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El ídolo (1952)
Character: Cristina Arnaud
An actor argues with his wife and she decides to leave. The day after learning of the mysterious death of his wife in Viña del Mar, he hires a detective to find the murderer.
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El viaje sin regreso (1946)
Character: N/A
At the core of this enormously bleak melodrama, there is a beautiful, passionate woman (Florence Marly, Chenal's wife) who capriciously oscillates between two men (Chiola, De Paula), even though she knows her fate is fatally linked to one of them.
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Faces of Horror (1989)
Character: Alien Queen (archive)
Although marketed as a "Faces of Death" type of documentary video, this is actually a compilation of scenes--in no particular order--from three different public-domain pictures that were originally released by American-International Pictures from the 1960s and 1970s
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Gobs and Gals (1952)
Character: Soyna DuBois
Two sailors (Robert Hutton) mail love letters from a remote weather station, enclosing photos of their chief (Cathy Downs).
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La Brigade sauvage (1939)
Character: Isa Ostrowski
The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again but the general realizes his wife has been faithful to him after all.
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L'Affaire Lafarge (1938)
Character: Emma Pontier
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 husband .
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Space Boy (1973)
Character: N/A
Unofficial sequel to Curtis Harrington's Queen of Blood (1966). Drums and orchestration are rumoured to be by Frank Zappa.
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Café de Paris (1938)
Character: La maitresse de Lambert
This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?
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El fin de la noche (1944)
Character: N/A
A singer is trapped in France by the unforeseen outbreak of World War II and a man who serves the German occupiers demands, in exchange for safe conduct for herself and her daughter, to act as a spy and informer for members of the Resistance.
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L'Alibi (1937)
Character: Gordon's Mistress
Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
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Undersea Girl (1957)
Character: Leila Graham
A woman reporter, a navy investigator, and a heavyset police detective come across a gang which scuttled a ship in order to loot her later, underwater, for a Navy money consignment.
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Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls (1973)
Character: Tana
John Considine plays the flamboyant Dr. Death, a thousand-year-old magician who has mastered he art of transferring souls from one body to another and thereby manages to perpetuate himself by jumping from one body to the next. Apparently the Doc is a kindred spirit since his blood is a highly-corrosive acid that can strip flesh from bone
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La Maison du Maltais (1938)
Character: Diana
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, whom he believes to be his own. Complications arise years later when Matteo finds Safia, and a ring of blackmailers uncover her past and exposes her to her husband.
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The Astrologer (1976)
Character: Actress
Craig Alexander, a con-man "psychic" on the carnival circuit receives the opportunity to pilfer some legendary rubies in Kenya. His luck holds and he winds up the sole beneficiary of the ill-gotten wealth, which he parlays into an astrological broadcasting empire. But once he reaches the top, there's only one direction he can go...
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Tokyo File 212 (1951)
Character: Steffi Novak
A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. secret agent, posing as a reporter, is dispatched to Tokyo to put a stop to these nefarious activities.
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Tokyo Joe (1949)
Character: Trina Pechinkov Landis
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
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Sealed Verdict (1948)
Character: Themis DeLisle
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to the American investigating Major (Ray Milland), claiming mitigating circumstances, and providing the names of witnesses who will clear his name. This sends the Major in a search through the ruins of post-war Germany to determine the degree of the general's guilt.
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Queen of Blood (1966)
Character: Alien Queen
A spaceship is sent to Mars after an alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster. Uses footage from Encounter in Space (1963).
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Le Dernier Tournant (1939)
Character: Madge, tamer
Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's offer to work for him. Of course, it is not for Nick's sake that the young man becomes his attendant, but for the love of Cora under whose spell he has fallen at once. It does not take long before Cora, who despises her husband, asks her lover to help her get rid of him. Frank is reluctant at first but ...
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La piel de zapa (1943)
Character: Fedora
A man in debt obtains a miraculous skin that makes all his wishes come true but at the cost of shortening his life.
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Krakatit (1948)
Character: Princess Wilhelmina Hagen
In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of anarchists.
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Les Maudits (1947)
Character: Hilde Garosi
A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.
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Dracula in the Movies (1992)
Character: N/A
A retrospective of Dracula's appearances in film. It includes trailers and scenes from many Dracula-related films. There is an emphasis on films which feature the actors Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, as they portrayed the most popular versions of Dracula. Also covered are films depicting sons and daughters of Dracula, and Dracula-like vampires. Many of the trailers focus on the beauty of Dracula's victims, or the beauty of female vampires.
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Games (1967)
Character: Baroness
A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.
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