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#3:WEIRD, Rare, HARD-To-Find Big & Small Screen
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Part THREE: These are the movie, TV Series, Made-For-Television Movies, Specials, Documentary, Drive-In Mature/Action/Grindhouse, Disney, Music (Concerts). Just overall some things that were things I’ve seen over my LONG lifetime to things I’ve discovered…Enjoy! (I will ALWAYS be adding) ~~ Please be sure to check out my other playlists - Thanks For looking!~~


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Movie: Deathmaster ( 1972 )
Quarry is a mysterious, articulate stranger who draws a cult like following of local hippies. Rather than showing them peace and love, he has more sinister plans for them, as he is a vampire.
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Movie: The Nightcomers ( 1972 )
Prequel to Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw", focusing on groundskeeper Peter Quint's slow corruption of the virtuous governess Miss Jessel and the children she looks after.
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Movie: The Carpetbaggers ( 1964 )
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films and catting around on the corporate make in 1930's Hollywood.
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Movie: Seizure ( 1974 )
Jonathan Frid portrays a horror novelist who has a recurring nightmare about three figures out of his book who terrorize him and his family and friends during a weekend of fun. Then the dream becomes reality and it never ends...
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Movie: Paper Lion ( 1968 )
Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.
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Movie: Scream ( 1981 )
A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.
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Movie: The Trouble with Angels ( 1966 )
Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of bewildered Sisters.
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Movie: Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! ( 1968 )
An old-line Mother Superior is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls of St. Francis Academy on a bus trip across the U.S.A.
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Movie: The Women ( 1939 )
A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.
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Movie: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight ( 1972 )
This is the funny story about two warring Mafia gangs in New York City. The weaker gang uses a lion to blackmail the opposite gang's "clients". The police succeed in stopping one of the gangs, while the other remains without the boss.
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Movie: Beautiful People ( 1974 )
Hilarious documentary on the wildlife of the Namib Desert.
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Movie: Doctor in Trouble ( 1970 )
Dr. Tony Burke (Leslie Phillips) is in love with Ophelia O'Brien (Angela Scoular), but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also, on-board the cruise ship is an old school chum of Burke's who plays "Dr. Dare" on a very popular television series, and to whom women flock. Burke decides to join the cruise, but is first apprehended as a stowaway, and then becomes the Captain's steward. For Burke, trying to talk to Ophelia is a hard enough task, but he meets some funny characters on-board, such as a pools winner, and a very stubborn Captain.
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Movie: Monterey Pop ( 1969 )
A film about the greatest pre-Woodstock rock music festival.
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Movie: Strange Bedfellows ( 1965 )
In London, stuffy statesman Carter Harrison meets Toni, a Bohemian artist with a hot Italian temper. The two impulsively marry and then find that they disagree on everything. Shortly afterward they separate. We then meet them seven years later on the eve before their divorce becomes final. After seeing each other again, sparks are reignited and they spend the night together. Reality sets in when morning comes and they begin arguing again. Once again, divorce proceedings are on, until Carter that an important promotion hinges on whether he's married. He schemes to win back Toni and eventually succeeds. But can he keep her from destroying his career by posing as Lady Godiva in a protest movement?
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Movie: 15+ Coming of Age ( 2017 )
A teenage comedy film about a young Yorkie. "Rising" opened the first movie on screen. The story of fun gangs of teenage age 15+ hormones gurgling at the curiosity to try on their love and sex has spread out.
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Movie: Harry and Tonto ( 1974 )
When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross-country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.
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Movie: Dogs in Space ( 1986 )
The film is set in a house occupied by a collection of social misfits. The main storyline is that of a strange musician's relationship with a girl, their drug use and his band. These events are surrounded by a chaotic myriad of sub-plots. A homicidal chainsaw maniac's lust for his machine and a T.V station's offer of money in return for a piece of the Skylab satellite that has fallen to earth are just two. The film is composed of small fragments in the lives of its inhabitants, each following onto the next, sometimes overlapping and ending in tragedy.
