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Cuba (1979)
on 21 december 1979 , 2h2
Directed by Richard LesterOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Political filmsActors Sean Connery,
Brooke Adams,
Chris Sarandon,
Héctor Elizondo,
Martin Balsam,
Jack WestonRating56%
The film's sense of historical accuracy is marred by the opening scene which shows an airliner landing in Havana with the wrong date ("1959") superimposed on the screen. It should read "1958", the last year of the revolution. Cuban President Batista fled the capital when Fidel Castro and his guerrillas entered Havana on New Year's Day 1959., 30minutes
Origin USAGenres Comedy,
Fantasy,
AnimationThemes Christmas films,
Ghost films,
Children's filmsActors Julie McWhirter,
Daws Butler,
Don Messick,
John Stephenson,
Hal SmithRating66%
Casper and his friend Hairy Scary are in a house about to be demolished on Christmas Eve and go out to look for a new place to move to after Christmas in California. Then Yogi and his friends get lost and arrive at Casper and Hairy's house and clean and decorate it to celebrate Christmas. Then Casper befriends Yogi and company only for Hairy to try to ruin the party with Casper and his new friends. Then Hairy has a change of heart and celebrates Christmas with Casper and his new friends and ending with Santa Claus saving the house and turning it into Hairy's Haunting Lodge., 2h2
Directed by Henri Verneuil,
Philippe Lopes-CurvalOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Assassinat,
Mafia films,
Monde imaginaire,
Politique,
Political films,
Gangster filmsActors Yves Montand,
Michel Albertini,
Roland Amstutz,
Maurice Bénichou,
Jean-Pierre Bagot,
Georges BellerRating78%
The film's plot is based on the Kennedy assassination and subsequent investigation. The film begins with the assassination of President Marc Jarry, who is about to be inaugurated for a second six-year term of office. Henri Volney, state attorney and member of the commission charged with investigating the assassination (based on the Warren Commission) refuses to agree to the commission's final findings. The film portrays the initial controversy about this, as well as Volney and his staff's reopening of the investigation., 6h
Directed by Stanislav GovoroukhineOrigin RussieGenres Drama,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Gangster filmsActors Vladimir Konkine,
Vladimir Vysotsky,
Zinovi Gerdt,
Leonid Kouravliov,
Armen Djigarkhanian,
Alexander BelyavskyRating86%
The film is set in post-WWII Moscow. Lieutenant Vladimir Sharapov (Vladimir Konkin) is a young reconnaissance officer and a decorated war hero who has just returned from the war and is assigned to peacetime service with the famous MUR (Moscow Department of Criminal Investigations). There he becomes part of an elite detective team led by the brilliant, tough, no-nonsense Captain Gleb Zheglov (Vysotsky). The duo becomes embroiled in two seemingly separate investigations: that of the murder of young aspiring actress Larisa Gruzdeva, and the hunt for a vicious gang of armed robbers that calls itself "Black Cat" and constantly manages to evade capture., 1h45
Directed by Robert BentonOrigin USAGenres DramaActors Dustin Hoffman,
Meryl Streep,
Justin Henry,
Jane Alexander,
Howard Duff,
George CoeRating77%
Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is a workaholic advertising executive who has just been assigned a new and very important account. Ted arrives home and shares the good news with his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) only to find that she is leaving him. Saying that she needs to find herself, she leaves Ted to raise their son Billy (Justin Henry) by himself. Ted and Billy initially resent one another as Ted no longer has time to carry his increased workload and Billy misses his mother's love and attention. After months of unrest, Ted and Billy learn to cope and gradually bond as father and son. , 1h31
Directed by Don Chaffey,
Burt TopperOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
ComedyThemes Films about animals,
Children's films,
Robot filmsActors Wesley Eure,
Red Buttons,
Valerie Bertinelli,
Conrad Bain,
Jim Backus,
Chuck McCannRating49%
Brian Foster (Wesley Eure), a young inventor, creates a robotic dog for use as part of a home protection system. C.H.O.M.P.S. is an acronym for "Canine HOMe Protection System." Ralph Norton (Conrad Bain) is his boss who he constantly argues with. Norton's daughter Casey (Valerie Bertinelli) and Foster develop a relationship. A rival company wants the dog and sends a few petty criminals to dognap "C.H.O.M.P.S.", 1h58
Directed by Pier Paolo PasoliniOrigin ItalieGenres Drama,
