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Charly (1968)
A psychiatrist (Lilia Skala) and a surgeon turn a mentally impaired man (Cliff Robertson) into a...
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A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A TV woman (Patricia Neal) turns Arkansas bum Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) into a homespun media...
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Babette's gastebud (1988)
An exiled Paris chef (Stéphane Audran) enlightens two pious Danish sisters who forsook romance and...
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The Dead (1987)
The final film of legendary director John Huston was based on the closing story of James...
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The Emperor's Club (2002)
A professor (Kevin Kline) of classics at a preparatory school clashes with the headstrong and...
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The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
A man (Harry Belafonte), a woman (Inger Stevens) and a bigot (Mel Ferrer) roam the city of New York,...
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The Killers
An insurance investigator (Edmond O'Brien) finds a woman (Ava Gardner) behind an...
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Return of the Fly
An inventor's son (Brett Halsey) becomes part fly like his father after messing with a...
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The Lady With the Dog
In turn of the century Russia, a wealthy banker, unhappy in his joyless marriage, spots a beautiful...
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The Beast Must Die
A millionaire (Calvin Lockhart) plans to hunt whichever one of his guests turns into a werewolf...
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The Duellists (1978)
Two French officers wage a long-running feud during the Napoleonic wars. Based on a Joseph Conrad...
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Touched By Love (1980)
A young nurse becomes determined to reach an unresponsive teenage cerebral palsy patient by...
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Imitation General (1958)
A master sergeant (Glenn Ford) takes a fallen general's star and leads an attack in World War...
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First Love (1977)
It's hardly likely that anyone will confuse 1977's First Love with the 1939 Deanna Durbin...
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Quatre nuits d'un reveur (1979)
Four Nights of a Dreamer is a loose adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novella White Nights, with the...
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The Safety of Objects (2003)
Four suburban families struggle with boredom, disappointment and unhappy marriages. Based on stories...
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The Skull (1965)
A collector comes into possession of the skull of the Marquis de Sade and learns it is possessed by...
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Lurking Fear (1993)
A town is terrorized by grotesque creatures who breed in the depths beneath the local cemetery.
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Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
An immature young man from Middle America grows to manhood after a cross-country journey and his...
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Bartleby (2002)
A clueless boss has no idea what to do with his mundane office worker whose refusal of duties only...
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The Mouse and the Woman
This provocative film, based on a short story by Dylan Thomas, is set in Wales during the turmoil of...
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Noc Poslije Smrti
Based on a short story by Ksaver Sandor Djalski (1854-1935), this average psychological drama...
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Ondskans vardshus
Based on a short story by Sheridan Le Fanu, this thriller follows a series of murders that occur as...
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The Rocking Horse Winner
A boy finds that he is able to pick winning race horses--but with fatal results.
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Fear in the Night (1947)
A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.
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The Queen of Spades (1949)
A supernatural tale based on a short story by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, this is the portrayal...
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Rashomon (1951)
Three parties (Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori) and a witness have four versions of a...
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Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
A newspaper hires an art lover/criminologist (Joel McCrea) to track the exploits of a master thief.
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