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The Burrowers (2008) WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Burrowers
director: J.T. Petty actor: Doug Hutchison / Clancy Brown …
other title: Escavadores / The Burrowers - Das Böse unter der Erde …
It is 1879 in the Dakota Territories, a band of men who set out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, but they soon discover that the real enemy stalks them from below.
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One-Eyed Jacks (1961) TMDB IMDb WikiData
One-Eyed Jacks
director: Marlon Brando actor: Marlon Brando / Karl Malden …
other title: I due volti della vendetta / Når mænd hader …
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
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By Dawn's Early Light (1990) TMDB IMDb WikiData
By Dawn's Early Light
director: Jack Sholder actor: Powers Boothe / Rebecca De Mornay …
other title: Codice Trinity- Attacco all'alba / Condition Red …
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over.
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Countdown to Looking Glass (1984) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Countdown to Looking Glass
director: Fred Barzyk actor: Scott Glenn / Michael Murphy …
A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the perspective of an on-going news broadcast.
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The Thing from Another World (1951) IMDb TMDB
The Thing from Another World
director: Christian Nyby actor: Kenneth Tobey / Margaret Sheridan …
other title: La cosa da un altro mondo / Manden fra Mars …
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
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Barcelona (1994) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Barcelona
director: Whit Stillman actor: Taylor Nichols / Chris Eigeman …
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. fleet. Not exactly friends in the past, Ted and Fred strike up relationships with women in the Spanish city and experience conflicts -- Ted with his employer, and Fred with the Barcelona community.
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Metropolitan (1990) Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Metropolitan
director: Whit Stillman actor: Edward Clements / Chris Eigeman …
other title: Metropolitan - Verdammt, bourgeois, verliebt
A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.
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The Lady Eve (1941) TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
The Lady Eve
director: Preston Sturges actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Henry Fonda …
other title: Lady Eva / As Três Noites de Eva …
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) TMDB
Le Pacte des loups
director: Christophe Gans actor: Samuel Le Bihan / Vincent Cassel …
other title: Il patto dei lupi / Pagten …
In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
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Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Odds Against Tomorrow
director: Robert Wise actor: Robert Ryan / Harry Belafonte …
other title: Strategia di una rapina / Wenig Chancen für morgen …
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
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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) IMDb Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
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
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 WikiData IMDb Douban
Le cercle rouge
8.3 (7 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.