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Movie: A Deadly Vision ( 1997 )
A waitress who has psychic visions of murders before they happen is asked by a police detective to help find a serial killer.
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Movie: Cold Blooded Beast ( 1971 )
A rehabilitation hospital in the Italian countryside which offers treatment for women suffering from various psychological disorders is stalked by a mysterious cloaked killer.
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Movie: Crime and Punishment ( 1983 )
An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.
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Movie: Stranger from Canton ( 1974 )
Japan has already occupied Korea and now China. Chin, a young woman understands that the Motherland demands all her children to be brave, and sacrifice their lives for the liberation. Disguised as a prostitute, she will board a train to help a Chinese guerrilla group defeat a Japanese army convoy.
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Movie: Toilet and Women ( 2012 )
Narumi, a tormented young woman, leaves prison to find her brother. This reunion will mark the breakup of the abusive and incestuous relationship that Narumi has had with her brother for many years.
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Movie: Starstruck ( 1982 )
Young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family.
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Movie: The Mummy ( 1959 )
In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.
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Movie: The Ambulance ( 1990 )
A comic-book artist meets a woman on the NY streets, but after a quick flirtation, she suddenly collapses, and is picked-up by an old ambulance. He checks all the hospitals in the area, but the woman seems to have disappeared.
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Movie: Lucy ( 2003 )
MOW about the life of Lucille Ball, focusing on the loving yet tumultuous relationship with Desi Arnaz.
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Movie: If.... ( 1969 )
In this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.
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Movie: Sunday in New York ( 1964 )
On a Sunday, Eileen Tyler, still a virgin, leaves Albany to visit her airline pilot brother in New York but a chance encounter with a man on a city bus threatens to derail her upcoming marriage to boyfriend Russ.
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Movie: Sound City ( 2013 )
A documentary on the fabled recording studio that was located in Van Nuys, California.
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Movie: Under the Rainbow ( 1981 )
A visiting dignitary, a CIA agent, a Nazi spy, Japanese tourists, an assassin and a group of "midget" actors from The Wizard of Oz (1939) all check into an elite Los Angeles hotel called Under the Rainbow.
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Movie: Wonder Woman ( 1974 )
A super-hero uses her powers to thwart an international spy ring.
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Movie: The Night Before ( 1988 )
A popular beauty surprisingly asks a nerd to take her to the prom. He wakes up hours later in a sleazy alley. She's missing but he remembers nothing about it.
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Movie: Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones ( 1982 )
The real-life story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Reverend Jim Jones and the events involving its move to Guyana and its eventual mass suicide.
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Movie: Andersonville ( 1996 )
Sort of Civil War version of "Schindler's List" looks at the atrocities that occurred in the 1864 prisoner-of-war camp run by the Confederacy in Georgia. The prison originally planned to house 8000, eventually swelled to 33,000 which left little shelter, food or water for the prisoners and unclean conditions.
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Movie: The Two Jakes ( 1990 )
The sequel to Chinatown (1974) finds J.J. "Jake" Gittes investigating adultery and murder, and the money that comes from oil.
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Movie: Night Watch ( 1973 )
Ellen Wheeler, a rich woman, is recovering from a nervous breakdown with the help of her husband and a good friend. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does anybody believe her?
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Movie: X, Y and Zee ( 1972 )
The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.
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Movie: Home Before Midnight ( 1979 )
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.
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Movie: Schizo ( 1976 )
A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
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Movie: House of Whipcord ( 1974 )
An old man who lives in an old house conducts a correctional institute for girls. But he does not realize that the date is the present as he's been cooped up in the house. He is assisted by a matron who likes to get the girls into trouble and present them in front of the old man who thinks he is the law and passes out punishment. Afterwards the girls are tied to a cross and whipped. Meanwhile the matron's son falls in love with a girl at a party and brings her to the house.
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Movie: Texas Detour ( 1978 )
A trip across the United States takes a wrong turn when three California teenagers have their van stolen. Stranded in a backwoods town with the sheriff refusing to help, the trio decide to settle scores while getting justice.
