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Big & Small Screen Entertainment That You Should Check-out (In My Opinion)
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“Big & Small Screen Entertainment That You Should Check-out (In My Opinion)” These are items of entertainment I believe you should at least check-out once in you life, just to see if you like. This will be a constant updating list with every sort of rating & genre. Enjoy!_Please be sure to look at my other “playlists” Thanks For Stopping! Be Safe & Happy!


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Movie: 13 Minutes ( 2021 )
Four families in a Heartland town are tested in a single day when a tornado hits, forcing paths to cross and redefining the meaning of survival.
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Movie: Diana ( 2021 )
The dazzling and devastating life of Princess Diana takes center stage in this original musical, filmed in advance of its official Broadway opening.
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TV Show: Borgia ( 2011 )
The name Borgia stands for betrayal, intrigue and corruption in the Vatican, which was the center of the world during the Renaissance.
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Movie: Christmas Is Canceled ( 2021 )
Emma's father and her high school frenemy start dating so she embarks on a mission to break up the happy couple.
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Movie: Who's Minding the Mint? ( 1967 )
Harry Lucas works at the US mint. One night he accidentally destroys $50,000. Things look pretty bleak for Harry until he hits upon the idea of breaking into the mint and printing off some replacement cash, however, he gets more than he bargained for when everyone wants in on the deal.
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Movie: The Shuttered Room ( 1968 )
A series of horrific murders is traced to a creature that inhabits a very strange house.
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Movie: Stewart Francis: Pun Gent ( 2016 )
Canadian Stewart Francis is a master of the pun-demental art of the double entendre. Featuring more wordplay than a scrabble tournament and a faster delivery rate than a pizza boy with a jetpack, Pun Gent is an unrelenting, high-intensity workout for your laugh muscles.
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Movie: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad ( 1967 )
A domineering mother and her sheltered son fly face first into love, murder, and the meaning of family in this black comedy based on Arthur Kopit's Broadway play.
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Movie: On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald ( 1986 )
A documentary in which surviving witnesses are recalled to determine the guilt or innocence of the man believed to have murdered President John F. Kennedy.
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Movie: Highway Pick-Up ( 1963 )
A thief on the train to prison escapes and makes his way to a remote mountain town. He takes on a new identity and moves in with a gas station owner and his wife. But his situation is made more difficult by a greedy and lecherous neighbor and the wife's own agenda.
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Movie: The Return of the Musketeers ( 1989 )
It's 1649: Cardinal Mazarin (Philippe Noiret) hires the impoverished D'Artagnan (Michael York) to find the other Musketeers: Oliver Cromwell (Alan Howard) has overthrown the English King, so Cardinal Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Duke of Beaufort (Eusebio Lázaro). Porthos (Frank Finlay), bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis (Richard Chamberlain), an abbé, and Athos (Oliver Reed), a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist the Duke of Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt the Duke's escape from prison, the Musketeers are expendable, and Cardinal Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I (Bill Paterson). They are also pursued by Justine de Winter (Kim Cattrall), the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy twenty years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve Queen Anne (Geraldine Chaplin), and secure Beauford's political reforms.
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Movie: Village of Daughters ( 1963 )
Herbert Harris is a traveling salesman who makes his way into a remote Italian village to sell his wares. There, he finds many single and attractive women who all pursue him madly. He quickly learns that the village has all but one single man left, as the majority have left to find work.
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Movie: La grande sauterelle ( 1967 )
While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl (Hardy Krüger) is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets lost on his way, falling in love with Salène, a.k.a. "La grande sauterelle" (Mireille Darc).
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Movie: Lou! Journal infime ( 2014 )
12 1/2 Lou lives alone with her absurdly immature mother, Emma. She spends her days playing with cat, eating at a italian restaurant, and spying on her dreamy neighbor Tristan, obsessively journaling his every move. But all this changes with arrival of the new bohemian neighbor, Richard, who ignites her goofy mother's romantic interest and triggers a series of increasingly embarrassing episodes.
