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< * The plot list currently contains 11780 summaries covering
<   10986 movies.
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> * The plot list currently contains 11983 summaries covering
>   11181 movies.
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<  Actors               | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 01/12/96
<  Actresses            | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 01/12/96
<  Alternative Names    | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 01/12/96
<  Alternative Titles   | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 01/12/96
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>  Actors               | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 02/02/96
>  Actresses            | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 02/02/96
>  Alternative Names    | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 02/02/96
>  Alternative Titles   | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 02/02/96
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<  Biographies          | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 01/12/96
<  Cast Completion      | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 01/12/96
<  Certificates         | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 01/12/96
<  Cinematographers     | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 01/12/96
<  Color Information    | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 01/12/96
<  Composers            | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 01/12/96
<  Costume Designers    | Harald Mayr <[e-mail]>       | 01/12/96
<  Countries            | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 01/12/96
<  Crazy Credits        | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 01/12/96
<  Directors            | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 01/12/96
<  Editors              | Harald Mayr <[e-mail]>       | 01/12/96
<  Genres               | Colin Tinto <[e-mail]>            | 01/12/96
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>  Biographies          | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 02/02/96
>  Cast Completion      | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 02/02/96
>  Certificates         | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 02/02/96
>  Cinematographers     | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 02/02/96
>  Color Information    | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 02/02/96
>  Composers            | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 02/02/96
>  Costume Designers    | Harald Mayr <[e-mail]>       | 02/02/96
>  Countries            | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 02/02/96
>  Crazy Credits        | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 02/02/96
>  Directors            | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 02/02/96
>  Editors              | Harald Mayr <[e-mail]>       | 02/02/96
>  Genres               | Colin Tinto <[e-mail]>            | 02/02/96
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<  ISO AKA Titles       | Peter Simeon <[e-mail]>             | 10/27/95
<  Laser Discs          | Peter Simeon <[e-mail]>             | 12/29/95
<  Literature           | Joachim Polzer <[e-mail]>      | 01/05/96
<  Locations            | Rob Hartill <[e-mail]>            | 01/12/96
<  Misc. Filmography    | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 01/12/96
<  Movie Links          | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 01/12/96
<  Movies               | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 01/12/96
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>  ISO AKA Titles       | Peter Simeon <[e-mail]>             | 02/02/96
>  Laser Discs          | Peter Simeon <[e-mail]>             | 02/02/96
>  Literature           | Joachim Polzer <[e-mail]>      | 02/02/96
>  Locations            | Rob Hartill <[e-mail]>            | 02/02/96
>  Misc. Filmography    | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 02/02/96
>  Movie Links          | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 02/02/96
>  Movies               | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 02/02/96
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<  Plot Summaries       | Colin Tinto <[e-mail]>            | 01/12/96
<  Producers            | Andre Bernhardt <[e-mail]> | 01/12/96
<  Production Companies | Rob Hartill <[e-mail]>            | 01/12/96
<  Production Designers | Harald Mayr <[e-mail]>       | 01/12/96
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>  Plot Summaries       | Colin Tinto <[e-mail]>            | 02/02/96
>  Producers            | Andre Bernhardt <[e-mail]> | 02/02/96
>  Production Companies | Rob Hartill <[e-mail]>            | 02/02/96
>  Production Designers | Harald Mayr <[e-mail]>       | 02/02/96
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<  Ratings              | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 01/12/96
<  Release Dates        | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 01/12/96
<  Running Times        | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 01/12/96
<  Sound Mix            | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 01/12/96
<  Soundtracks          | Ron Higgins <[e-mail]>     | 01/05/96
<  Tag Lines            | Rob Hartill <[e-mail]>            | 01/12/96
<  Technical Info       | Joachim Polzer <[e-mail]>      | 01/05/96
<  Trivia               | Murray Chapman <[e-mail]>        | 12/15/95
<  Writers              | Jon Reeves <[e-mail]>            | 01/12/96
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>  Ratings              | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 02/02/96
>  Release Dates        | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 02/02/96
>  Running Times        | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 02/02/96
>  Sound Mix            | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>           | 02/02/96
>  Soundtracks          | Ron Higgins <[e-mail]>     | 02/02/96
>  Tag Lines            | Rob Hartill <[e-mail]>            | 02/02/96
>  Technical Info       | Joachim Polzer <[e-mail]>      | 02/02/96
>  Trivia               | Murray Chapman <[e-mail]>        | 02/02/96
>  Writers              | Jon Reeves <[e-mail]>            | 02/02/96
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> MV: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1988)
>
> PL: An anthology series modeled after and frequently based upon the original
> PL: series of the 1950s-1960s.  This version featured remakes of episodes
> PL: from the original series as well as original stories.
>
> BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> PL: In the series opener, Catherine Chandler is attacked and left for dead when
> PL: a mysterious man/beast, Vincent, finds her and takes her to a secret
> PL: world of tunnels below New York City.  Here, she is nursed back to
> PL: health, and an extraordinay bond grows between Catherine and Vincent,
> PL: one that holds them close even when Catherine is well, and must return
> PL: to the world above.  In the episodes to follow, they face many dangers
> PL: and adventures together as their relationship continues to grow.
>
> BY: Robin Hudson <[e-mail]>
>
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< MV: "Beavis & Butt-head" (1993)
<
< PL: Animated MTV series about two teenaged heavy-metal music fans who
< PL: occasionally do idiotic things because they are bored.  For them,
< PL: everything is 'cool' or 'sucks.'
<
< BY: Tad Dibbern <[e-mail]>
<
< -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: "Bionic Six" (????)
>
> PL: Television show, only one season, 65 episodes.
> PL: In the next century, a bionic scientist called "Dr. Scarab" is
> PL: after power and immortality by bionic-nanotech engineering.  He
> PL: and his henchmen are stopped again and again by Dr. Sharp and
> PL: his Bionic Six, a multi-cultural family of bionic people.
> PL: Some fantasy technology, but excellent plots.  A very good
> PL: sci-fi show.  Featured many voices that went on to other shows,
> PL: such as Frank Welker and Brain Tochi.
>
> BY: Jeremy Pace <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: "Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, The" (1983)
>
> PL: Every Saturday morning The Peanuts Gang does skits, mostly taken from
> PL: newspaper strips.
>
> BY: Ted Nesi <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< PL: Count Duckula is a naiive, egotistical vampire duck who happens to be a
< PL: vegitarian.  He, along with his evil butler named Igor and his idiot
< PL: nanny named Nanny (who,by the way, has her arm in a permanent sling),
< PL: go on many strange adventures using a magic transporting castle.
< PL: Meanwhiles Duckula is constently being persued by an insane vampire
< PL: hunter.
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> PL: Count Duckula is an egotistical vegetarian vampire duck who lives in a
> PL: castle that can travel anywhere he wants to go.  He lives with his
> PL: servents: Nanny, his large and stupid nanny who always has her arm in a
> PL: sling, and Igor, his evil butler.  While Nanny accidentaly destroys
> PL: furniture and Igor atempts to turn the broccoli chomping duck to the
> PL: dark side, a vampire hunter lurks around with a wooden stake-in-a-gun
> PL: and unattractive intentions.  Although "Duckula" is a spin-off of
> PL: "Dangermouse", the humor is of a completely different and original
> PL: style.
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< BY: David McGuire <[e-mail]>
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> BY: David McGuire <[e-mail]>
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< MV: "Inspector Gadget" (????)
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> MV: "Inspector Gadget" (1983)
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> MV: "Shirley's World" (1971)
>
> PL: Shirley Logan is a globe-trotting magazine writer-photographer and Dennis
> PL: Croft, her London based editor.
>
> BY: Herman Seifer <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: "Thunderbirds" (1964)
>
> PL: In the 21st Century, the Tracy family organizes a special emergency
> PL: response service using massive technology and secrecy.
>
> BY: Kenneth Chisholm <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: "Vietnam War Story" (1987)
>
> PL: An anthology series featuring stories suggested by true events occurring
> PL: during the war in Vietnam, often written by Vietnam veterans.
>
> BY: Anonymous
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: A puno limpio (1988)
>
> PL: An ex-boxer comes back to a town called Rosario in Southamerica taking
> PL: revenge for the death of a friend.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MV: A Tout Prendre (1963)
>
> PL: The liaison of a 'good family' young man with a black mannequin. The
> PL: portrait of some young intellectuals at the beginning of the sixties.
>
> BY: Jean-Marie Berthiaume <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< PL: This movie is about three Australian transvestites who leave the Rocks (Red
< PL: Light district in Sydney) with a bus called Priscilla, heading for Alice
< PL: Springs. In Alice Springs they are to perform at Adam's, one of the
< PL: transvestites, wive's hotel. On the way the bus breaks down, and amongst
< PL: others they run into Aboriginals, mechanics, a bunch of thugs, and a
< PL: luscious Philippino girl. If you like the desert, you'll like this movie!
<
< BY: Anonymous
<
< PL: Two transvestites (Anthony/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia) and a transexual
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> PL: Two drag-queens (Anthony/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia) and a transexual
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< PL: she becomes kind of jealous. But as things happen in relationsships of three
< PL: persons the woman fall in love...
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> PL: she becomes kind of jealous. But as things happen in relationships of three
> PL: persons the women fall in love...
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> MV: After Midnight with Boston Blackie (1943)
>
> PL: Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box
> PL: for a friend.
>
> BY: Herman Seifer <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Aladdin (1958)
>
> PL: This is the story  from the fairy tales of 1001 nights.  Aladdin  finds an
> PL: old lamp and discovers when he cleans it that a ghost was imprisoned
> PL: inside.  Gladly  to be free the ghost accepts Aladdin as his master and
> PL: fullfills all his wishes. Thus Aladdin's lamp attracks not only friends
> PL: of his.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
>
> PL: Blackie tracks down a wrongly convicted prisoner who escapes during a
> PL: Christmas magic show.
>
> BY: Herman Seifer <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Alien Factor, The (1979)
>
> PL: A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth
> PL: near a small back woods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk
> PL: are turning up mutilated. Very low budget feature was the first for
> PL: Baltimore  filmmaker Don Dohler.
>
> BY: Humberto Amador
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Amante perfecta, La (1976)
>
> PL: A movie actress is being raped by an admirer in the night of the release of
> PL: her last movie.  But instead of acusing the man she begins to fall in
> PL: love with him.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: American Heart (1992)
>
> PL: After leaving jail, Jack Kelson wants to live a normal life. He rents a
> PL: small flat, moves in with his son Nick and tries to get a steady job.
> PL: But then a former friend steps into his life again.
>
> BY: Markus Lasermann <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Angels and Insects (1995)
>
> PL: The movie is a study of an aristocratic family in the victorian England.
> PL: William Adamson,  a young scientist, is introduced into the
> PL: aristocratic family  Alabaster  by  reverend Alabaster  who  is  also
> PL: fascinated  by insects.  William marries the older daughter  of the
> PL: familiy and studies the  amounts  of  insects  in  the garden of  the
> PL: villa. His  -  for the aristocrats  -  strange  behaviours  reveale  at
> PL: the same time their own failures and passions.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Aru Kengo no Shogai (1959)
>
> PL: Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A
> PL: poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart)
> PL: loves a lady.  But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another
> PL: man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
>
> BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Aspen Extreme (1993)
>
> PL: T.J. and his friend Dexter quit their jobs at an assembly line in Detroit
> PL: to become ski-instructors in Aspen. While T.J. advances to the most
> PL: popular instructor of the school during the season, he has to take care
> PL: for Dexter, who's future is less bright and who's eventually thinking
> PL: about jobbing as drug courier - bringing their friendship to a test.
> PL: Meanwhile the rich business woman Brice supports T.J. in his writing
> PL: ambitions and invites him to live at her home. But in her absence he
> PL: falls in love with the stunningly beautiful blond radio moderator
> PL: Robin.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Asylum of Satan (1972)
>
> PL: A young woman is brought to an asylum to receive special treatment from a
> PL: mysterious doctor. Dr. Spector does more than just run the hospital --
> PL: he offers his patients as sacrifices to Satan.
>
> BY: Mark J. Popp <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< MV: Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)
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> MV: Au revoir les enfants (1987)
>
> PL: A French boarding school run by priests  seems to be a haven from World War
> PL: II until a new student arrives.  He becomes the roommate of top student
> PL: in his class.  Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a
> PL: secret.
>
> BY: Dale O'Connor <[e-mail]>
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> MV: Baby der schwangeren Toten, Das (1994) (TV)
>
> PL: Marina is the fourth month pregnant when she has a severe traffic accident
> PL: and falls into coma because of brain damage. Although the doctors don't
> PL: expect her to awake again, they suggest her fiancee Michael to keep her
> PL: alive artificially until the unborn child is old enough to survive.
> PL: Michael accepts the offer. Only Marina's mother is terrified and seeks
> PL: the public, putting the case into the headlines.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Bandera, La (1935)
>
> PL: Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona,
> PL: where he runs out of money. So he joins the spanish Foreign Legion. He
> PL: meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget
> PL: his fault... but Lucas's friendship soon appears to be less
> PL: unselfish...
