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This Gun for Hire (1942) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
This Gun for Hire
director: Frank Tuttle actor: Veronica Lake / Robert Preston …
other title: Il fuorilegge / Die Narbenhand …
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb Skybridge
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
6.8 (6 ratings) director: Jacques Demy actor: Catherine Deneuve / Nino Castelnuovo …
other title: Pigen med paraplyerne / Os Chapéus de Chuva de Cherburgo …
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
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Magnet of Doom (1963) TMDB IMDb
L'Aîné des Ferchaux
director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Jean-Paul Belmondo / Charles Vanel …
other title: Lo sciacallo / L'Aîné des Ferchaux …
Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.
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The Red Circle (1970) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Le cercle rouge
8.0 (11 ratings) director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Alain Delon / Bourvil …
other title: Le cercle rouge / I senza nome …
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
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Macario (1960) TMDB Skybridge IMDb
Macario
director: Roberto Gavaldón actor: Ignacio López Tarso / Pina Pellicer …
other title: Morte in vacanza / Macário
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
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Onibaba (1964) IMDb NeoDB TMDB Skybridge ReviewDB Douban WikiData
鬼婆
7.8 (5 ratings) director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Jitsuko Yoshimura …
other title: Onibaba - Le assassine / A Mulher Demónio …
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
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Timecrimes (2007) NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban Skybridge
Los cronocrímenes
7.1 (7 ratings) director: Nacho Vigalondo actor: Karra Elejalde / Candela Fernández …
other title: Os Cronocrimes / Timecrimes - Mord ist nur eine Frage der Zeit …
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
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Law Abiding Citizen (2009) Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
Law Abiding Citizen
7.2 (8 ratings) director: F. Gary Gray actor: Jamie Foxx / Gerard Butler …
other title: Giustizia privata / Nådeløs hævn …
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
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Southland Tales (2007) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Southland Tales
director: Richard Kelly actor: Dwayne Johnson / Curtis Armstrong …
other title: Southland Tales - Così finisce il mondo / O Fim do Mundo
Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
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Xtro (1982) IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
Xtro
director: Harry Bromley Davenport actor: Philip Sayer / Bernice Stegers …
other title: Xtro - Attacco alla Terra / Estranhas Metamorfoses 1 …
Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.
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Defence of the Realm (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Defence of the Realm
director: David Drury actor: Gabriel Byrne / Greta Scacchi …
other title: Dossier confidenziale / Em Defesa da Verdade …
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.
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Her Vengeance (1988) NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
血玫瑰
director: Lam Nai-Choi actor: Pauline Wong / Lam Ching-Ying …
other title: 血玫瑰
Fong Kit Ying is an unassuming nightclub employee in Macao who inadvertently angers a gang of drunken patrons. They follow her home after her shift and mount a viscous gang assault. After her traumatic ordeal, she vows to hunt them down one by one.