La rançon du chien (1996)

Actors: Peter Kassovitz (director), Antoine Duléry (actor), Luc Palun (actor), François Perrot (actor), Daniel Prévost (actor), Serge Riaboukine (actor), Françoise Christophe (actress), Andrée Damant (actress), Manuela Gourary (actress), Lucienne Hamon (actress), Julie Jézéquel (actress), Peter Kassovitz (writer), François Négret (actor), Rebecca Potok (actress), Elise Tielrooy (actress),

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Il faut tuer Birgitt Haas (1981)

Actors: Lisa Kreuzer (actress), Roland Blanche (actor), Lisa Kreuzer (actress), André Wilms (actor), Christian Bouillette (actor), Victor Garrivier (actor), Lucienne Hamon (actress), Pierre Lary (actor), Bernard Le Coq (actor), Michel Beaune (actor), Eric Naggar (actor), Philippe Noiret (actor), Maurice Teynac (actor), Jean Rochefort (actor), Jean-Serge Breton (producer),

Plot: "Hangar" is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. In this film, the agency must eliminate a German female terrorist by the name of Birgitt Haas. The murder is to be disguised as a crime of passion, so an agent must lure Birgitt into falling in love.

Keywords: agency, character-name-in-title, terrorism
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: An act of Patriotism. An act of Terror. An act of Love.

La vendetta (1962)

Actors: Francis Blanche (actor), Charles Blavette (actor), Mario Carotenuto (actor), Louis de Funès (actor), Olivier Hussenot (actor), Jean Lefebvre (actor), Jacqueline Doyen (actress), Elisa Mainardi (actress), Marisa Merlini (actress), Jacqueline Pierreux (actress), Rosy Varte (actress), Jacques Emmanuel (writer), Albert Valentin (writer), Georges Arnstam (editor), Christian Méry (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

Hinter den sieben Gleisen (1959)

Actors: Armin Schweizer (actor), Ettore Cella (actor), Theo Lingen (actor), Walter Baumgartner (composer), Max Haufler (actor), Helmut Förnbacher (actor), Ursula Heyer (actress), Heidy Forster (actress), Kurt Früh (writer), Kurt Früh (director), Ruedi Walter (actor), Fred Tanner (actor), Margrit Rainer (actress), Hans Grimm (actor), Karl Wagner (actor),

Plot: They live behind the rails of the classification yard in a small and shabby hut. They take the days as they come, refuse to work on principle and pinch together their livelihood. The three tramps Dürst, Barbarossa and Clown are content with what they have and ignore the outside world, and so far they have fared well. Until now...

Keywords: railroad-track, single-mother, true-love
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,

Road to Rio (1947)

Actors: Tom Dugan (actor), Frank Faylen (actor), Hal K. Dawson (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Arthur Q. Bryan (actor), Robert Barrat (actor), George Chandler (actor), Jerry Colonna (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Frank Ferguson (actor),

Plot: Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.

Keywords: bicycle, brig, carnival, carnival-barker, circus-fire, clarinet, dance, duel, fortune-hunter, gaucho
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: Si, Si ! It's the maddest, merriest "Road" picture of all! You'll See! A fiesta of fun!...ON THE MERRIEST ROAD OF ALL! (original print ad - mostly caps) 10 New Hit Parade Songs Si, Si! THERE'S JIVE AND JOY...AND LOVE-STUFF! (original print media ad - mostly caps)

Quotes:

Scat Sweeney: Swine!::Hot Lips Barton: Pig!::Scat Sweeney: That's the same as swine.::Hot Lips Barton: All right. Ham!

Hot Lips Barton: [Looking at the bicycle on the high wire he has to ride] You want me want me to ride that thing?::Scat Sweeney: Why not?::Hot Lips Barton: Up in the stratosphere?::Scat Sweeney: Oh, you [mumbles]...::Hot Lips Barton: Who do you think I am - Mr. Jordan?

Hot Lips Barton: [Hanging off the high wire] Help! Help!::Hot Lips Barton: [Aside to camera] You know, this picture could end right here.

Scat Sweeney: [Uncovering a side of meat in a freezer as he looks for Hot Lips] Well, I'm getting warm. That's ham!

Lucia Maria de Andrade: I don't know what came over me! I found myself saying things, and I didn't know why I was saying them.::Hot Lips Barton: Look, why don't you just run for Congress and leave us alone?

Hot Lips Barton: [to Catherine Vail] Are you waiting for your broom?::Scat Sweeney: I'll listen for you on "The Inner Sanctum."

Hot Lips Barton: [Staring at Lucia's very tight gown] How'd you put that on - with a spraygun?

Hot Lips Barton: Look at this contract we signed for five months - two weeks guarantee!

