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The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Outlaw Josey Wales
6.7 (22 ratings) director: 克林特·伊斯特伍德 actor: 克林特·伊斯特伍德 / 桑德拉·洛克 …
other title: 西部执法者 / 不法之徒迈・韦尔斯 …
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Asphalt Jungle
7.1 (36 ratings) director: 约翰·休斯顿 actor: 斯特林·海登 / 路易斯·卡尔亨 …
other title: 夜阑人未静 / 夜澜人未尽 …
1950 film by John Huston
Jan. 31, 2022 watched
Took me a little while to really grasp the structure on this one, but once I did it came into focus as an enjoyably complex underworld story that takes in every level of a single crime, from the ground floor all the way to the penthouse. Sam Jaffe as Did almost runs away with the whole thing, but there's great charters work all through it.
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For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Per qualche dollaro in più
8.5 (315 ratings) director: 赛尔乔·莱昂内 actor: 克林特·伊斯特伍德 / 李·范·克里夫 …
other title: 석양의 건맨 / 夕陽のガンマン …
Two bounty hunters both pursue a brutal and sadistic bandit El Indio who has a massive bounty on his head.
Jan. 30, 2022 watched
Maybe a little bit messier narratively than FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, and with a less-iconic main villain (who kind of gets upstaged by a very distracting Klaus Kinski as a hunchbacked toady) but this works very well as a game of one-upsmanship between Eastwood and Van Cleef.
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Malcolm X (1992)
Malcolm X
8.3 (41 ratings) director: Spike Lee actor: Denzel Washington / Angela Bassett …
other title: 黑潮 / 马尔科姆 X …
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
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Broken Arrow (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Broken Arrow
director: 德尔默·戴夫斯 actor: 詹姆斯·斯图尔特 / 杰夫·钱德勒 …
other title: 折箭为盟 / 부러진 화살 …
Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the American settlers and Apaches in the late 1870s Arizona. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.
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Nightmare Alley (1947) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Nightmare Alley
7.8 (32 ratings) director: 爱德芒德·古尔丁 actor: 泰隆·鲍华 / 琼·布朗德尔 …
other title: 玉面情魔 / 醉乡惊梦 …
Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband, Pete.
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Penitentiary (1979) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Penitentiary
director: Jamaa Fanaka actor: Gloria Delaney
other title: 黑狱拳王 / Penitentiary - Hölle hinter Gittern …
A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.
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Cape Fear (1962) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Cape Fear
7.2 (10 ratings) director: J·李·汤普森 actor: 格利高里·派克 / 罗伯特·米彻姆 …
other title: 恐怖角 / 케이프 피어 …
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
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A Man Called Blade (1977) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mannaja
director: Sergio Martino actor: Maurizio Merli / John Steiner …
other title: Mannaja, O Cavaleiro Solitário / Mannaja - Das Beil des Todes …
Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of power in a corrupt mining town, he unleashes a firestorm of brutality, betrayal and cold-blooded murder. Now, one man stalks a savage land where justice walks a razor and no bullets slice deeper than vengeance. He is A MAN CALLED BLADE.
Jan. 20, 2022 watched
Pretty standard late-70s spaghetti western from giallo director Sergio Martino, no huge tweaks to the formula but very solid. Fans of unusual film music may want to see this just for the oft-repeated theme song, which sounds like Ronnie James Dio and Andre the Giant trading verses on an AM Gold track composed by Tangerine Dream.
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
8.0 (20 ratings) director: 弗里茨·朗 / René Sti actor: 鲁道夫·克莱恩-鲁格 / Thomy Bourdelle …
other title: 马布斯博士的遗嘱 / Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse …
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.
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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Devil in a Blue Dress
7.3 (9 ratings) director: 卡尔·弗兰克林 actor: Denzel Washington / Tom Sizemore …
other title: 蓝衣魔鬼 / 蓝魔鬼 …
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.