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Madame De. (1953)The Earrings of Madame de... / Madame de...
When, beset by debt, Madame de... (Danielle Darrieux) decides to sell a pair of earrings that were a wedding gift from her husband Andre (Charles Boyer), she unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that will have serious consequences, not only for the Parisian couple but for Andre's mistress and for an Italian Baron (Vittorio De Sica) who purchases the, by then, much-travelled jewellery. - Director:
- Max Ophüls
- Cast:
- Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica
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Tale of Tales (2015)Il racconto dei racconti
The visionary director of 'Gomorrah', Matteo Garrone, combines the magical and the macabre in this visually dazzling tale of brutal ogres, deadly sea monsters and three noble kingdoms. An extravagant, luscious and profoundly beautiful cinematic spectacle that has been acclaimed as a masterpiece, 'Tale of Tales' is adapted from 17th-century writer Giambattista Basile's dark fantasy fables... - Director:
- Matteo Garrone
- Cast:
- Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones
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In a small German town in 1919, Anna (Paula Beer) repeatedly visits the grave of her fiance, Frantz (Anton von Lucke), who was killed in battle during World War I. One day she spies a mysterious young Frenchman Adrien (Pierre Niney), also laying flowers at the grave. She enquires about his business there and he explains he was a friend of Frantz. The pair become increasingly close and Anna becomes more and more intrigued by Adrien's history with her fiance. Long buried secrets are revealed that will illuminate unknown areas of their past lives and impact their future ones in a wearied and battle-scarred Europe. At once graceful and gripping, 'Frantz' is an intimate and timely exploration of healing and forgiveness across European borders. - Director:
- François Ozon
- Cast:
- Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner
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Babette's Feast (1987)Babettes gæstebud
When Babette (Stéphane Audran), a beautiful and mysterious French refugee, arrives in a remote Danish town the tight-knit, puritanical community begrudgingly let her in, providing her with shelter and work. But after the town patriarch passes away and Babette insists on preparing a feast in his honor, a magical world of sensory revelations is thrown open to the villagers, changing their lives forever... - Director:
- Gabriel Axel
- Cast:
- Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel
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Soon after arriving to teach at a small-town college, Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) gets involved with two women: Rita Richards (Parker Posey), a lonely professor who wants him to rescue her from her unhappy marriage; and Jill Pollard (Emma Stone), his best student, who becomes his closest friend. While Jill loves her boyfriend Roy (Jamie Blackley), she finds Abe's tortured, artistic personality and exotic past irresistible. Pure chance changes everything when Abe and Jill overhear a stranger's conversation, and when Abe makes a profound choice, he is able to embrace life to the fullest again. But his decision sets off a chain of events that will affect him, Jill and Rita forever. - Director:
- Woody Allen
- Cast:
- Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey
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Springtime in a Small Town (2002)Xiao cheng zhi chun
Set in a bomb-scarred Chinese town in the aftermath of World War II, the film tells the story of the passionless marriage of the ailing Liyan and his beautiful wife Yuwen. Their lives are disturbed by the arrival of Liyan's old school friend, Zhichen, a cultivated doctor from Shanghai, who was also the teenage love of Yuwen. Despite their attempts to conceal their emotions, Yuwen and Zhichen find that their feelings for each other are re-ignited and, eventually, secrecy and jealousy take their toll on all concerned. - Director:
- Zhuangzhuang Tian
- Cast:
- Jingfan Hu, Jun Wu, Bai Qing Xin
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Directed by Neil Jordan and starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan, Byzantium is an erotic horror fantasy that takes vampire mythology to a new level of modern terror. Upon the wind swept shores of a desolate coastal town stands the Byzantium guesthouse. After years of being abandoned, its doors are about to be opened again by the predatory and seductive Clara (Arterton), who plans on turning the hotel into a brothel, and her young and introverted daughter Eleanor (Ronan). But these mysterious women have a dark secret that goes back 200 years and is about to reach its ungodly and deathly climax. - Director:
- Neil Jordan
- Cast:
- Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley
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When 16-year-old Jake (Asa Butterfield) unravels a mystery that spans alternate realities and times, he discovers a secret world for children with unusual powers, including levitating Emma (Ella Purnell), pyrokinetic Olive (Lauren McCrostie), and invisible Millard (Cameron King). But danger soon arises and the children must band together to protect a world as extraordinary as they are. Immerse yourself in this "big, bold, and perfectly peculiar" experience. - Director:
