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MV: "Eek! the Cat" (1992)

PL: Eek! the Cat is a chubby purple cat who lives in a voilent world and his
PL: Motto is "It never hurts to help", well it does, but he always gets hurt
PL: and his adventures spoof many movies and TV shows. The Thunderlizards
PL: are a group of misfit dinosaurs who set out to destroy two cavemen
PL: (Bill and Scooter) and always miss, while Scooter is trying to show
PL: Bill his new inventions.

BY: Girl <[e-mail]>

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MV: "Ihana mies" (1999) (mini)

PL: Vertti Laine is a popular talk-show host. He has a perfect wife, beautiful
PL: kids, a big house and - a mistress. Women just fall for him and Vertti
PL: does nothing to stop them, in fact quite the opposite. But the most
PL: important relationship Vertti has with the publicity. He thinks it is
PL: his duty to appear in public, to get his face on every magazine cover.
PL: What is not printed, doesn't exist. Too late he realises what damage
PL: this kind of life can do - or does he?

BY: T.J.A.

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MV: "Klubi" (1998)

PL: Two national family-owned companies are planning the fusion to better
PL: compete in the wider market. The families also become tied with the
PL: bonds of marriage and everything is looking good. But then an
PL: unexpected death occurs and it also seems that the new managing
PL: director is not completely loyal to the firm. Suspicion and distrust
PL: set in and a lot has to change before everything is settled.

BY: T.J.A.

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MV: "Malibu, CA" (1998)

PL: When there mom movie to Saudi Arabia to take a new job twins Jason and
PL: Scott moved from New York City to live with their father in
PL: California. Making new friends Murray, Traycee, Jennifer (Stads) and
PL: Samantha, and getting along with Dad while learning the west coast way
PL: is a mixture of adventure and comical fun!

BY: Sweetie22

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PL: To the first new episodes of Scooby Doo since 1973 are added half-hour
PL: exploits of animated derring-do concerning The Blue Falcon, a
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PL: comical twist. Millionaire socialite art dealer Radley Crowne (a Bruce
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PL: Blue Falcon and Dog Wonder, respectively, receive the report via TV
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MV: ...Comme elle respire (1998)

PL: Jeanne is a young weirdo girl who flies to Paris, and is hired by an old
PL: lady called Madeleine as an au pair. Jeanne lies to Madeleine, she says she
PL: comes from a very rich family. Young Madeleine's admirer Antoine and
PL: another thug, Marcel, kidnap Jeanne when they hear she's a millionaire.
PL: But the problem is that Jeanne's parents are poor and Antoine soon
PL: falls for her.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Affinità elettive, Le (1996)

PL: Early in the 19th century, Edward and Carlotta, in love 20 years ago, find
PL: each other and marry.  After a year's bliss at his Tuscan villa, Edward
PL: begs to invite Otto, an architect and friend, to join them. She has
PL: forebodings of disaster, but relents.  Otto arrives, and to balance the
PL: dynamics, Carlotta invites her teenage godchild Ottilia to join them.
PL: Ottilia stirs Edward, Otto and Carlotta are attracted to each other,
PL: and these longings produce in Edward and Carlotta a night of passion
PL: that results in pregnancy.  Otto leaves for Venice, Edward leaves for
PL: war, and a baby looking like Otto and Ottilia is born.  Can anything be
PL: put right? Can the four return to their initial happiness?

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: All Saint's Day (1998)

PL: Fed up with his overbearing mother, his pathetic love life, his lack of
PL: money, and especially his cruel boss, Brooklyn-boy Marco decides to rob
PL: the fish market where he works (with the help of a few friends).  Of
PL: course, all does not go as planned...

BY: JaredB <[e-mail]>

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MV: Andere, Der (1913)

PL: Trovandosi a parlare con amici, il dottor Hallers, noto avvocato di
PL: Berlino, si dice scettico riguardo alle fantasticherie sullo
PL: sdoppiamento della personalità : a lui non potrebbe mai accadere
PL: qualcosa di simile. Durante una cavalcata ha un incidente e, in seguito
PL: a ciò, spesso cade  in un sonno profondo, dal quale si sveglia con la
PL: sensazione di avere una personalità doppia. Proprio il suo doppio si
PL: mette a svaligiare il suo appartamento, in compagnia di un ladro.
PL: Durante il furto arriva la polizia, che arresta il ladro. Hallers,
PL: addormentatosi, si risveglia senza ricordare nulla dell'accaduto. Alla
PL: fine, l'avvocato guarisce e sposa la fidanzata, in ansia per lui.

BY: rosebud6

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PL: he begins to investigate, all the people he contacts concerning Johnny
PL: are killed in mysterious ways. As he finds out more about himself and his
PL: client he discovers that he is fighting for his very existence and is
PL: forced to deal with the devil himself.
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MV: Ankor, yeshchyo ankor! (1992)
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MV: Another Day in Paradise (1998)

PL: Bobbie is an addict and small-time thief.  When one of his jobs goes bad,
PL: Mel is called in to patch him up.  Mel offers him a chance at a bigger
PL: score.  Over time, Mel and his girlfriend Sid become almost like
PL: parents to Bobbie and his girlfriend Rosie, but this can't last.

BY: Jon Reeves <[e-mail]>

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MV: Archer: Fugitive from the Empire, The (1981) (TV)
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MV: Arriva la bufera (1993)

PL: Il giudice Fortezza è inviato in una cittadina del Sud Italia e qui si
PL: rende conto che il paese è controllato dalle sorelle Fontana, Emma,
PL: Esmeralda ed Eugenia, che sono interessate all'appalto
PL: dell'inceneritore pubblico, di prossima costruzione. Eugenia  è
PL: prossima sposa dell'avvocato Solitudine, faccendiere che tiene le fila
PL: degli affari di famiglia. Conoscendola, il giudice si innamora di
PL: Eugenia e, scoperte le trame dell'avvocato, lo fa incarcerare. Ma,
PL: intanto, il vulcano vicino al paese si sveglia ed emana una colata
PL: di...immondizia. Alla fine, il giudice parte in yacht con Eugenia e
PL: ...con l'avvocato, avendo capito il forte sentimento che lega i
PL: due, al di là degli affari.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Baby, The (1973)

PL: A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange
PL: Wadsworth family.  The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear
PL: about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and
PL: the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. The problem is, the baby is
PL: twenty-one years old.

