly
PL: finds himself on ice much thinner than he planned.

BY: Julian Reischl <[e-mail]>

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PL: Anton Phibes, celebre organista, dato per morto in un incidente stradale,
PL: è in realtà rimasto soltanto orribilmente sfigurato. L'uomo è convinto
PL: che la sua adorata moglie Victoria Regina, morta durante un'operazione
PL: chirurgica, sia stata vittima dell'incapacità dei medici. A distanza di
PL: anni dal fatto, Phibes comincia ad attuare la sua vendetta contro
PL: l'equipe che aveva operato la consorte. Ispirandosi alla Bibbia (le
PL: dieci piaghe che colpirono l'Egitto in seguito alla maledizione divina)
PL: e aiutato da Vulnavia, un'avvenente e silenziosa collaboratrice, Phibes
PL: uccide, uno ad uno e con i mezzi più efferati, sette medici e la capo
PL: infermiera. Capo dell'equipe che aveva operato Regina, e autore
PL: materiale dell'intervento, era stato il dottor Viesseux e a lui Phibes
PL: riserva il castigo più atroce. Gli rapisce il figliolo e lo lega ad un
PL: lettino operatorio, sul quale incombe un recipiente pieno di terribile
PL: acido. Inoltre, introduce nel torace del ragazzo una piccola chiave che
PL: serve a liberarlo. Poi convoca Viesseux, al quale ha concesso solo sei
PL: minuti di tempo per operare il figlio e salvarlo dall'acido.
PL: L'operazione riesce e sarà Vulniana ad essere corrosa dall'acido.
PL: Convinto d'aver compiuto la propria vendetta fino in fondo, Phibes si
PL: sdraia accanto al cadavere imbalsamato della moglie e, dopo essersi
PL: dissanguato, sprofonda nelle tenebre dei sotterranei della propria
PL: dimora.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Acid House, The (1998)
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MV: Adam Hart i Sahara (1990) (V)

PL: Adam Hart, investigator of the occult, and his faithful companion Victor
PL: Janis, are contacted by a young woman, Myra. She's worried there's
PL: something wrong with Robert, the man she's just married. She explains
PL: that since the day he overcame his fear of heights - to save her from
PL: falling off a bridge in front of a train - he's behaved strangely, for
PL: instance appearing in the streets while claiming to be at home. Myra,
PL: afraid that Robert will kill her, asks Adam and Victor to accompany her
PL: and Robert on their honeymoon to the Sahara Desert. They agree. On the
PL: ship bound for Tripoli, Adam and Victor meet a doctor, with whom Adam
PL: fiercely debates the existence of the supernatural. The doctor refuses
PL: any such nonsense, but Adam baffles him with his great knowledge and
PL: razor-sharp wit. Meanwhile, an unseen stranger attacks Robert, throwing
PL: him overboard. But just as the ship's crew is trying to retrieve him,
PL: Robert shows up on deck, having apparently somehow managed to climb
PL: back onboard. Adam however notices that part of his trousers are dry!
PL: In Tripoli, Myra decides that all is well with Robert, and the happy
PL: honeymooners drive off into the desert. But while sightseeing in
PL: Tripoli, Adam suddenly solves the mystery, realizing that both Myra and
PL: Robert are in greater danger than ever. Using a landrover, Adam, Victor
PL: and the doctor race into the desert where a terrible sight awaits them:
PL: An unlocking of occult forces so undeniable, that even the doctor's
PL: stout worldview will be severely challenged.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Addio fratello crudele (1970)

PL: In an amoral home, where a man lives in sin with a woman, his daughter and
PL: his son fall in love, and have incestuous relations even after the
PL: young woman marrys. Her husband will seek revenge, and a gory end
PL: will unite all in classic tragedy - death. (Based on John Ford's novel,
PL: "Pity she's a whore", respecting its poetic text, and careful Italian
PL: Renaissance settings.)

BY: Artemis-9

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MV: Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall (1972)

PL: London, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence
PL: "Spike" Milligan reluctantly obeys his call-up and joins the Royal
PL: Artillery regiment at Bexhill, where he begins training to take part in
PL: the War. But along the way Spike and his friends get involved in many
PL: amusing - and some not-so amusing - scrapes. Based on the first volume
PL: of Milligan's war memoirs.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Alice in Wonderland (1999) (TV)

PL: Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical
PL: Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire
PL: Cat, the clumsy White Knight, a rude caterpillar, and the hot-tempered
PL: Queen of Hearts and can grow ten feet tall or shrink to three inches.
PL: But will she ever be able to return home?

BY: Anonymous

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PL: Madrid, 1950. Francisco, detto Paco, un giovane di origine campagnola, dopo
PL: aver terminato il  servizio militare, decide di stabilirsi a Madrid. Il
PL: suo comandante gli trova un lavoro e lui vorrebbe fare soldi in fretta
PL: per sposare la sua fidanzata Trini, che lo aspetta al paese. Paco
PL: alloggia nel frattempo presso Luisa, una giovane vedova molto
PL: attraente, che lo conquista e con la quale inizia una calda ed intensa
PL: relazione sessuale. Fra i due si intromette la ragazza di Paco, che un
PL: giorno arriva in città e che complica il loro  "feeling". La storia si
PL: conclude nel sangue, sul sagrato di una chiesa.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Amore nasce a Roma, L' (1958)

PL: Lello, pittore, e Mario, cantante, arrivano a Roma per cercare fortuna: il
PL: loro piccolopaese è ormai lontano. Non dimostrando particolari doti
PL: artistiche, gli inizi non sono incoraggianti. Nel frattempo conoscono
PL: Doretta e di Silvia, due graziose fioraie di Piazza di Spagna, e
PL: sboccia l'amore per le due coppie di giovani. Doretta è innamorata di
PL: Lello e Silvia di Mario, ed entrambe cercano in tutti i modi di aiutare
PL: i loro corteggiatori. Un giorno si scopre per caso che Lello ha una
PL: bella voce: così il pittore si trasforma in cantante. Per ripicca Mario
PL: impugna i pennelli e dipinge alcuni quadri, che trovano subito
PL: acquirenti. Le due ragazze, con il tempo, si accorgono che anche i loro
PL: interessi sono cambiati. Doretta corona il suo sogno d'amore con Mario
PL: e Silvia scopre in Lello l'uomo della sua vita. E come nelle migliori
PL: fiabe.....tutti vissero felici e contenti !

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Anansi the Spider (1969)

PL: This animated African folk tale features the trickster character Anansi, a
PL: spider with human qualities.  When Anansi goes on a voyage and falls
PL: into trouble, his six sons come to his rescue.  Later, Anansi finds a
PL: beautiful light in the forest and decides to give it to the son who
PL: saved him, but which son of six deserves the prize?

BY: TPK

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MV: Andel milosrdenství (1994)
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MV: Andrei Rublyov (1969)
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MV: Animales racionales (1982)

PL: Two men and one woman are the last people on Earth. They are reduced to
PL: savagery, mate with the woman, and they learn to survive on a deserted
PL: island. They discover a dog living on the island with them, and the
PL: woman takes the dog as a lover, too.

BY: Joe Arthur <[e-mail]>

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MV: Aphrodite (1982)

PL: Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek
PL: island, and stays in the mansion of his friend, Count Orloff. The Count
PL: organizes a feast there, for three days and three nights, which is
PL: the reenactment of the love cult of the Goddess Aphrodite. Harry will
PL: meet Pauline there, a young woman who becomes his goddess... (Loosely
PL: based on Pierre Louïs's novel, "Aphrodite".)

BY: Artemis-9

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MV: Appuntamento a Liverpool (1988)

PL: Caterina lavora e vive a Cremona con la madre. Sta cercando di dimenticare
PL: la morte del padre avvenuta sotto i suoi occhi tre anni prima, nello
PL: stadio di Bruxelles, durante le violenze provocate dai tifosi inglesi,
PL: prima dell'incontro di calcio Liverpool-Juventus. Ma un ispettore di
PL: polizia inglese, deciso ad individuare e consegnare alla giustizia
PL: tutti i responsabili di quell'eccidio, riconvoca la ragazza come
PL: testimone oculare, nell'eventualità di riaprire l'inchiesta. Caterina,
PL: a malincuore, è costretta a rivedere al rallentatore le tragiche
PL: sequenze di quei terribili momenti: riconosce, in questo modo,
PL: l'assassino del padre, ma non lo rivela alla polizia. Decisa a farsi
PL: giustizia da sola, lascia il lavoro e la madre e parte per Liverpool,
PL: alla ricerca del responsabile. Dopo difficili esperienze in una città
PL: che non conosce e che sente ostile e dopo essere sfuggita al
PL: pedinamento dell'ispettore, Caterina individua il giovane assassino ed
PL: un giorno si trova faccia a faccia con lui, ma.......capisce che la
PL: violenza non le ridarà il padre e che non è facile uccidere a sangue
PL: freddo.

BY: rosebud6

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PL: Two thousand years ago, the people of Rome are so blasée, so used to
PL: violence, that entertaining them becomes a political problem.
PL: Someone suggests, after a hectic girl fight in a kitchen between a
PL: Nubian and a Viking slave, as a joke, that they should fight in the
PL: arena, instead of male gladiators. The idea is approved, though - and a
PL: female "Spartacus" theme follows.

BY: Artemis-9

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MV: Arizona Bad Man (1935)

PL: Bart and Pedro have rustled cattle and have now made a deal with the outlaw
PL: Sonny Karns to take them across the border. Learning that the
PL: Cattlemen's Association has sent a man, Bart sets a trap for him. Lucy
PL: warns Steve but when Steve tries to rescue Lucy and her young brother
PL: Dave, Pedro and his men capture him.

BY: Maurice VanAuken <[e-mail]>

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MV: Arrow to the Sun (1973)

PL: Based on a folk tale from the Acoma Pueblo Indians of the American
PL: Southwest, this beautifully animated film tells the story of a
PL: mysterious boy's search for his father, the God of the Sun.  Animation
PL: design is based on the themes of Acoma art; the story mirrors themes
PL: found in the tale of Phoebus and the life of Christ.

BY: TPK

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MV: Astérix et Obélix contre César (1999)

PL: The well-known little village from the Asterix and Obelix-comic books is in
PL: trouble: It is the last place not controlled by Rome. When Tax
PL: collector Claudius Incorruptus does not get his money from the
PL: villagers, Julius Caesar himself comes to the place to see what's so
PL: special about their resistance. A special magic potion, prepared by the
PL: village's druid, gives incredible power to those who drink it. And
PL: Obelix, who fell into the pot as a child has been invincible ever
PL: since. With the help of Tullius Destructivus, an intrigeur, the Romans
PL: try to get Obelix and the druid into their hands in order to wipe the
PL: little village off the map, when the last potion of it's stock has been
PL: used up. But each individual also has some plans of his own...

BY: Julian Reischl <[e-mail]>

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MV: Audrey Rose (1977)

PL: A New York couple experience bizarre, stalker-like behavior from an English
PL: stranger.  While they attempt to bar him from their lives, he slides
PL: his way in anyway and tries to convince them that their 11-year-old
PL: girl is the reincarnation of his 11-years-departed daughter, Audrey
PL: Rose.

BY: Brian J. Wright <[e-mail]>

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MV: Automne... Octobre à Alger (1992)

PL: Il film racconta la storia di una famiglia in cui si rispecchiano i
PL: conflitti della società contemporanea algerina. Djihad, il figlio
PL: maggiore, collabora al sostentamento della famiglia suonando in un
PL: nightclub;  il fratello Hakim, fondamentalista, trascorre il tempo alla
PL: moschea. I rapporti tra tolleranza e fondamentalismo sono sempre più
PL: difficili in ambienti ed in atmosfere familiari dove spesso regnano
PL: frustrazione ed insoddisfazione. Ed i pericoli e le conseguenze
PL: dell'intolleranza crescente sono  sempre in agguato.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Bad Guys (1986)

PL: Two hotshot LAPD cops get in hot water after breaking up a fight at a local
PL: bar. They get suspended from the force and have to find a way to pay
PL: the rent. First they try construction work, then stripping, but
PL: newspaper reporter Janice Edwards has a really good idea...professional
PL: wrestling. A rival manager, Lord Percy, does not like her new team, The
PL: Boston Bad Guys (the cops) and will do anything he can to keep them
PL: from appearing on the same card as his team, the Kremlin Crushers.
PL: Still, the Bad Guys want to get revenge on the Krushers.

BY: Pat McCurry <[e-mail]>

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MV: Behind the Mask (1999) (TV)

PL: Dr. Bob Shushan is an overworked and absent father who runs a centre for
PL: the mentally and physically challenged.  When Shushan suffers a heart
PL: attack, his life is saved by James Jones, a young patient at the
PL: center.  The two men forge a friendship and help each other rekindle
PL: the father-son bond that has been missing in their lives.

BY: P. Gray

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MV: Big Dis, The (1990)

PL: A young black soldier (James Haig), home on his first leave after basic
PL: training, has only one thought on his mind - to "score" with every
PL: woman he can in his old Hempstead, Long Island neighborhood.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Big Sur, The (1965)

PL: This promotional short for _Sandpiper, The (1965)_ (qv) visits the coastal
PL: area known as The Big Sur, in Monterey County, California, where the
PL: movie was filmed. The area's pounding surf, extensive beaches, and
PL: beautiful rock formations are a backdrop for the artist community that
PL: lives there. We see some of the residents, including painters, poets,
PL: photographers, and sculptors.

BY: David Glagovsky <[e-mail]>

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MV: Billy Jack (1971)

PL: Billy Jack is a half-Indian/half-white ex-Green Beret who is being drawn
PL: more and more toward his Indian side.   He hates violence, but can't
PL: get away from it in the white man's world.  Pitting the good guys, the
PL: students of the peace-loving free-arts school in the desert vs. the
PL: conservative bad guys in the near-by town, the movie plays definitive
PL: late-60s themes/messages: anti-establishment, make love not war, the
PL: senseless slaughter of God's creatures, the rape of society
PL: (figuratively and literally), two-sided justice, racial segregation and
PL: prejudices, and basic socialist ideals.

