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Strangers on a Train (1951)Pacto siniestro
Tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) half-jokingly muses about killing his wife with a stranger he meets on a train, unhinged playboy Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker), who'd prefer his father be deceased. In theory, each could murder the other's victim. Crisscross. No motive. No clues. No problem... except: Bruno takes the idea seriously, with deadly consequences. - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
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Dick Powell and Jane Greer star in this gripping 1948 RKO Western mystery set in gold mining country on the wild frontier. Out in the Western territories, someone is raiding the gold shipments heading back east. In the last hold up, two soldiers were killed and the army needs answers - fast. Everything seems to point to the beautiful local heiress Charlie (Jane Greer) and her right hand man, Prince (Gordon Oliver). Charlie owns the local gambling joint. She owns the town stores, the local sawmill - and she owns the law too. Then a mysterious stranger - Haven (Dick Powell) - rides into town. Suddenly, he's asking too many questions, picking too many fights and attracting all kinds of trouble... - Director:
- Sidney Lanfield
- Cast:
- Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead
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Stranded on a Pacific Island, an Irish nun (Deborah Kerr) and a heroic Marine sergeant (Robert Mitchum) live a life of constant peril, hiding from Japanese troopers who have a base on the island. Eventually, the sergeant falls deeply in love with the religious woman, which compels her to question her vows. - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr
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Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend, Clementine (Kate Winslet), has had their tumultuous relationship erased from her mind. Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of the process, Dr Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), to get the same treatment. But as his memories of Clementine begin to fade, Joel suddenly realizes how much he still loves her. - Director:
- Michel Gondry
- Cast:
- Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson
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My Uncle (1958)Mon Oncle
Mr and Mrs Arpel live in a remarkably modern house in a bland, clean neighbourhood. In this excessively controlled universe there is no room for play, chance or humour, and their son Gerard is bored. However the calm is broken with the sudden eruption of his eccentric misfit uncle, Monsieur Hulot, Madame Arpel's brother. His family and entourage resent his whimsicality, especially as he becomes a role model for Gerard... - Director:
- Jacques Tati
- Cast:
- Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie
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Known for his unique rasping voice and his elaborate way of expressing his hostility towards children and all mankind, W.C. Fields had the special gift of making anything seem funny, and at the same time, had audiences believe that underneath all his humour he was not really kidding and that the grumpiness was genuine.
Shorts Comprise:
- The Dentist (1932)
- The Pool Shark (1915)
- The Pharmacist (1933)
- The Barber Shop (1933)
- The Golf Specialist (1930)
- The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)- Director:
- Clyde Bruckman
- Cast:
- W.C. Fields, Rosemary Theby, George Chandler
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)El cartero llama dos veces
The sign outside the roadside diner says "Man Wanted." Drifter Frank Chambers knows the sign has more than one meaning when he eyes pouty, luminous Cora, the much-younger bride of the diner's proprietor. Based on the same-titled novel by James M. Cain (Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce), this quintessential film-noir classic combines studio-system gloss with Cain's hard-bitten tale of murderous attractions. John Garfield and Lana Turner give career-benchmark performances as Frank and Cora, illicit lovers who botch a first attempt to bump off Cora's hubby, pull it off, betray each other at trial and yet wriggle free. But their volatile tale does not end there. As the film's metaphorical title indicates, fate is sure to ring again. - Director:
- Tay Garnett
- Cast:
- Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
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Playtime (1967)Play Time
Featurete is a surreal, comic vision of modern life in which the director's much-loved character, Monsieur Hulot - accompanied by a cast of tourists and well-heeled Parisians - turns unintentional anarchist when set loose in an unrecognisable Paris of steel skyscrapers, chrome-plated shopping malls and futuristic night spots.- Director:
- Jacques Tati
- Cast:
- Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
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One of the early classic movie studios, Keystone Pictures Studios was founded in 1912 by Mack Sennett and would find lasting fame with their brand of slapstick comedy, especially the Keystone Cops. These four films, which include 'The Bangville Police', the first popular Keystone Cops film, showcase their brand of slapstick to perfection.
Classics Comprise:
- The Bangville Police (1913)
- Her Painted Hero (1915)
- Love, Speed and Thrills (1915)
- Wife and Auto Trouble (1916)- Director:
- Henry Lehrman
- Cast:
- Mabel Normand, Polly Moran, Hale Hamilton
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The Mob force unassuming shoe-shine man Gino (Don Ameche) into taking the hit for a murder he didn't commit. The pay-off? A fishing boat in Sicily when he gets out. Small-time crook Jerry (Joe Mantegna) takes Gino on one last jaunt to Lake Tahoe before his term begins, but, when Gino is mistaken for a major league gangster, the duo soon fall prey to local hoodlums... - Director:
- David Mamet
- Cast:
- Don Ameche, Joe Mantegna, Robert Prosky
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The Midnight Story (1957)Appointment with a Shadow
When catholic priest, Father Tomasino is brutally stabbed to death in an alleyway, San Francisco traffic cop, Joe Martini (Tony Curtis), vows to help catch his murderer because the priest had been like a father to him. But when the homicide detective in charge of the case, Lieutenant Kilrain (Ted de Corsia), refuses to let him interfere on their turf, Martini turns in his badge in order to hunt down the killer on his own... - Director:
- Joseph Pevney
- Cast:
- Tony Curtis, Ralph Clanton, Marisa Pavan
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Olivia Harwood (Ann Todd) is a missionary's widow who meets Mark Bellis (Ray Milland), a charming artist and rogue, on the ship taking them back to Victorian London. When Olivia opens a boarding house, Mark becomes her lodger, but then quickly graduates to become her lover. Soon Olivia falls completely under the spell of Mark and casts aside her religious scruples to fall in with Mark's ambitious and immoral schemes of theft and blackmail. But perhaps his schemes are too ambitious when he attempts to swindle their own friends, leaving Olivia to decide whether to completely fall in with the devil - or redeem herself by betraying the man she loves... - Director:
- Lewis Allen
- Cast:
- Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald
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Clay Douglas (Ray Milland) arrives in London to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, who served as a Commando with the British Forces. Suspecting it was not a German bullet that killed his brother, Clay's investigations uncover the fact that there was a mysterious thirteenth member of the raiding party... - Director:
- Jacques Tourneur
- Cast:
- Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring
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Returning from the war to discover his father has been crippled in an altercation with a brutish mob-connected kingpin, Nick Garcos (Richard Conte) puts aside thoughts of settling down and instead focuses them on revenge. He buys an old army surplus truck and hits the road - a 36-hour non-stop drive to San Francisco and, he hopes, a little justice... - Director:
- Jules Dassin
- Cast:
- Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb
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Marilyn Monroe sizzles in this tense, masterful thriller. While the seductive Rose Loomis (Monroe) and her husband George (Joseph Cotten) vacation in a charming guest cabin at spectacular Niagara Falls, Rose and her lover plot to kill George. But things go terribly wrong, and soon, an innocent honeymooning couple find themselves swept up in the crime. - Director:
- Henry Hathaway
- Cast:
- Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
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