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Set within the Asian community in London, 'My Beautiful Launderette' is an unusual love story concerned with identity and entrepreneurial spirit during the Thatcher years. Omar (Gordon Warnecke) takes over the running of his wheeler-dealer uncle's launderette with the intention of turning it into a glittering place of commercial success. When he employs childhood friend and ex-National Front member Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis) they become lovers as well as working partners. However, complications soon ensue as the anger of Johnny's deserted gang begins to build and Omar is forced to face increasingly difficult family issues. - Director:
- Stephen Frears
- Cast:
- Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis
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The Blue Angel (1930)Der Blaue Engel
Emil Jennings, the quintessential German expressionist actor, stars as Professor Immanuel Rath, the sexually-repressed instructor of a boys prep school. After learning of the pupils' infatuation with French postcards depicting a local nightclub songstress, he decides to personally investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon as he enters the shadowy Blue Angel nightclub and steals one glimpse of the smoldering Lola-Lola (Marlene Dietrich), commanding the stage in a top hot, stockings and bare thighs, Rath's self-righteous piety is crushed. He finds himself fatefully seduced by the throaty voice of the vulgar siren, singing, "Falling in Love Again". Consumed by desire and tormented by his rigid propriety, Professor Rath allows himself to be dragged down a path of personal degradation. Lola's unrestrained sexuality was a revelation to turn-of-the-decade moviegoers, thrusting Dietrich to the forefront of the sultry international leading ladies, such as Greta Garbo, who were challenging the limits of screen sexuality. - Director:
- Josef Von Sternberg
- Cast:
- Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron
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Anaïs in Love (2021)Les amours d'Anaïs
In this sparkling and elegant romantic comedy, the free-spirited and giddily impulsive Anais (Anais Demoustier) careers from one lover to the next while trying to find some direction in her life. Following a brief dalliance with an older man (Denis Podalydes), she finds herself captivated instead by his beautiful long-time partner Emilie (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), a successful and beguilingly charismatic writer, and an affair begins which may just offer the contentment Anais has been searching for. Featuring stunning Paris and Brittany locations, and a lead performance of immense charm by Anais Demoustier, the debut film by writer-director Charlene Bourgeois-Tacquet is playful, passionate, and thoroughly enchanting. - Director:
- Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
- Cast:
- Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Denis Podalydès
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A group of real-estate salesmen-cum-con artists live on the edge. All the time. Life is good for only one. For the rest, life hangs in the balance. There is no room for losers. The name of the game is simple: A-B-C. A-Always. B-Be. C-Closing. Always be closing. Sell or go under. Right under. Deep rock bottom under. That's the name of the game. It's simple. - Director:
- James Foley
- Cast:
- Al Pacino, Leigh French, Jack Lemmon
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As a psychotic thug devoted to his hard-boiled ma, James Cagney - older, scarier and just as electrifying - gives a performance to match his work in 'The Public Enemy' as 'White Heat's's' cold-blooded Cody Jarrett. Bracingly directed by Raoul Walsh, this fast-paced thriller tracing Jarrett's violent life in and out of jail is also a harrowing character study. Jarrett is a psychological time bomb ruled by impulse. He murders a wounded accomplice and revels in the act. He neglects his sultry wife (Virginia Mayo) and adores his doting mother. It is among the most vivid screen performances of Cagney's career, and the excitement it generates will put you on top of the world! - Director:
- Raoul Walsh
- Cast:
- James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
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Luke (Mike Dytri) is a rootless hustler who's determined to "live fast, die young, and make a beautiful corpse," while Jon (Craig Gilmore) is a freelance writer whose life and stability are devastated when he finds out he's HIV positive. They meet by chance (or is it fate?), and when Luke kills a cop, they take to the road, embarking on a wild odyssey with devastating consequences. - Director:
- Gregg Araki
- Cast:
- Mike Dytri, Craig Gilmore, Mark Finch
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Eric Sloane (Dennis Alexio) is crowned the World Kickboxing Champion following his tremendous victory in the US national competition. Proclaiming that he will now take on the best in the world, Eric and his brother Kurt (Jean-Claude Van Damme) head to the Far East for a showdown with the legendary Tong Po (Michel Qissi). As the bout begins, Eric is outclassed by the vicious Thai. To assert his dominance Tong Po cripples Eric in a horrifying and unnecessary act of gratuitous violence. Kurt swears revenge, but the only way to avenge his brother is to tackle Tong Po in the ring. This sets Kurt on a journey of new discovery to learn the unorthodox methods needed to take on the invincible Thai killer and become the legendary Bak Shung: The White Warrior. - Director:
- Mark DiSalle
- Cast:
- Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Alexio, Dennis Chan
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Volcano (1997)Thảm Họa Núi Lửa
Something unspeakably chilling is heating up the city of Angels. Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city. Experience the pulse-pounding thrills as the dream capital of the world erupts into the stuff nightmares are made of. - Director:
- Mick Jackson
- Cast:
- Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann
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Play It Again, Sam (1972)Mach's noch einmal, Sam
Allen plays Allen, a fanatical movie buff with an outrageous recurring hallucination: Humphrey Bogart offering tips on how to make it with the ladies. His married friends Dick (Tony Roberts) and Linda (Diane Keaton) fix him up with several eligible ladies, but his self-confidence is so weak that he's a total failure with then all. Eventually, Allen discovers that there is one woman he's himself with: Linda, his best friend's wife. - Director:
- Herbert Ross
- Cast:
- Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
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In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary…A year later their footage was found.
