Дешёвое чтиво (1972)
Write it. Live it. But try not to be it.
Жанр : детектив, криминал, драма
Время выполнения : 1Ч 35М
Директор : Mike Hodges
Краткое содержание
Автора бульварных детективов Микки Кинга приглашают поработать «литературным негром» — написать автобиографию за некогда известного киноактёра. Выясняется, что это — Престон Гилберт, прославившийся исполнением ролей гангстеров и общавшийся с ними не только на экране. Теперь он умирает от рака и хочет оставить потомкам свою историю жизни. Кинг с рвением приступает к делу, но во время одной из вечеринок Гилберта убивают, и теперь Кингу придется потрудиться, чтобы закончить свою работу…
Skin Deep is a psychological thriller about love, sex, race, and betrayal.
Действие картины происходит в 1920 году. Ученый-скептик приезжает в загородную школу-интернат, где, по слухам, наблюдается повышенная спектральная активность. Сначала она уверена, что сможет развенчать этот миф, но затем пугающая встреча со сверхъестественным заставляет ее изменить свое мнение…
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Environmental drama set in Asturias, Spain. A Scottish travel writer is forced to stay in a valley town in northern Spain when his camper van breaks down. There he gets to know the different inhabitants, some of them struggling to close down the nearby power station and some trying to make it more prosperous.
История повествует про необычную девушку. У нее в жизни начались резкие изменения — сначала погибает отец, а потом его место занимает таинственный дядя, который решил взять опеку над осиротевшей семьей.
Два мрачных гробовщика, отец и сын, отправляются на кладбище, чтобы похоронить женщину. Из-за серии неудач, которые начинаются с аварии катафалка, отважные работники кирки и лопаты вынуждены тащить гроб с телом женщины до кладбища на руках. Однако это только начало их путешествия, которое закончится в довольно жарком местечке.
An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go, an organized crime mastermind. They conspire to blackmail an American weapons scientist into providing secrets to Mr. Go's organization for resale to the highest bidder. "The Dolphin" then arrives, who is an American CIA agent and James Joyce scholar, and is charged with recovering the scientist and his work by whatever means necessary.
Dissatisfied with the family architectural business, a man and his wife pack up and move out to his great-grandfather's old house in the country. While trying to patch it up, the house starts to make it clear to him that it doesn't want him there, but the local church (with some off-kilter practices of their own) seems to take a shine to him.
Daniel, a young boxer on the point of winning the title several times, is beaten yet again and commits a robbery that lands him in jail. Guillermo, a self-destructive policeman tormented by his latent homosexuality, blackmails Daniel into committing a murder behind bars. In exchange, Daniel gains his freedom and returns to the only thing he knows how to do: box. But this time the search for pain to relieve the guilt has made his conservative style more aggressive. He remembers the last conversation he had with the man he killed, when he talked about his wife, just another whore in the club he ran, and goes to meet her. Seeing danger in the relationship between the victim's murderer and his widow, Guillermo tries to stop it.
Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially responsible for this. She has also split with the father of her son and tries to escape all these concerns by working hard. On a new case, she is brought back to the house near the lake where she was raised to help a group of environmentalists to protect its natural beauty against the industrial project of a power company. But by doing so she has to fight the greed of the locals, and their trust in an evil spirit that is believed to be attached to the lake.
Two park benches, chewing-gum, a student waiting for her exam results, a strange young man who hangs around the park walkways, another who is bored. And a lot of sunshine. We are in a little southern French town at the end of June. Beads of sweat dot skin, skirts are shorter. The afternoon has only just begun.
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Фильм основан на успешной книге Кайсы Ингемарссон.
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A patient at a private clinic for sufferers of sexual dysfunction begins a tentative affair with one of the other patients while a killer stalks the institution.
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An aspiring actress is hired to dub a recently deceased movie star in an upcoming erotic thriller. As the recording sessions go on, the voice actress finds herself slowly being influenced by the dead star’s presence.
События картины будут разворачиваться в мире, где наибольшую опасность представляют разработки в области кибернетики.
While trying to win the heart of an old love, the ambitious Fouad runs into Gaber, a mysterious older man. Gaber takes Fouad into a journey of the unexpected.