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Directed by Kurt MaetzigOrigin PologneGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
AdventureThemes Space adventure films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films set in the future,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Musical films,
Space opera,
Venus in film,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Alien invasions in films,
Disaster filmsActors Günther Simon,
Eduard von Winterstein,
Yoko Tani,
Lucyna Winnicka,
Ruth Maria KubitschekRating46%
The film begins in 1985, when engineers involved in an industrial project to irrigate the Gobi Desert accidentally unearth a mysterious and apparently artificial "spool". When found to be made of a material unknown on Earth, the spool is circumstantially linked to the Tunguska explosion of 1908. The "spool" is seized on as evidence that the explosion, originally blamed on a meteor, was actually caused by a spaceship. Professor Harringway deduces the alien craft must have come from Venus. The spool itself is determined to be a flight recorder, and partially decoded by an international team of scientists led by Professor Sikarna and Dr. Tchen Yu. When radio greetings sent to Venus go unanswered, Harringway announces that a journey to Venus is Earth's only alternative. The recently completed Soviet spaceship Cosmostrator I (Kosmokrator in the original), intended to voyage to Mars, is redirected to Venus, a 30–31 day trip. During the voyage, Sikarna works furiously to translate the alien message on the disc using the ship's computer., 1h29
Directed by Robert SiodmakOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ThrillerThemes Political filmsActors Don Murray,
Christine Kaufmann,
Ingrid van Bergen,
Werner Klemperer,
Horst Janson,
Edith Schultze-WestrumRating65%
The story takes place in East Berlin soon after the Berlin Wall is built, and is based on an actual escape on January 28, 1962. Kurt Schröder is a chauffeur to East German Major Eckhardt and his seductive wife Heidi, and lives within sight of the Wall. Kurt is having an affair with Heidi. One night he sees a friend, Günther Jurgens, who works at the garage where Kurt has the Major's car maintained, drive his truck into the wall, and get killed trying to escape to the west. Günther's sister, Erika, comes looking for Günther when he doesn't return, and is told that Kurt saw him last night. She then goes to Kurt's house, where he lives with his mother, Uncle Albrecht (a musician), sister Ingeborg and kid brother Helmut. Erika is intent on escaping to West Berlin, thinking that her brother made it. Kurt, reasonably satisfied with his life, has no intention of risking his life to attempt an escape. Erika then looks out beyond the barbed wire, but Kurt catches her as she tries to crawl under, and they pretend to be lovers to hide her intentions from suspicious guards. Kurt then hides her in his house. A piece of Erika's clothing is caught in the barbed wire, and the guards track her to the Schröder's house. She hides in a room without a floor, and narrowly escapes the guards after they conclude that she could not be in the room., 2h8
Directed by Robert AldrichOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
HorrorThemes Films about films,
Films about families,
Medical-themed films,
Psychologie,
Films about television,
Vieillesse,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilitiesActors Bette Davis,
Joan Crawford,
Victor Buono,
Gina Gillespie,
Wesley Addy,
Maidie NormanRating79%
In 1917, Baby Jane Hudson is a vaudevillian child star while her sister Blanche Hudson is not famous and overlooked by their father. By 1935, both sisters are movie actors, but Blanche has achieved stardom, while Jane’s films have flopped, leading Jane to drink heavily. One night, returning from a party, one of the sisters (implied to be Blanche) gets out of the car to open the garage door, while the driver (implied to be Jane) attempts to run her over, misses, and crashes into the garage. The accident leaves Blanche paralyzed., 1h52
Directed by George Roy HillOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Christmas films,
Théâtre,
Films based on plays,
Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee WilliamsActors Anthony Franciosa,
Jane Fonda,
Jim Hutton,
Lois Nettleton,
John McGiver,
Mabel AlbertsonRating61%
On Christmas Eve, two married couples are both having a period of difficulty in their relationship. Newlyweds Isabel (Jane Fonda) and George Haverstick (Jim Hutton) are having a problem because George has bouts of performance anxiety. The second couple, Ralph (Anthony Franciosa) and Dorothea Baitz (Lois Nettleton), have their problems based on the fact that he married her for her money—and she knows it.Gigot (1962)
on 1 november 1962 , 1h44
Directed by Gene KellyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ComedyActors Jackie Gleason,
Katherine Kath,
Gabrielle Dorziat,
Jean Lefebvre,
Orangey,
Jacques MarinRating70%
Gigot (Gleason) is a mute Frenchman living in a cellar in the Ménilmontant district of Paris in the 1920s. He ekes out a hand-to-mouth existence as a janitor at his landlady's apartment building. He is routinely treated with condescension by neighbors and often is made the butt of practical jokes. However, he is a decent and kindhearted fellow, traits not unnoticed by children and the animals he often feeds. Gigot has one unusual predilection: he is attracted by funeral processions and finds himself attending, whether or not he ever knew the departed. He can't help but cry along with all the other mourners.Gypsy (1962)
on 1 november 1962 , 2h23
Directed by Mervyn LeRoyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
MusicalThemes Films about music and musicians,
Films about sexuality,
Théâtre,
Musical films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on musicals,
StripteaseActors Rosalind Russell,
Natalie Wood,
Karl Malden,
Parley Baer,
Morgan Brittany,
Jack BennyRating70%
Determined to make her young, blonde, and beautiful daughter June a vaudeville headliner, willful, resourceful, domineering stage mother Rose Hovick will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. She drags the girl and her shy, awkward, and decidedly less-talented older sister Louise around the country in an effort to get them noticed, and with the assistance of agent Herbie Sommers, she manages to secure them bookings on the prestigious Orpheum Circuit.Directed by Leonard Maltin,
Gene DeitchOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
AnimationThemes Films about animals,
Films about cats,
Mise en scène d'un rongeur,
Mise en scène d'une souris,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Allen SwiftRating56%
On a snowy night in New York City, Jerry is comfortably asleep in his hole inside a penthouse, while Tom tries to keep from freezing to death in the alley below, after being thrown out by his owner. He writes a note, slips it into a bottle, and throws it up to hit the penthouse window. Jerry, awakened by the noise, goes out to the balcony and finds both this note and a second one sent up by Tom: