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David Hare – Paris by Night (1988)
Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career – but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter. 1.09GB |...
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Georges Franju – Nuits rouges AKA Shadowman [+Extra] (1974)
Film ReviewGeorges Franju’s last film for the cinema was to be his second homage to the silent Louis Feuillade crime serials of the 1910s – the first being his inspired remake of Judex in 1963. Nuits...
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Lucio Marcaccini – Roma drogata: la polizia non può intervenire AKA...
Lucio Marcaccini’s only film, Hallucination Strip is a psychedelic trip with a social commentary. Bud Cort, in his debut performance, plays Massimo Monaldi, a student involved in political protests...
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Shinobu Yaguchi – Adorenarin doraibu aka Adrenaline Drive (1999)
Quote:Suzuki accidentally bumps into the car of a yakuza, but is saved from disaster when a gas explosion makes for greater chaos. Somehow, Suzuki and mousy nurse Shizuko make it out alive, and with...
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Georges Lautner – Le monocle noir AKA The Black Monocle (1961)
Synopsis:The Marquis de Villemaur reunite stranges visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the 3rd Reich. There is an Italian fascist ; Heinrich, a German ; Matthias, a russian ; and Dromard, a...
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Mika Kaurismäki – Rosso [+Extra] (1985)
Plot Synopsis from AllMovieThis well-paced farce sends up intellectual thrillers as hitman Rosso (the handsomeKari Vaananen, also co-scripter) is assigned the job of eliminating a certain Finnish...
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Johnnie To & Ka-Fai Wai – Chuen jik sat sau AKA Fulltime Killer (2001)
Quote:O (Takashi Sorimachi) is the number 1 assassin in all of Asia. Tok (Andy Lau) wants to dethrone him and become the premier hitman in the world. What these two have in common is that they are in...
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Gordon Douglas & Henry Levin – Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
Synopsis:Just before Christmas, Joe Miracle, a returning WWII war hero, comes home to learn that gangster Barney Teener has taken over his nightclub and murdered Joe’s partner. Joe loots the club’s...
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Krzysztof Krauze – Dlug AKA The Debt (1999) (DVD)
The Debt is a gripping thriller about two entrepreneurs who become tangled in the web of a Russian thug. Two friends begin a business venture of importing Italian scooters into Poland. With no...
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Lance Comfort – Temptation Harbour (1947)
Synopsis:A signalman on a quay sees a fight between two men. One of the men is deliberately pushed into the water and the signalman cannot save him, but decides to keep his suitcase which later finds...
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Felix E. Feist – The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
Synopsis:Rich Lois Frazer, divorcing her fortune-hunter husband, finds he’s bought a gun. Suspecting he plans to kill her, she calls in her lover, who just happens to be Homicide Lieutenant Ed Cullen....
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Ray Enright & Edoardo Anton – Dramma nella Kasbah AKA The Man from Cairo (1953)
“The Man from Cairo”, a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds Mike Canelli, the man from Cairo, nosing around...
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André Hunebelle & Haroun Tazieff – Fantômas se déchaîne AKA Fantomas Strikes...
In the second installment of the parodic Fantomas series, the title arch criminal and master of disguise kidnaps prominent scientist Prof. Marchand in order to develop a new powerful weapon to...
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Lewis Allen – Desert Fury (1947)
Quote:Fritzi Haller is a powerful casino owner in Chuckawalla, Nevada. Her daughter Paula (having quit school) returns at the same time as racketeer Eddie Bendix, who left under suspicion of murdering...
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Federico Fellini – Il bidone AKA The Swindle (1955)
Synopsis:Aging small-time con man Augusto, who swindles peasants, works with two younger men: Roberto, who wants to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso, who has a wife and...
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D. Ross Lederman – The Last Ride (1944)
Synopsis:A police lieutenant sets out to break up a ring of tire bootleggers–criminals who sell defective tires to customers who can’t get new ones because of the rubber shortage brought about by the...
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André Hunebelle – Fantomas (1964)
A 1964 film starring Jean Marais as the arch villain with the same name opposite Louis de Funès as the earnest but outclassed commissaire Paul Juve. In the film Juve teams up with journalist Fandor,...
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Martin Fric – Capkovy povidky AKA Capek’s Tales (1947)
Martin Fric composed several Karel Capek’s Tales in the form of story telling of train passengers. They include three tales from the book “Tales from One Pocket”: “Propuštěný” (Released), “Poslední...
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Georges Lautner – Les tontons flingueurs AKA Monsieur Gangster AKA Crooks In...
In this action-packed slapstick comedy – a dying mob boss nicknamed “The Mexican” asks his old friend and ex-gangster, Fernand Naudin (Lino Ventura), to come out of retirement to take over the family...
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Alfred E. Green – East of the River (1940)
Synopsis:Troubled youths Joe and Nick Lorenzo grow into very different men: Joe a small-time hoodlum and Nick an honored college graduate. When Nick falls for Joe’s girl Laurie, trouble erupts between...
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