Apply on: CRC: 0x2B48C2B2 File: plot.list Date: Thu Feb 3 00:00:00 2000 1c1 CRC: 0xF77345F7 File: plot.list Date: Thu Feb 10 00:00:00 2000 36c36 * The plot list currently contains 35131 summaries covering 31958 movies. 8285a8286,8303 MV: "Dark Angel" (2000) PL: In a future of political, economic and moral collapse, a genetically PL: enhanced superhuman prototype named Max escapes from military confines PL: and dwells amidst the decadent underground street life of San Francisco PL: to avoid government agents who want to bring her back into the fold. PL: Searching for others of her kind who were scattered in the aftermath of PL: her escape, Max encounters Logan Clarke, an idealistic cyber-journalist PL: battling repression and corruption in post-apocalypse America. PL: Eventually, Logan calls her to the highest part of her being and Max PL: becomes his samurai as the pair takes on the ruthless power-brokers of PL: the new millennium. Max and Logan's odyssey leads them closer to the PL: secret of her past, deepening and complicating their relationship in PL: the process. BY: Ronos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8985a9004,9013 MV: "Dis examartin, To" (1994) PL: The series takes place in a TV station, where two men (the station's best PL: reporters) want the same woman. This woman happens to be married to one PL: of them, but that doesn't matter much since she wants both of them PL: too... BY: Chris Makrozahopoulos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9220,9230d9247 15497a15515,15531 MV: "Incredible Hulk" (1966) PL: Nuclear scientist Bruce Banner found his life turned completey upside down PL: when he was supervising a test of his new gamma bomb. Seeing teenager PL: Rick Jones loitering in the test site, Banner goes out to remove him. PL: However contrary to his orders, his assistant Igor, who is actually a PL: Soviet spy, allowed the bomb to detonate while Banner was exposed just PL: as he put Rick in safety. Miraculously he somehow survives, but he has PL: a new problem. Now whenever he undergoes stress, he transforms into PL: the massive monster, the Hulk. Now he must fight either General PL: "Thunderbolt" Ross of the US Air Force who obssessedly hunts the PL: creatures, or villians like the Leader, a mad scientist whose own PL: exposure to gamma radiation made him a malevolent genius. BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16045a16080,16089 MV: "Jack of All Trades" (2000/II) PL: American spy/adventurer Jack Stiles is sent by Thomas Jefferson to the tiny PL: South Pacific island of Polau Polau to work with British spy Emilia PL: Rothschild to stop the advances of the French Emperor, Napoleon PL: Bonaparte in his bid for world conquest. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16601a16646,16656 MV: "Julie" (1992) PL: Short-lived sitcom starring Julie Andrews and directed by her husband, PL: Blake Edwards. She played a star of a television variety show who PL: moves with her new husband to Sioux City, Iowa, and decides to PL: broadcast her show from there in order to balance her career and family PL: life. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16977a17033,17043 MV: "Kavanagh QC" (1994) PL: James Kavanagh QC (Queen's Counsel) is one of the top flight barristers in PL: Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and PL: defendants which put his skills to the test regularly. All the while, PL: his family often encounters rough patches that require much of his free PL: time as well. BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22816a22883,22916 MV: "Olsen-bandens første kup" (1999) PL: Egon Olsen has a problem. The money for the children's PL: home has been used by Mr. Hallandsen and his office stab. Egon has to PL: prove this, if he will save the Christmas for the home. To help him he PL: finds Kjeld and Benny in his new school. So they form the Olsen-banden PL: (The Olsen gang.) And Egon has a plan. But so does Hallandsen. He needs PL: money to get out of the country, and he plans to do the inverse Santa PL: Claus. Where Santa picks up the gifts instead of bringing them out. PL: Who has the better plan? Will there be any Christmas for Olsen-banden PL: this year? BY: Kynde PL: Egon Olsens jul er ved at gå PL: i vasken, da de høje herrer har sollet børnehjemmets penge væk, til PL: deres egen fornøjelse. Derfor må Egon bevis hvad der er sket. Men det PL: er ikke nemt for en lille dreng, at overbevise politiet om, at PL: respekterede herrer har gjort noget ulovligt. Derfor skal Egon bruge PL: Kjeld og Benny, og en hel række andre remedier. For nu er Olsen-banden PL: dannet og Egon har en plan. Men det har Hallandsen også. Han har brug PL: for penge, så han kan slippe ud af landet, før politiet opdager, hvad PL: der er sket. Helst så mange penge at han kan leve fedt resten af sine PL: dag. Planen er den omvendte julemand, hvor julemanden henter pakkerne i PL: folks hjem, i stedet for at komme med dem. Hvilken plan er bedst. Egon PL: løber hovedet mod en mur mange gange. F.eks. er Kjeld håbløst forelsket PL: i Yvonne, men det er Bøffen også. Hvem vil hun mon vælge? Får Kjelds PL: mor nogensinde det parti dadler? Vil politiet tro på Egons beviser? Ja PL: listen af problemer er alen lang. Det vigtigste spørgsmål er: Bliver PL: det overhovedet jul for Olsen-banden? BY: Kynde ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23136a23237,23254 MV: "Others, The" (2000) PL: College student Marian Kitt is terrified to discover that she has the power PL: to see into the "other side." Word of Marian's vision spreads to PL: Professor Miles Ballard, a student of paranormal and psychic phenomena. PL: He introduces Marian to "the others," a group of individuals with the PL: ability to vicariously experience the feelings, thoughts and PL: experiences of others, and to help them understand paranormal PL: phenomena. Famed medium Elmer Greentree is their spiritual leader and a PL: mentor figure for Marian, whose potential to see "all of the light" is PL: strong. With Marian now among them, they will help each other PL: understand their abilities as they encounter otherworldly, often PL: frightening, alternative dimensions. And all the while, a dark force PL: looms over them. BY: Ronos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27437c27555 MV: "She-Ra: Princess of Power" (1985) 27557c27675,27691 MV: "Shoukoujo Seera" (1985) PL: Anime adaption of 1905's children's novel 'A Little Princess'. Sara Crewe PL: arrives in London with her wealthy father to enter Miss Minchin's PL: boarding school for young ladies. Despite an unhappy incident which PL: makes Miss Minchin vexed with her, she leads a contented life until one PL: day, her birthday, the news of the sudden death of her father plunges PL: her into poverty. She is forced to do lowly work for the Seminary and PL: in her situation, she is a welcome target to Miss Minchin and her PL: former fellow pupil Lavinia, who once envied her wealth. But with the PL: help of her friends she made and her own will-power she finds the PL: strength to never give up. BY: Taro Rehrl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Shôjo kakumei Utena" (1997) 27577,27592d27710 28706a28825,28833 PL: The human race is wiped out by a government invented super flu. The PL: remaining survivors take sides in the forces of good and evil. A PL: mysterious old woman who is a servant of God and a powerful and deadly PL: man who might be the devil himself. A gas station attendant, a rock PL: star, a mute, a professor, a farmer, a socialite, a mildly retarded PL: man, a judge, a teenager, a mother, and a nerd take forces. BY: Mystic80 29396a29524,29535 MV: "Submariner" (1966) PL: Namor, the hybrid son of a human seaman and an Atlantian prince is unique PL: among his people. Unlike his subjects, he can breath air as well as PL: water, fly in the air and command of the creatures of the sea. As PL: prince of Atlantis, he fights furiously against all enemies of his PL: home, whether they be Atlantian villians like Krang the Conquerer, or PL: the surface dwellers up above. BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29585a29725,29744 MV: "Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, The" (1967) PL: In this series, the adventures of various superhero characters from DC PL: Comics are featured. When trouble erupts, the last son of Krypton PL: doffs his identity as Clark Kent to become Superman. When villians PL: threaten the sea, they must face the power of its Atlantian defenders, PL: Aquaman, Aqualad and Mera. In addition to these featured characters, PL: we have several other heroes' adventures. These include the adventures PL: of police scientist Barry Allen who fights crime as the fastest man PL: alive, the Flash. Katar Hol fights crime as the winged avenger, PL: Hawkman. Armed with the wonderous power ring, test pilot Hal Jordan PL: responds to threats to his sector of space as its assigned Green PL: Lantern. Scientist Ray Palmer opposes evil using his shrinking and PL: density control equipment as the Atom. In addition, these heroes work PL: together for the Justice League of America. Also, the teen sidekicks of PL: these heroes have their own adventures as the Teen Titans. BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30363c30522 MV: "Telford's Change" (1979) 31938a32098,32107 MV: "Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, The" (1966) PL: In the series, we see the scientific expeditions of the renowned sea PL: explorer, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the crew of his ship, the Calypso. PL: They go around the globe exploring various regions of the underwater PL: world and try to unlock its secrets and get them on film. BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 35616c35785 MV: 1-2-3 Go! (1941) 36916a37086,37098 PL: On Christmas Eve, Frankie Pesce of Queens wins $6 million in New York PL: State's first lottery. Instead of joy, he's in a rage, breaking church PL: windows and disturbing the peace. At the police station, he tells his PL: story. He's extraordinarily lucky, beginning with surviving a dicey PL: childbirth; he works a little here and there; he still lives with his PL: parents, his sister, her husband, and his older brother. They have PL: noisy relationships, and at the heart is his father: a guy with dreams PL: but little to show for them. Dad has lost his trucking business to a PL: Mafia wise guy, now he's lost his job as a teamster. But is dad really PL: a loser, and why, after winning $6 million, is Frankie desolate? BY: 38285c38467 MV: 9th U.S. Cavalry Watering Horses (1898) 38340a38523,38535 MV: A De shen ming (1994) PL: Doug wants to be like any other Hong kong Chinese, and that is to be rich. PL: Why? So he can pick up girls. Without money to buy brand names and PL: live in a million dollar condo, he is out of luck. Until, a bathroom PL: attendant convinces him he has the body to be a gigolo. He becomes PL: one, but with a conscience. Later, after his "success" he falls for a PL: client. He promises to quit the life of a gigolo until one day he was PL: tested.....by his girlfriend. