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Two librettists arrive and pluck people living in a bare valley, in order to turn them into operetta characters. The two librettists come up with a plot, in which selected young men and women are designated into two opposing groups, both claiming ownership and intending to take possession and restore a house in ruin. Their fierce battle is anticipated to turn into blissful love by the end. While the librettists attempt to shepherd judiciously the youngsters' relationships in the desired direction, the enactment is constantly derailed. Whenever the characters' instincts follow natural impulses, the creators relentlessly correct digressions, reverse undesired developments, sometimes by rewinding time and reenacting events, shaped into their liking. The Ageless Goddess of operetta appears and irons out the scheme by performing a Socialist Realist lullaby from 1947. Finally, all resemblance to the characters' original individuality is converted into clich s of operetta characters. The couples and their adversaries have been fixed into their happy matrimonial lives ever after.
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In a small, unnamed country, there's an area called The Zone. It's an unusual area, and within it is a place known as The Room, where, it's believed, wishes are granted. The government declared The Zone a no-go area and had sealed it off. This hasn't stopped people from entering The Zone. A writer and professor wants to reach The Zone. Their guide - a man known as the Stalker, has a special relation with the Zone.
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In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.
. The story of Vaslav Nijinsky, who is widely believed to be one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time. The film puts forth the idea that both the dancer's consuming ambition to succeed and self-enforced heterosexuality drove him to madness. Eventually, schizophrenia leads to irreversible decline.
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The end of the Second World War has come and gone, but the violence is not entirely over. In the Beskid Mountains, five members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) show up at a homestead in the mountains. One of them is injured and the Ukrainians insist on hiding him in the residents' house until he recovers. The family is taken hostage and the Ukrainians force the head of the house, Ondrej, to find a doctor to bring back to treat the wounded man. Ondrej is told that if he rats on them instead, the family will be shot. It doesn't take Ondrej long to figure out that he is going to have to deal with the UPA men on his own.
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Randi Svendsen is happy. Her everyday life is about keeping windows, floors, and clothes cleaner than the neighbor's. Randi's friend Edna, however, has a different view on the values of life: "don't clean your husband out of the house and into the arms of the secretary". Unfortunately, this is already about to happen in the Svendsen family. Though it's not the secretary, it's the young widow upstairs. What can Randi do to prevent the unthinkable?
A young man resorts to marriage swindling, not to exploit or inherit the victims' fortunes, but to collect a commission after leading his "brides" to a furniture store to buy marital beds. Not surprisingly, it doesn't take long for that scheme to go belly up. Ein junger Mann bt sich als Heiratsschwindler weil er Provisionen beim Schlafzimmerm belkauf kassieren will. Das geht nicht lange gut.
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Sin Lei was a successful actress, who willingly chose to abandon her career when she got married. Unfortunately, her happiness ends, when she discovers that her husband Li De Chang is having an affair with a novelist by the name of Su Su. Filled with rage and humiliation, she devises an elaborate scheme to murder her husband and, to that end, she blackmails a medical practioner by the name of Dr. Huang as an accomplice. However, despite all of her in-depth calculations, things begin to unravel at the last minute, which not only jeopardizes the success of her project, but also threatens to expose her culpability for all to see.
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The story of a decent samurai who is widely considered scum and a criminal. His bad luck and numerous misunderstandings drag him down the social ladder straight to the gutter.
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A collection of three creepy and bizarre horror tales. "O Fabricante de Bonecas" ("The Dollmaker"): In Pirituba, Master Bastos is a respectable doll maker that lives with his four daughters in a remote area manufacturing dolls with impressive eyes. When four criminals break in his house to rob his money and rape his daughters, they learn why the doll's eyes are so realistic. "Tara" ("Perversion"): A poor balloon seller has a crush on a young woman and stalks her. On her wedding day, the woman is stabbed in front of the church by another woman and dies. After her funeral, the man breaks in her crypt and spends the night with her to satisfy his obsession. "Ideologia" ("Ideology"): After a debate on a TV show with the journalist Alfredo about the nonexistence of love, Professor Oaxiac Odez invites Alfredo and his wife Wilma to visit him. Professor Odez offers to prove to Alfredo that the instinct prevails over reason, and brings the couple to the dungeon of his house. They witness the results of the sinister experiment of Professor Odez with people that did not believe on his theory and after a period subjected to subhuman conditions, have become monstrous animals. Now Alfredo and Wilma are imprisoned and submitted to starvation and all sort of psychological torture to prove that the love is dead.