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Movie: Michael McIntyre: Showtime ( 2012 )
Showtime is Michael McIntyre at his breathtaking best. Recorded during his phenomenal 10 night run at The O2 in London and part of his 71date arena tour playing to over 700,000 fans.
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Movie: The War Lover ( 1962 )
Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most dangerous missions. His crew lives with this aspect of his personality only because they know he always brings them back alive.
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Movie: Advise & Consent ( 1962 )
Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
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Movie: The Guest House ( 2012 )
18 year-old Rachel is mature for her age. She s a hip aspiring songwriter and a blue-eyed blond bad girl who often clashes with her single father. Only because she is grounded she is at home for the arrival of dad's new employee, Amy, who is staying in their swanky Los Angeles guest house for the weekend. A wholesome college graduate fresh to California from the cornfields of Iowa, Amy happily confesses her dreams and desires to Rachel over the course of the next few days and the two women gradually fall in love. It seems like anything is possible here. Amy proclaims as they ramble across the city in Rachel's dad's Hummer. Out and about in Los Angeles the two girls can't keep their hands off each other. At home in the guest house their activities are even hotter.
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Movie: The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
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Movie: The Mating Game ( 1959 )
An uptight IRS agent is ordered to investigate a rural family in debt to the government...but the family - including lovely daughter Mariette - help him loosen up.
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Movie: Fate Is the Hunter ( 1964 )
An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error by his friend caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason.
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Movie: Unfaithfully Yours ( 1984 )
A composer who suspects his wife of cheating plots to kill her and frame her lover.
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Movie: The Man Who Haunted Himself ( 1970 )
Harold Pelham encounters a duplicate of himself in the aftermath of a car crash. After that moment, his life is upset.
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Movie: Dancers ( 1987 )
A successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee.
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Movie: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister ( 2010 )
In nineteenth century Yorkshire wealthy orphan Anne Lister lives with an aunt and uncle, anxious for her to marry well and blissfully - unaware that she is a lesbian. Anne is recording her thoughts and exploits in a coded diary. When her lover Mariana Belcombe makes a marriage of convenience to rich old Charles Lawton she feels betrayed and, although Mariana visits her,the relationship is going nowhere. Helped by old flame Tib she makes a play for innocent Miss Browne but sees she is barking up the wrong tree and diverts herself by renovating the family hall. A drunken Tib almost exposes her secret and scornful mine-owner Christopher Rawson, whose marriage proposal she rejects, tells her that her sexuality is a subject of local gossip....
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Movie: Kevin Bridges: A Whole Different Story ( 2015 )
Scottish comedian Kevin Bridges muses on economic theory, art history and diet tips on stage in front of 12,000 fans at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow. Recorded in October 2015.
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Movie: The Hot Rock ( 1972 )
Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
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Movie: Walkabout ( 1971 )
Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.
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Movie: Hamlet ( 2009 )
The RSC puts a modern spin on Shakespeare's Hamlet in this filmed-for-television version of their stage production. The Prince of Denmark seeks vengeance after his father is murdered and his mother marries the murderer.
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Movie: Zabriskie Point ( 1970 )
At Zabriskie Point, United States' lowest point, two perfect strangers meet; an undergraduate dreamer and a young hippie student who start off an unrestrained romance, making love on the dusty terrain.
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Movie: Josh Blue : Delete ( 2016 )
Comedian Josh Blue performs his act in a Denver club.
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Movie: Kate Plays Christine ( 2016 )
Actress Kate Lyn Sheil prepares to portray the role of Christine Chubbuck, a real-life news reporter who took her own life on national television in 1974.
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Movie: Picnic ( 1956 )
Emotions are ignited amongst the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labour Day picnic.
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Movie: High Society ( 1956 )
A spoiled heiress must choose among three suitors: her jazz musician ex-husband, a stuffy businessman, and an undercover tabloid reporter.
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Movie: Count Dracula ( 1970 )
Count Dracula, a gray-haired vampire who regains his youth by dining on the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris after he victimizes them and their loved ones.
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Movie: The Public Enemy ( 1931 )
A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.
