Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach

Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)

"This tragic tale centers around the ill-fated love between Baptiste, a theater mime, and Claire Reine, an actress and otherwise woman-about-town who calls herself Garance. Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: Frederick, a pretentious actor; Lacenaire, a conniving thief; and Count Eduard of Monteray. The story is further complicated by Nathalie, an actress who is in love with Baptiste. Garance and Baptiste meet when Garance is falsely accused of stealing a man's watch. Garance is forced to enter the protection of Count Eduard when she is innocently implicated in a crime committed by Lacenaire. In the intervening years of separation, both Garance and Baptiste become involved in loveless relationships with the Count and Nathalie, respectively. Baptiste is the father of a son. Returning to Paris, Garance finds that Baptiste has become a famous mime actor. Nathalie sends her child to foil their meeting..."

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Amanti (1968)

"Julia, a divorced American fashion designer, is dying of a tragic, incurable disease. With only ten days to live, she spends her time vacationing in an Italian villa and watching television. She spots a TV interview with an Italian engineer Valerio, who designs plastic air bags to protect passengers in automobile collisions. She recognizes his face as having met him before at the airport and calls him up to invite him over to her villa where they decide to spend the next several days together, making love. Julia's friend Maggie reappears and reveals that Julia is actually an escapee from the hospital where she was being treated for her disease. Maggie urges Julia to return to the hospital where she can die a painless death. Julia ignores her and returns to the villa and the arms of her lover. Maggie then telephones Valerio and tells him about Julia's condition. Valerio is willing..."

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Arena (2009)

Esta curta de João Salaviza, premiada em Cannes, conta-nos a história de um jovem detido em casa, com pulseira electrónica, num bairro social nos arredores de Lisboa, num retrato cru de violência juvenil.

Annie Hall (1977)

"Romantic adventures of neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer and his equally neurotic girlfriend Annie Hall. The film traces the course of their relationship from their first meeting, and serves as an interesting historical document about love in the 1970s" 

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Beautiful (2008)

"Eun-young is a woman cursed with great beauty. Wherever she goes, she gets unwanted admiration from men and jealousy from women. One day, one of her stalking admirer invades her place."

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DOC: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011

"Uma série de documentários sobre a forma como os seres humanos acabaram colonizados pelas máquinas que eles próprios construíram. Apesar de não ser evidente, o mundo e a forma como vemos e analisamos hoje todas as coisas é profundamente condicionada pelos computadores" 

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Episódio 1: "Love and Power"

Episódio 2: "The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts"

Episódio 3: "The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey"

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

"When Senator Ransom Stoddard returns home to Shinbone for the funeral of Tom Doniphon, he recounts to a local newspaper editor the story behind it all. He had come to town many years before, a lawyer by profession. The stage was robbed on its way in by the local ruffian, Liberty Valance, and Stoddard has nothing to his name left save a few law books. He gets a job in the kitchen at the Ericson's restaurant and there meets his future wife, Hallie. The territory is vying for Statehood and Stoddard is selected as a representative over Valance, who continues terrorizing the town. When he destroys the local newspaper office and attacks the editor, Stoddard calls him out, though the conclusion is not quite as straightforward as legend would have it."

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The Ghost Writer (2011)

"A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy."

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A Dangerous Method (2011)

"A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis."

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Far From The Madding Crowd (1967)

"Based on Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel, Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. And she captures the lives and loves of three very different men: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage; William Boldwood, a prosperous man in his early forties and a confirmed bachelor; and Sergeant Frank Troy, a handsome, reckless swordsman given to sudden fits of violence."

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A Place in the Sun (1951)

"The young and poor George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) leaves his religious mother and Chicago and arrives in California expecting to find a better job in the business of his wealthy uncle Charles Eastman. His cousin Earl Eastman advises him that there are many women in the factory and the basic rule is that he must not hang around with any of them. George meets the worker of the assembly line, Alice Tripp, in the movie theater and they date. Meanwhile, the outcast George is promoted and he meets the gorgeous Angela Vickers at a party thrown at his uncle's house. Angela introduces him to the local high society and they fall in love with each other. However, Alice is pregnant and she wants to get married with George. During a dinner party at Angela's lake house with parents, relatives, and friends, Alice calls George from the bus station and gives him thirty minutes to meet her; otherwise she will crash the party and tell what has happened.."

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Down by Law (1986)

Jim Jarmush, neste filme, embora o ritmo seja demasiado vagaroso, mantém-nos interessados na acção até ao final. Excelentes representações e realização de uma história simples: 3 homens, com histórias de vida diferentes encontram-se numa prisão de Louisiana.

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The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

"In 1930s New Orleans, the Cincinnati Kid, a young stud poker player who travels from one big game to the next, stopping along the way up with various girls, is pitted against the legendary champion card-sharp Lancey Howard in a high-stakes poker game"

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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Neste western spargheti de Sergio Leone, o estranho homem da harmónica aparece misteriosamente para salvar uma viúva dos vilões. Elenco, representações, realização e fotografia simplesmente fantásticas, com a inconfundível banda sonora de Ennio Morricone.

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Convoy (1978)

"While driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald - who goes by the handle "Rubber Duck" - along with his fellow truckers "Pig Pen" and "Spider Mike", are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace using a key tool of the trucker's trade, the citizens' band (CB) radio. Rubber Duck and Cottonmouth have a long, antagonistic history. When this encounter later escalates into a more physical one as Cottonmouth threatens Spider Mike, a man who just wants to get home to his pregnant wife, Rubber Duck and other the truckers involved, including Spider Mike, Pig Pen and "Widow Woman", go on the run, figuring the best thing to do being to head to New Mexico to avoid prosecution. Along for the ride is Melissa, a beautiful photographer who just wanted a ride to the airport. As news of what happened spreads over the CB airwaves..."

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Le Mans (1971)

Steve McQueen queria fazer "o filme" épico sobre corridas de carros, e este quase documentário em tempo real foi o resultado. Com imagens captadas de forma espectacular, este filme transporta-nos para dentro do circuito das 24 Horas de Le Mans, sendo hoje reconhecido o seu valor e pioneirismo, embora na altura tenha sido um fracasso de bilheteiras, com prejuízo para McQueen, que tinha investido muito do seu dinheiro pessoal nas filmagens (que se arrastaram por mais de um ano, tendo despedido o primeiro realizador).

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The Sand Pebbles (1966)

"Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission."

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Reservoir Dogs (1992)

"After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant."

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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

"An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo."

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Mission of Burma - Trem Two