A grifter in 1960s New York is hired to convince a wealthy man's son to return home from Italy and begins a life of deceit, fraud and murder.
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A grifter in 1960s New York is hired to convince a wealthy man's son to return home from Italy and begins a life of deceit, fraud and murder.
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Ben Reilly, an aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York, is forced to grapple with his past life as the city's one and only superhero.
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Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.
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A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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A seemingly ordinary British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham.
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The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
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In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Madrid, 1961. Ana Mari is single, lame, Francoist and instructor of the Sección Femenina. By order of the dictator Franco, she must go to work as a maid to Ava Gardner's house and spy on her, pretending to be married to Manolo, a hustler who will become the driver of the American actress.
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Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.
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Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.
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An experienced South Pacific Sea Dog by the name of Quinton McHale, was commissioned as a Lieutenant Commander into the U.S. Navy Reserve at the start of World War II. McHale was made the Skipper of the Torpedo Patrol (PT) Boat #73 stationed at the U.S. Naval Installation on the island of Taratupa in the Southwest Pacific. The 73 'Family' included, among others, a con man and amateur Magician, a womanizing hunk, a dedicated Family man, a guitar-playing, moonshine-making Tennessee good ol' boy, and even a deserter from the Japanese Navy, who was an excellent cook.
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When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
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A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
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After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
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Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
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The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.
A weak father and an authoritarian mother teaches her young daughter to dance, and dreams of being rich by her daughter after working in a nightclub. She was identified by the wealthy (Amin), the manager of her father's company, Shehata Effendi, and became his mistress. From the company, when the people of the neighborhood saw him went to her mother and stabbed her intended to kill her, but she survived death, and became blind, and entered the prison. The daughter identified the lawyer (Hussein) and loved him, and severed her relationship with (Amin), and on the day of her marriage discovered that he was the son of (Amin), and returned to dance and play and alcohol until she got asthma, and then hit a car, broke her foot, sustained permanent disability, and lost her savings, She returned to the neighborhood with her blind mother, and her father came out of the prison and reunion, and then Han (Hussein), he came to marry her, but the fate was closer to him.
Murad Salem is a rich man who is used to getting what he wants whenever he wants it. When he meets a beautiful woman in Alexandria, he wants her as wife number thirteen. He buys himself into the heart of the woman, until a well-meaning, former fiancée of her husband tells her just how many times he has been divorced. The new bride launches into a series of ploys that keep her away from the marriage bed.
Zuhra has nothing to do but to runaway after her family forced her to marry an old rich man. She goes to Alexandria where she works in a motel and there she meets people with different ideologies and thoughts about life.
Ragab, a poor sailor, returns home to Alexandria after three years of absence, during which he tried to save money to marry his one true love, Hamedah. But there's trouble on the harbor, and with an old friend.
Almaz goes from a simple worker to one of the brightest singing stars during the reign of Khedive Ismail. The great singer Abdo Al-Hamuli encouraged him and introduced him to high-end circles. The Khedive wants to keep it for himself. Almaz agrees to give her his voice without his body, so the Khedive agrees to marry her. Abdo Al-Hamouli will prevent her from singing after the wedding. Problems arise between the palace and all the singers, which leads them to join the popular revolutionary movement which was beginning to gain strength at that time...
Elham marries Nabil and moves to live with him in his mother's house. Her mother-in-law starts seeing Elham as an intruder while she's the lady of the house. When Elham didn't have kids, she wants Nabil to marry Elham's friend.
Hasan Youssef plays Mohsen, a doctor who is in love with a nurse named Mona (Warda Al-Jazaria). They hope to marry soon, however Mohsen's father refuses to allow the marriage: he has promised his son to the daughter of a wealthy benefactor, to settle a long standing debt. In order to convince the father to allow their marriage, Mohsen asks Mona to work as his father's private nurse and work to win him over.
A husband loses his arms and becomes unemployed, his wife becomes responsible for the house and neglects her husband. He starts learning to paint and meets a girl who encourages him to submit his paintings in an exhibition.
Amal and her friend Fatima are happily in love with Ahmed and Dr. Mamdouh respectively. After it is discovered that Amal has a debilitating condition, her father attempts to keep it a secret.