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

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PL: Francesco e Paola si conoscono all'Università, si frequentano, studiano
PL: insieme e, alla fine, si sposano. Paola è decisa ed ambiziosa e fa
PL: carriera come assistente universitaria ; Francesco, per motivi
PL: ideologici, decide di fare l'operaio, pur di non fare compromessi.
PL: Durante un viaggio a New York per lavoro, la donna conosce ed ha una
PL: relazione con un detective. Venuto a conoscenza del fatto, il marito
PL: medita di uccidere la moglie, all'arrivo dell'americano in Italia. Ma
PL: metterà in atto un piano più complicato ed articolato.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Bad Money (1999)
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MV: Basta! Ci faccio un film (1990)

PL: Dadi e Andrea sono due amici inseparabili sui banchi di scuola. I due
PL: ragazzi e i loro ex compagni di classe, durante il periodo estivo che
PL: li separa dall'università o dal primo lavoro, cercano di rimanere
PL: uniti, ma si sentono conto che la vita di tutti i giorni, con le sue
PL: difficoltà, li sta allontanando l'uno dall'altro. Ognuno di loro ha
PL: alle spalle un ambiente familiare difficile e,  molto spesso, negativo.
PL: Rimanere uniti sarebbe necessario, per darsi sicurezza; ma,  piano
PL: piano,  il gruppo si sfalda ed ognuno prende la sua strada. Andrea
PL: partirà per il servizio militare e Dadi racconterà al regista Emmer
PL: (suo padre nella vita) la storia della sua classe, sulla quale il
PL: regista vorrebbe girare un film.

BY: rosebud6

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PL: Isabel, donna ricca e matura, è ossessionata da un presunto blocco sessuale
PL: e cerca di farsi curare dalla giovane psichiatra Ana. Nel frattempo,
PL: Antonio, giovane e affascinante, la seduce per impossessarsi della sua
PL: ricchezza. In questo si accorda con Ana, che, non molto
PL: professionalmente, accetta la situazione. Ambigua e priva di scrupoli,
PL: la dottoressa diventa complice del giovane, con il quale escogita un
PL: complicato e raffinato piano per eliminarla. Ma ci sarà una sorpresa
PL: finale !

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Beregis avtomobilya (1967)
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MV: Beyond Suspicion (1994) (TV)

PL: A photo journalist (Stepfanie Kramer) gets a tip from an undercover cop
PL: about a major raid, but then finds herself in danger after witnessing
PL: the cop's murder from a hiding place. However, her view of the killer
PL: was restricted. She then gets involved with the cop's partner (Jack
PL: Scalia). But all the rest of the cops in the precinct consider him
PL: dirty. Ultimately she and her daughter (Lily Shavick) find themselves in
PL: jeopardy after the daughter is taken hostage.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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PL: citizens, this means catastrophe. The documentary follows the residents
PL: of Black Lake, over a one year period, as they struggle for a future.
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PL: Alice White, detective Frank Webber's girlfriend, is invited by an artist
PL: to visit his studio. The man tries to rape Alice and she kills him with
PL: a knife to defend herself. A criminal sees the murder and he keeps
PL: the lady's glove from the crime scene in order to blackmail her. Frank
PL: is assigned to the murder case.

BY: Claudio Sandrini <[e-mail]>

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PL: California, 1890. Emigrato dalla Sicilia, un onesto e deciso viticultore
PL: deve difendere la propria terra, conquistata con enormi sacrifici, da
PL: un latifondista irlandese che vorrebbe usarla per costruirvi una
PL: ferrovia. Ma il siciliano non è disposto a cedere, e ne nasce una lotta
PL: senza quartiere.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Bloodfight (1989)

PL: Masahiro Kai (Yasuaki Kurata) has made it to the finals of the Free
PL: Fighting Championship. In flashback, he remembers training Ryu Tenmei
PL: (Simon Yam) for the event. Ryu makes it to the final bout against the
PL: reigning champ, Chang Lee (Bolo Yeung). After Lee kills Ryu, Kai sinks
PL: into alcoholism, tangling with a gang of Americans, until he decides to
PL: go back into training and defeat Chang Lee himself.

BY: Jim Terrell

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MV: Bloodsport (1988)
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MV: Blue Man, The (1985) (TV)

PL: A dissatisfied Montreal director of TV commercials is taught to astrally
PL: project himself by a mysterious woman.  But soon he finds that he does
PL: it against his will when he sleeps, and while he does it, he commits
PL: savage acts against those in his life.

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

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PL: Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio
PL: waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie
PL: about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The
PL: cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset.
PL: The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the
PL: baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...

BY: David Steele

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MV: Breaking Free (1995)

PL: When troubled, cynical teen Rick (Jeremy London) chooses service at a camp
PL: for the blind over serving time at a correctional facility, he thinks
PL: he's found the easy way out. Instead, it's the way to a new life.
PL: Friendship. Step by step, as Rick helps a blinded Gymnast rediscover
PL: the joys of competition through equestrian show jumping, they begin to
PL: take control of the most important journey of all... a journey called
PL: life.

BY: Matthew Smith

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MV: Brigadista, El (1977)

PL: In the early years of the Cuban revolution, a young Havana student
PL: volunteers to go to a poor rural region to teach peasants how to read
PL: and write; he´s sent to the Ciénega de Zapata zone, where squads of
PL: anti-Castro guerrilla operate; he happens to teach the wife of a squad
PL: leader; trouble and confrontation ensues when government militia makes
PL: the little town its operations base.

BY: Francisco Báez <[e-mail]>

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MV: Bye-Bye (1995)

PL: In Paris, Ismaél, a young Tunisian, cares for two brothers, Nouredine, a
PL: cripple, and streetwise Mouloud, 14. In haste, Ismaél and Mouloud go to
PL: Marseilles where an uncle lives. Nouredine has died in a fire, and
PL: Ismaél feels guilt on top of grief. Ismaél becomes friends with Jacky,
PL: a white man whose father and brother hate immigrants. Mouloud hangs out
PL: with cousin Rhida who breaks Islamic rules and deals hash. Ismaél
PL: decides Mouloud must return to Tunisia, but the boy runs off, becoming
PL: an acolyte to Rhida's supplier. Ismaél and Jacky's Arab girlfriend
PL: start an affair, friends betray friends, and the racism gets ugly. Can
PL: Ismaél rescue himself and Mouloud or will life in France crush them?

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: Cappello a tre punte, Il (1934)

PL: E' l'adattamento cinematografico della omonima novella. Napoli, ai tempi
PL: della dominazione spagnola. Il  governatore della città vorrebbe
PL: conquistare  una bella contadina e,  perciò,  fa arrestare il marito
PL: della donna. Questi, riuscito a sfuggire alle guardie, torna a casa.
PL: Qui vi scopre il Governatore e, volendosi vendicare del presunto
PL: tradimento, ruba il cappello (a tre punte, appunto) ed il mantello
PL: dello stesso. Così travestito, entra a palazzo per raggiungere la
PL: moglie del dignitario. Intanto la bella, e fedele, contadina,
PL: astutamente, lascia a bocca asciutta lo spagnolo e riesce ad evitare la
PL: vendetta ideata dal marito.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Career of Katherine Bush, The (1919)
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MV: Carmilla (1990)

PL: Lonely young Marie and her father live on a plantation just before the
PL: Civil War.  Their placid lives are invaded when they rescue a
PL: mysterious woman from a carriage wreck, and soon bodies start turning
PL: up with holes in their necks...

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

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PL: Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches
PL: womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her
PL: only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed
PL: chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back
PL: and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she
PL: believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been
PL: without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous
PL: now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved
PL: Miss Bishop.

