IMDB wrote:
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine.Read More »
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George Cukor & Joseph Strick – Justine (1969)
1961-1970AdventureDramaGeorge CukorJoseph StrickUSA -
Raoul Walsh – A Distant Trumpet (1964)
1961-1970Raoul WalshUSAWesternIMDb wrote:
West Point graduate Lt. Hazard is posted to Fort Delivery, Arizona, where he has to deal with lax discipline, romantic complications, Apaches and his conflicting feelings toward the Indians.Read More » -
Ken Loach – Land and Freedom (1995)
1991-2000DramaKen LoachPoliticsUnited KingdomDavid is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the fascists. He makes friends between the soldiers.Read More »
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Bill Persky – Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer (1983)
1981-1990Bill PerskyCrimeDramaUSAThis made-for-TV sequel to the 1977 theatrical film “Looking For Mr. Goodbar” follows a New York City detective’s quest to find the murderer of a schoolteacher.Read More »
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Robinson Devor – The Woman Chaser (1999)
1991-2000ComedyRobinson DevorUSAA love it or leave it black comedy that won two awards for narrative film. Pulp and Noir parody.Read More »
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Vincenzo Natali – Cypher (2002)
2001-2010Sci-FiThrillerUSAVincenzo NataliA scifi thriller about technology firms, spying, brainwashing and paranoia… from the director of CUBE.Read More »
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz – 5 Fingers (1952)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz1951-1960ThrillerUSADuring WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.Read More »
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Eran Riklis – Playoff (2011)
Eran Riklis2011-2020DramaIsraelQuote:
Playoff tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Ralph Klein. He became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel’s first great international sporting successes. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he then accepted the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West-German basketball team – of all people! – into European winners. Max always maintains that Germany – where he was born before the war – means nothing to him, and that training their national team is just another job on his path to NBA glory. But things aren’t as simple as he refuses to speak German to the young players. The only person he seems to be able to relate to is a Turkish immigrant woman Deniz, and her cheeky teenage daughter Sema. Max just about falls in love with Deniz – and does succeed in reinventing the Germans as European champions. When he discovers what happened to his own family in the 1940s – it is …Read More » -
Michael Curtiz – Dodge City (1939)
1931-1940ClassicsMichael CurtizUSAWesternSynopsis:
Dodge City. A wide-open cattle town run by Jeff Surrett. Even going on a children’s Sunday outing is not a safe thing to do. What the place needs is a fearless honest Marshal. A guy like Wade Hatton, who helped bring the railroad in. It may not help that he fancies Abbie Irving, who won’t have anything to do with him since he had to shoot her brother. But that’s the West.Read More »