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A castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White Lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall whenever someone speaks a magic formula. The White Lady is good ghost: she can make someone's wishes come true. But a miracle is not something Communist leaders want in the town.
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In a country which remains without a name throughout the film, a dictator (known as the "Marshal") is preparing for war. At the same time, an incurable disease is spreading around the country which only assails those over the age of 45. The disease mirrors leprosy. Human tissue decomposes; sufferers have severe pain; an unpleasant body odor accompanies the ravages of the disease. The disease first presents itself with white patches, which feel cold and numb; these continue to spread. For those so struck, one thing is for sure: sooner or later, they will die. Even the best hospitals in the country can do more than give a placebo to those struck with the "white plague". Only after Doctor Galen, a doctor who cares for the poor, discovers a miracle cure do things change. However, he won't reveal how the antidote is made unless a certain condition is met: any country which refuses to make lasting peace will not be given the antidote. Only if all governments agree to that condition will he turn over his information. Initially, his terms are rejected. In einem namenlosen Land, an dessen Spitze ein Diktator, der Marschall steht, laufen die Vorbereitungen f r einen Krieg. Gleichzeitig breitet sich eine unheilbare Krankheit im Land aus, von der ausschlie lich Menschen ab 45 Jahren betroffen sind. Sie hnelt der Lepra, zersetzt menschliches Gewebe, die Erkrankten haben starke Schmerzen und verbreiten einen unangenehmen K rpergeruch. Die Krankheit beginnt mit ersten wei en Flecken, die sich kalt und taub anf hlen, und diese Flecken breiten sich weiter aus. F r die Befallenen besteht die Gewissheit: Sie werden fr her oder sp ter sterben. Selbst die beste Klinik im Land kann den Patienten kaum mehr als ein Placebo gegen die sogenannte wei e Krankheit verabreichen. Die Lage ndert sich erst, als der Armenarzt Doktor Gal n ein Wundermittel entdeckt. Wie es hergestellt wird, will er jedoch erst verraten, wenn eine bestimmte Bedingung erf llt ist. Doktor Gal n w nscht sich das Ende aller Kriege. Er will sein Medikament keinem Staat geben, der nicht dauerhaften Frieden schlie t. Gal n sagt daher: Nur, wenn sich alle Regierungen bereit erkl rten, keinen Krieg mehr zu f hren, wenn abger stet werde, dann gebe er sein Geheimnis preis. Sein Angebot wird zun chst abgelehnt.
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In the winter of 1948, the Kuomintang is losing the Huai Hai Campaign against the Chinese Communist Party during the Civil War. Kuomintang government officials started persecuting the people more severely to maintain their luxurious lifestyles. At a Shanghai shikumen house, Mr. Hou, a former Japanese collaborator, now a Section chief at the Kuomintang Ministry of Defense, is planning to sell the house he seized from its owner, Kong Yuwen, and fly to Taiwan. He appoints his mistress, Yu Xiaoying or so-called Mrs. Hou, to give an ultimatum to the rest of the tenants to move out. The house is tenanted by three families: Mr. Kong, a proofreader in a newspaper agency, whose son joined the New Fourth Army; Mr. and Mrs. Xiao, foreign goods vendors with their three kids; and a schoolteacher, Mr. Hua, his wife and their daughter, Wei Wei. When Mr. Xiao proposes they should band together, the others disagree and want to find alternative solutions. Mr. Kong and Mr. Hua try to find a place to stay at their workplaces respectively, while Mr. and Mrs. Xiao hope to invest in black market gold in order to buy the apartment building from Mr. Hou. However, things don't go as expected.
An impoverished blind masseur becomes a mercenary swordsman to win respect. Shrewd Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighboring town's smaller gang is brewing. The broke ex-masseur "Ichi" immediately wins big by taking advantage of local bakuto's cheating, after they scoff at his asking to join a dice game. The larger horde, who have been given carte blanche by the local governor, summons Zatoichi. Zatoichi hates the fact that he's become an outlaw, so he strikes up a friendship with the other gang's honorable hired samurai, who has tuberculosis.