Erotic,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
FantasyThemes Poésie,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
Adaptation d'un poème,
LGBT-related filmActors Franco Citti,
Ninetto Davoli,
Laura Betti,
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Hugh Griffith,
Alan WebbRating63%
Near London, Oxford and Canterbury in the Middle Ages, stories and adventures of peasants, noblemen, clergy and demons are interwoven. In the first vignette of the film, the merchant Sir January loses his sight, allowing the bride to join with her young lover in secret. In the second story, the Devil ensures that two young peasants are killed by the arm of the Inquisition for their libertine pleasures. In the third, the fool Perkin is involved in an intrigue; he tries to find work, but his attempts ultimately wreak havoc in the city of Oxford. In the fourth story of two youths, Nicolas and Alison, seduce the wife of a carpenter, and when in danger of being caught, they pretend to be two visionaries who predicted the arrival of the new Flood. In the fifth, in the village of Bath, a matron marries Giannozzo; however, their happiness is short-lived. In the sixth story in Cambridge, two students spend fabulous nights with Molly, the wife of a miller. One night Molly, waiting to make love with each of the two boys, goes to bed believing that she is conversing with one of the youths, disclosing their secret. In fact, the one who is on the bed is the consort! In the seventh story three students, cruel in their actions, are achieved by an old man who predicts them to a bad end. Young guys do not get scared, but when the three ingest a poisoned wine, soon find themselves in the company of Gloomy Grim Reaper. In the eighth and final story, a pleasure-loving monk is trying to earn as much food in exchange for extreme unction to a dying man. That same night in the man's convent comes an angel, which leads him to Hell, to show him the terrible punishments that belong to the friars that subvert the message of Christ., 2h
Directed by Bob FosseOrigin USAGenres Drama,
MusicalThemes Dance films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about religion,
Films about angels,
Musical films,
Children's filmsActors Roy Scheider,
Jessica Lange,
Leland Palmer,
Ann Reinking,
Max Wright,
Gwen VerdonRating77%
Joe Gideon is a theater director and choreographer trying to balance work on his latest Broadway musical with editing a Hollywood film he has directed. He is a workaholic who chain-smokes cigarettes, and without a daily dose of Vivaldi, Visine, Alka-Seltzer, Dexedrine, and sex, he wouldn't have the energy to keep up the biggest "show" of all — his life. His girlfriend Katie Jagger, his ex-wife Audrey Paris, and daughter Michelle try to pull him back from the brink, but it is too late for his exhausted body and stress-ravaged heart. In his imagination, he flirts with an angel of death named Angelique., 1h38
Directed by Gary NelsonOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Action,
AdventureThemes Space adventure films,
Psychologie,
Dans l'espace,
Films set in the future,
Space opera,
Children's films,
Robot films,
LobotomieActors Maximilian Schell,
Anthony Perkins,
Robert Forster,
Joseph Bottoms,
Yvette Mimieux,
Ernest BorgnineRating58%
Nearing the end of a long mission exploring deep space, the spacecraft USS Palomino is returning to Earth. The crew consists of Captain Dan Holland, First Officer Lieutenant Charlie Pizer, journalist Harry Booth, ESP-sensitive scientist Dr. Kate McCrae, the expedition's civilian leader Dr. Alex Durant and the robot V.I.N.CENT ("Vital Information Necessary CENTralized")., 1h34
Genres DramaActors Peter Lindgren,
Helena Brodin,
Frej Lindqvist,
Anita Ekström,
Stig EngströmRating65%
Marie est une fillette de 12 ou 13 ans qui vit en ville avec sa mère divorcée. Mais celle-ci décide un jour de tenter une nouvelle vie de couple et elle envoie sa fille chez son oncle et sa tante, dans la campagne suédoise. Marie part seule en train, le cœur serré., 2h2
Directed by Sydney PollackOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Adventure,
Romance,
WesternThemes Films about animals,
Transport films,
Films about horses,
Road movies,
Chase films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Robert Redford,
Jane Fonda,
Valerie Perrine,
John Saxon,
Willie Nelson,
Allan ArbusRating63%
Norman "Sonny" Steele is a former championship rodeo rider who has sold out to a business conglomerate and is now reduced to making public appearances to sell a brand of breakfast cereal. Prior to making a Las Vegas promotional appearance to ride the $12 million champion thoroughbred race horse who responds to the name of Rising Star, Sonny discovers to his horror that the horse has been drugged and is injured., 1h43
