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Drunken Angel (1948) -- (Movie Clip) You Already Look Like A Ghost Staggering home in the Tokyo slums after a bad night, consumptive gangster Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune, in his first picture for director Akira Kurosawa) tangles with snarky sometime-girlfriend Nanae (Michiyo Kogure), then meets dreaded crime boss Okada (Reizaburo Namamoto), just released from prison, in Drunken Angel, 1948.
Phantom Carriage, The (1922) -- (Movie Clip) I Can't Believe It's You In a Stockholm cemetery, near midnight on New Year’s Eve, David (director and screenwriter Victor Sjostrom) is accidentally killed by fellow drunks trying to get him to attend to family business, invoking the legend, and deceased Georges (Tore Svennberg) appears, in The Phantom Carriage, 1922.
Phantom Carriage, The (1922) -- (Movie Clip) A Harsher Punishment Awaits Deep in flashbacks depicting his own downfall, jailed Swedish family man David (director and screenwriter Victor Sjostrom) learns that his younger brother (Einar Axelsson) is also a victim of his misdeeds, in the horror-fantasy based on the novel by Selma Lagerlof, The Phantom Carriage, 1922.
Sweet Revenge (1976) -- (Movie Clip) You Want The Facts? Stockard Channing as car thief “Dandy” is guilty of more than she’s charged, but doesn’t hesitate to exploit public defender Philip (Sam Waterston), who has no idea about her long-game crime scheme, their first meeting in director Jerry Schatzberg’s Sweet Revenge,1976.
Sweet Revenge (1976) -- (Movie Clip) You Can't Steal A Dino Ferrari Obscure opening from director Jerry Schatzberg, star Stockard Channing as (we’ll soon learn) car thief “Dandy” Cochran, Richard Doughty her quasi-boyfriend, contemplating an Italian sports car that sounds cheap today, in Sweet Revenge, 1976.
Phantom Carriage, The (1922) -- (Movie Clip) Whoever Dies On This Eve Director and screenwriter Victor Sjostrom plays ne’er-do-well David, in a flashback recalling his dissolute mentor Georges (Tore Svennberg), who introduces the story of the deathly vehicle, ending the first segment of social commentary-horror hybrid, The Phantom Carriage, 1922.
Jinnah (1998) -- (Movie Clip) If Their Status Were Compatible Christopher Lee as Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, is recalling his life in the company of “The Guide,” (Shashi Kapoor), attended by his sister (Shireen Shah), recalling his younger self (Richard Lintern) and his first wife (Indira Varma), in Jamil Dehlavi’s bio-pic Jinnah, 1998.
Jinnah (1998) -- (Movie Clip) We Must Make Two Pledges Resuming the reflections of the dying Mohammed Ali Jinnah, in Bombay, 1920, his younger self played by Richard Lintern, at a Congress Party gathering, joined by the increasingly popular Hindu leader Mohandes K. Gandhi (Sam Dastor) in the life-story of Pakistan’s founder, Jinnah, 1998.
O. Henry's Full House (1952) -- (Movie Clip) The Last Leaf From one of the best-known stories in the anthology, Jean Negulesco directing, sisters Susan (Jean Peters) and ailing Joanna (Anne Baxter) struggling to cope, the former then visiting their benevolent painter neighbor Behrman (Gregory Ratoff), in 20th Century-Fox’s O. Henry’s Full House, 1952.
Muriel's Wedding (1994) -- (Movie Clip) You Can't Stop Progress Introducing the Heslop's, Bill Hunter the imperious dad, Jeanie Drynan mum, Belinda Jarrett sister Janine, as the star (Toni Collette) is delivered home by the police, arrested for stealing her dress for a wedding, in Australian director P.J. Hogan's worldwide hit Muriel's Wedding, 1994.
Muriel's Wedding (1994) -- (Movie Clip) Waterloo Rhonda (Rachel Griffiths) has just befriended fellow outcast and high school dropout Muriel (Toni Collette) and together they approach their old rivals (Sophie Lee as Tania, Pippa Grandison as Nicole) at the resort, then the famous Abba song in the talent show, in Muriel's Wedding, 1994.

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