>
> BY: Yepok
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Bandit Queen (1994)
>
> PL: The movie tells the story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to
> PL: prison in 1983  and got free in 1994.  During  five  years  she  was
> PL: prosecuted by the Indian police and turned into a legend (like a modern
> PL: Robin Hood) by the Indian press.  Although the press tended to make her
> PL: the optimal hero with blue eyes,  dark hair,  being tall and beautyfull
> PL: she was in  reality an average Indian which makes it hard for the movie
> PL: to fullfill  the expectations of the audience and tell the truth at the
> PL: same time. Nowadays Phoolan Devi wants to enter the field of politics.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Barbara Frietchie (1915)
>
> PL: An old woman in Frederick, Maryland, during the U.S. Civil War, displays
> PL: her American flag in defiance of the armies of Confederate general
> PL: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.  Based on the folktale that grew from
> PL: the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier.
>
> BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< MV: Barnum (1986) (TV)
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> MV: Barnum (1986/I) (TV)
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< PL: Set during the early years of World War II, the War in the
< PL: Atlantic. The Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to
< PL: keep the convoy routes open to keep the British Isles supplied.
< PL: One great danger was the surface raiders, huge battleships that
< PL: slipped out of German waters just before war was declared.
< PL: "The Bismark", "The Tirpitz" and "The Graf Spee" were supplied
< PL: by tanker & could strike anywhere.
< PL: This is the story of how 3 lightly armed cruisers with only
< PL: 6 and 8 inch guns boldly took on a faster, heavy cruiser armed
< PL: with radar controlled 11 inch guns. They should have been blown
< PL: out of the water before they could fire a single shot but ...
---
> PL: Set during the early years of World War II, the War in the Atlantic.
> PL: The Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the convoy routes
> PL: open to keep the British Isles supplied. One great danger was the
> PL: surface raiders, huge battleships that slipped out of German waters just
> PL: before war was declared. "The Bismarck", "The Scharnhorst", "The
> PL: Gneissau" and "The Graf Spee" were supplied by tanker & could strike
> PL: anywhere. This is the story of how 3 lightly armed cruisers with only
> PL: 6 and 8 inch guns boldly took on a faster, heavy battleship armed with
> PL: radar controlled 11 inch guns. They should have been blown out of the
> PL: water before they could fire a single shot but ...
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> MV: Before the Rain (1994)
>
> PL: Manchevski's lush, cyclical drama is told in three chapters and has many
> PL: characters; however, the primary focus is on Aleksandar, a
> PL: disillusioned war photographer who, after witnessing an execution in
> PL: Bosnia, decides to return to his Macedonian village. He soon learns
> PL: that ethnic hatred has arrived before him, and his old homeland is now
> PL: a dangerously armed camp of militant Orthodox and Moslem factions.
> PL: Violence is imminent and everyone is caught in the crossfire.
>
> BY: Dawn M. Barclift
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Between Men (1915)
>
> PL: When Ashley Hampdon becomes the target of a scheme to ruin him by his
> PL: daughter's suitor, Hampdon sends for his old friend Bob White.  Bob
> PL: discovers that the suitor, Gregg Lewiston, cannot hope to win Lina
> PL: Hampdon while her father's wealth remains intact.  Lewiston hopes that
> PL: if her family becomes destitute, she will turn to him.  But Bob White
> PL: is there to upset the scheme.
>
> BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea (1995)
>
> PL: The film tells the story of a strange friendship between an adult, already
> PL: on the return of his path of life, and a Chinese girl who just begins
> PL: her path. Nikos is the radio operator of a merchant ship and has just
> PL: arrived in  Hong-Kong.  He is tired  and  wants to forget his problems
> PL: by smoking opium. Innocence and hope turns to him in the person of Li,
> PL: a Chinese girl who lives in a Sampan (a houseboat)  and  has  to clean
> PL: boats  and  empty trash-cans to survive.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Beyond Desire (1995)
>
> PL: Rita is a sexy call girl in a red Corvette convertible who just met Ray.
> PL: Ray is an ex-con just released after serving 14 years for a killing he
> PL: claims he was framed for. When these two get together, sparks fly and
> PL: temperatures rise. But Ray has a reason not to trust Rita - $1 million
> PL: has been stashed somewhere in Las Vegas and Ray knows everyone wants it
> PL: almost as much as they want him dead. When everyone has a hidden
> PL: agenda, who do you trust?
>
> BY: <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Beyond the Stars (1989)
>
> PL: This Sci-Fi Drama centers around the teen-age Eric, son of a computer
> PL: scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human
> PL: to the moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day,
> PL: befriends Paul Andrews, the first man on the moon. Paul is avoided by
> PL: other astronauts nowadays, because he was very rude and rebuffing when
> PL: he returned from space. Only slowly Eric learns, that he discovered
> PL: something during his excursion on the moon, that he keeps as a secret.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< MV: Bionic Six (????)
<
< PL: Television show, only one season, 65 episodes.
< PL: In the next century, a bionic scientist called "Dr. Scarab" is
< PL: after power and immortality by bionic-nanotech engineering.  He
< PL: and his henchmen are stopped again and again by Dr. Sharp and
< PL: his Bionic Six, a multi-cultural family of bionic people.
< PL: Some fantasy technology, but excellent plots.  A very good
< PL: sci-fi show.  Featured many voices that went on to other shows,
< PL: such as Frank Welker and Brain Tochi.
<
< BY: Jeremy Pace <[e-mail]>
<
< -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Bis wir uns wiedersehen (1952)
>
> PL: This is the tear-jerking love story between young Pamela and casino owner
> PL: Mayrhoefer. Pamela has just been released from hospital - incurably
> PL: sick. Near the border to Switzerland she runs into Mayrhoefer, who's
> PL: now on flight from the police. In flashbacks Pamela remembers the time
> PL: they met, when she was 22 and they fell in love and had a great, but
> PL: limited time together.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Bob Le Flambeur (1955)
>
> PL: Bob, a old gangster and gambler is almost broke, so he decides inspite of
> PL: the warnings of a friend, a high official from the police, to rob a
> PL: gambling casino in Dauville. Everything is palned exactly, but the
> PL: police is informed about the planned coup. Meanwhile in the Casino Bob
> PL: starts to gamble.
>
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Boston Blackie and the Law (1946)
>
> PL: Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate
> PL: an opportunity to escape.
>
> BY: Herman Seifer <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MV: Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion (1945)
>
> PL: Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles
> PL: Dickens first edition at an auction.
>
> BY: Herman Seifer <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MV: Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood (1942)
>
> PL: Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money
> PL: from his apartment and deliver it to him in California.  Performing
> PL: this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to
> PL: Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond.
>
> BY: Herman Seifer <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MV: Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture (1949)
>
> PL: Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been
> PL: murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.
>
> BY: Herman Seifer <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MV: Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945)
>
> PL: Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing
> PL: spree.
>
> BY: Herman Seifer <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Bound by Honor (1993)
>
> PL: This movie depicts the gang wars in Californian jails during the 1980s. The
> PL: half-brothers Paco and Cruz grow up together with their cousin Miklo in
> PL: one of the lesser districts of L.A.  When Miklo more or less
> PL: accidentally kills another guy in a gang fight, he has to go to jail in
> PL: St. Quentin, where he soon starts a career in a drug connection.
> PL: Meanwhile Paco joins the police and returns to the district as a
> PL: determined officer in the vice squad. When Miklo is released on
> PL: probation after 9 years, but keeps working for his gang, he soon
> PL: clashes with Paco.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Bravados, The (1958)
>
> PL: Jim Douglas has been relentlessly pursuing the four outlaws who murdered
> PL: his wife, but finds them in jail about to be hanged. While he waits to
> PL: witness their execution, they escape; and the townspeople enlist
> PL: Douglas's aid to recapture them.
>
> BY: David Levene <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Brink's Job, The (1978)
>
> PL: After a long time of bad luck, the little criminal Tony and his gang
> PL: successfully rob one of Brink's security transport, taking $30,000.
> PL: Surprisingly their coup doesn't make the press. Curious Tony checks out
> PL: their headquarters and finds out that their security standard is low
> PL: beyond belief. Now a really big coup is prepared...
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Buck At The Edge Of Heaven (1991)
>
> PL: Trapper Wintrop lives in a lonesome hut in the mountains, together with his
> PL: father, son Tim, his wolf dog Buck and the dumb scout Matt. When a gang
> PL: of villains robs and kills grandpa in their absence, they further on
> PL: are determined to hunt them down. Shortly after they arrive the last
> PL: minute to save Corinne from the very same gang. However her father
> PL: dies, so they offer the young woman to live with them.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Buechse der Pandora, Die (1928)
>
> PL: G.W. Pabst's film that catapaulted Louise Brooks to international acclaim
> PL: and made her 'the' icon of the Jazz Age tells the tragic story of Lulu,
> PL: the hedonistic dancer and prostitute.  Based on the plays of F.
> PL: Wedekind.
>
> BY: Dawn M. Barclift
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)
>
> PL: Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in
> PL: the house in  which  they  want to celebrate their marriage is
> PL: complicating the situation.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Burning, The (1981)
>
> PL: A janitor at a summer camp is accidently burned severly from a prank. Years
> PL: later, he is released from an institute, and returns to the camp with a
> PL: pair of hedge clippers to take revenge on the campers.
>
> BY: Humberto Amador
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< MV: Calling all Curs (1939)
---
> MV: Calling All Curs (1939)
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> MV: Cambrioleur, Le (1930)
>
> PL: The young wife of a rich old husband is preventet of a fling by a
> PL: gentleman-bugelar, who falls in love to her.
>
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Campana del Infierno, La (1973)
>
> PL: A young man is released from an asylum and returns home for revenge on his
> PL: aunt and her three daughters, who had him declared insane in order to
> PL: steal his inheritance.
>
> BY: Arthur Workman <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Canterbury Tale, A (1944)
>
> PL: A 'Land Girl', an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves
> PL: together in a small Kent town on the road to Canterbury. The town is
> PL: being plagued by a mysterious "glue-man", who pours glue on the hair of
> PL: girls dating soldiers after dark.  The three attempt to track him down,
> PL: and begin to have suspicions of the local magistrate, an eccentric
> PL: figure with a strange, mystical vision of the history of England in
> PL: general and Canterbury in particular.
>
> BY: David Levene <[e-mail]>
>
> PL: Three people arrive in a village in Southern England in the early years of
> PL: World War 2. Alison Smith is a London girl who is due to start working
> PL: on a farm as a 'Land Girl'. Peter Gibbs is an Englishman conscripted
> PL: into the army, taking a few days leave before going abroad. Bob Johnson
> PL: is a U.S. Army sergeant who wanted to go to Canterbury, but got off
> PL: here by mistake. As they walk into the village, Alison is attacked by
> PL: 'The Glue Man', a prankster who pours glue in women's hair. The three
> PL: of them start to explore the area to discover and expose 'The Glue Man'
> PL: but then get engrossed in the history of the area and the tales of The
> PL: Pilgrim's Way. The local magistrate, Thomas Colpeper, JP is a local
> PL: historian and a very mysterious character who leads them further into
> PL: the mystery.
>
> BY: Steve Crook <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Castello della paura, Il (1973)
>
> PL: Brazzi plays  mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi  (no
> PL: relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add  a monster named  Hulk, and
> PL: some nude women for sexploitation value.
>
> BY: Arthur Workman <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Cemetery Club, The (1993)
>
> PL: This comedy with much Jewish humor is about the widows Doris, Ester and
> PL: Lucille, who's husbands died one after another in just a few years. The
> PL: 3 friends in their 50s react quite differently on the deaths. But they
> PL: make it a habit to meet every year at the graves of their husbands and
> PL: talk about perspectives in their lives.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< MV: Cheyenne Warrior (1994)
---
> MV: Cheyenne Warrior (1994) (TV)
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> MV: Choices of the Heart (1983) (TV)
>
> PL: The film tells the story of a young missionary girl from the United States
> PL: who was killed  in  1980  in  El Salvador  together with two other
> PL: missionaries.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Christabel (1989)
>
> PL: An English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live
> PL: as normal a life as they can in Hitler's Germany.  When Allied bombs
> PL: start falling on German cities, Christabel takes her two young sons to
> PL: a village in the mountains.  Then she learns that her husband and some
> PL: of his friends have been arrested for plotting to assassinate Hitler.
> PL: She travels to the prison where he is held, wondering if telling the
> PL: commandant that she knows Winston Churchill will help her husband or
> PL: seal his fate. This is said to be based on a true story.
