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    Il Corsaro Nero (1976)

    Il Corsaro Nero (The Black Pirate) stars Cico Verrati in the swashbuckling title role. Set during...

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    Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)

    Leaving his wife (Angie Dickinson) behind, U.S. Col. David ``Mickey'' Marcus (Kirk Douglas) goes to...

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    Crossing the Line (1991)

    An unemployed Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.

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    Cold Dog Soup (1989)

    A New York cabby (Randy Quaid) takes a guy (Frank Whaley) and his date (Christine Harnos) around...

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    Carve Her Name With Pride (1958)

    London shopgirl Violette Szabo (Virginia McKenna) spies for the French underground and is captured...

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    The Joker Is Wild (1957)

    Singer Joe E. Lewis (Frank Sinatra) turns nightclub comic in 1920s Chicago, with a socialite (Jeanne...

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    Love is a Ball (1963)

    An American heiress (Hope Lange) on the Riviera falls in love with her chauffeur (Glenn Ford),...

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    The Happy Hooker

    Lynn Redgrave stars as New York madam Xaviera Hollander in this romp based on Hollander's rise to...

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    Lilac Time (1928)

    George Fitzmaurice directed this romantic World War I drama, which was First National Pictures'...

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    The Spiral Road (1962)

    Since it was released in the same year as his masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), it is...

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    Smith (1969)

    One of the better Disney features of the late 1960s, Smith relies not upon humanized Volkswagens or...

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    Silmido (2004)

    About the life of a North Korean spy.

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    Up At the Villa (2000)

    A widow (Kristin Scott Thomas) staying at a villa in Florence, Italy, becomes romantically involved...

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    The Pavilion

    Set in the late 1860's, a man who as stolen the war coffers of a group of Mexican revolutionaries...

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    A Business Affair (1995)

    Vanni Corso, a charming but ruthless publisher, steals the beautiful and witty wife, Kate Swallow,...

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    Silence of the North (1981)

    A trapper's (Tom Skerritt) bride (Ellen Burstyn) joins him and starts a family in the harsh...

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    Dance Me Outside (1995)

    Natives on a reservation in Northern Ontario come to life as a teenage boy (Ryan Rajendra Black)...

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    Tierra del Fuego

    On the eve of the 20th century, an elderly begger recalls the details of his rise and fall, from the...

  • That Eye, the Sky picture
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    That Eye, the Sky

    A teenage boy tries to free his father from a coma following a car accident.

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    Where the River Runs Black (1986)

    An Irish priest (Charles Durning) in the Amazon tries to civilize the legendary son (Alessandro...

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    The Escape Artist (1982)

    The Escape Artist represents the laudable directorial debut of cinematographer Caleb Deschanel....

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    I Am a Camera (1955)

    Julie Harris repeats her stage portrayal of the irrepressible Sally Bowles in John Van Druten's I Am...

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    Prince of Players (1954)

    Actor Edwin Booth (Richard Burton) finds fame doing Shakespeare and shame as the brother of...

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    Unchained (1955)

    A convict in a medium-security prison is torn between his need to finish out his sentence and get...

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    Nine Hours to Rama

    A fanatic (Horst Buchholz) prepares to assassinate Gandhi on Jan. 30, 1948; a policeman (Jose...

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    Papa's Delicate Condition

    In his attempt to bring pleasure to everybody, a flamboyant character only brings alienation upon...

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    Joy of Sex (1984)

    The abysmal teen comedy Joy of Sex is stripped down to just sex in every line and in every joke...

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    Polleke

    Polleke, a 11-year-old girl whose parents are separated, falls for her Moroccan neighbor Mimoen....

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    Dolce Farniente

    In 1816, Henri Beyle is an aspiring writer and has not yet taken on the nom de plume of Stendhal. He...

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    Lucky Jim

    An irreverent history professor shakes up the dull academic life in a small college town.