Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey – a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey’s demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America’s favorite pastime.
Category: Drama
Drama
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Salome’s Last Dance
London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor, has prepared a surprise for the renowned author: a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the peculiar inhabitants of the exclusive establishment will participate.
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One Sunday
A sad film about the loneliness and unattachedness of a young boy and an elderly man living next door to each other. Nikolai Stepanovich devoted the whole Sunday to his son, and the latter escorted him out of his apartment, waiting for a familiar woman… Dmitri spent the whole day at the window… And only in the final scene of the film do the old man and the young man meet in the half-empty hall of the movie theater, where the young man is laughing to tears over the film, not noticing that the elderly man sitting next to him has died…
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Groper Train: Beware of Miniskirts
Soko, a photographer who has made a name for herself taking shocking erotic art, becomes involved with an exhibitionist couple who get off on staging public molestation.
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The Name Day
In the center of the film is the image of a large rickety wooden house, the inhabitants of which constitute a mysterious symbiosis.
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Katinka
A new foreman, Huus, arrives in a sleepy Danish village, much to the delight of the unmarried women there. However, Huus becomes very friendly with Katinka and her husband, Bai, the stationmaster. Katinka, childless and in frail health, gradually falls in love with Huus, though her husband does not seem to notice. Based on the work by Herman Bang.
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Flying
A young woman aspires to be a motorboat racing champion.
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A Tiger’s Tale
A young man falls for his girlfriend’s mother.
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Spellbinder
After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend. Jeff soon becomes romantically involved with her and embroiled in the web of intrigue that follows her, despite a string of ominous happenstances and repeated warnings from his secretary.
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Appuntamento a Liverpool
Caterina’s father died before her eyes in the Heysel Stadium disaster. Years later, she’s summoned by British police to look at some possible suspects. She recognizes her father’s murderer, a Scouser cab driver, but doesn’t say anything, choosing to track him down and exact revenge on her own.