BY: Marc Andreu  <[e-mail]>

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MV: Chekist (1992)

PL: Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the
PL: Bolshevik Revolution.  They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten
PL: seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and
PL: their families.  In the building basement, five people at a time are
PL: shot as they stand naked facing wooden doors.  No one to remember their
PL: last words; no martyrs, just anonymous bodies.  Daily, the kangaroo
PL: court, the executions, the loading of bodies onto wagons. Srubov is
PL: cold, distant, sexually dysfunctional, and a deep thinker, hated by
PL: former friends and his family.  As he tries to reason the nature of
PL: revolution and the purpose of CHEKA, he slowly goes mad.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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PL: A young woman stays in a museum at closing time, perhaps distracted,
PL: perhaps on purpose.  A stranger also stays and forces himself on her.
PL: After a time, she becomes a willing partner, achieving orgasm, rare for
PL: her.  At dawn, she learns he has keys to the doors, so she charges
PL: rape.  At trial, he claims her ultimate willingness and his lack of
PL: violence mean it was not rape.  She testifies against him, yet it also
PL: seems she has joined a chorus of women at the trial who respond to his
PL: power and ability to release trapped beauty.  One such woman is the
PL: prosecutor's companion, causing a crisis in their relationship.  What
PL: is it women want?  When can a man use his power? Is virility criminal?

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: Cowboys Don't Cry (1988)
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MV: Crossmaheart (1999)
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MV: Cul-de-sac (1966)

PL: A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront
PL: castle.  The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful
PL: French wife, are initially the unwilling hosts to the criminals.
PL: Quickly, however, the relationships between the criminal, the wife, and
PL: the Englishman begin to shift in humorous and bizarre fashion.

BY: Sean Taylor <[e-mail]>

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MV: Dark Harbor (1999)
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MV: David Searching (1995)

PL: Movie about a young homosexual man's search to find himself by surviving
PL: heartbreak and relationship fears. He explores what it means to live
PL: for himself and others. His video camera and his roommate and best
PL: friend, a heterosexual female. David searches for love, creativity, and
PL: meaning with his video camera, though living life is much harder when
PL: not hiding behind the lens.

BY: Tracy <[e-mail]>

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MV: Decadent Visitor, The (1998)

PL: In a rural Czech village, 9 year old Martin is waiting for the arrival of
PL: his famous uncle, Roman.  A Czech emigre, Roman has found great success
PL: as a film critic in Hollywood. Martin's mother, Dana, is waiting also.
PL: Waiting for her yearly liaison with Roman, an affair she began after
PL: her jealous husband (Roman's brother) was sent to prison for murdering
PL: her ex-lover. The three village gossips are waiting, too.  Waiting on
PL: the bench where they sit every day, ready to spread the details of
PL: Dana's annual indiscretion. But when Roman invites Dana to a party of
PL: his ex-lovers, and a mysterious stranger arrives with a letter from
PL: Martin's father, this year's visit will become different. In a
PL: decidedly more decadent way. As seen through the eyes of Martin, "The
PL: Decadent Visitor" tells the story of three generations coming to grips
PL: with a new society and a pervasive Western influence.

BY: John Kovac

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MV: Devoradora, La (1946)

PL: Diana è una "devoradora (divoratrice)" di uomini. Nessun uomo riesce a
PL: tenerle testa e finiscono malissimo anche quelli che hanno la sventura
PL: di innamorarsi di lei. E' l'amante del ricco ed anziano don Adolfo, ma
PL: quando conosce il giovane studente Pablo, decide che deve essere suo.
PL: Il giovane perde la testa per la donna e decide che deve essere
PL: soltanto sua. Medita perciò di ucciderla, ma finisce col suicidarsi.
PL: Per non essere incriminata, la donna convince Miguel, il nipote di don
PL: Adolfo, ad occultare il cadavere. Anche il giovane rimane colpito dal
PL: fascino della donna e cerca di convincere lo zio ad aprire gli occhi
PL: sulla donna, ma non vi riesce, anzi rischia di essere incriminato per
PL: la morte di Pablo. Alla fine, il dramma si trasforma in tragedia.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Down in the Delta (1998)

PL: Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and
PL: Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the
PL: ancestral home in rural Mississippi.  Earl puts Loretta to work in his
PL: restaurant, Just Chicken, while also telling them about the generations
PL: of their family, the Sinclairs, dating back to their time in slavery
PL: before the the Civil War.

BY: Jon Reeves <[e-mail]>

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MV: Drowning by Numbers (1988)
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MV: Drunken Rumble Story (1999)

PL: Jackies life long dream was to move from Hong Kong to New York and start a
PL: fresh life and new job. But in one afternoon he is mistaken for his
PL: long lost evil twin brother Warren and hunted down by a gang of drug
PL: dealers. But there's one thing that the drug dealers didn't count
PL: on...Jackie.

BY: Anon

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MV: Día que me quieras, El (1988)
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MV: Estambul 65 (1965)

PL: Un fisico nucleare americano viene rapito da una banda di misteriosi
PL: individui che non mantengono l'impegno previsto, pur avendo ottenuto un
PL: grosso riscatto dal governo americano, e spariscono nel nulla. Kelly,
PL: una giovane agente, in compagnia di Tony, dopo una serie di pericolose
PL: e movimentate avventure, riesce a mettersi sulle loro tracce.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)

PL: An American flyer who joined the RAF before his country was in the war is
PL: recovering from a leg injury in Jerusalem. Through an English friend he
PL: meets a quiet Jewish girl whose close-knit family originally came from
PL: Spain. The two are attracted to each other but she is convinced their
PL: diverse backgrounds mean it could never work; not only is he a gentile,
PL: his father is a protestant minister. So though they keep running into
PL: each other in the small community, they find themselves just as
PL: frequently parting again.

BY: Jeremy Perkins <[e-mail]>

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MV: Eye of the Beholder (1999)

PL: A nameless private eye (Ewan McGregor) shadows the same woman (who happens
PL: to be a serial killer of men) all over the U.S. for 10 + years, without
PL: her ever knowing and he strangely enough occasionally acts as her
PL: guardian angel.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: Eyeball Eddie (1999)

PL: "Eyeball Eddie" is the story of the stormy relationship between a
PL: prosthetic glass eye and the insecure boy stuck behind it.  What
PL: follows is a dark comedy about the price of popularity. In the world of
PL: high-school wrestling, there is only the strong and the weak - and
PL: EDDIE MALICK may be the weakest you've ever seen. Shy, scrawny, and
PL: perpetually body-slammed, Eddie seems as fragile and pathetic as his
PL: own morbid glass eye.  But when that eye accidently pops out during a
PL: match, Eddie seizes the moment, pins his horrified opponent to the mat
PL: - and suddenly realizes that the perfect strategy for victory sits in
PL: his socket. Of course, as Eddie continues to exploit this advantage,
PL: word of his victories spreads through the school - and Eddie becomes a
PL: freakish sensation.  The bleachers fill with fans eager to see another
PL: Eyeball Eddie gross-out show - and while this sudden celebrity status
PL: has long been his dream, Eddie begins to worry...is my eyeball becoming
PL: more popular than I am?

