High-strung architect Peter Highman is flying home to LA for the birth of his first child. Due to some Apatow-esque farcical events involving aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay, Peter ends up being shot by an air marshal and put on a no-fly list. As luck would have it, Ethan offers Peter a ride to LA as he is traveling there too. The two men clash immediately, but they discover that Ethan has a second motive for his travels: to scatter his recently deceased father's ashes. As they journey together, their relationship is tested, but they eventually develop a bond. They face numerous obstacles and challenges along the way, but in the end, they make it to the hospital just in time for Peter's child's birth.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro follows the journey of a writer who, while on safari in Africa, reflects on his past and his relationships. As he battles with a life-threatening injury, he contemplates on his lost love, his unfulfilled dreams, and the pursuit of happiness. The majestic Mount Kilimanjaro serves as a backdrop for his introspection and his search for redemption.
The Blue Angel is a tragic drama about a straight-laced professor who becomes infatuated with a seductive cabaret performer named Lola Lola. As his obsession grows, it leads to his downfall and ultimate destruction. Set in Weimar Germany, this film explores themes of love, jealousy, and self-destructiveness.
A Christmas Tale is a comedy-drama movie that revolves around a dysfunctional family as they come together during the Christmas season. The family faces various challenges and secrets which they must confront and overcome. Themes of banishment, family relationships, alcoholism, and disease intertwine with a mother-son relationship, debt, and a bone marrow transplant. The movie also features elements of a Christmas party, Christian mass, jogging, and watching TV. Family secrets, a letter, and a William Shakespeare quotation play a significant role in shaping the story. Set in France, the movie explores the complexities of relationships and features lesbian grandmother, strangers, and fireworks. Other elements include a barber, surgical operation, pianist, Christmas play, grave, dominoes, painting, and an art gallery. A fistfight, phonograph record, brother-sister relationship, photograph, and record player add further depth to the plot. The movie is set in Paris, France, and Roubaix-Flanders, and delves into themes of mental illness, nervous breakdown, and dysfunctional family dynamics.
The Absent-Minded Professor follows the story of a bumbling professor who invents a substance that enables objects to defy gravity. Chaos ensues when others try to get their hands on the invention.
When a high school class gets a new teacher, the ambitious and dedicated William takes a special interest in a student named Lucas. As Lucas excels in his literature class, William becomes increasingly obsessed with him, going to great lengths to control and manipulate his life. As tension builds, Lucas must find a way to escape the clutches of his deranged teacher.
When a television producer goes to Milwaukee to cover the annual Polar Plunge event, she meets a charming local man who inspires her to make a New Year's resolution. As they spend more time together, she discovers that love and happiness can be found in the most unexpected places.
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.
Flight of the Doves is a heartwarming story of two Irish children who escape their uncle's clutches and embark on a journey to find their grandmother. With the help of a friendly horse and a loyal dog, they face numerous challenges and learn about love, family, and the importance of holding onto their dreams. Set against the backdrop of beautiful Irish landscapes, this movie explores themes of adventure, resilience, and the power of family bonds.
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident.
A well documented re-enaction of the July 20th, 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, aka Operation Valkyrie.
The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.
A psychological drama about two young lovers who are emotionally and mentally unstable. Through the flashbacks they are telling what did they do before they ended up in asylum.
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.
Even in the "enlightened" 60. years filmmakers like to play spies. In the grand-world environment, Luxury hotel in Karlovy Vary the sophisticated charade unfolds, in which several foreign agents interested in the famous Austrian scientist, the discoverer of the artificial protein. Endangered man fortunately never notice danger around him. His protection was entrusted to the mysterious madame Elizabeth, amongst agents famed as the ' 006, in fact, working for the State security... As a parody, perhaps the movie succeeded, but hardly convincing anyone - and this is despite scriptwriting participation of the renowned Jan Procházka.
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