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Santa Sangre
»rank: 13713
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Lady Jane
»rank: 6600
: essential video:'l foresee a glittering future for your daughter,' the conspiratorial Duke of Northumberland insidiously whispers to the mother of Lady Jane Grey, the woman who would be England's queen, albeit for only nine days. The same could be said for Helena Bonham Carter, who, in her screen debut, carries this historical drama with aplomb. Jane, a principled and precocious 15-year-old (she reads Plato in Greek) was a pawn in a plot to maintain Protestant rule in the wake of young King ...
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Little Indian, Big City
»rank: 3652
: essential video:'l foresee a glittering future for your daughter,' the conspiratorial Duke of Northumberland insidiously whispers to the mother of Lady Jane Grey, the woman who would be England's queen, albeit for only nine days. The same could be said for Helena Bonham Carter, who, in her screen debut, carries this historical drama with aplomb. Jane, a principled and precocious 15-year-old (she reads Plato in Greek) was a pawn in a plot to maintain Protestant rule in the wake of young King ...
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Jude
»rank: 9671
: :British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom didn't make a particularly good film until Welcome to Sarajevo, and this curiously dry adaptation of Thomas Hardy's last novel is a good example. Christopher Eccleston plays Jude Fawley, a self-educated stonemason who dreams of attending university but identifies with the working class. Kate Winslet is his cousin Sue Bridehead, a young woman with suffragette leanings and a position as a teacher's assistant. When the two enter into an illicit union, they are condemned to the margins of society, ...
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Lisztomania
»rank: 8401
: :Lisztomania, Ken Russell's follow-up to Tommy (both films were released in 1975) finds him even more in the mood for desultory spectacle than his garish pop artistry adapting the Who's rock opera. Seeking to tell the story of superstar composer Franz Liszt through a freewheeling series of pop allegories, kitsch, quotes, and pastiches, Russell hopes to reflect in contemporary terms the runaway train of Liszt's celebrity, love life, and alleged rivalry with Richard Wagner. Roger Daltrey, the Who vocalist and star of Tommy, ...
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The Moon Spinners (The Hayley Mills Collection, Vol. 4)
»rank: 9604
:Description:Start with a fortune in stolen jewels. Add a dash of danger. A pinch of romance. Season with Hitchcock-like intrigue and comic flair. What do you have? A mystery thriller for the whole family ... with the Disney touch. Set against the sun-bleached beauty of the lsle of Crete, the story pits a young English tourist (Hayley Mills) against a wily Greek jewel thief (Eli Wallach). Mistaken identities and perilous escapes -- including a nail-biting battle with a windmill -- lead the junior-miss ...
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Second Best
»rank: 4407
:Description:ln order to adopt a troubled young boy, a lonely, unmarried mail clerk must prove that he is emotionally qualified to love and nurture a child. He struggles to win the boy over, demonstrating that, simply by being present and caring, he is a better parent that the boy's absent father.
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Shackleton - The Greatest Survival Story of All Time
»rank: 13761
:Description:Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.' -Ernest Shackleton The 27 men who joined his expedition found that Ernest Shackleton was true to his word. They had drifted with the pack ice of the Weddell Sea for ten months, their ship-- the Endurance-- had sunk, and they were castaways in one of the most hostile environments on earth, hundreds of miles from land. And ...
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
»rank: 14218
: :Who could not love a coming of age story in which the teenage heroine faces her emerging homosexuality, all the while facing down evangelical missionary parents? Especially parents unable to grasp her defiant sense of humor? The joy in this unusual British coming-of-age tale is the universality of her problems, even if her circumstances are highly unusual. As the defiant and sexually aggressive young woman, flame-haired Charlotte Coleman is a real find, being not merely talented but interesting. A little gem from 1990, ...
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Sammy & Rosie Get Laid
»rank: 15132
: :Who could not love a coming of age story in which the teenage heroine faces her emerging homosexuality, all the while facing down evangelical missionary parents? Especially parents unable to grasp her defiant sense of humor? The joy in this unusual British coming-of-age tale is the universality of her problems, even if her circumstances are highly unusual. As the defiant and sexually aggressive young woman, flame-haired Charlotte Coleman is a real find, being not merely talented but interesting. A little gem from 1990, ...
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