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  When politician William Proctor announces that a dam will be built on a site where many settlers have built homes, a retired major who founded the settlement leads a backlash. Eventually, the fight comes to the attention of the Three Mesquiteers—Stoney Brooke, Tucson Smith and Rusty Joslin—who try to find a peaceful solution. However, they soon realize Proctor will resort to any trickery to get his way.

  In 1852 New Orleans, spoiled, strong-willed  belle  Julie Marsden is engaged to banker Preston "Pres" Dillard. In retaliation for Pres refusing to leave an important business meeting to accompany her to the last fitting of her ball gown, Julie buys a brazen red satin dress. The Olympus Ball is the most important social event of the year, and unmarried women are expected to wear virginal white. All of Julie's friends are shocked by her choice of red, but no one can dissuade her from wearing it. At the ball, Julie's attire is met with shock and disgust by all. She begs Pres to take her away, but instead he forces her to dance with him while the other couples abandon the floor. Pres later leaves Julie, implicitly breaking their engagement. In a final act of spite, Julie slaps him in the face. He later goes north on business, and Julie secludes herself at home. A year later, Pres returns, and Julie comes back to life. She plans a celebratory homecoming party in his hono...

  Kikunosuke Onoe, generally called Kiku, is the adopted son of a famous  Tokyo   kabuki  actor, and is training to succeed his father in an illustrious career. Whilst hypocritically praising Onoe's acting to his face, the rest of his father's troupe deride him behind his back. Otoku, who lives at the father's house as the young wet-nurse of the infant son of the father's natural son, is the only one frank enough to disclose his artistic shortcomings and urge him to improve himself. When Otoku is dismissed by Kiku's family for her over-closeness to the young master, with the potential for scandal, Kiku tracks her down and states that he wishes to marry her. His family is outraged and Kiku is forced to leave Tokyo, taking the train to  Nagoya , honing his art away from his father, much to the latter's wrath. One year later, Kiku is acting alongside his uncle, Tamiro Naritaya in  Osaka , but remains dissatisfied. Then Otoku tracks down Kiku and re-inspires hi...

  Avery Graves is a CIA agent who steals a drive from a building in Tokyo. Then she comes home to the 3rd anniversary with her husband David. Later she meets Jarvis, her boss at the CIA. They speak of Kenji, who was using a business facade to ship arms to terrorists. She comes home to find it trashed and her husband missing. A phone on the table says gets the Canary Black file by midnight and mentions a detainee number, or husband dies. She asks for proof of life and is able to speak with her husband. A hacker friend helps Avery locate the last call to the phone, and gives her the address. Then she goes to work and searches for the detainee number - Laszlo Stoica. She goes to the address, and finds her husband's wedding ring and a phone on a table. She receives a call saying she has stepped on a pressure sensitive bomb. She opens the floor, sees that the device is a Bouncing Betty, effortlessly rips the leg off the sturdy table, triggers the bomb by taking the weight off her foot, ...

 

  A young woman steps outside of her house during a loud, violent argument between her parents. She hears screeching emanating from the nearby woods and begins to experience a  seizure . She sprints off into the forest. After the death of her mother, grieving teenager Gretchen moves with her father Luis, stepmother Beth, and mute half-sister Alma to a resort town in the  Bavarian Alps . The family is there to help build a new hotel, overseen by the enigmatic Herr König, who offers Gretchen a job at the front desk to help her adjust. Soon after their arrival, strange things begin to happen. Gretchen encounters multiple female guests vomiting while working at the reception desk, Alma suffers seizures triggered by a mysterious reverberating shriek, and Gretchen has a terrifying encounter with a hooded woman while biking home one night, but the incident is dismissed by police as a prank. Gretchen meets a detective named Henry who is investigating a murder linked to the hooded...

 

  Gracie (Fields) and Laurie (Dolman) are lovers who together form a musical act. Gracie sings and Laurie writes the songs, but when Laurie gets a taste of fame, he runs off after a glamorous actress.

  French Foreign Legionnaires  approach an isolated fort in the desert. The French flag is flying, but a closer inspection reveals only dead men propped up behind the parapets. However, a pair of shots is fired from inside, so the bugler volunteers to scale the wall to investigate. After waiting a while, the commander follows. The bugler has vanished, and the commander finds two bodies that are not staged like the rest and a note on one confessing to the theft of a valuable sapphire called the "Blue Water". After the officer rejoins his men outside, the fort goes up in flames. Fifteen years earlier, Lady Brandon, wife of absent spendthrift Sir Hector Brandon, takes care of the three adopted Geste brothers, "Beau", Digby, and John; her ward Isobel Rivers; and heir Augustus Brandon. Years pass, and the children become young adults. They learn that Sir Hector intends to sell the "Blue Water", leaving nothing of value for Lady Brandon. At Beau's request, t...

  In 1985  Los Angeles , amidst the  Night Stalker  murders, Maxine Minx successfully auditions for the lead in a new horror film,  The Puritan II , despite all of her previous film credits being in  adult films . After sharing the news with her friend Leon and colleague Amber James, the latter invites Maxine to a party in the  Hollywood Hills , which she declines. Maxine goes to work at her second job, a live  peep show , where a mysterious, leather-clad figure watches with anger. She meets another adult entertainer, Tabby Martin, who also invites her to the party that Amber mentioned, but Maxine declines again. As she walks home she is followed by a figure dressed as  Buster Keaton , who corners her in an alleyway, brandishing a switchblade. Maxine pulls a gun on him, makes him strip, puts the gun in his mouth and forces him to perform fellatio on it, before stomping on and chopping off his testicles with her boot. The leather-clad figure l...

  Margaret, a  Manhattan District Attorney , panics after a young man in her hotel room, who she met at the hotel bar, ends up dead. She calls a number given to her for just such an emergency and secures the services of an unnamed professional  fixer . He arrives to dispose of the kid who fell through a glass drinks cart while jumping on the bed. They are interrupted by another unnamed fixer sent by the hotel's mysterious owner, Pam, who saw everything via hidden cameras. To protect the hotel's reputation and Margaret's career, the women urge the two men to work together, much to their chagrin. The fixers initially refuse, but Margaret reminds her man that he is now on the surveillance footage and what she was told about him: "You take a job, you give your word, and that word is the measure of a man." The fixers reluctantly join forces, providing Margaret with an alibi, changing her clothes, and sending her home. They find a large stash of drugs in the kid's b...

  In 1918 in France during the last months of the First World War, four infantrymen – the Bavarian (Fritz Kampers), a young man known as 'the student' (Hans-Joachim Moebis), Karl (Gustav Diessl), and the Lieutenant ( Claus Clausen ) – spend a few rest-days behind the front. The student falls in love with a French peasant girl, Yvette (Jackie Monnier). Back at the front, the four suffer again the everyday hardships of war: dirt,  trench warfare  and the constant danger of death. The Bavarian, Karl and the Lieutenant become trapped when part of the trench collapses and the Student digs them out. Later they are mistakenly fired upon by their own artillery due to a misjudgement of distance and are again saved by the Student, who as a messenger risks his life to relay instructions to the soldiers setting the firing range of the artillery. Karl receives leave, returning to his starving home town and promptly catches his wife in bed with a butcher. Embittered and unreconciled, h...

  In the middle-America community of West Rome, Oklahoma, Eddie is employed as a delivery boy. A self-styled authority of Ancient Roman history, Eddie bemoans the fact that the local shanty community is about to be wiped out by scheming politicians, certain that such an outrage could never have happened during Rome's Golden Days. After a blow to the head, Eddie wakes up in Imperial Rome, where he is sold on the slave auction block to good-natured tribune Josephus. Eddie soon discovers that the evil emperor Valerius is every bit a crook and grafter as the politicians in West Rome, and he intends to do something about it. He gets a job as food taster for Valerius—a none-too-secure position, inasmuch as the emperor's wife, Agrippa, is constantly trying to poison him—and does his best to smooth the path of romance for Josephus and the recently captured Princess Sylvia. Eddie's well-intentioned interference earns him a session in the torture chamber, but he escapes and commandee...

