
Bessie Love
Oyuncu · 1898 – 1986 · Midland, Texas, USA
Bessie Love (born Juanita Horton, September 10, 1898 - April 26, 1986) became one of the most recognizable faces of early American cinema. After her family moved to Los Angeles, she was sent to Biograph Studios, where legendary director D.W. Griffith noticed her talent and cast her in several films, including Intolerance (1916). During the silent era, she gained popularity for her lively, wholesome screen presence and worked with major stars such as Douglas Fairbanks. Her career soared in the 1920s, and she was named a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1922, marking her as one of Hollywood’s most promising young actresses. Love made a successful transition to sound films—something many silent stars struggled with. Her performance as Hank Mahoney in The Broadway Melody (1929) earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, cementing her place in film history. In the 1930s, she moved to the United Kingdom, where she continued acting in film, theatre, radio, and later television. Her career ultimately spanned from 1915 to 1983, making her one of the longest‑working performers of her generation. She died on April 26, 1986, in London at age 87.
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Film6.6MaceraAksiyonÜnlü ajan James Bond, bir kez daha ezeli düşmanlarından SPECTRE'nin lideri Blofeld ile karşı karşıyadır. Blofeld, dünyayı yokedebilecek çok tehlikeli bir virüs geliştirmiştir ve daha önce işlediği suçlardan dolayı affedilmezse virüsü serbest bırakacaktır. Blofeld'in korkunç planını engellemek isteyen Bond, intihar etmek üzere olan Tracy Draco diye bir genç kızı kurtarır. Tracy, batının en ünlü suç imparatorlarından birinin kızıdır ve babası, Blofeld'in yerini bulmak karşılığında Bond'un kızıyla evlenmesini istemektedir. Blofeld'e başka türlü ulaşamayan Bond bu teklifi kabul ederek Tracy ile evlenir. Blofeld, İsviçre'de bir üs kurmuştur ve Bond bu kez onu durdurmak için dağlarda zorlu bir mücadeleye girişecektir.
Film6.7KorkuDramAçlık, karanlık ve stilize atmosferi, karşıt kültür öğeleri, lezbiyen alt metni ve çarpıcı kadrosu sayesinde popülerleşmiş bir çağdaş kült korku klasiği. Öykü alternatif bir aşk üçgenine odaklanıyor: Uyku ve yaşlanma üzerine araştırmalar yapan bir doktor ile bir vampir çift. Dört bin yaşındaki ölümsüz Miriam, 18. yüzyılda baştan çıkardığı ancak şimdi hızla yaşlanmakta olan sevgilisi John ile Manhattan'da yaşamaktadır. Yaşlanmayı durdurmak için Sarah'yla temasa geçer, ama sonunda onu da baştan çıkartır.
Film7.0DramGerilimJames Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.
No Highway in the Sky
1951 · 66 votes
Film6.8DramA washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his producer, the director convinces Maria to screen test for, and then star in, his next big picture. But as the producer's possessive nature and the realities of stardom weigh on Maria, she seeks a genuine lover with whom she can escape.
The Barefoot Contessa
1954 · 287 votes
Film5.4DramRomantikI. Dünya Savaşı sonrası İngiltere'de geçen film, soylu Lady Constance Chatterley'nin (Sylvia Kristel) mutsuz evliliğini ve yasak aşkını konu alır. Kocası Sir Clifford (Shane Briant), savaşta sakat kalınca duygusal ve cinsel olarak uzaklaşır. Yalnızlaşan Constance, malikânelerinin korucusu Oliver Mellors'la (Nicholas Clay) tutkulu bir ilişki yaşar. Toplumsal sınıf farklarına rağmen, iki aşık arasındaki fiziksel ve duygusal yakınlık, Constance'i özgürleştirir. Ancak bu ilişki, Viktoryen ahlak anlayışıyla çarpışır ve skandala dönüşür.
Film7.1DramA court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.
Too Young to Love
1960 · 7 votes
Film7.1DramTarih1914 yılının Amerika'sında yasadışı işler yapan bir küçük serserinin öyküsü.Sevdiği kızla evlenerek tövbekar olan ve bir zamanlar kullandığı tabancayı çete reisine veren adam, bu gangsterin, terk ettiği bir kadın tarafından aynı silahla vurulması üzerine suçlanarak hapse düşer, idam kararı alınır....16 hafta süren çekimleri ile zamanının rekor ücreti 40 bin dolara mal olan filmin babil bölümü en gösterişli ve nefes kesici bölümü olarak sinema tarihine geçmiş, bu sahnenin çekimi sinema tarihine geçen buluşlar sayesinde mümkün olmuştur.
Film6.9DramTarihAmerikalı gazeteci John Reed'in gerçek yaşam öyküsünden uyarlanan film, Birinci Dünya Savaşı'nı kendine arka plan olarak seçiyor. Louise Bryant yeni tanıştığı John için kocasından ayrılır. John ile tanıştıktan sonra feminist hareketlerde de yer alan Louis, daha sonra John ile birlikte Amerika'daki iş gücünü korumak adına önemli protestolara katılırlar. Ekim Devrimi sırasında Rusya'ya giderek buradaki komünist hareketlerden etkilenen sevgililer, Amerika'ya döndüklerinde benzer bir devrim gerçekleştirmeyi kafalarına koyarlar * O dönem yaşamış, devrime ve komünist hareketlere tanıklık etmiş kişilerle yapılan röportajlardan yararlanılan film, Warren Beatty'e en iyi yönetmen ödülünü de kazandırmıştı * ilk dakikadan itibaren soluk almadan izlediğim, diyaloglarıyla, hikayesiyle, olay örgüsüyle ve ihtiyarlarıyla izlenmesi gereken, ince görebilen, işlenmemiş değerli taşın değerli olduğunu anlayabilen gözler için değerlenen bir film
Film6.0KorkuA duo of bisexual female vampires prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce and murder in the English countryside.
