Frank Perry — Director (12)

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A Christmas Memory (1966)
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As Christmastime approaches in rural, Depression-era Alabama, a young boy and his best friend, an elderly woman distantly related to him, prepare for the impending holiday by gathering ingredients for their annual batch of fruitcakes for "people who've struck our fancy." On Christmas Eve, they talk with great anticipation of the next day, but underneath is the sad, almost unspoken knowledge that the boy is growing up and his cousin is getting older and frailer. Based on Truman Capote's autobiographical short story.

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Trilogy (1969)
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other title: 卡波特三部曲 / 三部曲 …
Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.

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Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
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other title: Tagebuch eines Ehebruchs / Journal intime d'une femme mariée …
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.

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Doc (1971)
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other title: O Massacre dos Pistoleiros / Doc Holliday …
Doc Holliday travels to Tombstone, Ariz., with prostitute Katie Elder. Although the trip is difficult because Doc is ill with tuberculosis, they eventually reach their destination, where Holliday is reunited with his old friend Marshal Wyatt Earp, who has been clashing with the Clanton gang. Tensions between Earp and the Clantons rise until their infamous final showdown brings it to a head.

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Rancho Deluxe (1975)
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Frank Perry actor: 杰夫·布里吉斯 / 山姆 沃特斯顿 …
other title: Amigos e Aventureiros / Vidas sin barreras (Rancho Deluxe) …
Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.

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Man on a Swing (1974)
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other title: Enquête dans l'impossible / 摇摆人 …
A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the police, he suspects that the man may be more involved in the case than he lets on.

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Play It As It Lays (1972)
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other title: 顺其自然 / 失落的人 …
Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.

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Last Summer (1969)
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弗兰克·佩里 actor: 芭芭拉·赫希 / 凯瑟琳·波内斯 …
other title: 去年夏天 / 再见童真 …
During summer vacation on Long Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.

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David and Lisa (1962)
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★ 7.4 5 ratings
弗兰克·佩里 actor: 凯尔·杜拉 / 珍妮特·玛戈林 …
other title: 大卫与丽莎 / David und Lisa …
Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.