BY: Nick Pustay

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MV: Fünf letzte Tage (1982)

PL: In Wittelbacherpalais, Munich's prison and Gestapo center, middle-aged Else
PL: Gebel awaits trial for carrying anti-Nazi material. She serves as a clerk
PL: in the Gestapo office. On Thursday, 18 February 1943, two youths arrive
PL: at the prison, arrested for carrying anti-Reich pamphlets and suspected
PL: of dropping leaflets from the university tower and painting anti-Hitler
PL: signs along Ludwigstraße: Sophie, 21, and her brother Hans, 24 and back
PL: from the Russian front.  Sophie is housed with Else, and for five days,
PL: as Sophie is interrogated and charges brought, the women form a bond
PL: based on simple interactions: poetry, tea, shared clothing, courage,
PL: love of freedom, and a promise Else gives Sophie.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: För min heta ungdoms skull (1952)

PL: Ett högre läroverk i en stad. Torben och Ninni i samma klass är djupt
PL: förälskade i varandra men deras föräldrar ogillar deras förhållande.
PL: Efter studenten rycker Torben in i lumpen och Ninni upptäcker att hon
PL: är med barn. Hennes föräldrar tvingar henne att åka till en bondgård i
PL: Danmark och föda barnet där för att undvika att skandaliseras. Torben
PL: och Ninni kan gifta sig men tomtebolyckan vänds snart till vardag och
PL: bråk dem emellan.

BY: Mattias Thuresson <[e-mail]>

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MV: Forsømte forår, Det (1993)

PL: At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember
PL: their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the
PL: contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially
PL: Blomme, tormented the students. As a result one of them became a
PL: murderer.

BY: Allan Simonsen

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MV: Frankenstein (1993) (TV)

PL: Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates his creature, who escapes into the
PL: countryside to find that humanity has only pain and sorrow for him. But
PL: a psychic link between created and creator draws the two ever nearer,
PL: until their paths must inevitably cross again...

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

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MV: Geisha Girl (1952)

PL: A crazed scientist in Japan develops small explosive pills that are more
PL: powerful than nuclear weapons. He and his gang intend to seize control
PL: of the world with these pills, but they accidentally fall into the
PL: hands of two nutty American GIs. Soon the GIs are being chased by the
PL: scientist and his gang, and the Japanese secret police, who send a
PL: mysterious "menalist" to try to get the pills back.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: Ginga tetsudô no yoru (1985)

PL: On the night of a cat village's Festival of the Stars, a kitten and his
PL: friend go on an celestial journey on a magical space locomotive. On
PL: that trip, they have various stops where they meet strange sights, even
PL: more unusual fellow passengers and learn some lessons of life on their
PL: trip to the terminus of the Galactic Railroad.

BY: Kenneth Chisholm <[e-mail]>

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MV: Gloria (1999/I)

PL: Sharon Stone plays a
PL: street-wise, middle-aged moll standing up against the mobs, all of
PL: which is complicated by a 6 year old urchin with a will of his own who
PL: she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned
PL: down.

BY: BOB STEBBINS   <[e-mail]>

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PL: Lilliput, but was only six inches high in the Land of Brobdingnag.  He
PL: also tells of his visit to the floating island of Laputa populated by
PL: scientists who are so obsessed with reason that they act with no common
PL: sense. Finally, he tells of his journey to the land where his
PL: disturbing likeness to the bestial Yahoos and his inferiority to the
PL: intelligent horses there makes him question the very worth of his
PL: humanity.
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MV: Harvest, The (1993)

PL: A screenwriter is sent to Mexico to develop a story that can be used to
PL: wrap up a movie presently in production.  Given a very short time
PL: allotment, the writer immerses himself in the seamier side of a Mexican
PL: beach resort, but soon finds himself involved in a 'body organ for
PL: profit' operation.  Drugged, he has one of his own kidneys removed, and
PL: then, with a woman he isn't sure he can trust, he sets out to expose
PL: the ring... with quite a surprise ending for the viewer.

BY: BOB STEBBINS   <[e-mail]>

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MV: He Was Her Man (1934)

PL: Flicker Hayes informs the police after he sets up two men to be caught in a
PL: phony robbery attempt, because they were responsible for his going to
PL: prison. Dan Curly escapes, but the other kills a policeman and goes to
PL: the chair, so Dan wants two hitmen to get Flicker, who plans to leave
PL: the country.  But he meets down-and-out Rose Lawrence, an ex-prostitute
PL: looking to hitch a ride to a small fishing village in the south to
PL: marry a Portuguese fisherman, and Flicker decides it would be a nice
PL: place to hide.  After he seduces Rose, Flicker stakes her to a bus
PL: ticket and goes with her. But he's been spotted by Pop Sims, who
PL: follows them and reports Flicker's whereabouts to Dan.  Meanwhile, Rose
PL: falls in love with Flicker, who is unaware that the hitmen are coming
PL: to kill him.

BY: Arthur Hausner <[e-mail]>

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MV: Hirttämättömät (1971)

PL: Two outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least
PL: they think they have) Speedy Gonzales, a ruthless gunfighter from the
PL: town of Njietponimaistadi. They start to travel to another town for the
PL: reward, through the desert without water and fighting against Indians.
PL: And just to find out that they have made a full circle back to origin.

BY: Marco Bognomini

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MV: Häjyt (1999)

PL: Häjyt tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place
PL: in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were
PL: doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the
PL: one who was not convicted, has become a lawyer. He tries to help his
PL: friends to settle into the small town in Pohjanmaa, but the boys start
PL: a black market liquor business instead. The road seems to lead back to
PL: the jail.

BY: T.J.A.

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MV: Horvatov izbor (1985)

PL: It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is
PL: collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting
PL: in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country
PL: schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political
PL: situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic
PL: policy of the imperial goverment.

BY: Damir Dukich <[e-mail]>

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MV: I Married a Strange Person! (1997)

PL: A newlywed develops a strange lump on his neck that gives him the ability
PL: to transform people or objects at will.  His wife is very upset.
PL: Meanwhile, the CEO of Smilecorp learns of this man and his ability and
PL: sees a way to achieve world domination if only the man can be taken
PL: alive.

BY: Jon Reeves <[e-mail]>

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MV: Ishi: The Last Yani (1992)
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MV: Jane (1999)

PL: "Jane" is a contemporary comedy which chronicles three hectic days in the
PL: life of an eccentric, cute and utterly unknown actress in Manhattan.
PL: Jane struggles to launch her career, cope with anonymity, and find true
PL: love.  She finds herself trapped between feelings for Maximilian, the
PL: eccentric television star she romanticizes constantly, and Will, the
PL: dyspeptic malcontent who tries to impress her.  In the end, she must
PL: choose between the form of celebrity and the substance of her life.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Just Another Secret (1989) (TV)

PL: An American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet
PL: Premier Gorbachev just at the time when glasnost is coming into place.
PL: The Russian old-guard, however, has captured five American spies and
PL: plans to make it look like they are the ones who have gunned down the
PL: Premier, thereby re-opening the cold war and returning Russia to its
PL: Stalinistic ways.

