Eugène Lourié

Eugène Lourié

Eugène Lourié (1903 - 26 May 1991) was a French film director, art director, production designer, set designer and screenwriter who was known for his collaborations with Jean Renoir and for his 1950s science fiction movies. Allmovie contributor, Sandra Brennan, has wrote that he was "among the best art directors in French cinema." He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1969 for best visual effects on the film Krakatoa, East of Java. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eugène Lourié, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Eugène Lourié
  • Popularity: 1.58
  • Known For: Art
  • Birthday: 1903-04-08
  • Place of Birth: Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
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  • Also Known As: Eugene Lourié, Eugene Lourie
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Eugène Lourié Movies

  • 1983
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    Breathless

    Breathless

    5.8 1983 HD

    Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange student. Stealing a car and accidentally killing a...

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  • 1937
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    Grand Illusion

    Grand Illusion

    7.847 1937 HD

    A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own...

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  • 1945
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    The House of Fear

    The House of Fear

    6.826 1945 HD

    The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their...

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  • 1953
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    The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

    The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

    6.607 1953 HD

    The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.

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  • 1961
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    Gorgo

    Gorgo

    5.462 1961 HD

    Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.

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  • 1973
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    What Are Best Friends For?

    What Are Best Friends For?

    1 1973 HD

    A married couple is determined to find a girl for their recently divorced best friend.

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  • 1952
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    Limelight

    Limelight

    7.925 1952 HD

    A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

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  • 1959
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    The Giant Behemoth

    The Giant Behemoth

    5.886 1959 HD

    Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which...

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  • 1959
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    The Giant Behemoth

    The Giant Behemoth

    5.886 1959 HD

    Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which...

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  • 1958
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    Revolt in the Big House

    Revolt in the Big House

    6.2 1958 HD

    A crime boss tries to cause a riot and prison break while behind bars.

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  • 1958
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    The Colossus of New York

    The Colossus of New York

    5.5 1958 HD

    A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...

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  • 1934
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    The Bread Peddler

    The Bread Peddler

    1 1934 HD

    A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while...

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  • 1934
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    The Bread Peddler

    The Bread Peddler

    1 1934 HD

    A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while...

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  • 1945
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    This Love of Ours

    This Love of Ours

    5.7 1945 HD

    At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes...

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  • 1947
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    The Long Night

    The Long Night

    5.8 1947 HD

    City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.

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  • 1943
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    This Land Is Mine

    This Land Is Mine

    7 1943 HD

    Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and...

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  • 1948
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    A Woman's Vengeance

    A Woman's Vengeance

    6.2 1948 HD

    A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.

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  • 1929
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    Cagliostro

    Cagliostro

    5.2 1929 HD

    Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and...

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  • 1927
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    The Chess Player

    The Chess Player

    6.4 1927 HD

    In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.

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  • 1949
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    The Adventure of the Speckled Band

    The Adventure of the Speckled Band

    1 1949 HD

    Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a...

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  • 1938
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    La Bête Humaine

    La Bête Humaine

    7 1938 HD

    Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and...

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  • 1978
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    Lacy and the Mississippi Queen

    Lacy and the Mississippi Queen

    1 1978 HD

    This lighthearted Western was an unsuccessful series pilot in which two sisters -- a gun-toting tomboy and a beauty with an engaging smile -- team up...

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  • 1971
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    What's the Matter with Helen?

    What's the Matter with Helen?

    5.8 1971 HD

    Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager...

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  • 1976
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    Time Travelers

    Time Travelers

    6.2 1976 HD

    When a novel virus devastates the world in 1976, Dr. Earnshaw notices that it resembles a virus that a Dr. Henderson found a cure for in 1871...

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  • 1951
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    The River

    The River

    7.2 1951 HD

    Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the...

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  • 1945
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    The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

    The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

    6.24 1945 HD

    George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows...

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  • 1959
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    The Giant Behemoth

    The Giant Behemoth

    5.886 1959 HD

    Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which...

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  • 1937
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    Alibi

    Alibi

    6.5 1937 HD

    Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays...

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  • 1940
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    There's No Tomorrow

    There's No Tomorrow

    6.5 1940 HD

    Evelyne, a woman of bourgeois origin, now reduced to dancing in a sleazy nightclub, is reunited with her first love, who has become a successful...