Cardoso: You phoneys! You'll never work in Rio again!::Hot Lips Barton: Who wants to work? We're musicians!

Scat Sweeney: This might be a plot to get rid of us! The coffee might be poisoned!::Hot Lips Barton: Yeah, who knows this co... [He drops the cup]::Hot Lips Barton: [to Catherine Vail] You got any tea?

Ice-Capades (1941)

Actors: Carol Adams (actress), Phil Silvers (actor), Edwin Stanley (actor), Gus Schilling (actor), Tim Ryan (actor), Jerry Colonna (actor), Edward Gargan (actor), George Davis (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Howard C. Hickman (actor), James Ellison (actor), Cyril Ring (actor), Alan Mowbray (actor), William Newell (actor), Barbara Jo Allen (actress),

Plot: Newsreel cameraman Bob Clemens, an avowed woman hater, is assigned to cover the Lake Placid exhibition of Karen Vadja, the Swiss ice Queen. He misses his plane and fails to get the footage needed for a newsreel. Deciding that if you've seen one ice skater, you've seen them all, he goes to Central Park to film a skater picked at random. He selects Marie Bergin who is wanted by the immigration people for having over-stayed her visa. Bob does not adjust his newsreel camera for a long shot and she shows very clearly in close-ups. Promoter Larry Herman sees the newsreel and seeing that she is very talented and very pretty, decides to star her in an ice-spectacle to be called the "Ice-Capades." He sends for Karen Vadja's agent, since that is the name the skater is identified as in the newsreel, draws up and signs a contract and invites the press to join him when he meets her. Dismay mildly describes his feeling when he learns that he has obligated himself to build a show around a horse-faced, eccentric woman whose ability to skate is her only saving grace. He calls off the show, and brings suit against the National Newsreel Company for this hoax. The boss, Ellis, blames Bob and his assistant Colonna, who propose that they find her and let Ellis "discover" and star her. She evades them as she thinks they are immigration agents trying to find and deport her, but they find her in the chorus of the ice show they want her to star in. Deportation looms with marriage to an American citizen being the only alternative. Bob, the only woman-hating confirmed bachelor in the cast, becomes the prime candidate.

Keywords: 1940s, acrobatics, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, airplane, airport, american, assignment, attorney
Genres: Comedy, Music, Romance,
Taglines: IT'S DAZZLING! a thousand laughs...and thrills...as Hollywood's Gay Blades take to skates to "sleigh" the Blues! Set Against A Dazzling Hollywood Background...Ready To Thrill You In A Gorgeous Spectacle Of Rhythm, Romance And Comedy! A Merry Meless Of Hot Mamas And Mad-Hatters! Let the show entICE you...you'll say "How nICE!" A STAR-STUDDED CAVALCADE OF THE WORLD'S GAYEST BLADES1 Presenting a thousand and one spectacular thrills against an enchanting background of dazzling beauty and gay romance!

The Corsican Brothers (1941)

Actors: Richard Alexander (actor), Paul McVey (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Pedro de Cordoba (actor), James Craven (actor), Henry Brandon (actor), Anthony Caruso (actor), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (actor), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (actor), William Farnum (actor), Eddie Foster (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Walter Kingsford (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Milburn Morante (actor),

Plot: Douglas Fairbanks jr plays Siamese twins, separated by a good doctor [scalpel hemostat sutures quickly!!] after their parents are killed by Vendetta, personified by Akim Tamiroff in bolero suits. One goes to Paris, one to the Corsican Mountains to become, respectively, a gentleman and a bandit. What will happen? "I have performed the miracle I have separated their bodies. But what of their souls?" Lucien [the bandit] feels everything Mario [the Parisian fop - I mean, gentleman] feels. 20 years pass...then another year...and they are reunited in Corsica. Banditry and vendetta and a beautiful Corsican countess ensue.

Keywords: based-on-novel, conjoined-twins, corsica, dual-role
Genres: Adventure,
Taglines: FATE PLACED ONE SOUL IN THEIR TWO BODIES! (original print media ad - all caps) ALEXANDER DUMAS' IMMORTAL CLASSIC (original print media ad - all caps)

Die Tochter Napoleons (1922)

Actors: Frederic Zelnik (producer), Frederic Zelnik (director), Lya Mara (actress), Fanny Carlsen (writer), Ernst Hofmann (actor), Charles Willy Kayser (actor), Albert Patry (actor), Heinrich Peer (actor), Georg H. Schnell (actor), Magnus Stifter (actor), Gertrud de Lalsky (actress), Ludwig Hartau (actor), Else Wasa (actress), Kurt Wolowsky (actor), Friedrich Werner van Oestéren (writer),

Genres: History,