BY: BOB STEBBINS   <[e-mail]>

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MV: Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)

PL: Lady Snowblood (Shurayuki-hime) is caught by the police and sentenced to
PL: death for her crimes (in Lady Snowblood I).  As she is sent to the
PL: gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to
PL: assassinate some revolutionaries.

BY: Fred Cabral <[e-mail]>

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MV: Love Is Strange (1998) (TV)

PL: A romantic comedy which follows the deteriorating condition of a witty
PL: judge (Kate Nelligan) as she passes witty wisdom from her full court
PL: docket while taking chemotherapy.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Maestro di Vigevano, Il (1963)

PL: Alberto Sordi è Mombelli, un maestro elementare senza particolari
PL: ambizioni, soddisfatto della propria seppur modesta ma dignitosa
PL: condizione. La moglie Ada, invece, desidera lusso e ricchezza e lo
PL: spinge ad abbandonare l'insegnamento per inseguire sogni ed ambizioni.
PL: L'uomo investe tutta la liquidazione in una piccola impresa artigiana,
PL: un calzaturificio. Mombelli si adatta alla nuova situazione, che sembra
PL: procedere per il meglio, fino al giorno in cui, a causa di una attenta
PL: e severa ispezione fiscale, l'azienda fallisce. Per l'uomo è il crollo
PL: : si trova in mezzo ad una strada e con la consapevolezza che la moglie
PL: non lo ha mai amato e, per giunta, lo tradisce. Ma il fallimento totale
PL: arriva alla morte, improvvisa, della moglie, che lascia il maestro
PL: nella più assoluta solitudine.

BY: rosebud6

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PL: Jill and Bob Lawrence are on a winter holiday with their daughter, Betty.
PL: While he is dancing with Jill, the secret agent Louis Bernard is shot
PL: to death. With his last words he tells Jill about an assassination
PL: planned by some terrorists, about to take place in London. Fearing
PL: their plan would be revealed, the spies kidnap Betty and carry her off
PL: to London with them. Bob and Jill come back to London too, searching
PL: for their daughter.

BY: Claudio Sandrini <[e-mail]>

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PL: Poor fisherman Pete falls in love with Kate, the daughter of a landlord on
PL: Man island. Pete decides to leave on his ship to earn some money and
PL: then to marry the girl. Before leaving, Pete asks his friend Philip to
PL: take care of Kate, but the young man is in love with her too. There
PL: comes the tragic news: Pete's ship is wrecked. Philip and Kate have to
PL: hide no more and they plan to marry; however, Pete is not dead.

BY: Claudio Sandrini <[e-mail]>

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MV: Mega Man (1987) (VG)

PL: Doctor Wily, a mad scientist, creates 6 robots to help him conquer the
PL: planet.  When Doctor Light hears of Wily's evil plans, he alters Rock,
PL: a house-keeping robot, adding an arm-cannon, armor, etc., so he can
PL: stop Wily and his robots from taking over the earth!

BY: Top_Man <[e-mail]>

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MV: Meisje 5 (1999)

PL: Meisje (5) tells the story of a man who's living in a small summerhouse near
PL: a railroad. A young woman who wanders around on the track is taken by
PL: this man to his house where he lets her in on an event that has
PL: influenced his life. A confrontation between the past of the man and the
PL: future of the woman inevitable.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Millionaire, The (1931)

PL: Automaker James Alden is told to retire by his doctors and does so in
PL: deference to his wife Laura and daughter 'Babs.' He is not only bored
PL: after six months, but is told by a life insurance salesman that retired
PL: men are bad risks. So James secretly responds to an ad in the newspaper
PL: about a garage being for sale, but he (using the alias Charlie Miller)
PL: buys only half of the garage, since the other half was already sold to
PL: Bill Merrick, who becomes his partner. The ex-owner, Peterson, was
PL: dishonest in not revealing he was opening a new gas station near the
PL: new highway a mile down the road where most of the traffic will be. Not
PL: willing to be slickered by anybody, Charlie and Bill buy and elegantly
PL: rebuild a decrepit building across the street from Peterson's new
PL: station and compete handily with the charlatan. James uses a pretense
PL: to get away every day, but wonders how long he can keep up his double
PL: life.

BY: Arthur Hausner <[e-mail]>

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PL: While on a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka
PL: finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest and Tataraba -
PL: a mining colony.  In this quest, he also meets San - the Mononoke Hime.
PL: Also factoring into this feud are the Samurai, the Moro clan, the
PL: Emporer, and the boar gods.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Montana Kid, The (1931)

PL: Larson cheats Burke at cards, has him sign over the deed to his ranch
PL: disguised as an IOU, and then kills him in a supposedly fair gunfight.
PL: This sends Bill Denton into action and he robs Larson and his henchman
PL: Gabby until he has enough money to buy back the ranch. When Larson
PL: realizes he received his own money back, both Larson and his men and
PL: the Marshall go after Denton.

BY: Maurice VanAuken <[e-mail]>

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MV: Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly (1969)

PL: Sexy, teenaged, immature Girly and her camera-wielding brother Sonny bring
PL: home unsuspecting men to Mumsy and Nanny, where they play games, and if
PL: they don't follow the rules, they're sent to the angels.  One day they
PL: bring home a New Friend who has a few ideas for games of his own,
PL: though, and he begins to turn the foursome against each other.

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

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MV: Murder at 75 Birch (1999) (TV)

PL: A man in a quiet community is suspected of killing his wife, but without
PL: proof.  However, when his brother is killed in a traffic accident, and
PL: he begins courting his brother's widow, suspicions are heightened until
PL: the murder is finally pieced together.

BY: BOB STEBBINS   <[e-mail]>

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PL: Malloy, ex detenuto e grosso energumeno, cerca Velma, la propria ragazza.
PL: Ingaggia perciò il detective Marlowe. Questi accetta l'incarico e si
PL: mette alla ricerca della ragazza, ma si trova in un groviglio di guai.
PL: Velma ha sposato un uomo influente, ma è ricattata da Marriot, che,
PL: intanto, incarica Marlowe di recuperare una preziosa collana scomparsa.
PL: Con l'aiuto di Ann, figlia di Grayle, il detective riesce a ricomporre
PL: le fila della intricata trama. Ma non riesce ad evitare la tragedia
PL: finale.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Nettoyage à sec (1997)

PL: Nicole and Jean-Marie Kunstler are a nice, hard working couple who have
PL: been married for 15 years. They operate a dry cleaning business that
PL: keeps them both too busy to take a vacation, or to change their
PL: routine. A fateful trip to a drag club leads them to encounter Loic and
PL: Marilyn, a brother-sister drag queen performing team. Their shows
PL: fascinate the couple, as both Nicole and Jean-Marie find themselves growing
PL: more and more attached to Loic. Loic brings to the surface all of
PL: their suppressed desires and emotions - willingly and unwillingly. A
PL: psychological examination into the effects one attractive young man's
PL: entrance into the lives of an ordinarily seeming couple could have.

