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L'homme de chevet (2009)

Actors: Sophie Marceau (actress), Christopher Lambert (actor), Christine Gozlan (producer), Salvatore Basile (actor), Catherine Schwartz (editor), Sophie Timbal (miscellaneous crew), Rodolfo De Souza (actor), Frédéric Greene (miscellaneous crew), Florencia Di Concilio (composer), Margarita Rosa de Francisco (actress), Rodolphe Guglielmi (producer), Murielle Thierrin (producer), Teddy Percherancier (producer), Thierry Wong (producer), Fryderyk Ovcaric (producer),

Plot: Muriel is beautiful, free-spirited and bed-ridden since a horrific accident. Leo is a drunk middle-aged ex-boxer. Desperate for work and unqualified, he interviews for Muriel, who hires him to cook and care for her against her better judgment. Initially out of his depth, Leo slowly wins Muriel's trust. As Muriel teaches him to read, he forces her to confront the joys beyond her window.

Keywords: based-on-book, based-on-novel
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Kojak: It's Always Something (1990)

Actors: Darren McGavin (actor), Adam LeFevre (actor), Abby Mann (writer), Andre Braugher (actor), Jaime Tirelli (actor), Kevin Dobson (actor), Angela Pietropinto (actress), Telly Savalas (actor), Charles Cioffi (actor), Alan North (actor), Matthew Cowles (actor), Earl Hindman (actor), Bruce Nozick (actor), Richard Compton (director), Nelson Vasquez (actor),

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Tightrope (1984)

Actors: Geneviève Bujold (actress), Clint Eastwood (actor), Joel Cox (editor), Clint Eastwood (producer), Marco St. John (actor), Lloyd Nelson (miscellaneous crew), Lloyd Nelson (actor), Robert Harvey (actor), Dan Hedaya (actor), Janet MacLachlan (actress), Paul A. Calabria (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Sachar (actor), Elise Ganz (miscellaneous crew), Alison Eastwood (actress), David Valdes (actor),

Plot: Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women, that he rapes and murders. The killings are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

Keywords: attraction, autopsy, bare-breasts, bdsm, birthday-party, blow-job, breaking-and-entering, brewery, brothel, cemetery
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: A cop on the edge...

Quotes:

Wes Block: Twenty-eight years ago I borrowed 40 dollars from my father, packed up an old, beat up suitcase, took a bus and came here. I was seventeen at the time. While I walked through the French Quarter, I looked out over the Mississippi and swore I'd never leave.::Beryl Thibodeaux: Ever come close?::Wes Block: Only once. When I looked down and saw that the suitcase was missing.

Uniformed Police Officer: Wes, Beryl Thibodeaux from the rape something or other wants to see you.::Wes Block: Where is she?::Uniformed Police Officer: In the reception room.::Wes Block: Tell her I'm out.::Uniformed Police Officer: I did. She said she'd wait.::Wes Block: Good. Tell her I'm out of town.::[Wes turns around and sees Beryl standing there, she who gives him a sarcastic grin]::Beryl Thibodeaux: Welcome back.

Penny Block: [to her father] You can have a hard-on anytime you want.

Los gusanos (1978)

Actors: Orestes Matacena (writer), Orestes Matacena (actor), Ruben Rabasa (actor), Camilo Vila (director), Camilo Vila (writer), Stephen Sheppard (editor), Clara Hernandez (actress), Clara Hernandez (writer), Reynaldo Medina (actor), Theodora Castellanos (actress), Danilo Bardisa (producer), Raimundo Hidalgo-Gato (actor), General Trifilio Estevez (miscellaneous crew), Ricardo Tapia (actor), Marco Santiago (actor),

Genres: Drama, War,

Doctor Faustus (1967)

Actors: Elaine Schreyeck (miscellaneous crew), Richard Burton (actor), John Shirley (editor), Mario Nascimbene (composer), Richard Burton (producer), Richard Burton (director), Elizabeth Taylor (actress), Renzo Pevarello (actor), Richard Durden (actor), Richard Durden (actor), Richard Heffer (actor), Maria Aitken (actress), Ian Marter (actor), Ian Marter (actor), Richard McWhorter (producer),

Plot: Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.

Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, deal-with-the-devil, hell
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery,
Taglines: The story of a scientist who sells his soul to the devil

Quotes:

Doctor Faustus: [speaking about Helen of Troy] Was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Illium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!

[Mephistopheles has come to Faustus' study]::Doctor Faustus: Where are you damned?::Mephistopheles: In hell.::Doctor Faustus: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?::Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. / Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God / And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, / Am not tormented with ten thousand hells / In being deprived of everlasting bliss?

Affair in Havana (1957)

Actors: Richard Goldstone (producer), Raymond Burr (actor), John Cassavetes (actor), Ernest Gold (composer), Celia Cruz (actress), Laslo Benedek (director), Sara Shane (actress), Maurice Zimm (writer), Lilia Lazo (actress), Miguel Ángel Blanco (actor), José Antonio Rivero (actor), Sergio Pena (actor),

Genres: Crime, Film-Noir,