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  • 1944
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    In Society

    In Society

    5.8 1944 HD

    Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree...

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  • 1963
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    Shock Corridor

    Shock Corridor

    6.944 1963 HD

    With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to...

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  • 1965
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    Crack in the World

    Crack in the World

    5.65 1965 HD

    Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth....

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  • 1965
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    Crack in the World

    Crack in the World

    5.65 1965 HD

    Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth....

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  • 1943
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    This Land Is Mine

    This Land Is Mine

    7 1943 HD

    Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and...

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  • 1927
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    Napoleon

    Napoleon

    7.8 1927 HD

    A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his...

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  • 1980
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    Bronco Billy

    Bronco Billy

    6.4 1980 HD

    An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

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  • 1976
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    Burnt Offerings

    Burnt Offerings

    6.5 1976 HD

    A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time...

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  • 1938
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    Rasputin

    Rasputin

    5 1938 HD

    Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.

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  • 1938
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    Rasputin

    Rasputin

    5 1938 HD

    Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.

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  • 1968
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    Krakatoa, East of Java

    Krakatoa, East of Java

    5.878 1968 HD

    A team of maritime salvage workers are about to embark on a recovery dive. However the 1883 Krakatoa Volcano eruption provides more pressing problems.

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  • 1945
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    The Southerner

    The Southerner

    6.6 1945 HD

    Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle...

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  • 1964
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    Flight from Ashiya

    Flight from Ashiya

    5.4 1964 HD

    Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal...

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  • 1939
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    The Rules of the Game

    The Rules of the Game

    7.535 1939 HD

    A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

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  • 1978
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    An Enemy of the People

    An Enemy of the People

    6.5 1978 HD

    A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeutic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr....

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  • 1935
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    Dark Eyes

    Dark Eyes

    10 1935 HD

    In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. She meets a banker who is trying to seduce her and...

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  • 1938
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    The Lafarge Case

    The Lafarge Case

    5.75 1938 HD

    Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her...

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  • 1937
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    Grand Illusion

    Grand Illusion

    7.847 1937 HD

    A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own...

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  • 1962
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    Confessions of an Opium Eater

    Confessions of an Opium Eater

    5.579 1962 HD

    Vincent Price stars in this early '60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's thriller about an opium addict trying to solve a mystery in San Francisco's...

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  • 1945
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    The French Way

    The French Way

    5 1945 HD

    Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.

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  • 1972
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    Haunts of the Very Rich

    Haunts of the Very Rich

    5.7 1972 HD

    A group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort. After experiencing a brush with death, they find themselves...

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  • 1967
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    Bikini Paradise

    Bikini Paradise

    6 1967 HD

    A pair of U.S. Navy officers are marooned on a South Pacific island with a group of women whom want to use them for marriage and mating purposes.

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  • 1954
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    So This Is Paris

    So This Is Paris

    8.5 1954 HD

    Three sailors on leave head for Paris with one thing on their minds.

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  • 1964
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    The Naked Kiss

    The Naked Kiss

    7 1964 HD

    A former prostitute works to create a new life for herself in a small town, but a shocking discovery could threaten everything.

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  • 1954
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    Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake

    Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake

    1 1954 HD

    In 1857 Edwin L. Drake is sent to investigate an oil seep in a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Overcoming many other obstacles, Drake's...

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  • 1971
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    Death Takes a Holiday

    Death Takes a Holiday

    5.2 1971 HD

    Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a...

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  • 1940
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    Cristobal's Gold

    Cristobal's Gold

    1 1940 HD

    Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless...

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  • 1946
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    The Diary of a Chambermaid

    The Diary of a Chambermaid

    6.2 1946 HD

    Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr....

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  • 1972
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    The Eyes of Charles Sand

    The Eyes of Charles Sand

    5.3 1972 HD

    A young man inherits the ability to see visions beyond the grave.

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  • 1967
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    Custer of the West

    Custer of the West

    5.8 1967 HD

    Biopic of General George Armstrong Custer from his rise to prominence in the Civil War through to his "last stand" at the Battle of the Little Big...

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  • 1949
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    Wild Weed

    Wild Weed

    4.8 1949 HD

    A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.

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  • 1979
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    Tales of the Unexpected

    Tales of the Unexpected

    6.7 1979 HD

    A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and...

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