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Movie: God Made Them... I Kill Them ( 1968 )
A bounty-hunter (Dean Reed) is hired by the residents of a small town on the Mexican border to stop a series of gold robberies by marauding outlaws who are coordinated by the town's corrupt banker.
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Movie: Satan Never Sleeps ( 1962 )
During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.
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Movie: The Busy Body ( 1967 )
Sid Caesar stars as the bumbling right hand man of mob boss Robert Ryan who is sent to find a corpse buried in a suit lined with stolen mob money.
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Movie: The Witch ( 1966 )
A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work.
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TV Show: McHale's Navy ( 1962 )
McHale's Navy follows the wacky schemes of Lt. Cmdr Quinton McHale and his crew to make money, get girls and have a ball. Their nemesis is Captain Binghamton who struggles to rid himself of the headache that PT-73 has become for him. Despite their scheming, conniving, and often lazy and unmilitary ways, McHale's crew is always successful in combat in the end.
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Movie: Out of Sight ( 1966 )
Teenage/secret agent/musical comedy about Big Daddy, who's been "driven mad by rock'n'roll," so he plans to sabotage a music fair with a bomb. Secret agent Homer comes to the rescue aided by his girlfriend Sandra along with Marvin. The sinister villains belong to the crime syndicate F.L.U.S.H. Featuring the musical groups The Turtles, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, The ...Read all
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Movie: Kill or Cure ( 1962 )
A reprobate photographer and part time private investigator is hired by a batty old woman to go undercover into a health farm to investigate a suspicious death.
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Movie: The Human Bullet ( 1968 )
During World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship.
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Movie: School of Life ( 2005 )
A new teacher squares off against his crusty competitor for a teacher of the year award.
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Movie: Weekend Warriors ( 1986 )
In 1961, with war looming in Berlin, an Air National Guard unit of actors, journalists and studio personnel is up for military academy consideration.
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Movie: Dean Martin: The One and Only ( 2004 )
He was a beloved American icon. Dean Martin, the coolest, the most debonair, the smoothest. This film is a loving and moving tribute to one of the most admired, idolized and accomplished entertainers the world has ever known. No other entertainer in history so thoroughly conquered the fields of recording, live performances, television and movies as did Dino, not even his good friend Frank Sinatra. Features footage and photos of Dean from throughout his life and career, as well as rare interview segments with Dean.
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Movie: Lady L ( 1965 )
Today Lady Louise Lendale (Sophia Loren) is eighty-years-old and she tells her long time admirer, British poet Sir Percy (Cecil Parker), all about her eventful life. In the beginning, she was a young laundress working in "Le Mouton Bleu", a renowned Paris whorehouse. There, she met Armand (Paul Newman), both a charming man and a bomb-throwing anarchist, and it wasn't long before she became his mistress. One day, while Armand was away in Switzeland, working for a revolutionary movement aiming to murder a Russian Prince, Louise met the second man in her life, a British Lord she soon called Dicky (David Niven). The latter offered to marry her. In exchange, he would save Armand from the police's grip. She accepted on the condition she could still see Armand.
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Movie: To Be Twenty ( 1978 )
Lia and Tina are two beautiful girls who meet and realize that they have a lot in common. They are both young, beautiful and pissed off, so they decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to find Nazariota's commune, a place to stay for free and have all the sex they want... or so they think. Things don't go as they have planned though, and soon they become involved in prostitution, the police and an aggressive gang.
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Movie: Eyes Behind the Wall ( 1977 )
Ivano is a wheelchair-bound man with some strange perversions. He gets his sexual kicks by spying on Arturo, their tenant in the apartment next-door and forcing his sexy accomplice Olga to watch as well. To increase his perverse thrill, Ivano persuades Olga to seduce Arturo and to have sex him as he watches. Unfortunately for all involved, the sex game starts to get very deadly.
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Movie: Stan ( 2006 )
Based on the Neil Brand's critically acclaimed radio play of the same name, the drama follows Stan Laurel's last visit to his dying friend and comedy partner Oliver 'Babe' Hardy and Stan's subsequent coming to terms with the ghosts of his past.
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Movie: Man, Woman and Beast ( 1977 )
Inspired by Bataille and Sade, an original episodic erotic comedy.
