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i am writing his topic in favor of my favourite actor and one of my favourite influential directors, took me 32 minutes to write so u better read it lol
there are a lot of partner teams in cinema who worked on many films, that have created success...like JOHN FORD-JOHN WAYNE, Francis Coppola-Marlon Brando,
and many others...but no one will stand out like the best partnership in cinema needles to say i have ever seen: Martin Scorcese-Robert DeNiro
they have made 8 films together which 6 of them became endless classics of movies not to be forgotten, a lot of partnership in cinema tried to be formed
to create the same vibe of Scorcese/Deniro vibe, but no one was as successful....friends for over 30 years, and a career build for history
marty and boby have been friends for over 30 years, both born in NYC and love NY like no other place in the world since most of their films both
are filmed in NYC, they have contirbuted a lot to NY through their love for the city, both italians, families are friends and raised together
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the first colobratoin of work between Martin Scorcese and Robert Deniro is a film that set a view of italian young men and way of living
1-MEAN STREETS (1973)
Nominated : American Film Institute Top 100 Of All Time
DE NIRO: WON Best Supporting Actor - National Society of Film Critics
Plot: The future is set for Tony and Michael - owning a neighbour- hood bar and making deals in the mean streets of New York city's Little Italy. For Charlie, the future is less clearly defined. A small-time hood, he works for his uncle, making collections and reclaiming bad debts. He's probably too nice to succeed. In love with a woman his uncle disapproves of (because of her epilepsy) and a friend of her cousin, Johnny Boy, a near psychotic whose trouble-making threatens them all - he can't reconcile opposing values. A failed attempt to escape (to Brooklyn) moves them all a step closer to a bitter, almost preordained future.
Cast :
Robert De Niro .... John 'Johnny Boy' Civello
Harvey Keitel .... Charlie Cappa
David Proval .... Tony Devienazo
Amy Robinson .... Teresa Ronchelli
Richard Romanus .... Michael Longo
Cesare Danova .... Giovanni Cappa
comment: Scorcese knew a charcter like JOHNNY BOY in real life, a film set a sstandard for italian americans way of life...was admired by many fans and deniro played a role that was unspoken of
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2- TAXI DRIVER (1976)
American Film Institute Top 100 Movies of All Time: Number 47
DE NIRO: Nominated Best Actor - Academy Awards
Nominated Best Actor - Golden Globe Awards
WON Best Actor - Los Angeles Film Critics Association
WON Best Actor - National Society of Film Critics
SCORSESE: WON Golden Palm Award - Cannes Film Festival
WON New Generation Award - Los Angeles Film Critics Assn.
WON Best Director - National Society of Film Critics
Plot: Vietnam vet Travis Bickle is 26, a loner in the mean streets of New York City, slipping slowly into isolation and violent misanthropy. In solving his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the low-lifes that hang out at night: "Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets." His touching attempts to woo Betsy, a Senator's campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris to desert her pimp and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the Senator, heading for the infamy of a `lone crazed gunman'...
Cast :
Robert De Niro .... Travis Bickle
Cybill Shepherd .... Betsy
Peter Boyle .... Wizard
Jodie Foster .... Iris Steensma
Harvey Keitel .... 'Sport' Matthew
comment: TAXI DRIVER became a cultural phenomenum, became one of the best films in cinematic history, quoted for a famous line "YOU TALKIN TO ME?" EXCELLENT FILM
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3- NEW YORK, NEW YORK (1977)
DE NIRO: Nominated Best Actor - Musical or Comedy , Golden Globes
Plot: The day WWII ends, Jimmy, a selfish and smooth-talking musician, meets Francine, a lounge singer. From that moment on, their relationship grows into love as they struggle with their careers and aim for the top.