>
> BY: Dale O'Connor <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Clean and Sober (1988)
>
> PL: Michael Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, a hot shot real estate agent who just
> PL: happens to have a cocaine and drinking problem. One morning, he wakes
> PL: up to find a dead woman in his bed(someone he had been partying with
> PL: the night before)from a cocaine overdose. He also just happenes to
> PL: recieve a phone call from his employers telling him a huge sum of money
> PL: is missing from one of his accounts. Panicing, Daryl decides to check
> PL: into a drug rehab to hide from the law, where he meets tough cookie
> PL: Morgan Freeman. A recovering addict himself, he now works as a drug
> PL: counselor, and knows all the tricks Daryl tries to pull. Soon Daryl
> PL: discovers he just might be in the right place, afterall.
>
> BY: Humberto Amador
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Cleopatra Jones (1973)
>
> PL: Cleopatra Jones is a United States Special Agent assigned to crack down on
> PL: drug-trafficking in the U.S. and abroad.  After she burns a Turkish
> PL: poppy field, the notorious drug-lord Mommy is furious at the loss of
> PL: her supply and vows to destroy Cleopatra Jones. Mommy uses her
> PL: connections with bad cops on the force to cause trouble for Cleopatra's
> PL: friends and set her up for an attack. Meanwhile, Mommy is having
> PL: trouble with some of her pushers, like the renegade Doodlebug.
>
> BY: Tad Dibbern <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< MV: Comin' Round The Mountain (1936)
---
> MV: Comic Book Confidential (1988)
>
> PL: This film explores the history and major talents of one of North America's
> PL: true native, but grossly underappreciated,artforms from the invention
> PL: in the 1930's to the alternative scene today.
>
> BY: Kenneth Chisholm <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MV: Comin' Round the Mountain (1936)
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> MV: Confessione di un Commissario di Polizia al Procuratore della Republica (1971)
>
> PL: One of the first films about the maffia occurrence, in which the fight is
> PL: hopeless, because "the polyp's feeler" reach everything and everybody.
> PL: A police inspector and a deputy public prosecutor try to prove that the
> PL: architect in the city is in the maffia. Besides they are facing one
> PL: another distrustly.
>
> BY: Kornel Osvart <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MV: Confessionnal, Le (1994)
>
> PL: The film plays  n two different times: One part in the past, Quebec in 1952
> PL: when Alfred Hitchcock filmed  "I confess"  in the in these  times
> PL: isolated city. And the other part in the presence, Quebec in 1994. Two
> PL: brothers, Pierre and Marc, want to know their real origin and begin to
> PL: discover a lot of lies and intriges. The film switches between the two
> PL: plots in the present and the past in kind of flashbacks.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< PL: An American millionaire diplomat is followed from Hong Kong by his Russian
< PL: migr girl friend.  Complications arise when his wife boards their
< PL: cruise ship in Hawaii.
---
> PL: US politican Ogen Mears finds in his suit on the liner heading from
> PL: Hongkong to Hawaii a russian countess, who is fed up with working as a
> PL: taxi-dancer in Hongkong. Mears falls in love, but there is his wife
> PL: waiting for him in Hawaii, and a divorce would ruin his chances of
> PL: being elected.
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< BY: Scott Lane <[e-mail]>
---
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
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< MV: Coup de Torchon (1981)
---
> MV: Coup de torchon (1981)
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> MV: Couturier de ces dames, Le (1956)
>
> PL: A modest taylor the women found irresistible inherit a Maison de couture in
> PL: financial difficulty. Decided to save it he prepare a great collection.
> PL: But when his wife discovered his relations with one of the mannequin,
> PL: how would he prevent the scandale without loosing... both of them?!
>
> BY: Jean-Marie Berthiaume <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Cyber Bandits (1995)
>
> PL: A navigator aboad a millionaire's (Hayes) yacht, Jack Morris (Kemp)
> PL: discovers that the millionaire's mistress (Paul) has stolen the data
> PL: for his secret Virtual Reality.  To escape, they encrypt, miniaturize,
> PL: and tattoo the data onto Jack's PL:back.  The pair share a VR adventure
> PL: on the run from the Millionaire's thugs, meeting up with a wild series
> PL: of characters.
>
> BY: Anonymous
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Daddy Long Legs (1955)
>
> PL: On a trip to France, millionaire Jervis Pendelton sees an 18 year old girl
> PL: in an orphanage.  Enchanted with her, but mindful of the difference in
> PL: their ages, he sponsors her to college in New England. She writes him
> PL: letters, which he doesn't read.  After 3 years, he goes to visit her at
> PL: a dance, not telling her that he is her benefactor.  They fall in love,
> PL: but the usual movie-type difficulties get in the way before they can
> PL: get together at the end.
>
> BY: John Oswalt <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< PL: With a little help from smitten Park Avenue playboy Tod Newton, hard-
< PL: working dancer Janie Barlow gets into a Broadway show directed by the
< PL: gruff but attractive Patch Gallagher.
---
> PL: Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque
> PL: house.  Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her
> PL: get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod
> PL: thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using
> PL: her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch
> PL: is the greatest.  Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges
> PL: helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy
> PL: make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
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< BY: Diana Hamilton <[e-mail]>
---
> BY: Lisa Grable <[e-mail]>
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< MV: Dark Command (1940)
---
> MV: Dark Command, The (1940)
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> MV: Deceptions II: Edge of Deception (1995)
>
> PL: Since the death of his colleague, which was partly his fault, Lieutenant
> PL: Nick Gentry lives a lonesome life. Reporter Joan wants to write a story
> PL: about him, and seems to be interested in other ways too, but he
> PL: rejects. Instead he falls in love with his new neighbor Irene and
> PL: witnesses how she's repeatedly beaten up by her husband Allan. One day,
> PL: when Allan threatens her with a gun, he shoots him. Certainly
> PL: self-defense -- until it turns out, that Alan's gun was made
> PL: inoperable...
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Design for Scandal (1941)
>
> PL: To save his job, newsman Jeff Sherman offers to help his boss get out of a
> PL: swingeing alimony settlement. But his devious plan to compromise
> PL: Cornelia Porter, the judge on the case, while she is on holiday at Cape
> PL: Cod soon proves to be - well - too devious!
>
> BY: Jeremy Perkins <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Desire (1936)
>
> PL: Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who
> PL: is driving on his vacation to spain, to get the pearls out of France,
> PL: but getting the pearls, back from him prooves to be difficult without
> PL: falling in love.
>
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Devil and Max Devlin, The (1981)
>
> PL: When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to hell. But the devil
> PL: Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths
> PL: to sell him their souls in the next two months, he may stay on earth.
> PL: Max accepts, and returns to earth, equipped with special powers.
> PL: However his task is harder than expected, especially when 7 years old
> PL: Tobi demands that he marry his mother.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Devil Makes Three, The (1952)
>
> PL: 1947: Captain Jeff Eliott returns to Germany to thank the Lert family, who
> PL: hid him during ww-ii when his plane was shot down over Munich. However
> PL: he learns that the parents died when their house was bombed, only their
> PL: daughter Wilhelmina, now 18, is still alive. He finds the pretty girl
> PL: working as nightclub hostess and shortly after starts dating her. She
> PL: doesn't tell him that an underground Nazi organization compels her to
> PL: work for them, and soon gets Jeff involved in their machinations, too.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> PL: Lara inspires lechery in Komarvosky (her mother's lover who is a master at
> PL: surviving whoever runs Russia) and can't compete with passion for the
> PL: revolution of the man she marries, Pasha.  Her true love is Zhivago who
> PL: also loves his wife.  Lara is the one who inspires poetry.  The story
> PL: is narrated by Zhivago's half brother Yevgraf, who has made his career
> PL: in the Soviet Army.  At the beginning of the film he is about to meet a
> PL: young woman he believes may be the long lost daughter of Lara and
> PL: Zhivago.
>
> BY: Dale O'Connor <[e-mail]>
>
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< PL: This epic traces the life of Doctor Yuri Zhivago, based on his
< PL: half-brother's flashbacks. We learn of Zhivago's obsession with the
< PL: blond Lara and his duties in the Communist Revolution.
<
< BY: Philip Brubaker <[e-mail]>
<
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> MV: Don Quixote (1915)
>
> PL: Alonso Quijano is a country gentleman who imagines himself to be a knight
> PL: named Don Quixote de la Mancha.  He sets out to right the wrongs of the
> PL: world which sees him as he is, a comical figure.  But his chivalry and
> PL: sense of purpose drive him on to great deeds, even if he is laughed at.
>
> BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Doomsday Machine, The (1974)
>
> PL: So lame, it's a joy to watch!  Astronauts are sent into space. The earth is
> PL: subsequently destroyed, leading to the inevitably tacky question of
> PL: "will they repopulate", using the male and female astronauts.  The
> PL: space ship actually changes in shape, actors voices change between
> PL: scenes.
>
> BY: Danno <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Dort oben, wo die Alpen glueh'n (1956)
>
> PL: Andrea is vacationing in the mountains. She employs the young mountain
> PL: guide Bertl to accompany her on a tour to a mountain top - and falls in
> PL: love with him. Because of a storm they have to spend the night on the
> PL: mountain. When he's back home, Bertl's jealous fiancee demands a prove
> PL: of his love. He shall get her an Edelweiss from the dangerous mountain
> PL: "Gottesfinger".
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
>
> PL: An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster.
> PL: This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: E Poi Lo Chiamarono il Magnifico (1972)
>
> PL: By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a
> PL: real guy. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights, likes poems
> PL: and prefers bicycles to horses. Now his three teachers, footpads all of
> PL: them, shall teach him otherwise. This doesn't work, until Joe has to
> PL: defend himself against gunman Morton, who's jealous of Joe's love to
> PL: rancher Ohlsen's beautiful daughter.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Einfache Maedchen, Das (1957)
>
> PL: Caterina auditions for a minor part in what would be her second movie. Her
> PL: dancing and singing impresses the director so much, that he wants to
> PL: give her the leading role. However the author Thomas Krauss objects,
> PL: because he believes she's just a good singer and not talented enough as
> PL: an actress. Caterina doesn't want to let go of her big chance and
> PL: applies as maid in Krauss' house under a different name to convince him
> PL: she can play the role.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Elefant vergisst nie, Der (1995)
>
> PL: A dwarf from a circus and his best friend, an elephant, rescue a beautiful
> PL: young woman from her burning car. When the dwarf visits the lady later,
> PL: she tells him he has got a wish, because he saved her life. The dwarf
> PL: wants one night...
>
> BY: Oliver Heidelbach <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Equinox (1992)
>
> PL: Henry Petosa and Freddy Ace are twins who were separated being babies, and
> PL: they do not know each other. Henry was adopted by a honest man, while
> PL: Freddy becomes a gangster. Henry is very shy and has a lot of mental
> PL: troubles. The film melts the two stories by a young writer who
> PL: discovers that they were sons of an european noble and they own a large
> PL: inheritance
>
> BY: Michel Rudoy <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< PL: Seventeen year old Juliette with her hedonistic attitude towards life
< PL: manages to enchant Eric, influential businessman. Authorities, however,
< PL: take more bigot view and Juliette may end in the reform school. In
< PL: order to prevent it, Eric arranges marriage between her and Michel, shy
< PL: young man who do it only to help family business. But, nobody took
< PL: feelings into the account.
---
> PL: Antoine promises to take the orphaned Juliette away from St. Tropez after a
> PL: party where she has wandered onto the yacht of the urbane Eric.  But in
> PL: the morning the  bus and Antoine zip by Juliette's stop and she runs
> PL: into the field to capture the rabbit she set free moments before.
> PL: About to be sent back to the orphanage by her foster mother, she
> PL: identifies with the rabbit.  Antoine's younger brother Michel comes to
> PL: Juliette's rescue with a marriage proposal and she accepts. Eric wants
> PL: the brothers' shipyard as a casino site and brings Antoine back to St.
> PL: Tropez.  Life gets complicated.
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< BY: Dragan Antulov <[e-mail]>
---
> BY: Dale O'Connor <[e-mail]>
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> MV: Eyeball (1978)
>
> PL: Killer in red cape and hood is killing off tourists on a tour bus by
> PL: gouging out thier eyeballs.
>
> BY: Humberto Amador
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Faengelse (1949)
>
> PL: A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie
> PL: idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell.  The director rejects
> PL: the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of
> PL: the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math
> PL: teacher's idea.
>
> BY: Erik Gregersen <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Farinelli: Il castrato (1994)
>
> PL: Farinelli, is the artistic name of Carlo Broschi, a young singer in Haendel
> PL: times. He was castrated in his childhood in order to preserve his
> PL: voice. During his life he becomes to be a very famous opera singer,
> PL: managed by his mediocre brother (Riccardo).
>
> BY: Michel Rudoy <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< MV: Feeling Minnesota (1995)
---
> MV: Feeling Minnesota (1996)
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< PL: A drifter (Reeves) falls in love with his brother's
< PL: bride-to-be at their wedding
---
> PL: Writer/director Steven Baigelman makes his film debut with Feeling
> PL: Minnesota, a funny, idiosyncratic love story about three people
> PL: fighting for their chance at happiness.  Cameron Diaz stars as
> PL: Freddie, who is conned in marrying Sam Clayton (D'Onofrio) an
> PL: accountant in a strip joint as punishment for stealing from the
> PL: club's owner, Red (Delroy Lindo). When Jjaks (Keanu Reeves), Sam's
> PL: estranged brother, shows up at the wedding, Freddie takes an
> PL: immediate and passionate interest in him and the two are making
> PL: love in the bathroom while the crowd outside is still eating cake.