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Movie: Blood and Diamonds ( 1977 )
A man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were to blame for his arrest. The prize for this deadly fight is a large cache of diamonds.
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Movie: The Big Job ( 1965 )
An inept gang of bank robbers, led by George The Brain, are caught and sentenced to 15 years hard labour each. When they are released from prison they start out to collect the money they had stolen and which George had hidden in a hollow tree during the chase in which they were caught. The only trouble is that the tree was in the middle of a lonely lane when they were imprisoned; now, 15 years later, the tree is in the backyard of a Police Station...
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Movie: Voyage of the Damned ( 1976 )
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
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Movie: The Beatles at Shea Stadium ( 1967 )
Documentary film of The Beatles classic August 15, 1965 New York concert.
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TV Show: The Law & Harry McGraw ( 1987 )
Somewhat rough-around-the-edges private eye Harry McGraw is street-bred and street-wise. Recently widowed criminal lawyer Ellie Maginnis is from one of Bostons better families. McGraw is relatively unschooled; Ellie is a model of civility and breeding.
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Movie: Mobsters ( 1991 )
From start to finish, it's a story of friendship between 4 street-wise males who don't mind using violence to achieve the lives that they want. They trust no one but each other which is vital to their success as mobsters.
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Movie: The Rat Pack ( 1998 )
The public and private lives of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford.
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Movie: Winstanley ( 1976 )
Winstanley explores the attempt by Gerrard Winstanley who formed 'The Diggers' and with a group of followers attempted to form a small farming community in one of the first proto-Communist attempts at collective agriculture.
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Movie: Hair Under the Roses ( 2000 )
At fourteen, love and sex intrigue. Between fantasies, phobias, uncertainties and beliefs, how to react? Roudoudou, who is very much in love, dreams of having an imposing chest like that of his mother, but it only works halfway. Romain and Francis, for their part, are convinced that their mothers are homosexual and that they would have to sleep with them to save them. But as nothing works, Roudoudou and Romain decide to try together.
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Movie: The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima ( 2016 )
In February 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the image of five U.S. Marines and one U.S. Navy Corpsman hoisting the American flag atop a mountain in Iwo Jima. The identities of these men have been accepted for 70 years, but new evidence shows that one Marine was never identified. We finally reveal an unnamed hero using modern science to examine the iconic photo in ways that we have never seen before. Then we look at the battle and the stories of the men who risked it all for their country and their brothers in arms.
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Movie: My Little Loves ( 1974 )
A boy is left to his own devices when his mother refuses to pay for his schooling.
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Movie: The Hunted Lady ( 1977 )
An undercover policewoman finds herself framed for murder by a crime. Forced to flee for her life, she determines to clear her name and bring the real killers to justice.
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Movie: Robin Robin (Short 2021) ( 2021 )
In this stop-motion short film, a bird raised by mice begins to question where she belongs and sets off on a daring journey of self-discovery.
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Movie: Rattle of a Simple Man ( 1964 )
When a group of northern soccer fans are down in London for the Cup Final one of their number winds up with a lady of the night. As they talk, the unsophisticated and naive lad starts to believe he has found true love.
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Movie: Side Out ( 1990 )
A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.
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Movie: Ce soir ou jamais ( 1961 )
Laurent is theatrical director, his girl Valerie an aspiring actress. Their relationship begins to fracture when Valerie doesn't get the role in Laurent's play.
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Movie: The Great Texas Dynamite Chase ( 1976 )
Explosive drama and action when two sexy girls go on a bank robbing binge.
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Movie: Girl in Trouble ( 1963 )
Girl leaves the farm for the big city of New Orleans to become famous, instead becomes a stripper & gets abused and exploited by everyone she meets.
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TV Show: Police Story ( 1973 )
This NBC anthology series features stories of the men in blue: police officers. Some are funny, some are deadly serious. But each story examines the life of a cop.
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Movie: Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause! ( 1970 )
Housemaid Georgette (Girardot) loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
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Movie: The Lost Lincoln (TV Special 2020) ( 2020 )
An investigation by professional authenticator, Dr. Whitny Braun to reveal extraordinary, groundbreaking evidence uncovering whether a newly discovered, secret photograph could be the 131st and final image of President Lincoln.