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Summer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys' school of all but three boys: junior Norio and the seniors Kazuhiko & Naoto. They have no families to return to for the summer, so they spend their days in the empty school. A darkness hangs over the three however: the suicide, three months earlier, of classmate Yu. Norio blames Kazuhiko for Yu's death, because it was well-known that Yu loved Kazuhiko; so Kazuhiko is cruel to Norio, and yet has bad dreams. This uneasy arrangement is exacerbated by the arrival of Kaoru, a student set to start classes in the fall - who looks exactly like Yu. Believe it or not, despite the homoerotic elements, this is actually a ghost story.
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Robert Perkins is the right-hand man of a drug syndicate. Distribution, sales, and --- if necessary --- murder are carried out on his orders. So as to no longer be dependent or expendable, he decides to implement a plan to become self-employed. To that end, he steals a multi-million dollar shipment of heroin. To avoid being exposed, he protect himself by putting other people at danger. That includes his own sister Margaret, his lover Susan, and the commercial agent Claudia London. Perkins then hires two aviators --- Ted Barnekov and Larry McLean --- to smuggle the stolen heroin to Saigon without their knowing about it. . Robert Perkins fungiert als rechte Hand eines Rauschgiftsyndikats. In seinem Auftrag geschehen Vertrieb, Verkauf und - wenn es sein muss - auch Mord. Um nicht l nger abh ngig oder austauschbar zu sein, will er den Plan umsetzen, sich endlich selbstst ndig zu machen. Zu diesem Zweck bringt er eine millionenschwere Sendung Heroin an sich. Um dabei nicht aufzufliegen sichert er sich ab, damit im Zweifelsfall andere Personen belangt werden k nnen. So seine eigene Schwester Margaret, seine Geliebte Susan und die Handelsagentin Claudia Laudon. Perkins engagiert die beiden Flieger Ted Barnekow und Larry McLean, die die gestohlene Ware ohne Aufsehen, au erdem ohne ihr Wissen, nach Saigon schmuggeln sollen.
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An unknown woman suddenly appears in a north German sea town with the intention of pawning a golden harp. Pawnbroker Joshua and his apprentice Klaus are mightily impressed by this lady who so resembles an angel. And you know what? Amazingly wonderful things start happening in town right away. Eine unbekannte junge Frau taucht in einer norddeutschen K stenstadt auf, um eine goldene Harfe zu versetzen. Pfandleiher Josua und sein Lehrling Klaas sind m chtig beeindruckt von dem engelsgleichen Wesen. Und pl tzlich geschehen wundersame Dinge im Ort.
THE STRUGGLE (1931): The story begins in 1911 and extends into the Prohibition era. Jimmie got into the habit of drinking bootleg liquor partly due to the Prohibition law. When he falls in love with and proposes to Florrie, he makes a vow "not to take another drink". The young couple gets married, has a daughter and enjoys a happy family life; that is, until Jimmie starts drinking again. As Jimmie descends into alcoholism, his family falls into disarray. THE WHITE ROSE (1923): A wealthy Southern aristocrat graduates from a seminary and, before taking charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie, whom he meets at a dance hall. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph's child.
STOCK CAR (1955): When her father dies during a stock car race, Katie Glebe takes over the running of his garage, helped by American driver Larry Duke. Katie struggles to fend off creditors, including the unscrupulous Turk McNeil, who seeks to repossess her property. Further dramas ensue when Turk's girlfriend Gina shows an interest in Larry. MURDER AT THE BASKERVILLES (1937): Sherlock Holmes visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. Holmes' vacation ends, when he and Watson suddenly find themselves in the middle of a double-murder mystery.
RAG DOLL (1961): Carol flees to London from her alcoholic stepfather, but runs into a rough crowd in her new home. JOHNNY GUNMAN (1957): Vicious Allie and laid-back Johnny G. are a couple of rival New York City gangsters who have known each other since childhood. After mob capo Lou Caddy gets busted by the authorities for tax evasion, Allie and Johnny G. find themselves caught up in a fierce territorial dispute over who will have exclusive control of the mob racket.
WEEKEND FOR THREE (1941): A young married couple's weekend is interrupted by the arrival of a brash, loud-mouthed acquaintance, who knew the wife before the marriage. He immediately proceeds to turn their life upside-down, despite their best efforts to politely get rid of him. Complications ensue. THERE GOES THE BRIDE (1932): A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft, after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she refuses to tell him who she really is, her accuser decides to take her home where he can keep an eye on her until 12 o'clock the next day, at which time she has calculated it will be safe to tell the truth. But when his fianc e arrives unexpectedly and his 'guest' is mistaken for her, it all gets rather embarrassing.