Cast :
Liza Minnelli .... Francine Evans/Doyle
Robert De Niro .... Jimmy Doyle/Mr. Powell
Lionel Stander .... Tony Harwell, Francine's Agent
Barry Primus .... Paul Wilson
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4- RAGING BULL (1980)*****
American Film Institute Top 100 Movies of All Time: Number 24
DE NIRO: WON Best Actor - Academy Awards
WON Best Actor - Golden Globe Awards
WON Best Actor - Los Angeles Film Critics Association
SCORSESE: Nominated Best Director - Academy Awards
Nominated Best Director - Golden Globe Awards
WON Best Director - National Society of Film Critics
Plot: an unrelenting, searing biopic and dramatic tragedy - based on the real life story of an unloveable, stubborn middle-weight boxing champion as he struggles to be champion. His life passes through successive stages of punishment, compromise, and self-disintegration. Paul Schrader's (and Mardik Martin's) superb (and un-nominated) screenplay was loosely based on Jake La Motta's book of the same name that chronicled La Motta's own rise and tragic, self-destructive, violent fall. The 1940s boxing champion/bum blindly, obtusely, and stupidly inflicts wounds upon himself (mostly outside the ring in his personal and marital life with sibling rivalry and domestic abuse) while he also legally brutalizes opponents in the ring.
Raging Bull focuses on Jake's rage and violence that makes him virtually unstoppable in the ring. The same anger also drives Jake to beat his wife and his brother Joey, and sends Jake down a self-destructive spiral of paranoia and rage.
Cast :
Robert De Niro .... Jake La Motta
Cathy Moriarty .... Vickie La Motta
Joe Pesci .... Joey La Motta
Frank Vincent (I) .... Salvy
comment: this film is the first teaming with joe pesci, based on a true story, later doing lots of films with bobby..this film is consideredthe best film of the team. Deniro gained 60 pounds for the film and won the oscar for best actor..film took 2 years of shooting thast for deniros weight gain for the role. Film was titled best boxing film, even surpased Rocky and became one of deniros best performance
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5- THE KING OF COMEDY (1983)
Plot :Rupert Pupkin is obsessed with becoming a comedy great. However, when he confronts his idol, talk show host Jerry Langford, with a plea to perform on the Jerry's show, he is only given the run-around. He does not give up, however, but persists in stalking Jerry until he gets what he wants. Eventually he must team up with his psychotic Langford-obsessed friend Masha to kidnap the talk show host in hopes of finally getting to perform his stand-up routine.
Cast :
Robert De Niro .... Rupert Pupkin
Jerry Lewis .... Jerry Langford
Diahnne Abbott .... Rita Keane
Sandra Bernhard .... Masha
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6- GOODFELLAS (1990)
"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955.
Three Decades of Life in the Mafia.
American Film Institute Top 100 Movies of All Time: Number 94
SCORSESE: Nominated Best Director - Academy Awards
Nominated Best Screenplay (with Nicholas Pileggi) - Academy Awards
Nominated Best Director - Golden Globe Awards
Nominated Best Screenplay (with Nicholas Pileggi) - Golden Globe Awards
WON Best Director - Los Angeles Film Critics Association
WON Best Director - National Society of Film Critics
WON Best Director - Venice Film Festival
Joe Pesci - WON best supporting actor - Academy Awards
Plot: Based on a true story. This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960's and 70's New York. Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Joe Pesci plays Tommy Devito, a pure bred Italian gangster, who turns out to be Henry's best friend. Robert De Niro plays Jimmy Conway, the man who puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, played by Paul Sorvino, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.
Cast :
Robert De Niro .... Jimmy Conway
Ray Liotta .... Henry Hill
Joe Pesci .... Tommy DeVito
Lorraine Bracco .... Karen Hill
Paul Sorvino .... Paul Cicero
comment: that film made DENIRO/SCORCESE the unstopable team...the film is on top of the best every film list there is..it is the REAL STORY about mafia unlike other films, film became a major success, became a world classic and set standards for wise guyz.
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7- CAPE FEAR (1991)
DE NIRO: Nominated Best Actor - Academy Awards
Nominated Best Actor (Drama) - Golden Globe Awards
Plot: Max Cady is a psychopath just released from prison for rape. He is out seeking revenge from his lawyer Sam Bowden who he believes deliberately held back important information about his case during the trial, which could have kept him out of jail. He sets off to terrorise Bowden, his wife and even goes after their 15 year old daughter.