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Movie: The Conspiracy of Torture ( 1969 )
In 16th century Italy, a young noblewoman plots with her lover and her family to murder her abusive father, leading to an uproar in the community and the Catholic Church.
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Movie: Something for a Lonely Man ( 1968 )
The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the town that they founded is to be bypassed by the railroad.
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Movie: Single Room Furnished ( 1966 )
Three stories in one: Johnie (Jayne Mansfield) is married, but her husband deserts her when she becomes pregnant. She changes her name to Mae and takes a job as a waitress. She falls in love, but her fiancé leaves her just as they're about to get married. So Mae changes her name to Eileen and becomes a prostitute.
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Movie: Imperfect Messenger (TV Special 2021) ( 2021 )
Roy Wood Jr. discusses the difference between ancestors and forefathers, why Leonardo DiCaprio is the greatest white ally ever and how celebrities use fame to get people out of prison
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Movie: A Black Veil for Lisa ( 1968 )
When a possessive narcotics detective strongly suspects that his young beautiful wife is cheating on him, he hires a professional hitman to bump her off. All the while trying to solve a string of strange murders.
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Movie: Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut ( 1999 )
This film features an extensive interview with Italian movie maven, the late Aristide Massacessi, better known as Joe D'Amato. Through interview clips, and clips from his catalogue of over 100 films, "Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut" traces the director's journey from title designer, to director of photography, and finally to director of some of Italian cinema's most notorious films. D'Amato discusses his feelings about his life, his work, his relationships with such stars as Laura Gemser, and his distaste for hardcore adult cinema.
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Movie: Profound Desires of the Gods ( 1970 )
The Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island to drill a well to provide water for the sugar mill. He is assisted on the island by Kametaro, from the inbred Futori family. Nekichi Futori is chained in a pit that he has to dig, in order to appease the gods for breaking island customs. Nekichi is in love with his sister Uma, who is a shaman priestess at the sacred shrine, that contains the only good water close to the mill. She is also the mistress of Ryu, the manager of the mill. The patriarch of the Futori family tries to get the engineer to marry his retarded daughter Toriko.
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Movie: The Impossible Years ( 1968 )
The eldest daughter of a Professor of Psychology at a large conservative university causes havoc, and great embarrassment, for her father with her free-willed and uninhibited lifestyle.
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TV Show: King Solomon's Mines ( 2004 )
King Solomon's Mines is set against the backdrop of 19th century Africa. Based on H. Rider Haggard's wildly popular novel, the excitement unfolds around heroic explorer Allan Quatermain, a grieving widower fighting for custody of his young son. Hired by the beautiful daughter of an Oxford professor to find her father--who has vanished without a trace – Quatermain returns to the Dark Continent and embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue the captive archeologist, who holds the key to untold treasures--and ultimate power.
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Movie: Bye Bye Braverman ( 1968 )
Friends gather for the funeral of a friend. Sub-plots unfold as the group attempts to link-up to attend the funeral of their friend, Braverman.
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TV Show: The Lieutenant ( 1963 )
Situated at Camp Pendleton, the West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps, The Lieutenant focuses on the men of the Corps in peace time with a Cold War backdrop. The Lieutenant explores the lives of enlisted Marines and general officers alike. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of the training instructors at Camp Pendleton. Rice is a recent graduate of the United States Naval Academy and had been assigned his first command, that of a rifle platoon. Rice is a young, educated idealist who still has much to learn from an older mentor. Also featured is Captain Raymond Rambridge, Rice's company commander, an up-from-the-ranks officer.
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Movie: Taking the Heat ( 1993 )
When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police. A cop is ordered to bring him to the court, but before they get there they have to deal with several attacks from killers.
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Movie: Made of Honor ( 2008 )
A guy in love with an engaged woman tries to win her over after she asks him to be her maid of honor.
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TV Show: The New Breed ( 1961 )
The New Breed was a crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1961-1962.The series starred Leslie Nielsen as the Lieutenant Price Adams who worked on "The Hot Shot Detail" of the LAPD's Metro Squad.