BY: Tracy <[e-mail]>

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MV: New Original Wonder Woman, The (1975) (TV)

PL: After a dogfight with a Nazi plane, U.S. Air Force Steve Trevor
PL: crashlands on an uncharted island in the Bermuda Triangle.
PL: Paradise Island is inhabited only by women, and their existence
PL: has been kept a secret for thousands of years. Learning of the
PL: Nazi threat to humanity, the Amazon princess, Diana, is chosen to
PL: accompany Trevor back to the United States to battle the Third
PL: Reich. Garbed in a skimpy red, white & blue costume and armed
PL: with a magic lasso that forces anyone within its grasp to tell
PL: the truth, Diana uses her powers as Wonder Woman to battle the
PL: forces of evil.

BY: Marty McKee <[e-mail]>

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PL: In 1927 Kansas City Pete Kelly and his jazz band play nightly at a
PL: speakeasy. A local gangster starts to move in on them and when their
PL: drummer is killed Kelly gives in, even though this also means taking
PL: the thug's alcoholic girl as a singer. Kelly soon realises he has made a
PL: big mistake selling out in this way and that rich girl Ivy is now the
PL: only decent thing in his life.

BY: Jeremy Perkins <[e-mail]>

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PL: Un vivace e riccioluto giovanottone ed una super bionda, non più tanto
PL: giovane, sono a capo di una nave di...corsari. Devono vedersela,
PL: purtroppo, con le navi della imponente flotta di Sua Maestà britannica.
PL: Alla fine, i corsari riusciranno a sconfiggere gli avversari a suon
PL: di...canzoni ! Commedia satirica che prende di mira le istituzioni
PL: militari inglesi ed il perbenismo della disciplina e della educazione
PL: tutta forma e niente sostanza.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Planeta degli uomini spenti, Il (1961)

PL: A stray planet on a collision course with Earth instead takes orbit
PL: around our blue marble. What seems like a dead planet suddenly
PL: launches a fleet of flying saucers which attack our space fleets.

BY: Humberto Amador

PL: Men & women in rocket ships near Mars gasp "Inverting...
PL: course... 180... degrees..." in high-gee maneuvers. Meanwhile, the
PL: offbeat scientist (Claude Rains) shouts at the labcoats who have
PL: invaded his greenhouse (where he spends his time tending flowers and
PL: scribbling math in chalk on the pots): "Back you madmen! I have one
PL: advantage over all of you! Calculus!" Sine waves and music are
PL: eventually used to talk to "the outsider."

BY: David Van Brink <[e-mail]>

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MV: Pocetni udarac (1990)

PL: A group of students with varying family backgrounds begin to question
PL: their lives and the hypocritical values of their corrupt socialist
PL: society. Their decision to follow their own ideals brings them in
PL: disrepute with those closest to them. Their support of one another
PL: finally brings them to realise a friendship based on loyalty and
PL: belonging.

BY: Javert

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MV: Price of the Bride, The (1990) (TV)

PL: After a KGB agent defects to the US, the CIA has the job of not only taking
PL: from him his dowry of information (ie. the price of the bride), but
PL: also making sure he isn't a 'plant' to uncover secrets from us.  All of
PL: this is complicated when it is suspected that another man is the real
PL: agent, and the defector but a decoy.

BY: BOB STEBBINS   <[e-mail]>

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MV: Providence (1991)

PL: A talented but disenchanted high school student seeking more advanced
PL: instruction sneaks inside the ivy covered gates of nearby Brown
PL: University. Masquerading as a college student he is soon matching
PL: morals with a young co-ed, and wits with his literature professor. His
PL: passion for learning affects and amazes all those around him, but soon
PL: his house of cards begins to crumble and the penalties could do more
PL: than jeopardize just his academic future.

BY: Blake Andrews

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MV: Psychic (1990) (TV)

PL: A liberal arts student becomes so infatuated with his TA that he drops her
PL: course just to ethically date her.  But being a psychic since
PL: childhood, he starts seeing visions of sex murders, and the killer
PL: looks an awful lot like his new lover's colleague and "friend", Dr.
PL: Steering...

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

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MV: Rainbow, The (1989)

PL: A young woman (Sammi Davis) experiences a sexual awakening at the hands of
PL: her female swimming instructor (Amanda Donohoe), a woman who wears
PL: men's clothing and espouses anti-male philosophies. The young woman
PL: then rebels against her parents and runs away to London where she takes
PL: a position as a teacher and falls in love with a soldier (Paul McGann).
PL: While struggling to maintain face as a normal soldier's wife, she
PL: slowly comes to understand her true sexual orientation and ultimately
PL: leaves her husband.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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PL: Regina ha ucciso il marito ed è stata condannata a morte. Il giorno
PL: precedente l'esecuzione, la donna si trova in cella con il guardiano
PL: Colin, al quale decide di raccontare la sua storia, per trascorrere il
PL: tempo senza pensare al giorno dopo. Afferma di aver ucciso il coniuge
PL: per evitargli  il divorzio, che lo avrebbe addolorato enormemente. Il
PL: secondino la ascolta quasi incredulo, ma continuando ad ascoltarla si
PL: rende conto che la faccenda non era così semplice come sembrava.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Rice & Potatoes (1998)

PL: Rice: A slang term for gay Asian men. Potatoes: Slang for gay Caucasians.
PL: Filmed in San Francisco, the documentary Rice & Potatoes presents a
PL: revealing look at the lives of 17 gay men, both Asian and Caucasian.
PL: The diverse cast offers frank and insightful commentary on the issues
PL: and stereotypes surrounding inter-racial gay relationships, talking
PL: candidly about the physical attraction, the differences in cultural
PL: upbringing, sexual roles, being out, family obligations, and the use of
PL: racial labels. Their stories, often funny, always thought provoking,
PL: offer an intimate portrait of men searching for love, coping with
PL: prejudice, and building relationships.

BY: Todd Wilson <[e-mail]>

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PL: Fred and Emily Hill are leading a boring life in London. They receive a big
PL: inheritance by a rich relative and now they can realize all their
PL: dreams. They leave for a cruise behaving as rich people....but this is
PL: the beginning of the end. Richness makes they soon forget their love
PL: and family.

BY: Claudio Sandrini <[e-mail]>

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MV: Road Agent (1941)

PL: Duke Masters and his chums hold up the men who held up the stage, deduct a
PL: finder's fee, and deliver the money to the bank. But two men were
PL: murdered in the original holdup, and several of the big players in town
PL: are in on the robberies, so things aren't all that healthy for Duke and
PL: the boys.

BY: Jeremy Perkins <[e-mail]>

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MV: Roswell: The Aliens Attack (1999) (TV)

PL: Two aliens (Heather Hanson, Steven Flynn) escape from 1947 Roswell, New
PL: Mexico and set out to sabotage the Earth. The lady alien finds she
PL: enjoys sex and likes to seduce soldiers. However, the male eventually
PL: falls in love with an Earthling and decides to stop the female from
PL: setting off a nuclear weapon the two had developed.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Rule No. 3 (1993)

PL: Fact-based story of a professional con artist (Mitchell Cox) who ran a scam
PL: on another well-to-do con artist. The title refers to the rules that a
PL: con artist lives by. Rule #3 is don't believe everything you read or
PL: hear or see.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have a Ball (1988)

PL: Following a brief statement by Ry Cooder on his thoughts about performing -
PL: and improvising - on stage, this concert film depicts Cooder's 1987
PL: live show in Santa Cruz, California, which was part of his "Get Rhythm"
PL: world tour.