BY: Nic Cage <[e-mail]>

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MV: Bittersweet Motel (1999)

PL: This film follows the band, Phish, through a year of its life; from the
PL: Great Went concert in Limestone, ME in August 1997 through the
PL: subsequent touring in the next year, leading up to August 1998.  The
PL: director, Todd Phillips, said, "We weren't looking to make 'Tie-Dyed';
PL: I wanted to concentrate on the music."

BY: Vic Harrison <[e-mail]>

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MV: Black Dawn (1997)

PL: Jake Killian, ex-cop, searches for a mysteriously abducted US-banker, with
PL: the help of the single living witness, a stripper called Extasy.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: Black Lake (1999)

PL: The town of Black Lake, in Quebec (Canada), has seen its future put in
PL: jeopardy.  The British Canadian mine which has been the main employer
PL: in Black Lake for 107 years closed on November 1st 1997.  With the
PL: closing of the mine, 1,300 jobs have disappeared.  In a town of 4,500
PL: citizens, this means catastrophe. The situation in Black Lake is an
PL: example of the repercussions of delocalisation on a small town.  In
PL: other words, of how these delocalisations can ruin and ravage a
PL: community which was productive and united.   Not only has the closing
PL: of the mine forced hundreds of citizens to become welfare recipients,
PL: but it has also expunged the thousands of dollars the corporation used
PL: to pay in municipal taxes. The film follows the lives of the residents,
PL: over a one year period, as they face continuous distress and turmoil.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Blair Witch Project, The (1999)

PL: Three film students travel to Maryland to make a student film about a local
PL: urban legend... The Blair Witch.  The three went into the woods on a
PL: two day hike to find the Blair Witch, and never came back.  One year
PL: later, the students film and video was found in the woods.  The footage
PL: was compiled and made into a movie.  The Blair Witch Project.

BY: Kevin Overstreet <[e-mail]>

PL: Three film students set out into the Black Hills Forest to make a
PL: documentary on the legendary Blair Witch. Armed with a 16mm camera, a
PL: Hi8 video camera, and a DAT recorder, every step, word and sound is
PL: captured. After wandering around the Black Hills Forest, Heather, Josh,
PL: and Mike are cold, lost and hunted. Finally, one night after the last
PL: ray of light had left the forest black, they were never to be seen
PL: again. Despite thousands of hours searching the Black Hills area,
PL: neither of the filmmakers or any trace of their gear was found, and the
PL: search was called off. One year later, a bag full of film cans, DAT
PL: tapes, and video tapes were found. The behind the scenes, video footage
PL: and the film, are cut together, and this is..."The Blair
PL: Witch Project."

BY: Michael McCaffrey <[e-mail]>

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MV: Blowup (1966)

PL: A photographer who is talented but aimless has photographed violence and
PL: pain without feeling any involvement.  When he takes pictures of a
PL: couple in a park, he finds that he may have discovered a mystery, one
PL: that insists on involving him.

BY: John Vogel <[e-mail]>

PL: A London fashion photographer frolics with young models, then meets the
PL: mysterious Vanessa Redgrave. He takes a photo in a park.  Back in his
PL: darkroom as he enlarges it, he sees a suggestion of something in the
PL: photo he never noticed while taking it.   Has a crime occurred?

BY: Dale O'Connor <[e-mail]>

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MV: Bobby Loves Mangos (1998)

PL: An elementary school principal arrives at school to find a video tape that
PL: is sent from the "future". The tape is from Bobby, age 40. But in the
PL: present time, Bobby is in elementary school at the same school.  The
PL: tape's message is incredible, but concise: Stop a school bus accident
PL: that will kill 50 students that are on a field trip.

BY: Timothy Michael Earwood

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MV: Body Slam (1987)

PL: M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard
PL: time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most
PL: recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making
PL: arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a
PL: professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he
PL: becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his
PL: teammate Tonga Tom. The team is a success, and Harry decides to take
PL: his wrestlers and his band on a "Rock n' Wrestling" tour. The tour is a
PL: success, and Harry feels what it is like to be a winner again.

BY: Pat McCurry <[e-mail]>

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MV: Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944)

PL: Bugs lands on a Japanese-held island. He tries to outsmart one Japanese
PL: soldier by dressing as Emperor Hirohito, but the soldier isn't fooled.
PL: He recognizes Bugs from his Warner Brothers films produced by Leon
PL: Schlesinger. Bugs has trouble with a tough sumo wrestler but is able to
PL: outwit him by dressing as a geisha. Bugs finally rids the island of
PL: Japanese by driving up in his ice cream truck (which plays music from
PL: The Magic Flute!) and selling each one an ice cream with a secret
PL: grenade surprise.

BY: David Steele

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MV: Butcher Boy, The (1997)
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MV: Captain America (1979/I) (TV)
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PL: parents have not visited him for several years. But the school
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PL: into the water supply of Woburn, Massachusetts, even though the case
PL: could mean financial, and career suicide for him.
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PL: A man finds his wife cheating on him with his best friend; he kills both of
PL: them and then himself. Fifty years later, his ghost haunts the same
PL: apartment building. He repeatedly has sex with the young woman who
PL: moves into the apartment - making her think she's gone insane - kills
PL: her male admirers, and for good measure kills her neighbor's lover as
PL: well.

BY: DWilster

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MV: Cometa, El (1998)

PL: After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive"
PL: material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes
PL: taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel
PL: Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how
PL: Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus,
PL: where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by  the
PL: cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times
PL: of great political turbulence.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Corazón sobre la tierra, El (1984)

PL: A cuban farmer lost his son in the Angola war. Since that day, his life has
PL: only one purpose: glorify his son's name, working hard in an agricultural
PL: cooperative which becomes the best of the country.

BY: Derubín Jácome <[e-mail]>

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MV: Corsia preferenziale (1995) (TV)

PL: Tre divi del rock, arrestati negli anni '70 per possesso di marijuana, sono
PL: scelti come modelli di carcerati da uno scienziato orientale,
PL: scopritore di una pianta allucinogena che, una volta assunta, offre un
PL: quadro più chiaro per lo studio della psiche umana. Alla prima seduta,
PL: però, i tre immobilizzano lo studioso, assumono tutta la pianta e
PL: riescono ad evadere. Aiutati dal dottor Lay, il loro agente, i tre
PL: cantanti si rifugiano in una villa abbandonata dove impiantano una
PL: clinica per emarginati.

BY: rosebud6

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PL: Several girls are murdered by an elusive "Catholic priest" in a residents
PL: college. Police and teachers are unable to locate the killer, and
PL: prevent further deaths. Henry, who has a romantic interest in one of
PL: the students, Elizabeth, becomes a main suspect, but so are other male,
PL: and even female teachers. Are the girls doing the right thing, telling
PL: their suspicions to the priest, in the secrecy of confession?

BY: Artemis-9

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MV: Countess Dracula (1971)
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MV: Cry for Me, Billy (1972)

PL: In the Wild West, the American Army are fighting the Indians, in a
PL: succession of brutal massacres. A small group of soldiers led by a
PL: Sergeant, captures and rapes a squaw, who puts up a brave fight against
PL: superior numbers. Billy, a young cowboy, will try to help her against
PL: the soldiers, and the white people in town - and ultimately will fall
PL: in love with her. But he will have to pay a dear price for love.

BY: Artemis-9

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MV: Cuckoos, The (1930)

PL: Fake fortune teller Professor Bird and his assistant Sparrow are in a
PL: Mexican resort near a gambling casino. Sparrow has fallen for Anita, an
PL: American girl who has lived with gypsies since she was four. But the gypsy
PL: leader Julius also wants her, and is willing to get her at any cost.
PL: Also at the casino are Miss Furst and her niece Ruth, who loves
PL: aviator Billy, but Miss Furst wants her to marry the Baron. But
PL: the Baron is only after Ruth's money. Miss Furst is very interested in
PL: contacting her late husband and hires Bird, especially after he helped
PL: her getting back her purse that was stolen by Julius. The Baron teams
PL: up with the Gypsies, after he noticed that Ruth and Billy are secretly
PL: engaged and has her kidnapped. Anita, who followed Sparrow is also
PL: taken back to Mexico. Billy, Bird and Sparrow start of to Mexico on their
PL: separate ways to free their girls, but it's not so easy, especially
PL: when staying at a hotel with some strange other guests and very
PL: careful gypsy guards.

BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>

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MV: Cyberstalking, The (1999) (TV)

PL: Aspiring songstress Holly Moon admires the famous diva "Samantha" and
PL: attempts to sneak her own act on stage, in the same elite futuristic
PL: techno club.  With a weird stroke of luck, Holly succeeds, but is
PL: unaware that "Samantha" really appears only with the help of an
PL: illegal, secret military computer program.  The program uses the
PL: imagination of a real person to create a total virtual reality
PL: environment.  At the club, the MC introduces Holly with the line,
PL: "Welcome to the Imagination of Holly Moon."  A fantastic environment
PL: and performance unfolds from within the subject's own lofty
PL: aspirations.  Holly also doesn't know that a "glitch" in the program
PL: has murdered the real "Samantha," and that she, Holly Moon is slated as
PL: its next victim.

BY: Interpers <[e-mail]>

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MV: Dôkyûsei (1994) (V)

PL: Wataru is a teenage boy with one serious hormonal ambition.  He wants to
PL: make it with a beautiful star swimmer girl named Mai.  However, in the
PL: course of pursuing this conquest he learns that while she does not want
PL: him; there are two girls who truly need him.

BY: Kenneth Chisholm <[e-mail]>

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MV: Decade for Decision (????)

PL: In the wake of the USSR's launching of Sputnik I, the first artificial
PL: satellite, in 1957, America faced a challenge to its leadership. This
PL: short emphasizes the necessity of increasing education in the sciences.
PL: More students must go to college and gain the knowledge and experience
PL: that America must have to keep pace in the world through the next
PL: decade. The University of Buffalo is featured as an example of an urban
PL: university that is increasing spending in medicine, international
PL: affairs, physics, and other areas to ensure that students will be ready
PL: to meet challenges of the future.

BY: David Glagovsky <[e-mail]>

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MV: Defense Review No. 1 (1941)

PL: Documentary short film comprised of three stories depicting the American
PL: NYA defense job-training center, the manufacture of merchant ships in
PL: the Southern USA, and the practice of subcontracting in national
PL: defense manufacture.

BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>

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MV: Defense Review No. 2 (1941)

PL: Documentary short film comprised of three stories about the creation and
PL: use of synthetic rubber in war materiel, the engineering and
PL: construction of defense airports, and the American national campaign to
PL: collect used aluminum for recycling into war materials.

BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>

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MV: Defense Review No. 3 (1942)

PL: Documentary short film comprised of three stories, depicting the use of
PL: inland waterways for military and civilian transportation, the training
PL: of pilots using the Link trainer, and the food resources and
PL: agriculture of the American-British allies.

BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>

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MV: Demon for Trouble, A (1934)

PL: Dyer is buying ranches and then retrieving his check by having his gang
PL: kill the owner. Bob Worth arrives just as Buck Morton is killed and
PL: gets blamed for the murder. Fleeing from the Sheriff, Bob teams up with
PL: the Mexican outlaw Golindo. Having seen Dyer pay off his men, he has a
PL: plan to trap him and Golindo is just the man he needs to make it work.

BY: Maurice VanAuken <[e-mail]>

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MV: Devotion (1946)

PL: In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte vie for the
PL: affection of the Reverend Arthur Nichols. Along their sister Anne,
PL: Emily and Bronte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a
PL: gifted musician whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.

BY: Daniel Bubbeo

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MV: Doll Face (1945)

PL: Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a
PL: legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager
PL: Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by
PL: writing her autobiography. He hires a ghost writer to do all the work,
PL: but doesn't count on the possibility that Doll Face and her
PL: collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.

BY: Daniel Bubbeo <[e-mail]>

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MV: Douze travaux d'Astérix, Les (1976)
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MV: Dragon Gate, The (1999)

PL: Enter The Dragon Gate and prepare for a pulse pounding journey into the
PL: nether regions of the mind and soul. When his girlfriend is kidnaped, a
PL: sword wielding warrior, Ken, willingly thrusts himself into an alternate
PL: dimension to rescue her.  The action is fast and furious as our hero
PL: battles legions of blood-thirsty assassins.  Seduced by an evil
PL: temptress, redeemed by the Sword Goddess of the lake. Ken can escape
PL: only if he can answer the riddle of 23 questions!

BY: Anonymous

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PL: with the relationship once again. Meanwhile, Jessie is attracted to Mark
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MV: Eddie Duchin & His Orchestra (1933)

PL: In a nightclub setting, pianist 'Eddy Duchin' (qv) and his orchestra play
PL: several popular tunes of the day. 'Sylvia Froos' (qv) joins them for
PL: two songs. The novelty skating team of Earl, Jack, and Betty also
PL: perform. And the entire nightclub staff, including the orchestra, wears
PL: roller skates!

BY: David Glagovsky <[e-mail]>

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MV: Enemies: A Love Story (1989)

PL: Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor (Ron Silver) who makes a living
PL: as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi, finds himself involved with three
PL: women - his current wife (Margaret Sophie Stein), a passionate affair
PL: with a married woman (Lena Olin), and his long-vanished wife (Anjelica
PL: Huston) whom he thought was killed during the war and suddenly
PL: reappears. The film concentrates on the views of the Jewish survivors,
PL: who no longer abide by religious morales and question a God who could
PL: let the Holocaust occur.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Ernest Rides Again (1993)

PL: Ernest P. Worrell becomes a new adventurer along with his History Professor
PL: partner, Abner Melon.  Once they team up together, they discover a
PL: really huge existing historical cannon and the crown jewels hidden near
PL: the jungle.  Ernest must save the jewels especially, before a lousy
PL: mob keeps it.