  My Views Plot On her 50th birthday,  once-celebrated  but  now-faded  Hollywood movie star Elisabeth Sparkle is unceremoniously dismissed from the  long-running   aerobics  TV show she hosts, with producer Harvey citing her advanced age as the reason. While driving home, Elisabeth is distracted by a billboard of herself being taken down, resulting in a major car crash. At the hospital, a young male nurse seems preoccupied with her back and gives her a  flash drive  advertising The Substance, a  black market  serum that generates a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of oneself. After some deliberation, Elisabeth orders The Substance and injects the  single-use  activator serum, resulting in a much younger version of herself emerging from a slit in her back. The Substance establishes a  symbiotic  relationship between the two bodies: Elisabeth must transfer her consciousness between the bodies e...

  Somewhere in an  active Eastern European war zone  between government and insurgent forces, businessman Hunt hires former  Royal Marine -turned-mercenary D.C. to assemble a crack team of ex-soldiers – Prior, Jordan, Cotter, Voyteche, McKay, and "Tak" Taktarov. Their mission is to protect him on a dangerous journey into no-man's land to investigate some "real estate" for a company, although Voyteche claims that there is nothing out there. Going most of the way by truck, they traverse the forest and hear distant fighting, artillery, jets fly overhead, and an intense burst of static knocks out their radios. Reaching their destination, the team discovers a seemingly abandoned bunker complex. Leaving Jordan and Tak above ground, the rest of the team explore the outpost. Jordan notices a flash of light coming from the trees: assuming it is sunlight flashing off a  scope , Tak fires. Another burst of static is heard, and McKay is hit in the arm by the only returning ...

 

  In 2142, a  Weyland-Yutani  space probe investigates the wreckage of the  USCSS  Nostromo , destroyed two decades prior. [ a ]  The probe collects a large cocoon and departs for a research space station. Upon arrival, scientists open the cocoon, revealing the  xenomorph  that killed most of the  Nostromo 's crew. Over five months later, at the colony Jackson's Star on LV-410, Rain Carradine works and lives with her adoptive brother Andy, a malfunctioning  android  reprogrammed by Rain's deceased father. After her original  work contract  is forcibly extended by Weyland-Yutani, Rain's ex-boyfriend Tyler persuades her to join an expedition with his pregnant sister Kay, their cousin Bjorn (secretly the father of Kay's baby), [ 4 ]  and Bjorn's adoptive sister Navarro [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ]  to a derelict spacecraft to retrieve  cryostasis  chambers that will allow them to escape to the planet  Yvaga . An...

 

 

  Edith Crawford, the widow of Governor Dick Crawford, confronts her brother, District Attorney John Grant, with a stack of unsigned love letters she found in her husband's private safe. John advises her to burn them. Edith refuses, vowing to punish the author of the letters. John gives her a newspaper clipping about Nora Moran, the first woman to be executed in the electric chair in twenty years. On death row, and under sedation, Nora remembers the events of her life. A flashback occurs, in which Nora, a five-year-old girl, is adopted by the Morans from a Catholic orphanage. Eight years later, Nora's parents are killed in a car crash. Nora pays off her parents' debt, and seeks work as a chorus girl but is unsuccessful. Paulino, a lion tamer, hires Nora as his assistant. One night, while Nora is sleeping, Paulino rapes her. Nora befriends an older woman named Sadie, who gives her a hundred dollars. Nora quits the circus, and works at a nightclub in New York. There, she meet...

  Heidi lives in the mountains with her friend Geissenpeter and her grandfather Alpöhi . Geissenpeter gets in the way of the Swiss president and cheese magnate Meili by selling his own cheese, which displeases the monopolist Meili. As punishment, Peter is executed by Commander Knorr in front of Heidi's eyes, Heidi is arrested and taken to a women's prison in the mountains. There she is mistreated by her fellow inmates and forced to eat the cheese of the monopolist Meili so that she becomes strong enough to take part in the brutal wrestling festival . Heidi kills the prison director and manages to escape. In a monastery she develops into a rebellious Amazon who is determined to put an end to the cheese fascists. During one of her campaigns she is captured and forced to take part in the wrestling festival. There she is able to defeat her opponents and together with her grandfather and other members of the resistance movement she kills Meili. [