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The Birds (1963)
, 2hDirected by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about birds
Actors Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright, Charles McGraw
Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), a young socialite, meets lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a San Francisco bird shop. He wants to purchase a pair of lovebirds for his sister's eleventh birthday, but the shop has none. He recognizes her from a previous encounter, but she does not remember him, so he plays a prank by pretending to mistake her for a salesperson. She is infuriated when she realizes this, even though she also likes to play practical jokes. Intrigued, she finds his address in Bodega Bay, purchases a pair of lovebirds, and takes the long drive to deliver them. She secretly deposits the birdcage inside his mother's house, with a note. He spots her on the water through a pair of binoculars during her retreat, and manages to talk to her after she is attacked and injured by a seagull. He invites her to dinner, and she hesitantly agrees.
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The River (1984)
, 1h59Directed by Mark Rydell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Sissy Spacek, Mel Gibson, Scott Glenn, Billy "Green" Bush, James Tolkan, Frank Hoyt Taylor
Mae et Tom Garvey - jeune couple d'agriculteurs - sont confrontés, comme nombre de leurs collègues, aux difficultés de survie des fermes familiales indépendantes. C'est l'affrontement avec les autorités locales qui voudraient racheter les terres, par l'intermédiaire de Joe Wade (ancien ami de Mae) ; de plus, les fermiers subissent des inondations catastrophiques. Pour gagner un peu d'argent, Tom accepte un travail au loin, en usine...
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
, 2hDirected by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Spy films, Films about families, Political films
Actors James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Truman
An American family—Dr. Benjamin "Ben" McKenna (James Stewart), his wife, popular singer Josephine Conway "Jo" McKenna (Doris Day), and their son Henry "Hank" McKenna (Christopher Olsen)--are vacationing in Morocco. Traveling from Casablanca to Marrakesh, they meet Frenchman Louis Bernard (Daniel Gelin), who seems friendly, but Jo is suspicious of his many questions and evasive answers and thinks that he is hiding something. Louis offers to take the McKennas out to dinner but cancels when a sinister-looking man knocks at the McKennas' hotel-room door claiming to be looking for another guest's room. Later, at a local restaurant, the McKennas meet English couple Lucy (Brenda De Banzie) and Edward Drayton (Bernard Miles), who strike up a conversation with the McKennas, who are surprised to see Bernard arrive and sit at another table apparently ignoring them.
The Lost Weekend (1945)
, 1h41Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Terry, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen
Thursday - An alcoholic New York writer, Don Birnam, is packing for a weekend vacation with his brother Wick, who is trying to discourage his drinking. When Don’s girlfriend Helen comes to see them off, she mentions in passing that she has two tickets for a concert, to which Don urges Wick to accompany her. Don heads for Nat’s Bar, deliberately missing his train, and then sneaks back into the flat to drink some cheap whisky he has bought, avoiding Helen who is worried about him being left alone.
A Perfect Plan (2012)
, 1h44Directed by Pascal Chaumeil
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Diane Kruger, Dany Boon, Alice Pol, Robert Plagnol, Jonathan Cohen, Étienne Chicot
Isabelle (Diane Kruger) is prepared to marry Pierre (Robert Plagnol), the man she has loved for the past ten years. First she has to overcome a curse that her female family members have been battling for years—that all their first marriages end in divorce. Isabelle comes up with the perfect plan. She will marry a stranger and get a quick divorce to avoid the curse and be happily married forever the second time. She flies to Copenhagen and finds the perfect pigeon in Jean Yves (Dany Boon), an editor for the Guide du Routard, but her plans are complicated when he believes that she is in love with him. When Isabelle's arranged marriage goes awry, she tracks down the pigeon in hopes she can somehow marry him and divorce him without too much trouble. When he travels to Kenya, she follows him in the hope that he will sign her divorce papers.
Brazil (1985)
, 2h22Directed by Terry Gilliam
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Social science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Comic science fiction
Themes Monde imaginaire, Politique, Psychologie, Films about the labor movement, Comedy science fiction films, Political films, Dystopian films, Children's films, Lobotomie
Actors Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Ian William Richardson
Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is a low-level government employee who has frequent daydreams of saving a damsel in distress. One day he is assigned the task of trying to rectify an error caused by a fly getting jammed in a printer, misprinting a file it was copying, resulting in the incarceration and accidental death during interrogation of cobbler Archibald Buttle, instead of the suspected terrorist, freelance heating engineer Archibald Tuttle.
Havana (1990)
, 2h20Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Jeu, Seafaring films, Transport films, Poker, Political films
Actors Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Raúl Juliá, Alan Arkin, Tomás Milián, Daniel Davis
The film is set on the eve of the Cuban Revolution's victory on January 1, 1959.