BY: Bashir Bakhtiari <[e-mail]>

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PL: In the Civil War, Fort Bravo is a prison camp for captured southerners.
PL: Its isolated position and unfriendly natives make escape almost impossible,
PL: but anyone who tries is always brought back by by-the-book
PL: Captain Roper. A group of prisoners hatch a plot to get away by
PL: bringing in a southern belle to distract the Captain. The plan seems to
PL: work, but the inhospitable desert, the murderous Indians, and - most
PL: importantly - the Colonel apparently wronged in love mean that this is
PL: only the start.

BY: Jeremy Perkins <[e-mail]>

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PL: Sequel attempts to explain why the demon, now called Pazuzu, in
PL: fact possessed Regan.  Father Lamont is determined to find the answer
PL: as he travels around the globe in search of another who had been
PL: possessed by the same demon.

BY: A. Schaeffer

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PL: Herrington High, Ohio, a small-town highschool. All of a sudden, the
PL: teachers start changing attitude. When Casey and Delilah have to hide
PL: in a closet in the teacher's lounge, they witness the strangulation of
PL: Nurse Harper by two of them. Shocked, they manage to flee. Only moments
PL: later, the nurse seems to be very alive, but also somehow changed, like
PL: all the teachers and most of the students. Only Casey, Delilah and four
PL: others seem to be suspicious. Proof of an alien infection is finally
PL: brought by the chemistry teacher, who also points out a way to kill the
PL: infected humans. The plan now is to get the queen, before the aliens
PL: can spread out over the whole country.

BY: Julian Reischl <[e-mail]>

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PL: La gioventù come valore assoluto! Quseto film è un inno alla gioventù, ai
PL: suoi sogni, alle sue illusioni ed alle sue speranze, come momento
PL: topico della esistenza di ognuno di noi, difficile da perdere e da
PL: dimenticare. USA, 1971. Un gruppo di laureandi di un college festeggia
PL: l'addio al celibato di Kenneth, uno degli studenti, e la fine del corso
PL: di studio. Kenneth arriva ma è sconfortato e deciso a lasciare la
PL: fidanzata Judy  (che vive in un altro Stato) perchè gli è arrivata la
PL: cartolina-precetto : deve partire per il Vietnam. A questo punto,
PL: Gardner, il riconosciuto capo gruppo, annuncia di aver ricevuto la
PL: stessa notizia, ma di aver deciso di disertare. Decidono a questo punto
PL: di andare, insieme a Phil, Dorman e Lester a fare un lungo viaggio nel
PL: Texas per ritrovare DOM (una bottiglia di Dom Perignon seppellita tra
PL: le colline anni prima : il simbolo, per loro, della gioventù senza
PL: catene). In ogni caso, la meta sarà comunque Dallas, la città di Judy,
PL: visto che tutti (compreso Gardner, ex fidanzato della ragazza) sono
PL: convinti che il matrimonio debba comunque farsi. Il viaggio è
PL: costellato di incidenti e di avventure tra il grottesco e l'assurdo.
PL: Dopo una rutilante notte in un cimitero, in compagnia di ragazze
PL: conosciute per strada, illuminato da fuochi artificiali trafugati in un
PL: negozio e dopo la prova di coraggio di Phil, in una curiosa scuola per
PL: paracadutisti gestita nel deserto da un pilota svitato, che proverà le
PL: emozioni del primo lancio, il gruppo decide di organizzare le nozze. Lo
PL: svitato pilota, con il suo trabiccolo corre a prelevare Judy a
PL: domicilio per portarla nello sconosciuto paesello di confine con il
PL: Messico dove, con tramezzini, birra, luminarie e musica offerti dagli
PL: abitanti del luogo, abilmente coinvolti dai giovani. Dopo un Fandango
PL: con la sposa, Gardner sparisce : non andrà in Vietnam, mentre gli sposi
PL: partono per una fugace luna di miele. Gli amici si salutano, ognuno
PL: prende la sua strada : si ritroveranno ? La gioventù, purtroppo, non
PL: dura in eterno.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Faust I (1998)

PL: Der greise Wissenschaftler Faust geht einen Pakt mit dem diabolischen
PL: Mephisto ein, verführt das unschuldige Gretchen, tötet dessen Bruder
PL: Valentin und besucht die Walpurgisnacht. Trantows Inszenierung endet
PL: mit dem Beginn des "Faust II": "Am farbigen Abglanz haben wir das
PL: Leben"

BY: Cisnadie

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PL: A darkly comic journey into forbidden family territory. No one can ignore
PL: a person like Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt. So on his sixtieth
PL: birthday, a celebration is required. Friends and relatives scurry to
PL: the country estate. Eventually, every family's secrets will come out.
PL: And since his twin sister's death two months ago, prodigal son
PL: Christian is more haunted than usual. The time has come for the darkest
PL: family skeleton to be revealed, and it must be done in their father's
PL: style - with flair, and malice.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Fight for the Sky, The (1945)

PL: Documentary short film produced by the American Army Air Forces extolling
PL: the exploits of the American fighter pilots who destroyed the German
PL: Luftwaffe and allowed the Allies to proceed with the invasion of
PL: Europe.

BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>

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MV: Fobici, I (1999)

PL: Film a episodi. Quattro storie di ordinarie manie e fissazioni, di cui il
PL: tempo che viviamo è pieno. TURNO DI NOTTE. Luca è un giovane fissato
PL: con gli orari degli autobus notturni : gira tutta la notte per
PL: informare gli altri degli orari del prossimo autobus. TUTTO UN TIC.
PL: Andrea è pieno di tic, ma convive bene con queste sue piccole
PL: "diversità". Un giorno si innamora e pensa di farsi curare le proprie
PL: insicurezze: la sua vita diventerà un inferno. HO CHIUSO IL GAS ? Carlo
PL: deve partire per un viaggio e, ormai già fuori casa, inizia ad essere
PL: assillato dal dubbio di non avere chiuso il rubinetto del gas.
PL: Disperato, si precipita a casa. FRUTTO PROIBITO. Alvaro ama le donne,
PL: ma, principalmente, la sua auto nuova. Una sera riesce a portare a casa
PL: una affascinante ragazza ed iniziano i giochi amorosi, arrivando anche
PL: a legarla al letto. All'improvviso suona l'antifurto della sua amata
PL: auto : che fare ? Cosa scegliere ?

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Forbidden Quest (1993)

PL: 1931: in Ireland, a film maker hears of an aged ship's carpenter who knows
PL: the fate of the Hollandia, a Norse ship that set sail in 1905 and
PL: vanished.  The old salt has canisters of film to prove his tale. We see
PL: the footage as he narrates.  They sail south in June, 1905, with scores
PL: of Siberian huskies aboard, meeting no living soul, the crew ignorant
PL: of the trip's purpose, until they reach Antarctica.  A mysterious
PL: Italian paces the deck; a polar bear appears, and the Italian,
PL: possessed, hunts it down.  That night, the boatswain explains to the
PL: crew how an Arctic bear could be at the South Pole and why the
PL: Hollandia has come.  Visitors arrive, and the Gothic tale plays out.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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PL: Il giovane dottor Frankenstein si reca al college per continuare gli studi
PL: di Medicina. Dopo qualche anno lo ritroviamo nel suo laboratorio,
PL: intento a condurre degli esperimenti, che lo porteranno a trascurare
PL: anche la  fidanzata,  sua futura moglie. Una sera, finalmente, crea
PL: (mettendo insieme parti di corpi diversi) un essere "perfetto" (a suo
PL: dire). Da una vasca per esperimenti esce la Creatura. Ma il nuovo
PL: essere diventa geloso dello scienziato e della sua fidanzata.
PL: Frankenstein è spaventato. Deve anche lottare fisicamente con la
PL: Creatura per difendersi. La notte di nozze Frankenstein raggiunge la
PL: Creatura che, osservatasi allo specchio, svanisce. Lo scienziato
PL: raggiunge così la pace e torna sereno dalla donna appena sposata.

BY: rosebud6

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PL: Freak City tells the moving story of a young woman, played by Samantha
PL: Mathis, who contracts Multiple Sclerosis and is institutionalized by
PL: her family.  Alone and feeling abandoned she struggles to regain her
PL: sense of dignity and independence by bonding with a wide assortment of
PL: fellow patients. Other residents at the home include Jonathan Silverman
PL: as a blind man, Marlee Maitlin, a deaf and slightly retarded woman, and
PL: singer-actress Natalie Cole as a blues singer injured in an accident
PL: and left with severe mental and emotional challenges. Working together
PL: they share many funny and sometimes bittersweet moments and celebrate
PL: overcoming their challenges as a family brought together by
PL: circumstance.
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MV: Freddie Rich and His Orchestra (1938)

PL: A musical short subject in which bandleader Freddie Rich conducts three
PL: musical numbers with his orchestra, with solos by Nan Wynn.  In the
PL: midst of the radio broadcast on which the band is performing, a gangly
PL: guitarist named Joe Sodja interrupts and asks to perform.

BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>

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PL: Five criminals get together to rob a bank in Mexico. On his way to their
PL: rendezvous point, one of them gets into an accident, and stumbles upon
PL: the Titty Twister Bar. This little detour sets up the terror that
PL: awaits the outlaws and the officers on their trail.
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PL: In the early 1950s Howard Prince, who works in a restaurant, helps out a
PL: black-listed writer friend by selling a TV station a script under his
PL: own name. The money is useful in paying off gambling debts, so he takes
PL: on three more such clients. Howard is politically pretty innocent, but
PL: involvement with Florence - who quits TV in disgust over things - and
PL: friendship with the show's ex-star - now himself blacklisted - make him
PL: start to think about what is really going on.

BY: Jeremy Perkins <[e-mail]>

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MV: G.I. Joe: Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (1987) (V)

PL: After yet another defeat inflicted by G.I. Joe, the immediate subordinates
PL: of Cobra's leader, Cobra Commander, have finally come to the end of
PL: their patience with his apparent incompetence and his inability to
PL: achieve real victories.  The leader of the research and interrogations
PL: wing, Dr. Mindbender, receives a dream showing the solution.  His plan is
PL: to collect the genetic material of great warriors and military leaders
PL: to create a composite clone that would be the perfect leader for Cobra.
PL: Now they set out to put this scheme into motion, and G.I. Joe has very
PL: little time to learn of this plot before Cobra becomes that much more a
PL: dire threat to the world.

BY: Kenneth Chisholm <[e-mail]>

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MV: Ghosts (1997/I)
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MV: Ginga tetsudô Three-Nine (1979)
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MV: Girl Missing (1933)

PL: Golddiggers Kay and June are left stranded in Palm Beach after their latest
PL: catch skips without paying the girls' hotel bill. They're also steamed
PL: because their rival Daisy has just nailed a handsome heir to a fortune.
PL: When Daisy vanishes on her wedding night her husband offers a $25,000
PL: reward. Anxious to land that bankroll, Kay and June turn detective to
PL: find Daisy and also to solve a murder that happened at the scene of her
PL: disappearance.

BY: Daniel Bubbeo <[e-mail]>

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MV: Grand Canyon, Pride of Creation (1944)

PL: This Traveltalks entry begins with a short look at Arizona's Painted
PL: Desert. We then get two views of the Grand Canyon's majesty. The first
PL: is from the rim, looking down from an automobile. The second view is
PL: from within the canyon, where mules take tourists along the various
PL: trails.

BY: David Glagovsky <[e-mail]>

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MV: Happy Hooker, The (1975)

PL: Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her
PL: mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and
PL: starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she
PL: decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation
PL: grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has
PL: the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own.

BY: Jeremy Perkins <[e-mail]>

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MV: Hatari! (1962)

PL: John Wayne and his ensemble cast cavort over the African landscape filling
PL: orders from zoo's for wild animals.  Bruce Cabot plays "the Indian", a
PL: womanizing sharpshooter who is gored by a rhino in the opening scenes
PL: of the film.  This becomes a running theme through the movie; their bad
PL: luck in catching rhinos, and provides the climactic ending chase. While
PL: Bruce is in the hospital, Elsa Martinelli shows up as a woman
PL: photographer from a Swiss zoo, and John wants to send her packing.  She
PL: strongarms the Duke into letting her stay by promising that her zoo
PL: will buy most of their animals this season if she's allowed to go along
PL: on the hunts and take photos.  Hardy Kruger, Gerard Blain, Michelle
PL: Girardon and Valentin de Vargas round out the group. They traipse over
PL: the African landscape capturing animals; Elsa also has a running gag
PL: where she collects baby elephants as the movie goes along.  In the end
PL: she's acquired three of them.

BY: Marta Dawes <[e-mail]>

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PL: Nel New England, un gentiluomo (Vincent Price) prende possesso del palazzo
PL: di un antenato, da poco ereditato. La gente del posto accoglie con
PL: diffidenza il nuovo arrivato, ancora memore delle sventure causate dal
PL: predecessore. Infatti, il castello emana influssi criminali e lo
PL: sventurato apprende, in seguito, che tutto è legato ad un antenato
PL: bruciato sul rogo per stregoneria. "The haunted palace" è il titolo di
PL: una poesia di Edgar Allan Poe, ma il film è tratto dal racconto "Lo
PL: strano caso di Charles Dexter Ward" di H. P. Lovercraft.

BY: rosebud6

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PL: only by his work, becomes obsessed, at the expense of his private life,
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PL: Two brothers have a plan on how to rob the Ceasar's Palace in Las Vegas.
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PL: partying outside of town, they change their clothes and head off to rob the
PL: casino. Of course, the police do not look for two well dressed
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MV: Hell's Kitchen (1998)

PL: When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and
PL: only one (Mekhi Phifer) lives and goes to jail for five years. Upon his
PL: release, the girlfriend (Angelina Jolie) wants her new boyfriend
PL: (Johnny Whitworth) to kill him. Only trouble is the boy friend knows
PL: that the fault was not the ex-con's and can't bring himself to do the
PL: town. Meanwhile the ex-con tries to turn his life around by becoming a
PL: boxer and training under a former heavyweight contender (William
PL: Forsythe).