BY: Frank Schnelle <[e-mail]>

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PL: lake system in a steam boat in 1981. The bands (Juice Leskinen
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MV: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)

PL: A divorcee (Mary Woronov), whose house is being fumigated, temporarily
PL: moves in with a friend (Jacqueline Bissett), whose husband has recently
PL: passed away. Meanwhile two of the workmen (Robert Beltran, Ray Sharkey)
PL: make a bet that they can bed the women and the games are on. Mixed into
PL: the mess of filthy rich individuals are Woronov's ex (Wallace Shawn),
PL: her script-writer brother (Ed Begley, Jr.), his new African-American
PL: wife (Arnetia Walker), Bissett's precocious daughter (Rebecca
PL: Scheffer), and the ghost of Bissett's husband (Paul Mazursky). The film
PL: offers a satire on the social, racial, and hedonistic lifestyles of the
PL: rich and famous.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Sette donne per i MacGregor (1967)

PL: E' il giorno della festa di fidanzamento fra Gregor Mac Gregor e Rosita.
PL: All'improvviso arriva il bandito Maldonado che, con la sua banda,
PL: deruba Gregor ed i suoi sei fratelli dell'oro accumulato in anni di
PL: duro lavoro. I derubati si lanciano all'inseguimento dei malviventi.
PL: Rosita finisce prigioniera dei banditi, che catturano anche il
PL: fidanzato. Ma i banditi non hanno fatto i conti con le sei figlie di
PL: Donovan l'irlandese, che si uniscono ai fratelli Mac Gregor e riescono
PL: a liberare i prigionieri ed a rientrare in possesso del maltolto.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Seventeen (1940)

PL: Willy Baxter is now 17, which is practically 18, so he prefers "William".
PL: William is supposed to be studying for college entrance exams, but a
PL: sophisticated Chicago girl arrives in town. She's the cat's meow with
PL: her singing, dancing, and big city catchphrases. "But definitely!"
PL: William doesn't have any money and his old jalopy won't impress
PL: anybody. His allowance is already up to $1 and his baby sister won't
PL: lend him any money from her piggy bank. But he needs a new car, and
PL: white tie, tails, and top hat so he can take the doll to the swank
PL: nightclub he's been told about. And she won't go anywhere without that
PL: dog of hers...

BY: David Steele

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MV: Shamrock Handicap, The (1926)

PL: Trovatosi in grosse difficoltà economiche, un vecchio nobiluomo irlandese è
PL: costretto a vendere parte della propria scuderia ad un possidente
PL: americano, che si porta via anche il suo miglior fantino. Durante una
PL: corsa il fantino si infortuna e, così, viene raggiunto in America dal
PL: vecchio padrone, che ha portato con sè anche la figlia ed una puledra.
PL: Per risollevare le sorti della scuderia, iscrivono la puledra ad una
PL: corsa importante (sarà la ragazza a montarla) e  vincono il primo
PL: premio. Così possono tornare tutti e quattro in Irlanda.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Sidewalk Stories (1989)

PL: Nearly silent comedy filmed in black and white follows a street artist
PL: (Charles Lane), who rescues a baby after her father was murdered. The
PL: artist then sets off to find the mother, but has to first learn how to
PL: care for the child. Ultimately he ends up in a horse drawn chase of the
PL: murderers.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Skeletons (1996)

PL: A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the
PL: peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled
PL: into a case of a man accused of killing his gay lover with the blade of
PL: a shovel.  Wanting to keep the case quiet, the town turns against the
PL: journalist and his family when he begins digging into its secrets,
PL: until finally the accused man is found hanging in his cell and the
PL: truth comes out about more than just the killing.

BY: BOB STEBBINS   <[e-mail]>

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MV: Stürme über dem Mont Blanc (1931)

PL: In the Mont Blanc Observatory works Hannes. The only contact to the outside
PL: World is a pilot (Ernst Udet) and Hella (Leni Riefenstahl) over the
PL: morse-code-radio. As Hella climbs the mountain with her father, the
PL: father dies. Also Hannes gets endangered as his fingers freeze. But
PL: Hella gets help.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: State of Nature (1998)

PL: The story of Jack, a young man faced with an important life decision. Jack
PL: is torn between two opposing forces: the woman he loves, and a
PL: domineering friend from the past. Unfortunately, only one of these
PL: people has his best interests in mind.

BY: Chad Galster <[e-mail]>

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MV: Still Movin' (1997)

PL: It's Felix birthday and his parents are at the door. Felix escapes through
PL: the backdoor and celebrates his special day like he wants: as a techno
PL: DJ in a dance club. One of his installed special effects is scaring the
PL: visitors that much, that they panic, leaving the club in a rush. The
PL: owner of the club gives Felix one more chance to pay back for the damage.
PL: Felix shall be the tour manager for Leon Rippy, a formerly well-known
PL: country musician. This might not be an easy task in times where country
PL: music seems to be kind of an antique thing. However Felix accepts the
PL: deal and an adventurous on-the-road experience throughout Germany
PL: begins.

BY: Oliver Heidelbach

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MV: Streets (1990)

PL: Tough drama looks at the plight of a young L.A. prostitute (Christina
PL: Applegate), who shoots heroin to get through the day, sells sex just to
PL: survive, and eats roadkill sometimes when there isn't anything else
PL: available. Into this futile existence is thrown a psycho killer (Eb
PL: Lottimer), who gets off on raping and slaughtering the girls he catches
PL: on the streets. David Mendenhall also appears as a straight kid from
PL: Sanata Barbara, who gets drawn into this scuzzy underworld and tries to
PL: rescue the young prostitute from the killer and her existence.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Super-Rabbit (1943)

PL: Bugs eats super carrots in Professor Canafrazz's laboratory which transform
PL: him. As Super Rabbit he goes to Texas to fight notorious rabbit hater
PL: Cottontail Smith.

BY: Ed Stephan <[e-mail]>

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MV: Szabadíts meg a gonosztól (1979)
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MV: Tactical Assault (1998)

PL: A deranged Air Force pilot (Rutger Hauer) seeks to destroy the life of his
PL: former commander (Robert Patrick), who shot him down during the Gulf
PL: War to stop him from shooting on unauthorized and civilian targets.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Thin Red Line, The (1964)

PL: Dark tale of one man's determination to survive his tour of duty. Separated
PL: from his new wife after only eight days of marriage, private Doll
PL: suddenly decides that he will no longer blindly follow the orders of
PL: his superiors, following his own mind instead. What follows are a
PL: series of poorly planned attacks, in which Doll saves the day, time
PL: after time; eventually leading to the taking of the Elephant in the
PL: battle of Guadalcanal during World War II.  Sgt. Welsh, Doll's
PL: immediate line officer grows an affinity for Doll, helping him through
PL: his first Kill, but never quite allowing himself to admit his
PL: admiration for the young soldier.  The final scene of the movie brings
PL: home the true horror of war and the meaninglessness of it all.

