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O Lucky Man! (1973) Director(s): Lindsay Anderson Genre: Drama, Musical Plot/Outline: This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Many actors play multiple roles, giving the film a stagy tone.

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) Director(s): Víctor Erice Genre: Drama Plot/Outline: In Castile c.1940, a travelling movie theatre brings James Whale's b/w film classic "Frankenstein" (1931) to a village. (Admission 1 peseta for adults, 2 reales for children.) Two young girls, Isabel and Ana, determine to find the Monster.

High and Low (1963) Director(s): Akira Kurosawa Genre: Thriller, Drama Plot/Outline: An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control of the National Shoe Company, with the intent of keeping the company out of the hands of incompetent and greedy executives. He needs the same money, though, to pay the ransom that will possibly save a child's life. His resolution of that dilemma -- the certain loss of the company vs. the probable loss of the child -- makes for ...

Playing by Heart (1998) Director(s): Willard Carroll Genre: Drama, Romance Plot/Outline: Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show, and they must move beyond gentle barbs when she wants to know about an affair of his years ago. Mark is dying of AIDS, and his mother comes to his bedside: they must talk truthfully. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to p...

The Man in the White Suit (1951) Director(s): Alexander Mackendrick Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Drama Plot/Outline: The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is ...

All the President's Men (1976) Director(s): Alan J. Pakula Genre: Drama, Thriller Plot/Outline: In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defence case, and the discovery of names and addresses of Republican fund organisers on the accused further arouses his suspicions. The editor of the Post is prepared to run with the ...

Sullivan's Travels (1941) Director(s): Preston Sturges Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance Plot/Outline: Il cinema come sollievo dell'anima ! Convinto che in un periodo difficile si debbano girare soltanto film drammatici, un giovane regista cinematografico, durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, decide di girare un film ispirato alla vita dei senzatetto, lui che è abituato a girare sempre commedie. Travestitosi da barbone, inizia a frequentare i quartieri più poveri della città per ce...

Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) Director(s): Ernst Lubitsch Genre: Comedy, Drama Plot/Outline: Mrs Erlynne, the mother of Lady Windermere - her daughter does not know about her - wants to be introduced in society, so that she can marry Lord Augustus Lorton. Lord Windermere, who helped her with a cheque, invites her to his wifes birthday-party, but Lady Windermere thinks, she has reason to be jealous, so she decides to leave her husband and go to Lord Darlington, who is pining for her. Mr...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Director(s): Mike Nichols Genre: Thriller, Drama Plot/Outline: Mike Nichols' first directorial effort represents a milestone in psychological realism and "foul" language in American cinema. George and Martha, as played superbly and without vanity by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, are as far from the bourgeois 1950s perfect married couple as you can get, alternatively badgering, berating, abusing and loving each other, both alone and accompani...

The Bad News Bears (1976) Director(s): Michael Ritchie Genre: Comedy, Sport Plot/Outline: First of a trilogy of films takes an unflinching look at the underbelly of little league baseball in Southern California. Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy, beer swilling swimming pool cleaner who takes money to coach the Bears, a bunch of disheveled misfits who have virtually no baseball talent. Realizing his dilemma, Coach Buttermaker brings aboard girl pitching ace Amanda Whu...

Zero Effect (1998) Director(s): Jake Kasdan Genre: Comedy, Thriller, Mystery Plot/Outline: Shifty timber tycoon Gregory Stark (Ryan O'Neal) is being systematically blackmailed and the use of regular private detectives have proved ineffective. Stark decides to call upon the services of the renowned, reclusive Daryl Zero ('Bill Pullman ), supposedly the world's greatest detective. Stark is very surprised to find himself discussing the intimate details of the case with Zero's amiable as...

Lisbon Story (1994) Director(s): Wim Wenders Genre: Drama Plot/Outline: The director Friedrich Monroe has trouble with finishing a silent b&w movie about Lisbon. He calls his friend, the sound ingeneer Phillip Winter, for help. As Winter arrives Lisbon weeks later, Monroe is disappeared but has left the unfinished film. Winter decides to stay, because he is fascinated of the city and the portugesian singer Tersea, and he starts to record the sound of the film. ...

Tokyo-Ga (1985) Director(s): Wim Wenders Genre: Documentary Plot/Outline: Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in the films of Yasujiro Ozu. Ozu's own Tokyo monogatari (1953) is a helpful (but not mandatory) pre-requisite to seeing Tokyo-Ga (1985).

Out of Sight (1998) Director(s): Steven Soderbergh Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller Plot/Outline: A career bank robber busts out of jail (Clooney) with the help of his buddy (Rhames) and kidnaps a US Marshal (Lopez) in the process. When the two cons head for Detroit to pull off their final big scam, the Marshal is put on their case but she finds she is attracted to one of them and has second thoughts about bringing them in.

I, Robot (2004) Director(s): Alex Proyas Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action Plot/Outline: Set in a future Earth (2035 A.D.) where robots are common assistants and workers for their human owners, this is the story of "robotophobic" Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner's (Smith) investigation into the murder of Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), who works at U.S. Robotics, in which a robot, Sonny (Tudyk), appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had vi...