Directed by Mark L. LesterOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Sports films,
Musical filmsActors Linda Blair,
Dick Van Patten,
Roger Perry,
Kimberly Beck,
James Van Patten,
Stoney JacksonRating47%
Bobby James and his friends (Phones, Hoppy, Gordo, and several others) skate to work on the Venice, California boardwalk. Meanwhile in Beverly Hills, Terry Barkley, genius flautist is also heading towards the beach in her Excalibur Phateon car. She also is joined by her stuck-up girlfriend Lana., 1h56
Directed by Michael SchultzOrigin USAGenres ComedyThemes Transport films,
Road movies,
Chase filmsActors Richard Benjamin,
James Coco,
Scatman Crothers,
Cloris Leachman,
Cleavon Little,
Arnold SchwarzeneggerRating58%
Milton Parker (Vincent Price), an elderly and eccentric game inventor, dies after losing a video game with his seductive nurse (Carol Wayne). Following his funeral, Parker's greedy and estranged relatives show up at his mansion for the reading of his will. They learn from lawyer Charles Bernstein (Robert Morley) that the winner of an elaborate scavenger hunt will inherit his $200 million estate. The (potential) beneficiaries form five teams and get involved in various misadventures., 1h44
Directed by Corey AllenOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Christmas filmsActors Fred Astaire,
Gary Burghoff,
John Byner,
Bert Convy,
Tara Buckman,
Brooke BundyRating64%
The mysterious owner of a New York costume store (Astaire) sells Santa suits to three different men. He later shows up in various roles to help the men change their lives. (chauffeur, policeman, jeweler, hot dog vendor, taxi driver, floor walker, and choral director) Bob Willis (Burghoff) is a math teacher who is madly in love with a young fashion model and prominent figure in the disco scene, Polly Primer (Buckman). Polly, however, is already engaged to marry wealthy and handsome Rod Sanborn (Greenan). He hopes to impress her by showing up in a santa suit, but withdraws when he learns of Rod's marriage proposal to her. Polly is not sure to marry Rod and hints to Bob that she longs for being swept away by another guy, but Bob is too shy to act on it. Realizing he would lose her forever to Rod, he interrupts her at a fashion show and tells her he loves her. Polly then reveals having fallen in love with him ever since he first spoke about math, and she accepts his marriage proposal., 47minutes
Directed by Ray PattersonOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Adventure,
AnimationThemes Films about animals,
Films about dogs,
Comedy horror films,
Children's films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Hal Smith,
Don Messick,
Casey Kasem,
Rip Taylor,
Frank Welker,
Heather NorthRating59%
Scooby and Shaggy are filming a mystery episode of their cartoon as they are running from "The Crabby Creature Of Creepy Crag" while Daphne and Velma are discussing the script outside. After Scooby and Shaggy fall on the ground after going through a catapult, they start getting tired of doing the same routine, and decide to become real movie stars ("The Name to Remember is Scooby-Doo"). They show the president of film, C.J., a pilot film called How Scooby Won the West, where Sheriff Scooby and Deputy Shaggy undergo the ornery Jesse Rotten. C.J. believes the film is a joke, and throws Shaggy and Scooby out, laughing. After the gang finds out Scooby is leaving the show, they protest while Shaggy tells how Scooby will become famous., 1h54
Directed by Otto PremingerOrigin United-kingdomGenres Thriller,
Spy,
PoliticThemes Spy films,
Politique,
Political filmsActors Richard Attenborough,
Derek Jacobi,
John Gielgud,
Iman,
Nicol Williamson,
Robert MorleyRating60%
Maurice Castle (Nicol Williamson) is a mid-level bureaucrat in MI6 whose life seems completely without peculiarity, peccadillo, or any highlighting quality to suggest he’s anything but a dull bureaucrat, except for the interesting, casually introduced detail that he has an African wife, Sarah (Iman), and son, Sam (Gary Forbes). Meanwhile, the company regime, represented by corpulent, bluffly cheery Dr. Percival (Robert Morley), who’s actually an expert in assassinations and biological toxins, and grey eminence Sir John Hargreaves (Richard Vernon), advise newly appointed security chieftain Daintry (Richard Attenborough) that, thanks to a source they have cultivated in their Moscow enemy headquarters, they believe they have a traitor at the MI6 African desk. The duo determine that the mole must be quietly killed, rather than be allowed publicity in a trial or a flight to Moscow. They determine quickly that the most likely