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Alice or the Last Escapade (1977) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Oct. 21, 2012

Alice Carol leaves her husband one rainy night, telling him that she does not love him anymore. She travels alone but when her windscreen breaks on a lonely road, she has to stop and seek help. She goes to a creepy manor and is welcomed by the owner, Henri Vergennes, and his butler, Colas. Alice is invited to spend the night in the house. The next morning, Alice can't find the two men from he previous night but finds her car surprisingly fixed. She tries to leave but cannot find the gate. She stops the car and walks around the wall trying to find an exit but becomes increasingly worried with what she finds.

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It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963) [The Criterion Collection #692] [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Feb. 9, 2015

Stanley Kramer followed his Oscar-winning Judgment at Nuremberg with this sobering investigation of American greed. Ah, who are we kidding? It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast, including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Jonathan Winters, and a boatload of other playing-to-the-rafters comedy legends. For sheer scale of silliness, Kramer’s wildly uncharacteristic film is unlike any other, an exhilarating epic of tomfoolery.

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The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (1964) [The Criterion Collection #716] Movies

Posted by Efgrapha at Oct. 8, 2014

Jacques Demy's 1964 masterpiece is a pop-art opera, or, to borrow the director's own description, a film in song. This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher (Nino Castelnuovo), a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery (a luminous Catherine Deneuve), an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant (Marc Michel, reprising his role from Demy's masterful debut, Lola). A completely sung movie, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is closest in form to a cinematic opera. Composer Michel Legrand composed the score, modeling it around the patterns of everyday conversation.

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The Day of the Beast (1995) [Repost] Movies

Posted by ETRU at Oct. 9, 2014

A Spanish priest hesitantly enters a grimy basement-level music store. His presence is curiously out of place amongst the wall-to-wall pentagrams and grinning hell-spawn. Regardless, he steps into this dank domain of the inner-city Death Metal connoisseur. Clutched in his hand is a list. Three diabolical recording artists certain to ensure Satanic servitude. Napalm Death. Iron Maiden. AC/DC. The perfect soundtrack for a mission of unrepentant spiritual corruption. He's obviously done his homework.

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Parvaz-e zanbur / Flight of the Bee (1998) Movies

Posted by yorkiez at Dec. 24, 2012

The village's headmaster makes a complaint about his neighbour who has built an outside latrine right next to the wall that separates their properties. Not only does it cause an awful stench, but the neighbour looks over into the wall and watches the headmaster's wife while he is standing there. As his neighbour is a rich man with influential friends in Moscow, the mayor is reluctant to do anything about the problem, saying that it's his own private property and he is entitled to use it whatever way he chooses. The headmaster therefore decides to take matters into his own hands and tries to force the issue by purchasing a property next door to the mayor. Events soon escalate out of control.

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National Geographic - The Making of The Iron Curtain (2013) Movies

Posted by Specialselection at March 4, 2013

Berlin, 1961: suddenly there is the Iron Curtain, and the wall separates friends, families and lovers apart. The Berlin Wall, this horrible “wonder of the world”, was 28 years standing. Fifty years later, this documentary reveals astonishing details and disturbing stories about the 43.1 km long structure.

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PBS Independent Lens - The Power Broker (2013) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at March 10, 2013

The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights follows Young as he shuttles between the streets of Harlem and the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, tying the needs of Main Street to the interests of Wall Street. The film shows the pivotal events of the civil rights era — Brown v Board of Education, the March on Washington, and the Vietnam War — through the eyes of a man striving to change the established powers in a way no one else could: from within.

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(Western) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [DVDrip] 1969 Movies

Posted by galmuchet at Sept. 12, 2008

(Western) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid {DVDrip] 1969
RIP+UP | XviD-1181 | mp3@128 | 688x288 | English (French, Dutch, English, Greek, Italiano sub in file) | DVD Cover & Sticker | 1h46 | 1.0 Gb :)
USA 24 Sept 1969
Director George Roy HILL

Cast/Avec Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Jeff Corey, George Furth, Cloris Leachman, Ted Cassidy, Kenneth Mars …

Pour échapper à leurs poursuivants, Butch Cassidy et Sundance Kid, deux grands voleurs de l'Ouest, décident d'aller en Bolivie où l'or et les banques apparaissent plus faciles à voler. Ils attaquent par deux fois le train de l'Union Pacific, et rencontrent une jeune institutrice, qui tombe sous le charme des deux bandits de grand chemin.

Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, the leaders of the famous Hole in the Wall Gang, are planning another bank robbery. As they return to their hideout in Hole-in-the-Wall, they find out that the gang has selected a new leader, Harvey Logan. He challenges Butch to a knife fight, which Butch wins, using a ruse. Logan had the idea to rob the Union Pacific Flyer instead of banks. He wanted to rob it twice, the idea being that the return would be considered safe and therefore more money might be involved. Butch takes this idea as his own.

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Haibane-Renmei: The Complete Series Box Set (2002) [4 DVD5s] [Re-post] Movies

Posted by mook45 at May 18, 2011

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Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King (1967-2005) [Criterion Eclipse Seies] [REPOST] Movies

Posted by Notsaint at Aug. 2, 2013

Canadian director Allan King is one of cinema’s best-kept secrets. Over the course of fifty years, he shuttled between features and shorts, big-screen cinema and episodic television, comedy and drama, fiction and nonfiction. It was with his cinema-verite-style documentaries, though—his “actuality dramas,” as he called them—that King left his greatest mark on film history. These startlingly intimate studies of people whose lives are in flux—damaged children, warring spouses, the terminally ill— always done without narration or interviews, are riveting and at times emotionally overwhelming. Humane, cathartic, and important, Allan King’s spontaneous portraits of the everyday demand to be seen.

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