- Director:
- Daniel Myrick
- Cast:
- Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard
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The Godfather (1972)Mario Puzo's The Godfather
In late 1940's New York, Mafia 'Godfather' Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) gathers his three sons around him for daughter Connie (Talia Shire)'s wedding; the hot-headed Sonny (James Caan), ineffectual Fredo (John Cazale) and war hero Michael (Al Pacino), who chooses to distance himself from the family 'business'. When Vito is shot and wounded for refusing to sanction a rival family's heroin sales on his territory, Sonny temporarily takes over and embarks on bloody gang warfare. This results in him being killed in an ambush, and Michael finds himself nominated to succeed the ailing Vito. - Director:
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Cast:
- Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
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101 Dalmatians (1961)One Hundred and One Dalmatians
"101 Dalmatians" has charmed audiences for generations with its irresistible tail wagging stars, memorable story and wonderful blend of humour and adventure. Cruella De Vil, Disney's most outrageous villain, sets the fur-raising adventure in motion when she dognaps all of the Dalmatian puppies in London - including 15 from Pongo and Perdita's family. Through the power of the "Twilight Bark", Pongo leads a heroic cast of animal characters on a dramatic quest to rescue them all. - Director:
- Clyde Geronimi
- Cast:
- Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson, J. Pat O'Malley
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Dalton (Patric Swayze) is a legendary bouncer who comes to Jasper, Missouri for a special purpose: to restore order at the dangerous Double Deauce bar. But as, one by one, he rids the bar thugs, hoodlums and hit men, he incurs the wrath of their employer - the notorious racketeer Brad Wesley (Ben Gazzara). The town lives in fear of Wesley, but Dalton is ready for action. He confronts Wesley's goons on one spectacular fight after another, but when they strike back with deadly force, Dalton knows he must face the crime boss himself in a blistering battle to finish. - Director:
- Rowdy Herrington
- Cast:
- Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott
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Soon after Edward IV (Cedric Hardwicke) is crowned, his brother Richard (Laurence Olivier), a hunchback whose disfigured body houses a twisted soul, begins scheming for the throne of England. He woos and wins the Lady Anne (Claire Bloom), then poisons Edward's mind against their brother, Clarence (John Gielgud), later securing his death. But even after his coronation, Richard continues with his villainous campaign to secure his position as king... - Director:
- Laurence Olivier
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- Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen
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In this hysterical satire of Reagan-era values, written and directed by Albert Brooks, a successful Los Angeles advertising executive (Brooks) and his wife (Julie Hagerty) decide to quit their jobs, buy a Winnebago, and follow their Easy Rider fantasies of freedom and the open road. When a stop in Las Vegas nearly derails their plans, they're forced to come to terms with their own limitations and those of the American dream. Brooks's barbed wit and confident direction drive 'Lost in America', an iconic example of his restless comedies about insecure characters searching for satisfaction in the modern world that established his unique comic voice and transformed the art of observational humor. - Director:
- Albert Brooks
- Cast:
- Albert Brooks, Hans Wagner, Julie Hagerty
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