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Hard Days Night

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Year:1964
Director:Richard Lester
Written by:Alun Owen (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
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L’avventura

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Year:1960
Director:Michelangelo Antonioni
Written by:Michelangelo Antonioni (Screenplay), Elio Bartolini (Screenplay), Tonino Guerra (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

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Year:1934
Director:Benjamin Stoloff

Script Synopsis:Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
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Trouble in Paradise

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Year:1932
Director:Ernst Lubitsch
Written by:Aladar Laszlo (Author), Grover Jones (Author), Samson Raphaelson (Author)

Script Synopsis:Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
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Nothing but a Man

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Year:1964
Director:Michael Roemer
Written by:Michael Roemer (Writer), Robert M. Young (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
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Harvey

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Year:1950
Director:Henry Koster
Written by:Mary Chase (Theatre Play), Mary Chase (Screenplay), Oscar Brodney (Screenplay), Myles Connolly (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The classic stage hit gets the Hollywood treatment in the story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
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Night Watch

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Year:2004
Director:Timur Bekmambetov
Written by:Sergey Lukyanenko (Novel), Laeta Kalogridis (Screenplay), Timur Bekmambetov (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage
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Dumb and Dumberer

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Year:2003
Director:Troy Miller
Written by:Troy Miller (Screenplay), Robert Brener (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:This wacky prequel to the 1994 blockbuster goes back to the lame-brained Harry and Lloyd's days as classmates at a Rhode Island high school, where the unprincipled principal puts the pair in remedial courses as part of a scheme to fleece the school.
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Hardware

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Year:1990
Director:Richard Stanley
Written by:Steve MacManus (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.
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