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/"Leave It to Beaver"-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Cast :
Robert De Niro .... Max Cady
Nick Nolte .... Sam Bowden
Jessica Lange .... Leigh Bowden
Juliette Lewis .... Danielle Bowden
comment: EXCELLENT THRILLER FILM, EXCELLENT PLOT, EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE, the film was a re-make of robert mitchum, who also acts in the remake..great film, thats the first i saw for bobby and marty
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8- CASINO (1995)
Nominated : American Film Institute Top 100 Movies Of All Time
SCORSESE: Nominated Best Director - Golden Globe Awards
Sharon stone - WON best actress - Golden Globe awards
Sharon Stone - Nominated actress - Oscars
Plot: This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.
Sam 'Ace' Rothstein, a mob-connected casino operator in Las Vegas, attempts a civilized lifestyle with his money-conditional wife, Ginger. Nicky Santoro, a boyhood friend of Ace and now a Made-Man of the Mafia, arrives in town with an ambitious agenda of his own that soon disrupts Ace's life. Before long, Ginger and her long-time leeching lover Lester, along with Nicky's mistakes, causing problems.
Cast :
Robert De Niro .... Sam 'Ace' Rothstein
Sharon Stone .... Ginger McKenna/Rothstein
Joe Pesci .... Nicky Santor
James Woods .... Lester Diamond
comment: The writer of GOODFELLAS wrote CASINO, based on a true story. the film addresses an imp part, semi related to THE GODFATHER as how when the mob left their main place NYC and went to LASVEGAS to build new things in a desert that soon became a gambling earth..and how its started, and how lasvegas changed
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now..a.fter 30 years of makin history...making the best films of our time, films that will live on for ages making their names immortal...after all whats written, its a big proof that the best team that ever walked the cinematic art is ROBERT DENIRO/MARTIN SCORCESE..non of any other team
has created the same success, power, fame, and films as great as they did...Robert Deniro in AFI life acheivement award teared up saying "Marty you are so special to me" in his speech which eventually made Scorcese tear up too...thats a cinematic art, thats a cinema taht i like to see and thats a team that
will never be forogotten for being the best and creating the best
**salute**
there are a lot of partner teams in cinema who worked on many films, that have created success...like JOHN FORD-JOHN WAYNE, Francis Coppola-Marlon Brando,
and many others...but no one will stand out like the best partnership in cinema needles to say i have ever seen: Martin Scorcese-Robert DeNiro
they have made 8 films together which 6 of them became endless classics of movies not to be forgotten, a lot of partnership in cinema tried to be formed
to create the same vibe of Scorcese/Deniro vibe, but no one was as successful....friends for over 30 years, and a career build for history
marty and boby have been friends for over 30 years, both born in NYC and love NY like no other place in the world since most of their films both
are filmed in NYC, they have contirbuted a lot to NY through their love for the city, both italians, families are friends and raised together
_______________________________________________
the first colobratoin of work between Martin Scorcese and Robert Deniro is a film that set a view of italian young men and way of living
1-MEAN STREETS (1973)
Nominated : American Film Institute Top 100 Of All Time
DE NIRO: WON Best Supporting Actor - National Society of Film Critics
Plot: The future is set for Tony and Michael - owning a neighbour- hood bar and making deals in the mean streets of New York city's Little Italy. For Charlie, the future is less clearly defined. A small-time hood, he works for his uncle, making collections and reclaiming bad debts. He's probably too nice to succeed. In love with a woman his uncle disapproves of (because of her epilepsy) and a friend of her cousin, Johnny Boy, a near psychotic whose trouble-making threatens them all - he can't reconcile opposing values. A failed attempt to escape (to Brooklyn) moves them all a step closer to a bitter, almost preordained future.
Cast :
Robert De Niro .... John 'Johnny Boy' Civello
Harvey Keitel .... Charlie Cappa
David Proval .... Tony Devienazo
Amy Robinson .... Teresa Ronchelli
Richard Romanus .... Michael Longo
Cesare Danova .... Giovanni Cappa
comment: Scorcese knew a charcter like JOHNNY BOY in real life, a film set a sstandard for italian americans way of life...was admired by many fans and deniro played a role that was unspoken of
___________________________________________________
2- TAXI DRIVER (1976)
American Film Institute Top 100 Movies of All Time: Number 47
DE NIRO: Nominated Best Actor - Academy Awards
Nominated Best Actor - Golden Globe Awards
WON Best Actor - Los Angeles Film Critics Association
WON Best Actor - National Society of Film Critics
SCORSESE: WON Golden Palm Award - Cannes Film Festival
WON New Generation Award - Los Angeles Film Critics Assn.