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Hilary and Jackie (1998)
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PL: The touching and tragic real-life story of brilliant, International concert
PL: cellist Jacqueline Du Pré ('Emily Watson' (qv)) as seen by her sister
PL: Hilary ('Rachel Griffiths (I)' (qv)) and brother Piers
PL: ('Rupert Penry-Jones' (qv)).  From their early life together as musicians,
PL: flautist Hilary was the one in demand until their mother Iris
PL: ('Celia Imrie' (qv)) scolded Jacqueline that if she wanted to be with her
PL: sister she must become as good as her.  To Jacqueline's debut performance
PL: in the Wigmore Hall, London following which she is presented with the
PL: Stradivarius Davidoff by an unknown benefactor.  Following a wedding
PL: appearance in Italy the lives of Hilary and Jacqueline separated as
PL: Hilary returned to London and her flute studies whilst Jacqueline
PL: embarked on her international concert career.  In London Hilary marries
PL: Kiffer Finzi ('David Morrissey' (qv)) and starts a family whilst
PL: Jacqueline meets and marries conductor Daniel Barenboim
PL: ('James Frain' (qv)).
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BY: Mark Smith <[e-mail]>
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MV: Hombres siempre mienten, Los (1995)
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MV: Hostage (1987)

PL: The leader of a South African Nation is imprisoned. His followers, led by
PL: Zabo, hijack a plane with the intent to use the passengers as hostages
PL: to trade for his release.  They select a plane carrying a religious
PL: leader to use as their main hostage.  They soon learn that they have an
PL: added bonus of the daughter and grandson of Colonel Shaw, a bigwig in
PL: the country.  The grandson all the while has to cope with the dual
PL: problems of being hijacked and held hostage while needing a kidney
PL: transplant.  The hijackers have everything in their favor, except that
PL: the colonel's daughter is the sweetheart of Major Sam Striker.  Striker
PL: puts together a band of missionaries and sets about freeing the
PL: hostages.

BY: Tophee

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MV: Huang Fei-hong yu Liu A Cai (1976)
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MV: Hysteria (1965)
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MV: Indecent Desires (1967)

PL: Zeb finds a doll and a ring in a garbage can. Then, he sees Ann going to
PL: work with her friend Babs. He thinks she looks like the doll. When he
PL: gets home, he caresses the doll... Ann feels it! When Zeb finds out
PL: about Ann's fiance Tom, he really gets mad, burns the doll, and beats
PL: it up, which makes Ann think she's losing her mind.

BY: David B. Wilson

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MV: Inside Monkey Zetterland (1992)
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MV: It's My Party (1996)
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MV: Ivan Vasilyevich menyayet professiyu (1973)
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MV: J-Men Forever (1979)
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PL: enigmatic and paradoxical destiny.
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MV: Jument vapeur, La (1978)

PL: Diary of a housewife, going mad.  Armelle is nearly 30, with a husband and
PL: two sons.  It's the early 80s in France, unemployment is high, and
PL: she's not worked (outside the home) since she was a dancer at age 20.
PL: She cooks, cleans, shops, takes her boys to school, and her guilty
PL: pleasure is to have her hair shampooed, an addiction she tries to hide
PL: from her husband.  An architect in her building leers at her.  She
PL: becomes depressed and tries to find a job.  When the brakes on the
PL: family car go out as she's taking it to a garage and she narrowly
PL: misses several pedestrians, she snaps.  The architect assaults her, and
PL: desperation sets in.  Has she any options or any hope?

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)

PL: A Tokyo businessman (Hiroshi Hada), transferred to L.A, molests a teenage
PL: girl (Amy Hathaway) on a train. It turns out that the girl is the
PL: daughter of a vice cop (Charles Bronson). But in one of those plot
PL: twists that can only occur in the movies, the cop is assigned to find
PL: the businessman's own daughter who has been kidnapped and forced into a
PL: teen prostitution ring.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Kronos (1973)

PL: Vampire hunter and expert swordsman Kronos finds himself in a small village
PL: where several of the local young women have been found in an advanced
PL: state of age, their youth drained from them by a vampire's kiss.
PL: Kronos' search leads him to the Durward estate where he is met by the
PL: effete children of the apparently aged and sick Lady Durward.

BY: Doug Sederberg <[e-mail]>

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PL: The film takes the viewer on a journey west, from India to Spain, with
PL: stops along the way, to dramatize Romany's nomadic culture.  This
PL: journey takes place over a year's time, from summer through fall and
PL: winter to spring.  Gatlif holds his camera on the elemental essentials
PL: of this life: water, the wheel, fire, beasts of burden and of
PL: sustenance, colorful clothes, jewelry, musical instruments, song, and
PL: dance.  Throughout, via song and dance, young and old celebrate,
PL: embody, and teach the cultural values of family, journey, love,
PL: separateness, and persecution.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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PL: Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker.
PL: Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and
PL: lovers, interspersed with film from Baker's earlier life and some
PL: modern-day performances.

BY: Anonymous

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PL: In the year 2001 prisons are run like businesses. A new prisoner finds that
PL: the prison system is corrupt. When an old man is framed and murdered
PL: he strikes back. When prisoners are tortured for breaking rules he
PL: reaks unparalled havoc on the entire system.

BY: Doug Galecawitz

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MV: Little House: Bless All the Dear Children (1983) (TV)

PL: In the second sequel of the popular TV series Laura and Almanzo are forced
PL: to go looking for Rose who was kidnapped. A young orphan looking for a
PL: home and Jason Carter's wish to give his mother a happy Christmas are
PL: also parts of the story.

BY: Ragnar Ståhle <[e-mail]>

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MV: Lone Star Law Men (1941)

PL: Duke is the leader of a gang of border bandits. When Marshall Brady is sent
PL: to investigate, he is shot. Found by Tom and sidekick Lopez, Tom gets
PL: Brady to make him his deputy. Duke makes Tom Sheriff and Tom sets a
PL: trap to capture the gang. But Duke is suspicious and changes plans and
PL: Tom quickly finds himself Duke's prisoner.

BY: Maurice VanAuken <[e-mail]>

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MV: Loop (1997/I)
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MV: Loop, The (1997/II)

PL: Loop is the story of a man trapped in an insane world of chain-gang
PL: entertainment. Witnessing the "reprogramming" of a collective sister
PL: pushes him over the edge.  He is driven to expose his captors, but in
PL: doing so realizes the deadly LOOP he will enter - never to return.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Lost Angels (1989)

PL: A troubled youth (Adam Horovitz) from a split Los Angeles family is sent to
PL: a private psychiatric hospital after a violent scrape with the police.
PL: In the hospital, he makes a connection with one of the doctors (Donald
PL: Sutherland) who has his own problems.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Louisiana Hussy, The (1959)
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MV: Love Happens (1999)

PL: What do animals, allergies and a bet have in common?  A commitment-phobic
PL: woman named Lisa Harris.  Lisa (Megyn Price) may hold the record for
PL: most failed short-term relationships in modern history.  It's not that
PL: she doesn't want to find her true love, it's just that she doesn't seem
PL: to know what true love means.  It's with the idea of helping Lisa that
PL: her mom, Gwen (Jenny O'Hara) bets her she won't be able to stay with
PL: her current boyfriend, Simon (Vince Grant) through Thanksgiving, a
PL: record three weeks away.  From the moment Lisa accepts the challenge,
PL: her life changes. No sooner has Lisa made the bet than Simon is
PL: unexpectedly called away on business.  Determined not to lose, Lisa
PL: lets her roommate Amy (Jenica Bergere) talk her into substituting
PL: another man for Simon a handsome carpenter named Mike (Ken Marino). But
PL: life's not so simple...not only does Lisa have to contend with Mike's
PL: allergy to her pet rabbit but with the unexpected return of Mike's
PL: beautiful but manipulative ex-girlfriend George (Elizabeth Lackey).
PL: While George poses a threat, it soon becomes clear to Lisa that the
PL: main obstacle to a meaningful relationship with Mike is the bet.  She
PL: wants to tell him about it but every time she tries, she digs herself
PL: into a deeper hole.  The day before Thanksgiving, Mike finds out about
PL: the deception by accident.  He steams out of Lisa's life and into
PL: George's welcoming arms.  Mike's buddy Billy (Ryan Bollman) does his
PL: best to keep Mike from taking off with George on a cross-country train
PL: trip but George is hard to resist and Mike's not exactly rational.
PL: Although things look bleak, Lisa has discovered something amazing...
PL: what it feels like to be truly in love.  She races to the train
PL: station, hoping to catch Mike before he's gone but she gets there just
PL: as the train's leaving.  She's lost him.  Dejected, Lisa wanders out of
PL: the station, then sees Mike, alone.  Lisa pours out her heart in
PL: apology but Mike isn't buying it...

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Love Walked In (1998)

PL: A down-on-his-luck piano player (Denis Leary) at the Blue Cat Lounge is
PL: offered a chance to make some big money by a private detective friend
PL: (Michael Badalucco). All the piano player has to do is convince his
PL: sultry singer girl friend (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) to seduce a
PL: multi-millionaire (Terrence Stamp), who has eyes for her. By getting
PL: photos of the two of them together, he will be able to get money from the
PL: wife, who would like to divorce him. Unfortunately the singer falls for
PL: the millionaire. The detective tries to call off the scam, but the
PL: pianist already has dollars floating before his eyes. The pianist also
PL: has dreams of being a writer. Throughout the film, a fictional
PL: sub-story flashes in as he writes about Cousin Matt (Danny Nucci), who
PL: is also seeking to escape his unpleasant existence. Of course events in
PL: the fiction coincides with the events the pianist is caught up in.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Luna rossa (1951)

PL: Paolo, macchinista a bordo d'un piroscafo mercantile, è promesso a  Maria.
PL: Un giorno, dopo una breve sosta a Napoli, l'uomo riparte. Durante
PL: l'assenza di Paolo, Maria conosce  Carlo Sorrentino, giovane
PL: scapestrato, che, dopo aver corteggiato e compromesso Lucia, la sorella
PL: di Paolo, s'è messo ora a far la corte a Maria, favorito dalla madre
PL: adottiva della ragazza. A questo punto  Beniamino, amico di Paolo,
PL: ritiene doveroso avvertire il giovane. La madre di Maria induce allora
PL: la ragazza ad andare con Carlo in un albergo di campagna. Sbarcato a
PL: Napoli, Paolo non trova Maria, né la madre ed apprende per caso da un
PL: giornale del tentato suicidio di Lucia. Carlo, pentito, invoca il
PL: perdono della fanciulla ed ha un lungo chiarimento con Paolo, che non
PL: conosceva. Indignato per il contegno di Maria, Paolo si reca
PL: all'albergo e l'uccide, senza lasciarle il tempo di spiegarsi.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Lupa mannara, La (1976)
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MV: Maboroshi no hikari (1995)
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MV: Mad About Mambo (1999)

PL: A catholic high school student in West Belfast, Ireland dreams of playing
PL: professional soccer. But first, he has to perfect his timing. He starts
PL: taking dance classes, and there he meets Lucy McCloughlin, and falls in
PL: love...

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Magic Tree, The (1970)

PL: This animated folk tale from the Congo centers around twin
PL: brothers, Luemba and Mavungu.  When the neglected and unloved brother
PL: Mavungu finally leaves home, he finds a tree blocking the river and
PL: frees the people imprisoned within the tree.  Mavungu wins the love of
PL: a beautiful princess and receives the strength, beauty, power and love
PL: he has desired all his life--as long as he never reveals the secret of
PL: the Magic Tree.

BY: TPK

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MV: Malpertuis: Histoire d'une maison maudite (1971)

PL: Cassavius (Orson Welles), esperto di magia nera, è il padrone di una dimora
PL: popolata di  spettri, in gran parte personaggi della mitologia greca,
PL: che egli riesce ad evocare con le sue arti magiche, facendoli incarnare
PL: negli abitanti della casa (parenti ed inservienti). Dopo molti
PL: "esperimenti" anche pericolosi, un giorno, purtroppo, qualcosa non
PL: funziona: il nipote muore pietrificato da Medusa, una delle Gorgoni
PL: fatte reincarnare da Cassavius.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Maniac (1963)
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PL: Dedicato a quelli che fuggono ! C'è speranza nella fuga ? A volte pare
PL: proprio di si e spesso se ne sente il bisogno. Nella primavera del '41
PL: otto militari italiani ricevono l'ordine di occupare e presidiare
PL: l'isola greca di Syrna, sul mare Egeo, appartenente all'Italia dal 1920
PL: e da poco abbandonata dai tedeschi. Vi sbarcano cautamente da una
PL: piccola nave da guerra, senza trovare resistenza: l'isola sembra
PL: deserta. Gli otto militari sono un campionario pittoresco. Il tenente
PL: Montini che li comanda è un cultore di poesia e pittura, perduto nel
PL: ricordo di Omero; il suo attendente, Farina, è tragicamente timido ed
PL: imbranato ; il mulattiere Strazzabosco è  unicamente concentrato sulla
PL: sua mula spelacchiata, che farà una brutta fine ; il marconista
PL: Colasanti è un inetto ; i fratelli Libero e Felice Munaron sono due
PL: nostalgici della montagna natia, da cui si trovano lontani per la prima
PL: volta; Noventa è  un ansioso e pauroso sempre in cerca di una occasione
PL: per fuggire; il sergente Lo Russo è uno smargiasso con velleità
PL: militaresca, un po' sbruffone, ma simpatico. Nell'isola deserta non
PL: accade nulla per vari giorni, e gli otto finiscono col  sentirsi
PL: ignorati e inutili. Un giorno la radio è messa fuori uso dall'incuria
PL: di Colasanti e, così,  il loro isolamento è totale. Ma pian piano gli
PL: abitanti dell'isola escono allo scoperto e, dopo le prime diffidenze,
PL: simpatizzano con i militari. Così il tenente Montini si dedica al
PL: restauro (molto personale) della chiesetta dell'isola; i due fratelli
PL: si invaghiscono di una pastorella, così come Strazzabosco per una
PL: vedova-bianca. Intanto Vassilissa, la prostituta del luogo, in
PL: precedenza a servizio dei tedeschi, offre i suoi 'servigi' alla truppa.
PL: Ormai sono tutti naturalizzati isolani, finchè un aereo da ricognizione
PL: in avaria atterra nell'isola (durante un fatidico incontro di calcio
PL: Militari contro Isolani) ed il pilota li informa che la guerra è finita
PL: e che in Italia c'è fermento di pace e benessere. Così, un giorno,
PL: arriva una nave inglese a prelevare i militari. Tutti rientrano, anche
PL: se a malincuore, ad eccezione di Farina : ha sposato Vassilissa e
PL: rimarrà sull'isola. Trascorsi molti anni Montini, in pensione
PL: dall'insegnamento, torna nell'isola per ritrovare  Farina, ormai vedovo
PL: : vi ritrova anche Lo Russo che, deluso delle vicende italiane, delle
PL: promesse non mantenute e dei sogni non realizzati, si e' ritirato a
PL: Syrna.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Men of Respect (1991)

PL: A hitman (John Turturro) heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will
PL: rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by
PL: clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame
PL: on others. However, with power comes consequences that are also
PL: predicted by the seer.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Men of the North (1930)

PL: Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant suspects Louis
PL: LeBey. When Louis is attracted to newly arrived Nedra Ruskin,
PL: Woolie-Woolie becomes jealous and tells the Sergeant where Louis hid the
PL: gold. First Louis rescues the Sergeant whose dog team crashes chasing
PL: him and then he saves Nedra from an avalanche. When he returns the
PL: injured Nedra to the settlement, the Sergeant takes him prisoner.

