January 14, 2015
Happy New Year Hungary (2014) Trailer
Happy New Year Hungary is Hungary's first collaborative documentary. The last day of the year is a perfect opportunity to connect people from different generations, social classes and sub-cultures. 12 professional crews were following 12 different characters during the last and the first day of the year and 300 participants contributed the project by submitting videos. The film offers a colorful tableau of a modern society by following the stories of a diverse cast of characters on New Year's Eve.
Kojak Budapesten (1980) Trailer
Lt. Kojak arrives in Budapest as a guest speaker for the 'International Crime Writers Conference'. Soon after he starts enjoying the pleasures that the city has to offer, he assists his old friends at the police department with a case. The case involves solving the murder of a noted scientist, unaware that a Mafia hit man and his female companion are targeting him.Written by Re-wrote the paragraph due to poor anf improper English on the original.
Mirage (2014) Trailer
Délibáb
Mirage (Hungarian: Délibáb) is a 2014 Hungarian-Slovak drama film directed by Szabolcs Hajdu.
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Mirage tells the story of an African football player in a small Hungarian town, who commits a crime and has to flee. He finds refuge on a farm deep in the Hungarian flatland. Soon he realizes that the farm is a modern slave camp where he is forced to fight for his freedom and ultimately his life. Written by Anonymous
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Drama,
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Orsolya Török-Illyés,
player,
Razvan Vasilescu,
small,
Szabolcs Hajdu,
town,
Western
One, Two, Three (1961) Trailer
One, Two, Three
Billy Wilder's Explosive New Comedy
One, Two, Three is a 1961 American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and written by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond.
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Berlin is the epitome of political and economic polarization. A microcosm of that polarization is the life of American C.R. MacNamara, known as Mac to his friends. He is Coca-Cola's head of West Berlin operations, although he feels he deserves to be Coca-Cola's head of European operations based in London. Mac's wife, Phyllis, wants him instead to get a steady and stable job back in head office in Atlanta. His West Berlin staff are all still used to treating him like their old master, the Fuhrer. The one exception is his secretary, Ingeborg, who is the latest in the long line of his secretary mistresses. And he's working on a trade agreement of getting Coca-Cola into the Russian market. His life goes into a tailspin when he hosts Scarlett Hazeltine in his home for two weeks. She is the seventeen year old spoiled and party-loving daughter of his Atlanta based boss, Wendell Hazeltine. Unlike most of the stops she's made on her European trip, Scarlett seems to like West Berlin and stays ... Written by Huggo
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One,
Pamela Tiffin,
reference to frank sinatra,
Three,
Two,
west germany
Splendor in the Grass (1961) Trailer
Splendor in the Grass
A LOVE STORY UNLIKE ANY OTHERS !!
Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 Technicolor romantic drama film that tells a story of sexual repression, love, and heartbreak, from which the character Deanie suffers.
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It's 1928 in oil rich southeast Kansas. High school seniors Bud Stamper and Deanie Loomis are in love with each other. Bud, the popular football captain, and Deanie, the sensitive soul, are "good" kids who have only gone as far as kissing. Unspoken to each other, they expect to get married to each other one day. But both face pressures within the relationship, Bud who has the urges to go farther despite knowing in his heart that if they do that Deanie will end up with a reputation like his own sister, Ginny Stamper, known as the loose, immoral party girl, and Deanie who will do anything to hold onto Bud regardless of the consequences. They also face pressures from their parents who have their own expectation for their offspring. Bud's overbearing father, Ace Stamper, the local oil baron, does not believe Bud can do wrong and expects him to go to Yale after graduation, which does not fit within Bud's own expectations for himself. And the money and image conscious Mrs. Loomis just wants... Written by Huggo
Inherit the Wind (1960) Trailer
Inherit the Wind
It's all about the monkey trial that rocked America.
Inherit the Wind is a 1960 Hollywood film adaptation of the play of the same name, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, directed by Stanley Kramer.
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Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. This is a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925 "Scopes monkey trial" with debates between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan taken largely from the transcripts.
Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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1960,
1960's,
Drama,
evolution,
Fredric March,
Gene Kelly,
Harold Jacob Smith,
History,
Inherit the Wind,
lawyer,
Nedrick Young,
politician,
science,
Spencer Tracy,
Stanley Kramer,
teacher
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