- Tim Burton
- Cast:
- Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson
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Paper Souls (2013)Les âmes de papier
In this charming and touching dramatic comedy, Emma (Julie Gayet) is a pretty widow and bookshop owner with a young son. Paul (Stephane Guillon), who is also getting over the death of his spouse, earns a living writing funeral orations. One day, Emma hires Paul to write about her late husband so that her son will have something to remember him by. A relationship forms between Paul and Emma, but just when romance is in the air, Emma's dead husband appears as a ghost at Paul's front door. This critically acclaimed movie was inspired by the comedies of Woody Allen. - Director:
- Vincent Lannoo
- Cast:
- Stéphane Guillon, Julie Gayet, Jonathan Zaccaï
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The Beekeeper (1986)O Melissokomos
Distinguished Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos directs the great Marcello Mastroianni in this extraordinary and beautifully photographed tale of self-discovery. Mastroianni plays Spyros, a schoolmaster of late middle-age who is disenchanted and unfulfilled by life. Deciding to undertake a solitary journey to find emerging springtime flowers for his cherished beehives, Spyros encounters a young female hitchhiker with whom he begins to become obsessed. Charged with quiet emotional intensity, The Beekeeper' is a moving and powerful film about a man's struggle to find release from the spectre of the past. - Director:
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Cast:
- Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani
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Ferris Bueller. Larger than life. Blessed with a magical sense of serendipity. He's a model for all those who take themselves too seriously. A guy who knows the value of a day off. 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' chronicles the events in the day of a rather magical young man, Ferris (Matthew Broderick). One spring day, toward the end of his senior year, Ferris gives in to an overwhelming urge to cut school and head for downtown Chicago with his girl (Mia Sara) and his best friend (Alan Ruck), to see the sights, experience a day of freedom and show that with a little ingenuity, a bit of courage and a red Ferrari, life at 17 can be a joy! - Director:
- John Hughes
- Cast:
- Matthew Broderick, Harry Caray, Larry Lujack
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This smash hit futuristic comedy is a fresh and sublimely entertaining tale from French filmmakers, Jeunet (Amelie) and Caro. In a starving, post-holocaust France, a butcher keeps his customers supplied by his cannibalistic tendencies. But when his daughter falls in love with a circus performer, only an underground band of vegetarian freedom fighters can save her beloved from the meat cleaver. - Director:
- Marc Caro
- Cast:
- Marie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Pascal Benezech
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Francofonia (2015)Le Louvre sous l'Occupation
"Francofonia" is the story of two remarkable men, Louvre director Jacques Jaujard and Nazi Occupation officer Count Franziskus Wolff-Metternich - enemies then collaborators - whose alliance would be the driving force behind the preservation of museum treasures. From the master director of 'Faust' and 'Russian Ark' comes a fascinating exploration of the relationship between art and power, the Louvre Museum as a living example of civilization, and what art tells us about ourselves even in the midst of one of the bloodiest conflicts the world has ever seen. - Director:
- Aleksandr Sokurov
- Cast:
- Aleksandr Sokurov, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath
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Silent Light (2007)Stellet licht
Johan is the head of a family in a Mennonite community in northern Mexico. However, he goes against the law of both God and men by falling in love with another woman and, although he is honest with his wife about the affair, his actions create conflict in their otherwise serine and tranquil existence. - Director:
- Carlos Reygadas
- Cast:
- Cornelio Wall, Maria Pankratz, Miriam Toews
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Bill Murray is at his wisecracking best in this riotous romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life! Teamed with a relentlessly cheery producer (Annie MacDowell) and a smart-aleck cameraman, TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. On his way out of town, Phil is caught in a giant blizzard - which he himself actually failed to predict - and finds himself stuck in a small town hell. Just when things couldn't get worse... they do! Phil wakes the next morning to find that it's Groundhog Day all over again... and again... and again. - Director:
- Harold Ramis
- Cast:
- Bill Murray, Richard Henzel, Andie MacDowell
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