1c1 < CRC: 0x704721A0 File: plot.list Date: Fri Feb 2 00:00:00 1996 --- > CRC: 0x403070CF File: plot.list Date: Fri Feb 9 00:00:00 1996 28a29 > 456 BY: Tom Zoerner 30d30 < 422 BY: Tom Zoerner 46,47c46,47 < * The plot list currently contains 11780 summaries covering < 10986 movies. --- > * The plot list currently contains 11983 summaries covering > 11181 movies. 60,63c60,63 < Actors | Col Needham | 01/12/96 < Actresses | Col Needham | 01/12/96 < Alternative Names | Michel Hafner | 01/12/96 < Alternative Titles | Michel Hafner | 01/12/96 --- > Actors | Col Needham | 02/02/96 > Actresses | Col Needham | 02/02/96 > Alternative Names | Michel Hafner | 02/02/96 > Alternative Titles | Michel Hafner | 02/02/96 65,76c65,76 < Biographies | Mark Harding | 01/12/96 < Cast Completion | Col Needham | 01/12/96 < Certificates | Mark Harding | 01/12/96 < Cinematographers | Michel Hafner | 01/12/96 < Color Information | Mark Harding | 01/12/96 < Composers | Michel Hafner | 01/12/96 < Costume Designers | Harald Mayr | 01/12/96 < Countries | Mark Harding | 01/12/96 < Crazy Credits | Mark Harding | 01/12/96 < Directors | Col Needham | 01/12/96 < Editors | Harald Mayr | 01/12/96 < Genres | Colin Tinto | 01/12/96 --- > Biographies | Mark Harding | 02/02/96 > Cast Completion | Col Needham | 02/02/96 > Certificates | Mark Harding | 02/02/96 > Cinematographers | Michel Hafner | 02/02/96 > Color Information | Mark Harding | 02/02/96 > Composers | Michel Hafner | 02/02/96 > Costume Designers | Harald Mayr | 02/02/96 > Countries | Mark Harding | 02/02/96 > Crazy Credits | Mark Harding | 02/02/96 > Directors | Col Needham | 02/02/96 > Editors | Harald Mayr | 02/02/96 > Genres | Colin Tinto | 02/02/96 78,84c78,84 < ISO AKA Titles | Peter Simeon | 10/27/95 < Laser Discs | Peter Simeon | 12/29/95 < Literature | Joachim Polzer | 01/05/96 < Locations | Rob Hartill | 01/12/96 < Misc. 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This version featured remakes of episodes > PL: from the original series as well as original stories. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 971a981,990 > PL: In the series opener, Catherine Chandler is attacked and left for dead when > PL: a mysterious man/beast, Vincent, finds her and takes her to a secret > PL: world of tunnels below New York City. Here, she is nursed back to > PL: health, and an extraordinay bond grows between Catherine and Vincent, > PL: one that holds them close even when Catherine is well, and must return > PL: to the world above. In the episodes to follow, they face many dangers > PL: and adventures together as their relationship continues to grow. > > BY: Robin Hudson > 981,989d999 < MV: "Beavis & Butt-head" (1993) < < PL: Animated MTV series about two teenaged heavy-metal music fans who < PL: occasionally do idiotic things because they are bored. For them, < PL: everything is 'cool' or 'sucks.' < < BY: Tad Dibbern < < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1101a1112,1125 > MV: "Bionic Six" (????) > > PL: Television show, only one season, 65 episodes. > PL: In the next century, a bionic scientist called "Dr. Scarab" is > PL: after power and immortality by bionic-nanotech engineering. He > PL: and his henchmen are stopped again and again by Dr. Sharp and > PL: his Bionic Six, a multi-cultural family of bionic people. > PL: Some fantasy technology, but excellent plots. A very good > PL: sci-fi show. Featured many voices that went on to other shows, > PL: such as Frank Welker and Brain Tochi. > > BY: Jeremy Pace > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1818a1843,1850 > MV: "Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, The" (1983) > > PL: Every Saturday morning The Peanuts Gang does skits, mostly taken from > PL: newspaper strips. > > BY: Ted Nesi > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2166,2171c2198,2206 < PL: Count Duckula is a naiive, egotistical vampire duck who happens to be a < PL: vegitarian. He, along with his evil butler named Igor and his idiot < PL: nanny named Nanny (who,by the way, has her arm in a permanent sling), < PL: go on many strange adventures using a magic transporting castle. < PL: Meanwhiles Duckula is constently being persued by an insane vampire < PL: hunter. --- > PL: Count Duckula is an egotistical vegetarian vampire duck who lives in a > PL: castle that can travel anywhere he wants to go. He lives with his > PL: servents: Nanny, his large and stupid nanny who always has her arm in a > PL: sling, and Igor, his evil butler. While Nanny accidentaly destroys > PL: furniture and Igor atempts to turn the broccoli chomping duck to the > PL: dark side, a vampire hunter lurks around with a wooden stake-in-a-gun > PL: and unattractive intentions. Although "Duckula" is a spin-off of > PL: "Dangermouse", the humor is of a completely different and original > PL: style. 2173c2208 < BY: David McGuire --- > BY: David McGuire 4070c4105 < MV: "Inspector Gadget" (????) --- > MV: "Inspector Gadget" (1983) 6816a6852,6859 > MV: "Shirley's World" (1971) > > PL: Shirley Logan is a globe-trotting magazine writer-photographer and Dennis > PL: Croft, her London based editor. > > BY: Herman Seifer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7450a7494,7501 > MV: "Thunderbirds" (1964) > > PL: In the 21st Century, the Tracy family organizes a special emergency > PL: response service using massive technology and secrecy. > > BY: Kenneth Chisholm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7745a7797,7804 > MV: "Vietnam War Story" (1987) > > PL: An anthology series featuring stories suggested by true events occurring > PL: during the war in Vietnam, often written by Vietnam veterans. > > BY: Anonymous > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9097a9157,9172 > MV: A puno limpio (1988) > > PL: An ex-boxer comes back to a town called Rosario in Southamerica taking > PL: revenge for the death of a friend. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MV: A Tout Prendre (1963) > > PL: The liaison of a 'good family' young man with a black mannequin. The > PL: portrait of some young intellectuals at the beginning of the sixties. > > BY: Jean-Marie Berthiaume > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10041,10050c10116 < PL: This movie is about three Australian transvestites who leave the Rocks (Red < PL: Light district in Sydney) with a bus called Priscilla, heading for Alice < PL: Springs. In Alice Springs they are to perform at Adam's, one of the < PL: transvestites, wive's hotel. On the way the bus breaks down, and amongst < PL: others they run into Aboriginals, mechanics, a bunch of thugs, and a < PL: luscious Philippino girl. If you like the desert, you'll like this movie! < < BY: Anonymous < < PL: Two transvestites (Anthony/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia) and a transexual --- > PL: Two drag-queens (Anthony/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia) and a transexual 10121,10122c10187,10188 < PL: she becomes kind of jealous. But as things happen in relationsships of three < PL: persons the woman fall in love... --- > PL: she becomes kind of jealous. But as things happen in relationships of three > PL: persons the women fall in love... 10261a10328,10335 > MV: After Midnight with Boston Blackie (1943) > > PL: Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box > PL: for a friend. > > BY: Herman Seifer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10753a10828,10838 > MV: Aladdin (1958) > > PL: This is the story from the fairy tales of 1001 nights. Aladdin finds an > PL: old lamp and discovers when he cleans it that a ghost was imprisoned > PL: inside. Gladly to be free the ghost accepts Aladdin as his master and > PL: fullfills all his wishes. Thus Aladdin's lamp attracks not only friends > PL: of his. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10904a10990,10997 > MV: Alias Boston Blackie (1942) > > PL: Blackie tracks down a wrongly convicted prisoner who escapes during a > PL: Christmas magic show. > > BY: Herman Seifer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11028a11122,11131 > MV: Alien Factor, The (1979) > > PL: A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth > PL: near a small back woods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk > PL: are turning up mutilated. Very low budget feature was the first for > PL: Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler. > > BY: Humberto Amador > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11662a11766,11774 > MV: Amante perfecta, La (1976) > > PL: A movie actress is being raped by an admirer in the night of the release of > PL: her last movie. But instead of acusing the man she begins to fall in > PL: love with him. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11974a12087,12095 > MV: American Heart (1992) > > PL: After leaving jail, Jack Kelson wants to live a normal life. He rents a > PL: small flat, moves in with his son Nick and tries to get a steady job. > PL: But then a former friend steps into his life again. > > BY: Markus Lasermann > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12635a12757,12769 > MV: Angels and Insects (1995) > > PL: The movie is a study of an aristocratic family in the victorian England. > PL: William Adamson, a young scientist, is introduced into the > PL: aristocratic family Alabaster by reverend Alabaster who is also > PL: fascinated by insects. William marries the older daughter of the > PL: familiy and studies the amounts of insects in the garden of the > PL: villa. His - for the aristocrats - strange behaviours reveale at > PL: the same time their own failures and passions. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13899a14034,14043 > MV: Aru Kengo no Shogai (1959) > > PL: Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A > PL: poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) > PL: loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another > PL: man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart. > > BY: Jim Beaver > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14060a14205,14219 > MV: Aspen Extreme (1993) > > PL: T.J. and his friend Dexter quit their jobs at an assembly line in Detroit > PL: to become ski-instructors in Aspen. While T.J. advances to the most > PL: popular instructor of the school during the season, he has to take care > PL: for Dexter, who's future is less bright and who's eventually thinking > PL: about jobbing as drug courier - bringing their friendship to a test. > PL: Meanwhile the rich business woman Brice supports T.J. in his writing > PL: ambitions and invites him to live at her home. But in her absence he > PL: falls in love with the stunningly beautiful blond radio moderator > PL: Robin. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14176a14336,14344 > MV: Asylum of Satan (1972) > > PL: A young woman is brought to an asylum to receive special treatment from a > PL: mysterious doctor. Dr. Spector does more than just run the hospital -- > PL: he offers his patients as sacrifices to Satan. > > BY: Mark J. Popp > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14464c14632,14639 < MV: Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) --- > MV: Au revoir les enfants (1987) > > PL: A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War > PL: II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student > PL: in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a > PL: secret. > > BY: Dale O'Connor 14920a15096,15107 > MV: Baby der schwangeren Toten, Das (1994) (TV) > > PL: Marina is the fourth month pregnant when she has a severe traffic accident > PL: and falls into coma because of brain damage. Although the doctors don't > PL: expect her to awake again, they suggest her fiancee Michael to keep her > PL: alive artificially until the unborn child is old enough to survive. > PL: Michael accepts the offer. Only Marina's mother is terrified and seeks > PL: the public, putting the case into the headlines. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15971a16159,16169 > MV: Bandera, La (1935) > > PL: Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, > PL: where he runs out of money. So he joins the spanish Foreign Legion. He > PL: meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget > PL: his fault... but Lucas's friendship soon appears to be less > PL: unselfish... > > BY: Yepok > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15982a16181,16194 > MV: Bandit Queen (1994) > > PL: The movie tells the story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to > PL: prison in 1983 and got free in 1994. During five years she was > PL: prosecuted by the Indian police and turned into a legend (like a modern > PL: Robin Hood) by the Indian press. Although the press tended to make her > PL: the optimal hero with blue eyes, dark hair, being tall and beautyfull > PL: she was in reality an average Indian which makes it hard for the movie > PL: to fullfill the expectations of the audience and tell the truth at the > PL: same time. Nowadays Phoolan Devi wants to enter the field of politics. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16131a16344,16353 > MV: Barbara Frietchie (1915) > > PL: An old woman in Frederick, Maryland, during the U.S. Civil War, displays > PL: her American flag in defiance of the armies of Confederate general > PL: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. Based on the folktale that grew from > PL: the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16303c16525 < MV: Barnum (1986) (TV) --- > MV: Barnum (1986/I) (TV) 16794,16804c17016,17025 < PL: Set during the early years of World War II, the War in the < PL: Atlantic. The Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to < PL: keep the convoy routes open to keep the British Isles supplied. < PL: One great danger was the surface raiders, huge battleships that < PL: slipped out of German waters just before war was declared. < PL: "The Bismark", "The Tirpitz" and "The Graf Spee" were supplied < PL: by tanker & could strike anywhere. < PL: This is the story of how 3 lightly armed cruisers with only < PL: 6 and 8 inch guns boldly took on a faster, heavy cruiser armed < PL: with radar controlled 11 inch guns. They should have been blown < PL: out of the water before they could fire a single shot but ... --- > PL: Set during the early years of World War II, the War in the Atlantic. > PL: The Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the convoy routes > PL: open to keep the British Isles supplied. One great danger was the > PL: surface raiders, huge battleships that slipped out of German waters just > PL: before war was declared. "The Bismarck", "The Scharnhorst", "The > PL: Gneissau" and "The Graf Spee" were supplied by tanker & could strike > PL: anywhere. This is the story of how 3 lightly armed cruisers with only > PL: 6 and 8 inch guns boldly took on a faster, heavy battleship armed with > PL: radar controlled 11 inch guns. They should have been blown out of the > PL: water before they could fire a single shot but ... 