Midnight 1939  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Francis Lederer, Hedda Hopper, Monty Woolley, Ferdinand Munier, Elaine Barrie, Armand Kaliz, Rex O'Malley, Eugene Borden, Paul Bryar, Gino Corrado, Bess Flowers
While in Paris, American showgirl Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) is hired by aristocrat Georges Flammarion (John Barrymore) to take on the job of impersonating royalty to lure playboy Jacques Picot (Francis Lederer) away from Georges' wife Helene (Mary Astor). Eve goes to Georges' chateau in Versailles as Baroness Czemy, and the game begins. Meanwhile, cab driver Tibor (Don Ameche) has fallen in love with Eve, arrives on the scene to win back Eve, and poses as her husband the Baron Czemy.
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Midnight 1989  R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Norman Thaddeus Vane
Cast: Lynn Redgrave, Tony Curtis, Steven Parrish, Frank Gorshin, Wolfman Jack, Rita Gam, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Kathleen Kinmont, Gustav Vintas, Karen Witter, Robert Miano, Gloria Jean Morrison, Robert Axelrod, Barry Diamond, Nathan Le Grand
When the staff members of a late-night TV show featuring horror movies become murder victims in a series of killings, the show's hostess "Midnight" (Lynn Redgrave) wants out. Mr. B. (Tony Curtis) has been scheming to take over the rights to the show. Is he responsible for the killings?
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Midnight 1998  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas
Cast: Fernanda Torres, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Matheus Nachtergaele, Nelson Sargento, Tonico Pereira, Aulio Ribeiro, Carlos Vereza, Luciana Bezerra, Antonio Gomes, Nelson Dantas
It is midnight, 31 December 1999, and the fireworks show is on over Rio de Janeiro beach. Many stories take place during this event, but one is at the center as two people's lives intersect: an escapee from prison, Joao (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) and speech therapist Maria (Fernanda Torres) whose boyfriend Pedro (Carlos Vereza) just left her.
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Midnight 1934  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Call It Murder
Director: Chester Erskine
Cast: Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, Henry Hull, Margaret Wycherly, Humphrey Bogart, Lynne Overman, Richard Whorf, Henry O'Neill, Cora Witherspoon, Granville Bates, Katherine Wilson, Moffat Johnston, Helen Flint
Jury foreman Edward Weldon (O.P. Heggie) will settle for nothing short of death in the sentencing of Ethel Saxon (Helen Flint) on a murder charge for killing her lover. Later, Weldon regrets his responsibility for the verdict when, on the eve of Saxon's execution, Edward's own daughter, Stella (Sidney Fox), kills her lover, gangster Garboni (Humphrey Bogart). Now, Weldon's conscience takes over when his previous verdict is brought so close to home.
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| Oscar: Best Actress for It Happened One Night (1934) |
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| Oscar: Best Supporting Actor for Cocoon (1985) |
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| Oscar: Best Supporting Actress for The Great Lie (1941) |
| | Midnight (1989) |
| | Midnight (1998) |
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| Oscar: Best Actor for The African Queen (1951) |
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