Vilis Lapenieks
Nacimiento : 1931-11-10, Riga, Latvia
Muerte : 1987-07-03
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Un grupo de astronautas que están de exploración en un planeta, se topan con una porción de protoplasma y deciden llevársela a la nave para analizara en la Tierra. Pero el protoplasma se convierte en un monstruo devorador que hace temblar a la Tierra.
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Habría sido uno de los juicios criminales más relevantes en la historia de los Estados Unidos. Pero un único disparo impidió que se celebrara. Este extraordinario drama se atreve a preguntar qué hubiera ocurrido si Lee Harvey Oswald hubiera vivido para ser sometido a juicio por el asesinato del presidente John F. Kennedy. Un excelente reparto, que incluye a Lorne Greene, Ben Gazzara y John Pleshette, dan vida a este hipotético escenario donde en una fascinante batalla judicial se plantean las controvertidas cuestiones que aún persiguen al pueblo americano. ¿Actuó Oswald solo? ¿O quizá se trataba de una conspiración que involucraba al FBI, la CIA y el crimen organizado?
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Valerie Harper interpreta a una mujer que por circunstancias familiares se ve obligada a viajar sola en su coche durante toda la noche. Tan pronto inicia su viaje, presencia casualmente el asesinato de un policía. Esta noche será la noche más larga de su vida y quizás su última noche...
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El famoso gángster Al Capone controla el hampa de Chicago, pero ahora debe enfrentarse al gran número de rivales que se oponen a su dominio.
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In this drama, a Vietnam veteran flees an Army discharge hospital. The fugitive then kidnaps a young woman and takes her to a remote mountain cabin. The woman convinces him to free her if she stays for two days. During that time, the two begin to get closer until he travels to town for supplies and ends up robbing a bank. The woman is terribly upset with him and forces him to return the cash. Tragedy for the fugitive ensues, and the young woman ends up having learned a valuable lesson.
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LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In this police drama, his honesty is put to the test when he and his partner discover an international drug ring involving some of the department's highest ranking officers.
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The first US teleplay to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. Divorced San Francisco contractor Doug Salter is looking forward to a summer visit from his fourteen-year-old son Nick, who lives in Los Angeles with his mother Janet. The boy does not know that his father is gay and committed to Gary McClain, his life partner of several years.
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Hickspoiltation film from the early 1970s ostensibly starring Oscar nominee Mercedes McCambridge, but really more a film looking for an excuse to show off Simone Griffeth's beauty. She plays a daughter of a swamp family. The whole family goes to a carnival where she is seduced by an older male performer, while her teen brother is seduced by an older female performer.
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“Our modern technology has achieved a degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams. But this technology has exacted a pretty heavy price. We live in an age of anxiety, a time of stress. And with all our sophistication we are in fact, the victims of our own technological strength. We are the victims of shock … of future shock.” No, this isn’t a quote from a Huffington Post column on the Facebookization of modern communication. Nor is it pulled from an academic treatise on the phenomenologies of post-industrial existence. This statement was made by Orson Welles in the 1972 futurist documentary Future Shock, and, unlike some of the more dated elements of 1970s educational films, Future Shock remains shockingly current in verbalizing the concerns and anxieties that come along with rapid societal and technological change. (Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive)
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Gene Hackman interpreta a un poli que chantajea a una estrella del rock en decadencia -Kris Kristofferson, que también canta- para que venda para él 100Kg. de "material" en apenas un fin de semana. Dado el pasado delictivo de nuestro protagonista, la persecución enloquecida a la que es sometido por el póli, la relación que mantiene con su pareja (una estupenda Karen Black) y la llegada de su antiguo compañero mucical enganchado al caballo (Harry Dean Staton en su línea de siempre, es decir: genial), el encargo no le será nada facil. Apuntar además el pequeño cameo de un macarra del carajo: Antonio Fargas, tan querido por estos lares.
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A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.
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Young surgeon becomes bored with his wife and family, he has a very successful career, but even with having so much in life, he feels empty and goes through a series of brief and meaningless relations with attractive women.
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An adventurous young gambler searches for the owner of a mysterious fortune.
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Un grupo de turistas recorre siete países europeos, a un ritmo frenético, pues el viaje sólo dura 18 días. La rapidez provoca que pierdan la noción del país en el que están.
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The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To prevent a riot, Lieutenant Sam Danforth and District Attorney Leslie Washburn are determined to find the killer, even though they do not exactly get along with each other and disagree over procedure.
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Documental sobre la fuerza policial estadounidense y las dificultades que enfrentan para combatir la escalada del crimen en todo el país.
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Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict.
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En el año 1990 llega al planeta Tierra una llamada de auxilio de una misión alienígena estrellada en la superficie de Marte. Un científico viaja con su equipo a Marte para rescatar a la tripulación de la nave. La única superviviente es una mujer, que con sus ojos luminosos y su aspecto inhumano, es una vampira espacial que tiene un desaforado apetito por sangre humana.
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The Really Big Family is a 1966 American documentary film directed by Alexander Grasshoff about the Dukes family of Seattle, who had 18 children. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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Documentary about teenage life in the mid-60s.
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En el año 2020, los terrestres parten a explorar el planeta Venus desde sus bases selenitas. Al llegar a su destino, descubren un planeta atestado de dinosaurios y un dudoso rastro de una avanzada y oculta civilización
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1964 American documentary film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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En el pequeño pueblo de una isla del océano Pacífico, el joven Johnny queda prendado de una mujer de cabello negro. Ella trabaja en una feria como una "sirena". Después de algunos extraños sucesos, Johnny empieza a creer que la chica pudiera ser una sirena real, que asesina en las noches de luna llena
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En pleno siglo XX, un gigante cavernícola se tropieza con Roxy en medio de la noche, mientras ésta conduce al Club donde vive. El inocente cavernícola Eegah apenas se salva de morir atropellado, y surge la pasión, la aventura en el desierto y el posible trágico amor. Mientras, su novio Tom y el padre de la chica lucharán para rescatarla de las manos del gigante... Película de Serie Z realizada por Arch Hall (que firmó con el pseudónimo Nicholas Merriwether) con la reputación de ser una de las peores películas de la historia del cine.
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A high school track star's wedding plans are capsized by venereal disease and a bad, beautiful new girl in town. His coach and a physician steer him into the light again.
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Seymour Krelboin (Jonathan Haze), un joven dependiente de una floristería, está enamorado de su compañera Audrie (Jackie Joseph), pero ella sale con un sádico dentista. Un día, justo después de un extraño eclipse, compra una extraña planta, a la que bautiza como Audrie II. La planta crece rápidamente, gracias a que Seymour le proporciona el alimento que necesita, y se convierte en un ejemplar espectacular, una verdadera atracción para la ciudad.
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When white settlers start to move in on their sacred grounds, a tribe of female Indians vow to do anything they can to stop them.