17432a17654,17666 > MV: Before the Rain (1994) > > PL: Manchevski's lush, cyclical drama is told in three chapters and has many > PL: characters; however, the primary focus is on Aleksandar, a > PL: disillusioned war photographer who, after witnessing an execution in > PL: Bosnia, decides to return to his Macedonian village. He soon learns > PL: that ethnic hatred has arrived before him, and his old homeland is now > PL: a dangerously armed camp of militant Orthodox and Moslem factions. > PL: Violence is imminent and everyone is caught in the crossfire. > > BY: Dawn M. Barclift > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18202a18437,18448 > MV: Between Men (1915) > > PL: When Ashley Hampdon becomes the target of a scheme to ruin him by his > PL: daughter's suitor, Hampdon sends for his old friend Bob White. Bob > PL: discovers that the suitor, Gregg Lewiston, cannot hope to win Lina > PL: Hampdon while her father's wealth remains intact. Lewiston hopes that > PL: if her family becomes destitute, she will turn to him. But Bob White > PL: is there to upset the scheme. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18226a18473,18485 > MV: Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea (1995) > > PL: The film tells the story of a strange friendship between an adult, already > PL: on the return of his path of life, and a Chinese girl who just begins > PL: her path. Nikos is the radio operator of a merchant ship and has just > PL: arrived in Hong-Kong. He is tired and wants to forget his problems > PL: by smoking opium. Innocence and hope turns to him in the person of Li, > PL: a Chinese girl who lives in a Sampan (a houseboat) and has to clean > PL: boats and empty trash-cans to survive. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18331a18591,18603 > MV: Beyond Desire (1995) > > PL: Rita is a sexy call girl in a red Corvette convertible who just met Ray. > PL: Ray is an ex-con just released after serving 14 years for a killing he > PL: claims he was framed for. When these two get together, sparks fly and > PL: temperatures rise. But Ray has a reason not to trust Rita - $1 million > PL: has been stashed somewhere in Las Vegas and Ray knows everyone wants it > PL: almost as much as they want him dead. When everyone has a hidden > PL: agenda, who do you trust? > > BY: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18447a18720,18732 > MV: Beyond the Stars (1989) > > PL: This Sci-Fi Drama centers around the teen-age Eric, son of a computer > PL: scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human > PL: to the moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, > PL: befriends Paul Andrews, the first man on the moon. Paul is avoided by > PL: other astronauts nowadays, because he was very rude and rebuffing when > PL: he returned from space. Only slowly Eric learns, that he discovered > PL: something during his excursion on the moon, that he keeps as a secret. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19417,19430d19701 < MV: Bionic Six (????) < < PL: Television show, only one season, 65 episodes. < PL: In the next century, a bionic scientist called "Dr. Scarab" is < PL: after power and immortality by bionic-nanotech engineering. He < PL: and his henchmen are stopped again and again by Dr. Sharp and < PL: his Bionic Six, a multi-cultural family of bionic people. < PL: Some fantasy technology, but excellent plots. A very good < PL: sci-fi show. Featured many voices that went on to other shows, < PL: such as Frank Welker and Brain Tochi. < < BY: Jeremy Pace < < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19555a19827,19838 > MV: Bis wir uns wiedersehen (1952) > > PL: This is the tear-jerking love story between young Pamela and casino owner > PL: Mayrhoefer. Pamela has just been released from hospital - incurably > PL: sick. Near the border to Switzerland she runs into Mayrhoefer, who's > PL: now on flight from the police. In flashbacks Pamela remembers the time > PL: they met, when she was 22 and they fell in love and had a great, but > PL: limited time together. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21568a21852,21862 > MV: Bob Le Flambeur (1955) > > PL: Bob, a old gangster and gambler is almost broke, so he decides inspite of > PL: the warnings of a friend, a high official from the police, to rob a > PL: gambling casino in Dauville. Everything is palned exactly, but the > PL: police is informed about the planned coup. Meanwhile in the Casino Bob > PL: starts to gamble. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22643a22938,22979 > MV: Boston Blackie and the Law (1946) > > PL: Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate > PL: an opportunity to escape. > > BY: Herman Seifer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MV: Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion (1945) > > PL: Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles > PL: Dickens first edition at an auction. > > BY: Herman Seifer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MV: Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood (1942) > > PL: Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money > PL: from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing > PL: this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to > PL: Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond. > > BY: Herman Seifer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MV: Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture (1949) > > PL: Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been > PL: murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown. > > BY: Herman Seifer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MV: Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945) > > PL: Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing > PL: spree. > > BY: Herman Seifer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22729a23066,23080 > MV: Bound by Honor (1993) > > PL: This movie depicts the gang wars in Californian jails during the 1980s. The > PL: half-brothers Paco and Cruz grow up together with their cousin Miklo in > PL: one of the lesser districts of L.A. When Miklo more or less > PL: accidentally kills another guy in a gang fight, he has to go to jail in > PL: St. Quentin, where he soon starts a career in a drug connection. > PL: Meanwhile Paco joins the police and returns to the district as a > PL: determined officer in the vice squad. When Miklo is released on > PL: probation after 9 years, but keeps working for his gang, he soon > PL: clashes with Paco. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23154a23506,23515 > MV: Bravados, The (1958) > > PL: Jim Douglas has been relentlessly pursuing the four outlaws who murdered > PL: his wife, but finds them in jail about to be hanged. While he waits to > PL: witness their execution, they escape; and the townspeople enlist > PL: Douglas's aid to recapture them. > > BY: David Levene > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23653a24015,24025 > MV: Brink's Job, The (1978) > > PL: After a long time of bad luck, the little criminal Tony and his gang > PL: successfully rob one of Brink's security transport, taking $30,000. > PL: Surprisingly their coup doesn't make the press. Curious Tony checks out > PL: their headquarters and finds out that their security standard is low > PL: beyond belief. Now a really big coup is prepared... > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24148a24521,24532 > MV: Buck At The Edge Of Heaven (1991) > > PL: Trapper Wintrop lives in a lonesome hut in the mountains, together with his > PL: father, son Tim, his wolf dog Buck and the dumb scout Matt. When a gang > PL: of villains robs and kills grandpa in their absence, they further on > PL: are determined to hunt them down. Shortly after they arrive the last > PL: minute to save Corinne from the very same gang. However her father > PL: dies, so they offer the young woman to live with them. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24204a24589,24598 > MV: Buechse der Pandora, Die (1928) > > PL: G.W. Pabst's film that catapaulted Louise Brooks to international acclaim > PL: and made her 'the' icon of the Jazz Age tells the tragic story of Lulu, > PL: the hedonistic dancer and prostitute. Based on the plays of F. > PL: Wedekind. > > BY: Dawn M. Barclift > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24367a24762,24770 > MV: Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939) > > PL: Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in > PL: the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is > PL: complicating the situation. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24686a25090,25098 > MV: Burning, The (1981) > > PL: A janitor at a summer camp is accidently burned severly from a prank. Years > PL: later, he is released from an institute, and returns to the camp with a > PL: pair of hedge clippers to take revenge on the campers. > > BY: Humberto Amador > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25518c25930 < MV: Calling all Curs (1939) --- > MV: Calling All Curs (1939) 25539a25952,25959 > MV: Cambrioleur, Le (1930) > > PL: The young wife of a rich old husband is preventet of a fling by a > PL: gentleman-bugelar, who falls in love to her. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25606a26027,26035 > MV: Campana del Infierno, La (1973) > > PL: A young man is released from an asylum and returns home for revenge on his > PL: aunt and her three daughters, who had him declared insane in order to > PL: steal his inheritance. > > BY: Arthur Workman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25816a26246,26273 > MV: Canterbury Tale, A (1944) > > PL: A 'Land Girl', an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves > PL: together in a small Kent town on the road to Canterbury. The town is > PL: being plagued by a mysterious "glue-man", who pours glue on the hair of > PL: girls dating soldiers after dark. The three attempt to track him down, > PL: and begin to have suspicions of the local magistrate, an eccentric > PL: figure with a strange, mystical vision of the history of England in > PL: general and Canterbury in particular. > > BY: David Levene > > PL: Three people arrive in a village in Southern England in the early years of > PL: World War 2. Alison Smith is a London girl who is due to start working > PL: on a farm as a 'Land Girl'. Peter Gibbs is an Englishman conscripted > PL: into the army, taking a few days leave before going abroad. Bob Johnson > PL: is a U.S. Army sergeant who wanted to go to Canterbury, but got off > PL: here by mistake. As they walk into the village, Alison is attacked by > PL: 'The Glue Man', a prankster who pours glue in women's hair. The three > PL: of them start to explore the area to discover and expose 'The Glue Man' > PL: but then get engrossed in the history of the area and the tales of The > PL: Pilgrim's Way. The local magistrate, Thomas Colpeper, JP is a local > PL: historian and a very mysterious character who leads them further into > PL: the mystery. > > BY: Steve Crook > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26963a27421,27429 > MV: Castello della paura, Il (1973) > > PL: Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no > PL: relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and > PL: some nude women for sexploitation value. > > BY: Arthur Workman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27310a27777,27787 > MV: Cemetery Club, The (1993) > > PL: This comedy with much Jewish humor is about the widows Doris, Ester and > PL: Lucille, who's husbands died one after another in just a few years. The > PL: 3 friends in their 50s react quite differently on the deaths. But they > PL: make it a habit to meet every year at the graves of their husbands and > PL: talk about perspectives in their lives. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28233c28710 < MV: Cheyenne Warrior (1994) --- > MV: Cheyenne Warrior (1994) (TV) 28658a29136,29144 > MV: Choices of the Heart (1983) (TV) > > PL: The film tells the story of a young missionary girl from the United States > PL: who was killed in 1980 in El Salvador together with two other > PL: missionaries. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28780a29267,29280 > MV: Christabel (1989) > > PL: An English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live > PL: as normal a life as they can in Hitler's Germany. When Allied bombs > PL: start falling on German cities, Christabel takes her two young sons to > PL: a village in the mountains. Then she learns that her husband and some > PL: of his friends have been arrested for plotting to assassinate Hitler. > PL: She travels to the prison where he is held, wondering if telling the > PL: commandant that she knows Winston Churchill will help her husband or > PL: seal his fate. This is said to be based on a true story. > > BY: Dale O'Connor > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29504a30005,30020 > MV: Clean and Sober (1988) > > PL: Michael Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, a hot shot real estate agent who just > PL: happens to have a cocaine and drinking problem. One morning, he wakes > PL: up to find a dead woman in his bed(someone he had been partying with > PL: the night before)from a cocaine overdose. He also just happenes to > PL: recieve a phone call from his employers telling him a huge sum of money > PL: is missing from one of his accounts. Panicing, Daryl decides to check > PL: into a drug rehab to hide from the law, where he meets tough cookie > PL: Morgan Freeman. A recovering addict himself, he now works as a drug > PL: counselor, and knows all the tricks Daryl tries to pull. Soon Daryl > PL: discovers he just might be in the right place, afterall. > > BY: Humberto Amador > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29557a30074,30086 > MV: Cleopatra Jones (1973) > > PL: Cleopatra Jones is a United States Special Agent assigned to crack down on > PL: drug-trafficking in the U.S. and abroad. After she burns a Turkish > PL: poppy field, the notorious drug-lord Mommy is furious at the loss of > PL: her supply and vows to destroy Cleopatra Jones. Mommy uses her > PL: connections with bad cops on the force to cause trouble for Cleopatra's > PL: friends and set her up for an attack. Meanwhile, Mommy is having > PL: trouble with some of her pushers, like the renegade Doodlebug. > > BY: Tad Dibbern > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30494c31023,31032 < MV: Comin' Round The Mountain (1936) --- > MV: Comic Book Confidential (1988) > > PL: This film explores the history and major talents of one of North America's > PL: true native, but grossly underappreciated,artforms from the invention > PL: in the 1930's to the alternative scene today. > > BY: Kenneth Chisholm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MV: Comin' Round the Mountain (1936) 30892a31431,31453 > MV: Confessione di un Commissario di Polizia al Procuratore della Republica (1971) > > PL: One of the first films about the maffia occurrence, in which the fight is > PL: hopeless, because "the polyp's feeler" reach everything and everybody. > PL: A police inspector and a deputy public prosecutor try to prove that the > PL: architect in the city is in the maffia. Besides they are facing one > PL: another distrustly. > > BY: Kornel Osvart > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MV: Confessionnal, Le (1994) > > PL: The film plays n two different times: One part in the past, Quebec in 1952 > PL: when Alfred Hitchcock filmed "I confess" in the in these times > PL: isolated city. And the other part in the presence, Quebec in 1994. Two > PL: brothers, Pierre and Marc, want to know their real origin and begin to > PL: discover a lot of lies and intriges. The film switches between the two > PL: plots in the present and the past in kind of flashbacks. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31676,31678c32237,32241 < PL: An American millionaire diplomat is followed from Hong Kong by his Russian < PL: migr girl friend. Complications arise when his wife boards their < PL: cruise ship in Hawaii. --- > PL: US politican Ogen Mears finds in his suit on the liner heading from > PL: Hongkong to Hawaii a russian countess, who is fed up with working as a > PL: taxi-dancer in Hongkong. Mears falls in love, but there is his wife > PL: waiting for him in Hawaii, and a divorce would ruin his chances of > PL: being elected. 31680c32243 < BY: Scott Lane --- > BY: Stephan Eichenberg 31769c32332 < MV: Coup de Torchon (1981) --- > MV: Coup de torchon (1981) 31847a32411,32420 > MV: Couturier de ces dames, Le (1956) > > PL: A modest taylor the women found irresistible inherit a Maison de couture in > PL: financial difficulty. Decided to save it he prepare a great collection. > PL: But when his wife discovered his relations with one of the mannequin, > PL: how would he prevent the scandale without loosing... both of them?! > > BY: Jean-Marie Berthiaume > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 33199a33773,33784 > MV: Cyber Bandits (1995) > > PL: A navigator aboad a millionaire's (Hayes) yacht, Jack Morris (Kemp) > PL: discovers that the millionaire's mistress (Paul) has stolen the data > PL: for his secret Virtual Reality. To escape, they encrypt, miniaturize, > PL: and tattoo the data onto Jack's PL:back. The pair share a VR adventure > PL: on the run from the Millionaire's thugs, meeting up with a wild series > PL: of characters. > > BY: Anonymous > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 33444a34030,34042 > MV: Daddy Long Legs (1955) > > PL: On a trip to France, millionaire Jervis Pendelton sees an 18 year old girl > PL: in an orphanage. Enchanted with her, but mindful of the difference in > PL: their ages, he sponsors her to college in New England. She writes him > PL: letters, which he doesn't read. After 3 years, he goes to visit her at > PL: a dance, not telling her that he is her benefactor. They fall in love, > PL: but the usual movie-type difficulties get in the way before they can > PL: get together at the end. > > BY: John Oswalt > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 33784,33786c34382,34389 < PL: With a little help from smitten Park Avenue playboy Tod Newton, hard- < PL: working dancer Janie Barlow gets into a Broadway show directed by the < PL: gruff but attractive Patch Gallagher. --- > PL: Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque > PL: house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her > PL: get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod > PL: thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using > PL: her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch > PL: is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges > PL: helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy > PL: make appearances as famous Broadway personalities. 33788c34391 < BY: Diana Hamilton --- > BY: Lisa Grable 34114c34717 < MV: Dark Command (1940) --- > MV: Dark Command, The (1940) 35621a36225,36238 > MV: Deceptions II: Edge of Deception (1995) > > PL: Since the death of his colleague, which was partly his fault, Lieutenant > PL: Nick Gentry lives a lonesome life. Reporter Joan wants to write a story > PL: about him, and seems to be interested in other ways too, but he > PL: rejects. Instead he falls in love with his new neighbor Irene and > PL: witnesses how she's repeatedly beaten up by her husband Allan. One day, > PL: when Allan threatens her with a gun, he shoots him. Certainly > PL: self-defense -- until it turns out, that Alan's gun was made > PL: inoperable... > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 36378a36996,37005 > MV: Design for Scandal (1941) > > PL: To save his job, newsman Jeff Sherman offers to help his boss get out of a > PL: swingeing alimony settlement. But his devious plan to compromise > PL: Cornelia Porter, the judge on the case, while she is on holiday at Cape > PL: Cod soon proves to be - well - too devious! > > BY: Jeremy Perkins > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 36389a37017,37026 > MV: Desire (1936) > > PL: Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who > PL: is driving on his vacation to spain, to get the pearls out of France, > PL: but getting the pearls, back from him prooves to be difficult without > PL: falling in love. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 36684a37322,37333 > MV: Devil and Max Devlin, The (1981) > > PL: When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to hell. But the devil > PL: Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths > PL: to sell him their souls in the next two months, he may stay on earth. > PL: Max accepts, and returns to earth, equipped with special powers. > PL: However his task is harder than expected, especially when 7 years old > PL: Tobi demands that he marry his mother. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 36752a37402,37414 > MV: Devil Makes Three, The (1952) > > PL: 1947: Captain Jeff Eliott returns to Germany to thank the Lert family, who > PL: hid him during ww-ii when his plane was shot down over Munich. However > PL: he learns that the parents died when their house was bombed, only their > PL: daughter Wilhelmina, now 18, is still alive. He finds the pretty girl > PL: working as nightclub hostess and shortly after starts dating her. She > PL: doesn't tell him that an underground Nazi organization compels her to > PL: work for them, and soon gets Jeff involved in their machinations, too. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 37967a38630,38640 > PL: Lara inspires lechery in Komarvosky (her mother's lover who is a master at > PL: surviving whoever runs Russia) and can't compete with passion for the > PL: revolution of the man she marries, Pasha. Her true love is Zhivago who > PL: also loves his wife. Lara is the one who inspires poetry. The story > PL: is narrated by Zhivago's half brother Yevgraf, who has made his career > PL: in the Soviet Army. At the beginning of the film he is about to meet a > PL: young woman he believes may be the long lost daughter of Lara and > PL: Zhivago. > > BY: Dale O'Connor > 37976,37981d38648 < PL: This epic traces the life of Doctor Yuri Zhivago, based on his < PL: half-brother's flashbacks. We learn of Zhivago's obsession with the < PL: blond Lara and his duties in the Communist Revolution. < < BY: Philip Brubaker < 38356a39024,39033 > MV: Don Quixote (1915) > > PL: Alonso Quijano is a country gentleman who imagines himself to be a knight > PL: named Don Quixote de la Mancha. He sets out to right the wrongs of the > PL: world which sees him as he is, a comical figure. But his chivalry and > PL: sense of purpose drive him on to great deeds, even if he is laughed at. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 38539a39217,39227 > MV: Doomsday Machine, The (1974) > > PL: So lame, it's a joy to watch! Astronauts are sent into space. The earth is > PL: subsequently destroyed, leading to the inevitably tacky question of > PL: "will they repopulate", using the male and female astronauts. The > PL: space ship actually changes in shape, actors voices change between > PL: scenes. > > BY: Danno > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 38612a39301,39312 > MV: Dort oben, wo die Alpen glueh'n (1956) > > PL: Andrea is vacationing in the mountains. She employs the young mountain > PL: guide Bertl to accompany her on a tour to a mountain top - and falls in > PL: love with him. Because of a storm they have to spend the night on the > PL: mountain. When he's back home, Bertl's jealous fiancee demands a prove > PL: of his love. He shall get her an Edelweiss from the dangerous mountain > PL: "Gottesfinger". > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 39600a40301,40308 > MV: Drive a Crooked Road (1954) > > PL: An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster. > PL: This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40362a41071,41082 > MV: E Poi Lo Chiamarono il Magnifico (1972) > > PL: By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a > PL: real guy. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights, likes poems > PL: and prefers bicycles to horses. Now his three teachers, footpads all of > PL: them, shall teach him otherwise. This doesn't work, until Joe has to > PL: defend himself against gunman Morton, who's jealous of Joe's love to > PL: rancher Ohlsen's beautiful daughter. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 41176a41897,41909 > MV: Einfache Maedchen, Das (1957) > > PL: Caterina auditions for a minor part in what would be her second movie. Her > PL: dancing and singing impresses the director so much, that he wants to > PL: give her the leading role. However the author Thomas Krauss objects, > PL: because he believes she's just a good singer and not talented enough as > PL: an actress. Caterina doesn't want to let go of her big chance and > PL: applies as maid in Krauss' house under a different name to convince him > PL: she can play the role. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 41316a42050,42059 > MV: Elefant vergisst nie, Der (1995) > > PL: A dwarf from a circus and his best friend, an elephant, rescue a beautiful > PL: young woman from her burning car. When the dwarf visits the lady later, > PL: she tells him he has got a wish, because he saved her life. The dwarf > PL: wants one night... > > BY: Oliver Heidelbach > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 41939a42683,42694 > MV: Equinox (1992) > > PL: Henry Petosa and Freddy Ace are twins who were separated being babies, and > PL: they do not know each other. Henry was adopted by a honest man, while > PL: Freddy becomes a gangster. Henry is very shy and has a lot of mental > PL: troubles. The film melts the two stories by a young writer who > PL: discovers that they were sons of an european noble and they own a large > PL: inheritance > > BY: Michel Rudoy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 42293,42298c43048,43056 < PL: Seventeen year old Juliette with her hedonistic attitude towards life < PL: manages to enchant Eric, influential businessman. Authorities, however, < PL: take more bigot view and Juliette may end in the reform school. In < PL: order to prevent it, Eric arranges marriage between her and Michel, shy < PL: young man who do it only to help family business. But, nobody took < PL: feelings into the account. --- > PL: Antoine promises to take the orphaned Juliette away from St. Tropez after a > PL: party where she has wandered onto the yacht of the urbane Eric. But in > PL: the morning the bus and Antoine zip by Juliette's stop and she runs > PL: into the field to capture the rabbit she set free moments before. > PL: About to be sent back to the orphanage by her foster mother, she > PL: identifies with the rabbit. Antoine's younger brother Michel comes to > PL: Juliette's rescue with a marriage proposal and she accepts. Eric wants > PL: the brothers' shipyard as a casino site and brings Antoine back to St. > PL: Tropez. Life gets complicated. 42300c43058 < BY: Dragan Antulov --- > BY: Dale O'Connor 42961a43720,43727 > MV: Eyeball (1978) > > PL: Killer in red cape and hood is killing off tourists on a tour bus by > PL: gouging out thier eyeballs. > > BY: Humberto Amador > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 43200a43967,43977 > MV: Faengelse (1949) > > PL: A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie > PL: idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects > PL: the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of > PL: the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math > PL: teacher's idea. > > BY: Erik Gregersen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 43995a44773,44782 > MV: Farinelli: Il castrato (1994) > > PL: Farinelli, is the artistic name of Carlo Broschi, a young singer in Haendel > PL: times. He was castrated in his childhood in order to preserve his > PL: voice. During his life he becomes to be a very famous opera singer, > PL: managed by his mediocre brother (Riccardo). > > BY: Michel Rudoy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 44479c45266 < MV: Feeling Minnesota (1995) --- > MV: Feeling Minnesota (1996) 44481,44482c45268,45278 < PL: A drifter (Reeves) falls in love with his brother's < PL: bride-to-be at their wedding --- > PL: Writer/director Steven Baigelman makes his film debut with Feeling > PL: Minnesota, a funny, idiosyncratic love story about three people > PL: fighting for their chance at happiness. Cameron Diaz stars as > PL: Freddie, who is conned in marrying Sam Clayton (D'Onofrio) an > PL: accountant in a strip joint as punishment for stealing from the > PL: club's owner, Red (Delroy Lindo). When Jjaks (Keanu Reeves), Sam's > PL: estranged brother, shows up at the wedding, Freddie takes an > PL: immediate and passionate interest in him and the two are making > PL: love in the bathroom while the crowd outside is still eating cake. > PL: Thus begins a volatile and passionate love triangle as the two > PL: brothers go head to head for the girl they love. 44487,44499d45282 < MV: Feeling Minnesota (1996) < < PL: Writer/director Steven Baigelman makes his film debut with Feeling Minnesota, a < PL: funny, idiosyncratic love story about three people fighting for their chance at happiness. < PL: Cameron Diaz stars as Freddie, who is conned in marrying Sam Clayton (D'Onofrio) < PL: an accountant in a strip joint as punishment for stealing from the club's owner, Red < PL: (Delroy Lindo). When Jjaks (Keanu Reeves), Sam's estranged brother, shows up at < PL: the wedding, Freddie takes an immediate and passionate interest in him and the two are < PL: making love in the bathroom while the crowd outside is still eating cake. Thus begins a < PL: volatile and passionate love triangle as the two brothers go head to head for the girl < PL: they love. < < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 44564a45348,45357 > MV: Felicity (1979) > > PL: Young Felicity lives in a monastic school. The only way to live out her > PL: sexual fantasies is together with her girlfriend Jenny. But then she > PL: receives an invitation to her sister in Hong-Kong and can't wait to > PL: finally do the real thing. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 44650a45444,45458 > MV: Feminine Touch, The (1994) > > PL: Her boyfriend John procures the ambitioned journalist Jennifer Barron an > PL: interview with the Democratic presidential candidate Michael Ashton. > PL: But before she can talk to him, he twice becomes target of attempts on > PL: his life. After the second John is found near the site, dead, with the > PL: weapon in his hand. Jennifer has to accept that she lived with a secret > PL: agent for the last 4 years. While she tries to learn more about a list > PL: of names she found on one of John's floppy disks, she becomes target > PL: herself in this deadly intrigue. Only her knowledge in self defense > PL: keeps the tough woman alive. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 46696a47505,47521 > MV: Fong Sai-Yuk (1993) > > PL: This Hong Kong martial-arts extravaganza tells of evil emperors and true > PL: love. Father Fong belongs to the Red Lotus Flower Society, which is > PL: committed to the overthrow of the evil Manchu Emperor and his minions. > PL: One of his Governors is sent on a mission to retrieve a list of members > PL: of that secret society. Meanwhile, a subplot involves Fong's son, Fong > PL: Sai-Yuk, who falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a rich > PL: merchant, recently moved to Canton. Her father, in an attempt to gain > PL: influence in the region and thus improve his business, offers his > PL: daughter in marriage to the winner of a kung-fu contest. Some > PL: interesting gender role-reversals take place during a 'comedy of > PL: errors.' > > BY: Tad Dibbern > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 47002a47828,47842 > MV: Forbidden (1985) (TV) > > PL: In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young > PL: countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets > PL: at the home of a former professor. But they fall in love. She gets > PL: involved in helping Jews escape from the Nazis. All get out of Berlin > PL: except the young man. There is a room in her apartment where he can't > PL: be seen through the windows and a chest converted into a sofa where she > PL: and her brothers played hide-and-seek as children. This real life > PL: hide-and-seek game has high stakes. The movie is said to be based on a > PL: true story. > > BY: Dale O'Connor > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 47027a47868,47878 > MV: Forbidden Passage (1941) > > PL: This entry in MGM's series of shorts, "Crime Doesn't Pay", features the > PL: U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of > PL: illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting > PL: for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter > PL: by illegal means. > > BY: Doug Sederberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 48220a49072,49084 > MV: Freud (1962) > > PL: This pseudo-biographical movie depicts 5 years from 1885 on in the live of > PL: the Viennan psychologist Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his > PL: colleagues refuse to cure hysteric patients, because they believe > PL: they're just simulating to gain attention. But Freud learns to use > PL: hypnosis to find out the reasons for the psychosis. His main patient is > PL: a young woman who refuses to drink water and is plagued by always the > PL: same nightmare. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 48587a49452,49459 > PL: The Gecko brothers takes a priest and his family hostage while en route to > PL: freedom and Mexico. Arriving there they come onto a club filled with > PL: loads of dark and mysterious characters. But if only the Gecko boys > PL: realised that they were indeed in far deeper shit than they could ever > PL: imagine . . . > > BY: James Steele > 50651a51524,51535 > MV: Girl in the News (1941) > > PL: Nurse Anne Graham is controversially - but rightly - acquitted of murder > PL: after her elderly patient dies in suspicious circumstances. Changing > PL: her name she gets a position nursing wheelchair-bound Edward Bentley, > PL: little suspecting that his wife and the butler are lovers setting Anne > PL: up so that when Bentley is found dead it looks like a repeat of the > PL: earlier case. > > BY: Jeremy Perkins > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 50688a51573,51580 > MV: Girl with Green Eyes (1964) > > PL: In 1960s Dublin a young girl becomes involved with an older man, a > PL: much-travelled and still married land-owner. > > BY: Jeremy Perkins > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 51024a51917,51927 > MV: Glueck laeuft hinterher, Das (1963) > > PL: Director Peter Beauvais follows the life of several different people in > PL: 1960s in Germany for a few days. The story begins, when a juvenile > PL: criminal steals an old woman's handbag in a post office and throws it > PL: into a parking car, when he feels observed. But there was a lot of > PL: money in that bag, and thereby a dozen fortunes become entwined... > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 51848,51852c52751,52759 < PL: Spoiled Southern heiress Scarlett O'Hara faces the harsh realities < PL: of dealing with life during the Civil War in this Academy < PL: Award-winning adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's beloved novel. Along < PL: the way, she changes from a self-centered young lady to a woman < PL: determined to save her home, the plantation known as Tara. --- > PL: Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the > PL: Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the > PL: carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She > PL: has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going > PL: to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave > PL: herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that > PL: day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not > PL: know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her > PL: instead of Melanie. 51854c52761 < BY: Drew Grgich --- > BY: Dale O'Connor 52025a52933,52941 > MV: Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) > > PL: An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils > PL: and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that > PL: transformed his life. > > BY: David Levene > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 52369a53286,53293 > MV: Grand amour de Beethoven, Un (1936) > > PL: Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantical hero, > PL: an accursed artist. > > BY: Yepok > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 52585a53510,53518 > MV: Great American Pastime, The (1956) > > PL: Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball > PL: team. The fact, that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes > PL: problems with his wife. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 52775a53709,53717 > MV: Great Moment, The (1944) > > PL: The biography of Dr.W.T.Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his > PL: quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public > PL: and the medical and dental establishment. > > BY: Richard Blinkal > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 53932,53951d54873 < MV: Hackers (1995) < < PL: Dade is arrested for hacking, and is prohibted from using a < PL: computer. But he is drawn back into hacking when he meets Kate < PL: snd her friends. Two of Kate's friends are being framed for a < PL: crime they didn't commit, by another hacker working for a large < PL: oil company.. Dade has to help them find and destroy a computer < PL: virus that will cause an environmental catastrophe, before the < PL: blame falls on them, and they are all arrested. < < BY: < < PL: Going for teen realism, director lain Softley drained this movie < PL: of plot, substance and character development in favor of hard-edged < PL: rock played over slick graphics that are supposed to represent < PL: computer functions. < < BY: Beth Pinsker < < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 53988a54911,54919 > MV: Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) > > PL: Woodrow LaFayette wants to join th enAvy, but he's 4F. So he leaves his > PL: hometown and with friends, who send postcards from all over the war > PL: theaters, he fakes a heroic navy-career. This has its consequences... > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 54563a55495,55510 > MV: Happy Go Lovely (1951) > > PL: Niven plays a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card > PL: company in Scotland, essentially a kind man but respectable to the > PL: point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe wants > PL: to produce a musical in town (Edinburgh?) but has trouble getting > PL: backers. Niven's character meets several of the leading ladies of the > PL: show; through a misunderstanding he doesn't correct they think that > PL: he's a newspaper reporter. He falls in love with one of the women, who > PL: reciprocates; he grows more lively and friendly, to the surprise of his > PL: employees. After a series of mishaps and comic incidents comes a happy > PL: ending: a successful show and true love. > > BY: Mark. Gooley > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55143a56091,56104 > MV: Harvey Girls, The (1946) > > PL: On a train trip West to become a mail order bride Susan Bradley meets a > PL: cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a " Harvey House " > PL: restaurant at a remote whistle stop to provide good cooking and > PL: wholesome company for railway travelers. When Susan and her bashful > PL: suitor find romance daunting, Susan joins the Harvey Girls instead. > PL: The saloon across the street with its alluring worldly-wise women > PL: offers them tough competition, fair and foul, and Susan catches the eye > PL: of the Ned Trent, the distant but intense proprietor of the bar. > > BY: Michael Meigs > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 56718a57680,57690 > MV: Hideaway (1995) > > PL: Hatch Harrison had a traffic accident with his car. At first the doctors > PL: said he was dead but then they succeeded to bring him back to life > PL: after two hours. But Hatch starts to have strange sensations in > PL: following time and discovers that he is now united with a mad killer > PL: who had entered his mind during his death. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 57156c58128 < MV: Hiroshima Mon Amour (1960) --- > MV: Hiroshima mon amour (1960) 57435a58408,58417 > MV: Hit the Deck (1955) > > PL: Sailor Danny Xavier Smith and two other gobs try to save his sister Susan's > PL: virtue. She wants to get a role in the show "Hit the Deck". After > PL: wrecking the producers house, they land in the brig. But Danny's father > PL: is an Rear Admiral... > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58102a59085,59095 > MV: Honey (1980) > > PL: The young, naive Annie enters a hotel to spend the night - without knowing > PL: that it's this special kind of hotel, that serves more than breakfast. > PL: Curiously she walks around and watches the maids doing their job. She's > PL: especially fascinated of a forbidden room, where a silent, strange guy > PL: lives. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58161a59155,59171 > MV: Hong Faan Kui (1995) > > PL: Cheong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His > PL: uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Cheong offers to help out while > PL: Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Cheong > PL: befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause > PL: problems at the market. Meanwhile, one of those petty thugs in the > PL: local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head. > PL: Blinded by greed, his involvement draws his gang, the kid, Cheong, and > PL: the whole neighborhood into a deadly crossfire. When the lazy cops > PL: fail to successfully resolve matters, Cheong takes things into his own > PL: hands. Needless to say, much spectacular kung-fu and outrageous action > PL: sequences follow.... > > BY: Tad Dibbern > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58888a59899,59908 > MV: Hotel Paradise (1995) > > PL: The not yet married bride of a mafiosi wakes up in the morning in bed with > PL: a chained and naked man. She cannot recall what happened last night. > PL: The man begins to tell. Did she really had an erotic adventure with a > PL: stranger one night before her marriage? > > BY: Oliver Heidelbach > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58908a59929,59936 > MV: Hotel Terminus (1988) > > PL: A documentary of the prozess against Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of > PL: Lyon, and about his life after the war. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60146a61175,61191 > MV: I Know Where I'm Going (1945) > > PL: Joan Webster is a very modern woman (in the 1940's), "She knows where she's > PL: going", she has her life carefully planned out from a very young age. > PL: She gets engaged to a rich industrialist who has taken a lease on an > PL: island in the Hebrides, so she travels up to Scotland to marry him. > PL: However, in the Western Isles, life beats to a different drum. A storm > PL: prevents her immediate journey to the island so she stays for a while > PL: with some of the locals including a young Naval officer, Torquil > PL: MacNeil, who turns out to be the local clan head and the true owner of > PL: the island. The magic of the local land, it's history and the eccentric > PL: people she meets begin to have an effect on Joan and she wonders ... > PL: does she really "Know where she's going". > > BY: Steve Crook > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61294a62340,62350 > MV: In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (1978) > > PL: This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) > PL: Weisshaupt. Years before, Erwin told a co-worker, Anton, that he loved > PL: him. "Too bad, you aren't a woman," he replied. Erwin took Anton at > PL: his word. Trying to salvage something from the wreckage love has made > PL: of his life, he now hopes that Anton will not reject him again. > > BY: Erik Gregersen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 62574a63631,63643 > MV: Intolerance (1916) > > PL: Intolerance and its terrible effects are examined in four historical eras. > PL: In ancient Babylon, a mountain girl is caught up in the religious > PL: rivalry that leads to the city's downfall. In Judea, the hypocritical > PL: Pharisees condemn Jesus Christ. In 1572 Paris, unaware of the > PL: impending St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, two young Huguenots prepare > PL: for marriage. Finally, in modern America, social reformers destroy the > PL: lives of a young woman and her beloved. > > BY: Erik Gregersen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 63095a64165,64174 > MV: It Came from Outer Space II (1996) > > PL: Aliens crashland near a small desert town, strewing odd bluish-glowing > PL: rocks throughout the area. Townfolk notice something is amiss when > PL: temperatures begin to soar, water disappears, power goes down and > PL: people seem not to be themselves. > > BY: Doug Sederberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 63524a64604,64614 > MV: Jack and Sarah (1995) > > PL: After the death of his girlfriend Jack has to care for his daughter Sarah > PL: on his own. Because his job is too timeintensive that he cannot be > PL: with the baby all the time he contracts Amy, a young waitress, as > PL: babysitter. As Sarah adopts Amy as substitute mother, Jack starts to > PL: look at Amy with different eyes... > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64346a65437,65446 > MV: Jitterbugs (1943) > > PL: The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam > PL: for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however > PL: soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an > PL: attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled. > > BY: Jeremy Perkins > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64751a65852,65861 > MV: Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973) > > PL: Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his sea-gull clan. He > PL: rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. > PL: Since he doesn't fit in, the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets > PL: out to discover the world beyond the horizon in quest for wisdom. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64793,64795c65903,65914 < PL: A French postman watches a film about the American postal system < PL: and decides to bring his own delivery system up to date, using only < PL: his enthusiasm and his bicycle. --- > PL: Once a year the fair comes for one day to the little town > PL: 'Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre'. All inhabiters are scoffing at Francois, the > PL: postman, what he seems not to recognize. The rising of the flagstaff > PL: under his direction nearly leads into a catastrophy - but everybody > PL: tells him, how important his work is. Sneering up Francois continues in > PL: the evening of the festive day. Made drunk, some 'friends' persuade him > PL: to watch a short-movie in a tent. This film is a stunt-show, covered as > PL: 'The modern delivery-techniques of the US-post. Francois takes it > PL: serious, not recognizing being teased. Next day, after getting sober in > PL: a goods wagon, he reorganizes his own delivery-methods. He has not the > PL: equipment, as his ideals in the short-movie have, but using only his > PL: bicycle, he makes good, funny progresses. 64797c65916 < BY: Colin Tinto --- > BY: Christian Wenger 64896a66016,66025 > MV: Joy Luck Club, The (1993) > > PL: Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America > PL: and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. > PL: This search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter > PL: relationship. > > BY: Robert Pare > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 65149a66279,66286 > MV: Jungfrauenmaschine, Die (1988) > > PL: A reporter who goes to San Francisco to write about romance has an affair > PL: with a stripper from an all-women's club. > > BY: Aaron Sherman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 65914c67051 < PL: secret mission to ship $16,000,000 of gold to a base in --- > PL: secret mission to ship $14,000,000 of gold to a base in 66729a67867,67876 > MV: King in New York, A (1957) > > PL: Due to a revolution in his country King Shahdov comes to New York - almost > PL: broke. To get some money he goes to TV, making comercials and meets the > PL: chield from communist parents. Due to this he is suddenly a suspected > PL: as a communist himself and had to face one of McCarthy's hearings. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 67547a68695,68703 > MV: Komissar (1967) > > PL: Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected > PL: pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is > PL: softened somewhat by the experience of family life. > > BY: Erik Gregersen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 68490a69647,69660 > MV: Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) > > PL: Mrs Erlynne, the mother of Lady Windermere - her daughter does not know > PL: about her - wants to be introduced in society, so that she can marry > PL: Lord Augustus Lorton. Lord Windermere, who helped her with a cheque, > PL: invites her to his wifes birthday-party, but Lady Windermere thinks, > PL: she has reason to be jealous, so she decides to leave her husband and > PL: go to Lord Darlington, who is pining for her. Mrs Erlynne finds this > PL: out and tries to prevent her of this mistake, but her daughter leaves > PL: her fan in Lord Darlingtons residence. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 68593a69764,69775 > MV: Lamerica (1994) > > PL: Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the > PL: communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a > PL: stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. But the youngest > PL: italian, Gino, once alone with Spiro, encounter a few problems. Far > PL: from his roots, loosing his identity in deep Albania, he begins to > PL: change... > > BY: Yepok > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 69100a70283,70291 > MV: Last Outpost, The (1951) > > PL: Two brothers who are not the best friends because they were fighting on > PL: different sides during the Civil War have to cooperate in order to > PL: defend themselves against an attack of indians. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 69259a70451,70463 > MV: Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) > > PL: The wife of marshal Matt Morgan is raped and murdered. The killers leave > PL: behind a distinctive saddle, that Morgan recognises as belonging to his > PL: old friend Craig Belden, now cattle baron in the town of Gun Hill. > PL: Belden is sympathetic, until it transpires that one of the murderers is > PL: his own son Rick, whom he refuses to hand over. Morgan is determined > PL: to capture Rick and take him away by the 9.00 train; but he is trapped > PL: in the town alone, with Belden and all his men now looking to kill him. > > BY: David Levene > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 69272a70477,70485 > MV: Last Valley, The (1970) > > PL: People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by > PL: the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of > PL: soldiers occupying the valley. > > BY: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 70580,70589d71792 < MV: lien Factor, The (1979) < < PL: A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth < PL: near a small back woods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk < PL: are turning up mutilated. Very low budget feature was the first for < PL: Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler. < < BY: Humberto Amador < < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 71130a72334,72349 > MV: Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (1979) (TV) > > PL: Four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are evacuated to the country > PL: in World War 2. They stay in a large house owned by an old Professor. > PL: First Lucy, then Edmund, then all four children find their way through > PL: an old wardrobe into Narnia, a magical land with talking animals and > PL: mythical creatures such as fauns and dwarves. But Narnia is held under > PL: a magical spell by the evil White Witch to ensure it's always winter > PL: but never Christmas. The children have to battle evil creatures and > PL: deal with betrayal and treachery but make many good friends as well. > PL: Finally, with the help of Aslan (The Lion) they defeat the evil witch > PL: and spring and freedom come back to Narnia. > > BY: Steve Crook > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 73105a74325,74335 > MV: Love Child (1995) > > PL: Nine year old Murray Murray is discovering his sexuality in the era of > PL: disco and leisure suits. He has a crush on sixteen year old Deidre, > PL: whose younger sister believes herself to be Murray's girlfriend. He > PL: also must deal with, among other things, the noisome, nightly > PL: lovemaking of his swinger parents. > > BY: Joshua Levine > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 73999a75230,75244 > MV: Macon County Line (1974) > > PL: Wayne and Chris Dexton are traveling cross country to have a good time the > PL: last two weeks before Chris has to join the army - or go to jail for a > PL: hold-up. During a stop in Macon due to trouble with the car, Sheriff > PL: Reed banishes them from the county, because they have less than $30 > PL: each. Unfortunately their car breaks down again before they reach the > PL: county border. They are unaware that only 500 meters from where they > PL: stopped the Sheriff's house is robbed, and his wife brutally murdered. > PL: When he comes back home, he immediately blames them and chases them > PL: with his rifle. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 74376a75622,75631 > MV: Maedchen vom Pfarrhof, Das (1955) > > PL: The modern priest Hell gives orphan Annerl a job and a home in his house. > PL: The pretty young girl is being stalked by landlord Finsterberg. When > PL: she keeps on turning him down, he spreads rumors about Annerl and Hell > PL: in the small village. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 74791,74800d76045 < MV: Maison Ikkoku (1986) < < PL: Godai Yusaku is a young college student staying at a run-down < PL: boarding house outside of Tokyo. One day, a beautiful manager, < PL: Otonashi Kyoko, moves in. Godai tries to win her heart, in < PL: spite of numerous obstacles, including three crazed tenants. < < BY: Steven Miale < < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 75956a77202,77210 > MV: Maniac (1962) > > PL: A man being lost in love with the owner of a lodging house would do > PL: anything to satisfy her wishes. In order to proof his love for her she > PL: makes him free a dangerous maniac from the psychatric hospital. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 76401a77656,77662 > MV: Mark, The (1961) > > PL: A convict wants to start over. > > BY: Aaron Sherman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 76551a77813,77820 > MV: Martyrs of the Alamo (1915) > > PL: The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans > PL: against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 77019a78289,78298 > MV: Maxi, bitte kommen (1990) (TV) > > PL: This is a love story of the mousy student Maxi, who works as bicycle > PL: messenger in Vienna, and David, a successful, arrogant advertising > PL: photographer. When she returns one evening after having lost her keys, > PL: he tries to seduce her -- out of pity, she assumes and leaves in anger. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 77769a79049,79059 > MV: Mephisto Waltz, The (1971) > > PL: Alan Alda plays a classical piano player on the rise who befriends a famous > PL: player himself who's at death's door. Unknown to Alda, the guy is a > PL: satanist, who arranges to have thier souls switch places at his death, > PL: so that he can be young again and continue to play piano (thus needing a > PL: skilled piano player like Alda to switch bodies with). > > BY: Humberto Amador > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 79015a80306,80315 > MV: Missing Link (1988) > > PL: A million years ago in Africa: the last of the ape-humans is on flight from > PL: the humans, who killed the rest of his clan. Alone, seeking others of > PL: his kind, he traverses steps, deserts and mountains until he reaches > PL: the coast. But there are already humans, too. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 79412a80713,80727 > MV: Momo (1986) > > PL: In the village of Momo the pace of time goes very slowly. Nobody is > PL: bothering about stress but everyone has time to chat and rest - > PL: until the day the grey men arrive. With a great selling strategy > PL: they offer the people an account to collect time. Now everybody is in > PL: stress in order to gain time for collecting, except for Momo who > PL: obviously is the only one without stress. Watching her former > PL: friends having no time at all for friendship and other social > PL: activities she deceides to fight the grey men. The story is a modern > PL: fairy tale about how to use time. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 79709a81025,81033 > MV: Monsieur Verdoux (1947) > > PL: Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard, he marries women and kills them after the > PL: marriage to get the money he needs for his family. But with two ladies > PL: he has bad luck. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 80613a81938,81958 > MV: Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990) > > PL: It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and > PL: tradicional person who direct the family. The mother is at home, she > PL: try to hold together the family while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The > PL: children are just grown up and the complications are derive from that > PL: they have more modern view of life. > > BY: Kornel Osvart > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MV: Mr. Arkadin (1955) > > PL: Guy Stratten gets the order from Mr. Arkadin, to find out everything about > PL: his past, because he lost his memory. Stratten accepts, but when he > PL: finds out that all the persons he asked about Arkadin are getting > PL: killed, tries he to prevent Arkadin from killing him. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 81029a82375,82382 > MV: Muellers Buero (1985) > > PL: Private detective Max Mueller and his assistent Larry try to solve a crime > PL: but find themselves in strange bars and women. > > BY: Patrick Gruban > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 81558,81564c82911,82919 < PL: Harold Hill, a con man, arrives in River City, Iowa, to bilk the < PL: reisdents out of their money by forming a boys' band. To this end, < PL: he cultivates the acquaintance of the town piano teacher, who is < PL: also the librarian, and soundly hated by the townswomen for her < PL: education. Will they fall in love? Will the instruments and < PL: uniforms actually be delivered? Will the boys actually be able to < PL: perform? --- > PL: Professor Harold Hill likes a challenge and when the other drummers on the > PL: train west tell him that Iowa is the biggest test of all of sales > PL: ability, he gets off at River City. We know it's the 20th century > PL: there, only because of a reference in one of the songs to Gary, > PL: Indiana. Marian the librarian doesn't buy the professor's line but he > PL: convinces many of his other potential customers that the new pool table > PL: that has just been placed in the billiard parlor could mean "trouble in > PL: River City." How to keep the youngsters "moral after school?" Form a > PL: boys marching band. 81566c82921 < BY: Randy Goldberg --- > BY: Dale O'Connor 81825a83181,83189 > MV: My Breast (1994) (TV) > > PL: Joyce Wadler,a journalist who lives in New York, has an unsatisfying > PL: relationship with her boyfriend. When she discovers that she is > PL: suffering from breast-cancer, she radically changes her way of life. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 82180a83545,83554 > MV: My Name Is Bill W. (1989) (TV) > > PL: Based on the true story of Bill W.(James Woods), a successful stock broker > PL: who's life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's must and come > PL: to grips with his alcoholism. He forms a support group with fellow > PL: drunk(James Garner)that would eventually become Alcoholic's Anonymous. > > BY: Humberto Amador > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 82503a83878,83890 > MV: Nadine (1987) > > PL: Working in an Austin, Texas, beauty parlour in 1954, Nadine Hightower > PL: endeavours to retrieve some 'art studies' she injudiciously had taken. > PL: Her visit to the photographer leaves him dead and her in possession of > PL: highly valuable plans of a proposed new road. With both the police and > PL: the murderous villains after her she enlists the help of her (almost) > PL: ex-husband Vernon, the none too successful owner of the Bluebonnet Bar. > PL: Fortunately the thugs are as much no-hopers as the Hightowers. > > BY: Jeremy Perkins > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 84296c85683 < MV: Night Out, A (1915) --- > MV: Night Out, A (1915/I) 84528a85916,85924 > MV: Nightmare (1956) > > PL: A musician was hypnotised in order to commit a crime. When he wakes up he > PL: tries to find the truth with the help of his brother-in-law who is a > PL: police officer. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 85900a87297,87304 > MV: Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An (1962) > > PL: Shows the dream of hope that flashes before a man's eyes during his own > PL: execution. > > BY: Chris Eling > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 85945a87350,87361 > MV: Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) > > PL: Dave Burke is looking to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earl > PL: Slater, an white ex-convict, and Johnny Ingram, a black gambler. Both > PL: are reluctant; but Burke arranges for Ingram's creditors to put > PL: pressure on him, while Slater feels humiliated by his failure to > PL: provide for his girl-friend; they eventually accept. But Slater loathes > PL: and despises blacks, and the tensions in the gang rapidly mount. > > BY: David Levene > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 86065a87482,87490 > MV: Of Mice and Men (1939) > > PL: George (Meredith) and half-wit Lenny (Chaney) work on a western ranch > PL: during the Great Depression, dreaming of the autonomy of owning and > PL: operating their own ranch some day. > > BY: Jerry Milani > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 86456a87882,87891 > MV: Old Homestead, The (1915) > > PL: When Josiah Whitcomb's son gets into trouble with bad companions in New > PL: York City, Josiah leaves the farm and goes into the city to find the > PL: boy. There he finds that his country ways are not at all respected in > PL: the sophisticated city. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 86690,86692c88125,88134 < PL: The last human on earth needs to find a way to survive on earth after a < PL: plague has wiped everyone out. He is not alone as he is terrorized by < PL: a group of deformed vampiric creatures that call themselves 'the family'. --- > PL: Robert Neville, a doctor,due to an experimental vaccine, is the only > PL: survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The > PL: plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few > PL: hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves "The Family". The > PL: plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as > PL: homicidally psychotic. They believe science and technology to be the > PL: cause of the war and their punishment, and Neville, as the last symbol > PL: of science, the old world, and a "user of the wheel", must die. Nev- > PL: ille, using electricty, machinery, and science attempts to hold them at > PL: bay. 86694c88136 < BY: Josh Pasnak --- > BY: Roald E. Peterson III 86771,86775c88213,88221 < PL: Norman and Ethel are a couple in the twilight of their lives, coming to < PL: terms with their age and their strained relationship with their daughter, < PL: Chelsea. They face these issues during the summer at their house on Golden < PL: Pond, when they take care of Chelsea's fiance's 13 year old son, Billy, < PL: while the couple is in Europe. --- > PL: The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired > PL: professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in > PL: their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea -- whom they haven't > PL: seen for years -- feels she must be there for Norman's birthday. She > PL: and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but will be back > PL: in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance's son. When she returns > PL: Chelsea is married and her stepson has the relationship with her father > PL: that she always wanted. Will father and daughter be able to communicate > PL: at last? 86777c88223 < BY: Liza Esser --- > BY: Dale O'Connor 87075a88522,88534 > MV: One and Only, The (1978) > > PL: 1951: Andy Schmidt is in his last year of college. Taking life easy and > PL: always a saucy joke on his lips, he manages to win fellow student > PL: Mary's heart, although she's already otherwise engaged. But getting a > PL: job after college turns out much harder than expected; most directors > PL: take offense at his free interpretation of his roles. Desperate, he > PL: tries in wrestling. To avoid getting beaten up he stages the fights - > PL: and incidentally invents show-wrestling. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 87263a88723,88730 > MV: One Mysterious Night (1944) > > PL: Blackie is enlisted by the police to help recover the Blue Star of the Nile > PL: diamond, stolen from a war relief exhibit. > > BY: Herman Seifer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 87346a88814,88822 > MV: One Tough Bastard (????) > > PL: Bosworth plays a hand-to-hand combat expert who's family gets killed by > PL: some bad guys. Following the usual revenge theme, Bosworth chases the > PL: bad guys throughout the movie. > > BY: Christian Andersen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 87613a89090,89100 > MV: Opposite Sex, The (1956) > > PL: Kay Hilliard, an former nightclub singer, married since ten years and > PL: mother of a gir is informed that her husband Steve is having an affair > PL: with chorus girl Crystal, so she goes to Reno for a divorce. After > PL: that, he marries Crystal, but Crystal isn't true. When Kay hears about > PL: with, she starts fighting to win her ex-husband back. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 87710a89198,89206 > MV: Oro Rojo (1978) > > PL: When a boatswain was left on a poor island being dominated by opression and > PL: hunger, he discovers that the reason for the misery is not nature but > PL: a net of bloody smugglers. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 87930,87932c89426,89430 < PL: Otto has three problems: no money, no job, no idea how to carry on. < PL: Even worse, a loan shark is going after him. His problems seem < PL: to be over when he saves the life of Silvia von Kohlen und Reibach. --- > PL: Otto (Otto Waalkes) is the only one who is able to save his frisian > PL: fatherland; but he needs the help of his brother (Otto Waalkes) who is > PL: abroad. But his brother does not want to fullfill what he has sworn as > PL: a child. So it takes Otto a while to convince him while time is running > PL: low for his plans to save East-Frisia. 87934c89432 < BY: Stefan Kahrs --- > BY: Volker Boehm 88169a89668,89700 > MV: Out of the Past (1947) > > PL: Jeff Markham, a former private detective, has changed is name to Bailey and > PL: is running a garage in the small town of Bridgeport with a deaf and > PL: dumb boy who helps him. He is in love with a local girl,Ann. One day, > PL: an old acquaintance, Joe, tracks him down. Jeff does not know exactly > PL: what he wants, but decides he must tell Ann everything about his past. > PL: A rich gambler named Whit Sterling had employed Jeff and his partner, > PL: Fisher, to find a girl who had stolen 40,000$ from him, shot him and > PL: disappeared. Jeff finds the girl, Kathy Moffat, in Acapulco, and they > PL: have a love affair. They return secretly to California, but Fisher > PL: finds them. He wants to be paid off for not telling Whit. Jeff and > PL: Fisher fight, and Kathy cold-bloodedly kills Fisher. Jeff discovers > PL: Kathy had been lying when she said she had not stolen money from Whit. > PL: She disappears. Back in Bridgeport, Joe takes Jeff to Whit. Kathy is > PL: here. Whit has a job for Jeff which he cannot refuse, because he knows > PL: the murder of Fisher can be pinned on him. The job is to go to San > PL: Francisco and recover a file on Whit's income tax in a briefcase from > PL: an attoorney named Leonards Eels. The tax information could send Whit > PL: to prison. Jeff knows he is being framed, and that Eels will be > PL: murdered, but he cannot extricate himself from the situation. Eels is > PL: shot by one of Whit's men, but Jeff hides the body and disappears with > PL: the briefcase. He wants to trade it against turning Kathy over the two > PL: murders. Whit is prepared to do a deal, but Kathy shoots him. She is > PL: now the only person that Jeff can do a deal with. She persuades Jeff to > PL: go away with her. However, Jeff informs the police. When they come to a > PL: police roadblock, Kathy shoots Jeff and is shot herself by the police. > PL: In Bridgeport, Ann asks the deaf and dumb boy if Jeff really intented > PL: to go away with Kathy. Perhaps to save her pain, he nods affirmatively. > > BY: Serge Marchal > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 88502a90034,90044 > MV: Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943) > > PL: Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a > PL: local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, > PL: joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They > PL: find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see > PL: justice done on the spot. > > BY: David Levene > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 88811c90353 < PL: louse up Joey's cushy set up. Very Runyonesque. --- > PL: louse up Joey's cushy set up. 89253a90796,90805 > MV: Pappa ante Portas (1991) > > PL: After ordering enough typewriting paper for 40 years, just to get discount, > PL: Heinrich Lohse is forced to retire. The former manager has plenty of > PL: time now to spend with his wife and their 16 year old son. But - do > PL: they want that? > > BY: Markus Lasermann > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 89286a90839,90845 > MV: Parade (1974) (TV) > > PL: Two children go behind the scenes of a small circus. > > BY: Aaron Sherman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 90129a91689,91697 > MV: Peggy (1916) > > PL: Peggy, a rambunctious young American girl, goes to Scotland to visit her > PL: uncle. Her American ways both shock and eventually delight the people > PL: of the old village - especially the handsome young minister. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 90553a92122,92134 > MV: Peril jeune, Le (1994) > > PL: Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet > PL: together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the > PL: awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one > PL: month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their > PL: laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... Through the pasts of the > PL: five main characters, a description of the french youth in the middle > PL: of the seventies. > > BY: Yepok > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 90614a92196,92204 > MV: Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride (1992) (TV) > > PL: Perry Mason is invited to the marriage of the daughter of an old friend of > PL: his. But after the ceremony the uncle of the bride is dead. Certainly > PL: this is a case for Perry Mason. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 91055a92646,92653 > MV: Phantom Thief, The (1946) > > PL: Blackie tricks a blackmailer-murderer into a confession. Story involves > PL: sinister seances and ghostly apparitions. > > BY: Herman Seifer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 91212c92810 < MV: Piano Panier (1989) --- > MV: Piano panier (1989) 91317a92916,92925 > MV: Picture Show Man, The (1977) > > PL: At the beginnings of this centuary a man, his son and a piano player travel > PL: around Australia showing the first silent movies (naturally in black > PL: and white). But what they really want is stay at one place and open up > PL: a cinema. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 91347a92956,92967 > MV: Pied Piper, The (1942) > > PL: Englishman Mr Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the > PL: Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is > PL: persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey > PL: progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied > PL: northern France a new problem arises - the risk of being heard speaking > PL: English. > > BY: Jeremy Perkins > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 91367a92988,92996 > MV: Pierrot Le Fou (1965) > > PL: Pierro escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterian > PL: Sea with Marianne, a girl, who is chased by hit-men from Algeria. They > PL: lead a unortodox live, always on the run. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 92578c94207 < MV: Poor White Trash II (1975) --- > MV: Poor White Trash Part 2 (1976) 92703,92710d94331 < MV: Popular Science (1935) < < PL: Considers marvels of modern science: contact lenses, kitchen < PL: gadgets, bubble bath (with cheesecake), diatoms, Boulder Dam. < < BY: Rod Crawford < < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 92726a94348,94355 > MV: Popular Science J-6-2 (1935) > > PL: Considers marvels of modern science: contact lenses, kitchen > PL: gadgets, bubble bath (with cheesecake), diatoms, Boulder Dam. > > BY: Rod Crawford > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 93674a95304,95313 > MV: Prince and the Pauper, The (1915) > > PL: The young prince who will be Edward VI of England meets his twin, a beggar > PL: boy named Tom Canty. They contrive to exchange places. The prince > PL: wanders about in poverty, learning the ways of the poor, while Tom > PL: discovers being a prince is not always so wonderful either. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 94375a96015,96028 > MV: Prophecy (1979) > > PL: The last of the great eco sci-fi horror films of the 1970's, Prophecy > PL: concerns the struggles of a Native American tribe to protect their > PL: Maine forest homeland from deforestation and polluting by an evil > PL: timber company. The movie gets off to a slow, preachy beginning, but > PL: picks up steam in the second half when a mutant grizzly bear arrives to > PL: maul, mangle and mutilate the guilty corporate criminals. The most > PL: disturbing thing in this film is the mutant baby grizzly bear, deformed > PL: by the mercury-poisoning of the local ecosystem. > > BY: Anonymous > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 95240c96893 < MV: Que la fete commence! (1975) --- > MV: Que la fete commence... (1975) 95744a97398,97415 > MV: Rachel and the Stranger (1948) > > PL: David Harvey is a widower with a young son, Davey, and they live on an > PL: isolated Ohio farm during the pioneer days. He wants his son to be > PL: raised in the manner his wife would have wanted, that is, with proper > PL: schooling, Bible study and proper manners. Rachel, an indentured > PL: servant is sold to David by her father in order to pay off his debts. > PL: David than marries her in order that little Davey would have a mother > PL: to properly raise him. However, David shows no real affection towards > PL: Rachel, for this is a marriage of convenience. This all changes when > PL: Jim, a friend of the family comes for a visit. During his stay, David > PL: sees that there is more to Rachel than just being a "bonds woman", > PL: especially when Jim takes a liking to her. This awaken new feelings in > PL: David for Rachel. > > BY: Kelly > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 97302a98974,98985 > PL: Writing has been the only escape of Louise Bryant until she goes to a > PL: lecture one night in 1912 and is mesmerized by a radical journalist, > PL: John Reed. She leaves her husband and goes to Greenwich Village with > PL: Reed where she keeps writing, covering the 1913 Armory Show of > PL: post-impressionist paintings from Europe. Reed is so wrapped up in > PL: changing the world that Louise leaves him for awhile and stays with a > PL: playwright, Eugene O'Neill. She returns to Reed. He goes to Russia > PL: and covers the 1917 Revolution. She never forgets Reed. the only > PL: American to be buried next to the Kremlin wall. > > BY: Dale O'Connor > 97602a99286,99300 > MV: Reluctant Astronaut, The (1967) > > PL: Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly > PL: afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for > PL: the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out > PL: upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to > PL: live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to > PL: keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When > PL: NASA decides to launch a lay person into space to prove the worthiness > PL: of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his > PL: fears. > > BY: Teresa E Tutt > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 98552a100251,100264 > MV: Ride Lonesome (1959) > > PL: A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, > PL: who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Brigade stops at a > PL: staging post, where he saves the manager's wife from an Indian attack, > PL: and enlists the help of two outlaws to continue his journey more > PL: safely. However, the Indian attacks persist, the outlaws plan to take > PL: Billy for themselves, tempted by the offer of amnesty for his captor, > PL: and Billy's brother Frank is in hot pursuit to rescue him. But Brigade > PL: has plans of his own ... > > BY: David Levene > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 100554a102267,102277 > MV: Rough Magic (1995) > > PL: The movie narrates the love between a pretty girl from California (Bridget > PL: Fonda) who runs away from her marriage and young American reporter > PL: (Russell Crowe) who tries to forget World War II by drinking > PL: tequila. The whole story is placed into a pictouros voyage on the > PL: great mayan route. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 101117a102841,102855 > MV: Ryan's Daughter (1970) > > PL: World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan > PL: Shaughnessy goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English > PL: officer. There was a magnetic attraction between them the day he was > PL: the only customer in her father's pub and Rosy was tending bar for the > PL: first time since her marriage to the village schoolmaster. Then one > PL: stormy night some Irish revolutionaries expecting a shipment of guns > PL: arrive at Ryan's pub. Is it Rosy who betrays them to the British? > PL: Will Shaugnessy take Father Collin's advice? Is the pivotal role that > PL: of the village idiot who is mute? > > BY: Dale O'Connor > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 101408a103147,103157 > MV: Saga of Hemp Brown, The (1959) > > PL: Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led > PL: by Lt. Hemp Brown. Givens kills a civilian woman and all the soldiers, > PL: leaving Brown alive to face a military tribunal in which he is branded > PL: a coward, stripped of all insignia and drummed out of the army. Brown > PL: sets out to track down Givens in an effort to clear his name. > > BY: Doug Sederberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 101834a103584,103597 > MV: Samuel Beckett Is Coming Soon (1993) > > PL: Two actors. On a road. With a tree. An effective description of the > PL: world Tony A and Tony Z find themselves inhabiting in Alan Arkin's > PL: film. "Samuel Beckett is Coming Soon...". Far from home, awaiting > PL: fame, recognition - or just an audience - the Tonys barely notice their > PL: lives mirroring the sad comedy, "Waiting for Godot." As they journey > PL: through the Southland, they find much less than they bargained for, > PL: trying to bring Beckett's classic to a largely disinterested modern > PL: audience. > > BY: Anonymous > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 102487a104251,104262 > MV: Save the Dog! (1988) (TV) > > PL: Becky wants to become an actress. After an audition for a dog food ad she > PL: has best chances to get the part - but the day after her dog Petey > PL: becomes very ill. She has to come up with $700 until 5 pm for the > PL: operation - else Petey will be put to death! Lacking only $70, she > PL: takes a job as messenger. She needs only one delivery, but her car > PL: breaks down and bad luck delays her again, and again, and again... > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 102570a104346,104355 > MV: Sazan Eyes (1991) (V) > > PL: Pai, an immortal being in the form of a young, naive girl, wants to be a > PL: human. Yakumo, as a favor to his dear departed father, leaves his job > PL: as a transvetite waiter to help her. Naturally, this course of events > PL: leads to Yakumo's new "life" as a zombie. > > BY: David McGuire > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 102998a104784,104792 > MV: Schlock (1971) > > PL: A monkey-type monster falls in love with a blind girl, which thinks that > PL: he's a giant dog. After kidnapping the girl and fleeing king-kong-like > PL: onto the roof of a gym, he gets involved with the army. > > BY: Markus Lasermann > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 103021a104816,104829 > MV: Schoene Feindin (1993) (TV) > > PL: Headhunter Laura Petersen is hired by Dr. Egon Wirtz to offer his > PL: ambitioned younger colleague Hans Bergmann a position at their > PL: competitor Giga Pharma. Thereby he wants to compromise him, while both > PL: apply for the same management position in their company. Bergmann is > PL: immediately attracted to the stunning blonde, and realizes the intrigue > PL: much too late. While Laura's much too professional to return his > PL: feelings, she agrees to help him when she learns how she's been > PL: misused. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 103852a105661,105683 > MV: Secret Rapture, The (1993) > > PL: In all ways well-acted and well-directed, THE SECRET RAPTURE is a modern > PL: drama about a kind of love well known in the real world but rarely if > PL: ever treated on the screen until now. Katherine (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) > PL: is a basically miserable and mentally unstable woman who is married to > PL: even-aged Isobel's (Juliet Stevenson) father, who is the only one > PL: willing to give Katherine the unconditional love that she craves lest > PL: her inner chaos should wholly consume her. For any kin of peace of > PL: mind, she is consequently entirely dependent on him. As, however, her > PL: husband dies (of natural causes), Katherine quite instinctively > PL: transfers her primal need for all-encompassing care to his daughter, > PL: Isobel. As this is a serious intrusion upon her and her boyfriend's > PL: private life, Isobel rejects Katherine - at first. She soon realizes > PL: that Katherine needs her attention more than her boyfriend, whom she > PL: then opts to leave, to go and live with Katherine in her father's > PL: countryside cottage. The last scenes of the movie, not to be revealed > PL: here, raises the question of who, after all, were the more needful of > PL: Isobel's love. > > BY: Tue Sorensen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 105393a107225,107234 > MV: Sheepman, The (1958) > > PL: A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, > PL: establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears > PL: with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the > PL: range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs. > > BY: David Levene > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 105705a107547,107558 > MV: Shock to the System, A (1990) > > PL: Graham Marshall already celebrates his anxiously awaited promotion in an > PL: advertising company, when he learns that Roger Banham, one of his > PL: subordinates, will be promoted instead of him. Frustrated that his > PL: hated life will never change, he starts a cunning ploy to take bloody > PL: revenge on everyone who humiliated him - starting with his unnerving > PL: wife. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 106267a108121,108129 > MV: Siete chicas peligrosas (1978) > > PL: Seven female friends decide to play an erotic game. They try to seduce as > PL: many aristocrats and middle-class men as possible by their charming > PL: personalities. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 108456c110318 < MV: Sole Anche di Notte, Il (1990) --- > MV: Sole anche di notte, Il (1990) 108575a110438,110449 > PL: Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he > PL: joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the > PL: mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago. > PL: After a train ride that sets a record for number of people in an upper > PL: berth, they are In Miami. Joe decides to be the man of Sugar Kane's > PL: dreams and invites her out to a yacht he doesn't have. But he can use > PL: Osgood Fielding's yacht if Jerry -- as Daphne -- will keep Osgood > PL: dancing. The pace gets even giddier when the Chicago mob arrives in > PL: Miami for a convention. > > BY: Dale O'Connor > 109778a111653,111665 > MV: Spellbinder (1988) > > PL: When Jeff and his friend rescue a young beautiful woman (Kelly Preston) > PL: from an apparently abusive boyfriend, the trouble starts. Jeff > PL: unknowing becomes involved with Miranda (Kelly) and the web of intrigue > PL: that follows her. Miranda is on the run from the witches coven (to > PL: which she belongs). Miranda tells Jeff of her situation, but not the > PL: entire truth. Jeff willingly helps Miranda out of her troubles, but > PL: creates his own. > > BY: Jeff Smee > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 110372a112260,112269 > MV: Stage Struck (1958) > > PL: The movie tells the story of Eva, a girl who comes to New York in order to > PL: become a great actress. With hard work she succeeds in working at a > PL: theatre and finally gets her chance on stage after a lot of changes and > PL: difficulties. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 110706a112604,112612 > PL: It is the twenty-third century. Admiral James T. Kirk is feeling old; the > PL: prospect of accompanying his old ship the Enterprise--now a Starfleet > PL: Academy training ship--on a two-week cadet cruise is not making him > PL: feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a deadly serious > PL: mission when Khan appears after years of exile--and holding the power > PL: of creation itself... > > BY: Gregory A. Sheets > 110775,110782c112681,112692 < PL: The evil Dr. Soren, determined to regain entry into a timeless place < PL: called "The Nexus", takes the Enterprise crew on another adventure. < PL: This time, the going gets very rough for both ship and crew. The film < PL: begins with a snippet of Captain Kirk (the original Enterprise captain) < PL: dying in the line of duty. The audience knows this isn't true < PL: (because we've *all* seen how a space-time anomaly has magical effects < PL: of dead Enterprise officers)and Kirk later joins with Picard to save < PL: the day. --- > PL: In the late twenty-third century, the gala maiden voyage of the third > PL: Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) boasts such luminaries as Pavel > PL: Chekov, Montgomery Scott, and the legendary Captain James T. Kirk as > PL: guests. But the maiden voyage turns to disaster as the unprepared ship > PL: is forced to rescue two transport ships from a mysterious energy > PL: ribbon. The Enterprise manages to save a handful of he ships' > PL: passengers and barely makes it out intact...but at the cost of Captain > PL: Kirk's life. Seventy-eight years later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the > PL: crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade > PL: scientist Soren...who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man > PL: can help Picard stop Soren's scheme...and he's been dead for > PL: seventy-eight years... 110784c112694 < BY: --- > BY: Gregory A. Sheets 110788a112699,112709 > PL: An alien phenomenon of unprecedented size and power is approaching Earth, > PL: destroying everything in its path. The only starship in range is the > PL: U.S.S. Enterprise--still in drydock after a major overhaul. As Captain > PL: Decker readies his ship and his crew to face this menace, the legendary > PL: Admiral James T. Kirk arrives with orders to take command of the > PL: Enterprise and intercept the intruder. But it has been three years > PL: since Kirk last commanded the Enterprise on its historic five year > PL: mission...is he up to the task of saving the Earth? > > BY: Gregory A. Sheets > 111599a113521,113532 > MV: Strange Days (1995) > > PL: Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millenium, the movie > PL: tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs > PL: containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc > PL: which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny > PL: investigates and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, > PL: murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case? > > BY: Harald Mayr > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 112178a114112,114121 > MV: Sube y baja (1958) > > PL: It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most > PL: people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports > PL: article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny > PL: problems he causes due to his dumbness. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 112186a114130,114141 > MV: Subspecies (1991) > > PL: The evil vampire villain Radu returns to his hometown of Prejnar, after > PL: spending years in exile. He steals the precious blood stone which is > PL: said to be bleeding from all saints, from his father and kills him. > PL: Meanwhile two american schoolgirls teams up with a local girl for a > PL: work on Roumanian culture. Radu becomes attracted to them but runs into > PL: trouble when his brother Stephan helps the girls. > > BY: Staffan Linder > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 112442a114398,114410 > MV: Sunday Punch (1942) > > PL: The routine of a group of fledgling boxers all living in Ma Galestrum's > PL: boarding house is interrupted when Ma allows her roving niece, > PL: beautiful Judy Galestrum, to move in. Especially interested is > PL: ex-college boy Ken Burke who is trying to quickly make it to the top, > PL: and young brawny Swedish janitor Olaf Jensen who believes Judy will > PL: fall for him if he becomes a champion boxer. The rivalry between the > PL: two friends leads them to an inevitable meeting in the ring. > > BY: Doug Sederberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 112864a114833,114841 > MV: Sur, El (1983) > > PL: The movie tells a melancholic story of a little girl who is living in a > PL: city in the north. She is fascinated by the secrets of the south which > PL: seem to be hidden in the personality of her father. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 113106a115084,115097 > MV: Swan, The (1956) > > PL: Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her > PL: only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant > PL: cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has > PL: searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole > PL: courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than > PL: Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the > PL: tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night > PL: and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him. > > BY: Dale O'Connor > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 113264a115256,115265 > MV: Sweet Smell of Success (1957) > > PL: J.J. Hunsecker, the most powerful newspaper columnist in New York, is > PL: determined to prevent his sister from marrying Steve Dallas, a jazz > PL: musician. He therefore covertly employs Sidney Falco, a sleazy and > PL: unscrupulous press agent, to break up the affair by any means possible. > > BY: David Levene > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 113912a115914,115925 > MV: Tag der Abrechnung - Der Amoklaeufer von Euskirchen (1994) (TV) > > PL: This movie depicts the story of Erwin Makolajczyk, a psychopath who killed > PL: 9 people in a courtroom on the 9th of March 1994. All of his life Erwin > PL: was a loner with a special liking for weapons. Finally he meets the > PL: older Lena to live with - but when she finds his weapons by chance one > PL: day, he beats her up. For this he's sentenced to pay her smart money - > PL: and Erwin cracks up... > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 114013a116027,116035 > MV: Take Me Home Again (1994) (TV) > > PL: Ed Reece, an old travelling salesman, decides to end his days in the place > PL: in which he was born. Therefore he convinces his elder son to acompany > PL: him on his last long voyage of farewell. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 115280a117303,117312 > MV: Teaserama (1955) > > PL: This is a compilation of several 1950s burlesque acts, so there's no real > PL: plot to summarize. There are some strippers, some stand-up comics of > PL: the take-my-wife-please variety and cult favorite Betty Page who > PL: introduces the acts and frames the film by strutting her stuff. > > BY: Erik Gregersen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 116833a118866,118881 > MV: They're a Weird Mob (1966) > > PL: Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant who arrived in Australia with the > PL: promise of a job as a journalist on his cousins magazine, only to find > PL: that when he gets there the magazine's folded, the cousins done a > PL: runner & the money his cousin sent for the fare was borrowed from the > PL: daughter of the boss of a local construction firm. So Nino tries to get > PL: a job & finishes up ... laying bricks. Nino works hard & friends with > PL: lots of locals, Nino & Kay argue a lot, Nino & Kay fall in love ... Kay > PL: takes Nino to meet 'Daddy' but daddy hates journalists, immigrants and > PL: bricklayers (he's now BOSS of a construction firm). Nino starts to win > PL: him over with his charm & determination to marry Kay. > > BY: Steve Crook > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 117103a119152,119166 > MV: This Happy Feeling (1958) > > PL: On a stormy night, young woman asks another guest at party to rescue her > PL: from her lecherous boss and take her to the train station. When her > PL: rescuer suggests that she stop at his place to get out of her wet > PL: clothes, she dashes from his car. The door she knocks on for help is > PL: the home of a retired actor and there she spends the rest of the night. > PL: He makes no passes and next morning she discovers young man who drove > PL: her from party is next door neighbor. The two men compete for her > PL: affections. Older man's zany live-in house-keeper and a seagull she > PL: has rescued provide comic relief. > > BY: Dale O'Connor > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 119655a121719,121734 > PL: Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his > PL: role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the > PL: smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very personal story that is > PL: both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's > PL: search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not > PL: especially made for him. From Arnold's hilarious steps toward domestic > PL: bliss with a reluctant school teacher, to his first truly promising > PL: love affair with a young fashion model, Arnold's greatest challenge > PL: remains his complicated relationship with his mother. But armed with a > PL: keenly developed sense of humor and oftentimes piercing wit, Arnold > PL: continues to test the commonly accepted terms of endearment--and > PL: endurance--in a universally affecting story that confirms that > PL: happiness is well worth carrying a torch for. > > BY: Michael Braem > 119920a122000,122009 > MV: Tougher Than Leather (1988) > > PL: Rap group Run-DMC star as themselves in this cross between a blaxploitation > PL: film and a spaghetti western. They band must find and punish the evil > PL: drug lord/record company exec. who murdered their friend. Along the > PL: way, they encounter racist bikers, blonde bimbos and the Beastie Boys! > > BY: Brad Carty > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 120152a122242,122249 > MV: Trafic (1972) > > PL: Mr. Hulot drives a recreational vehicle from Paris to Amsterdam in his > PL: usual comic, disasterous style. > > BY: Aaron Sherman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 120440a122538,122545 > MV: Trapped by Boston Blackie (1948) > > PL: Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen > PL: while he is supposed to be guarding it. > > BY: Herman Seifer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 121945a124051,124062 > MV: Two Rode Together (1961) > > PL: The US Army is under pressure from the desperate relatives of white > PL: prisoners of the Comanches to secure their rescue. A cynical and > PL: corrupt marshal, Guthrie McCabe, is persuaded by an army lieutenant to > PL: assist in the negotiations with the Comanches. However, just two > PL: captives are released; and their reintegration into white society > PL: proves highly problematic. > > BY: David Levene > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 122278a124396,124409 > MV: Ulzana's Raid (1972) > > PL: Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his > PL: reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, > PL: Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him > PL: back; accompanying the troop is McIntosh, an experienced scout, and > PL: Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache guide. Ulzana massacres, rapes and loots across > PL: the countryside; and as DeBuin encounters the remains of his victims, > PL: he is compelled to learn from McIntosh and to confront his own naivity > PL: and hidden prejudices. > > BY: David Levene > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 122989a125121,125129 > MV: Unknown, The (1915) > > PL: A young man joins the French Foreign Legion and is sent to Algieria, where > PL: he becomes a target for hatred by his commander. However, the > PL: commander has a change of heart when he realizes who the young man is. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 123843c125983 < MV: Vampyr (1932) --- > MV: Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (1932) 124571a126712,126725 > MV: Virginian, The (1923) > > PL: Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The > PL: Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows > PL: that he will make her love him. The Virginian's best friend, Steve, > PL: falls in with bad guys led by Trampas. The Virginian catches them > PL: cattle rustling. As foreman, he must give the order to hang his > PL: friend. Trampas gets away and shoots the Virginian in the back. Molly > PL: nurses him to health, and falls in love with him. They plan to marry, > PL: but on their wedding day Trampas returns, looking for trouble. > > BY: John Oswalt > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 125233a127388,127398 > MV: Waldrausch (1962) > > PL: After years of absence, engineer Lutz Ambross returns to his home village > PL: Maria Schnee with the job to build a dam. He can persuade most of the > PL: residents to accept the offered compensation for their land and houses > PL: - only the greedy Crispin sets them up against Lutz to raise the price. > PL: Both do also compete for the love of Beda. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 125316a127482,127491 > MV: Walker (1988) > > PL: William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua at the end of the > PL: 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat. > PL: All is being financed by an American multimillionaire who has his > PL: own interest in this country. > > BY: Volker Boehm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 125601a127777,127792 > MV: Warlock (1959) > > PL: The town of Warlock is plagued by a gang of thugs, leading the inhabitants > PL: to hire Clay Blaisdell, a famous gunman, to act as marshal. When > PL: Blaisdell appears, he is accompanied by his friend Tom Morgan, a > PL: club-footed gambler who is unusually protective of Blaisdell's life and > PL: reputation. However, various townspeople, concerned by the illegality > PL: of Blaisdell's position, induce Johnny Gannon, one of the thugs who has > PL: reformed, to accept the post of official sheriff in rivalry to > PL: Blaisdell; and a woman arrives in town accusing Blaisdell and Morgan of > PL: having murdered her fiance. The stage is set for a complex set of moral > PL: and person conflicts. > > BY: David Levene > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 126544a128736,128748 > MV: Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen? (1974) > > PL: Ceylon: One of the richest plantation owners is found dead in his car, a > PL: knife through his heart. All proof points to his young wife Anne. > PL: Inspector San is convinced she's guilty and wants to take her to the > PL: Indian mainland for trial. However their plane crashes and they end up > PL: on a small island, where the only other person is a shipwrecked man, > PL: who soon befriends Anne, believes in her innocence. Inspector San > PL: starts to fear for his life. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 127083a129288,129297 > MV: When Michael Calls (1971) (TV) > > PL: Helen keeps on receiving phone calls from a child, who claims being her > PL: nephew Michael - but Michael died 15 years ago! In these calls he > PL: scolds on acquaintances, who then die in suspicious accidents. Soon > PL: Helen has to fear to be the next victim. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 127936a130151,130159 > MV: Widow's Kiss (1994) > > PL: A lawyer befriends a client and before he knows it he's married to her. > PL: Both are recently widowed with teenage sons. When the lawyer dies of a > PL: heart attack within a matter of days his son becomes suspicious. > > BY: Rob Hartill > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 127962a130186,130198 > MV: Wie fuettert man einen Esel (1973) > > PL: Shortly after Fred Stein starts with his truck for a several days long > PL: urgent trip from Hungary to Bulgaria, his partner gets injured in an > PL: accident and has to stay in hospital. Fred is very unlucky with the > PL: only available replacement... because she's a woman. He fears she'll > PL: disturb his habit to visit a girlfriend at each stop. And right, the > PL: original, silent girl soon gets onto his nerves. Then Fred has to make > PL: another new experience... falling in love. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 128645a130882,130895 > MV: Windmills of the Gods (1988) (TV) > > PL: The president himself calls Professor Mary Ashley to become ambassador of > PL: the United States in the communist Rumania under Unesco. He wants her > PL: to introduce a new political line. The time she accepts, she doesn't > PL: know how much resistance she'll meet... already before the leaves, her > PL: husband is killed in a suspicious car accident. Arrived in Rumania, she > PL: has not only trouble being accepted as a woman and newcomer in > PL: politics, but also gets into a deadly intrigue that shall sabotage the > PL: detente policy. > > BY: Tom Zoerner > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 128793a131044,131054 > MV: Winslow Boy, The (1948) > > PL: In Edwardian England, a thirteen year-old cadet, Ronnie Winslow, is > PL: expelled from the naval academy at Osborne for stealing a seven > PL: shilling postal order. His father and sister become obsessed with > PL: proving his innocence at any cost to themselves, and turn the case into > PL: a national cause celebre. > > BY: David Levene > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 129426a131688,131700 > MV: Woman Times Seven (1967) > > PL: Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her > PL: husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out > PL: of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out > PL: otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her > PL: over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a > PL: supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be > PL: suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband. > > BY: Herman Seifer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 129732a132007,132013 > MV: Words and Music (1948) > > PL: Film biography of lyricist Lorenz Hart. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 130168a132450,132465 > MV: Xtro (1983) > > PL: Abducted by aliens, a man returns years later. > > BY: Aaron Sherman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MV: Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1990) > > PL: Team of military scientists discover alternative dimension and crossover. > PL: The accidently bring back horrible monsters that have a taste for human > PL: flesh. > > BY: Humberto Amador > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 131372c133669 < MV: Zazie dans le Metro (1960) --- > MV: Zazie dans le metro (1960) 131552a133850,133863 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MV: Ziegfeld Girl (1941) > > PL: Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the > PL: better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle > PL: on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing > PL: vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both > PL: by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the > PL: mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband > PL: cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading > PL: her glamor in skimpy costumes. > > BY: Michael Meigs