> PL: Thus begins a volatile and passionate love triangle as the two
> PL: brothers go head to head for the girl they love.
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< MV: Feeling Minnesota (1996)
<
< PL: Writer/director Steven Baigelman makes his film debut with Feeling Minnesota, a
< PL: funny, idiosyncratic love story about three people fighting for their chance at happiness.
< PL: Cameron Diaz stars as Freddie, who is conned in marrying Sam Clayton (D'Onofrio)
< PL: an accountant in a strip joint as punishment for stealing from the club's owner, Red
< PL: (Delroy Lindo). When Jjaks (Keanu Reeves), Sam's estranged brother, shows up at
< PL: the wedding, Freddie takes an immediate and passionate interest in him and the two are
< PL: making love in the bathroom while the crowd outside is still eating cake. Thus begins a
< PL: volatile and passionate love triangle as the two brothers go head to head for the girl
< PL: they love.
<
< -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Felicity (1979)
>
> PL: Young Felicity lives in a monastic school. The only way to live out her
> PL: sexual fantasies is together with her girlfriend Jenny. But then she
> PL: receives an invitation to her sister in Hong-Kong and can't wait to
> PL: finally do the real thing.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Feminine Touch, The (1994)
>
> PL: Her boyfriend John procures the ambitioned journalist Jennifer Barron an
> PL: interview with the Democratic presidential candidate Michael Ashton.
> PL: But before she can talk to him, he twice becomes target of attempts on
> PL: his life. After the second John is found near the site, dead, with the
> PL: weapon in his hand. Jennifer has to accept that she lived with a secret
> PL: agent for the last 4 years. While she tries to learn more about a list
> PL: of names she found on one of John's floppy disks, she becomes target
> PL: herself in this deadly intrigue. Only her knowledge in self defense
> PL: keeps the tough woman alive.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Fong Sai-Yuk (1993)
>
> PL: This Hong Kong martial-arts extravaganza tells of evil emperors and true
> PL: love.  Father Fong belongs to the Red Lotus Flower Society, which is
> PL: committed to the overthrow of the evil Manchu Emperor and his minions.
> PL: One of his Governors is sent on a mission to retrieve a list of members
> PL: of that secret society.  Meanwhile, a subplot involves Fong's son, Fong
> PL: Sai-Yuk, who falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a rich
> PL: merchant, recently moved to Canton. Her father, in an attempt to gain
> PL: influence in the region and thus improve his business, offers his
> PL: daughter in marriage to the winner of a kung-fu contest.  Some
> PL: interesting gender role-reversals take place during a 'comedy of
> PL: errors.'
>
> BY: Tad Dibbern <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Forbidden (1985) (TV)
>
> PL: In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young
> PL: countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets
> PL: at the home of a former professor. But they fall in love.  She gets
> PL: involved in helping Jews escape from the Nazis.  All get out of Berlin
> PL: except the young man.  There is a room in her apartment where he can't
> PL: be seen through the windows and a chest converted into a sofa where she
> PL: and her brothers played hide-and-seek as children.  This real life
> PL: hide-and-seek game has high stakes. The movie is said to be based on a
> PL: true story.
>
> BY: Dale O'Connor <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Forbidden Passage (1941)
>
> PL: This entry in MGM's series of shorts, "Crime Doesn't Pay", features the
> PL: U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of
> PL: illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting
> PL: for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter
> PL: by illegal means.
>
> BY: Doug Sederberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Freud (1962)
>
> PL: This pseudo-biographical movie depicts 5 years from 1885 on in the live of
> PL: the Viennan psychologist Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his
> PL: colleagues refuse to cure hysteric patients, because they believe
> PL: they're just simulating to gain attention. But Freud learns to use
> PL: hypnosis to find out the reasons for the psychosis. His main patient is
> PL: a young woman who refuses to drink water and is plagued by always the
> PL: same nightmare.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> PL: The Gecko brothers takes a priest and his family hostage while en route to
> PL: freedom and Mexico.  Arriving there they come onto a club filled with
> PL: loads of dark and mysterious characters. But if only the Gecko boys
> PL: realised that they were indeed in far deeper shit than they could ever
> PL: imagine . . .
>
> BY: James Steele <[e-mail]>
>
50651a51524,51535
> MV: Girl in the News (1941)
>
> PL: Nurse Anne Graham is controversially - but rightly - acquitted of murder
> PL: after her elderly patient dies in suspicious circumstances. Changing
> PL: her name she gets a position nursing wheelchair-bound Edward Bentley,
> PL: little suspecting that his wife and the butler are lovers setting Anne
> PL: up so that when Bentley is found dead it looks like a repeat of the
> PL: earlier case.
>
> BY: Jeremy Perkins <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
>
> PL: In 1960s Dublin a young girl becomes involved with an older man, a
> PL: much-travelled and still married land-owner.
>
> BY: Jeremy Perkins <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
51024a51917,51927
> MV: Glueck laeuft hinterher, Das (1963)
>
> PL: Director Peter Beauvais follows the life of several different people in
> PL: 1960s in Germany for a few days. The story begins, when a juvenile
> PL: criminal steals an old woman's handbag in a post office and throws it
> PL: into a parking car, when he feels observed. But there was a lot of
> PL: money in that bag, and thereby a dozen fortunes become entwined...
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< PL: Spoiled Southern heiress Scarlett O'Hara faces the harsh realities
< PL: of dealing with life during the Civil War in this Academy
< PL: Award-winning adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's beloved novel. Along
< PL: the way, she changes from a self-centered young lady to a woman
< PL: determined to save her home, the plantation known as Tara.
---
> PL: Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the
> PL: Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the
> PL: carpetbaggers who arrive after the war.   Scarlett is beautiful.  She
> PL: has vitality.  But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going
> PL: to marry his placid cousin, Melanie.  Mammy warns Scarlett to behave
> PL: herself at the party at Twelve Oaks.  There is a new man there that
> PL: day, the day the Civil War begins.  Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not
> PL: know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her
> PL: instead of Melanie.
51854c52761
< BY: Drew Grgich <[e-mail]>
---
> BY: Dale O'Connor <[e-mail]>
52025a52933,52941
> MV: Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
>
> PL: An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils
> PL: and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that
> PL: transformed his life.
>
> BY: David Levene <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Grand amour de Beethoven, Un (1936)
>
> PL: Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantical hero,
> PL: an accursed artist.
>
> BY: Yepok
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Great American Pastime, The (1956)
>
> PL: Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball
> PL: team. The fact, that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes
> PL: problems with his wife.
>
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Great Moment, The (1944)
>
> PL: The biography of Dr.W.T.Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his
> PL: quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public
> PL: and the medical and dental establishment.
>
> BY: Richard Blinkal <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< MV: Hackers (1995)
<
< PL: Dade is arrested for hacking, and is prohibted from using a
< PL: computer. But he is drawn back into hacking when he meets Kate
< PL: snd her friends. Two of Kate's friends are being framed for a
< PL: crime they didn't commit, by another hacker working for a large
< PL: oil company.. Dade has to help them find and destroy a computer
< PL: virus that will cause an environmental catastrophe, before the
< PL: blame falls on them, and they are all arrested.
<
< BY: <[e-mail]>
<
< PL: Going for teen realism, director lain Softley drained this movie
< PL: of plot, substance and character development in favor of hard-edged
< PL: rock played over slick graphics that are supposed to represent
< PL: computer functions.
<
< BY: Beth Pinsker
<
< -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
53988a54911,54919
> MV: Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
>
> PL: Woodrow LaFayette wants to join th enAvy, but he's 4F. So he leaves his
> PL: hometown and with friends, who send postcards from all over the war
> PL: theaters, he fakes a heroic navy-career. This has its consequences...
>
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Happy Go Lovely (1951)
>
> PL: Niven plays a rich bachelor,  the head of a successful greeting-card
> PL: company in Scotland, essentially a kind man but respectable to the
> PL: point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness.  An American troupe wants
> PL: to produce a musical in town (Edinburgh?) but has trouble getting
> PL: backers.  Niven's character meets several of the leading ladies of the
> PL: show; through a misunderstanding he doesn't correct they think that
> PL: he's a newspaper reporter.  He falls in love with one of the women, who
> PL: reciprocates; he grows more lively and friendly, to the surprise of his
> PL: employees.  After a series of mishaps and comic incidents comes a happy
> PL: ending: a successful show and true love.
>
> BY: Mark. Gooley <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Harvey Girls, The (1946)
>
> PL: On a train trip West to become a mail order bride Susan Bradley meets a
> PL: cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a " Harvey House "
> PL: restaurant at a remote whistle stop to provide good cooking and
> PL: wholesome company for railway travelers.  When Susan and her bashful
> PL: suitor find romance daunting, Susan joins the Harvey Girls instead.
> PL: The saloon across the street with its alluring worldly-wise women
> PL: offers them tough competition, fair and foul, and Susan catches the eye
> PL: of the Ned Trent, the distant but intense proprietor of the bar.
>
> BY: Michael Meigs <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
56718a57680,57690
> MV: Hideaway (1995)
>
> PL: Hatch Harrison had a traffic accident with his car. At first the doctors
> PL: said he was dead but then they succeeded to bring him back to life
> PL: after two hours. But Hatch starts to have strange sensations in
> PL: following time and discovers that he  is  now  united with a mad killer
> PL: who had entered his mind during his death.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
57156c58128
< MV: Hiroshima Mon Amour (1960)
---
> MV: Hiroshima mon amour (1960)
57435a58408,58417
> MV: Hit the Deck (1955)
>
> PL: Sailor Danny Xavier Smith and two other gobs try to save his sister Susan's
> PL: virtue. She wants to get a role in the show "Hit the Deck". After
> PL: wrecking the producers house, they land in the brig. But Danny's father
> PL: is an Rear Admiral...
>
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Honey (1980)
>
> PL: The young, naive Annie enters a hotel to spend the night - without knowing
> PL: that it's this special kind of hotel, that serves more than breakfast.
> PL: Curiously she walks around and watches the maids doing their job. She's
> PL: especially fascinated of a forbidden room, where a silent, strange guy
> PL: lives.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Hong Faan Kui (1995)
>
> PL: Cheong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding.  His
> PL: uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Cheong offers to help out while
> PL: Uncle is on his honeymoon.  During his stay in the Bronx, Cheong
> PL: befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause
> PL: problems at the market.  Meanwhile, one of those petty thugs in the
> PL: local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.
> PL: Blinded by greed, his involvement draws his gang, the kid, Cheong, and
> PL: the whole neighborhood into a deadly crossfire.  When the lazy cops
> PL: fail to successfully resolve matters, Cheong takes things into his own
> PL: hands.  Needless to say, much spectacular kung-fu and outrageous action
> PL: sequences follow....
>
> BY: Tad Dibbern <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Hotel Paradise (1995)
>
> PL: The not yet married bride of a mafiosi wakes up in the morning in bed with
> PL: a chained and naked man. She cannot recall what happened last night.
> PL: The man begins to tell. Did she really had an erotic adventure with a
> PL: stranger one night before her marriage?
>
> BY: Oliver Heidelbach <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Hotel Terminus (1988)
>
> PL: A documentary of the prozess against Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of
> PL: Lyon, and about his life after the war.
>
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
60146a61175,61191
> MV: I Know Where I'm Going (1945)
>
> PL: Joan Webster is a very modern woman (in the 1940's), "She knows where she's
> PL: going", she has her life carefully planned out from a very young age.
> PL: She gets engaged to a rich industrialist who has taken a lease on an
> PL: island in the Hebrides, so she travels up to Scotland to marry him.
> PL: However, in the Western Isles, life beats to a different drum. A storm
> PL: prevents her immediate journey to the island so she stays for a while
> PL: with some of the locals including a young Naval officer, Torquil
> PL: MacNeil, who turns out to be the local clan head and the true owner of
> PL: the island. The magic of the local land, it's history and the eccentric
> PL: people she meets begin to have an effect on Joan and she wonders ...
> PL: does she really "Know where she's going".
>
> BY: Steve Crook <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (1978)
>
> PL: This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin)
> PL: Weisshaupt.  Years before, Erwin told a co-worker, Anton, that he loved
> PL: him.  "Too bad, you aren't a woman," he replied.  Erwin took Anton at
> PL: his word.  Trying to salvage something from the wreckage love has made
> PL: of his life, he now hopes that Anton will not reject him again.
>
> BY: Erik Gregersen <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Intolerance (1916)
>
> PL: Intolerance and its terrible effects are examined in four historical eras.