BY: Tophee

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MV: Third Degree Burn (1989) (TV)

PL: Scott Weston is a private investigator who is supposedly hired by a rich
PL: businessman to determine whether or not his beautiful wife is fooling
PL: around behind his back. During the course of his investigation Weston
PL: begins his own steamy affair with the wife. The husband then turns up
PL: dead and Weston becomes a prime suspect. Did he do it? Has he been set
PL: up? Or is he the victim of a third degree burn?

BY: Les MacDonald <[e-mail]>

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PL: Film ad episodi. IL VITTIMISTA. Un insegnate di latino decide di andare
PL: dallo psicanalista e gli confessa di essere terrorizzato dall'idea che
PL: la moglie lo voglia uccidere. SADIK. Un povero disgraziato è costretto
PL: dalla moglie ad indossare, durante la notte, il costume di un eroe dei
PL: fumetti. L'AUTOSTRADA DEL SOLE. Rimasto in panne sull'autostrada, un
PL: povero automobilista è costretto a raggiungere a piedi un alberghetto
PL: di infimo ordine e poco tranquillizzante ed a trascorrevi la notte.

BY: rosebud6

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MV: Tilai (1990)

PL: Set in a pre-colonial African past, Tilai is about an illicit love affair
PL: and its consequences.  Saga returns to his village after an extended
PL: absence to discover that his father has taken Nogma, Saga's promised
PL: bride, for himself.  Still in love with each other, the two begin an
PL: affair, although it would be considered incestuous.  When the liaison
PL: is discovered, Saga's brother, Koudri, pretends to kill Saga for the
PL: honor of the family and village.  Saga and Nogma flee to another
PL: village, but when Nogma's birth mother dies, he returns home.  Having
PL: brought ruin on the family, Saga is shot by Koudri, who walks off into
PL: exile and probable death.

BY: Don Larsson

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MV: Twister (1988)

PL: An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an
PL: impending storm. The patriarch (Harry Dean Stanton) of the clan is a
PL: retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV
PL: evangelist (Lois Chiles). Also living at the farm is his layabout
PL: daughter (Suzy Amis) and her precocious 8 year old daughter, his
PL: would-be artist son (Crispin Glover), the son's fiancee (Jenny Wright),
PL: and the black maid (Charlaine Woodard). Also thrown into the mix is the
PL: daughter's ex-husband (Dylan McDermott), a ne-er-do-well who is seeking
PL: to get back in his ex-wife's good graces.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Un week-end sur deux (1990)

PL: Camille, a mercurial César-winning actress, has seen better times.
PL: Estranged from her husband, she's with her children only every other
PL: weekend.  It's her weekend, but her agent has booked her to MC a Rotary
PL: club dinner in Vichy.  She takes them with her, and when her husband
PL: learns this, he demands to pick them up at once.  She bolts in a rented
PL: car to the seaside, trying to improve her relations with the children,
PL: especially the precocious and distant Vincent.  He loves astronomy.  A
PL: rare meteor shower is due in a few days, so she suggests they go to a
PL: plateau in Spain hoping to see it.  He agrees, but the
PL: relationship remains difficult, and her husband is on their trail.

BY: <[e-mail]>

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MV: Waltzes from Vienna (1933)

PL: Schani, Johan Strauss Jr., is forced by his father to forget music and to
PL: work in a bakery. Here he falls in love with Resi. The girl gets very
PL: jealous when a rich and beautiful contessa asks Schani to write a waltz
PL: for her. Schani writes and plays it, but he is always loyal to his
PL: girlfriend.

BY: Claudio Sandrini <[e-mail]>

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MV: We're Talking Serious Money (1993)

PL: Comedy about two misfit men who lose a borrowed ten grand from a mob
PL: kingpin and must flee from NY to LA, only to there get involved in a
PL: caper involving a video of Senators in compromising positions.  Given a
PL: cool million for the video, they are then pursued for the money, which
PL: brings about a surprise ending to the film, as well as to their
PL: bungling adventures.

BY: BOB STEBBINS   <[e-mail]>

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MV: Winter People (1989)

PL: A young widower (Kurt Russell) moves with his daughter into a North
PL: Carolina mountain town in 1934. He quickly takes up with a young woman
PL: (Kelly McGillis) with an illigetimate baby. First he must prove himself
PL: to her father (Lloyd Bridges) and her three brothers (Lanny Flaherty,
PL: Don Michael Paul, David Dwyer). He does so first by joining them on a
PL: bear hunt and then by designing a clock tower for the small community.
PL: Trouble comes when it is revealed that the baby's father is the
PL: demented son of a mean clan across the river and they mean to take the
PL: child back. Contains brutal violence and profanity.

BY: John Sacksteder <[e-mail]>

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MV: Xinghua san yue tian (1994)

PL: Gesitueerd in een verlaten dorp nabij de ruines van de Grote Muur in
PL: Noord-China, schetst dit allegorisch drama het conflict tussen morele
PL: corruptie, oude Onder het systeem van vrije handel heeft kruidenier
PL: Wanglai fortuin gemaakt met het kappen van stenen uit de Grote muur en
PL: hetbedriegen van zijn klanten.  Ondertussen is Xinghua verliefd
PL: geworden op de idealistische Fulin. Maar uiteindelijk blijkt diens
PL: progressieve voorkomen een alweer conformistisch en lafh

BY: Michel Vuijlsteke <[e-mail]>

PL: In Northern China, Xinghua lives with her husband, who makes money by
PL: selling stones from the Great Wall.  But she is unable to give him a
PL: son to inherit this wealth.  When her husband hatches a plan to tear
PL: down the local historic fortress to find a legendary hidden treasure,
PL: she finds herself drawn to a gentler, more educated man who wants to
PL: preserve it.

BY: Brian Rawnsley <[e-mail]>

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MV: Ya nunca más (1984)

PL: A young teenage boy with a zest for sports and singing is seriously injured
PL: in a motorcycle accident. The story revolves around his shock at the
PL: way his life has changed and his difficulty in coping with his new
PL: reality. The boy, played by Latin singing star Luis Miguel at age 14,
PL: sings several songs in the movie.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: You Bet Your Life (1997)

PL: A sexy young accountant has been embezzling money from her firm to support
PL: her cocaine habit. When her firm is audited by the IRS, she is forced
PL: to make a bet with a loanshark to repay the cash. After losing the
PL: "sure thing" horse race, she must then make a life or death choice -
PL: stay alive or kill for the loanshark.

BY: Anonymous

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MV: Young on the Run, The (1989) (TV)

PL: This movie discusses the problems and possible solutions to runaways on the
PL: streets. Focuses on the homeless teens on Los Angeles/Hollywood and
PL: their lives as they discuss where they came from, why they are now on
PL: the street, and what they have experienced since they arrived in Los
PL: Angeles.

BY: Anonymous