BY: Maurice VanAuken <[e-mail]>

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MV: Messa è finita, La (1985)

PL: Don Giulio, giovane prete romano, ritorna a casa dopo essere stato parroco
PL: in un'isola del Mar Tirreno ed è destinato ad una chiesa di periferia.
PL: A Roma egli ritrova i genitori, la sorella e i vecchi amici. Ma la
PL: realtà è diversa da quella che lui ha lasciato. La parrocchia è
PL: praticamente deserta : il suo predecessore si è sposato, ha un figlio e
PL: vive a pochi metri dalla canonica; ed anche gli amici sono cambiati
PL: (chi è sotto processo per terrorismo; chi vuol farsi sacerdote senza
PL: capire perchè; chi è  omosessuale e sta vivendo squallide avventure;
PL: chi è stato abbandonato dall'amica e vive in un isolamento totale).
PL: Neppure in famiglia le cose vanno meglio. Il padre, ormai anziano, ha
PL: preso una sbandata per una donna e lascia la moglie, che si suicida. La
PL: sorella è incinta del fidanzato e don Giulio riesce a stento a non
PL: farla abortire. Coinvolto in tali gravi situazioni, scoraggiato, deluso
PL: e non sempre in grado di fornire una risposta ai dubbi che gli vengono
PL: esposti, a poco a poco don Giulio avverte l'insostenibile peso della
PL: propria amara solitudine. Non  identificandosi più con quella città e
PL: con quegli ambienti, decide di accettare  il posto di missionario in
PL: Sud America, dove potrà curare una comunità di persone, in fondo,
PL: realmente povere e smarrite. Una fuga liberatoria ? E' giusto
PL: "scrollarsi i calzari" quando intorno a te non vedi speranza ?  Forse !

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Milarepa (1974)

PL: Leo, dopo un incidente stradale, è ricoverato in ambulatorio e racconta al
PL: professore Bennet, suo medico curante, la storia e le gesta del monaco
PL: tibetano  Milarepa, con il quale si identifica. La leggenda è narrata
PL: in tre capitoli ben distinti: la magia nera, ovvero le pratiche delle
PL: fattucchiere ; la magia bianca, ovvero il raggiungimento della
PL: perfezione e della saggezza e la trasfigurazione, ovvero il distacco da
PL: ogni realtà materiale attraverso la resurrezione. Film difficile, ma di
PL: forte impatto mistico, per l'epoca.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Mio West, Il (1998)

PL: The idealistic lifestyle of a old West farmer Leonardo Pieracconi), his
PL: Indian wife Sandrine Holt), and half-breed son (Yudii Mercredi), who
PL: narrates the tale is disrupted when his father (Harvey Keitel), an old
PL: gunslinger shows up on the farm. Although looking to retire, the family
PL: is not happy with his return given his past lifestyle and mistreatment
PL: of his family. Things get worse when another gunfighter (David Bowie)
PL: shows up and terrorizes the town trying to force the father into a gun
PL: fight.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Mononoke Hime (1997)
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PL: I governanti del minuscolo granducato di Fenwick decidono di.....invadere
PL: gli Stati Uniti ! In realtà il loro interesse è quello, una volta
PL: sconfitti, di farsi aiutare economicamente dai vincitori. Per una serie
PL: di coincidenze fortuite e casuali, l'esercito del granducato (armato di
PL: alabardi, archi e frecce) viene in possesso di una potentissima bomba
PL: nucleare, che li porta alla vittoria. Avendo vinto, però, i governanti
PL: di Fenwick.......non sanno più cosa fare !

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Mr. Majestyk (1974)

PL: Vietnam veteran Vince Majestyk just wants to grow his watermelons and live
PL: in peace on his farm. But the local mob boss has different ideas. When
PL: his workers are threatened Mr. Majestyk decides to lend them a hand but
PL: then the wrath of the mob is turned onto Mr. Majestyk himself. The poor
PL: mobsters don't stand a chance.

BY: Steve Crook <[e-mail]>

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MV: Multiple Maniacs (1970)
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MV: Mumbo Jumbo (1999) (TV)

PL: Telemovie produced by Steve Vizard's Artist Services about a journalist who
PL: finds he can see ghosts after being struck by lightning.  Described as
PL: a "feel good" comedy, it stars Rhys Muldoon as a friendly ghost
PL: alongside screen and stage veterans Sandy Gore and Kate Fitzpatrick.
PL: There is word it might spin off into a regular series.

BY: Brendan Hill <[e-mail]>

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MV: Munekata shimai (1950)

PL: Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking
PL: habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed
PL: to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back
PL: and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries to reunite them. She too is
PL: secretly in love with Hiroshi.

BY: phs

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MV: Murder Blues (1990)

PL: A detective (Francesco Quinn) becomes obsessed with bringing a man (Brad
PL: Dourif) to justice, whom he is sure is a serial killer and the murderer
PL: of a woman with which both men were involved. However, the supposed
PL: killer may be as much a victim as the murdered people.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: My Last Love (1999) (TV)

PL: An attorney, Susan (Nancy Travis) battling Cancer returns home to
PL: California with her daughter Carson (Jamie Renee Smith).  And then
PL: falls for a free-spirited young man (Scott Bairstow). While trying to
PL: resolve various family issues.

BY: Spike_13 <[e-mail]>

PL: My Last Love is a TV movie about a single mother who had been diagnosed
PL: with cancer. Her treatments aren't helping, so she decides to move with
PL: her daughter Carter, from Chicago to her home on the west coast. While
PL: there, she meets a busboy named Michael and they fall in love. In the
PL: meantime, she has several struggles dealing with Carter's reaction to
PL: her illness, her mother's over-protectiveness, and the matter of who
PL: will care for her daughter when she dies.

BY: Susie-16

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PL: Da restare senza fiato ! L'intensità dei sentimenti e le emozioni che
PL: regala questo film sono da tenere dentro. Questi protagonisti con le
PL: loro facce "normali" e le loro sconfitte "di tutti i giorni" sono una
PL: boccata di ossigeno per le nostre anime e le nostre menti troppo
PL: abituate al superficialismo. Siamo a Glasgow, in Scozia. Joe è un
PL: quarantenne ex alcolizzato che sta cercando, con l'aiuto degli
PL: 'alcolisti anonimi', di continuare a non bere. Allena una sgangherata
PL: squadra di calcio, che perde ogni incontro, ed in cui milita anche
PL: Liam, un ragazzo tossicodipendente, sposato con Sabine e con un figlio,
PL: che Joe sta aiutando ad uscire dal tunnel. Un giorno Joe si trova a
PL: contatto con Sarah, l'assistente sociale che si occupa dei due ragazzi
PL: : dopo qualche titubanza, fra i due scoppia un sentimento intenso e
PL: coinvolgente. Ma la sventura è dietro l'angolo. Il boss locale deve
PL: avere molti soldi dai ragazzi (per droga presa e non pagata) e vorrebbe
PL: che la ragazza si prostituisse per lui, altrimenti ucciderebbe il
PL: ragazzo. Joe non lo può permettere e, così, si offre di fare qualche
PL: "consegna" per conto della malavita. Sarah viene a sapere del fatto e
PL: lo lascia, disperata, anche perché aspetta un bambino. Joe non se la
PL: sente di perdere il suo unico amore e decide di lasciare il "lavoro"
PL: con la malavita. Ma questo non è possibile e, dopo una notte infuocata
PL: in cui Joe riprende a bere, Liam corre a casa sua inseguito dai killer
PL: che vogliono ammazzarlo. Ma Joe è ubriaco e sprofonda nel sonno ; il
PL: ragazzo, disperato, si impicca. Al funerale del ragazzo Joe e Sarah si
PL: riavvicinano. Forse non tutto è perduto !

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Nafas Cinta (1999)

PL: This is a love story about a failed musician, Amir, whose once
PL: brilliant musical career is fast waning into oblivion.  He flees to
PL: Pulau Bayu where the discovery of the enchanting voice of shy and
PL: demure village girl, Suria, immediately brings new meaning to his life.

BY: L.H. Wong <[e-mail]>

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MV: Natale al campo 119 (1948)

PL: Seconda guerra mondiale. Campo 119 in California (USA). La guerra è finita
PL: da un pezzo, ma i prigionieri italiani aspettano ancora il ritorno a
PL: casa, preparandosi a festeggiare, lontani dalle famiglie, un altro
PL: triste Natale. Per dare un pò di sfogo alla loro nostalgia, si
PL: raccontano episodi della loro vita. Un romano racconta della sua
PL: difficile vita coniugale. Un soldato napoletano racconta del suo
PL: tenente, un duca napoletano squattrinato. Intanto, il comandante del
PL: campo ha regalato ai prigionieri un grammofono e, così,  ai racconti
PL: s'intrecciano le canzoni. Un altro soldato ricorda le feste e i canti
PL: della primavera siciliana, mentre un gondoliere veneziano rievoca una
PL: sua avventura amorosa. A volte, dalla radio malandata si ascoltano
PL: notizie dall'estero e dall'Italia. Finalmente, un giorno, arriva
PL: l'attesa liberazione e tutti fanno ritorno a casa.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Necronomicon - Geträumte Sünden (1967)

PL: Janine Reynaud stars as a nightclub stripper who free-floats through
PL: a spectral 60's landscape littered with dream-figures, dancing midgets
PL: and bizarre S&M games.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Nel mirino di Black Aphrodite (1977)

PL: A research team comes to a paradise island, and is confronted by a
PL: sculptural, tough woman (Ajita Wilson). Violence escalates from hand to
PL: hand conflicts, to gun fights. Beautiful landscape and female nudity,
PL: and erotic scenes are the topic interest here.

BY: raf

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MV: Neveroyatnye priklyucheniya italyantsev v Rossii (1973)
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PL: Teens Seth and Marcy meet when they bump into each other while shoplifting.
PL: Seth is troubled by a controlling, ill-tempered father and Marcy is
PL: having a hard time dealing with Tourettes syndrome. They decide to head
PL: to Toronto to search for a black Barbie make-up head for Marcy, which
PL: leads them on an adventure that includes a trip to Niagara Falls, an
PL: attempt to steal pharmaceuticals from a shot-gun wielding pharmacist,
PL: and a lonely, old man named Walter.

BY: Smokey Joe <[e-mail]>

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MV: Nightworld: Riddler's Moon (1998) (TV)

PL: An Indiana widow (Kate Mulgrew) and her wheelchair bound son (Daniel
PL: Newman) live on a farm that has not produced crops for years. Suddenly
PL: the land becomes fertile and blossoms, but so do the neighbors
PL: imaginations. In fact, the reason for the sudden growth turns out to be
PL: extra-terrestrial.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Nowhere to Go (1999)
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PL: A rebellious teen threatened with expulsion from school is offered an
PL: alternative: an experimental program in which she would counsel a
PL: troubled child.  Initially rebelling from the concept, she finds that
PL: her involvement lets her confront her own angers and eventually her
PL: family, including a loving Grandmother. With the help of a new friend,
PL: she eventually turns away from her trouble-making boyfriend and makes a
PL: new life.

BY: Bataille

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MV: Ochazuke no aji (1952)

PL: Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high-society, is bored by her dull
PL: husband, a quiet and reliable company executive raised in the country
PL: (Shin Saburi) After a crisis, she understands better his
PL: true value. A parallel sub-plot shows her niece rebelling against the
PL: tradition of arranged marriages.

BY: phs

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MV: On To Tokyo (1945)

PL: Propagandistic short documentary film designed to enlighten wartime America
PL: about the prospects for the conclusion of the war against Japan, as
PL: well as for military re-deployment and de-mobilization as hostilities
PL: wind down.

BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>

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MV: Onorevole Angelina, L' (1947)

PL: A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry
PL: against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new
PL: apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's
PL: movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village
PL: a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery
PL: woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for
PL: the affection of her man.