> PL: In ancient Babylon, a mountain girl is caught up in the religious
> PL: rivalry that leads to the city's downfall.  In Judea, the hypocritical
> PL: Pharisees condemn Jesus Christ.  In 1572 Paris, unaware of the
> PL: impending St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, two young Huguenots prepare
> PL: for marriage.  Finally, in modern America, social reformers destroy the
> PL: lives of a young woman and her beloved.
>
> BY: Erik Gregersen <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: It Came from Outer Space II (1996)
>
> PL: Aliens crashland near a small desert town, strewing odd bluish-glowing
> PL: rocks throughout the area. Townfolk notice something is amiss when
> PL: temperatures begin to soar, water disappears, power goes down and
> PL: people seem not to be themselves.
>
> BY: Doug Sederberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Jack and Sarah (1995)
>
> PL: After the death of his girlfriend Jack has to care for his daughter Sarah
> PL: on his own.  Because  his  job  is  too timeintensive that he cannot be
> PL: with the baby all the time  he  contracts  Amy,  a  young waitress, as
> PL: babysitter.  As  Sarah adopts Amy as substitute mother, Jack starts to
> PL: look at Amy with different eyes...
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Jitterbugs (1943)
>
> PL: The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam
> PL: for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however
> PL: soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an
> PL: attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.
>
> BY: Jeremy Perkins <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)
>
> PL: Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his sea-gull clan. He
> PL: rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques.
> PL: Since he doesn't fit in, the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets
> PL: out to discover the world beyond the horizon in quest for wisdom.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< PL: A French postman watches a film about the American postal system
< PL: and decides to bring his own delivery system up to date, using only
< PL: his enthusiasm and his bicycle.
---
> PL: Once a year the fair comes for one day to the little town
> PL: 'Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre'. All inhabiters are scoffing at Francois, the
> PL: postman, what he seems not to recognize. The rising of the flagstaff
> PL: under his direction nearly leads into a catastrophy - but everybody
> PL: tells him, how important his work is. Sneering up Francois continues in
> PL: the evening of the festive day. Made drunk, some 'friends' persuade him
> PL: to watch a short-movie in a tent. This film is a stunt-show, covered as
> PL: 'The modern delivery-techniques of the US-post. Francois takes it
> PL: serious, not recognizing being teased. Next day, after getting sober in
> PL: a goods wagon, he reorganizes his own delivery-methods. He has not the
> PL: equipment, as his ideals in the short-movie have, but using only his
> PL: bicycle, he makes good, funny progresses.
64797c65916
< BY: Colin Tinto <[e-mail]>
---
> BY: Christian Wenger <[e-mail]>
64896a66016,66025
> MV: Joy Luck Club, The (1993)
>
> PL: Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America
> PL: and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past.
> PL: This search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter
> PL: relationship.
>
> BY: Robert Pare
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Jungfrauenmaschine, Die (1988)
>
> PL: A reporter who goes to San Francisco to write about romance has an affair
> PL: with a stripper from an all-women's club.
>
> BY: Aaron Sherman <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
65914c67051
< PL: secret mission to ship $16,000,000 of gold to a base in
---
> PL: secret mission to ship $14,000,000 of gold to a base in
66729a67867,67876
> MV: King in New York, A (1957)
>
> PL: Due to a revolution in his country King Shahdov comes to New York - almost
> PL: broke. To get some money he goes to TV, making comercials and meets the
> PL: chield from communist parents. Due to this he is suddenly a suspected
> PL: as a communist himself and had to face one of McCarthy's hearings.
>
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Komissar (1967)
>
> PL: Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected
> PL: pregnancy.  She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is
> PL: softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
>
> BY: Erik Gregersen <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
>
> PL: Mrs Erlynne, the mother of Lady Windermere - her daughter does not know
> PL: about her - wants to be introduced in society, so that she can marry
> PL: Lord Augustus Lorton. Lord Windermere, who helped her with a cheque,
> PL: invites her to his wifes birthday-party, but Lady Windermere thinks,
> PL: she has reason to be jealous, so she decides to leave her husband and
> PL: go to Lord Darlington, who is pining for her. Mrs Erlynne finds this
> PL: out and tries to prevent her of this mistake, but her daughter leaves
> PL: her fan in Lord Darlingtons residence.
>
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Lamerica (1994)
>
> PL: Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the
> PL: communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a
> PL: stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. But the youngest
> PL: italian, Gino, once alone with Spiro, encounter a few problems. Far
> PL: from his roots, loosing his identity in deep Albania, he begins to
> PL: change...
>
> BY: Yepok
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Last Outpost, The (1951)
>
> PL: Two brothers who are not the best friends because they were  fighting on
> PL: different sides during the Civil War have to cooperate in order to
> PL: defend themselves against an attack of indians.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
>
> PL: The wife of marshal Matt Morgan is raped and murdered.  The killers leave
> PL: behind a distinctive saddle, that Morgan recognises as belonging to his
> PL: old friend Craig Belden, now cattle baron in the town of Gun Hill.
> PL: Belden is sympathetic, until it transpires that one of the murderers is
> PL: his own son Rick, whom he refuses to hand over.  Morgan is determined
> PL: to capture Rick and take him away by the 9.00 train; but he is trapped
> PL: in the town alone, with Belden and all his men now looking to kill him.
>
> BY: David Levene <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Last Valley, The (1970)
>
> PL: People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by
> PL: the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of
> PL: soldiers occupying the valley.
>
> BY: <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< MV: lien Factor, The (1979)
<
< PL: A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth
< PL: near a small back woods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk
< PL: are turning up mutilated. Very low budget feature was the first for
< PL: Baltimore  filmmaker Don Dohler.
<
< BY: Humberto Amador
<
< -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (1979) (TV)
>
> PL: Four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are evacuated to the country
> PL: in World War 2. They stay in a large house owned by an old Professor.
> PL: First Lucy, then Edmund, then all four children find their way through
> PL: an old wardrobe into Narnia, a magical land with talking animals and
> PL: mythical creatures such as fauns and dwarves. But Narnia is held under
> PL: a magical spell by the evil White Witch to ensure it's always winter
> PL: but never Christmas. The children have to battle evil creatures and
> PL: deal with betrayal and treachery but make many good friends as well.
> PL: Finally, with the help of Aslan (The Lion) they defeat the evil witch
> PL: and spring and freedom come back to Narnia.
>
> BY: Steve Crook <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Love Child (1995)
>
> PL: Nine year old Murray Murray is discovering his sexuality in the era of
> PL: disco and leisure suits.  He has a crush on sixteen year old Deidre,
> PL: whose younger sister believes herself to be Murray's girlfriend.  He
> PL: also must deal with, among other things, the noisome, nightly
> PL: lovemaking of his swinger parents.
>
> BY: Joshua Levine <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Macon County Line (1974)
>
> PL: Wayne and Chris Dexton are traveling cross country to have a good time the
> PL: last two weeks before Chris has to join the army - or go to jail for a
> PL: hold-up. During a stop in Macon due to trouble with the car, Sheriff
> PL: Reed banishes them from the county, because they have less than $30
> PL: each. Unfortunately their car breaks down again before they reach the
> PL: county border. They are unaware that only 500 meters from where they
> PL: stopped the Sheriff's house is robbed, and his wife brutally murdered.
> PL: When he comes back home, he immediately blames them and chases them
> PL: with his rifle.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Maedchen vom Pfarrhof, Das (1955)
>
> PL: The modern priest Hell gives orphan Annerl a job and a home in his house.
> PL: The pretty young girl is being stalked by landlord Finsterberg. When
> PL: she keeps on turning him down, he spreads rumors about Annerl and Hell
> PL: in the small village.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< MV: Maison Ikkoku (1986)
<
< PL: Godai Yusaku is a young college student staying at a run-down
< PL: boarding house outside of Tokyo. One day, a beautiful manager,
< PL: Otonashi Kyoko, moves in. Godai tries to win her heart, in
< PL: spite of numerous obstacles, including three crazed tenants.
<
< BY: Steven Miale <[e-mail]>
<
< -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Maniac (1962)
>
> PL: A man being lost in love with the owner of a lodging house would do
> PL: anything to satisfy her wishes. In order to proof his love for  her she
> PL: makes him free a dangerous maniac from the psychatric hospital.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Mark, The (1961)
>
> PL: A convict wants to start over.
>
> BY: Aaron Sherman <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Martyrs of the Alamo (1915)
>
> PL: The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans
> PL: against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836.
>
> BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Maxi, bitte kommen (1990) (TV)
>
> PL: This is a love story of the mousy student Maxi, who works as bicycle
> PL: messenger in Vienna, and David, a successful, arrogant advertising
> PL: photographer. When she returns one evening after having lost her keys,
> PL: he tries to seduce her -- out of pity, she assumes and leaves in anger.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Mephisto Waltz, The (1971)
>
> PL: Alan Alda plays a classical piano player on the rise who befriends a famous
> PL: player himself who's at death's door. Unknown to Alda, the guy is a
> PL: satanist, who arranges to have thier souls switch places at his death,
> PL: so that he can be young again and continue to play piano (thus needing a
> PL: skilled piano player like Alda to switch bodies with).
>
> BY: Humberto Amador
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Missing Link (1988)
>
> PL: A million years ago in Africa: the last of the ape-humans is on flight from
> PL: the humans, who killed the rest of his clan. Alone, seeking others of
> PL: his kind, he traverses steps, deserts and mountains until he reaches
> PL: the coast. But there are already humans, too.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
79412a80713,80727
> MV: Momo (1986)
>
> PL: In the village of Momo the pace of time goes very slowly. Nobody is
> PL: bothering  about  stress but  everyone has time to  chat and rest -
> PL: until the day the grey  men arrive.  With a great  selling strategy
> PL: they offer the people an account to collect time.  Now everybody is in
> PL: stress in order to gain time for collecting, except for Momo who
> PL: obviously  is the  only  one  without  stress.  Watching her former
> PL: friends  having  no  time  at  all  for friendship and other social
> PL: activities she deceides to fight the grey men. The story is a modern
> PL: fairy tale about how to use time.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
79709a81025,81033
> MV: Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
>
> PL: Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard, he marries women and kills them after the
> PL: marriage to get the money he needs for his family. But with two ladies
> PL: he has bad luck.
>
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
80613a81938,81958
> MV: Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990)
>
> PL: It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and
> PL: tradicional person who direct the family. The mother is at home, she
> PL: try to hold together the family while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The
> PL: children are just grown up and the complications are derive from that
> PL: they have more modern view of life.
>
> BY: Kornel Osvart <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MV: Mr. Arkadin (1955)
>
> PL: Guy Stratten gets the order from Mr. Arkadin, to find out everything about
> PL: his past, because he lost his memory. Stratten accepts, but when he
> PL: finds out that all the persons he asked about Arkadin are getting
> PL: killed, tries he to prevent Arkadin from killing him.
>
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
81029a82375,82382
> MV: Muellers Buero (1985)
>
> PL: Private detective Max Mueller and his assistent Larry try to solve a crime
> PL: but find themselves in strange bars and women.
>
> BY: Patrick Gruban <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
81558,81564c82911,82919
< PL: Harold Hill, a con man, arrives in River City, Iowa, to bilk the
< PL: reisdents out of their money by forming a boys' band.  To this end,
< PL: he cultivates the acquaintance of the town piano teacher, who is
< PL: also the librarian, and soundly hated by the townswomen for her
< PL: education.  Will they fall in love?  Will the instruments and
< PL: uniforms actually be delivered?  Will the boys actually be able to
< PL: perform?
---
> PL: Professor Harold Hill likes a challenge and when the other drummers on the
> PL: train west tell him that Iowa is the biggest test of all of sales
> PL: ability, he gets off at River City.  We know it's the 20th century
> PL: there, only because of a reference in one of the songs to Gary,
> PL: Indiana. Marian the librarian doesn't buy the professor's line but he
> PL: convinces many of his other potential customers that the new pool table
> PL: that has just been placed in the billiard parlor could mean "trouble in
> PL: River City."  How to keep the youngsters "moral after school?"  Form a
> PL: boys marching band.
81566c82921
< BY: Randy Goldberg <[e-mail]>
---
> BY: Dale O'Connor <[e-mail]>
81825a83181,83189
> MV: My Breast (1994) (TV)
>
> PL: Joyce Wadler,a journalist who lives in New York, has an unsatisfying
> PL: relationship with her boyfriend.  When she  discovers  that  she  is
> PL: suffering from breast-cancer, she radically changes her way of life.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: My Name Is Bill W. (1989) (TV)
>
> PL: Based on the true story of Bill W.(James Woods), a successful stock broker
> PL: who's life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's must and come
> PL: to grips with his alcoholism. He forms a support group with fellow
> PL: drunk(James Garner)that would eventually become Alcoholic's Anonymous.
>
> BY: Humberto Amador
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Nadine (1987)
>
> PL: Working in an Austin, Texas, beauty parlour in 1954, Nadine Hightower
> PL: endeavours to retrieve some 'art studies' she injudiciously had taken.
