K smette di fumare (2012)

Actors: Sebastiano Montresor (writer), Sebastiano Montresor (editor), Sebastiano Montresor (director), Carlo Di Maio (actor), Stefania Visconti (actress), Gino Versetti (actor), Marco Tizianel (actor), Annalisa Lori (actress), Renata Giusti (costume designer), Giovanni Carta (actor), Emanuela Petroni (actress), Enrico Fracca (actor), Giorgio Montresor (producer), Eveline (actress), Emanuela Trovato (actress),

Holmesian Guide to the Internet (2011)

Actors: Joe Aiello (actor), W. Schroeder Dorn (director), W. Schroeder Dorn (producer), Ron Lies (actor), Stanislaus Moskal (actor), Sally Kurtzman (actress), Fauso Coppi (actor), Larry Feldman (actor),

Plot: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves on opposite sides of the so-called social media controversy. To resolve their differences they both resort to creating their own avatars. The film is rife with references and cross-references to both the Sherlock Holmes canon and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Sherlock (2002)

Actors: Vasile Albinet (actor), Philip J. Strina (miscellaneous crew), Vlad Paunescu (producer), Brad Wyman (producer), Ruxandra Popescu (miscellaneous crew), Arthur Conan Doyle (writer), Gabrielle Anwar (actress), Constantin Barbulescu (actor), James D'Arcy (actor), Richard E. Grant (actor), Vincent D'Onofrio (actor), Alan Abrams (miscellaneous crew), Valentin Popescu (actor), Struan Rodger (actor), Richard Bonehill (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: The game is afoot. This made for cable movie focuses on the young 20-something Sherlock Holmes. As the movie opens, Sherlock is in pursuit of the evil Moriarty and apparently shoots him to death, but his body cannot be found as he falls in a sewer. Ah, but anyone who knows the Holmes mythos knows that Moriarty is not so easily killed. Nonetheless, Holmes gains notoriety with the press and the police for his apparent killing of the evil Moriarty. This accomplishment brings him into the company of Dr. Watson, an early practitioner of autopsies, for the first time. Together, they start an investigation into the murder of several crimelords and become convinced that Moriarty is alive and behind a plot to organize drug dealing. Given that Moriarty is supposedly dead, Holmes finds it hard to convince Inspector Lestrade. Holmes investigation leads him to a beautiful prostitute, who posed as a rich woman to lure Holmes into the plot.

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1975)

Actors: Stefanie Powers (actress), John Candy (actor), Lawrence Dane (actor), Isaac Hayes (actor), Anthony Newley (actor), Henry Ramer (actor), Tony Lower (editor), David Perlmutter (producer), Yvonne De Carlo (actress), Lloyd Bochner (actor), Peter James (producer), Penelope Hynam (miscellaneous crew), John Trent (writer), John Trent (writer), John Trent (director),

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Up in the Air (1969)

Actors: Wallace Bosco (writer), Leslie Dwyer (actor), Wallace Bosco (writer), Jon Pertwee (actor), George H. Brown (producer), Felix Felton (actor), Brenda Cowling (actress), Jan Darnley-Smith (director), Jan Darnley-Smith (writer), Richard Mason (editor), Mark Colleano (actor), Earl Younger (actor), Gary Smith (actor), Gary Warren (actor), Burnell Whibley (composer),

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

Actors: Robert Wise (producer), Robert Wise (director), Shelley Winters (actress), Gloria Grahame (actress), Harry Belafonte (producer), Anna Hill Johnstone (costume designer), Bill Zuckert (actor), Ed Begley (actor), Harry Belafonte (actor), David Clarke (actor), Richard Bright (actor), Wayne Rogers (actor), Robert Ryan (actor), Cicely Tyson (actress), Dede Allen (editor),

Plot: Dave Burke is looking to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earl Slater, a white ex-convict, and Johnny Ingram, a black gambler. Both are reluctant; but Burke arranges for Ingram's creditors to put pressure on him, while Slater feels humiliated by his failure to provide for his girlfriend; they eventually accept. But Slater loathes and despises blacks, and the tensions in the gang rapidly mount.

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Tyrant of the Sea (1950)

Actors: Stanley Andrews (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Ross Elliott (actor), Ron Randell (actor), Rhys Williams (actor), Doris Lloyd (actress), Sam Katzman (producer), Lew Landers (director), Edwin H. Bryant (editor), William Fawcett (actor), Frank Ferguson (actor), Don C. Harvey (actor), Percy Helton (actor), Maurice Marsac (actor), Lester Matthews (actor),

Plot: In 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet decides to send out one of its vessels to destroy it the French flagship under cover of fog. Forced out of retirement, ruthless, tyrannical and temperamental Captain William Blake is put in command. He wields his command with sadistic fury until an epidemic of scurvy attacks the crew and, when he refuses to go ashore for needed provision, mutiny and insubordination results...and, then, the French flagship arrives.

The Mighty McGurk (1947)

Actors: Morris Ankrum (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Vince Barnett (actor), Wallace Beery (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Oliver Blake (actor), Chet Brandenburg (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), John Berkes (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), Tom Dillon (actor), Jimmie Dundee (actor),

Plot: "Slag" McGurk, a former boxing champ living on memories of glories past, spends his days and nights as a bouncer/braggert/boozer at Glenson's saloon. But when "Slag" stumbles upon a young orphaned lad and agrees to help him find a relative, his life takes on a whole new meaning.

General John Regan (1933)

Actors: Henry Edwards (director), Henry Edwards (actor), David Horne (actor), Fred O'Donovan (actor), Torin Thatcher (actor), Ben Welden (actor), Chrissie White (actress), Herbert Wilcox (producer), Eugene Leahy (actor), W.G. Fay (actor), Denis O'Neil (actor), Lennox Robinson (writer), Mary O'Farrell (actress), George A. Birmingham (writer), Pegeen Mair (actress),

Made on Broadway (1933)

Actors: Vince Barnett (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Joseph Cawthorn (actor), Bill Elliott (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Billy Gilbert (actor), C. Henry Gordon (actor), Sherry Hall (actor), DeWitt Jennings (actor), Ivan Lebedeff (actor), Tom London (actor), Robert Montgomery (actor), Ferdinand Munier (actor), David Newell (actor), Ernie Adams (actor),

Plot: Jeff is the supreme press agent who has his own private club where the rich and powerful meet and drink for free. It is free until they need him and he charges a bundle. Jeff has power, influence and a beautiful ex-wife. Things change when Jeff saves Minnie after she jumps into the river. He gives her the fully beauty treatment and a new name, Mona Martine. He also falls hard for her, but his advances are not returned. But Mona needs Jeff, and all his expertise, when she shoots Ramon in her room.

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