After the funeral of the well-regarded French magistrate Simon Cordier several people who knew him gather to listen to a reading of his personal diary...
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American Stephen Reinhart comes to England at the request of the mother of his former girlfriend, Susan Witley. To his surprise, the locals in the village where the Witleys live refuse to provide him with transport to his destination...
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In 1845, Dr John Dolittle decides to give up treating the human residents of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England, and instead devotes himself to the well-being of animals...
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Convinced that the Communists are infiltrating his country, General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of a US military airbase, gives the order for a bomber wing to launch a first strike nuclear attack on the USSR...
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American and Soviet scientists have both discovered how to miniaturise matter but the technique is of limited value since shrunken objects return to their full size within sixty minutes...
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Walter Eckland has turned his back on the world and plans to sit out WWII in peace in the South Pacific. Unfortunately, Fate has other ideas...
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Finian McLonergan absconds from his native Ireland with a stolen crock of gold, accompanied by his daughter Sharon. He arrives in Rainbow Valley, USA, believing that if he buries the crock near to Fort Knox he will become a wealthy man...
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Frank Towns is piloting a small plane laden with passengers and cargo across the Sahara Desert when a sandstorm brews up, knocking the aircraft off course by several hundred miles and bringing it down...
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CBS cameraman Henry Hinkle is covering a football game at Cleveland Stadium when one of the players, Boom Boom Jackson, runs into him, rendering him unconscious...
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Having run into trouble with the law in New Orleans, a 30-year-old drifter named Val Xavier leaves town determined to turn over a new leaf...
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New York City, circa 1910. Fanny Brice, a girl from the slums, has ambitions to be a star of vaudeville, and it is her wild enthusiasm that lands her her first stage job with a theatre company...
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Paula Tessier is an interior designer who lives and works in Paris. Although she is still beautiful, she knows that the flower of her youth is rapidly fading...
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20 year old Ben returns to his parents' home after graduating and wonders what to do with his life. Before he realises what is happening, he is seduced by Mrs Robinson, the middle-aged wife of his father's business partner and is drawn into a compulsive but passionless love affair...
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During the Second World War, German High Command decides to place all of the most troublesome Allied prisoners of war in a single camp managed by Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger...
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The Great Leslie is a dashing daredevil who delights in performing stunts for an appreciative audience, circa 1900. An avid self-publicist, he persuades the manufacturers of a new make of automobile to stage a great race from New York to Paris...
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Whilst holidaying in Hawaii, Joanna Drayton, a young middleclass Caucasian, meets and falls in love with Dr John Prentice, an Afro-American...
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It is 1943. Two thousand British soldiers are stranded on the island of Keros in the Aegean Sea and face certain death when the Germans launch an all-out assault on the region in a bid to draw neutral Turkey into the war...
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Dr John Markway is a professor of anthropology with a keen interest in the paranormal. For years he has been looking for proof that will convince a sceptical scientific community of the existence of supernatural phenomena...
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In the 1890s, Dolly Levi is the talk of New York, a merry widow who is all too willing to lend her services as a marriage broker, for a modest fee...
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Philip Winthrop visits the house of Usher, a decaying mansion in a desolate area of misty swampland, with the intention of taking away his fiancée, Madeline...
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Charles Bonnet is one of France's leading art forgers and makes a comfortable living by auctioning off his fake works of art, much to the chagrin of his daughter Nicole, who is certain that one day this scam will be uncovered...
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In 1927, wealthy Southern landowner Sam Hollis is outraged on learning that his young daughter Charlotte, a prominent society belle, has been having an affair with a married man, John Mayhew...
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Eddie Felson is a small-time pool shark with big-time ambitions. Fed up of taking pin money from suckers, Eddie decides to challenge legendary pool player Minnesota Fats, playing for the highest stakes he can afford...
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Sparta, Mississippi. Late one evening, police officer Sam Wood finds a dead body in the street. The murder victim is Mr Colbert, a prominent businessman who was about to open a factory which would provide jobs that are badly needed in the town...
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In Hillsboro, a small town in Tennessee, schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution to a class of high school students...
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The rue Casanova offers rich pickings for Parisian prostitutes, especially Irma la Douce, who never fails to extort a little extra from her clients...
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