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Patterns (1956) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Patterns
director: Fielder Cook actor: Van Heflin / Everett Sloane …
other title: I giganti uccidono / Morgen trifft es dich …
To eliminate internal opposition, a cruel CEO sabotages and humiliates a good-natured executive in an effort to force his resignation — and make the reticent new hire his new yes man.
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Grace Quigley (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Grace Quigley
director: Anthony Harvey actor: Katharine Hepburn / Nick Nolte …
other title: Agenzia omicidi / Grace Quigleys letzte Chance …
Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she's being evicted, she witnesses a murder being committed by a top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She proposes to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends she wants him to get rid of first.
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Special Report: Journey to Mars (1996) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Special Report: Journey to Mars
director: Robert Mandel actor: Keith Carradine / Judge Reinhold …
other title: Der lange Weg zum Mars
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission, and then the problems start. The landing computer malfunctions; Captain Eugene T. Slader gets very sick; and back on Earth, it is discovered that big financial corporations have an interest in the failure of the mission - and we, the viewers, can see it all live on television.
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Patterns (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Patterns
director: Fielder Cook actor: Richard Kiley / Everett Sloane …
"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.
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The Believers (1987) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Believers
director: John Schlesinger actor: Martin Sheen / Helen Shaver …
other title: The Believers - I credenti del male / Den 7. magt …
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
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Picnic (1955) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Picnic
director: Joshua Logan actor: William Holden / Kim Novak …
other title: Piquenique / Picknick …
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
director: Melvin Frank actor: Jack Lemmon / Anne Bancroft …
other title: Prigioniero della seconda strada / Das Nervenbündel …
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
director: Christopher Rawlence actor: Oliver Sacks / John Tighe …
Opera singer and professor Dr P is examined both in a clinic and in his home, as he suffers from a degeneration of the occipital lobe that allows him to see details but not wholes.
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Man on a Swing (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Man on a Swing
director: Frank Perry actor: Cliff Robertson / Joel Grey …
other title: L'uomo sull'altalena / Enquête dans l'impossible …
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her killer. Flamboyant self-proclaimed psychic Franklin Wills offers his help to the skeptical policeman, and, when his supposed visions about the case begin to reveal clues and information that only the killer could possibly have known, he becomes a suspect himself.
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
director: Joel Schumacher actor: Lily Tomlin / Charles Grodin …
other title: A incrível mulher que encolheu / Die unglaubliche Geschichte der Mrs. K. …
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.
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Catch-22 (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge
Catch-22
director: Mike Nichols actor: Alan Arkin / Martin Balsam …
other title: Comma 22 / Punkt 22 …
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.
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Nobody's Fool (1994) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Nobody's Fool
director: Robert Benton actor: Paul Newman / Bruce Willis …
other title: La vita a modo mio / Nobody's Fool - Auf Dauer unwiderstehlich …
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wife. As his estranged son returns, he faces new family responsibilities, while a banker plots to evict him from his home.
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Little Murders (1971) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Little Murders
director: 艾伦·阿金 actor: Elliott Gould / 文森特·加迪尼亚 …
other title: 小小谋杀案 / Piccoli omicidi …
A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.
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Notorious (1946) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb Skybridge WikiData
Notorious
7.6 (5 ratings) director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Cary Grant / Ingrid Bergman …
other title: Notorious - L'amante perduta / Berygtet …
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
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The Addams Family (1991) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb Skybridge WikiData
The Addams Family
8.1 (17 ratings) director: 巴里·索南菲尔德 actor: Raúl Juliá / Angel …
other title: La famiglia Addams / Familien Addams …
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.