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The Wages of Fear
Dynamic Tremendous Shattering
Dynamic Tremendous Shattering
Adventure, Drama, Thriller - 1953
8.1
100%
85
In the South American jungle, supplies of nitroglycerine are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers on the rough remote roads where the slightest jolt can result in death.
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The inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the isles, convinced the danger has come and gone. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waitin...
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Giant
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Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love, swagger, connive and clash in a saga of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons.
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Diabolique
(1955)
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
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Le Corbeau
(1943)
Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets....
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(1947)
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The Mystery of Picasso
(1956)
Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls. He begins with simple works that take shape after only a single brush stroke. He then progresses to more complex paintings, in which he repeatedly adds and removes elements, transforming the entire scene at will, until ...

Details

Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
153 min
Release date:
22 Apr 1953
Country:
FR, IT
Languages:
French, English, Spanish, Italian, German
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Won 1 BAFTA Film Award6 wins total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
The kind of motion picture for which commonplace phrases like 'white-knuckle tension ride' have been coined.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
The excitement derives entirely from the awareness of nitroglycerine and the gingerly, breathless handling of it. You sit there waiting for the theatre to explode.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
A significant influence on Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this grueling pile driver of a movie will keep you on the edge of your seat.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
1 Mar 2007
fresh:
Hitch's bomb-under-the-table suspense formula burnished to an expert sheen.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
6 Dec 2011
fresh:
Turning the screws with a relentlessness that impresses even in this age of the ruthless, high-tech thriller, Clouzot strings together situations of vividly, almost sadistically imagined danger.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr 2014
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