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During the siege of Leningrad, Marat goes to the partly wrecked house of his parents, and finds Lika, a sixteen-year-old girl, who has sought shelter. They become friendly and fall in love, but are later joined by Leonidik, who is starving. They care for him, and shortly afterwards, Marak joins the Army, promising Lika that he will return. At the end of the war, Lika hasn't heard from Marat, except for a telegram on her birthday, and she now believes that he's dead, but he turns up suddenly. The situation becomes somewhat impossible, and Marat leaves. Leonidik and Lika marry, and thirteen years later, Marat again calls on them. Following a dramatic confrontation, Leonidik realizes that Loka's real love is Marat, and he gallantly walks out of their lives.

A distraught mother (Valerie Bertinelli) and a tabloid reporter (Rachel Ticotin) search for the woman's son, who was kidnapped by a black-market baby ring.

An ex-con with ulterior motives convinces the struggling inheritor of a sawmill to use convicts as affordable lumberjacks.

New editor of a fading women's magazine decides change its format into a sizzling monthly called 'Passion'.

This filmed version of Lily Tomlin's successful one-woman performance piece is sometimes classified as a "documentary."

Plantation owner William Hawkes (David Newell) doesn't approve of the fact that most of the white men on the island have married, or are living with native girls. He doesn't approve of mixed marriages and is equally opposed to accepting the "gifts of love" offered to him by the native girls. One night, after several hours of hard drinking, he sees Leilani (Mona Maris) bathing on the beach, and he watches her until he can resist his craving no longer. He catches her in his arms and she willingly accepts his embraces. She comes to live with him and waits on him hand and foot. Hawkes goes to San Francisco for a planter's convention and, when he returns, brings back society girl Lucille Cheney (Virginia Cherrill) as his wife. Leilana is heart-broken, while Lucille becomes quickly bored with her husband and Hawaii. Her boredom ends when Chandler Morris (Hardie Albright) sails into port on his yacht and he and Lucille begin an affair. Hawks drinks to forget. He catches Lucille and Chandler together and a fight ensues, Lucille, in an effort, to save her lover throws a kerosene lamp into the ripe sugar cane and fire spreads in all directions.

The Albatross travels from England to the New World in 1675, with a number of passengers, a couple of political prisoners along with a dozen other women convicts, these to be sold into slavery on arrival. The woman activist frees the dozen of low-cast women, and they take over the ship. After a storm, the captain takes back control of his ship. Since mutiny is punishable by death in the New World, the mutineers try to reroute the course, tossing Desny and Purdom in the brig. A practical male mutineer wants to throw the women overboard to save rations, but the women free Purdom and the captain to battle the mutineers. A British warship comes to the rescue, and the captain pardons Angeli and Purdom for having saved his life.

Newspaper reporter Perry Brown is infatuated with fellow reporter Judy McGowan, but although she flirts with him, she is not romantically inclined toward him. The staff accountant, P. E. Dodd, is also in love with Judy, but he is so prudish, penny-pinching and regimented that he is unappealing. P. E. goes to the cabin belonging to his cousins, Bill and Jennie Hawkins, for a vacation in the mountains. When Cyrus K. West, the wealthiest man in the country, is kidnapped from his nearby estate, managing editor Bill Court puts P. E. in charge of the story, even though he is not a reporter. Using his efficient methods, P. E. gets control of the only phone in town and all the vehicles, and commands the respect of the sheriff and townspeople. Determined to meet Mrs. West, P. E. is on his way to the estate when a tree falls across the road and he is given a ransom note. At the same time, Court has mobilized his reporters and sent Perry, Judy and photographers by hydroplane into the small town. P. E. promises Mrs. West he will not publish news of the ransom note as the kidnappers have threatened to kill Mr. West if this is done. Later, P. E. is militant in giving instructions to the reporters, but, as they do not like taking orders from their accountant, they disregard him. Judy and Perry get pictures of the West child, and phone a story into the paper about the ransom notes. When Mrs. West discovers this, she believes that P. E. went back on his word and forbids him from entering the estate. Judy feels guilty for having hurt P. E. because of her growing respect for him. Bill gets word that the kidnappers will deliver Mr. West near the lake, and he and P. E. sneak off early in the morning to make sure it goes smoothly. They are followed by their comrades. Judy and Perry hide in the kidnappers' car. After the money exchange takes place, Judy and Perry are discovered and the kidnappers take their new hostages to their hideout, where Mr. West is being kept. P. E., Bill and Jenny pursue them, and after a shootout, P. E. rescues Judy and becomes her hero. Finally realizing her love for him, Judy accepts P. E.'s marriage proposal.

Britain’s first Technicolor feature starts in 1899 as an Irish aristocrat marries a gypsy princess (Annabella). However when he dies in an accident, she goes back to Spain. Years later she returns with her granddaughter (Annabella again) and a horse to train for the derby. There, Annabella meets race trainer Fonda, and the two fall in love.