MIDNIGHT CLUB (1933): A successful gang of jewel thieves operating out of a London nightclub and using doubles to take their places in the club while they're out committing crimes. The police commissioner in London calls in an American detective to infiltrate the gang and prove they're the ones doing the dirty deeds. THE SQUEAKER (1949): London's criminal underground have been at the mercy of a super fence, who has his finger in every big jewelry robbery in the city. If the thieves don't split the loot with him, "The Squeaker" turns them into the cops. A former detective with a tarnished reputation sees an opportunity to clear his name if he can shut down "The Squeaker".
A SMELL OF HONEY, A SWALLOW OF BRINE (1966): A young woman teases, seduces, and emotionally destroys young men for her own twisted enjoyment and revenge. One enamored boyfriend is sent to prison; another man is financially ruined; a third man ends up dead. But she eventually meets her match in the handsome Tony. Oh, when will they ever learn? I NEED A RIDE TO CALIFORNIA (1968): A group of hippies in Greenwich Village during the 60's revolution, with the film centering on the story of a girl exploring her various relationships with men, and her search for values.
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The singing trio of Susanne, Dieter and Juergen work at an unsuccessful student cabaret. Mr Brenders, a rich entrepreneur offers to fund them, if they change the name of the cabaret to the Lu-Lila Bar with a Roaring Twenties motive. Disguised in black outfits and wigs, the trio soon find out Brenders has them recreating an unsolved murder case from February 1927, in which he himself may or may not have been involved. Klaus betreibt mit seinen Kommilitonen Susanne, Dieter und J rgen ein Studentenkabarett, das jedoch vom Publikum leider kaum angenommen wird. Deshalb wundern sich die vier auch sehr, als deretwas befremdliche Herr Brenders auftaucht und ihnen mitteilt, er habe den Laden gekauft, werde ihn jedoch v llig umgestalten, sie aber weiter besch ftigen, und zwar in einer Art Rollenspiel. So wird aus dem erfolglosen Studentenkabarett die altmodisch-mond ne "Lu-Lila-Bar". Jetzt hat Susanne endlich genug Geld, die Miete f r ihr Zimmer zu bezahlen. Denn Vermieterin Frau Sommer hatte nach ausgebliebener, p nktlicher Zahlung das Zimmer gleich an Thomas weitervermietet, doch mangels ausreichender finanzieller Resourcen ist auch sein Aufenthalt dort nicht von langer Dauer. Deshalb kriecht Thomas bei seinem Freund Rolf unter, wo er dann einen nicht unbetr chtlichen Teil dazu beitr gt, die Vers hnung zwischen Rolf und seiner temperamentvollen Frau Evelyne mehrmals scheitern zu lassen. Ansonsten verbringt Thomas seine Zeit damit, Susanne auf allen m glichen Wegen mitzuteilen, wie sehr er sie liebt, ohne jedoch bei ihr landen zu k nnen - vorl ufig! Mit schwarzer Per cke mimt Susanne in der neu er ffneten "Lu-Lila-Bar" die mond ne Bardame. Das verr ckte, weil scheinbar auch so unzeitgem e Lokal wird schnell zu einem beliebten Treffpunkt.
The film is centered on the figure of Chen Sizhen, whose marriage to Tang Zhiyuan, an ambitious bank clerk and a typical petty urbanite, is dull. Their relationship is unromantic and she fails to bear him a son. Nonetheless, she tries to be a good housewife. Their universe spins into turmoil, when Tang starts an affair with a glamorous woman, Zhu Mimi, who cares for nothing but his money. A crisis ensues.
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THE PASSION PLAY (1903): The story of Jesus Christ from the proclamation of his birth to his end on the cross, impressively done and presented. A MESSAGE FROM MARS (1913): Horace Parker is an exceedingly self-centered, wealthy young man. Not only is he a miser, but he also expects everyone else to conduct their lives according to his personal convenience. Parker is engaged to Minnie Templer, but Minnie has discovered Parker's selfishness and she is on the brink of calling off the engagement. On Christmas Eve, however, a messenger from Mars comes to Earth to show Parker the error of his ways. The two of them become invisible and eavesdrop on all the terrible and true things Parker's friends and family are saying about him. So, Dickens' Christmas Carol made into an alien adventure? Uh, okay.