BY: Artemis-9

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MV: Ormai è fatta! (1999)

PL: Il film, biografico, è la storia di Horst Fantazzini, meglio noto come "il
PL: bandito gentiluomo", chiamato così perché, durante le rapine, usava una
PL: pistola giocattolo ed era sempre gentile con le sue vittime, senza mai
PL: usare violenza alcuna ed è tratto dall'omonimo romanzo autobiografico.
PL: Nonostante ciò, catturato e processato,  viene condannato a ventidue
PL: anni di carcere. Non rassegnato a perdere la sua libertà, Fantazzini
PL: decide di evadere dal carcere di Fossano nel 1973. In  questa
PL: occasione, però, usa una pistola vera e prende due guardie in ostaggio.
PL: Dopo una lunga e snervante trattativa, riesce ad ottenere un'auto e dei
PL: soldi per la fuga, ma, ad un passo dalla libertà, viene attaccato da un
PL: cane lupo e, distrattosi, viene ferito gravemente dagli agenti che gli
PL: sparano contro. Scampato a stento alla morte, è tuttora rinchiuso nelle
PL: patrie galere. Crimini e pene : quale rapporto ? Questo, in fondo,
PL: l'interrogativo che si pone il film.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Osynliga muren, Den (1944)

PL: Ett land är ockuperat. På en resebyrå arbetar Marie de Troy. Hennes kollega
PL: Victor Reis sköter JVU-avdelningen, "Jag Vill Ut", för de som vill
PL: lämna landet utan uppmärksamhet. En officerare hos ockupanterna, Stefan
PL: Becker, förälskar sig i Marie men hon anser att någonting dem emellan
PL: är omöjligt. På pensionatet där hon bor finns även flera judar på
PL: flykt. Där bor även en ung schweizisk kvinna som för Marie avslöjar att
PL: det var hon som har mördat en officerare och som nu efterspanas av
PL: ockupationsmaktens officerare, bland dem den grymme Corell.

BY: Mattias Thuresson <[e-mail]>

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PL: Based on a true story and in the same mould as Get Carter and Nil by Mouth,
PL: Out of Depth is a hard hitting, contemporary character based thriller.
PL: A gritty expose of the South London Underworld, it tells the story of
PL: misguided good intentions, of family love and of the personal hopes and
PL: fears that lay behind several gangland killings.

BY: Redbus Films

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MV: Outlawed Guns (1935)

PL: To pay off his gambling debts to Keeler, Babe Rivers sells his and his
PL: brother Buck's cattle and then joins Keeler's gang. After the gang
PL: pulls off a stage holdup, Keeler takes the gold and double-crosses them
PL: sending the Sheriff to their hideout. When Babe gets caught and the
PL: lynch mob forms, Buck sets out to free his brother.

BY: Maurice VanAuken <[e-mail]>

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MV: Outside Ozona (1998)

PL: A serial killer is stalking the roads between New Mexico and Texas and the
PL: passengers that we meet are destined to become his victims. We meet our
PL: parties at a cafeteria where a trucker (Robert Forster) stops for
PL: coffee. In the restaurant are a woman who has run out of gas (Kateri
PL: Walker) and is trying to get her grandmother to the coast one last time
PL: before she dies, a fired and broke circus clown (Kevin Pollak) trying
PL: to get to Vegas with his stripper girl friend (Penelope Ann Miller),
PL: and sisters (Sherilyn Fenn, Beth Ann Styne) who are going to their
PL: father's funeral. The killer (David Paymer) is easy to spot. While all
PL: of the mayhem is ongoing, all motorists are tuned into a local DJ (Taj
PL: Mahal) who is feuding with his station manager (Meat Loaf).

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Paraskeva dzukelova (1993)

PL: It's 1980.  Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble.  At 20, he's spent
PL: a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother.  In her desk
PL: he finds a soldier's photograph and assumes he's found his father.  He
PL: confronts the man, now a teacher, and gets nowhere.  At home again, he
PL: mocks his mother.  Finally, she tells him her grim story, from the year
PL: before his birth.  We see a people's court, where Lily's parents seek
PL: justice for their grandchild to be.  We follow Lily to a prison camp,
PL: to the city where she's told to inform on the only person who's been
PL: kind, to an asylum, and finally to her current poverty and loneliness.
PL: How will Malin respond to these revelations?

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: Passion (1982)

PL: On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature
PL: of work, love and film making.  While Solidarity takes on the Polish
PL: government, a Polish film director, Jerzy, is stuck in France making a
PL: film for TV.  He's over budget and uninspired; the film, called
PL: "Passion," seems static and bloodless.  Hanna owns the hotel where the
PL: film crew stays.  She lives with Michel, who runs a factory where he's
PL: fired Isabelle, a floor worker.  Hanna and Isabelle are drawn to Jerzy,
PL: hotel maids quit to be movie extras, people ask Jerzy where the story
PL: is in his film, women disrobe, extras grope each other off camera, and
PL: Jerzy wonders why there must always be a story.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: Payback (1999/I)

PL: Val Resnick and Porter, two small time bandits, hit a Chinese gang together
PL: and manage to get $140,000. But Val Resnick needs 130 grand alone
PL: to buy himself back into his syndication. So, Val turns on Porter
PL: together with Porter's wife Lynn, who kills him with two shots in the
PL: back. But Porter survives and half a year later, he is back, seeking
PL: his share of $70,000. When he finally finds Val, Porter quickly learns
PL: that he has to go much further up the ladder in order to get his money
PL: from the guys who have it: The syndication. Working alone can't be
PL: realized any more, so Porter teams up with his flame and previous boss
PL: Rosie, a very exclusive prostitute. Together, they now start playing
PL: the teams against each other.

BY: Julian Reischl <[e-mail]>

PL: Mel Gibson plays super-bad guy, Porter, who is so despicable that he would
PL: steal a pan-handler's money and take a waitress' tip. He is quickly
PL: shown to keep even worst company though as his friend (Gregg Henry) and
PL: junkie wife join together to kill him after a robbery from an Oriental
PL: gang. Nonetheless, he recovers after being gunned in the back by his
PL: wife. He then sets out for revenge against his "friend", who used the
PL: money to buy his way into the "Syndicate". This means he also has to to
PL: take on the Syndicate bosses which include, in line, William DeVane,
PL: James Coburn, and Kris Kristofferson. Meanwhile, crooked cops also come
PL: after him trying to get their share of what they believe is a big load
PL: of money related to drugs, the Oriental gang seeks revenge against the
PL: robbers, and a crooked little middle man tries to get his own piece.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Pays sans étoiles, Le (1946)
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MV: Personals (1998/I)

PL: After a staff writer from a trendy New York magazine loses his job as a
PL: result of his dalliances with women, he decides to combine business and
PL: pleasure through a piece of free-lance reporting on the dating scene:
PL: thirty dates in thirty nights.

BY: IboChild

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PL: Unhappily married Scott Henderson spends the evening on a no-name basis
PL: with a hat-wearing woman he picked up in a bar. Returning home, he
PL: finds his wife strangled and becomes the prime suspect in her murder.
PL: Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly no one seems to
PL: remember seeing the phantom lady (or her hat).  In prison, Scott gives
PL: up hope but his faithful secretary, "Kansas," doggedly follows
PL: evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets.  Can she save Scott
PL: in time?
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PL: Un potentissimo tycoon dell'industria musicale, Swan, intende aprire un
PL: nuovo, grandioso, locale : il "Paradise" che vorrebbe inaugurare con
PL: musica diversa,  più incisiva ed accattivante di quella del gruppo che
PL: sta lanciando, i "Juicy Fruits". Per caso, mentre sta selezionando
PL: aspiranti solisti e complessi, Swan ascolta l'esibizione di Winslow
PL: Leach, cantautore che ha abbozzato una versione rock del Faust: dopo
PL: averlo obbligato a firmare un falso contratto, gli ruba la musica e lo
PL: fa rinchiudere a Sing-Sing. Il ragazzo evade dal penitenziario, ma
PL: rimane gravemente sfigurato quando, durante la fuga e la ricerca della
PL: vendetta,  si avvicina incautamente a una pressa per dischi. A questo
PL: punto indossa una maschera sul volto, per nascondersi e, aggirandosi
PL: nei meandri e nelle cavità del "Paradise", che sta per essere
PL: inaugurato,  Winslow porta a termine l'opera e costringe Swan ad
PL: affidarne l'esecuzione a Phoenix, che ama in silenzio. Il trionfo della
PL: ragazza, tuttavia, coinciderà con la tragica fine dei due avversari:
PL: Swan e Winslow moriranno insieme.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Plågoande (1999)

PL: Mikael's sister, Julia, has disappeared without a trace - abducted or maybe
PL: even murdered. A mysterious man contacts the devastated Mikael. He
PL: pushes Mikael closer to the truth about what really has happened to his
PL: beloved sister. But everything is proceeding on the man's terms, and
PL: the question is whether Mikael's getting closer to his sister, or
PL: closer to his own demise. Because in the end, it's too late for him to
PL: even save himself...

BY: Niklas Aldergren <[e-mail]>

PL: Mikaels syster, Julia, har oförklarligt försvunnit, mördad eller bortförd.
PL: En mystisk man kontaktar den förkrossade Mikael och påstår sig veta vad
PL: som hänt hans syster. Han driver honom ständigt närmare sanningen om
PL: vad som verkligen hänt Julia. Men allting sker hela tiden på mannens
PL: villkor och frågan är om Mikael närmar sig en räddning av hans syster,
PL: eller sin egen undergång. För till slut, kan han inte ens rädda sig
PL: själv...

BY: Johan Hamnegård <[e-mail]>

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MV: Porgy and Bess (1993) (TV)

PL: The story of a disabled beggar in Charleston,S.C. who falls in love with a
PL: prostitute, this is the first filmed version of Gershwin's opera
PL: which uses Gershwin's own orchestrations and practically all of the
PL: music, with only one major cut.

BY: Albert Sanchez Moreno

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MV: Prato, Il (1979)

PL: San Gimignano, in Toscana, alla fine degli anni '70. La fine degli ideali
PL: degli anni '70 vista in un piccolo microcosmo, pensando a platee più
PL: vaste di giovani in crisi. Giovanni, magistrato in crisi, si innamora
PL: di Eugenia, animatrice teatrale per bambini ; un giorno i due conoscono
PL: Enzo, perito agrario con progetti di comune agricola, che si innamora
PL: anch'egli della ragazza. I tre provano a vivere un difficile rapporto
PL: affettivo a tre, ma tutto fallisce e, così, Eugenia ed Enzo stanchi per
PL: le difficoltà  incontrate nell'inserirsi nel mondo del lavoro, decidono
PL: di partire per l'Africa. Giovanni li accompagna all'aereo e, mentre li
PL: vede partire, viene morso dal cane rabbioso di Eugenia : sentendosi
PL: ormai solo,  si lascia morire a poco a poco.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Recoil (1997)

PL: Detective Ray Morgan accidentally kills the son of a mob boss. The mob boss
PL: orders to have Morgan killed unknowing that the assassin killed
PL: Morgan's wife and kids. Now Morgan's out for revenge..and he'll do it
PL: his own way.

BY: Albert Valentin <[e-mail]>

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MV: Rejected by Vultures (1999)

PL: Two construction workers, a psychotic photographer and his model, and a
PL: separated couple find themselves stranded in Death Valley.  Over a
PL: couple of days, they try to make it out.  In the process, they deal
PL: with homophobia, veganism, sexual fetishes and other good stuff.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: Renegades of the West (1932)

PL: Tom Bagby has gone to prison to learn of his father's killer. Returning, he
PL: looks for Curly Bogard who he thinks did it. Keeping his identity a
PL: secret, he gets a job on Curly's ranch. Just as he gets evidence out of
PL: Curly's safe, his cellmate Blackie arrives to expose him.

BY: Maurice VanAuken <[e-mail]>

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MV: River To Drown In (1997)

PL: Allen, a struggling young artist who once survived by working in the
PL: streets, is now involved with Eva, a wealthy Los Angeles gallery owner.
PL: Quite by surprise Allen receives a visit from an old john, Thaddeus,
PL: who is dying from aids and has come to spend his last days somewhere
PL: humble ans spare. Allen reluctantly takes him in, straining his
PL: relationship with Eva, who slowly discovers the truth about their past.
PL: When Thaddeus implores Allen to find Jamie, a young hustler he had once
PL: tried to rescue, Allen returns to the streets where he must choose
PL: between what he left behind and the uncertainty that lies ahead.

BY: Alie Heidema  <[e-mail]>

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MV: Rächer der Entwurzelten, Der (1999)

PL: Der Umweltschützer Rolf von Lockau kämpft mit antiquierten, aber durchaus
PL: wirksamen Mitteln gegen den Bau des Tiergartentunnels: Er beschießt die
PL: Baumannschaft mit Pfeil und Bogen. ^× Der Wachschützer Norbert Tingmann
PL: erhält vom Baulöwen den Auftrag, den Rächer der Entwurzelten
PL: unschädlich zu machen. ^× Und die ABM-Laubharkerin Marianne will
PL: einfach nur Laub harken, gerät aber unfreiwillig zwischen die beiden
PL: verfeindeten Fronten.

BY: Robert Löhr <[e-mail]>

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MV: Roberta (1999)

PL: When Jonathan Fishman, a young Manhattan computer specialist randomly
PL: encounters a prostitute he is shocked to recognize her as Roberta whom
PL: he knew when they were both children. To the dismay of his friends, his
PL: business partner and his new girlfriend Judy, Jonathan decides to help
PL: Roberta off the streets by moving her into his apartment and teaching
PL: her the skills necessary to find an office job. What begins as a
PL: seemingly altruistic gesture reveals itself as an unwavering obsession,
PL: and his life slowly unravels.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Romance da Empregada (1987)

PL: Fausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on
PL: the installment plan.  Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed
PL: hovel with her idle husband, João, and she works as a maid. The elderly
PL: but randy Zé, who carries advertising signs at the train station, buys
PL: her perfume and invites her to spend Sundays with him. She accepts.
PL: After João injures his foot, stops work, drinks more, and wallows in
PL: self pity, Fausta sees Zé as her way out, if he'll help her buy the
PL: land and build a house.  Through it all she's a scourge, arguing,
PL: jeering and being jeered, but also displaying the spirit and energy of
PL: her idol, Tina Turner.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: Rushmore (1998)

PL: Max is a homely 10th-grade scholarship boy at Rushmore, a private school
PL: where he fails classes but constantly organizes clubs and plays.  He
PL: befriends a depressed local factory magnate, Blume, and falls for a
PL: recently widowed teacher, Ms. Cross.  When a scheme gets him expelled,
PL: he tries his Rushmore style at the local high school. He ignores the
PL: proffered friendship of a student, Margaret, to pursue the unattainable
PL: Ms. Cross.  Max discovers Blume also loves her; he seeks vengeance,
PL: Blume retaliates, war ensues, and Max's troubles deepen.  Rescue comes
PL: from unexpected places, including his sweet father, a barber.  Can Max
PL: accept a realistic place in the world?