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 39505a39701,39715 MV: Absolutt blåmandag (1999) PL: John and Siri Lill are a couple who have been together for most of their PL: forty something years, but are yet to be married. He works for a PL: newspaper, and is a heavy drinker. She is a respected hairdresser, PL: working for Birger, a commom friend. John, usually, bottle-in-hand is PL: an ace at being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Tired of John's PL: drinking, Siri decides to leave him and move to her parents' house. PL: John's drinking then worsens, and their apartment becomes a mess. Siri PL: decides to return to her and John's place, and that's when the Absolute PL: Hangover really begins with a vengeance. BY: GMeleJr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 42318a42529,42539 MV: Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story of Life (1965) PL: Tom chases Jerry around a high-rise apartment, and then around the ledge PL: surrounding the building. They torment each other with a compressed PL: air horn. Jerry goes down a drainpipe and Tom follows, stretching PL: himself the length of the pipe (and getting unstuck with help from the PL: air horn). BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 44611a44833,44842 MV: Aliki sto Naftiko, I (1961) PL: Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. PL: Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her PL: lover's ship. Things get more complicated when she comes accross the PL: ship's captain; her father! BY: Chris Makrozahopoulos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 46386a46618,46638 MV: Amaneció de golpe (1998) PL: The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, PL: Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. PL: Venezuelans found themselves as virtual prisoners. As the coup starts PL: and fighting takes place from a military base which is in the center of PL: the city's most affluent areas, with both luxury high rises and PL: palatial mansions. The area of La Carlota provides a wealth of very PL: interesting, often flamboyant and typical characters of the Latin PL: America upper middle and upper classes. They are among the most PL: affected. Various vignettes in these different characters' homes are PL: developed. These people's reactions, lifestyles, vices, and humanity PL: come out in a very honest fashion under duress. There are often clashes PL: between them and the military invading the area. The media, PL: particularly TV and radio insist everything is under control, but the PL: residents around La Carlota see a very different reality, right through PL: daybreak (Amanecer) the following morning. BY: Guy33134 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 52391a52644,52652 PL: A schoolgirl takes a shortcut through some woods and is seized by an unseen PL: malevolent force. She is never seen again and the authorities erect an PL: iron fence around the woods to prevent a recurrence. Three years PL: later, another schoolgirl regularly visits the fence and speaks with PL: something that is invisible. The malevolent force seems to affect her PL: family, first in dreams and later in more concrete ways. BY: JHC3 52401a52663,52674 MV: Apprentice, The (1991) PL: Medieval times. A jester is heading to the castle, but can't help running PL: into a fruit tree in his path. Again and again. After a while, he PL: lands nose-down and when he gets up, his nose remains stuck in the PL: ground. He gives up, and we see that "wise" people aren't faring much PL: better. He returns to his master, who gives him a replacement nose and PL: sets off on an easier path. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 52934a53208,53217 MV: Architecture of Reassurance (1999) PL: Dissatisfied with life at home, a young girl travels through other PL: residences in her suburban neighborhood. She does what all of us would PL: like to do: experience the domestic stories being played out by our PL: neighbors. This tale is a voyeurist's paradise. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 54407,54416d54689 57227c57500 MV: Aysecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde (1971) 62452a62726,62744 MV: Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999) (V) PL: Twenty years after Bruce Wayne's retirement as Batman, the world has PL: changed even as he retreats from it, ceding control of his company, PL: Wayne-Powers Enterprises, to his partner, Derek Powers. In that world, PL: Terry McGinnis is an ordinary kid whose father, Warren, works for that PL: company. While Terry was out on the town, he has a chance encounter PL: with Bruce Wayne and, his legacy as Batman. He also learns that his PL: father was murdered in his absence and finds a disc containing data PL: that suggests the true motive for the crime and the culprit, Derek PL: Powers. Turning to Wayne as the only one he can trust, he learns that PL: Wayne will not help him directly fight Powers. In desperation and PL: without permission, Terry dons Wayne's last Batman outfit to challenge PL: Powers himsef, but can he convince Wayne to help him in order to fight PL: Derek Powers? BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 63062c63354 MV: Battleship 'Oregon' (1898/I) 63068,63069c63360,63361 PL: grandest naval films ever produced, showing the United States fleet of PL: battle-scarred warships as they passed in triumphal procession from 63072,63077c63364,63369 PL: decorated river steamers, excursion boats, tugs, and showing views PL: along North River, of New York and New Jersey. The naval heroes can be PL: seen on their respective ships. None but those engaged in the battles PL: were allowed on board, except the United States Cabinet officers and PL: their ladies, who were on board the cruiser New York with Rear Admiral PL: W.T. Simpson, in command of the fleet. Everyone should have these great 63083c63375 MV: Battleship Massachusetts (1898/I) 63089,63090c63381,63382 PL: greatest naval films ever produced, showing the United States fleet of PL: the battle-scarred warships as they passed in triumphal procession from 63093,63098c63385,63390 PL: decorated river steamers, excursion boats, tugs and showing views along PL: North River, of New York and New Jersey. The naval heroes can be seen PL: on their respective ships. None but those engaged in the battled were PL: allowed on board, except the United States Cabinet officers and their PL: ladies, who were on board the cruiser New York with Rear Admiral W.T. PL: Sampson, in command of the fleet. Everyone should have these great 63104c63396 MV: Battleship Texas (1898) 66004a66297,66311 MV: Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano (1985) PL: This documentary intercuts interviews with directors, producers, actors, PL: and designers working in Italian cinema with clips from Cabiria (1914) PL: and Assunta Spina (1915) to Non ci resta che piangere (1984) and Enrico PL: IV (1984). It measures the contributions of Italian cinema to PL: neo-realism, to music and costume design, to cinematography, and to the PL: adaptation of novels to film. Praise for Visconti is lavish, and the PL: important role of Cinecittà in giving a home to Italian artistry is PL: celebrated. Fellini and Wertmüller tell Oscar stories. It concludes PL: with a salute to the Venice film festival. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 67358a67666,67679 MV: Between Girls (1998) PL: Puberty has been good to 14-year old Olivia, who recently out-blossomed her PL: best friend Ann over the summer. When the two girls transfer to an PL: elite private school, Olivia is immediately embraced by the popular PL: girls and coveted by the boys. Feeling betrayed, Ann watches from the PL: social sidelines as Olivia effortlessly wields a newfound power over PL: their classmates. Their friendship finally unravels over an uninvited PL: encounter between Olivia and the brother of the most popular girl in PL: their clique. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 68712a69034,69047 MV: Big Canyon (1998) PL: When Dwayne and Debbie aren't busy cruising around the Midwest selling PL: bogus phone cards, they spend their time counting their cash and PL: playing a game called Worst Case Scenario. In this game, the young PL: lovers take turns dreaming up a series of increasingly difficult PL: life-or-death situations, from which the other must try to devise an PL: escape. Eventually, their phone-card scam catches up with them, as they PL: find themselves trapped in a real life "worst-case scenario" from which PL: there seems to be no escape. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 69772a70108,70119 MV: Big Wash, The (1948) PL: Goofy is a circus attendant who is friends with Dolores the elephant. Today PL: is his day to bathe Dolores but Dolores is not intent on being bathed PL: and tries desparately to avoid Goofy even disguising herself as a clown PL: at one point (which actually fools Goofy for a moment). Even when Goofy PL: captures her, he still has difficulties with the bath job particularly PL: when Dolores begins to start sneezing. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 70553a70901,70911 MV: Bird Store, The (1932) PL: A pet shop specializing in birds. The various caged birds chirp along to PL: the score in their various styles (including a set of birds that looks PL: like the Marx Brothers). A cat eyes the proceedings hungrily and makes PL: his way in through an open transom, causing panic and an organized PL: counterattack. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 70624a70983,70992 MV: Birds in the Spring (1933) PL: Two birds rejoice over the hatching of their three eggs; as they grow, the PL: hatchlings are taught to sing and fly. One falls from the nest and has PL: adventures with a rattlesnake and a beehive before finding his way PL: home. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 70638a71007,71017 MV: Birds of a Feather (1931) PL: Swans swim by; a peacock displays its plumage in glorious black-and-white PL: while a passing duck jeers; assorted songbirds chirp; a woodpecker PL: chases a caterpillar; a chorus of owls croons. A chicken goes after PL: worms while ignoring her brood until a hawk circles. When the hawk PL: captures one chick, the crows form an attack squadron. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 74554a74934,74943 MV: Bloody Mama (1970) PL: Based on a true story. Kate Barker (Shelley Winters) loves her four sons PL: and would do anything for them. In an attempt to improve their lives, PL: she leads them on a violent spree of bank robbery, murder, and PL: kidnapping. BY: measham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 76041a76431,76440 MV: Body Count (1998) PL: A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire PL: and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running PL: afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con PL: artist with ideas of her own. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 78216c78615 MV: Borrowed Trouble (1948) 79100,79123d79498 82024a82400,82412 PL: A true tale of terrifying circumstances, when a surf trip across the PL: Mexican border turns three day's into a lifetime of lessons. Rob PL: McCardel (Nolan North), is a naive American whose innocence comes PL: crashing down when faced with the country's infestation of political PL: hatred. Then there is Angel (Daniel Zacapa), a Mexican ambulance driver PL: who, on the surface, appears callus and indifferent. A gradual alchemy PL: transpires between the two, warmly locating the human center on Angel, PL: who gives up his way of life for the fundamental good, leaving us with PL: the question as a society of how we got here, what are we doing about PL: it now and where we are going. BY: Daniel L. Holmes 86015a86404,86414 MV: Cabin by the Lake (2000) (TV) PL: A screenwriter does research for his new script by actually kidnapping and PL: drowning young girls. He then places them in his "garden" of other PL: dead girls coming back daily to check on them. One girl narrowly PL: escapes and the other bodies are found leading to an ingenious plot to PL: try and capture the killer. BY: Shari-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 86032c86431 MV: Cabin in the Cotton (1932) 87449a87849,87862 PL: Set in contemporary L.A., "Camera Obscura" is a psychological thriller PL: drama about Jimmy, a talented photographer with true artist's PL: sensibilities, who takes a job as a crime scene photographer with the PL: LAPD. Unable to comprehend the dark and cruel reality of the crime PL: scenes and haunted by the images of the victims he witnesses, he PL: confronts his fears by setting his own boundaries on reality and PL: illusion. He starts to beautify the crime scenes, by changing the PL: composition, lights and lenses, and shooting the victims in surreal and PL: living poses. soon, in his pictures, the victims don't look dead PL: anymore and ultimately Jimmy convinces himself that through his camera PL: he can make the dead come alive again. BY: Anonymous 87777a88191,88202 MV: Camping Out (1934) PL: The gang is sitting around their campsite when a mosquito spoils their fun. PL: And then he gets hundreds of his friends and they really cause trouble. PL: Horace squirts some with molasses, which helps a bit. Everyone PL: retreats to the tent, where they still get stung but can fight back a PL: bit, eventually trapping all the mosquitoes in a pair of bloomers and PL: sending them on their way. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 87999a88425,88435 MV: Canada Vignettes: Melvin Arbuckle, Famous Canadian (1980) PL: A narrator tells a story of how he was a boyhood friend of a great PL: psychiatrist. Furthermore, the narrator knew from that time that that PL: would be the calling of his friend from one experience where the gang PL: wanted to make a hole in some tough ground and Melvin suggested using PL: dynamite that he could get... BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 89471a89908,89919 MV: Caravana (1999) PL: Romina has received a college degree, She lives in the city, but she is PL: from a small town. Now she has the opportunity to work in his town, but PL: she wants to stay in the city. This is the story of a night when Romina PL: and Juan go dancing, and next to a wild trip to the city, and have some PL: adventures and moments of reflexions that will affect Romina's PL: decition. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 92139a92588,92598 MV: Cat's Out, The (1931) PL: The family cat, out for the night, stalks and catches a bird singing atop PL: the weathervane, but it flies off, pulling the cat and weathervane down PL: and knocking the cat out. The cat has a vision of giant birds, lacking PL: the tailfeathers he pulled out, tormenting him, and soon, everything in PL: the autumn landscape is animated and scary. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 94355a94815,94830 PL: After a street fight in a nice suburban neighborhood, we go back a few PL: hours and learn more about the characters involved. Barry works in the PL: shipping department of Technoworks, a high-tech company. He's invited PL: to a barbecue that his boss Quinn is having. The party gets out of PL: hand, Barry plays a demented version of charades while standing on a PL: picnic table, and the next door neighbor, Targenville, screams PL: obscenities over the fence. When Jude, the widow of the owner of PL: Technoworks arrives, we learn of her husband's demise as part of a PL: kidnapping scheme gone awry. As the film progresses, the question is PL: who was the kidnapper, and how will they pay for the consequences of PL: their crime. The information comes to us like a puzzle, echoing the PL: film's namesake, and we are, by the end, able to, as Jude tells us, PL: "Put the pieces together". BY: Stephen Eckelberry 95953a96429,96442 MV: Chicken Little (1943) PL: It's a peaceful day at the local poultry farm until Foxey Loxey happens PL: along intent on a chicken dinner. He takes the advice of a book on PL: psychology by striking "the least intelligent" first and convinces dim PL: witted Chicken Little the sky is falling. Chicken Little spreads the PL: word but when head man Cocky Locky proves the story to be false, Foxey PL: Loxey spreads rumors that Cocky Locky isn't the smart chicken he PL: appears to be which leads to the ultimate undoing of the chickens at PL: the hands of Foxey Loxey. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 97324a97814,97822 MV: Chou tin dik tong wah (1987) PL: Filmed in New York, story of naive young woman from Hong Kong who goes to PL: New York to study. Street-wise cabbie cousin takes care of her in the PL: big city BY: L.H. Wong ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 97432a97931,97942 MV: Christmas Every Day (1996) (TV) PL: Billy Jackson is not having a good Christmas. He got a basketball for Xmas PL: and just cannot make a jump shot. His Uncle David is coming to town to PL: open up a Valu-Mall which will put his Dad's store out of business. PL: When he tells his little sister Sarah that there is no Santa she makes PL: the wish that it would be Xmas every day. Billy now has to relive PL: Christmas Day over and over again. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 97515a98026,98038 MV: Christmas Party, The (1931) PL: 'Jackie Cooper' (qv)'s mother agrees to host a Christmas party for his PL: football team. Things soon get out of hand, and the number of children PL: gets too large for his house. He pleads with 'Norma Shearer' (qv) to PL: ask 'Louis B. Mayer' (qv) to allow Jackie to have the party on one of PL: MGM's sound stages. The party is held at stage no. 2, with numerous MGM PL: stars acting as food servers. The film ends with Cooper wishing viewers PL: a Merry Christmas. BY: David Glagovsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 97604,97616d98126 97834a98345,98361 MV: Churchill's Island (1941) PL: This short uses newsreel footage, official British government film, and PL: captured German government film to tell the story of Great Britain's PL: defense against Germany in the early days of World War II. The story PL: begins with the Battle of Britain, Germany's air war against England in PL: 1940. Germany lost about 2300 aircraft, while the Royal Air Force lost PL: about 900. When Germany realized that the war could not be won in the PL: air, it carried out a policy of sinking virtually any ship in the PL: Atlantic headed to England. Meanwhile, England prepared for a sea PL: invasion on its southern coasts, determined to repel any attack. The PL: narrator says that with the help of America, Canada, and other allies, PL: England will not be defeated and tells Germany, "Come, IF YOU DARE!" BY: David Glagovsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 100463a100991,101001 MV: Closer and Closer (1995) PL: Kate Saunders is a successful writer of books dealing with serial killers. PL: She is also a paraplegic as the result of a vicious attack by a killer PL: who also murdered three woman after being inspired by Kate's novel. Now PL: the sequel is about to be published and the killings have started all PL: over again. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 100943a101482,101491 MV: Cock o' the Walk (1935) PL: The title character comes to town, complete with portable boxing ring. He PL: grabs a local chicken and dances with her, inspiring several other PL: barnyard animals to dance. But her rooster takes offense, and enters PL: the ring to do battle. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 102662a103211,103218 PL: Sent to bring in Joan Stanton, Ranger Jim Madden returns with a bullet in PL: his back. To avenge his brother's death, Larry goes after her. When he PL: gets in with her gang he slowly realizes she is innocent and that Frank PL: Sanderson is guilty. He convinces her to turn herself in but they then PL: get caught by Sanderson's men. BY: Maurice VanAuken 104332c104888 MV: Confession, The (1999/I) 104479a105036,105047 MV: Confidential (1986) PL: The year is 1949 and reporter Hugh Jameson is looking for a story. He PL: focuses on Emma Porter, a woman who was accused of the axe murder of PL: her father thirty seven years earlier. Jameson disappears during his PL: search and his wife hires Charles Ripley P.I. to find him. Ripley's PL: search leads him to Emma's son who has his own nasty secrets to PL: protect. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 109980c110548 MV: Cruiser 'Marblehead' (1898/I) 113213c113781 MV: Daleks': Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) 115537c116105 MV: Darkness (1993) (V) 118635a119204,119223 MV: Death at Love House (1976) (TV) PL: Donna and Joel Gregory are researching a book about long dead Hollywood PL: goddess Lorna Love. They are staying at Lorna's estate while PL: interviewing old "friends" of Lorna. Joel, whose father had a PL: passionate affair with Lorna, becomes obsessed with Lorna. Donna must PL: try to break the spell that has her marriage in trouble and their very PL: lives in jeopardy. BY: Anonymous PL: Donna and Joel Gregory are staying at the estate of Lorna Love while PL: researching a book about the long dead Hollywood goddess. Joel, who's PL: father had a passionate affair with Lorna, becomes obsessed with her. PL: His wife attemts to break the spell which threatens their marriage and PL: their very lives. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 118873a119462,119472 MV: Death Nurse (1987) PL: Ethel, a murderous, overweight nurse, and her brother run a medical clinic PL: out of the suburban house they share. They take in patients and kill PL: them, continuing to bill the state for their care. However, a nosy PL: county inspector threatens to complicate things for Ethel and her PL: brother! BY: Mike Justice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 121521c122120 MV: Deseada (1951) 121641a122241,122257 PL: Arabian Princess Sharahazade is ordered to marry Prince Murad, who is a PL: despotic ruler over his subjects. A thief known as the Desert Hawk, PL: knowing of her coming and that she has never seen her groom, disguises PL: himself as Murad to get her gifts and has success. The next morning the PL: real Murad is coming, seeing that the reason why he has agreed to the PL: marriage is gone, he orders to fake a massacre commited by the Desert PL: Fox. Due to the fact that the Princess had some doubts and changed PL: clothes with one of her maids, who then gets murdered. The Princess, PL: like the rest of her servants are sold into slavery. Per chance the PL: Desert Fox purchases her on the slave market, while Murad starts a war PL: with a neighbour, trying to make him responsible for backing the Desert PL: Fox, getting suport from the Princess' father. Now the Desert Fox tries PL: to stop the Prince and get the Princess for himself with her father's PL: agreement. BY: Stephan Eichenberg 123049a123666,123675 MV: Devil May Care (2000) PL: Five men invade the peaceful, quiet setting surrounding a desolate farm in PL: the middle of nowhere. There, they find themselves confronting PL: frightening, ghostly images of their corrupt past as they struggle for PL: their lives against each other and a mysterious, malevolent enemy. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 127197a127824,127834 MV: Doing Rude Things (1995) (TV) PL: A light-hearted celebration of British sex films from the 1950s to the PL: early 1980s. Presented by Angus Deayton, the programme includes PL: interviews with movie veterans Robin Askwith and Pamela Green, as well PL: as featuring clips from popular X-rated movies like 'Come Play with Me' PL: (1977). BY: tigon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 129402,129408d130038 129425a130056,130062 PL: When Nick Parsons appears to be murdered his wife Libby is tried and PL: convicted. Six years later Libby is paroled and with the help of PL: Travis Lehman (her parole officer) she sets out to find her son and PL: the truth behind the "murder". BY: Les MacDonald at 131648a132286,132295 MV: Dream Walking, A (1934) PL: Olive goes sleepwalking on the roof of her apartment building. She knocks PL: off a planter, which wakes up Bluto and Popeye, in adjacent rooms one PL: floor down. They fight over who will save her, ultimately ending up PL: high atop a construction site. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 134172c134819 MV: Déclin de l'empire américain, Le (1986) 135797a136445,136456 MV: Eddie og Suzanne (1976) PL: Eddie, en tidliger straffet Oslo-gutt, og Suzanne, datteren til en PL: tyrannisk svensk politimester, møtes tilfeldig på et diskotek og PL: forelsker seg i hverandre. De blir imidlertid nektet å være sammen, og PL: rømmer derfor til Frankrike for å elske i fred. Hennes far, som tror de PL: driver med narkotika, setter himmel og jord i bevegelse for å få tak i PL: dem. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 137789,137801d138447 137814a138461,138473 MV: Emanuelle nera in America (1976) PL: An American journalist travels throughout the world in search of a good PL: story by joining a modern-day harem and traveling to Venice to see what PL: really goes on at diplomatic parties. While trying to expose a corrupt PL: government official, Emanuelle stumbles upon a group that uses PL: kidnapped girls to make and sell snuff films. A brush with death PL: leaves Emanuelle wondering if it is perhaps time to hang up her camera PL: for good. BY: Jonathan Ruskin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 138537c139196 MV: Enchanted April (1992) 139665a140325,140341 MV: Entusiasmo, El (1998) PL: Chile 1980, under military dictatorship. Three young people meet, become PL: friends, and together uphold the "Independent Republic." This is a PL: utopian concept for a better world conceived by Guillermo, one of the PL: three friends, as a reaction to the savage capitalism imposed by the PL: dictatorship. The other two characters, Fernando and Isabel eventually PL: marry. Al three characters' private lives and ideals begin to shift, PL: and Fernando in particular prospers, spurred on by his "Enthusiasm." PL: The ensuing story is the bulk of the plot. The development and outcome PL: of Fernando's enthusiasm, and the impact of the human being's shifting PL: goals and ideals all lead to the eventual conclusion of this PL: Chilean/Spanish co-production. BY: Guy33134 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 143436a144113,144126 MV: Eyes Have It, The (1945) PL: Donald receives a mail order hypnosis kit complete with hypnotic goggles PL: and decides to test it on Pluto. Using the goggles, he convinces Pluto PL: he is a mouse, a turtle, and a chicken. Each "transformation" Pluto PL: undergoes Donald finds extremely funny so he keeps at it until he PL: notices chicken Pluto getting into a fight with a rooster. Donald helps PL: Pluto win the fight by making him think he's a lion but, unfortunately, PL: the goggles break and Donald is chased about by Pluto until he regains PL: his senses after a fall. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 144239,144249d144928 145543a146223,146232 MV: Faneflukt (1975) PL: 1941. Den unge kjøkkenpiken Liv og den tyske underoffiseren Franz møtes i PL: militærleiren hvor Liv arbeider. De utvikler et vennskap, noe Livs far PL: Andreas ikke kan tolerere. Etterhvert bestemmer de to seg for å flykte PL: til Sverige. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 151765a152455,152465 MV: First Stop, China (1985) PL: First Stop, China is a record of the choreographed performances and the PL: unrehearsed moments of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens ballet company on PL: the road, against a backdrop of unfamiliar sights and sounds. Their PL: itinerary included China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Japan and PL: Korea. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 155322c156022 MV: For Better and for Worse (1993) (TV) 157098,157099c157798,157799 PL: Two rich families in Argentina have gathered to welcome Heinrich home after PL: many years of medical studies in Germany. They are shocked when they hear 157102c157802 PL: out, Heinrich joins the German army. Julio becomes interested and travels 157679a158380,158393 MV: Frank Duck Brings 'em Back Alive (1946) PL: Wild man of the jungle Goofy is swinging through the treetops when he PL: notices great white hunter Donald Duck pulling into port on his safari PL: boat. He is looking for a wild man of the jungle and Goofy offers PL: himself to Donald...if Donald can catch him which leads the duo on a PL: wild chase through the jungle. Eventually they are pursued in their PL: chase by a lion having switched clothes so that Donald is the wild man PL: and Goofy is the hunter. Goofy escapes in Donald's boat leaving Donald PL: swinging through the trees to escape the lion. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 159722a160437,160455 MV: From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000) (V) PL: "Prequel" to the first From Dusk Till Dawn is set in Mexico in the early PL: 1900's which begins with the escape of Johnny Madrid, a dangerous local PL: outlaw, from the gallows who then kidnaps his hangman's beautiful PL: daughter, Esmeralda, with a little help from Reece, a female outlaw PL: from the U.S. With the hangman and a local posse on their trail, PL: Johnny meets with his gang who all rob a stagecoach which contains PL: American author Ambrose Bierce along with newlywed couble John and Mary PL: Newlie. As night falls, all parties coindicently seek shelter in an PL: isolated inn/whorehouse which is run by vampires led by the high PL: priestess Quixtla who targets Esmeralda, since Esmeralda is revealed to PL: be the half-human, half-vampire princess Santanico Pandemonium, whom PL: the vampires want as their heir in which all the humans must join PL: forces if they are to survive the night from the vicious blood-suckers. BY: Matthew Patay ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 159935,159948d160667 161607a162327,162342 MV: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1982) (TV) PL: In this first GI Joe film, the team must contend with COBRA who, after a PL: successful raid for a special broadcast satellite, now threatens the PL: world with a teleportation devise called the MASS devise which can PL: snatch anything seemingly out of existence around the world as well as PL: normal teleportation. GI Joe find the original designer of the device PL: who advises the only way to counter that weapon is to build a MASS PL: device of their own. However to do that, three rare exotic elements PL: are needed to power the device properly. Now the team must race around PL: the world and find those supplies, while battling COBRA who has the PL: same need for them as well. BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 161637a162373,162382 MV: G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra (1983) (TV) PL: In this film, Cobra is at it again. This time, they have a device called PL: the Weather Dominator which can control the world's weather and use it PL: as a devastating weapon. Now the Joe team must find a way to fight PL: Cobra when they seem to have the very elements at their command. BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 162538c163283 MV: Gangs of New York, The (2000) 167387a168133,168149 MV: Gjest Baardsen (1939) PL: Etter krigen med Sverige og England hersker det stor nød i Norge. Det blir PL: utstedt en fororning om at alt sølv skal innleveres til staten. Gjest PL: Baardsen er kommet på kant med loven på grunn av en ren ubetydelighet, PL: og blir satt i fengsel, men klarer å bryte seg ut. Lensmennene jager PL: ham over hele landet, men han synes å være umulig å fange, og klarer de PL: det makter han altid å rømme igjen. Etterhvert blir han en folkehelt PL: p.g.a. at han fordeler sitt utbytte til de lider nød. Gjest møter en PL: dag den vakre Anna, som blir etterstrebet av den skurkeaktige PL: arrestforsvareren Mons Peder, ikke minst fordi han mener hun har PL: atskillig på kistebunnen. Da hun ikke vil vite av ham, sørger han for å PL: sende henne på tukthus. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 167887a168650,168660 MV: Glory Trail, The (1936) PL: It's just after the Civil War and Captain Morgan and his confederate PL: soldiers are establishing a town on the Bozeman trail. Colonel Strong PL: and his union men are at the nearby fort. Things are peaceful until PL: Riley has the Indians attack a union wagon train and leave a PL: confederate sword at the scene. BY: Maurice VanAuken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 170067a170841,170851 MV: Gongyuan 2000 nian (2000) PL: The Y2K Bug. Real Warfare vs Electronic Gaming. Peter Tong, a carefree Hong PL: Kong youngster, finds himself drawn into the web of a deadly espionage PL: conspiracy. A clandestine organization schemes to use the Y2K Bug to PL: cause mayhem throughout Asia. To survive, Peter has to call on reserves PL: of courage and stamina he has never needed before. BY: L.H. Wong ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 170875a171660,171671 MV: Goofy Movies Number Two (1934) PL: This "whole show on one reel" starts with a Wotaphony Newsreel. One of the PL: three news events shows Columbus discovering America. Following this is PL: a spoof of coming-attraction trailers. Last is a film from PL: Super-Titanic Pictures: "The Perils of Arsenic Annie." The excerpts PL: from an unidentified silent movie bear no relation to the accompanying PL: narration. BY: David Glagovsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 173054c173850 MV: Greed (1924) 173072a173869,173880 PL: Miner-turned-dentist McTeague wins young Trina Sieppe away from her cousin PL: Marcus, McTeague's friend. When Trina wins five thousand dollars in a PL: lottery, Marcus accuses McTeague of marrying her for her money. Trina PL: becomes more and more obsessed with money, refusing to spend any of her PL: winnings even though she and her husband are forced into dire straits. PL: When Marcus informs the authorities that McTeague is not licensed as a PL: dentist, thus depriving him of his meagre living, the friendship and PL: the marriage are destroyed. At last murder intrudes, leaving no one PL: unscathed. BY: Jim Beaver 174796a175605,175616 MV: Gun Justice (1934) PL: Wanting the Lance ranch, Burkett kills Lance and brings in an imposter to PL: pose as the heir Ken Lance. Ken learns of the plan, captures the PL: imposter, and arrives posing as himself. In an ensuing gunfight a man PL: is killed and Ken is in trouble when not only is he accused of the PL: murder, but the imposter escapes and convinces the Sheriff he's the PL: real Ken Lance. BY: Maurice VanAuken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 178061a178882,178896 MV: Hard Labour (1973) (TV) PL: Mrs. Thornley works very hard without notice or appreciation. Every day PL: she keeps her own house clean, attends to her husband and unmarried PL: daughter, Ann, then cleans other women's houses. She looks tired and PL: has little affect. She does have a married son and a daughter-in-law PL: who's chatty and pleasant. Mrs. Thornley's husband works nights, PL: except for Saturdays, when he expects conjugal attention. Ann's PL: worried about pregnancy and talks to her mum about labor and PL: childbirth. Later, Mrs. Thornley goes to confession at her parish PL: church, and she makes an extraordinary revelation. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 182020a182856,182868 MV: Hello Aloha (1952) PL: In the city, Goofy finds his daily job much too stressful so he decides to PL: leave this hustle and bustle for a more peaceful life in the tropics. PL: He finds life there most enjoyable collecting shells from the beach, PL: making a hut in which to live, getting back to nature, and even joining PL: in the big luau feast (with meals such as shark fin soup). Yes, Goofy PL: thinks nothing can go wrong in this paradise...until the natives need PL: to sacrifice someone to their volcano... BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 186096a186945,186958 MV: Hockey Homicide (1945) PL: A crowd gathers at the skating rink to watch the big championship hockey PL: game of the Pelicans versus the Aardvarks. Although referee "Clean PL: Game" Kinney does his best to supervise, the hockey game really gets PL: out of hand eventually. Two star players, Bertino and Ferguson, are so PL: anxious, they never get let out of the penalty box, referee Kinney is PL: never able to drop the puck without being physically hurt somehow, and PL: the spectators themselves are so worked into the game, they take out PL: their aggression on the ice while the players relax in the bleachers. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 186650a187513,187529 MV: Hollywood (1923) PL: Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a PL: movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and PL: her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie PL: stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in PL: town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her PL: horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa PL: has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star PL: during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa PL: are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In PL: short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot PL: become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed... BY: Marta Dawes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 187006a187886,187907 MV: Holy for Me (1995) PL: For Jonah Sidas Tel Aviv is not just another busy and sticky Mediterranean PL: beach town. Where other people see sweat and traffic jams, Jonah, a PL: secular-Jew-turned-priest but otherwise your average Israeli, sees PL: holiness and the cross. Where most see a plain and crowded humus joint, PL: Jonah sees a time-travel shuttle to the last supper; where most see a PL: narrow beach decorated with jellyfish, cigarette butts and broken glass PL: bottles he sees holy water and the footsteps of the Lord. Believing PL: himself to be on a mission from God, and equipped with army jargon and PL: the infamously poor Israeli street manners, Jonah is trying to make PL: other people see Jesus' miracles and majesty where they are not PL: commonly believed to reside. And what could be a better vehicle for PL: promoting his cause than a job as a tour guide? A documentary crew PL: follows Jonah and his pilgrims through the streets of Tel Aviv, as the PL: filmmakers try to answer such questions as: Who is Jonah Sidas? Why did PL: he convert from Judaism to Catholicism? Do people see him as a con man? PL: And of course - is he out of his bloody mind ?! BY: Amalia Rosenblum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 187437c188338 MV: Homecoming (1996/I) (TV) 187682a188584,188596 MV: Homme que j'aime, L' (1997) (TV) PL: This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and PL: diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the PL: characters' coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet PL: pleasures of first love and the dreadful moment when one comes down to PL: reality and realizes that one's beloved friend has a hard way to go PL: yet. The positive message the film tries to transmit is the somewhat PL: common motto "Live each day of your life as if it were your last." BY: Guy33134 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 191194a192109,192118 MV: How They Got the Vote (1913) PL: A young man wants to woo the daughter of a suffragette so he visits a PL: magician who gives him the power to stop time. He tries it out in PL: London, and holds the city hostage until the Prime Minister agrees to PL: favor votes for women. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 192936a193861,193871 MV: Hustruer (1975) PL: Hva vil skje dersom jenter begynte å oppføre seg som mannfolk? Hva om de PL: gikk på rangel i stedet for å gå hjem? Denne filmen handler om tre PL: kvinner som forlater arbeid, mann og barn for å dra på rangel en uke. PL: Hustruer er kort og godt en feministisk film som snur litt på PL: kjønnsrollene. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 192965a193901,193912 MV: Hvem eier Tyssedal? (1975) PL: Handler kort og godt om konflikten i Tyssedal i 1973 hvor tre generasjoner PL: arbeidere har jobbet og slitt for utenlandske konserners profitt. DNN PL: Aluminium A/S eies av to multinasjonale selskaper - det kanadiske Alcan PL: og det britiske Baco. I dag sitter tyssedalingene tilbake med et PL: nedkjørt produksjonsutstyr, et helsefarlig arbeidsmiljø og en natur som PL: er raser i flere kilometers omkrets. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 195847a196795,196807 MV: Idiot's Deluxe (1945) PL: Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how PL: Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his nerves. Out in the PL: woods they confronted a bear which Curly and Larry stunned, and PL: thinking it was dead, threw it in the back of their car, where it came PL: awake, tossed Moe out and drove the car into a tree. The judge finds PL: Moe not guilty and Moe promptly goes after Larry and Curly again with PL: the ax. BY: Mitch Shapiro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 195894,195906d196853 196414a197362,197375 MV: Ilja Muromets (1956) PL: Ilya is a cripple without the use of his legs. When he aids some PL: weary travellers, they surprise him by giving him a potion that PL: restores his legs. He immediately becomes powerful and sets off PL: to prove himself to his King. Doing so, he fights the evil PL: Tugars, a wind demon that looks like a cross between a goblin and PL: The Noid, a zeppelin-like ambassador, and the evil Tugars. Ilya PL: gets framed for a crime he didn't commit, then is freed, then PL: finally dispatches the Tugars and their dragon. BY: Jonah Falcon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 196618,196631d197578 197122a198070,198080 MV: Impostor, El (1997/I) PL: Young Sebastian flees his parents' home in Buenos Aires and hides in their PL: vacant estate in the pampas. Troubled by the news, the father sends a PL: spy to lure the boy back. The spy, however, falls for a mysterious girl PL: who controls the fate of those who succumb to her spell. It is a PL: "fantastic" tale set in 1930s Argentina. BY: Guy33134 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 197143c198101 PL: well. Also, a madman (Tony Shalhoub) plots the destruction of the ship 199214c200172 MV: India on Parade (1937) 199260c200218 MV: Indian Summer (1996) 199485a200444,200455 MV: Inferior Decorator (1948) PL: A bee is flying among Donald's flowers when he notices a veritable paradise PL: of flowers in the guise of wallpaper Donald is hanging. The bee is PL: rather frustrated when he is unable to stay on the flowers so Donald PL: has some fun with the bee tormenting him with the fake flowers. The bee PL: gets his revenge when Donald is accidentally pasted to the ceiling by PL: the wallpaper making him an easy target for the bee's stinger. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 200514c201484 PL: Dr. Ethan Powell, an anthropologist, is in Africa studying apes 201262a202233,202244 MV: Invasion from Inner Earth (1974) PL: A group of young pilots in a remote region of the Canadian wilderness begin PL: to hear strange reports over their radios about planes crashing, cars PL: stalling and a deadly plague which has gripped the planet. It becomes PL: clear that earth is in the midst of an invasion. The group of pilots PL: decide to barracade themselves in a cabin deep in the woods and wait PL: for their impending doom. BY: Tony Lefcourt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 201853,201868d202834 202755a203722,203731 MV: It Belongs to the Bank (1999) PL: It Belongs to the Bank is a social documentary that follows Maly, a woman PL: bailiff, as she seizes property from Israel's poor. Mali's dramatic PL: journey through Arab villages, urban slums and the likes is in fact a PL: journey through a current day Israel not commonly seen. BY: Amalia Rosenblum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 204064a205041,205049 MV: J.D.'s Revenge (1976) PL: A docile black law student is possessed by a 1940's mobster in mid-70's New PL: Orleans. The mobster seeks revenge upon the people who killed him and PL: his sister. BY: du proserpio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 206602a207588,207599 MV: Jie qian zhuan jia (1997) PL: A taxi driver becomes the hostage of two bank robbers. During the getaway PL: the bank robbers have a dispute and kill each other. The taxi driver PL: is left with the loot. In the tradition of "Ground Hog Day" and "Run PL: Lola Run" he makes 3 choices. First, what would happen if he took all PL: the money without telling a soul? Then, what if he only turned in half? PL: Finally, the outcome of turning the money all in. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 207498a208496,208507 MV: Johnny Appleseed (1948) PL: Dennis Day tells the story of Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), narrated by PL: The Old Settler. He's an apple farmer who sees people going west and PL: thinks he can't join them, until an angel appears to him and sings the PL: virtues of apples, convincing Johnny he has a mission. He sets off PL: without a knife or gun; at first, the animals mistrust him, but when he PL: even treats a skunk kindly, they all take to him. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 213190,213208d214198 214702,214713c215692 MV: Kingdom in the Sun (2000) 214726a215706,215716 MV: Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) PL: Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, PL: vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of PL: hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the PL: streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of PL: towns folk in a remote hotel. BY: Ross Horsley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 216116c217106 MV: Knockout (2000/II) 217524c218514 MV: Kubanisch rauchen (1999) 218615a219606,219621 MV: Ladies Must Live (1940) PL: When actress Pat Halliday gets out of a jam with the help of farmer Corey PL: Lake, she invites him to come see her sometime in the big city. Corey, PL: who is actually a millionaire who dabbles in farming, shows up, much to PL: Pat's surprise. She hooks Corey up with her brother George, who has PL: business ideas he wants Corey to invest in. But Corey's pals Pig Head PL: and Mary think Pat and her family are only out for Corey's money, and PL: that Pat plans to marry him to get it. Pat's family, on the other PL: hand, thinks Corey's pals are unsophisticated hicks and want him to PL: drop them. When a valuable necklace disappears, the courtship of Pat PL: and Corey seems doomed. BY: Jim Beaver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 220444a221451,221461 MV: Lasse & Geir (1976) PL: Lasse & Geir, to drabantbygutter i slutten av tenårene, lager virkelig PL: kvalme på bussen inn til byen. Sjåføren blir nødt til å tilkalle PL: politiet. De blir arrestert, tilbringer natten i cella, slipper ut PL: neste morgen og drar hjem. Geir til sin alkoholiserte mor, Lasse til PL: sin desillusjonerte far som terroriserer hele familien. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 221166a222184,222193 MV: Last Man, The (2000) PL: Apocalyptic comedy finds a socially-challenged grad school student (David PL: Arnott) as one of the last two men on Earth with a beautiful woman PL: (Jeri Ryan). However, the other remaining man (Dan Montgomery) is his PL: superior in every sense. BY: John Sacksteder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 221538c222565 MV: Last Producer, The (2000) 225055a226083,226094 MV: Letjat zhuravli (1957) PL: Veronica and Boris are walking in the streets of Moscow and they love PL: each other. Veronica is laughing, cause they are happy together this PL: morning. They see some cranes in the sky. When arriving to Veronica's PL: house they talk about a rendezvous at the bank of the river. And the PL: 2nd World War begins in Moscow. Boris works in a factory and he hasn't PL: got time to speak with Veronica. He has to go to the war ... BY: Kornel Osvart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 225267,225278d226305 225597a226625,226635 MV: Lian ai de tian kong (1994) PL: Story 1: A superstitious girl who would only marry her 29th boyfriend. The PL: 29th boyfriend is impotent. Story 2: A promisurous girl whose husband PL: is in jail comes home one day. Story 3: A lesbian refusing to become PL: straight Story 4: A beautiful woman who only likes men that belong to PL: others for the challenge. Until she falls in love. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 227614a228653,228666 MV: Lion Down (1951) PL: Goofy is about to set up a hammock in the backyard of his penthouse PL: apartment but is minus one tree. He immediately decides to get another PL: one but he shows poor judgement in regards that the one he picks is PL: unkowingly the home of a mountain lion. The lion returns to Goofy's PL: penthouse to reclaim his tree, notices the hammock, and decides this is PL: a much better source of relaxation than laying on a tree branch. Thus, PL: he tries to remove Goofy from the hammock so he can relax himself and PL: eventually a battle ensues. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 229527,229535d230578 231774a232818,232831 MV: Look Back at Crossbow, A (1965) PL: This promotional film for _Operation Crossbow (1965)_ (qv) gives the PL: historical background for the movie's plot. First we see actual footage PL: of Robert Goddard's rocket experiments in the New Mexico desert in the PL: 1930s. The U.S. government does not think rockets have much use in PL: warfare. Germany, however, buys copies of Goddard's patents and use PL: them to set up their own rocket program, which is shown in captured PL: German film. We then see scenes from the feature film, in which the PL: allies attempt to sabotage Germany's rocket industry. BY: David Glagovsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 232368a233426,233438 MV: Losin' It (1983) PL: Teen sex comedy set in 1965 which follows four Los Angeles school friends, PL: Woody, Dave, Spider, Wendell and the series of misadventures they get PL: into when they travel south of the border to Tijuana, Mexico for a PL: night of cruisin', causing trouble, and to settle a pact to lose their PL: virginity before the night is over, while a young woman, named Kathy, PL: accompanies them for different reasons: to arrange a quick divorce from PL: her husband. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 238650a239721,239733 PL: 24 hours in L.A.; it's raining cats and dogs. Two parallel and intercut PL: stories dramatize a man about to die: both men are estranged from a PL: grown child, both want to make contact, and neither child wants PL: anything to do with dad. Earl Partridge's son is a charismatic PL: misogynist; Jimmy Gator's daughter is a cokehead and waif. A mild and PL: caring nurse intercedes for Earl, reaching the son; a prayerful and PL: upright beat cop meets the daughter, is attracted to her, and leads her PL: toward a new calm. Meanwhile, guilt consumes Earl's young wife, while PL: two whiz kids, one grown and a loser and the other young and pressured, PL: face their situations. The weather, too, is quirky. BY: 238743a239827,239840 MV: Magoo Goes West (1956) PL: Mr. Magoo is depressed over the constant rainy weather. Well, actually, it PL: isn't raining; he's just left the sprinkler running. Fed up, he plans PL: to venture to California in search of sunny weather. Even though he PL: never actually leaves town, the trip is a long one with Magoo driving PL: through city parks and water fountains. Finally believing himself to be PL: on the home stretch when going through a car wash, he is convinced he PL: has finally made it to California when he crashes into a billboard PL: advertisement for Florida. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 239548,239562d240644 240019a241102,241116 MV: Malá morská víla (1975) PL: The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with PL: him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her PL: beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems to work at first, the PL: prince is enchanted with her lovely appearance. But the memory of a PL: foreign princess still haunts him: The one who found him on the beach PL: where the mermaid had left him, and whom he (of course) believes to be PL: his saviour. To resolve this mistake is too much for the mute little PL: mermaid, and not even her father, king of all seas, can help her in the PL: impending catastrophe. BY: Wilhelm Noeker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 244997a246095,246104 MV: Masoom (1983) PL: Story of a happy family with a loving father, mother and two adorable PL: children. Severe problems start when a third kid enters the family..who PL: is he ? Why is he there ? Where should he belong are the questions that PL: will be answered in the movie. BY: mkr-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 246403a247511,247525 MV: McTeague (1915) PL: Miner-turned-dentist McTeague wins young Trina Sieppe away from her cousin PL: Marcus, McTeague's friend. When Trina wins five thousand dollars in a PL: lottery, Marcus accuses McTeague of marrying her for her money. Trina PL: becomes more and more obsessed with money, refusing to spend any of her PL: winnings even though she and her husband are forced into dire straits. PL: When Marcus informs the authorities that McTeague is not licensed as a PL: dentist, thus depriving him of his meagre living, the friendship and PL: the marriage are destroyed. At last murder intrudes, leaving no one PL: unscathed. BY: Jim Beaver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 247570,247579d248691 249834c250946 MV: Michael Kael contre la World News Company (1998) 249889,249898d251000 249909a251012,251024 MV: Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) PL: An art-house auctioneer (Hugh Grant) finds himself getting in deeper and PL: deeper with the mob after learning that his teacher girl friend (Jeanne PL: Tripplehorn) is the daughter of a major mobster (James Caan). Things PL: get worse when a godfather (Burt Young) decides to launder his PL: no-talent son's gory paintings through the art house and gets the FBI PL: into the picture. Everything then falls apart when the son is PL: accidentally shot. BY: John Sacksteder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 249956a251072,251081 MV: Mickey's Birthday Party (1942) PL: The gang throws Mickey a surprise birthday party; his present is an PL: electric organ, which Minnie plays while Mickey does a jazzy dance. PL: Goofy bakes the cake, but keeps having trouble with it falling. The PL: gang does a conga line to a Latin tune. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 249977a251103,251138 MV: Mickey's Fire Brigade (1935) PL: Mickey, Donald and Goofy are a fire department. As you might expect, their PL: attempts at fighting a boardinghouse fire are not particularly PL: effective. They hear Clarabelle singing in the bathtub and rescue her, PL: tub and all, against her will (she won't believe there's a fire). BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mickey's Gala Premier (1933) PL: Mickey's film is having a premiere, and all the stars turn out at the PL: Chinese Theatre. Among those shown: Laurel and Hardy, the Marx PL: Brothers, Jimmy Durante, Clark Gable, Sid Grauman, Mae West. The PL: picture, Galloping Romance (Pegleg Pete kidnaps Minnie, and Mickey PL: gives chase on a variety of animals), starts, and everyone in the PL: audience sways along to the music, then rolls in the aisles with PL: laughter. After, everyone comes on stage to congratulate Mickey; Garbo PL: smothers him with kisses. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mickey's Grand Opera (1936) PL: Mickey is preparing to conduct an opera when he chases Pluto away. Pluto PL: crashes into a magician's props backstage and spars with the hat, its PL: rabbits, and its doves. The opera begins: Clarabelle plays flute, PL: Clara and Donald are the leads in Romeo and Juliet. Pluto follows the PL: magic hat onstage, to Mickey's growing annoyance. The hat falls into a PL: tuba, and soon the animals are filling the stage. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 252115c253276 MV: Minority Report (2001) 254782a255944,255953 MV: Mom for Christmas, A (1990) (TV) PL: Jessie is a young girl who's mother died when she was just three. When she PL: wins a free wish in a department store she wishes for a mom to be with PL: and to shop with over the holidays. Her wish brings Amy, a mannequin, PL: to life and into her life as her Mom for Christmas. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 256943a258115,258126 MV: Morris the Midget Moose (1950) PL: A bootle beetle elder tells the story of Morris, the moose about the size PL: of a rabbit. Thunderclap the moose is taking on all challengers, and PL: Morris decides to try, much to the amusement of Thunderclap. As a PL: result, he meets Balsam, a full-size moose with tiny antlers (Morris' PL: antlers are full size). The two team up, and with the help of a log PL: that makes them very tall, defeat Thunderclap. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 257498a258682,258691 MV: Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938) PL: Various Mother Goose rhymes are portrayed by Hollywood stars for example, PL: Old King Cole's fiddlers three are the Marx Brothers, and Humpty Dumpty PL: is W.C. Fields, who falls while tormenting Charlie McCarthy; Simple PL: Simon and the Pieman are Laurel and Hardy. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 258903a260097,260111 MV: Mr. Mumble (1996) PL: An action comedy about a sharp shooter from the S.W.A.T team (SDU) in Hong PL: Kong who gets fired for failing to show up in time for a hostage PL: mission because he was womanizing at a local disco. Out of a job, he PL: meets a beautiful wandering girl, at his friend's pub and takes her in PL: not knowing she is the daugther of a triad boss. She is hunted and Mr. PL: Mumble becomes her bodyguard. At first, she is disgusted with the fact PL: that Mumble was always trying to get into the sack with her. But when PL: danger arises, Mumble utilizes his special skills to serve and protect. PL: At the end, does Mumble get his woman? BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 260603c261811 BY: Les McDonald 262959c264167 PL: the son of the mayor of Portland who joins Pheonix in what is apparently 265161a266370,266379 MV: Naomi Conquers Africa (1998) (TV) PL: Naomi and her supermodel friends travel to South Africa to put on a charity PL: fashion show for Nelson Mandela's Children's fund. A behind the scenes PL: look at Naomi (even while getting a rub down) as she and her friends PL: meet Mr. Mandela and put on a fashion show. BY: ed-124 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 271983c273201 MV: Nobody Listened (1984) 272769a273988,274000 MV: North West Frontier (1959) PL: In northwestern India soon after the turn of the 20th Century, Moslem PL: rebels seek to kill a six-year-old Hindu prince to end his family line. PL: Captain Scott of the British Army is ordered to get the prince out of PL: the region safely. Adventure ensues as Scott sneaks the child away, PL: through Moslem-held territory, by train. Also on board are the boy's PL: American governess, an arms merchant, a cynical reporter, and two upper PL: class Britons. BY: George S. Davis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 272830,272842d274060 273915c275133 MV: Nuit américaine, La (1973) 275750a276969,276978 PL: Based on John Steinbeck's 1937 classic tale of two travelling companions, PL: George and Lennie, who wander the country during the Depression, PL: dreaming of a better life for themselves. Then, just as heaven is PL: within their grasp, it is inevitably yanked away. The film follows PL: Steinbeck's novel closely, exploring questions of strength, weakness, PL: usefulness, reality and utopia, bringing Steinbeck's California vividly PL: to life. BY: Amy Thomasson 276133c277361 MV: Oh Susanna (1936) 278254c279482 MV: Once Upon a Horse... (1958) 279170,279182d280397 280835a282051,282067 MV: Oss (1976) PL: De tradisjonelt fattige landene har etter en politisk omveltning stanset PL: eksporten av råvarer. Den vestlige verden kommer i en økonomisk krise, PL: som raskt brer seg i Norge. Arbeidledigheten øker voldsomt, og det blir PL: vanskeligere å få tak i matvarer. Regjeringen vil ikke offisielt PL: innrømme krisen, men frykten brer seg i befolkningen. Demonstrasjoner PL: mellom befolkningen og politi hører med til dagens orden. Også Thomas PL: og Vera er arbeidsløse. Den eneste veien de ser ut av uføret er å PL: flytte ut fra byen og leie et nedlagt gårdsbruk. Omsetningen av PL: matvarer blir forbudt. Militære styrker kommer for å beslaglegge det PL: lille de har. Senere følger også bybefolkningen, som i panikk reiser ut PL: på landsbygda for å sikre seg noe å spise. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 281195a282428,282438 MV: Other Tongues (1984) PL: The lives of four people trying to decide who they are and what they want. PL: Romance, fad, fashion and food are the ingredients of their PL: investigation. In contrast are the long-time residents of a once PL: immigrant neighborhood in Montréal, Canada. A musical score by Zone PL: Jaune and Leonard Cohen. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 283621a284865,284888 MV: Paging Emma (1998) PL: After witnessing the shooting and abduction of her husband, Emma Donne PL: (Lynn Evans) is left with nothing. Lacking family and friends, she PL: immerses herself in the only thing she has left: her work. As an PL: operator at a paging company, Emma is a modern day messenger. She PL: begins to find solace by living vicariously through the message she PL: relays... and what once was a dreadful chore becomes an obsession for PL: her. Methodically, Emma retreats from the world around her and starts PL: to substitute her basic need for human contact with these meaningless PL: and impersonal messages. After months without a clue about her PL: husband's disappearance, Emma starts receiving personal and intimate PL: messages that only her husband could write. With nothing to lose but PL: her life, Emma gets involved and follows the lead of the mistifying PL: messages. Caught in an ever-widening web of lies and strange PL: coinicdences, Emma realizes that events are not always what they seem, PL: as dark secrets about her previous "perfect" life begin to surface. PL: "Paging Emma", a thrilling suspense drama, tells the story of a woman PL: who dared to look beyond the surface in her search for true PL: understanding. BY: Imago Productions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 284704a285972,285982 MV: Papa Gets the Bird (1940) PL: Mama Bear tells Papa to give their canary a bath. Papa gets the bird PL: angry, Mama calls him a nincompoop, and he goes and sulks in the PL: garage. Young Wilbur comes to cheer him up. He vows to bathe the bird, PL: but in chasing it, lands in the well. Wilbur and Mama raise him and PL: drop him for various reasons. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 287939a289218,289233 MV: Peau neuve (1999) PL: Alain tests video games. He's married, his wife Pascale loves him, and PL: they have a spirited young daughter. But he's unhappy and wants a PL: change, to what he's not sure. He quits. A job counselor suggests a PL: training program operating bulldozers. They have casual sex; Pascale PL: is unhappy with Alain's unfaithfulness. Alain enrolls in the training PL: program: it's 18 weeks long and some distance from Paris, so he is home PL: only on weekends. (He's a natural at operating bulldozers.) As his PL: relationship with Pascale deteriorates, Alain befriends Manu, a young PL: trainee who loves all things about bulldozers but is hopelessly inept PL: at operating them. This friendship takes hold of Alain. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 288012a289307,289321 MV: Pecos Bill (1948) PL: Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers tell the story of Pecos Bill, an PL: infant who fell out of a covered wagon and was discovered and raised by PL: a family of wolves. His relationship with the wolves teaches him PL: survival and, as a result, grows up to become a he-man of the American PL: Desert earning the friendship of a horse named Widowmaker after PL: rescuing him from a flock of buzzards. However, the relationship PL: between man and horse is threatened when Pecos falls in love with a PL: dame named Slue Foot Sue. They plan to wed but the marriage is PL: threatened when Pecos offers Sue a ride on Widowmaker. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 291814c293123 MV: Picking Up the Pieces (2000) 295028a296338,296348 MV: Plow Boy, The (1929) PL: Mickey goes about his farm chores, plowing with Horace and milking PL: Clarabelle, while Minnie sings (until Mickey kisses her, when she PL: stalks off). Clarabelle gets too friendly with Mickey, forcing him to PL: wrap her tongue around her snout. A bee stings Horace and he gallops PL: off uncontrollably, breaking Mickey's plow. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 295196a296517,296528 MV: Pluto's Christmas Tree (1952) PL: Pluto comes bounding outside to help Mickey get a Christmas tree. Chip 'n PL: Dale see him and make fun of him, but the tree they take refuge in is PL: the one Mickey chops down. They like the decorations, especially the PL: candy canes and Mickey's bowl of mixed nuts. But Pluto spots them and PL: goes after them long before Mickey spots them. Minnie, Donald, and PL: Goofy drop by to sing carols. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 296703,296719d298034 297192c298507 MV: Porky & Daffy (1938) 300529,300540d301843 300818a302122,302133 MV: Problem Pappy (1941) PL: Popeye's pappy is enjoying a second childhood, causing many headaches for PL: Popeye. When Popeye awakes to find Pappy gone, he sets out to find his PL: wayward father, only to find him seated atop a high-rise's flagpole. PL: Popeye endeavors to bring his father down to no avail. When a lightning PL: storm approaches, Popeye fears the worst, but then remembers his trusty PL: can of spinach... BY: Jason A. Cormier ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 302779,302783c304094,304098 PL: When a PL: backwoods town is invaded by inner-city bikers, little Billy Harley PL: gets ran over and left for dead. His enraged father Ed Harley takes PL: vengeance into his own hands and conjures the demon "Pumpkinhead" to PL: execute exact justice on the city kids. 302785c304100 BY: tyhemp-2 303119a304435,304444 MV: Pure Race (1995) (V) PL: Two college students, one white and one black, share a ride home from PL: college. When their car breaks down in a small town in Idaho, they PL: unsuspectingly stumble upon a white supremacist group and must fight PL: for their lives. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 303457a304783,304796 MV: Puss in Boots (1999) PL: Handsome Gunther is a young man with only one possession... a walking and PL: talking cat! This crazy Puss is the cleverest creature in the Kingdom PL: and he's determined to make Gunther into a Prince. But there's a Big PL: obstacle to the cat's plan. The evil Ogre a fire breathing, shape PL: shifting monster has set his sights on marrying the Princess. With PL: only an hour until the wedding, it's up to the resourcefull Puss and PL: the love-struck Gunterh to rescue the Princess and live happily ever PL: after. BY: FilmWorks Creative Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 304174a305514,305531 MV: Quarry, The (1998) PL: This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in PL: rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime PL: appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough PL: pieces. The police then suspect and arrest people based on the usual PL: prejudices, black and coloured people who plant marijuana in this case. PL: Meanwhile, the true assassin not only goes his way unpunished from the PL: very beginning, but becomes one of the rural town's most respected PL: citizens. The sheriff at one point does begin having certain PL: suspicions, and from there on the bulk of the plot is played out. The PL: location is a very arid part of South Africa, so with so much desert PL: rock, there are bound to be quarries. Some may reveal important PL: secrets. BY: Guy33134 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 305015,305024d306371 305048a306396,306405 MV: Quiet, Please (1939) PL: Director Nitvitch has a penchant for completely changing his movies in the PL: middle of production. In this case, he starts by making a romance using PL: two stars who cant stand each other off screen. He makes two changes, PL: one of which involves a gorilla (don't ask). BY: David Glagovsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 306143a307501,307514 MV: Ragtime Bear (1949) PL: This is the first of a series of cartoons featuring the near sighted Mister PL: Magoo. He and his nephew, Waldo, are en route to a vacation at a lodge PL: in the mountains and Waldo's banjo playing tends to be rather annoying PL: for Magoo but a nearby grizzly bear is really interested in the banjo. PL: When Waldo falls off a mountain ledge, the bear gets hold of the banjo PL: and starts playing. Magoo is so near sighted, he doesn't know Waldo is PL: gone and thinks the bear playing the banjo is Waldo. When they arrive PL: at their lodge, Magoo and the bear get into more misadventures. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 313208a314580,314593 MV: Rhea Gall Force (1989) (V) PL: Years after the war against the Solnoids, the descendents of the Earth PL: heroes have created their own crisis. After World War III breaks out PL: and practically annhilates each side, their own weapons, which were PL: derived from an ancient alien ship found on the moon, literally turn PL: against them. Now, the humans are in a losing war against the machines PL: who are out to exterminate them. In this time of seemingly certain PL: doom, we focus on the trials of young soldiers as they play their part PL: in one last effort for their species to leave Earth and survive. BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 315664a317050,317058 MV: Road Trip (2000) PL: Tom Green co-stars as the story-teller in this warped comedy about three PL: friends (Meyers, Scott and Costanzo) and another guy (Qualls) who head PL: from Ithaca, NY to Austin, TX in an attempt to save a lifelong romance. BY: wallace-17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 317241c318635 MV: Roll Along, Cowboy (1937) 319245a320640,320655 MV: Routes du sud, Les (1978) PL: Fathers and sons, and political exile. In the fall of 1975, Franco is PL: dying but repression continues. Jules and Eve, living well in exile in PL: France, continue to assist the resistance. The underground calls with PL: a job for either, and Eve goes, to the disappointment of their son, PL: Laurent, visiting his parents at their seaside place in Cherbourg and PL: not getting on well with his father. When a road accident in Spain PL: brings tragedy, the father and son's conflict worsens. After Laurent PL: and his girlfriend, Julie, pay a harrowing visit to Jules, Julie stays, PL: taking Jules as a lover. Revelations and admissions about Jules and PL: Eve make way for new ground for Jules and Laurent. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 320542a321953,321964 MV: Rural Mexico (????) PL: A Traveltalks visit to some small towns in Mexico. In Mazatlán, away from PL: the tourist spots, we see a small village where fishing, growing PL: coconuts, and gathering large sea turtles are the main pursuits. We PL: then visit Toluca on market day, where people sell produce and pottery. PL: The last stop is Taxco, where the Castilian influence of the Spanish PL: conquerors is still prevalent. BY: David Glagovsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 322567a323990,323999 MV: Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000) (TV) PL: An interpretation of the historical relationship between President Thomas PL: Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, this work argues that the two PL: had a long-term affair (and children) and that the relationship was, in PL: some degree, based on love. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 324338a325771,325781 MV: Saskatchewan: 45 Below (1971) PL: This is a picture of winter on the Canadian western prairies, when the full PL: blast of Arctic cold strikes down upon those who live and work there. PL: That life goes on almost without interruption is an example of human PL: resourcefulness and adaptability, but there is no doubt of the peril PL: ever-present in the extreme temperatures. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 325235,325256d326677 325643a327065,327076 MV: Scarlet River (1933) PL: Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his PL: troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film. Tom soon learns PL: her foreman has been rustling and poisoning her cattle. When Tom PL: threatens to expose him, Judy is kidnapped and the troop told to leave. PL: With an expert makeup man available. Tom poses as one of the outlaws in PL: an attempt to rescue her. BY: Maurice VanAuken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 326992,327016d328424 328951a330360,330372 MV: Secret Society (1999) PL: Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... PL: and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast PL: buck ending up where they started - as dreams. With the rent unpaid, PL: the bailiffs at the door and Ken's dreams in tatters, Daisy sets out to PL: bring home the bacon and gets a job in the local factory. There she PL: meets Marlene and half a dozen other large women who are all united in PL: a secret passion - Sumo wrestling! Ken doesn't know what's hit him... BY: Malcolm Kohll ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 329570a330992,331002 MV: Segunda piel (1999) PL: Diego (Javier Bardem) is a doctor who has fallen in love with a married man PL: with a son. Against the advice of his boss and best friend (Cecilia PL: Roth), he continues his affair with Alberto (Jordi Molla). The PL: consequences of this affair profoundly alter not only the two men's PL: lives, but also that of Alberto's wife (Ariadna Gil). BY: Guy33134 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 332220c333652 PL: CS Lewis is the author of the Narnia books - The Lion, The Witch, and the 337305c338737 MV: Silent Scream (1980) 338682a340115,340137 MV: Sioux City (1994) PL: Lou Diamond Phillips plays the role of a doctor who gets suspended