> PL: Her visit to the photographer leaves him dead and her in possession of
> PL: highly valuable plans of a proposed new road. With both the police and
> PL: the murderous villains after her she enlists the help of her (almost)
> PL: ex-husband Vernon, the none too successful owner of the Bluebonnet Bar.
> PL: Fortunately the thugs are as much no-hopers as the Hightowers.
>
> BY: Jeremy Perkins <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
84296c85683
< MV: Night Out, A (1915)
---
> MV: Night Out, A (1915/I)
84528a85916,85924
> MV: Nightmare (1956)
>
> PL: A musician was hypnotised in order to commit a crime. When he wakes up he
> PL: tries to find the truth with the help of his brother-in-law who  is a
> PL: police officer.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
85900a87297,87304
> MV: Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An (1962)
>
> PL: Shows the dream of hope that flashes before a man's eyes during his own
> PL: execution.
>
> BY: Chris Eling <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
85945a87350,87361
> MV: Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
>
> PL: Dave Burke is looking to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earl
> PL: Slater, an white ex-convict, and Johnny Ingram, a black gambler.  Both
> PL: are reluctant; but Burke arranges for Ingram's creditors to put
> PL: pressure on him, while Slater feels humiliated by his failure to
> PL: provide for his girl-friend; they eventually accept. But Slater loathes
> PL: and despises blacks, and the tensions in the gang rapidly mount.
>
> BY: David Levene <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
86065a87482,87490
> MV: Of Mice and Men (1939)
>
> PL: George (Meredith) and half-wit Lenny (Chaney) work on a western ranch
> PL: during the Great Depression, dreaming of the autonomy of owning and
> PL: operating their own ranch some day.
>
> BY: Jerry Milani <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
86456a87882,87891
> MV: Old Homestead, The (1915)
>
> PL: When Josiah Whitcomb's son gets into trouble with bad companions in New
> PL: York City, Josiah leaves the farm and goes into the city to find the
> PL: boy.  There he finds that his country ways are not at all respected in
> PL: the sophisticated city.
>
> BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
86690,86692c88125,88134
< PL: The last human on earth needs to find a way to survive on earth after a
< PL: plague has wiped everyone out. He is not alone as he is terrorized by
< PL: a group of deformed vampiric creatures that call themselves 'the family'.
---
> PL: Robert Neville, a doctor,due to an experimental vaccine, is the only
> PL: survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The
> PL: plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few
> PL: hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves "The Family". The
> PL: plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as
> PL: homicidally psychotic. They believe science and technology to be the
> PL: cause of the war and their punishment, and Neville, as the last symbol
> PL: of science, the old world, and a "user of the wheel", must die. Nev-
> PL: ille, using electricty, machinery, and science attempts to hold them at
> PL: bay.
86694c88136
< BY: Josh Pasnak <[e-mail]>
---
> BY: Roald E. Peterson III <[e-mail]>
86771,86775c88213,88221
< PL: Norman and Ethel are a couple in the twilight of their lives, coming to
< PL: terms with their age and their strained relationship with their daughter,
< PL: Chelsea.  They face these issues during the summer at their house on Golden
< PL: Pond, when they take care of Chelsea's fiance's 13 year old son, Billy,
< PL: while the couple is in Europe.
---
> PL: The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired
> PL: professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in
> PL: their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea -- whom they haven't
> PL: seen for years -- feels she must be there for Norman's birthday. She
> PL: and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but will be back
> PL: in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance's son.  When she returns
> PL: Chelsea is married and her stepson has the relationship with her father
> PL: that she always wanted. Will father and daughter be able to communicate
> PL: at last?
86777c88223
< BY: Liza Esser <[e-mail]>
---
> BY: Dale O'Connor <[e-mail]>
87075a88522,88534
> MV: One and Only, The (1978)
>
> PL: 1951: Andy Schmidt is in his last year of college. Taking life easy and
> PL: always a saucy joke on his lips, he manages to win fellow student
> PL: Mary's heart, although she's already otherwise engaged. But getting a
> PL: job after college turns out much harder than expected; most directors
> PL: take offense at his free interpretation of his roles. Desperate, he
> PL: tries in wrestling. To avoid getting beaten up he stages the fights -
> PL: and incidentally invents show-wrestling.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
87263a88723,88730
> MV: One Mysterious Night (1944)
>
> PL: Blackie is enlisted by the police to help recover the Blue Star of the Nile
> PL: diamond, stolen from a war relief exhibit.
>
> BY: Herman Seifer <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
87346a88814,88822
> MV: One Tough Bastard (????)
>
> PL: Bosworth plays a hand-to-hand combat expert who's family gets killed by
> PL: some bad guys. Following the usual revenge theme, Bosworth chases the
> PL: bad guys throughout the movie.
>
> BY: Christian Andersen <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
87613a89090,89100
> MV: Opposite Sex, The (1956)
>
> PL: Kay Hilliard, an former nightclub singer, married since ten years and
> PL: mother of a gir is informed that her husband Steve is having an affair
> PL: with chorus girl Crystal, so she goes to Reno for a divorce. After
> PL: that, he marries Crystal, but Crystal isn't true. When Kay hears about
> PL: with, she starts fighting to win her ex-husband back.
>
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
87710a89198,89206
> MV: Oro Rojo (1978)
>
> PL: When a boatswain was left on a poor island being dominated by opression and
> PL: hunger,  he discovers that  the reason for the misery is not nature but
> PL: a net of bloody smugglers.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
87930,87932c89426,89430
< PL: Otto has three problems: no money, no job, no idea how to carry on.
< PL: Even worse, a loan shark is going after him.  His problems seem
< PL: to be over when he saves the life of Silvia von Kohlen und Reibach.
---
> PL: Otto (Otto Waalkes) is the only one who is able to save his frisian
> PL: fatherland; but he needs the help of his brother (Otto Waalkes) who is
> PL: abroad. But his brother does not want to fullfill what he has sworn as
> PL: a child. So it takes Otto a while to convince him while time is running
> PL: low for his plans to save East-Frisia.
87934c89432
< BY: Stefan Kahrs <[e-mail]>
---
> BY: Volker Boehm
88169a89668,89700
> MV: Out of the Past (1947)
>
> PL: Jeff Markham, a former private detective, has changed is name to Bailey and
> PL: is running a garage in the small town of Bridgeport with a deaf and
> PL: dumb boy who helps him. He is in love with a local girl,Ann. One day,
> PL: an old acquaintance, Joe, tracks him down. Jeff does not know exactly
> PL: what he wants, but decides he must tell Ann everything about his past.
> PL: A rich gambler named Whit Sterling had employed Jeff and his partner,
> PL: Fisher, to find a girl who had stolen 40,000$ from him, shot him and
> PL: disappeared. Jeff finds the girl, Kathy Moffat, in Acapulco, and they
> PL: have a love affair. They return secretly to California, but Fisher
> PL: finds them. He wants to be paid off for not telling Whit. Jeff and
> PL: Fisher fight, and Kathy cold-bloodedly kills Fisher. Jeff discovers
> PL: Kathy had been lying when she said she had not stolen money from Whit.
> PL: She disappears. Back in Bridgeport, Joe takes Jeff to Whit. Kathy is
> PL: here. Whit has a job for Jeff which he cannot refuse, because he knows
> PL: the murder of Fisher can be pinned on him. The job is to go to San
> PL: Francisco and recover a file on Whit's income tax in a briefcase from
> PL: an attoorney named Leonards Eels. The tax information could send Whit
> PL: to prison. Jeff knows he is being framed, and that Eels will be
> PL: murdered, but he cannot extricate himself from the situation. Eels is
> PL: shot by one of Whit's men, but Jeff hides the body and disappears with
> PL: the briefcase. He wants to trade it against turning Kathy over the two
> PL: murders. Whit is prepared to do a deal, but Kathy shoots him. She is
> PL: now the only person that Jeff can do a deal with. She persuades Jeff to
> PL: go away with her. However, Jeff informs the police. When they come to a
> PL: police roadblock, Kathy shoots Jeff and is shot herself by the police.
> PL: In Bridgeport, Ann asks the deaf and dumb boy if Jeff really intented
> PL: to go away with Kathy. Perhaps to save her pain, he nods affirmatively.
>
> BY: Serge Marchal <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943)
>
> PL: Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a
> PL: local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople,
> PL: joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators.  They
> PL: find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see
> PL: justice done on the spot.
>
> BY: David Levene <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
88811c90353
< PL: louse up Joey's cushy set up.  Very Runyonesque.
---
> PL: louse up Joey's cushy set up.
89253a90796,90805
> MV: Pappa ante Portas (1991)
>
> PL: After ordering enough typewriting paper for 40 years, just to get discount,
> PL: Heinrich Lohse is forced to retire. The former manager has plenty of
> PL: time now to spend with his wife and their 16 year old son. But - do
> PL: they want that?
>
> BY: Markus Lasermann <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
89286a90839,90845
> MV: Parade (1974) (TV)
>
> PL: Two children go behind the scenes of a small circus.
>
> BY: Aaron Sherman <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
90129a91689,91697
> MV: Peggy (1916)
>
> PL: Peggy, a rambunctious young American girl, goes to Scotland to visit her
> PL: uncle. Her American ways both shock and eventually delight the people
> PL: of the old village - especially the handsome young minister.
>
> BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
90553a92122,92134
> MV: Peril jeune, Le (1994)
>
> PL: Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet
> PL: together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the
> PL: awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one
> PL: month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their
> PL: laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... Through the pasts of the
> PL: five main characters, a description of the french youth in the middle
> PL: of the seventies.
>
> BY: Yepok
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
90614a92196,92204
> MV: Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride (1992) (TV)
>
> PL: Perry Mason is invited to the marriage of the daughter of an old  friend of
> PL: his. But after the ceremony the uncle of the bride is dead. Certainly
> PL: this is a case for Perry Mason.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
91055a92646,92653
> MV: Phantom Thief, The (1946)
>
> PL: Blackie tricks a blackmailer-murderer into a confession.  Story involves
> PL: sinister seances and ghostly apparitions.
>
> BY: Herman Seifer <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
91212c92810
< MV: Piano Panier (1989)
---
> MV: Piano panier (1989)
91317a92916,92925
> MV: Picture Show Man, The (1977)
>
> PL: At the beginnings of this centuary a man, his son and a piano player travel
> PL: around Australia showing the first silent movies (naturally in black
> PL: and white). But what they really want is stay at one place and open up
> PL: a cinema.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
91347a92956,92967
> MV: Pied Piper, The (1942)
>
> PL: Englishman Mr Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the
> PL: Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is
> PL: persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey
> PL: progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied
> PL: northern France a new problem arises - the risk of being heard speaking
> PL: English.
>
> BY: Jeremy Perkins <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
91367a92988,92996
> MV: Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
>
> PL: Pierro escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterian
> PL: Sea with Marianne, a girl, who is chased by hit-men from Algeria. They
> PL: lead a unortodox live, always on the run.
>
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
92578c94207
< MV: Poor White Trash II (1975)
---
> MV: Poor White Trash Part 2 (1976)
92703,92710d94331
< MV: Popular Science (1935)
<
< PL: Considers marvels of modern science: contact lenses, kitchen
< PL: gadgets, bubble bath (with cheesecake), diatoms, Boulder Dam.
<
< BY: Rod Crawford <[e-mail]>
<
< -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
92726a94348,94355
> MV: Popular Science J-6-2 (1935)
>
> PL: Considers marvels of modern science: contact lenses, kitchen
> PL: gadgets, bubble bath (with cheesecake), diatoms, Boulder Dam.
>
> BY: Rod Crawford <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
93674a95304,95313
> MV: Prince and the Pauper, The (1915)
>
> PL: The young prince who will be Edward VI of England meets his twin, a beggar
> PL: boy named Tom Canty.  They contrive to exchange places.  The prince
> PL: wanders about in poverty, learning the ways of the poor, while Tom
> PL: discovers being a prince is not always so wonderful either.
>
> BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
94375a96015,96028
> MV: Prophecy (1979)
>
> PL: The last of the great eco sci-fi horror films of the 1970's, Prophecy
> PL: concerns the struggles of a Native American tribe to protect their
> PL: Maine forest homeland from deforestation and polluting by an evil
> PL: timber company. The movie gets off to a slow, preachy beginning, but
> PL: picks up steam in the second half when a mutant grizzly bear arrives to
> PL: maul, mangle and mutilate the guilty corporate criminals. The most
> PL: disturbing thing in this film is the mutant baby grizzly bear, deformed
> PL: by the mercury-poisoning of the local ecosystem.
>
> BY: Anonymous
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
95240c96893
< MV: Que la fete commence! (1975)
---
> MV: Que la fete commence... (1975)
95744a97398,97415
> MV: Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
>
> PL: David Harvey is a widower with a young son, Davey, and they live on an
> PL: isolated Ohio farm during the pioneer days.  He wants his son to be
> PL: raised in the manner his wife would have wanted, that is, with proper
> PL: schooling, Bible study and proper manners. Rachel, an indentured
> PL: servant is sold to David by her father in order to pay off his debts.