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Movie: The Big Town ( 1987 )
J.C. Cullen arrives in Chicago in 1957 from a small town. With a talent for winning at craps, he tries to embark as a professional gambler. He breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by the dangerous and brutal George Cole, and falls for two women, one of whom is Cole's wife. He ignores advice to steer clear of both Coles. Infuriated, Cole wagers everything on the craps table, including the Gem Club itself, and he and Cullen have it out.
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Movie: Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour Live ( 2015 )
Filmed in front of 76,000 fans at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia, "The 1989 World Tour Live" captures Taylor Swift's entire performance while also mixing in behind-the-scene, rehearsal, and special guest footage from her 1989 Tour.
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Movie: Sparkle ( 1976 )
Three sisters form a singing group in 1950s Harlem, but success threatens to ruin their relationship forever.
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Movie: The Frisco Kid ( 1979 )
A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way he is nearly burnt at the stake by Indians and almost killed by outlaws.
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Movie: The MatchMaker ( 1997 )
Marcy is an assistant to Senator John McGlory, who is having problems with a re-election campaign. Desperate for Irish votes, McGlory's chief of staff Nick sends Marcy to Ireland to trace McGlory's relatives or ancestors. Marcy arrives at the village of Ballinagra when it is preparing for an annual Matchmaking Festival. A well-dressed, handsome and single young lady, she becomes the center of attention for two professional matchmakers, Dermot and Millie, as well as for bartender Sean.
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Movie: Safe House ( 1998 )
A psychological thriller. Mace Sowell, an ex-intelligence operative whose past government activities catches up with him, faces his own mortality, in the shape of the on-set of Alzheimer's disease. Holding the electronic key to secret information which implicates a Presidential front-runner, Mace struggles for his life while battling the debilitating effects of the disease.
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Movie: Victor Victoria ( 1982 )
In 1934 Paris, trained coloratura soprano Victoria Grant (Dame Julie Andrews), a native Brit, can't get a job as a singer and is having trouble making ends meet. She doesn't even have enough money for the basics of food and shelter. Gay cabaret singer Carole "Toddy" Todd (Robert Preston) may befall the same fate as Victoria, as he was just fired from his singing gig at a second-rate club named "Chez Lui". To solve their problems, Toddy comes up with what he considers to be an inspired idea: with Toddy as her manager, Victoria, pretending to be a man, get a job singing as a female impersonator. If they pull this scheme off, Toddy vows Victoria, as her male alter ego, will be the toast of Paris and as such be extremely wealthy. That alter ego they decide is Polish Count Victor Grazinski, Toddy's ex-lover who was disowned by his family when they found out he was gay. The Count auditions for the city's leading agent, Andre Cassell (John Rhys-Davies), who, impressed, gets him a gig performing in the city's best nightclub. In the audience on the successful opening night is Chicago, Illinois nightclub owner and "businessman" King Marchand (James Garner), a macho male who falls in the love with the woman he sees on-stage, which doesn't sit well with his current girlfriend, Norma Cassady (Leslie Ann Warren). King is shocked to learn that that woman is a man named Count Grazinski. While King tries to reconcile his romantic feelings for "Victoria" (in truth, King doesn't truly believe the Count is a man), his business associates won't tolerate his change in sexual orientation. Although feeling emancipated being treated as a man, Victoria, as herself, in turn, falls in love with King. To pursue something with him as a woman would mean giving up this lucrative career. But the career may also come to an end in a jail term if the authorities find out that Victoria and Toddy have committed fraud in this impersonation.
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Movie: Phantom of the Paradise ( 1974 )
A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.
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Movie: The Dream Team ( 1989 )
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.
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Movie: The Hired Killer ( 1966 )
Hit-man Clint Harris has one more job to do before he can retire. He's to kill an ex-employee who has become a snitch for the police. At first Harris refuses, but when his brothers assassinated, he's forced to accept. He's assigned an assistant, whom he teaches the ropes as they pursue their prey. When a beautiful woman identifies the target, it turns out it's the wro...Read all
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Movie: The Outfit ( 1974 )
Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.