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Movie: Frankenstein from the Royal Ballet ( 2016 )
The Royal Ballet presents a new work based on Mary Shelley's classic gothic novel, Frankenstein. The stellar cast includes Federico Bonelli who dances the role of Doctor Frankenstein, with Laura Morera as his fiancee Elizabeth. Steven McRae stars as the Creature, at once terrifying and tortured, in this spectacular production by the Royal Ballet's Artist in Residence, choreographer Liam Scarlett, with music by Lowell Liebermann. Presented from the Royal Opera House by Darcey Bussell and Ore Oduba.
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Movie: Mondo Hollywood: Hollywood Laid Bare! ( 1967 )
Long considered a cult classic, "Mondo Hollywood" captures the underside of Hollywood by documenting a moment in time (1965-67), when an inquisitive trust in the unknown was paramount, hope for the future was tangible and life was worth living on the fringe. An interior monologue narrative approach is used throughout the film, where each principal person shown not only decided on what they wanted to be filmed doing, but also narrated their own scenes. The film opens with Gypsy Boots (the original hippie vegan - desert hopping blender salesman), and stripper Jennie Lee, working out 'Watusi-style' beneath the 'Hollywood' sign -- leading into the 'sustainable community' insight of Lewis Beach Marvin III, the S&H Green Stamp heir, who lived in a $10 a month garage while owning a mountain retreat in Malibu.
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Movie: Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted ( 2016 )
Abby Knight, ex-lawyer, crime buff and owner of Bloomers Flower Shop, is having a week to be reckoned with. A reluctant bridesmaid at wedding, Abby ends up not just doing the flowers, but having to find out who murdered a wedding crasher.
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Movie: L'âge ingrat ( 1965 )
Two students, Antoine, the son of a Southern pedal boat renter, and Marie, the daughter of a Paris railway executive, have got engaged in secret. They are now willing to clarify the situation and decide that their parents should get to know one another before they marry. The summer holidays seem to be the ideal opportunity for that and Antoine invites Marie's family to come and stay for a while at their home in the South. Unfortunately, things do not go too well between the stark Malhouin and the extroverted Lartigue and the relationships soon come close to the breaking point. As for the lovebirds, they are not spared as jealousy gets in their way...
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Movie: Eight on the Lam ( 1967 )
Bank teller and widower with seven kids, Bob Hope finds $10,000 in a parking lot. His luck quickly changes when it's discovered that his bank discovers a substantial money shortage in their books. Now Hope and his large family are forced to take it on the lam. His children's baby-sitter Phyllis Diller protects Hope from her dim-witted cop boyfriend Jonathan Winters while he hides out, hoping to get to the true cause of his dilemma. Past and future "Bond Girls" Shirley Eaton ("Goldfinger") and Jill St. John ("Diamonds Are Forever") play a schoolteacher and a gold-digger and Winters plays his own mother!
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Movie: Complicity ( 2000 )
Cameron Colley is a young Scottish journalist, with an interest in exposing the wrongs committed by the rich and powerful. Life is comfortable enough but uneventful, until someone starts murdering the people in his articles in gruesome ways based on their misdeeds. All the evidence points to Cameron, but is he guilty?
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Movie: Barbary Pirate ( 1949 )
The U.S. government sends Major Thomas Blake on a secret mission when the Bey of Tripoli starts demanding tribute from American merchant ships in the Mediterranean in the early 1800's. His pose as a Tory on the ship alienates his fellow passengers, Anne Ridgeway, and her brother Sam. Off Tripoli, the ship is captured by the Bey's pirates, but Blake makes a friend of the Bey when he saves his life. Blake learns that a servant girl, Zoltah, and her friends ate plotting to kill the Bey, and that the Bey also has a spy in the State Department, Tobias Sharpe, who sends advance information about American ship movements.
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Movie: Long Lasting Days ( 1973 )
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and puts his life in grave danger to find the money to finance hospital treatment for her.
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TV Show: The Governor & J.J. ( 1969 )
The relationship between a widowed state governor and his hip daughter J.J.