> PL: David than marries her in order that little Davey would have a mother
> PL: to properly raise him. However, David shows no real affection towards
> PL: Rachel, for this is a marriage of convenience. This all changes when
> PL: Jim, a friend of the family comes for a visit. During his stay, David
> PL: sees that there is more to Rachel than just being a "bonds woman",
> PL: especially when Jim takes a liking to her. This awaken new feelings in
> PL: David for Rachel.
>
> BY: Kelly
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
97302a98974,98985
> PL: Writing has been the only escape of Louise Bryant until she goes to a
> PL: lecture one night in 1912 and is mesmerized by a radical journalist,
> PL: John Reed.  She leaves her husband and goes to Greenwich Village with
> PL: Reed where she keeps writing, covering the 1913 Armory Show of
> PL: post-impressionist paintings from Europe.  Reed is so wrapped up in
> PL: changing the world that Louise leaves him for awhile and stays with a
> PL: playwright, Eugene O'Neill.  She returns to Reed.  He goes to Russia
> PL: and covers the 1917 Revolution.  She never forgets Reed. the only
> PL: American to be buried next to the Kremlin wall.
>
> BY: Dale O'Connor <[e-mail]>
>
97602a99286,99300
> MV: Reluctant Astronaut, The (1967)
>
> PL: Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly
> PL: afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for
> PL: the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out
> PL: upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to
> PL: live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to
> PL: keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When
> PL: NASA decides to launch a lay person into space to prove the worthiness
> PL: of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his
> PL: fears.
>
> BY: Teresa E Tutt <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
98552a100251,100264
> MV: Ride Lonesome (1959)
>
> PL: A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter,
> PL: who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Brigade stops at a
> PL: staging post, where he saves the manager's wife from an Indian attack,
> PL: and enlists the help of two outlaws to continue his journey more
> PL: safely.  However, the Indian attacks persist, the outlaws plan to take
> PL: Billy for themselves, tempted by the offer of amnesty for his captor,
> PL: and Billy's brother Frank is in hot pursuit to rescue him.  But Brigade
> PL: has plans of his own ...
>
> BY: David Levene <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
100554a102267,102277
> MV: Rough Magic (1995)
>
> PL: The movie narrates the love between a pretty girl  from California (Bridget
> PL: Fonda) who runs away from her marriage and young American reporter
> PL: (Russell Crowe)  who  tries  to  forget  World War II by drinking
> PL: tequila. The  whole  story is  placed  into  a  pictouros voyage on the
> PL: great mayan route.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Ryan's Daughter (1970)
>
> PL: World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan
> PL: Shaughnessy goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English
> PL: officer.  There was a magnetic attraction between them the day he was
> PL: the only customer in her father's pub and Rosy was tending bar for the
> PL: first time since her marriage to the village schoolmaster. Then one
> PL: stormy night some Irish revolutionaries expecting a shipment of guns
> PL: arrive at Ryan's pub.  Is it Rosy who betrays them to the British?
> PL: Will Shaugnessy take Father Collin's advice? Is the pivotal role that
> PL: of the village idiot who is mute?
>
> BY: Dale O'Connor <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
101408a103147,103157
> MV: Saga of Hemp Brown, The (1959)
>
> PL: Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led
> PL: by Lt. Hemp Brown. Givens kills a civilian woman and all the soldiers,
> PL: leaving Brown alive to face a military tribunal in which he is branded
> PL: a coward, stripped of all insignia and drummed out of the army. Brown
> PL: sets out to track down Givens in an effort to clear his name.
>
> BY: Doug Sederberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
101834a103584,103597
> MV: Samuel Beckett Is Coming Soon (1993)
>
> PL: Two actors.  On a road.  With a tree.  An effective description of the
> PL: world Tony A and Tony Z find themselves inhabiting in Alan Arkin's
> PL: film. "Samuel Beckett is Coming Soon...".  Far from home, awaiting
> PL: fame, recognition - or just an audience - the Tonys barely notice their
> PL: lives mirroring the sad  comedy, "Waiting for Godot."  As they journey
> PL: through the Southland, they find much less than they bargained for,
> PL: trying to bring Beckett's classic to a largely disinterested modern
> PL: audience.
>
> BY: Anonymous
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> MV: Save the Dog! (1988) (TV)
>
> PL: Becky wants to become an actress. After an audition for a dog food ad she
> PL: has best chances to get the part - but the day after her dog Petey
> PL: becomes very ill. She has to come up with $700 until 5 pm for the
> PL: operation - else Petey will be put to death! Lacking only $70, she
> PL: takes a job as messenger. She needs only one delivery, but her car
> PL: breaks down and bad luck delays her again, and again, and again...
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
102570a104346,104355
> MV: Sazan Eyes (1991) (V)
>
> PL: Pai, an immortal being in the form of a young, naive girl, wants to be a
> PL: human.  Yakumo, as a favor to his dear departed father, leaves his job
> PL: as a transvetite waiter to help her.  Naturally, this course of events
> PL: leads to Yakumo's new "life" as a zombie.
>
> BY: David McGuire <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
102998a104784,104792
> MV: Schlock (1971)
>
> PL: A monkey-type monster falls in love with a blind girl, which thinks that
> PL: he's a giant dog. After kidnapping the girl and fleeing king-kong-like
> PL: onto the roof of a gym, he gets involved with the army.
>
> BY: Markus Lasermann <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
103021a104816,104829
> MV: Schoene Feindin (1993) (TV)
>
> PL: Headhunter Laura Petersen is hired by Dr. Egon Wirtz to offer his
> PL: ambitioned younger colleague Hans Bergmann a position at their
> PL: competitor Giga Pharma. Thereby he wants to compromise him, while both
> PL: apply for the same management position in their company. Bergmann is
> PL: immediately attracted to the stunning blonde, and realizes the intrigue
> PL: much too late. While Laura's much too professional to return his
> PL: feelings, she agrees to help him when she learns how she's been
> PL: misused.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
103852a105661,105683
> MV: Secret Rapture, The (1993)
>
> PL: In all ways well-acted and well-directed, THE SECRET RAPTURE is a modern
> PL: drama about a kind of love well known in the real world but rarely if
> PL: ever treated on the screen until now. Katherine (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer)
> PL: is a basically miserable and mentally unstable woman who is married to
> PL: even-aged Isobel's (Juliet Stevenson) father, who is the only one
> PL: willing to give Katherine the unconditional love that she craves lest
> PL: her inner chaos should wholly consume her. For any kin of peace of
> PL: mind, she is consequently entirely dependent on him. As, however, her
> PL: husband dies (of natural causes), Katherine quite instinctively
> PL: transfers her primal need for all-encompassing care to his daughter,
> PL: Isobel. As this is a serious intrusion upon her and her boyfriend's
> PL: private life, Isobel rejects Katherine - at first. She soon realizes
> PL: that Katherine needs her attention more than her boyfriend, whom she
> PL: then opts to leave, to go and live with Katherine in her father's
> PL: countryside cottage. The last scenes of the movie, not to be revealed
> PL: here, raises the question of who, after all, were the more needful of
> PL: Isobel's love.
>
> BY: Tue Sorensen <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
105393a107225,107234
> MV: Sheepman, The (1958)
>
> PL: A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance,
> PL: establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears
> PL: with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the
> PL: range.  The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
>
> BY: David Levene <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
105705a107547,107558
> MV: Shock to the System, A (1990)
>
> PL: Graham Marshall already celebrates his anxiously awaited promotion in an
> PL: advertising company, when he learns that Roger Banham, one of his
> PL: subordinates, will be promoted instead of him. Frustrated that his
> PL: hated life will never change, he starts a cunning ploy to take bloody
> PL: revenge on everyone who humiliated him - starting with his unnerving
> PL: wife.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
106267a108121,108129
> MV: Siete chicas peligrosas (1978)
>
> PL: Seven female friends decide to play an erotic game. They try to seduce as
> PL: many aristocrats and middle-class men as possible by their charming
> PL: personalities.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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< MV: Sole Anche di Notte, Il (1990)
---
> MV: Sole anche di notte, Il (1990)
108575a110438,110449
> PL: Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he
> PL: joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the
> PL: mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago.
> PL: After a train ride that sets a record for number of people in an upper
> PL: berth, they are In Miami.  Joe decides to be the man of Sugar Kane's
> PL: dreams and invites her out to a yacht he doesn't have. But he can use
> PL: Osgood Fielding's  yacht if Jerry -- as Daphne -- will keep Osgood
> PL: dancing. The pace gets even giddier when the Chicago mob arrives in
> PL: Miami for a convention.
>
> BY: Dale O'Connor <[e-mail]>
>
109778a111653,111665
> MV: Spellbinder (1988)
>
> PL: When Jeff and his friend rescue a young beautiful woman (Kelly Preston)
> PL: from an apparently abusive boyfriend, the trouble starts. Jeff
> PL: unknowing becomes involved with Miranda (Kelly) and the web of intrigue
> PL: that follows her.  Miranda is on the run from the witches coven (to
> PL: which she belongs).  Miranda tells Jeff of her situation, but not the
> PL: entire truth.  Jeff willingly helps Miranda out of her troubles, but
> PL: creates his own.
>
> BY: Jeff Smee
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
110372a112260,112269
> MV: Stage Struck (1958)
>
> PL: The movie tells the story of Eva, a girl who comes to New York in order to
> PL: become a great actress.  With  hard work she succeeds in working at a
> PL: theatre and finally gets her chance on stage after a lot of changes and
> PL: difficulties.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
110706a112604,112612
> PL: It is the twenty-third century.  Admiral James T. Kirk is feeling old; the
> PL: prospect of accompanying his old ship the Enterprise--now a Starfleet
> PL: Academy training ship--on a two-week cadet cruise is not making him
> PL: feel any younger.  But the training cruise becomes a deadly serious
> PL: mission when Khan appears after years of exile--and holding the power
> PL: of creation itself...
>
> BY: Gregory A. Sheets <[e-mail]>
>
110775,110782c112681,112692
< PL: The evil Dr. Soren, determined to regain entry into a timeless place
< PL: called "The Nexus",  takes the Enterprise crew on another adventure.
< PL: This time, the going gets very rough for both ship and crew.  The film
< PL: begins with a snippet of Captain Kirk (the original Enterprise captain)
< PL: dying in the line of duty.  The audience knows this isn't true
< PL: (because we've *all* seen how a space-time anomaly has magical effects
< PL: of dead Enterprise officers)and Kirk later joins with Picard to save
< PL: the day.
---
> PL: In the late twenty-third century, the gala maiden voyage of the third
> PL: Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) boasts such luminaries as Pavel
> PL: Chekov, Montgomery Scott, and the legendary Captain James T. Kirk as
> PL: guests.  But the maiden voyage turns to disaster as the unprepared ship
> PL: is forced to rescue two transport ships from a mysterious energy
> PL: ribbon.  The Enterprise manages to save a handful of he ships'
> PL: passengers and barely makes it out intact...but at the cost of Captain
> PL: Kirk's life. Seventy-eight years later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the
> PL: crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade
> PL: scientist Soren...who is destroying entire star systems.  Only one man
> PL: can help Picard stop Soren's scheme...and he's been dead for
> PL: seventy-eight years...
110784c112694
< BY: <[e-mail]>
---
> BY: Gregory A. Sheets <[e-mail]>
110788a112699,112709
> PL: An alien phenomenon of unprecedented size and power is approaching Earth,
> PL: destroying everything in its path.  The only starship in range is the
> PL: U.S.S. Enterprise--still in drydock after a major overhaul.  As Captain
> PL: Decker readies his ship and his crew to face this menace, the legendary
> PL: Admiral James T. Kirk arrives with orders to take command of the
> PL: Enterprise and intercept the intruder.  But it has been three years
> PL: since Kirk last commanded the Enterprise on its historic five year
> PL: mission...is he up to the task of saving the Earth?
>
> BY: Gregory A. Sheets <[e-mail]>
>
111599a113521,113532
> MV: Strange Days (1995)
>
> PL: Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millenium, the movie
> PL: tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs
> PL: containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc
> PL: which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny
> PL: investigates and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail,
> PL: murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case?
>
> BY: Harald Mayr <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
112178a114112,114121
> MV: Sube y baja (1958)
>
> PL: It is the story of a sportsman  who  is  a  little  bit dumber than most
> PL: people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports
> PL: article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot  of funny
> PL: problems he causes due to his dumbness.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
112186a114130,114141
> MV: Subspecies (1991)
>
> PL: The evil vampire villain Radu returns to his hometown of Prejnar, after
> PL: spending years in exile. He steals the precious blood stone which is
> PL: said to be bleeding from all saints, from his father and kills him.
> PL: Meanwhile two american schoolgirls teams up with a local girl for a
> PL: work on Roumanian culture. Radu becomes attracted to them but runs into
> PL: trouble when his brother Stephan helps the girls.
