American Dreamer 1984   PG, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Cast: JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti, Giancarlo Giannini, Coral Browne, James Staley, Huckleberry Fox, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jean Rougerie, Pierre Santini, Leon Zitrone, Andre Valard, Robin Coleman, Alain Flick, Yassan Khan, Christian de Tilliere
Ohio housewife Cathy Palmer (JoBeth Williams) wins a trip to Paris after writing a chapter for a book in a mystery writing contest. Cathy arrives in Paris and is hit in the head when knocked down by a car in an accident. Upon awakening in the hospital, Cathy has no memory of her past life and believes that she is the James Bond-type heroine, Rebecca Ryan, the spy she wrote about in the contest. She meets Alan McMann (Tom Conti) and does not know that he is the ghost writer of the novel for which she won the prize. Together, they experience adventures involving spies and other villains before Cathy finally regains her memory. 1 User Review
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| | Greatly underrated!!! | Anonymous 03/24/2007 | | This is a fun movie. I loved it when I first saw it, and still enjoy watching it from time to time. I only wish Williams and Conti could have done some sequels! |
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Preparez Vos Mouchoirs) 1978  R, 109 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Carole Laure, Riton Liebman, Michel Serrault, Eleonore Hirt, Jean Rougerie, Sylvie Joly, Liliane Rovere, Michel Beaune
In this Best Foreign Film Academy Award winner, Raoul (Gerard Depardieu) tries to relieve his wife's (Carole Laure) listlessness by finding a new sexual partner for her. Although his choice of lovers fails, she finds sexual arousal through a 13-year-old boy.
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Lacombe Lucien 1974 R, 141 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clement, Holger Lowenadler, Therese Giehse, Stephane Bouy, Loumi Iacobesco, Rene Bouloc, Pierre Decazes, Jean Rougerie, Jacques Rispal
Eighteen-year-old Lacombe Lucien (Pierre Blaise) wants to join the French Resistance in 1944 but is turned down on the basis of being too young. However, the German gestapo wants him, and he becomes part of the Occupation Forces. His problems begin when he meets and falls in love with France (Aurore Clement), a Jewish girl. Now he, France, and France's mother (Therese Giehse) are on the run from both Resistance agents as well as the Germans. Fine directing and musical score highlight this film that doesn't shed a favorable light on the French Resistance.
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 The Phantom of the Opera 1990  TV, 200 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller / Romance / Mystery
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Charles Dance, Teri Polo, Ian Richardson, Andrea Ferreol, Adam Storke, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean Rougerie, Andre Chaumeau, Marie-Therese Orain, Marie-Christine Robert, Marie Lenoir, Anne Roumanoff, Jacques Mars, Jean Dupouy
Charles Dance takes the role of the Phantom in this campy remake of the classic horror story about the disfigured man who haunts the opera house in Paris. Erik (also played by Dance) is the disfigured son of Carrier (Burt Lancaster) who is the dismissed director of the Paris Opera House. Erik lives beneath the opera house and falls in love with beautiful opera singer Christine (Teri Polo). He helps Christine with her career and trains her in an abandoned music room. But, when Christine falls in love with the arrogant Count De Chagny (Adam Storke), Erik seeks vengeance as the masked Phantom.
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| 1. American Dreamer (1984)
2. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Preparez Vos Mouchoirs) (1978)
3. Lacombe Lucien (1974)
4. The Phantom of the Opera (1990)
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