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Movie: They've Killed President Lincoln! ( 1971 )
Hosted and narrated by Richard Basehart, this dramatization of the events leading up to and following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States, takes the form of a documentary as it might have looked and sounded in 1865, had motion pictures existed back then. Utilizing simulated footage and, in some cases, genuine historical photographs, this TV special speculates that assassin John Wilkes Booth was part of a broad conspiracy against the president, and that if such a conspiracy did exist, that Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton may have been involved somehow. Includes recreated excerpts of "Our American Cousin," the play Lincoln was watching at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., the night that history was forever and irrevocably altered.
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Movie: The Lincoln Conspiracy ( 1977 )
Sunn Classics "speculative fiction" film proposing a theory that the killer of Abe Lincoln escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assassination.
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Movie: The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (Short 1965) ( 1965 )
A simple line attempts to woo his true love, a dot, away from the unkempt squiggle she prefers. But he'll have to learn to bend before she'll notice him.
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Movie: My Father's Vietnam ( 2015 )
A personal documentary about a public subject, My Father's Vietnam personifies the connections made and unmade by the Vietnam War. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and 8mm footage of the era, My Father's Vietnam is the story of three soldiers, only one of whom returned home alive. Interviews with the filmmaker's Vietnam Veteran father, and the friends and family members of two men he served with who were killed there, give voice to individuals who continue to silently carry the psychological burdens of a war that ended over 40 years ago. My Father's Vietnam carries with it the potential to encourage audiences to broach the subjects of service and sacrifice with the veterans in their lives.
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Movie: A Majority of One ( 1962 )
Widowed Bertha Jacoby has led a relatively sheltered, monocultural existence in the same predominantly Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood for most of her adult life, and as such has fairly traditional Jewish values. She is taken aback not only when her son-in-law Jerry Black announces that he and Bertha's daughter Alice Black are moving to Tokyo on Jerry's next diplomatic corps assignment, but that they want her to move there with them so that she won't be all alone. Despite her anti-Japanese sentiments, David, her only son, having been killed in World War II in the Pacific Theater, Bertha reluctantly agrees. They will fly from New York City to San Francisco, and sail from there. Against the odds, Bertha befriends on board the ship Koichi Asano, a wealthy widowed Japanese businessman with whom Jerry and the American contingent will be entering into sensitive negotiations. Jerry and Alice are wary of Bertha and Mr. Asano's friendship, not only because of the cultural differences, but because they believe Mr. Asano's sole motive may be to get the upper hand in the negotiations in going through Alice's mother. However, Bertha and Mr. Asano may have a deeper connection than either would have thought, and that can overcome each of their deep seated cultural differences.
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Movie: How to Break Up a Happy Divorce ( 1976 )
A divorced woman comes up with a scheme to make her ex-husband jealous, so she can get him back.
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Movie: Birds Do It, Bees Do It ( 1974 )
Mating rituals of animal life make for a fascinating documentary, from insects to mammals.
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Movie: Stage to Thunder Rock ( 1964 )
Retiring Sheriff Horne goes after the Sawyer brothers who have robbed a bank in town. The outlaw brothers count on the fact they grew up together with Horne and hope to get a break from him. However, during a shootout at a farm in the hills, Horne kills one of the brothers and captures the other, Reese. After they accidentally lose their horses during a scuffle, they travel on foot toward the stagecoach depot. All this time, Reese is taunting Horne and warns him that his father, Ross Sawyer, will soon rescue him. Indeed, Ross Sawyer goes after the sheriff to rescue his remaining son. Anticipating such a move, the town's mayor and the judge hire a paid gunfighter in need of money to kill Ross Sawyer on sight. The sheriff and his prisoner take the stagecoach to the stagecoach depot. The depot is run by the Parkers who are in debt and risk losing their business. Therefore, they are receptive to the secret financial deal offered by the prisoner and promise to help him escape the sheriff's custody. Arriving at the depot are deputized gunfighter Sam Swope on the lookout for Ross Sawyer and Leah Parker, the eldest daughter of the Parkers. Leah Parker claims to have worked as a teacher in the East but she hides an embarrassing truth. The sheriff plans to spend the night at the depot until the morning when the next stage to town is scheduled. But first, he has to make it through the night knowing that Reese will try to escape and his father could soon arrive to free his captured son.
