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Directed by Larry Peerce
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Treat Williams, Lisa Eichhorn, Gabriel Macht, Valerie Curtin, Jocelyn Brando, Nicolas Coster
Rating59%
Cletus, a compulsive liar, is employed as a social worker. He tries to find a home for a young boy named Jorge and, in so doing, falls in love with Jorge's social worker.

Directed by Basu Chatterjee
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Amol Palekar, Shabana Azmi, Girish Karnad, Utpal Dutt, Bharati Achrekar, Manisha Koirala
Rating73%

, 3h55
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Actors Omero Antonutti, Michael Giannatos, Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996)
Rating74%
The film is based on the Dilesi Massacre of 1872 during which several bandits kidnapped British tourists and demanded a ransom. The film opens with a character named Alexander the Great who is the leader of the bandits being freed from prison.

, 1h30
Directed by Joe D'Amato
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films set in the future, Serial killer films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Tisa Farrow, Serena Grandi, George Eastman, Zora Kerova, Margaret Mazzantini, Joe D'Amato
Rating53%
A pair of Germans visiting a remote Greek island go to the beach, and are slaughtered by someone who emerges from the ocean. On the mainland, five travelers are preparing to tour the islands, and are joined by Julie, who asks for a ride to an island that some friends of hers live on. The only one who objects to this detour to the island (which Julie explains has only a few permanent residents, and only sees tourists a few months out of the year) is Carol, whose tarot cards convince her that something bad will happen if they go to the island. The group sails to the island anyway, and while disembarking the pregnant Maggie hurts her ankle, so she stays behind on the boat with its owner. A man attacks the boat, ripping the sailor's head off, and abducting Maggie.

, 1h19
Origin Russie
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Talgat Nigmatulin, Piotr Veliaminov
Rating66%
The film begins with a convoy of military vehicles rolling into a seaport located somewhere in Middle East in the bank of Indian or Pacific Ocean and stopping near the pier where the Soviet cargo ship Nezjin is anchored. An agent of a local pharmaceutical company meets the captain of the Soviet vessel and discusses the cargo, medical opium, which is in critical demand by the hospitals of the USSR. Soon after that the pharmaceutical company agent is seen inside a car, speaking to someone via walkie-talkie. Later the MV Nezjin, with the opium on board, leaves port for Vladivostok.

, 12minutes
Genres Science fiction, Comedy
Actors Corey Burton
Rating69%
In the film, sewage worker Roy Dreary and an number of unusual characters meet up with strange extraterrestrials traveling to earth in a giant pie in the sky. Dreary develops an obsession with mashed potatoes, whipped cream, and maraschino cherries. He encounters singing mailboxes, truck radios that spout bubbles and bubble music, and one pie in the face after another, before finally finding himself at the Sara Loo pie factory-and his close encounter of the nerd kind.

, 1h37
Directed by Lucio Fulci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Fabio Testi, Marcel Bozzuffi, Guido Alberti, Venantino Venantini, Saverio Marconi, Luciano Rossi
Rating64%
Luca Di Angelo (Fabio Testi) is a smuggler, one member of an organized team trafficking cigarettes and booze up and down the coast off Naples, Italy. After a run-in with the police in which the smugglers manage to get away by faking a boat explosion resulting in the police motorboats responding to the false emergency allowing the smugglers to get away, Luca and his brother Mickey suspect Scherino (Ferdinand Murolo), the head of a rival gang of smugglers, of passing on their actives. Lucia and Mickey take their accusations to their boss Perlante (Saverio Marconi) a sleazy playboy withy numerous Mafia connections, who agrees to look into it. After a nighttime fire at Mickey's racing stables kills a valued racehorse, he and Luca drive over to inspect the damage. But on the way, they are stopped at a fake police roadblock where the assassins dressed as policemen trick Mickey into getting out of the car and machine-gun him to death over and over again (a homage to Sonny Corelone's death scene in The Godfather), while Luca barely escapes injury by hiding on the floor of the car.

, 1h33
Directed by René Cardona Jr.
Origin Mexique
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Stuart Whitman, Antonella Interlenghi, Marisa Mell, Hugo Stiglitz, Francisco Rabal, Mario Almada
Rating56%
Après avoir commis un hold-up, des gangsters tentent d'échapper à la police en prenant une famille en otage. Les bandits sont alors abattus les uns après les autres.

, 1h33
Directed by Robert Greenwald
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on mythology, Sports films, Musical films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, Gene Kelly, James Sloyan, Dimitra Arliss, Sandahl Bergman
Rating53%
Sonny Malone is a talented artist who dreams of fame beyond his job, which is the non-creative task of painting larger versions of album covers for record-store window advertisements. As the film opens, Sonny is broke and on the verge of giving up his dream. Having quit his day job to try to make a living as a freelance artist, but having failed to make any money at it, Sonny returns to his old job at AirFlo Records. After some humorous run-ins with his imperious boss and nemesis, Simpson, he resumes painting record covers.

, 1h48
Directed by Peter Sellers, Richard Quiney, Piers Haggard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror, Crime
Actors Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson, Sid Caesar, Simon Williams, John Sharp
Rating49%
The opening titles announce it is set "possibly around 1933." The story concerns the 168-year-old Fu Manchu, who must duplicate the ingredients to the elixir vitae (which gives him extended life) after the original is accidentally destroyed by one of Fu's minions.