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The Killer Elite (1975) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Killer Elite
director: Sam Peckinpah actor: James Caan / Robert Duvall …
other title: Killer Elite / Assassinos de Elite …
Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
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Buddy Buddy (1981) IMDb WikiData
Buddy Buddy
director: Billy Wilder actor: Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau …
other title: Amigos, Amigos, Negócios a Parte / Victor la gaffe …
During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed neighbor contemplates suicide over marital problems.
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Avanti! (1972) Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Avanti!
director: Billy Wilder actor: Jack Lemmon / Juliet Mills …
other title: Che cosa è successo tra mio padre e tua madre? / Avanti - kom ind! …
A successful businessman travels to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body, only to learn that dear old dad died with his longtime mistress.
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Irma la Douce (1963) TMDB Douban IMDb
Irma la Douce
director: Billy Wilder actor: Shirley MacLaine / Jack Lemmon …
other title: Irma la dolce / Das Mädchen Irma la Douce …
When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.
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One, Two, Three (1961) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
One, Two, Three
8.2 (9 ratings) director: Billy Wilder actor: James Cagney / Horst Buchholz …
other title: Uno, due, tre! / Cupido Não Tem Bandeira …
C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious daughter of his boss, comes to West Berlin, MacNamara has to look after her, but this turns out to be a difficult task when she reveals to be married to a communist.
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Get Low (2010) Douban WikiData IMDb
Get Low
director: Aaron Schneider actor: Robert Duvall / Bill Murray …
other title: Get Low - A Lenda de Felix Bush / Am Ende des Weges …
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.
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John Q (2002) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
John Q
director: Nick Cassavetes actor: Denzel Washington / James Woods …
other title: John Q. / John Q. - Verzweifelte Wut …
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
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The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981) IMDb WikiData
Wojna światów - następne stulecie
director: Piotr Szulkin actor: Roman Wilhelmi / Krystyna Janda …
other title: The War of the World: Next Century / Wojna światów - następne stulecie …
Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and enlist hapless television newscaster Iron Idem as the voice of their propaganda machine. But when Iron dares to go off message, he makes an enemy even greater than the aliens—the state itself.
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The Hero (1966) IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
নায়ক
director: Satyajit Ray actor: Uttam Kumar / Sharmila Tagore …
other title: Nayak: The Hero / Le Héros …
Arindam, a matinee idol, is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by Aditi, a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and his secrets.
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Strongroom (1962) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Strongroom
director: Vernon Sewell actor: Colin Gordon / John Chappell …
other title: La camera blindata
During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan to release the pair has gone wrong, they return to the bank to try and release them before the police turn up.
Feb. 20, 2026 to watch Trigger:
https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/strongroom-1962-film-review-by-donald-munro
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The Man in the White Suit (1951) ReviewDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
The Man in the White Suit
director: Alexander Mackendrick actor: Alec Guinness / Joan Greenwood …
other title: Lo scandalo del vestito bianco / O Homem do Fato Claro …
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
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Society (1989) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
Society
director: Brian Yuzna actor: Billy Warlock / Connie Danese …
other title: Society - The Horror / Dark Society
Bill Whitney is worried that he is different to his sister and parents. They mix with other upper-class people while Bill is more down to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd. All is revealed when Bill returns home to find a party in full swing.
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Flaming Brothers (1987) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
江湖龍虎鬥
director: Joe Cheung Tung-Cho actor: Chow Yun-Fat / Alan Tang Kwong-Wing …
other title: Hermanos de fuego / 江湖龍虎鬥
Two blood brothers, who have grown up on the streets of Macau, are bound together by a special code of honour. However, this bond ultimately leads them into brutal conflict when they struggle to leave the violent world they live in.
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Star Slammer (1986) IMDb WikiData
Star Slammer
director: Fred Olen Ray actor: Sandy Brooke / Susan Stokey …
other title: Gefangene im Weltraum / Star Slammer : La prison des étoiles …
Two women who have been unjustly confined to a prison planet plot their escape, all the while having to put up with unhinged guards, crazed wardens and mutant rodents.
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Lockout (2012) Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
Lockout
director: Stephen St. Leger / James Mather actor: Guy Pearce / Maggie Grace …
other title: Lockout - Máxima Segurança / Lock Out …
Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security prison.