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How far will a man go to climb the corporate ladder? C.C. 'Bud' Baxter, a lowly insurance clerk, has a trump card: his apartment. He "loans" it out to married company executives for secret trysts. In return, he's well looked after, although he does grapple with his conscience. One day he asks out one of the elevator girls, Miss Kubelik, but she stands him up because of a crisis in her relationship with the big boss, Mr. Sheldrake. On Christmas Eve,...
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Angela De Marco is stuck in a loveless marriage to an adulterous philanderer who also just happens to be a mobster. Tired of living with a two-timing husband and his laundered money, she gets a new lease on life when he's iced by Tony 'The Tiger' Russo - a ruthless kingpin who's always had a thing for the beautiful Angela and now is free to put the moves on the grieving widow. Kissing the Long Island mafia arrivederci, Angela starts over in Manhattan,...
4) Pitfall
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John Forbes is a family man who's tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens. Her boyfriend has robbed a store insured by Forbes' company and has showered her with gifts using the loot. Forbes comes to collect the ill-gotten gifts, but the boyfriend is in jail, and Forbes falls hard for Mona and begins an affair.
5) Accident
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The complex relationships among an Oxford professor, one of his students, and the young woman who captivates both of them is the subject of this difficult but rewarding drama. Director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter had previously collaborated on 1963's The Servant, and they surrounded this recasting of a Nicholas Mosley novel with a similar atmosphere of ominous mystery. The story is presented through flashbacks and disconnected memories that...
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An often-overlooked film from the early career of prolific French director Claude Chabrol (*The Swindle*), THE THIRD LOVER follows Albin Mercier, a failed journalist, is writing an article in Germany. When he meets a couple who seem very close, he becomes jealous and sets out to destroy their relationship. He discovers that the young woman has a lover and blackmails her emotionally. The restored version of the film was an Official Selection at the...
7) Buried alive
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Clint Goodman enjoys the simple life he's created in the small town where he grew up. However, his wife Joanna yearns for a more glamorous existence and begins an affair with the local doctor, who offers her a sinister but seemingly perfect way out.
8) Buried alive
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Clint Goodman enjoys the simple life he's created in the small town where he grew up. However, his wife Joanna yearns for a more glamorous existence and begins an affair with the local doctor, who offers her a sinister but seemingly perfect way out.
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In Paris at the onset of WWII, wealthy Jewish doctor Michele marries Stanislaus, a penniless yet cunning Polish chess master. She is later hauled off to Dachau and is assumed dead after her failure to return at the war's end. But Michele is not dead after all and returns to Paris under a new identity to find Stanislaus romancing her beautiful young stepdaughter. Murderous twists and turns abound in this stylish Hitchcockian chiller.
11) Human desire
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Korean War vet Jeff Warren returns to his job as a railroad engineer and quickly succumbs to his boss's wife, Vicki Buckley. Thus begins a tangled web of suspicion, sex, and murder involving Vicki and her brutish husband Carl. Adapted by Alfred Hayes (Clash by Night) and shot by Burnett Guffey (Bonnie and Clyde), Lang's spellbinding masterpiece evokes a powerful emotional landscape of greed, jealousy, and Human Desire.
13) Temptation
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In this Victorian-era film noir, the mesmerizing Merle Oberson is Ruby, the new wife of wealthy archaeologist Nigel. Unbeknownst to her husband, Ruby has had quite a checkered past, involving several divorces and extramarital affairs. While Nigel is out digging up an ancient mummy, Ruby takes up with Baroudi, a slick but impoverished Egyptian opportunist. When Baroudi threatens to leave Ruby unless she puts her husband out of the way, she plots to...