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Movie: They All Laughed ( 1982 )
A mad cap private-eye caper about a team of detectives who are following, and are being followed by, a group of beautiful women.
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Movie: Dinner at Eight ( 1933 )
Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.
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Movie: Prison Heat ( 1993 )
Four American babes on vacation in the Middle East run into trouble when they are imprisoned by corrupt army officials.
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Movie: Brownian Movement ( 2011 )
Charlotte is a German doctor in Brussels. She is married to architect Max and mother of a young son. She rents an apartment to meet with little attractive men from her patients for sex. At the same time she leads an intimate marriage and family life. The sex life with her husband...
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Movie: Sex Files: Pleasure World ( 1998 )
In our virtual world, you can be a part of any event, feel the passion and embody all your fantasies. With our equipment, it is perfectly safe. You choose the body of your dreams. Buy your tickets to the world of pleasure.
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Movie: The Defiant Ones ( 1958 )
Two chained-together escaped convicts, white and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
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Movie: Seven Days in May ( 1964 )
United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.
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Movie: Amazon Hot Box ( 2018 )
An innocent college student is tossed into a jungle hellhole where she must fight for her life against an evil wardress, psycho inmates, voodoo experiments and the incredible torture machine.
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Movie: Don't Drink the Water ( 1969 )
The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of spying. Chased by Vulgarian soldiers, they take refuge in the American Embassy under the protection of the absent ambassador's hapless son.
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Movie: Farewell to the King ( 1989 )
An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.
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Movie: Octaman ( 1971 )
A team of researchers discovers a strange mutation of man and octopus who proceeds to terrorize them.
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Movie: No Way to Treat a Lady ( 1968 )
A crafty serial killer plays a game of cat-and-mouse with a harried police detective trying to track him down.
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Movie: Never So Few ( 1959 )
During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.
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Movie: My Chauffeur ( 1986 )
A free-spirited young woman (Deborah Foreman) upsets the status quo at a stuffy Brentwood limousine service.
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Movie: Cattle Annie and Little Britches ( 1981 )
In nineteenth century Oklahoma, two teen girls, fans of stories about outlaws, are on a quest to meet and join up with them. They find a shadow of a former gang and although disappointed, still try to help them escape from a vigorous Marshal.
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Movie: Modern Romance ( 1981 )
Albert Brooks directs himself as a successful film editor with far too many issues that affects the relationship between him and his remarkably patient girlfriend.
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Movie: Mio in the Land of Faraway ( 1987 )
A fantasy about a lonely boy who is transported from his dull life with his cold adoptive parents to a pastoral land where he discovers his real father is the king. In that country, he sets out on a quest, together with his new friend, to destroy the evil knight Kato.
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Movie: Mahogany ( 1976 )
Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound success.
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Movie: Long Day's Journey Into Night ( 1963 )
At the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse.
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Movie: Little Big Man ( 1970 )
Jack Crabb is 121 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised by indians, becoming a gunslinger, marrying an indian, watching her killed by General George Armstrong Custer, and becoming a scout for him at Little Big Horn.
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Movie: Liquid Sky ( 1983 )
Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, who's also a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin disappearing. This increasingly bizarre scenario's observed by a lonely woman in the building across the street, a German scientist who's following the aliens, and an equally androgynous, drug-addicted male model (both models are played by Anne Carlisle). Darkly funny and thoroughly weird.
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Movie: Last Train from Gun Hill ( 1959 )
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.
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Movie: Jimmy Carr: Comedian ( 2007 )
Recorded live in 2007, the Jimmy Carr: Comedian (Live) DVD sees funnyman Jimmy Carr sharing his cynical, but always hilarious, take on life's little absurdities.
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Movie: Jimmy Carr: Being Funny ( 2011 )
Jimmy Carr: Being Funny is packed with over 100 minutes of brand new material, including too-rude-for-TV jokes, hilarious heckling, and even better put-downs. Jimmy pushes the boundaries of comedy and delivers a spectacular show.
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Movie: Imitation General ( 1958 )
Sergeant Murphy Savage impersonates a dead general in order to inspire the demoralized troops in fighting their way out of Nazi encirclement.