Vampyres
1974 · 167 votes
Film7.2BelgeselTarihThe epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018 · 42 votes
Film7.0DramTarihFilm, yüzyılın başında New York'ta yaşayan orta halli bir aile ile inatla adaleti ararken bu ailenin yaşamına giren siyah şarkıcı kadının öyküsünü konu alıyor...
Ragtime
1981 · 198 votes
Film6.6DramBoşanmış çalışan kadın Alex ve varlıklı Yahudi aile doktoru Daniel Hirsh sadece aynı telesekreter servisini değil, aynı zamanda ruh haline göre aralarında yatak değiştiren genç Bob Elkin'in iyiliklerini de paylaşıyorlar. Hem Alex hem de Dr. Hirsh birbirlerinin varlığından haberdarlar ancak Elkin'i tamamen kaybetme riskinden sebep bu durumu bilerek yaşamayı tercih ediyorlar. Ancak Londra'da yağışlı bir kış hafta sonu zor olabilir.
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971 · 144 votes
Film6.1DramKorkuSix children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Children of the Damned
1964 · 112 votes
Film6.9DramRomantikAn aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1961 · 39 votes
Film5.1MüzikRomantikThe vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
The Broadway Melody
1929 · 179 votes
Film5.7KomediMüzikAn all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929 · 36 votes
Film6.0KomediSuçTo escape from a mobster, businessman Gaetano Proclo orders a cab driver to take him to a place where he can't be found. Unfortunately for Gaetano, the place turns out to be a gay bathhouse.
The Ritz
1976 · 41 votes
Film6.7MaceraFantastikThe first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
The Lost World
1925 · 173 votes
Film5.1WesternKomediAn outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery.
Catlow
1971 · 29 votes
Film6.5DramJean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
The Weak and the Wicked
1954 · 13 votes
Film8.0KomediA French girl falls in love with an American soldier, and after the War she follows him to New York, where he is a police officer. A lost film.
Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
1928 · 1 votes
Film5.4KomediDramLondra'da yaşayan Andrew Qunt, bir reklam şirketinde çalışmaktadır. Eski yaşamını bırakmak isteyen Quint, hayatında bir takım arayış içindedir.
Film6.2WesternAn outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.
The Good Bad-Man
1916 · 14 votes
Film7.7KomediUnassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack of confidence means he is completely out of his depth, at least until he finds his personality changes every day during the hour the ship's clocks stop to make allowance for their westward passage.
Next to No Time
1958 · 3 votes
Diziler8
Dizi4.0DramKomediA UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television. Season 1 also incorporates the Plays from the 'H.M. Tennant Globe Theatre' series, some of which were incorporated and labelled in listings as official Play of the Week episodes and some of which were played in place of Play of the Week episodes in alternative ITV regions. All 8 plays have been incorporated into this entry for convenience.
ITV Play of the Week
1955 · 5 votes
- Dizi8.0
Story Parade specialized in adaptations of modern novels. It was broadcast on June 5, 1964 and repeated on August 28, 1964. The teleplay was by Terry Nation (who invented "Blake's 7" and the Daleks in Dr. Who), and Elijah Baley was played by the late Peter Cushing. It also starred John Carson John Carson as R. Daneel Olivaw and Kenneth J. Warren. The master tapes of the program were erased, however a few clips from the production have turned up in various documentaries about Isaac Asimov's work.
Story Parade
1964 · 1 votes
Dizi7.2SuçDramMichael Strait is a world-renowned photographer whose assignments lead him into investigating mysterious goings-on amongst the rich and glamorous and intrigue from far-flung places as Iraq, French Indochina, and Algiers.
Man of the World
1962 · 5 votes
- Dizi7.5SuçDram
The global adventures of Ken Franklin, ace operative of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, qualify as a pop-culture curio if only for star Arthur---later Art---Fleming, who hosted the original `Jeopardy!'
International Detective
1959 · 2 votes
Dizi6.5Aksiyon ve MaceraDramThe Sentimental Agent is a television drama series spin-off from Man of the World. Produced in the United Kingdom in 1963 by Associated Television and distributed by ITC Entertainment, the series ran for 13 one-hour monochrome episodes. Some episodes were edited into a 1962 feature film Our Man in the Caribbean. Argentinian Carlos Varela is a successful import-export agent based in London, whose company takes him into unusual and sometimes dangerous situations. Impeccably dressed, cigar smoking and using wit, ingenuity, and charm, which often involves a damsel in distress, he is typically assisted by Chin, a resourceful Chinese manservant, and Miss Carter, an ultra-efficient secretary.
The Sentimental Agent
1963 · 4 votes
Dizi6.8DramWhile still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intention to marry her.
Edward and Mrs Simpson
1978 · 6 votes
Dizi8.4BelgeselA 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture.
Hollywood
1980 · 17 votes
Dizi6.5Bilim Kurgu ve FantastikDramKidnapped by Intel representative Kaufman, John Fleming—along with Professor Madeleine Dawnay and Andromeda, the artificially constructed female humanoid—are brought to Azaran, a small Middle Eastern country. Upon arrival, the group discover a duplicate of Fleming's machine has been built by Intel. After many dangers, Fleming finds both the reason for the original message having been sent and the means to bring the machine under human control.
The Andromeda Breakthrough
1962 · 2 votes