The Fortune Cookie
Oct 19, 1966 | IMDB 7.2
125 min Watch NowComedy, Drama, Crime
TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law Willie Gingrich enters the picture, and convinces Harry to overstate his injuries and claim $1 million in pain and suffering. Harry's similarly-minded ex-wife suddenly reappears in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
L'Âge d'or
The Alphabet Murders
The Last Laugh
Happy Ever After
The Girl and the Echo
Miramar
The Postman
Pather Panchali
The Towering Inferno
Le Mans
Papillon
The Great Escape
Style
The Thief and the Dogs
Sunset and Sunrise
Stillness of the Storm
The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
Secret Weapons
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
IMDB 7.7 | Jun , 1959
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.L'Âge d'or
IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 1930
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.The Alphabet Murders
IMDB 5.7 | Dec , 1965
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.The Last Laugh
IMDB 7.8 | Dec , 1924
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.Happy Ever After
IMDB 5.4 | Jun , 1954
The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon has aroused the displeasure of all, with the exception of Serena McGluskey, as much a schemer as he is a cad. Led by Thady O'Heggarty, the villagers plot to drive Jasper away. They use the occasion of "O'Leary Night", when the ghost of the first O'Leary walks the halls, to create general chaos.The Girl and the Echo
IMDB 6 | Dec , 1964
The movie, based on a story by Yuri Nagibin, depicts a young girl named Vika enjoying the last days of summer vacations in a sea resort somewhere in the south.Miramar
IMDB 7.5 | Oct , 1969
Zuhra has nothing to do but to runaway after her family forced her to marry an old rich man. She goes to Alexandria where she works in a motel and there she meets people with different ideologies and thoughts about life.The Postman
IMDB 6.5 | Apr , 1968
Abbas, a resident of Cairo, is appointed by the government to hold the office of supervisor in a post office in a small village in Upper Egypt.Pather Panchali
IMDB 7.8 | Aug , 1955
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. Alone, his wife, Sarbojaya, looks after her rebellious daughter, Durga, and her young son, Apu, as well as Harihar's elderly aunt Indir. The children enjoy the small pleasures of their difficult life, while their parents suffer the daily indignities heaped upon them.The Towering Inferno
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1974
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.Le Mans
IMDB 6.8 | Jun , 1971
Filmed during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, Michael Delaney is a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. Delaney also finds himself increasingly infatuated with the man's widow.Papillon
IMDB 7.8 | Dec , 1973
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.The Great Escape
IMDB 7.9 | Jul , 1963
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.Style
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2008
An anxious middle school drama about hallucinationThe Thief and the Dogs
IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 1962
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IMDB 7.2 | Mar , 1970
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IMDB 0 | Aug , 1965
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IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 1963
A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.Only the Wind Knows the Answer
IMDB 5 | Nov , 1974
The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail.Secret Weapons
IMDB 6.3 | Mar , 1985
Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.