Leave Her to Heaven
Leave Her to Heaven is a remarkable and engaging film. Richard is on a train to New Mexico where he meets Ellen, who is sitting opposite him. They chat for a while, and it's quite obvious that they take a liking to one another. At one point in the conversation, Ellen says that Richard looks like her father (when he was younger), and through a series of events, he ends up staying with her and her family. This gives Ellen the perfect opportunity to "love bomb" Richard, and the two fall madly in...
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The Running Man
The Running Man stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, and is set in a fictional, futuristic (2017) United States that has suffered a complete economic collapse, and is now ruled by a totalitarian government that controls, manipulates and censors all forms of art and entertainment in order to control the population. One of the governments’ propaganda TV shows is called “The Running Man”, where convicted criminals can be freed by “winning" a lethal competition, where they are thrown into an obstacle cours...
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a cinematic masterpiece that stands alone at the very pinnacle of filmmaking. The fact that it’s a silent film, with no dialogue or music to enhance or support the story in any way, makes the achievement even greater. The story is a flashback as told by Franzis (played by Friedrich Feger), who is sitting in a park, next to an older man. Franzis recalls his nightmarish encounter with Dr. Caligari (played by Werner Krauss) and Cesare (played by Conrad Veidt), a youn...
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