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Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for a major international airline. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow, where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian, Rubik. Many misadventures ensue.
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FREDDY UND DAS LIED DER SUDSEEE (1962) . Freddy once more plays the sailor and his ship is underway in the South Pacific. He's discovered that he's inherited a house on a small Pacific island. And so, together with two friends, he sails to his new home. But when he gets there, he discovers that his uncle was a nasty smuggler. And one of his former partners, Seventeen Star, is very interested in seizing Freddy's inheritance and will stop at nothing. Freddy ist ein Seemann und mit einem Frachter in der S dsee unterwegs. Er erf hrt, dass er ein Haus auf einer kleinen S dseeinsel erbt. Zusammen mit zwei Freunden macht er sich auf zu dem Haus. Dort muss er erfahren, dass sein Onkel in Schmuggelgesch fte verwickelt war. Der Ganove Siebzehnstern m chte sich das Erbe einverleiben und schreckt vor nichts zur ck.
In a medieval kingdom, two orphans, May and his sister Martha, live in poverty. A group of robbers kidnap May to use his magic talent: he feels sick when surrounded by gold, and so, can feel gold from a long distance. Martha goes on a quest to find her brother. She is soon joined by a travelling scientist, Orlando. Together, the two wander through various fantastic countries. They visit a city built on the back of a dragon, and see it burnt down when the dragon wakes. In another city, they are sentenced to death for starting a bar brawl. They manage to escape from prison using hang-glider Orlando invented. Finally they land in a country hit by Black Death, which is personified as a witch in black.
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A surreal, but visually stunning biography of the Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova. His life is portrayed not through conventional narration, but through his poetry brought to life in this interpretation. In it, we see him grow up, fall in love, enter a monastery, and eventually die; but all of this is depicted in the context of what are images from the poet's imagination and his actual poems, which are rarely seen or heard today.
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Regine Mobius has taken over the running of the firm Gloria --- a company which makes phonograph records --- from her uncle. She's in love with the director of the firm, Dr. Herbert Gerlach. He suggests that they sign an agreement with the singing duo Anita and Fernando Rodino. This involves a trip to Naples, during which they'd attempt to convince moody Anita to accept a three-year exclusive contract. Meanwhile, the Rodinos' manager approaches Regine and warns her about jealous Fernando, who's on his way to Naples to confront her supposed lover and shoot him. And this is a comedy? Regine M bius hat von ihrem Onkel die Leitung der Schallplattenfirma "Gloria" bernommen. Sie liebt den Produktionsleiter Dr. Herbert Gerlach. Der schl gt ihr vor, das Gesangsduo Anita und Fernando Rodino unter Vertrag zu nehmen und f hrt nach Neapel, um dort den Versuch zu unternehmen, die launische Anita zu einem Dreijahresvertrag zu berreden. Derweil erscheint der Manager der Rodinos bei Regine und warnt sie vor dem eifers chtigen Fernando, der nach Neapel fahren und vermeintliche Liebhaber seiner Verlobten erschie en will.
Life in the Soviet penal system as shown by the cruelty of the prisoners against their own and the manipulation of the prison's administration, which controls their charges by making them denounce one another.
NINE DAYS IN ONE YEAR (1962) * with hard-encoded English subtitles * . Two young physicists and old friends the possessed experimental physicist Dmitri Gusev and the skeptical theoretical physicist Ilya Kulikov conduct nuclear studies at a research institute in Siberia. Dmitri leads the research started by his teacher Sintsov, who has received a deadly dose of radiation as a result of an experiment. Dmitri has also been irradiated. Doctors warn him that further irradiation might kill him as well. Meanwhile, his friend Ilya and Lyolya, a love interest of Dmitri, have developed a romantic relationship. The enamored couple is getting prepared for the wedding and looking for an opportunity to inform Dmitri. When they finally meet, Dmitri already suspects Lyolya and Ilya and treats them coldly. Caught up in self-contradictions, Lyolya tries to understand Dmitri's true feelings for her, only to learn the terrible diagnosis. Realizing that she still loves Dmitri, Lyolya cancels the wedding to Ilya in order to marry Dmitri.
The Russian Civil War has ended; but not all the nascent Soviet Union's enemies have been defeated. Now, a new battle against bandits and speculators threaten the peaceful existence of the socialist state. Can they be destroyed?
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Three young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.
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