candidate for the traitor is Arthur Davis (Derek Jacobi), Castle’s playboy office partner. Actually, Castle is the mole, but the information he leaks is entirely unimportant financial documents. He became involved in leaking to the Soviets when he was an MI6 agent in South Africa, seven years earlier: he met and fell in love with Sarah, and when their affair was discovered by the authorities, Castle was all but thrown out of the country, and he entrusted Sarah’s smuggling out of the country to a mutual communist acquaintance. Ever since, he’s been repaying the favor by filtering insignificant data to the Soviets. Castle makes one last informational drop to his communist handlers and he is summarily whisked off to Moscow for protection. However, Castle's primary problem is that he is not a communist, is not a communist sympathizer, and has absolutely no interest in politics, socialism, the Russian language, Slavic history or culture, geopolitical power plays, Moscow nor the Soviet Union. His only interest is in his wife and his son, who are left in London — where they will remain separated from him., 1h37
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson,
Cesare CanevariOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Action,
AdventureThemes Spy films,
Political filmsActors Peter Graves,
Curd Jürgens,
Karin Schubert,
Michael Dante,
Frank Braña,
Michael ConstantineRating31%
The story concerns an experimental nuclear cruise missile which is stolen from a Soviet military site in the USSR. An international terrorist group, under the command of a European power-crazed man known only as the Baron is responsible. The Baron plots to use the stolen Soviet missile to destroy an international peace conference in one week located on an island in the Persian Gulf. When the U.S. counsul to Iran is murdered by the Baron's henchmen, Alec Franklin, an US intelligence agent, is ordered to travel to Iran to take over as counsul as well as investigate the murder. Upon arrival in Tehran, Alec is followed by two of the Baron's henchmen whom attempt to kill him, but Alec manages to escape., 1h35
Directed by Mike JittlovGenres Science fiction,
Comedy,
Fantasy,
Musical,
AnimationThemes Films about filmsActors Mike Jittlov,
Steve Brodie,
John Massari,
Philip Michael Thomas,
Will Ryan,
Stephen StuckerRating69%
, 2h10
Directed by Hal AshbyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about television,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Political films,
Films about autismActors Peter Sellers,
Shirley MacLaine,
Melvyn Douglas,
Jack Warden,
Richard A. Dysart,
Richard BasehartRating78%
Chance (Peter Sellers) is a middle-aged man who lives in the townhouse of an old, wealthy man in Washington, D.C. He is simple-minded and has lived there his whole life, tending the garden. Other than gardening, his knowledge is derived entirely from what he sees on television. When his benefactor dies, Chance naively says he has no claim against the estate, and is ordered to move out. Thus he discovers the outside world for the first time.Laura (1979)
on 20 december 1979 , 1h35
Directed by David HamiltonOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Erotic,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic filmsActors Maud Adams,
Dawn Dunlap,
James Mitchell,
Maureen Kerwin,
Pierre Londiche,
Anja SchüteRating56%
James Mitchell plays Paul Wyler, a successful sculptor best known for sculpting nude young girls. When he encounters an old flame, Sarah (Maud Adams), he is so smitten by her beautiful daughter Laura that he asks Sarah if she will pose for him. Sarah, married but still jealous of the fact that her former lover is more attracted to her daughter, tells Paul that Laura is not interested, even though she is actually quite enthusiastic about doing it. As an alternative to live posing, Sarah takes photos of Laura posing nude and gives them to Paul so that he can sculpt Laura. After a fire at an art exhibit, though, Paul goes blind and cannot complete the sculpture. In the end, Laura, when going to say goodbye to Paul, allows him to finish his work by feeling her body and sculpting by feeling. This leads to a sexual encounter between the two, and the next morning Laura's mother comes to take her away.Genres Drama,
War,
AdventureThemes Political filmsActors Vladimir ZamanskyRating63%
The film is set in June 1941, when Nazi troops were blocking the Soviet Black Sea fleet with new top-secret magnetic-acoustic naval mines. Seeking to neutralize these fearsome weapons, a special group of professional bomb disposal combat engineers was assembled by Soviet military commanders — a group that would carry out their task at the price of their lives.