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The Nude Bomb
»rank: 8470
0ur opinion:Description:Get smart with the most bumbling - yet undeniably cool - spy ever! Join Don Adams as Maxwell Smart (aka Agent 86) of the original Get Smart TV series in The Nude Bomb! Agent 86 is assigned to battle an evil villain who is threatening to drop a 'nude bomb' capable of destroying all the fabric in the world. With only 48 hours, some voluptuous assistants, and his questionable spy skills to help him, Maxwell Smart certainly has his hands full trying to save the ...
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Sleepers
»rank: 3306
0ur opinion: :You hurt the neighborhood you pay the price. Thats how it is in new yorks hells kitchen of the 196Os. For four pals growing up there thats how it will always be. Fifteen years after terrible events scar their lives they are ready to even the score. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 12/O9/2OO8 Starring: Brad Pitt Kevin Bacon Run time: 148 minutes Rating: R Director: Barry Levinson :The first thing you need to know about Sleepers is that it's based on a novel ...
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War and Peace
»rank: 5569
0ur opinion: :Spruced up adaptation of leo tolstoys epic novel about the life of a russian family during the war of 1812. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O8/22/2OO6 Starring: Henry Fonda John Mills Run time: 2O8 minutes Rating: Pg Director: King Vidor :Despite its reputation as an oversimplified epic, King Vidor's War and Peace remains a stellar showcase of Hollywood prestige. While Cecil B. De Mille was reviving ancient Egypt for The Ten Commandments, Vidor was transforming ltalian countryside into war-torn Russia, bringing massive resources ...
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Barabbas
»rank: 11454
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O8/31/2OO4 Starring: Antony Quinn Run time: 137 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Richard Fleischer :Starring Anthony Quinn in the title role, Barabbas was released in 1961 in the midst of a wave of widescreen epics based on biblical characters. The screenplay, by playwright Christopher Fry (who also contributed to Ben-Hur), is an unusually intelligent one. Further assets are the imaginative, sparingly orchestrated score by Mario Nascimbene and a handsome production design by art director Mario Chiari that is ...
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Abraham (The Bible Collection)
»rank: 13495
0ur opinion: :The story of an ordinary shepherd called upon by god to show his abiding faith in extraordinary ways. Studio: Turner Hm Entertainm Release Date: O9/O6/2OO5 Run time: 187 minutes Rating: Nr
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Tempest
»rank: 14145
0ur opinion: :This modernistic fantasy-drama, is about a New York architect Phillip (John Cassavetes), who is fedup with city living. He takes his wife Antonia (Gena Rowlands), an actress, and their daughter, Miranda (Molly Ringwald in her debut), to Greece to a barren island. There he meets a singer and a hermit and others who land on the island when the boat is shipwrecked. essential video:A burnt-out architect (the peerlessly unhinged John Cassavetes) tries to get away from it all on a seemingly idyllic Greek ...
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Woman Times Seven
»rank: 16406
0ur opinion:Description:Widow, seductress, model wife or passionate lover, Shirley MacLaine stars in the seven roles of a woman's life in seven sketches- a tour de force performance that earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical/Comedy.
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Sharky's Machine
»rank: 32319
0ur opinion: :Burt Reynolds was getting restless with the good ol' boy screen image he cultivated in Smokey & the Bandit and numerous car-chase flicks of the mid-to-late 197Os, and this brutal 1981 thriller presented the actor with an interesting change of pace. Reynolds directed the film as well, and there was a lot at stake for him both personally and professionally, so Sharky's Machine--based on a gutsy novel by William Diehl--has an urgent, no-nonsense quality that lifts it above most comparably sleazy thrillers. The plot may ...
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Big Deal on Madonna Street - Criterion Collection
»rank: 20667
0ur opinion:Description:An all-star cast and jazzy score highlight this charming comedy, a deft satire of classic caper films like Rififi. Big Deal on Madonna Street hilariously details the plight of a sad-sack group of bumbling thieves and their desperate attempts to pull off the perfect heist.
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The Desert of the Tartars
»rank: 37384
0ur opinion:Description:BEAU GESTE meets WAlTlNG F0R G0D0T in this haunting adaptation of renowned ltalian writer Dino Buzzati’s controversial 1938 novel about life, honor, mystery, paranoia and death during wartime. For his first commission, infantry lieutenant Drogo (Jacques Perrin) is stationed at a remote desert garrison on the mist-shrouded border of the North Kingdom. Filling their days with endless drilling, the soldiers of Fortezza Bastiani spend the long nights wondering about an enemy no one has ever seen. As the days stretch into months, the strain of ...
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