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Movie: Murder or Mercy ( 1974 )
An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy killing of his wife.
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Movie: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs ( 1963 )
This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged bar hostess who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Her family hounds her for money, her customers for her attention, and she is continually in debt. The life of a bar hostess is examined as well as the way in which the system traps and sometimes kills those in it.
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Movie: Seduced and Abandoned ( 1964 )
Agnese, a 15-year-old Sicilian girl is seduced and impregnated by Peppino, her sister Matilde's fiancé. Soon Vincenzo, Agnese's father, discovers everything. He wants to force Peppino to marry the dishonored Agnese, but Peppino runs away and Vincenzo sends his son Antonio to kill him. At this point, Agnese goes to the police to try to stop events. They're all taken to court. But events can't be stopped, there's still time for a fake kidnapping. A happy end is still possible.
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Movie: The Slave ( 1967 )
Carol's marriage is suddenly threatened by the appearance of some pornographic photographs taken 9 years earlier, when she was 19 years old and desperate for money. Eric Colar and his girl friend blackmail Carol into satisfying their various sexual desires and giving them enough money to escape from the police. A confrontation with William Verner, who had been unjustly imprisoned for a crime committed by Eric, puts a violent end to the scheme.
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TV Show: Caribe ( 1975 )
Caribe is a series about two Miami-based cops who handle special assignments in the Caribbean, where crime never takes a holiday.
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Movie: The Cold Room ( 1984 )
Seventeen-year-old Carla arrives in East Berlin to spend the summer with her estrange historian father, Hugh. She stays in an old hotel that used to be a butcher shop. She soon gets the feeling that something is wrong with her room and that it used to be bigger somehow. There she discovers an old wardrobe with a mirror in it. When she sees an image of a young girl in the mirror instead of her own, she begins suffering from violent visions about the young butcher's daughter, who lived there during the 1930s and helped a Jewish dissident hide from Gestapo in the cold room of her father's shop. However, not only was her father a violent staunch Nazi supporter and Party member but he also raped her on nightly basis. Carla slowly loses the ability to separate these horrifying visions from reality and begins to fear her own father. Hugh tries to help her but things only get worse. Is Carla slowly losing her mind or are the visions trying to tell her something?
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Movie: Mister Lincoln ( 1981 )
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Movie: All I Want for Christmas ( 1991 )
A brother and sister attempt to bring their divorced parents back together for Christmas.
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Movie: The Small World of Sammy Lee ( 1963 )
The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
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Movie: Truth Be Told ( 2011 )
"Honesty is the key to a successful marriage", advises counselor Annie Morgan. Ironically, the never-married Annie doesn't always follow her own advice. Media mogul Terrance Bishop invites her to come to his New Mexico ranch - with her spouse - to discuss her dream job: hosting a radio advice program. Fearing that being single will ruin her chances, Annie convinces an old college friend to pose as her husband, creating comic results. Her conscience demands the truth be told, but what will be the consequences? Annie learns the real value of her own advice: "The Truth (must) Be Told."
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Movie: Doctors' Wives ( 1971 )
Dysfunctional marriages of several unhappy rich doctors who work at a private clinic and their neglected wives who deal with their own unhappiness in various ways enter crisis mode when one of them murders his cheating wife.
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Movie: Hamlet at Elsinore ( 1964 )
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
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Movie: A Girl Called Jules ( 1970 )
A girl who, in memory of her father, carries his male name, Giulio, lives in Venice with her mother, a rich, fat, in commensurable woman. As an adolescent, she had a lesbian experience with their housekeeper Lia, who also taught her to hate men, to be considered animal-like beings, from which a woman can not be hurt. Over the years she manages to escape that bond morbid and becomes engaged to college student Lorenzo, who was raised by a beautiful but corrupt governor and was too shy to touch her, but promised fidelity and security. However she wants to try to have a sexual relationship with a man before marriage.