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Orpheus ( Orphée ) |
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2.97/4 |
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Language: French
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA rating: NR
Director: Jean Cocteau
Actors: Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares
Plot: The young poet is introduced to The Princess - death itself, and becomes ensnared by her. His wife, Eurydice, wants to tell him of her pregnancy but is ignored - and is killed a short time later. Orpheus wants to save he and goes through a mirror to the Underworld. Once there, The Princess agrees they can leave together - provided Orpheus leads the way and never looks back on his wife until they have exited the Underworld.
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Gunfighter, The (1950) |
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2.95/4 |
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Language: English
Genre: Western/Drama
MPAA rating: NR
Director: Henry King
Actors: Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell
Plot: Jimmy Ringo is a gunfighter looking to start a new life. Returning to a sleepy town where his old flame lives, along with a child he has never met, he hopes to leave the past behind. But, of course, the past is not ready to let him go - with men on his trail, and a hotheaded young gunslinger looking to prove his worth, it soon starts up a frenzy in town.
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Winchester '73 |
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2.86/4 |
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Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea
Plot: In two parallel stories - a man is on the trail of a stolen rifle he won in a contest while we follow the story of the rifle itself as it switches many hands.
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Rio Grande (1950) |
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2.77/4 |
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Language: English
Genre: Romance/Western
MPAA rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson
Plot: Union officer Kirby Yorke takes on the Apaches, and attempts to mend his own broken family, at an outpost on the Rio Grande.
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Scandal ( Shubun ) |
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2.93/4 |
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Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi
Plot: A Japanese industrialist is so obsessed by fear of a nuclear attack that he plots to give up everything he has built and relocate his family to Brazil. A study of postwar upheaval in Japan - cultural, generational, ideological.
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The Furies |
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2.93/4 |
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Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston
Plot: The Furies ranch is run by the iron-fisted T.C. Jeffords, who considers himself a Napoleon-like figure. His firebrand daughter, Vance, is set to inherit the ranch one day but is complicated by Rip Darrow, a saloon owner she fancies who is seeking revenge for land T.C. stole years before and a gold-digging woman who captures T.C.'s eye.
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Born Yesterday (1950) |
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2.69/4 |
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Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
Plot: The loud, brash and uncouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock comes to Washington D.C. looking to pocket a Congressman or two. His mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn, needs to be taught how to fit into to more high-class society, so he hires a tutor, Paul Verrall to soften up her rough edges. Yet the more Billie learns, the more she realizes what a brute her husband really is - and starts to fall for her tutor instead.
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In a Lonely Place |
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2.67/4 |
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Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA rating: NR
Director: Nicholas Ray
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
Plot: Bogart stars as a boozy, moody Hollywood screenwriter who may or may not be a twisted murderer.
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Treasure Island (1950) |
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2.66/4 |
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Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Family
MPAA rating: PG
Director: Byron Haskin
Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney
Plot: Young Jim Hawkins searches for "pieces of eight" along with wily, one-legged pirate of all pirates Long John Silver
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Destination Moon |
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2.75/4 |
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Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA rating: NR
Director: Irving Pichel
Actors: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers
Plot: One of the first films to depict serious space travel - a trip to the moon is successful, but a miscalculation in fuel means, even after stripping the ship bare, in order to return to earth, someone will have to be left behind.
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