BY: <[e-mail]>

PL: Max Fischer is a precocious 15-year-old whose reason for living is his
PL: attendance at Rushmore, a private school where he's not doing well in
PL: any of his classes, but where he's the king of extracurricular
PL: activities - from being in the beekeeping society to writing and
PL: producing plays, there's very little after school he doesn't do. His
PL: life begins to change, however, when he finds out he's on academic
PL: probation, and when he stumbles into love with Miss Cross, a pretty
PL: teacher of the elementary school at Rushmore.  Added to the mix is his
PL: friendship with Herman Blume, wealthy industrialist and father to boys
PL: who attend the school, and who also finds himself attracted to Miss
PL: Cross. Max's fate becomes inextricably tied to this odd love triangle,
PL: and how he sets about resolving it is the story in the film.

BY: Gary Dickerson <[e-mail]>

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MV: Rutles, The (1978) (TV)

PL: Rutland Weekend Television takes a look at the Pre-fab Four: Dirk, Barry,
PL: Stig and Nasty; better known as the Rutles. This documentary follows
PL: their career from their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg's infamous
PL: Rat-Keller, to their amazing worldwide success. A parody of Beatlemania
PL: and the many serious documentaries made about the Beatles.

BY: Alexander Lum <[e-mail]>

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PL: Il gioco dell'amore, l'amore come un gioco. Octave riesce a salvare l'amico
PL: aviatore Andrè dal tentativo di suicidio operato dopo una delusione
PL: amorosa. Subito dopo, lo conduce in un castello della Sologne e lo
PL: presenta al marchese Chesnaye, padrone della tenuta. Il nobile aveva
PL: riunito un gruppo di persone per una battuta di caccia ed una festa
PL: notturna. Durante la notte i due vengono coinvolti in un tourbillon
PL: amoroso di seduzioni e fughe. Ai piani superiori i nobili, a quelli
PL: inferiori la servitù : ma il "gioco" vale per tutti. La festa si
PL: conclude tragicamente, poiché il guardiacaccia uccide Andrè, credendolo
PL: in compagnia della moglie. Alla fine, il marchese tranquillizza gli
PL: invitati e li esorta, un pò cinicamente, a riprendere il "gioco".

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Saintly Switch, A (1999) (TV)

PL: Although this is a high-concept comedy, the basic theme deals
PL: with very important and timely issues, a family in trouble, sex roles
PL: in modern society and the frustration and misunderstandings between men
PL: and women.  The story is about a married couple (he is an aging NFL
PL: quarterback at the end of his career) with children on the verge of
PL: divorce.  Their imminent divorce, like many, is due to their mutual
PL: lack of respect and compassion for each other and the effect it has on
PL: their children.  When the family makes a traumatic move to New Orleans
PL: they move into an old, Victorian home.  There, in the attic, the
PL: children think they have found the "magic" to solve their parent's
PL: problems.  The children accidentally manage to switch the souls of their
PL: parents. Now the wife must face the perils of the lockeroom and pressures
PL: as family breadwinner and the husband must face pregnancy and bond with his
PL: children.  Newfound respect and appreciation is gained as the couple
PL: finally find out what it's like to walk in the other person's shoes.

BY: Sally Hampton ([e-mail])

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MV: Sat sau ji wong (1998)

PL: When an old Japanese tycoon suspects that he may be murdered, he
PL: establishes a huge reward fund for the person who will find his killer.
PL: When the old man is killed, out-of-luck con man (Eric Tsang) and
PL: struggling "newbie' hitman (Jet Li) band together in hope of a big
PL: payday as they try to discover the identity of the "King of the
PL: Hitmen."

BY: RangerMode

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MV: Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy, The (1990) (TV)

PL: To tie in with the release of Back to the Future Part III, the third
PL: installment in the series, Kirk Cameron takes us on a journey to the
PL: making of Back to the Future movies.  On the set with Robert Zemeckis
PL: and the crew filming the movie will entertain as well educate.

BY: Jason Allentoff

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MV: Selma, Lord, Selma (1999) (TV)

PL: In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl (Jurnee Smollett) is touched by a
PL: speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Clifton Powell) and becomes a devout
PL: follower. But her resolution is tested when she joins others in the
PL: famed march from Selma to Montgomery.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Shatter (1974)

PL: Stuart Whitman is Shatter, an international hitman who is hiding out in
PL: Hong Kong after he has completed a contract out on an African leader.
PL: Shatter soon finds out that everyone wants him dead, including the
PL: crime syndicate, the cops and the brother of the African leader he
PL: killed. Shatter teams up with a kung fu expert (Ti Lung) to try to get
PL: the money that is owed to him. Various double crosses and fight scenes
PL: ensue.

BY: Patrick Knightly <[e-mail]>

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MV: Signora dalle camelie, La (1915)
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MV: Signore & signori (1965)

PL: Una cittadina del Veneto negli anni sessanta. Tre storie di "amori di
PL: provincia": uno pseudo dongiovanni confessa la propria impotenza al
PL: medico di fiducia ma viene da questi tradito (parla del suo paziente
PL: con alcuni amici pettegoli); un impiegato di banca, dopo una tormentata
PL: relazione d'amore con la giovane cassiera di un bar, ritorna in
PL: famiglia solo, deluso e amareggiato; alcuni ragazzotti approfittano
PL: delle grazie di una ingenua ragazza del luogo. Il padre di lei li
PL: denuncia, ma ritratta tutto dopo un lauto compenso e salva dalla galera
PL: i "pappagalli" di paese.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Silent Victim (1993) (TV)

PL: An abusive husband is angered that his wife is having trouble conceiving a
PL: child.  One night, after leaving his house following a fight, she
PL: overdoses on pills.  After bringing her to the ER to save her, the
PL: husband discovers that she was, in fact, pregnant and had lost her
PL: child in the process of attempting suicide.  Distraught, he decides to
PL: sue her for "property damage" and "breach of trust", among other
PL: things.  She hires her feminist friend from New York to defend her,
PL: which is a difficult task in a midwestern town which is predominantly
PL: pro-life.

BY: Anthony Ventarola <[e-mail]>

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PL: When Hank, Jacob and Lou find $4.4 million inside a crashed plane in a
PL: nature preserve, they quickly come up with the plan to keep the money
PL: safe until the plane has been found by others and the dust has settled.
PL: But Jacob, Hank's brother, and Lou, a friend, do not behave the way
PL: they decided to. Lou, constantly in financial debt, wants his share
PL: soon and Jacob wishes to renovate their parents' farm. The trusty
PL: atmosphere between the unequal partners dissolves slowly, and intrigues
PL: are spun. Also, accidents start happening and when an FBI agent comes
PL: into town, looking for a crashed plane, Hank and his partners get into
PL: very deep water...

BY: Julian Reischl <[e-mail]>

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MV: Súper, El (1979)

PL: Slice of life look at Roberto and Aurelia, Cuban exiles living in New York
PL: City with their 17-year-old daughter Aurelita.  It's February, 1978;
PL: the winter is harsh, and for ten years Roberto's been the super of an
PL: apartment building, firing up the boiler, repairing windows, moving
PL: bags of garbage.  He's homesick for Cuba, stuck in repetitive
PL: conversations about the Bay of Pigs, Castro, and life back home.  He's
PL: too depressed to make love to Aurelia, and when his daughter thinks
PL: she's pregnant and he receives sad news from Cuba, he makes up his mind
PL: to quit the city for Miami.  The decision gives him new life, he
PL: remembers Aurelia's birthday, and they have a party to celebrate.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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PL: Nei pressi di una base spaziale, nascosta in una caverna che porta
PL: direttamente su una grande spiaggia, vive una creatura extraterrestre.
PL: La creatura ha la forma di un cervello umano, ma non è violento, anzi
PL: comunica soltanto con i bambini, attraverso l'emissione di onde
PL: musicali. Comunicando con un gruppo di bambini, la creatura riesce ad
PL: avvisare la popolazione di un esperimento che le autorità militari
PL: vorrebbero portare a compimento : far esplodere nello spazio un
PL: pericoloso missile nucleare. Grazie all'aiuto ed all'intervento dei
PL: bambini, l'esperimento non viene effettuato.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Spider Woman, The (1944)
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PL: Il film racconta, come in  una cronaca retrospettiva, la cruenta rivalità
PL: fra i due più grossi "sindacati" del crimine esistenti negli USA ai
PL: tempi del proibizionismo. Uno capeggiato da Al Capone, l'altro da Bugs
PL: Moran. In quegli anni ci fu una lunga serie di attentati e
PL: «liquidazioni» da entrambe le parti. Nel tentativo di indebolire Al
PL: Capone, Moran fa eliminare un suo potente amico della mafia, servendosi
PL: di un traditore. Questa fu la goccia che fece traboccare il vaso. Al
PL: Capone si vendicò facendo trucidare sette uomini che avevano
PL: partecipato all'omicidio, il 14 febbraio 1929 : la  notte di San
PL: Valentino.

BY: rosebud6

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PL: Victor Mallick returned to his home and found out that all of his friends
PL: have arranged a surprise bachelor/stag party for him. Two strippers
PL: were hired to cheer up the party.  However, when some of the men
PL: accidentally killed one of the strippers, they are left to face the
PL: consequences of their action.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Street Angels (1999)

PL: The story revolves around the lives of five teenage girls in Singapore,
PL: between 14 and 17 years of age from different family backgrounds.  It
PL: tells of their experiences during this rebellious phase of their lives,
PL: when they seek to assert their independence from family, school and
PL: society.  They do so by forming a gang and living by the rules of the
PL: Gang.  They hang out at discos for fun, fight with other gangs when
PL: their interests are threatened and steal for a living.

BY: L.H. Wong <[e-mail]>

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PL: policeman and are pursued through to Texas...
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PL: Il cinema come sollievo dell'anima ! Convinto che in un periodo difficile
PL: si debbano girare soltanto film drammatici, un giovane regista
PL: cinematografico, durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, decide di girare
PL: un film ispirato alla vita dei senzatetto, lui che è abituato a girare
PL: sempre commedie. Travestitosi da barbone, inizia a frequentare i
PL: quartieri più poveri della città per cercare di conoscere gli ambienti
PL: e le persone di cui vorrebbe parlare. Con l'aiuto di una aspirante
PL: attrice riesce fare delle esperienze 'sul campo'. Dopo varie peripezie,
PL: si trova coinvolto in un errore giudiziario ed è condannato ai lavori
PL: forzati. Cerca di svelare la propria identità, ma non viene creduto.
PL: Durante la permanenza in carcere si rende conto che i detenuti trovano
PL: sollievo alla sofferenza di essere rinchiusi solo guardando film di
PL: cartoni animati. Alla fine viene riconosciuta la sua  innocenza e viene
PL: rilasciato. Questa esperienza gli servirà molto per capire che in
PL: momenti difficili l'essere umano ha bisogno di gioia e, quindi, decide
PL: di tornare alle sue commedie.

BY: rosebud6

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PL: Lahn is a heroin addict who will do anything for his dose.  After he robs
PL: his roommate, Denis, a dealer, he shows up at the door of Denis's best
PL: friend, Trevor to see if Trevor will hide him for a while.  Trevor, who
PL: is terrified of women, agrees to let Lahn stay in his apartment.  In
PL: return for shelter and Lahn's daily dose, Trevor turns Lahn into his
PL: slave and then into his dream girl, Dorothy.  Trevor uses psychological
PL: tactics to twist Lahn into doing everything he asks.

BY: Peter Storms <[e-mail]>

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MV: Sword Fishing (1939)

PL: A group of fisherman, including Howard Hill, "the world's greatest archer,"
PL: go in search of marlin off the California coast. With fishing line
PL: attached to his arrow, Hill plans to spear the fish, which would then
PL: be brought aboard the boat by rod and reel.

BY: David Glagovsky <[e-mail]>

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MV: Système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume, Le (1913)
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PL: A police lieutenant woman goes undercover into a mansion where a couple
PL: maintains a school to teach young women how to catch a man...
PL: Especially if they are rich and into marriage. The courses include a
PL: number of disciplines, including judo and strip-tease.

BY: Artemis-9

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MV: Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
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PL: Hoffmann is a lovelorn young man in Nurnberg (Nüemburg) who is watching his
PL: latest love, Stella, dance in the ballet. In the interval he goes to
PL: the tavern where he tells his friends the tales of the three major
PL: loves of his life. Each story forms a separate act of this
PL: magnificently staged opera. It is NOT just a film of a staged
PL: production but a truly filmic version of the Offenbach opera.

BY: Steve Crook <[e-mail]>

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PL: world war ii, Captain Fisby is sent to the village Tobiki in Okinawa to
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MV: Teen Knight (1998) (TV)

PL: A young teenager wins a contest for a "Midevil Adventure" from a soda
PL: company.  The winners, plus a film crew from the soda company arrive at
PL: the castle for the adventure.  During the night, a spell cast over 600
PL: years prior brings the castle and all the people in it back to 1583.
PL: The evil Lord Drakin plans on retrying to take the castle. It is up to
PL: the group to stop him, and thereby return to the 20th century.  They
PL: enlist the help of the former court magician, Percival, to help them.

BY: Neil Bradley <[e-mail]>

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PL: since their senior prom. Thirteen years later Ted hires Pat, a private
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MV: Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)

PL: The seduction plans of novelist Malcolm Niles go awry when actress Vivian
PL: Herford brings along her mother to a candlelight dinner in his New York
PL: apartment.  When they talk of marriage, Malcolm decides to make a tour
PL: promoting his new book, and in a small southern town meets Nancy Briggs
PL: at an autographing session at the local bookstore. Nancy is getting
PL: married that night, but her fiancé, working in New York, doesn't come
PL: back for the wedding, so her family gives her the fare to go to New
PL: York to find him.  At the same time, Malcolm gets a wire from his
PL: publisher and friend, Robert Hanson, telling him to come home because
PL: Vivian has left town.  Traveling to New York on the same train, Nancy
PL: proves to be a pest who Malcolm hopes to avoid once they arrive, but
PL: when Nancy can't find her fiancé, she goes to Malcolm, since he's the
PL: only one she knows in the city.  He is about to kick her out when
PL: Vivian returns, so he uses Nancy as an excuse to get rid of Vivian.  In
PL: the ensuing days, Nancy cooks and cleans for both Malcolm and Robert,
PL: who lives next door. Trouble begins when Robert falls in love with
PL: Nancy and Malcolm finds that he is jealous.