During the 1950s, two women inmates are sent to a maximum security state prison. One of the two women is a repeat offender who knows many of the inmates and guards at the prison. She almost feels like returning home to her prison family. The other woman is a decent person, a first-time offender who's no criminal.She unintentionally killed a child in a car accident. She's very young, married, and is terrified of being in prison. Her mental state is very fragile. The women's prison is adjacent to the men's prison. The two prisons are separated by a high wall but there are secret ways of crossing from one prison into the other. Warden Brock is in charge of the men's prison while Amelia van Zandt is the heartless brutal director of the women's prison. The guards are severe and not very friendly, since, they too, fear the wrath of their female warden van Zandt. The only ray of hope and decency in this earthly inferno is the prison doctor, Dr. Crane. However, the good doctor has little power or say in the daily running of the prison.He tries as much as possible to protect his patients, the most vulnerable of all inmates. In this human hell, the two new arrivals, housewife Helene Jensen and forger Brenda Martin, must survive. Prison newbie Helene Jensen decides to stick close to veteran jail-bird Brenda Martin in order to learn the ropes of prison life but this might just not be enough to ensure Helene's survival.

Joe finds that Elaine, his girlfriend has more than enough trouble with the law. He helps her to avoid imprisonment and together with her and his friend Dan heads towards New York City. Instead by police, they are pursued by the chain of natural disasters.

Traces a seedling of coca planted in Peru through the process of its growth, harvest, processing as cocaine, and shipment to the gang-controlled streets of Los Angeles while exploring its impact on the lives of everyone it touches along the way.

Two happy go lucky best friends, Dragon and Cowboy, become rivals over a beautiful girl. While Dragon being good at various sports but a bit immature, tries to send a love note to the girl he likes via a kite but the kite lands on the roof of the headquarters of a gang of thieves. Dragon interferes with the gang's plans and is forced to fight off the gang but luckily his old pal Cowboy aids him in fighting off the crime boss thereby regaining their friendship.

This film concerns the exploits of the "Carpathian American" society in Long Beach. Carpathian Americans are just like any other expatriate organization, they enjoy family get together, and share business opportunities (cf the Italian Americans ...). There is just one minor difference, the Carpathian Americans seem to have a predilection for drinking human blood. The film begins somewhere deep in the bible belt where teenager Cody wakes to find that intruders have just skewered his parents and are about to set fire to them for good measure. Despite being shot by a crossbow bolt Cody makes his escape from the "hunters". He remembers his parent's advice to him that if he was ever in trouble he should contact his uncle in Long Beach. The uncle turns out to be a local businessman (of an unscrupulous nature) and also a leading light in the "Carpathian American" society. Cody is introduced to other members of the society notably Harry, a crusading journalist and his non-Carpathian girlfriend/lawyer who wants to see his fellow Carpathians become more integrated, the wanton Celia who likes to have her neck bitten during moments of ecstasy, and "The Shrikes" a gang of tearaway biker teenage vampires. Before long Cody has been initiated into the terrible secret which ties this clan together. All would be well if it were not for the hunters who have followed Cody and are now seeking to destroy the nest of vampires they have found. The Carpathians must choose between their outward air of "respectability" and renewing an age old blood feud.

College student Mala has dreams of becoming a Bollywood movie actress; her dreams began materializing into reality when she is approached by Mr. Sharma and his assistant Mr. Verma who promises to take her to the way of stardom. Unfortunately when her parents learn about this they oppose to this and decide to arrange her marriage so that she will be restricted to go above her limits forcing her to approach Sharma for advice who asks her to run-away with huge sums of cash. Greed over comes the duo resulting in Sharma killing Verma; Mala who witness this is on the run for her life; she then board a bus that run between Bombay to Goa without realizing where this journey will end. But her life remains threaten as Sharma has not given up his searches for her.

A young female marshal goes undercover on a deathtrap starship to prevent a terrifying alien invasion.

In the continuing comic adventures of an older woman, her younger husband and her grown-up kids, this third installment in the series finds a daughter announcing wedding plans to the excited family. But when a financial mix-up renders the banquet hall canceled, the wedding dress sold to someone else and the caterer kaput, it looks doubtful that the gala wedding will happen at all. To make matters worse, there is a raucous bachelor party, but the bride and her friends are the ones who have all the fun, in this lighthearted comedy about the often frantic preparations for a wedding.

Adolphe, a young aristocrat, seduces Ellénore, an older widow and his father's mistress. Their obsessive affair soon turns destructive, costing Ellénore her children, status, and ultimately her life.

After he is fired by his greedy and corrupt boss, then betrayed by his girlfriend and his best friend, an art dealer befriends a genie whom he has freed from the lamp in which he had been trapped for 2000 years by an evil wizard who had blamed him for the accidental death of his daughter.

A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protee - a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty - and the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.

In Montreal 's West Indian community, Pat (Dillon) shares an apartment with two unmarried mothers on welfare and is naturally jaded on the subject of men. Fabian (Gibbs) Fabian (Gibbs) is an American singer and songwriter. A high-school dropout, Fabian does not stand much of a chance in the job market. His work at a local warehouse lasts just long enough to launch Fabian and Pat on the road to economic disaster.-------- 'Sitting in Limbo' Awarded Honorable Mention for "its freshness and vitality" at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Three determined cops are recruited to take down a notorious crime lord.