>
> BY: Staffan Linder <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
112442a114398,114410
> MV: Sunday Punch (1942)
>
> PL: The routine of a group of fledgling boxers all living in Ma Galestrum's
> PL: boarding house is interrupted when Ma allows her roving niece,
> PL: beautiful Judy Galestrum, to move in. Especially interested is
> PL: ex-college boy Ken Burke who is trying to quickly make it to the top,
> PL: and young brawny Swedish janitor Olaf Jensen who believes Judy will
> PL: fall for him if he becomes a champion boxer. The rivalry between the
> PL: two friends leads them to an inevitable meeting in the ring.
>
> BY: Doug Sederberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
112864a114833,114841
> MV: Sur, El (1983)
>
> PL: The movie tells a melancholic story of a little girl who is living in a
> PL: city in the north. She is fascinated by the secrets of the south which
> PL: seem to be hidden in the personality of her father.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
113106a115084,115097
> MV: Swan, The (1956)
>
> PL: Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her
> PL: only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant
> PL: cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has
> PL: searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole
> PL: courtship routine.  He is more interested in the estate's dairy than
> PL: Alexandra's rose garden.  And then he starts playing football with the
> PL: tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night
> PL: and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
>
> BY: Dale O'Connor <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
113264a115256,115265
> MV: Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
>
> PL: J.J. Hunsecker, the most powerful newspaper columnist in New York, is
> PL: determined to prevent his sister from marrying Steve Dallas, a jazz
> PL: musician. He therefore covertly employs Sidney Falco, a sleazy and
> PL: unscrupulous press agent, to break up the affair by any means possible.
>
> BY: David Levene <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
113912a115914,115925
> MV: Tag der Abrechnung - Der Amoklaeufer von Euskirchen (1994) (TV)
>
> PL: This movie depicts the story of Erwin Makolajczyk, a psychopath who killed
> PL: 9 people in a courtroom on the 9th of March 1994. All of his life Erwin
> PL: was a loner with a special liking for weapons. Finally he meets the
> PL: older Lena to live with - but when she finds his weapons by chance one
> PL: day, he beats her up. For this he's sentenced to pay her smart money -
> PL: and Erwin cracks up...
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
114013a116027,116035
> MV: Take Me Home Again (1994) (TV)
>
> PL: Ed Reece, an old travelling salesman, decides to end his days in the place
> PL: in  which he was born. Therefore he convinces his elder son to acompany
> PL: him on his last long voyage of farewell.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
115280a117303,117312
> MV: Teaserama (1955)
>
> PL: This is a compilation of several 1950s burlesque acts, so there's no real
> PL: plot to summarize.  There are some strippers, some stand-up comics of
> PL: the take-my-wife-please variety and cult favorite Betty Page who
> PL: introduces the acts and frames the film by strutting her stuff.
>
> BY: Erik Gregersen <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
116833a118866,118881
> MV: They're a Weird Mob (1966)
>
> PL: Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant who arrived in Australia with the
> PL: promise of a job as a journalist on his cousins magazine, only to find
> PL: that when he gets there the magazine's folded, the cousins done a
> PL: runner & the money his cousin sent for the fare was borrowed from the
> PL: daughter of the boss of a local construction firm. So Nino tries to get
> PL: a job & finishes up ... laying bricks. Nino works hard & friends with
> PL: lots of locals, Nino & Kay argue a lot, Nino & Kay fall in love ... Kay
> PL: takes Nino to meet 'Daddy' but daddy hates journalists, immigrants and
> PL: bricklayers (he's now BOSS of a construction firm). Nino starts to win
> PL: him over with his charm & determination to marry Kay.
>
> BY: Steve Crook <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
117103a119152,119166
> MV: This Happy Feeling (1958)
>
> PL: On a stormy night, young woman asks another guest at party to rescue her
> PL: from her lecherous boss and take her to the train station. When her
> PL: rescuer suggests that she stop at his place to get out of her wet
> PL: clothes, she dashes from his car.  The door she knocks on for help is
> PL: the home of a retired actor and there she spends the rest of the night.
> PL: He makes no passes and next morning she discovers young man who drove
> PL: her from party is next door neighbor. The two men compete for her
> PL: affections. Older man's zany live-in house-keeper and a seagull she
> PL: has rescued provide comic relief.
>
> BY: Dale O'Connor <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
119655a121719,121734
> PL: Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his
> PL: role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the
> PL: smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY.  A very personal story that is
> PL: both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's
> PL: search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not
> PL: especially made for him.  From Arnold's hilarious steps toward domestic
> PL: bliss with a reluctant school teacher, to his first truly promising
> PL: love affair with a young fashion model, Arnold's greatest challenge
> PL: remains his complicated relationship with his mother.  But armed with a
> PL: keenly developed sense of humor and oftentimes piercing wit, Arnold
> PL: continues to test the commonly accepted terms of endearment--and
> PL: endurance--in a universally affecting story that confirms that
> PL: happiness is well worth carrying a torch for.
>
> BY: Michael Braem
>
119920a122000,122009
> MV: Tougher Than Leather (1988)
>
> PL: Rap group Run-DMC star as themselves in this cross between a blaxploitation
> PL: film and a spaghetti western.  They band must find and punish the evil
> PL: drug lord/record company exec. who murdered their friend.  Along the
> PL: way, they encounter racist bikers, blonde bimbos and the Beastie Boys!
>
> BY: Brad Carty
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
120152a122242,122249
> MV: Trafic (1972)
>
> PL: Mr. Hulot drives a recreational vehicle from Paris to Amsterdam in his
> PL: usual comic, disasterous style.
>
> BY: Aaron Sherman <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
120440a122538,122545
> MV: Trapped by Boston Blackie (1948)
>
> PL: Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen
> PL: while he is supposed to be guarding it.
>
> BY: Herman Seifer <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
121945a124051,124062
> MV: Two Rode Together (1961)
>
> PL: The US Army is under pressure from the desperate relatives of white
> PL: prisoners of the Comanches to secure their rescue.  A cynical and
> PL: corrupt marshal, Guthrie McCabe, is persuaded by an army lieutenant to
> PL: assist in the negotiations with the Comanches.  However, just two
> PL: captives are released; and their reintegration into white society
> PL: proves highly problematic.
>
> BY: David Levene <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
122278a124396,124409
> MV: Ulzana's Raid (1972)
>
> PL: Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his
> PL: reservation with a band of followers.  A compassionate young officer,
> PL: Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him
> PL: back; accompanying the troop is McIntosh, an experienced scout, and
> PL: Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache guide.  Ulzana massacres, rapes and loots across
> PL: the countryside; and as DeBuin encounters the remains of his victims,
> PL: he is compelled to learn from McIntosh and to confront his own naivity
> PL: and hidden prejudices.
>
> BY: David Levene <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
122989a125121,125129
> MV: Unknown, The (1915)
>
> PL: A young man joins the French Foreign Legion and is sent to Algieria, where
> PL: he becomes a target for hatred by his commander.  However, the
> PL: commander has a change of heart when he realizes who the young man is.
>
> BY: Jim Beaver <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
123843c125983
< MV: Vampyr (1932)
---
> MV: Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (1932)
124571a126712,126725
> MV: Virginian, The (1923)
>
> PL: Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The
> PL: Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows
> PL: that he will make her love him.  The Virginian's best friend, Steve,
> PL: falls in with bad guys led by Trampas. The Virginian catches them
> PL: cattle rustling.  As foreman, he must give the order to hang his
> PL: friend.  Trampas gets away and shoots the Virginian in the back.  Molly
> PL: nurses him to health, and falls in love with him.  They plan to marry,
> PL: but on their wedding day Trampas returns, looking for trouble.
>
> BY: John Oswalt <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
125233a127388,127398
> MV: Waldrausch (1962)
>
> PL: After years of absence, engineer Lutz Ambross returns to his home village
> PL: Maria Schnee with the job to build a dam. He can persuade most of the
> PL: residents to accept the offered compensation for their land and houses
> PL: - only the greedy Crispin sets them up against Lutz to raise the price.
> PL: Both do also compete for the love of Beda.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
125316a127482,127491
> MV: Walker (1988)
>
> PL: William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua at the end of the
> PL: 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
> PL: All is being financed by  an  American  multimillionaire  who  has  his
> PL:  own interest in this country.
>
> BY: Volker Boehm
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
125601a127777,127792
> MV: Warlock (1959)
>
> PL: The town of Warlock is plagued by a gang of thugs, leading the inhabitants
> PL: to hire Clay Blaisdell, a famous gunman, to act as marshal.  When
> PL: Blaisdell appears, he is accompanied by his friend Tom Morgan, a
> PL: club-footed gambler who is unusually protective of Blaisdell's life and
> PL: reputation.  However, various townspeople, concerned by the illegality
> PL: of Blaisdell's position, induce Johnny Gannon, one of the thugs who has
> PL: reformed, to accept the post of official sheriff in rivalry to
> PL: Blaisdell; and a woman arrives in town accusing Blaisdell and Morgan of
> PL: having murdered her fiance. The stage is set for a complex set of moral
> PL: and person conflicts.
>
> BY: David Levene <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
126544a128736,128748
> MV: Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen? (1974)
>
> PL: Ceylon: One of the richest plantation owners is found dead in his car, a
> PL: knife through his heart. All proof points to his young wife Anne.
> PL: Inspector San is convinced she's guilty and wants to take her to the
> PL: Indian mainland for trial. However their plane crashes and they end up
> PL: on a small island, where the only other person is a shipwrecked man,
> PL: who soon befriends Anne, believes in her innocence. Inspector San
> PL: starts to fear for his life.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
127083a129288,129297
> MV: When Michael Calls (1971) (TV)
>
> PL: Helen keeps on receiving phone calls from a child, who claims being her
> PL: nephew Michael - but Michael died 15 years ago! In these calls he
> PL: scolds on acquaintances, who then die in suspicious accidents. Soon
> PL: Helen has to fear to be the next victim.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
127936a130151,130159
> MV: Widow's Kiss (1994)
>
> PL: A lawyer befriends a client and before he knows it he's married to her.
> PL: Both are recently widowed with teenage sons. When the lawyer dies of a
> PL: heart attack within a matter of days his son becomes suspicious.
>
> BY: Rob Hartill <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
127962a130186,130198
> MV: Wie fuettert man einen Esel (1973)
>
> PL: Shortly after Fred Stein starts with his truck for a several days long
> PL: urgent trip from Hungary to Bulgaria, his partner gets injured in an
> PL: accident and has to stay in hospital. Fred is very unlucky with the
> PL: only available replacement... because she's a woman. He fears she'll
> PL: disturb his habit to visit a girlfriend at each stop. And right, the
> PL: original, silent girl soon gets onto his nerves. Then Fred has to make
> PL: another new experience... falling in love.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
128645a130882,130895
> MV: Windmills of the Gods (1988) (TV)
>
> PL: The president himself calls Professor Mary Ashley to become ambassador of
> PL: the United States in the communist Rumania under Unesco. He wants her
> PL: to introduce a new political line. The time she accepts, she doesn't
> PL: know how much resistance she'll meet... already before the leaves, her
> PL: husband is killed in a suspicious car accident. Arrived in Rumania, she
> PL: has not only trouble being accepted as a woman and newcomer in
> PL: politics, but also gets into a deadly intrigue that shall sabotage the
> PL: detente policy.
>
> BY: Tom Zoerner <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
128793a131044,131054
> MV: Winslow Boy, The (1948)
>
> PL: In Edwardian England, a thirteen year-old cadet, Ronnie Winslow, is
> PL: expelled from the naval academy at Osborne for stealing a seven
> PL: shilling postal order.  His father and sister become obsessed with
> PL: proving his innocence at any cost to themselves, and turn the case into
> PL: a national cause celebre.
>
> BY: David Levene <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
129426a131688,131700
> MV: Woman Times Seven (1967)
>
> PL: Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her
> PL: husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out
> PL: of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out
> PL: otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her
> PL: over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a
> PL: supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be
> PL: suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband.
>
> BY: Herman Seifer <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
129732a132007,132013
> MV: Words and Music (1948)
>
> PL: Film biography of lyricist Lorenz Hart.
>
> BY: Stephan Eichenberg <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
130168a132450,132465
> MV: Xtro (1983)
>
> PL: Abducted by aliens, a man returns years later.
>
> BY: Aaron Sherman <[e-mail]>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MV: Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1990)
>
> PL: Team of military scientists discover alternative dimension and crossover.
> PL: The accidently bring back horrible monsters that have a taste for human
> PL: flesh.
>
> BY: Humberto Amador
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
131372c133669
< MV: Zazie dans le Metro (1960)
---
> MV: Zazie dans le metro (1960)
131552a133850,133863
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MV: Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
>
> PL: Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the
> PL: better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle
> PL: on Broadway:  Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing
> PL: vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both
> PL: by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the
> PL: mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband
> PL: cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading
> PL: her glamor in skimpy costumes.
>
> BY: Michael Meigs <[e-mail]>