WON Best Director - National Society of Film Critics
Plot: Vietnam vet Travis Bickle is 26, a loner in the mean streets of New York City, slipping slowly into isolation and violent misanthropy. In solving his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the low-lifes that hang out at night: "Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets." His touching attempts to woo Betsy, a Senator's campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris to desert her pimp and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the Senator, heading for the infamy of a `lone crazed gunman'...
Cast :
Robert De Niro .... Travis Bickle
Cybill Shepherd .... Betsy
Peter Boyle .... Wizard
Jodie Foster .... Iris Steensma
Harvey Keitel .... 'Sport' Matthew
comment: TAXI DRIVER became a cultural phenomenum, became one of the best films in cinematic history, quoted for a famous line "YOU TALKIN TO ME?" EXCELLENT FILM
_____________________________________________________
3- NEW YORK, NEW YORK (1977)
DE NIRO: Nominated Best Actor - Musical or Comedy , Golden Globes
Plot: The day WWII ends, Jimmy, a selfish and smooth-talking musician, meets Francine, a lounge singer. From that moment on, their relationship grows into love as they struggle with their careers and aim for the top.
Cast :
Liza Minnelli .... Francine Evans/Doyle
Robert De Niro .... Jimmy Doyle/Mr. Powell
Lionel Stander .... Tony Harwell, Francine's Agent
Barry Primus .... Paul Wilson
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4- RAGING BULL (1980)*****
American Film Institute Top 100 Movies of All Time: Number 24
DE NIRO: WON Best Actor - Academy Awards
WON Best Actor - Golden Globe Awards
WON Best Actor - Los Angeles Film Critics Association
SCORSESE: Nominated Best Director - Academy Awards
Nominated Best Director - Golden Globe Awards
WON Best Director - National Society of Film Critics
Plot: an unrelenting, searing biopic and dramatic tragedy - based on the real life story of an unloveable, stubborn middle-weight boxing champion as he struggles to be champion. His life passes through successive stages of punishment, compromise, and self-disintegration. Paul Schrader's (and Mardik Martin's) superb (and un-nominated) screenplay was loosely based on Jake La Motta's book of the same name that chronicled La Motta's own rise and tragic, self-destructive, violent fall. The 1940s boxing champion/bum blindly, obtusely, and stupidly inflicts wounds upon himself (mostly outside the ring in his personal and marital life with sibling rivalry and domestic abuse) while he also legally brutalizes opponents in the ring.
Raging Bull focuses on Jake's rage and violence that makes him virtually unstoppable in the ring. The same anger also drives Jake to beat his wife and his brother Joey, and sends Jake down a self-destructive spiral of paranoia and rage.
Cast :
Robert De Niro .... Jake La Motta
Cathy Moriarty .... Vickie La Motta
Joe Pesci .... Joey La Motta
Frank Vincent (I) .... Salvy
comment: this film is the first teaming with joe pesci, based on a true story, later doing lots of films with bobby..this film is consideredthe best film of the team. Deniro gained 60 pounds for the film and won the oscar for best actor..film took 2 years of shooting thast for deniros weight gain for the role. Film was titled best boxing film, even surpased Rocky and became one of deniros best performance
___________________________________________________________
5- THE KING OF COMEDY (1983)
Plot :Rupert Pupkin is obsessed with becoming a comedy great. However, when he confronts his idol, talk show host Jerry Langford, with a plea to perform on the Jerry's show, he is only given the run-around. He does not give up, however, but persists in stalking Jerry until he gets what he wants. Eventually he must team up with his psychotic Langford-obsessed friend Masha to kidnap the talk show host in hopes of finally getting to perform his stand-up routine.
Cast :
Robert De Niro .... Rupert Pupkin
Jerry Lewis .... Jerry Langford
Diahnne Abbott .... Rita Keane
Sandra Bernhard .... Masha
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6- GOODFELLAS (1990)
"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955.