BY: Arthur Hausner <[e-mail]>

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PL: family life change his relationship with Mary?
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MV: Time Bandits II (2000)

PL: The Supreme Being has decided that the universe is a failure, and decides
PL: to destroy it in the year 2000. The Time Bandits are the last hope that
PL: the universe has got, if only they can be bothered to stop the imminent
PL: holocaust.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Todos somos estrellas (1993)

PL: A family longs to be on a TV show which does an in-depth expose of a
PL: different real-life family every week.  When they are finally selected
PL: they decide to change their lives completely so that the audience sees
PL: them as they want to be seen, not as they really are.

BY: David Kinne <[e-mail]>

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MV: Train de vie (1998)

PL: Central Europe, WWII. The village fool of a small Jewish community warns
PL: the townsfolk that the Nazis are coming, and advises them to build a
PL: fake deportation train to cross the Russian border and get to
PL: Palestine. Some Jews are dressed up with German uniforms, and soon they
PL: start getting strange ideas about how it feels to be a Nazi; others are
PL: infected with the fast-spreading germ of communism. Meanwhile, the
PL: Russian border gets closer and closer...

BY: <[e-mail]>

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PL: Early in 1945, winter, the Red Army liberates Auschwitz; prisoner 174517,
PL: humanist Primo Levi (1919-1987) begins his journey home to Turin. He
PL: boards a train that goes the wrong way, further into Poland. After a
PL: short time under the guidance of a street-wise, philosophical Greek,
PL: Primo is remanded to a displaced persons camp, where freedom is
PL: limited, but music and dance rekindle human feeling. The Italians next
PL: try to reach Odesa to return home by ship; railroad lines take them
PL: only part way, to a Ukrainian camp, where the Greek runs a brothel, and
PL: they spend spring and summer.  At last, another train takes them
PL: through German territory home, where Primo resolves to write.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: Twins of Evil (1971)
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PL: A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of
PL: witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Young Katy, Gustav's
PL: niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an
PL: instrument of Justice in the region.

BY: Artemis-9

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MV: Ultrà (1990)

PL: The "Brigate Veleno" is a fan group from the soccer club "Lazio Rome". The
PL: next match is against "Juventus Turin", the classic prestige duel.
PL: Principe, the former leader of the group, has been dismissed from jail
PL: a few days before. He has to realize that his best friend Red has not
PL: only taken over control of the group, but also has started an affair
PL: with his girlfriend. The rivalry between the hot-blooded Principe and
PL: the sensible Red causes an anxious mood within the group. When Smilzo,
PL: a member of the group, dies during a street fight with another fan
PL: group, Red knows that Principe is to be blamed for this catastrophe.

BY: Thomas Manhardt <[e-mail]>

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MV: Under the Bridge (1996)

PL: This urban poem centers on a
PL: group of renegade squatters who become surrogate parents for a young
PL: African-American runaway. Deep in this surprisingly communal, makeshift
PL: world, a street walking junkie finds a way to become a concerned
PL: mother, a severe alcoholic rediscovers his sensitivity, and a lonely
PL: outcast emerges as a storyteller.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Vampire Circus (1972)
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PL: Marcilla Karnstein from time to time comes back from her death sleep, and
PL: under a different name, such as Carmilla or, now, Mircalla, spreads
PL: terror in a village with her vampire powers. General Von Spielsdorf
PL: loses his nubile daughter to Mircalla, and swears revenge, with the
PL: help of expert vampire-killer Baron Hartog, and the Doctor. Eventually,
PL: they will kill the female vampire, but not before she traps a number of
PL: female lovers/victims.

BY: Artemis-9

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PL: A large mansion and the surrounding woodland are for sale. For some reason,
PL: it is difficult to sell it... Two female vampires ensnare male and
PL: female victims with their sexy bodies, then chew their blood the old
PL: way. When an American Lady fights back, they team-up against her...

BY: Artemis-9

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MV: Vendetta di Spartacus, La (1965)

PL: Arminio e Trasone fanno credere che il leggendario Spartacus sia ancora
PL: vivo e che abbia organizzato un gruppo di armati per distruggere i
PL: romani. Valerio, legionario romano, scopre l'inganno e tenta di
PL: avvisare chi crede nella falsa notizia. Il tentativo si rivela inutile.
PL: Dopo aver ucciso  i due Spartachiani, Valerio e i suoi seguaci
PL: combattono contro le rimanenti forze di Arminio, sconfiggendole dopo
PL: un'aspra battaglia

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Verificatore, Il (1995)

PL: Crescenzio, trentatreenne grasso e impacciato, verificatore per l'azienda
PL: napoletana del gas, ama in silenzio Giuliana, che lavora in un
PL: laboratorio elettronico con Beniamino, fratello di Crescenzio,
PL: fidanzato con Valeria. Il giovane è timido e riservato, a differenza
PL: del fratello, ed incontra una fauna variopinta di personaggi durante la
PL: lettura dei contatori, a casa della gente. Il padrone del laboratorio
PL: si mostra interessato a  Giuliana, che evita come può le sue profferte.
PL: Ma gli insistenti tentativi dell'uomo innervosiscono la ragazza che,
PL: dopo un approccio più esplicito e volgare, corre da Beniamino e si
PL: sfoga con lui. Poco dopo è lo stesso Beniamino che tenta di sedurre
PL: Giuliana, che lo respinge. Una sera, il padrone stupra la giovane nel
PL: laboratorio deserto e lei, disperata, decide di lasciare Napoli.
PL: Crescenzio, che ha seguito tutto in silenzio e quasi con rassegnazione,
PL: non ne può più. Si reca al laboratorio e lascia aperto il gas, poi si
PL: allontana ed aspetta il padrone che torni. Quando questi arriva ed
PL: accende una lampadina, salta in aria con l'edificio.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Violon rouge, Le (1998)

PL: In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red
PL: violin," is being auctioned off.  During the auction, we flash back to
PL: the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin
PL: as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a
PL: violinist in 19th century Oxford, China during the Cultural Revolution,
PL: and back to Montreal, where a collector tries to establish the identity
PL: and the secrets of "the red violin."

BY: Sean Gallagher <[e-mail]>

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MV: Vita violenta, Una (1962)

PL: Tommaso, giovane di borgata, per conquistare l'amore di Irene organizza una
PL: serenata che finisce in una rissa, durante la quale ferisce un uomo con
PL: un coltello. Viene arrestato e condannato ad alcuni mesi di carcere.
PL: Durante la permanenza nella casa di pena, si ammala di tisi. Ricoverato
PL: in sanatorio, conosce un sindacalista comunista, che si interessa a lui
PL: e lo esorta e lo aiuta a prendere coscienza, sociale e politica.
PL: Tommaso si rimette in carreggiata e decide di sposare Irene. Un giorno,
PL: per salvare una donna, si getta nelle acque gelide dell'Aniene, ma
PL: questo gesto di altruismo e di coraggio gli provoca una ricaduta della
PL: malattia e, poco dopo, la morte.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Vita è una sola, La (1998)

PL: CINEMA amore mio ! Tre amici, Massimo, Eugenio e Fabio, giovani
PL: film-makers, decidono di girare un film ispirandosi al neo-realismo. Il
PL: loro film, IL MURATORE, parla del problema della  casa e della
PL: difficoltà a trovarne. L'opera piace alla critica, al punto da essere
PL: invitata al Festival dei Quattro Cantoni, in Svizzera. Dopo aver vinto
PL: un premio in quella manifestazione, i tre cinematografari, galvanizzati
PL: dal successo ottenuto oltre frontiera, tornano in Italia ed ottengono
PL: anche la distribuzione del loro film. Purtroppo, però, il distributore
PL: fa uscire la pellicola in piena estate ed è un totale fallimento al
PL: botteghino. I tre, sconfortati, decidono di prendere strade diverse,
PL: ognuno per proprio conto. Ma un giorno.......qualcosa li riunisce !

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Welcome to Alaska (1999)

PL: Randal Stevens has pictures of himself by welcome signs in every US state
PL: except for Alaska.  He finds out the Alaska sign is going to be cut
PL: down in one week and has to get there and finish his collection before
PL: the sign is gone forever.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Western Courage (1935)

PL: Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter
PL: Gloria's boyfriend Eric is waiting and he is after Hanley's money. Ken
PL: overhears Eric's plan and abducts Gloria to stop the elopement. The
PL: outlaw Lacrosse and his henchman then catch Ken without his guns, take
PL: off with Gloria, and leave a tied up Ken in a burning shack.

BY: Maurice VanAuken <[e-mail]>

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MV: Westward Passage (1932)

PL: Struggling writer Nick Allen and socialite Olivia Van Tyne marry and live
PL: frugally because Nick refuses to compromise his writing to satisfy his
PL: publisher.  However, when they have an unwanted child, he does become a
PL: "hack" writer to feed the baby, little Olivia, and he resents it. Three
PL: years later, little Olivia interferes too much in his work, so he finds
PL: his own apartment and eventually divorces Olivia, who then marries
PL: gentle and kindly Harry Ottendorf. Not seeing each other for six more
PL: years, Olivia and Nick accidentally meet in Lucerne, Switzerland, while
PL: she, Harry and little Olivia are on vacation, and Nick, now a famous
PL: author, is on tour promoting his new book. When Harry has to go back to
PL: the States on business, Nick tries to rekindle Olivia's flickering
PL: love, but she repels him.  Later, Olivia finds that Nick has also
PL: booked a room on the ship going home so they can take the westward
PL: passage together.  Olivia is torn between her loyalty to Harry and her
PL: burgeoning love for Nick.

BY: Arthur Hausner <[e-mail]>

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MV: White Mile (1994) (TV)

PL: How far would you go to keep your job? That's the question the ad for this
PL: movies states. Based on a true story, Dan Cutler is the head of a New
PL: York advertising agency. In a move to build character, he books a trip
PL: for a whitewater rafting trip on Canada's White Mile. After the raft
PL: turns over, all of the men scatter all over the rapids. Some of them
PL: are found dead, which leads to a lawsuit by one of the wives of the
PL: deceased.

BY: Pat McCurry <[e-mail]>

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PL: woman's married daughter.
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MV: Witch Hunt (1999) (TV)

PL: Based on the true case of a young girl's abduction by her grandparents in
PL: Victoria, this tele-movie stars Cameron Daddo as the father desperate to
PL: get his daughter back and Jacqueline Bisset as the manipulative
PL: grandmother with an interest in the occult.

BY: Brendan Hill <[e-mail]>

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MV: Wrong Way Out, The (1938)

PL: Two young people get married and run away, even though their parents advise
PL: them to build up their savings first. After they get settled they can
PL: barely make ends meet. When opportunity suddenly presents itself, they
PL: start on a downward spiral of crime.

BY: David Glagovsky <[e-mail]>

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MV: Xala (1975)

PL: It is the dawn of Senegal's independence from France, but as the citizens
PL: celebrate in the streets we soon become aware that only the faces have
PL: changed.  White money still controls the government.  One official,
PL: Aboucader Beye, known by the title "El Hadji," takes advantage of some
PL: of that money to marry his third wife, to the sorrow and chagrin of his
PL: first two wives and the resentment of his nationalist daughter.  But he
PL: discovers on his wedding night that he has been struck with a "xala," a
PL: curse of impotence.  El Hadji goes to comic lengths to find the cause
PL: and remove the xala, resulting in a scathing satirical ending.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Yego zvali Robert (1967)

PL: A constructor Sergei creates a robot Robert as his own copy. Tanya teaches
PL: Robert to feel and the robot becomes more human than his rationalistic
PL: creator...

BY: Svetlana Rubinshtein <[e-mail]>

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MV: Ying xiong xue (1986)

PL: After a big robbery, one of the gang takes a rest at his uncle's country
PL: home. There he meets and falls in love with a local girl and decides to
PL: give up his life of crime. However, his old gang hears about it and
PL: comes after him to silence him in case he decides to talk.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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PL: Comicità debordante e citazioni cinematografiche da antologia in questa
PL: rivisitazione parodistica del mito di Frankenstein e del suo "Mostro",
PL: a tutt'oggi il miglior film di Mel Brooks. Il dottor Frankenstein,
PL: docente di medicina, è un appassionato di ricerche scientifiche. Un
PL: giorno riceve in eredità un castello nella vecchia Europa da un suo
PL: misconosciuto avo. Con l'aiuto del fido Igor, aiutante fidato ma un pò
PL: sbadato, decide di continuare le ricerche scientifiche dello zio, il
PL: famoso barone Frankenstein. Trafugato un cadavere gigantesco di un
PL: impiccato ed un cervello 'abnormal', il giovane scienziato effettua
PL: l'esperimento di trapiantare il cervello sul cadavere per riprodurre un
PL: essere umano. Ma quel 'qualcosa' di anormale nel cervello trafugato
PL: porta scompiglio nell'esperimento. Di conseguenza la nuova creatura
PL: semina, non appena si muove, terrore e preoccupazione. Alla fine, dopo
PL: molte vicissitudini al limite del grottesco (la 'creatura' perfetto
PL: ballerino di tip-tap, focoso amatore e così via) lo scienziato decide
PL: di fare un altro esperimento: scambiare, con impulsi elettrici, il
PL: proprio cervello con quello della creatura. L'esperimento riesce in
PL: parte : il "Mostro" diventerà l'annoiato marito della ex fidanzata
PL: dello scienziato, mentre questi diventerà il focoso amante di Inga, la
PL: sua assistente.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Zelyonyj furgon (1983) (TV)