Tender Mercies (1983)
, 1h32Directed by Bruce Beresford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about religion, Musical films
Actors Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin, Lenny Von Dohlen
Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall), a washed up, alcoholic country singer, awakens at a run-down Texas roadside motel and gas station after a night of heavy drinking. He meets the owner, a young widow named Rosa Lee (Tess Harper), and offers to work in exchange for a room. Rosa Lee, whose husband was killed in the Vietnam War, is raising her young son, Sonny (Allan Hubbard), on her own. She agrees to let Mac stay under the condition that he does not drink while working. The two begin to develop feelings for one another, mostly during quiet evenings sitting alone and sharing bits of their life stories.
Vertigo (1958)
, 2h8Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Les fantasmes, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide
Actors James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Ellen Corby
After a rooftop chase, where his acrophobia and vertigo result in the death of a policeman, San Francisco detective John "Scottie" Ferguson retires. Scottie tries to conquer his fear, but his friend and ex-fiancée Midge Wood suggests another severe emotional shock may be the only cure.
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The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
, 1h55Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Jazz films, Musical films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake, Barton MacLane, Irving Bacon
The film follows big band leader Glenn Miller (1904–1944) (James Stewart) from his early days in the music business in 1929 through to his 1944 death when the airplane he was flying in was lost over the English Channel during World War II. Prominent placement in the film is given to Miller's courtship and marriage to Helen Burger (June Allyson), and various cameos by actual musicians who were colleagues of Miller.
Joe Kidd (1972)
, 1h24Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Dick Van Patten, Paul Koslo, Don Stroud
Set In the early 1900s, Clint Eastwood stars as Joe Kidd, a former bounty hunter who is in jail for hunting on Indian land and disturbing the peace in the New Mexican town of Sinola. Mexican bandito/revolutionary Luis Chama (John Saxon) has organized a peasant revolt against the local landowners, who are throwing the poor off land that rightfully belongs to them.
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Barton Fink (1991)
, 1h56Directed by Frères Coen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Mise en scène d'un scénariste, Children's films
Actors John Turturro, John Goodman, Michael Lerner, Steve Buscemi, Judy Davis, John Mahoney
In 1941, Barton Fink's first Broadway play, Bare Ruined Choirs, has achieved critical and popular success. His agent informs him that Capitol Pictures in Hollywood has offered him a thousand dollars per week to write film scripts. Barton hesitates, worried that moving to California would separate him from "the common man", his focus as a writer. He accepts the offer, however, and checks into the Hotel Earle, a large and unusually deserted building. His room is sparse and draped in subdued colors; its only decoration is a small painting of a woman on the beach, arm raised to block the sun.
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
, 2h25Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Films about royalty
Actors Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Anthony Quayle, John Colicos, Irène Papas, Michael Hordern
The film begins in 1536 when Henry VIII (Richard Burton) considers whether or not he should sign the warrant for the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn: then, in a long flashback which takes up virtually the entire film, the whole truth is revealed. Starting in 1527, Henry has a problem: he reveals his dissatisfaction with his wife, Catherine of Aragon (Irene Papas). He is currently enjoying a discreet affair with Mary Boleyn, a daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn who is one of his courtiers; but the King is bored with her too. At a court ball, he notices Mary's 18-year-old sister Anne (Geneviève Bujold), who has just returned from her education in France. She is engaged to the son of the Earl of Northumberland and they have received their parents' permission to marry. The King, however, is enraptured with Anne's beauty and orders his Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey, to break up the engagement.
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To Hell and Back (1955)
, 1h46Directed by Maury Gertsman, Aaron Rosenberg, Henry Mancini, William "Bill" Lava, Jesse Hibbs
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, Jack Kelly, Gregg Palmer, Paul Picerni
Young Murphy (Gordon Gebert) grows up in a large, poor sharecropper family in Texas. His father deserts them around 1939–40, leaving his mother (Mary Field) barely able to feed her nine children. As the eldest son, Murphy works from an early age to help support his siblings, and when his mother dies in 1941 he becomes head of the family. His brothers and sisters are sent to an elder sister, Corrine, to whom Murphy sends his GI pay allotment.
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Melvin and Howard (1980)
, 1h35Directed by Jonathan Demme
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen, Pamela Reed, Jason Robards, Michael J. Pollard, Charles Napier
In the opening scene, Howard Hughes loses control of and crashes his motorcycle in the Nevada desert. That night, he's discovered lying on the side of a stretch of U.S. Highway 95 where Melvin Dummar stops his pickup truck so he can relieve himself. The disheveled stranger, refusing to allow the Good Samaritan to take him for medical help, asks him to drive him to Las Vegas. En route, the two engage in stilted conversation until Dummar cajoles his passenger into joining him in singing a Christmas song he wrote. Hughes then suggests they sing his favorite song Bye Bye Blackbird, and they do. The man warms up to his rescuer and before he's dropped off at the Desert Inn (which Hughes owns and therein resides), he identifies himself as the reclusive billionaire.