Three Decades of Life in the Mafia.
American Film Institute Top 100 Movies of All Time: Number 94
SCORSESE: Nominated Best Director - Academy Awards
Nominated Best Screenplay (with Nicholas Pileggi) - Academy Awards
Nominated Best Director - Golden Globe Awards
Nominated Best Screenplay (with Nicholas Pileggi) - Golden Globe Awards
WON Best Director - Los Angeles Film Critics Association
WON Best Director - National Society of Film Critics
WON Best Director - Venice Film Festival
Joe Pesci - WON best supporting actor - Academy Awards
Plot: Based on a true story. This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960's and 70's New York. Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Joe Pesci plays Tommy Devito, a pure bred Italian gangster, who turns out to be Henry's best friend. Robert De Niro plays Jimmy Conway, the man who puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, played by Paul Sorvino, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.
Cast :
Robert De Niro .... Jimmy Conway
Ray Liotta .... Henry Hill
Joe Pesci .... Tommy DeVito
Lorraine Bracco .... Karen Hill
Paul Sorvino .... Paul Cicero
comment: that film made DENIRO/SCORCESE the unstopable team...the film is on top of the best every film list there is..it is the REAL STORY about mafia unlike other films, film became a major success, became a world classic and set standards for wise guyz.
_______________________________________________________
7- CAPE FEAR (1991)
DE NIRO: Nominated Best Actor - Academy Awards
Nominated Best Actor (Drama) - Golden Globe Awards
Plot: Max Cady is a psychopath just released from prison for rape. He is out seeking revenge from his lawyer Sam Bowden who he believes deliberately held back important information about his case during the trial, which could have kept him out of jail. He sets off to terrorise Bowden, his wife and even goes after their 15 year old daughter.
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/"Leave It to Beaver"-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Cast :
Robert De Niro .... Max Cady
Nick Nolte .... Sam Bowden
Jessica Lange .... Leigh Bowden
Juliette Lewis .... Danielle Bowden
comment: EXCELLENT THRILLER FILM, EXCELLENT PLOT, EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE, the film was a re-make of robert mitchum, who also acts in the remake..great film, thats the first i saw for bobby and marty
_________________________________________________________
8- CASINO (1995)
Nominated : American Film Institute Top 100 Movies Of All Time
SCORSESE: Nominated Best Director - Golden Globe Awards
Sharon stone - WON best actress - Golden Globe awards
Sharon Stone - Nominated actress - Oscars
Plot: This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.
Sam 'Ace' Rothstein, a mob-connected casino operator in Las Vegas, attempts a civilized lifestyle with his money-conditional wife, Ginger. Nicky Santoro, a boyhood friend of Ace and now a Made-Man of the Mafia, arrives in town with an ambitious agenda of his own that soon disrupts Ace's life. Before long, Ginger and her long-time leeching lover Lester, along with Nicky's mistakes, causing problems.
Cast :
Robert De Niro .... Sam 'Ace' Rothstein
Sharon Stone .... Ginger McKenna/Rothstein
Joe Pesci .... Nicky Santor
James Woods .... Lester Diamond
comment: The writer of GOODFELLAS wrote CASINO, based on a true story. the film addresses an imp part, semi related to THE GODFATHER as how when the mob left their main place NYC and went to LASVEGAS to build new things in a desert that soon became a gambling earth..and how its started, and how lasvegas changed
_____________________________________________________
now..a.fter 30 years of makin history...making the best films of our time, films that will live on for ages making their names immortal...after all whats written, its a big proof that the best team that ever walked the cinematic art is ROBERT DENIRO/MARTIN SCORCESE..non of any other team
has created the same success, power, fame, and films as great as they did...Robert Deniro in AFI life acheivement award teared up saying "Marty you are so special to me" in his speech which eventually made Scorcese tear up too...thats a cinematic art, thats a cinema taht i like to see and thats a team that
will never be forogotten for being the best and creating the best
**salute**
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T h e G o d f a t h e r
MULHOLLAND DR.
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
Stanley Kubrick
Alexander the great moveis
Marlon Brando
T h e G o d f a t h e r
MULHOLLAND DR.
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
Stanley Kubrick
Alexander the great moveis
Marlon Brando
