PRESTIGE, THE

PRESTIGE, THE (director/writer: Christopher Nolan; screenwriter: Jonathan Nolan/based on the novel by Christopher Priest; cinematographer: Wally Pfister; editor: Lee Smith; music: David Julyan; cast: Hugh Jackman (Robert Angier), Christian Bale…

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BUG (1975)

  BUG (director/writer: Jeannot Szwarc; screenwriters: William Castle/Thomas Page/from the novel The Hephaestus Plague by Thomas Page; cinematographer: Michel Hugo; editor: Allan Jacobs; music: Charles Fox; cast: Bradford Dillman (Dr.…

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PRIMARY COLORS

PRIMARY COLORS (director: Mike Nichols; screenwriters: Elaine May/based on the novel by Anonymous (Joe Klein); cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus; editor: Arthur Schmidt; music: Ry Cooder; cast: John Travolta (Gov. Jack Stanton),…

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BY THE SEA

BY THE SEA (director/writer: Angelina Jolie; cinematographer: Christan Berger; editors: Martin Pensa/Patricia Rommel; music: Gabriel Yared; cast: Brad Pitt (Roland), Angelina Jolie (Vanessa), Melanie Laurent (Lea), Melvil Poupaud (Francois), Niels…

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PRINCESS TAM TAM

PRINCESS TAM TAM (director: Edmond Greville; screenwriter: Pepito Abatino; cinematographer: Georges Benoît; editor: Jean Feyte; music: Jacques Dallin/Walter Goehr/Eliseo Grenet/Alain Romans; cast: Josephine Baker (Alwina), Albert Prejean (Max de Mirecourt),…

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PRIVATE PROPERTY

PRIVATE PROPERTY (Nue propriété) (director/writer: Joachim Lafosse; screenwriter: François Pirot; cinematographer: Hichame Alaouie; editor: Sophie Vercruysse; cast: Isabelle Huppert (Pascale), Jérémie Renier (Thierry), Yannick Renier (François), Kris Cuppens (Jan), Patrick…

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CARGO 200

CARGO 200 (GRUZ) (aka: FREIGHT) (director/writer: Alexei Balabanov; cinematographer: Alexander Simonov; editor: Tatjana Kuzmyceva; cast: Leonid Gromov (Artem, Professor of Scientific Atheism), Alexei Serebryakov (Alexei), Yuri Stepanov (Mikhail, Colonel), Agniya…

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PROMISED LAND

PROMISED LAND (ZIEMIA OBIECANA) (director/writer: Andrzej Wajda; screenwriter: based on the novel by Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont; cinematographers: Waclaw Dybowski/Edward Klosinski/Witold Sobocinski; editors: Halina Prugar/Zofia Dwornik; music: Wojciech Kilar; cast: Andrzej…

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CASTAWAY

CASTAWAY (director: Nicolas Roeg; screenwriters: from the book "Castaway" by Lucy Irvine/Allan Scott; cinematographer: Harvey Harrison; editor: Tony Lawson; music: Stanley Myers; cast: Oliver Reed (Gerald Kingsland), Amanda Donohoe(Lucy Irvine),…

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