on his PL: birthday. At his adopted parents home he has a party at which one of PL: the gifts is an American Indian necklace with a note from his birth PL: mother who he has not heard from since he was given up for adoption PL: when he was very young. In the note she wishes to see him. So he PL: leaves to visit her only to arrive a few days after her death. He PL: visits the local sheriff because he is curious of the circumstances of PL: his mother's death. He then heads out to the reservation in search of PL: any relatives he may have. He runs into his grandfather who is kind of PL: a witch doctor. On the way back to town he is attacked by some of the PL: sheriff's men who try to kill him. They leave him for dead, but he is PL: rescued. As he recovers and grows stronger he falls in love with a PL: local girl (Salli Richardson). He then decides to perform an Indian PL: ritual where he hallucinates or has visions to try to identify why he PL: was attacked. He has visions and discovers the reason he was given up PL: for adoption was because his father was the local sheriff. He didn't PL: love his mother and ordered her to give him up for adoption... BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 339681c341136 MV: Skal vi leke gjemsel? (1970) 348202,348211d349656 352448a353894,353906 MV: Stolen from the Heart (2000) (TV) PL: A former prostitute (Lisa Zane) kidnaps a baby boy at birth to satisfy her PL: drug-dealing husband (Billy Moses), who has told her that he is going PL: to divorce her and put her out on the streets if she cannot produce him PL: a son. Obviously the real mother (Tracey Gold) becomes emotionally PL: wrought and determined to get her baby back. Barbara Mandrell gets PL: thrown into all of this mess as the mother's mother, who just happens PL: to be beset with heart problems. BY: John Sacksteder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 353319c354777 PL: brother Lyle. 354557a356016,356026 MV: Streik! (1975) PL: En film som er løst basert på den omtalte sreiken blandt ovnshusarbeiderne PL: i Sauda den 2 juni 1970. Det var mange års misnøye som til slutt brøt PL: ut i åpen konflikt. Streiken, som varte i fem uker, vakte oppsikt og PL: ble kjent over hele landet. Konflikten ble enda hetere etter at det ble PL: kjent at streikelederen var kommunist. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 355952c357421 MV: Sudden Loss of Gravity, A (2000) 358102a359572,359584 MV: Surprise Party, The (2000) PL: Oscar is turning thirty years old. He plans to celebrate his passage by PL: asking the woman that he loves, Penny, to marry him. But in the next 24 PL: hours, Oscar must face a shocking parade of surprises--about his PL: friends, about his past, about Penny, about himself. Oscar must make a PL: perilous trek from the sure and simple world of his twenties to the PL: unsteady ground of his newfound maturity. Oscar must endure "The PL: Surprise Party." BY: anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 359712a361195,361204 MV: Swiri (1999) PL: Yu is a special agent at the OP committed to stop the series of murders by PL: a notorious female North Korean spy named Lee, Bang-hee but he doesn't PL: know why the spy knows everything of the OP's secret plans. Soon Yu PL: realizes that his girlfriend is the murderer of those victims. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 360075a361568,361581 MV: Symphonie diagonale (1924) PL: A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows PL: by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves PL: which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the PL: process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two PL: seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and PL: could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, PL: panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly PL: stylized. The tone is playful and hypnotic. BY: David Carless ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 360178,360191d361683 361239a362732,362746 MV: Tailenders (1985) PL: Four of the most explosive porno starlets of their day come together for PL: this eyebrow-raising tale of lust that stays all in the family. Yes, PL: it's another incest-driven romp from the mid-80's, a time when PL: seemingly everyone was getting down and dirty with their siblings. At PL: least, that is, if you believe what you see in porno flicks of the PL: time. In this 1985 opus, we get to watch the endlessly amorous antics PL: of a family that just can't get enough hardcore action. In fact, this PL: family is so sex-mad that they're delving into a whole lot of PL: rump-humping hysterics. BY: Excalibur Films ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 363868c365375 MV: Tatort - Reifezeugnis (1977) (TV) 380516a382024,382039 MV: Trifles That Win Wars (1943) PL: This Passing Parade series entry looks at three seemingly innocuous items PL: that are contributing to the war effort: 1) When billiard ball PL: manufacturers were searching for a substitute for ivory, they had no PL: idea that celluloid would lead to the plastics used in today's PL: airplanes, warships, and other items; 2) A scientist discovers that PL: when collodion evaporates, it leaves a residue that keeps glass from PL: shattering. This discovery led to the safety glass used in car PL: windshields and, more important, in the cockpit windows of combat PL: pilots; 3) The silk strands spun by spiders proved to be the best PL: material for cross hairs in sights in periscopes and bomb sights. BY: David Glagovsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 383622a385146,385157 MV: Twist again à Moscou (1986) PL: Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several PL: problems at once. He has a two-hour window to get his ill-got gain out PL: of the hotel, he must misdirect and obstruct the inquiries of a Party PL: auditor who suspects that all is not above board, and he must keep out PL: of sight and out of trouble his interloping and troublesome young PL: brother-in-law, who arrives unannounced with barrels of rotten herring. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 383955a385491,385504 MV: Two Gun Goofy (1952) PL: Bandit Pistol Pete enters a lawless western town and robs a bank. The town PL: is in desperate need of a sheriff. Enter wandering cowboy Goofy who PL: notices a pretty girl being held up in a stagecoach robbery by Pete. PL: Lovestruck and completely oblivious to Pete, he foils the robbery while PL: getting to know the girl better. This earns him a reputation as a great PL: gunslinger and he is challenged to apprehend Pete. Pete tries to get PL: his revenge on Goofy but every attempt backfires due to Goofy's PL: clumsiness usually directed unintentionally at Pete. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 385547,385569d387095 389843c391369 MV: Up Up and Away (2000) (TV) 391185c392711 MV: Valley of Terror (1937) 392318a393845,393854 MV: Venganza de la momia, La (1973) PL: Paul Naschy has a duel role as Amenhotep/Assad Bey, an ancient egyptian PL: mummified Pharaoh, and the high priest who brought him back to life. In PL: order For Amenhotep to achieve immortality, Assad Bey has to kidnap nubile PL: young virgins in Victorian London for blood sacrifices. BY: Humberto Amador ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 394946,394951c396482 PL: that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed... 399198c400729 MV: We Married Margaux (2000) 399546a401078,401090 PL: In 1798, Napoleon lands his army in Egypt, defeats the Mameluke warlords PL: (the remnants of Ottoman rule), and goes on to Cairo. Three brothers, PL: who are Egyptian patriots, chafe under Mameluke rule and reject the PL: prospect of French domination. Bakr, the eldest, is a hothead, quick PL: to advocate armed rebellion; Ali is more philosophical and poetic; PL: Yehia is young and impressionable. One of Napoleon's generals, the PL: one-legged intellectual Caffarelli, wants to make Frenchmen out of Ali, PL: Yehia, and other Egyptians, opening a bakery where their father works, PL: becoming a tutor, and declaring his love for them. Is tragedy the only PL: resolution of these conflicting loyalties? BY: 399980a401525,401536 MV: Welcome Home, Bobby (1986) (TV) PL: When a Chicago teen (Timothy Williams) is arrested for drug posession, the PL: ensuing investigation reveals that he has had sexual contact with an PL: older man. Discovering his sexual encounter, other students start PL: shunning him and call for his expulsion from school. His father (Tony PL: Lo Bianco) as his conservative blue-collar dad also rejects him, while PL: his mother (gisela Caldwell) does try to offer support. BY: John Sacksteder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 401926a403483,403496 MV: When Magoo Flew (1955) PL: Mr. Magoo sets off to go to the movies but goes to an airport by mistake PL: and gets on a plane thinking it to be a theater. Little does Magoo know PL: the man he is sitting next to is actually a thief and when a detective PL: appears on the plane to track the thief down, Magoo thinks it's all PL: part of the movie. After doing some wing walking, Magoo reenters the PL: plane and exposes the thief to the detective. When the plane lands, PL: Magoo remarks that they should have shown a cartoon particularly one PL: with that "delightful near sighted fellow". BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 403277,403289d404846 408890a410448,410460 PL: Inglewood, an L.A. burb, is the Wood, home to a largely Black middle class, PL: where Mike, Slim, and Roland have been best friends since junior high. PL: It's three hours before Roland is to marry, and he has very cold feet. PL: Mike and Slim must sober him up and help him decide if he wants to go PL: through with the wedding. In flashbacks, they recall key moments of PL: their friendship, the rites of passage of boys to men. Mike is the PL: principal narrator, arriving in the Wood from North Carolina, nervous PL: and shy. In addition to male friendship and wedding-day jitters, the PL: story explores Mike's long-term connection to Alicia, his lovely and PL: together first sweetheart. BY: 409346a410917,410926 PL: A fake documentary about World War III, that broke out after Gorbatchev was PL: overthrown in the USSR after visiting the German Democratic Republic in PL: October 1989 and replaced by a radical general, who tried to PL: re-establish communist rulership in Eastern Europe. After a shooting at PL: the Berlin wall on November 9, all chances for a peaceful solution of PL: the conflict in the GDR (the people wanted to get rid of their PL: government) are gone, and soon the world's on fire. BY: Stephan Eichenberg 411066a412647,412656 MV: Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943) PL: Daffy is an agent representing Sleepy LaGoon trying to sell him to talent PL: scout Porky. Daffy spends a great deal of time and energy explaining PL: and demonstrating what the kid can do, while the kid sits on a couch PL: licking a giant sucker. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 413702a415293,415303 MV: Yue hei feng gao (1995) PL: On the peaceful Lantau Island of Hong Kong, a murder takes place. A PL: Eurasian is suspected until he turns out to be a cop from the city PL: S.W.A.T team. The laid-back chief inspector Chow of the island is PL: forced to collaborated. The ways of a city cop and the ways of a PL: country cop collides into series of laughs. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 413798a415400,415410 MV: Yun cai tong zi (1994) PL: Lau and Chow are roommates and they both dream to strike it rich at the PL: races. They invent a device that allows them to eavesdrop on jockeys PL: in training for tips. When they lost at the races, Lau's girlfriend PL: threatens to leave, and Chow is stalked by the loan sharks. Will they PL: bet it all on one last race? BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 414847a416460,416469 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Zheng yue shi wu zhi yi sheng yi shi (1994) PL: A sequel to Thou Shalt Not Swear. Chow reteams with Lau to investigate a PL: murder. Chow's wife is the suspect! The victims are those who cheats PL: on their wives. The killer turns out to be a ghost who is still in PL: love with his living girlfriend. BY: Anonymous