The film revolves around Aida (Madiha Yousry) who loves her cousin, the officer Ahmed (Emad Hamdy), and he reciprocates the same feelings. Her father (Serag Mounir) refuses to let her marry him and threatens to destroy his future. He marries her against her will to the son of the Prime Minister so that he can benefit from his father's influence. Ahmed's hope of marrying Aida is lost, so he marries another woman, but she soon dies while Aida discovers her husband's betrayal.
Salwa falls in love with Adel, the carefree young man, but her mother rejects this relationship, preferring him to the serious doctor Magdy, who treats her, and they actually marry to please the mother, but her heart is still attached to Adel.
Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.
1950 Cairo, Amin is a simple employee who lives with his family of three, his wife Zahira, son Nabil and daughter Hoda. Amin’s friend Mabrouk convinces Amin to invest his life savings in a project, which he promises, will get him rich. Amin agrees but forgets to take a receipt. Amin suddenly dies and watches on from the after life.
Set in the 14th century. Under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Syria. A lowly woman from a harem (Lubna Aziz) rises to lead the Egyptians against the invaders.
A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinated by his youth and vitality and lures him into practicing vice with her. As a result, he stumbles in his studies and health. At this time, a girl whom she and her father knew from a young age helps him to get rid of all the corruption in which he lives, and her father advises him to stay away from intercessions, but the intercessions plots against him in an attempt to stay with her.
Part of a trilogy by Salah Abu Seif about women’s empowerment. The film takes place in late 1940s / early 1950s urban Egypt, and tells the story of a young woman’s search for personal freedom and a fulfilling identity as a young modern Egyptian.
Rebel Ibrahim Hamdy assassinates a pro-colonial Prime Minister but is arrested and hides with a fellow university student, who initially refuses but eventually accepts him. Abdul Hamid Khatib meets Samia and her cousin, and Ibrahim uses the situation to hasten Samia’s marriage, which she rejects. Nawal, the youngest daughter, becomes the liaison between Ibrahim and his colleagues, helping him escape. Abdul Hamid tries to inform the political police of Ibrahim’s location, but Samia stops him. The head of the political police suspects them and punishes them to find Ibrahim. Ibrahim refuses to leave the country, returning to fight colonialism and participating in an operation.
A coming of age story about a dreamy girl.
Sania is a young maid. She pays what she earns to her lover, the student Moneim, so that he can complete his education, but he abandons her. This shocks Sania and she moves to serve a rich family, whose affairs are taken over by a widow with three daughters. They make Sania impersonate one of them to take revenge on a young man, and events turn upside down.
Hamada, Salah and Hassan are three young men who are united by friendship and neighborhood, trying to stop some of the boss’s men who work in contraband. One day, these young men steal Harun’s car and run away with it until the police confront them, while Haroun is afraid of the car loaded with drugs.Only Haroun rescues them, who fears that the drugs will be exposed. The three friends go to conscription and join the Navy.
While Hamada is in Abu Qir, Awad succeeds in hiding a set of valuable diamonds away from the police in Hamada's camera, and Hamada does not discover this, as he is with his two friends, Galal and Salah, spending some time having fun, but the diamonds turn their time into hell, and a gang begins chasing them in order to obtain those diamonds, led by Awad, who pushes Sonia to bring the diamond from the three friends.
Khairat, a sociology professor, meets the dancer Nunu and invites her to move in with him in order to conduct an experiment on her. When Nunu, who has fallen for Khairat, discovers the truth, she leaves the house and returns to the cabaret. Khairat discovers that he has fallen in love with her.
Salah, a young college student, falls in love for the first time with Samiha. He spends his nights thinking about her and looking to her face in the “empty pillow” next to him. When she marries someone else, he is devastated and her memory haunts him no matter where he goes.
The story of the Arabic Robin Hood, the legendary local hero Adham Al-Sharqawi who persisted in resisting the British occupation for years and tried to alleviate the suffering of the people of his village.
A famous singer, who is known for being a womanizer, meets his neighbor who is enamored with him and sleeps with her. When she gives birth, she has to leave her past behind and forget about her flippant ex-lover to look after her son.
Hussein is a conservative engineer who finds a perfect wife in Sherifa whom he thinks has never been in love. Ten days into their marriage, he learns that she had a past affair, and he merely regards her as a fallen woman.
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
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