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Starring Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain, Mademoiselle Chambon is an elegant and moving tale of an unexpected romance between a married man, Jean (Vincent Lindon), and his son's school teacher. Veronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain).

As their feelings for each other slowly take hold, Jean and Veronique, who come from vastly different worlds, reach a painful turning point that will affect their lives forever.

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A lovelorn group of Irish blokes - some single, some not - place a personal ad in a Miami newspaper hoping to attract American beauties for potential marriage in this hilarious romantic comedy from the producer of 'The Full Monty'.

It's been a long time since wedding bells have rung in this tiny village on the Donegal coast, and the hopelessly available men are about to do something about it. Kieran (Ian Hart, This Year's Love) and his buddies' solution is to advertise and entice a whole new world of women to their town. Their proposal to stir up romance works, but not in the way they expected. Because the harder they look overseas, the more they begin to see the girls right next door.

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Quentin is too far too literal-minded to succeed as a crook. But what he lacks in intellect he makes up for in brute strength. Yet Quentin likes to talk the way most of us like to breath .

Ruby on the other hand is the strong silent type who has managed to hide £15 million purloined from his rival before endiing up in a cell with Quentin who mistakes Ruby's silence for good listening skills. A great, completely one-sided friendship is born.

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Andrzej Wajda's dazzling Man of Marble is one of the key films of the 1970s. Often described as the 'Polish Citizen Kane', Wajda's epic masterwork operates as both an electrifying political saga and a compelling analysis of the nature of cinema itself.

Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer, glorified as a State-promoted 'Worker's Hero' is subsequently removed from all official mention in 1952. In 1976 a young filmmaker, Agnieszka, obsessively pursues his story. Birkut's rise and fall and disappearance into obscurity provides Wajda with a framework for a brave reassessment of the period. Although suppressed by the authorities, Man of Marble became a milestone in Polish cinema and an undoubted influence in the dismantling of the totalitarian system in Poland.

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Welcome to a bittersweet world of episodic adventures and strange encounters. Welcome to a sordid, nocturnal world of ruthless, callous boyfriends and stray movie stars looking for seedy kicks.

Welcome to the harsh, unforgiving streets of a crumbling Rome where hope can still prevail and dreams cradle the lost. Welcome to the world of Cabiria, a feisty, loud, outspoken and somewhat naïve prostitute waiting for a miracle, and one of the most unforgettable and endearing characters of European cinema. Eventually remade in Hollywood as 'Sweet Charity', 'Nights of Cabiria' is a often humorous, poignant, unflinching and vivid portrait of one woman's picaresque existence and her perseverance through adversity. Starring Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina, as the irrepressible protagonist, 'Nights of Cabiria' marked Fellini's last foray into gritty neo-realism before venturing into the surreal satire and dream logic of 'La Dolce Vita' and 'Eight and a Half'.

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An emotionally moving story of a man’s quest to find his roots. After discovering a faded picture of his parents, Kieran Johnson (James Caan), who never knew his father, travels from his home in Chicago to the west of Ireland to uncover the truth about where he came from.

As Johnson uncovers the truth about his father, many heart-warming characters give a flavour of Ireland’s past, including Aidan Quinn as the father and Moya Farrelly as the mother. Also starring Stephen Rea as a terrifying missionary priest and John Cusack as an aircraft pilot, this charming and rich tale speaks to all those who have at some time questioned their past.

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John Mills and James Mason star as two long term rivals in this humorous tale of class rivalry.

When the pompous Colonel Southey (John Mills) discovers that Captain Aimsley (James Mason) has been assigned to his unit in post war Germany, he attempts to conceal his pre-war employment as a clerk at the Aimsley' family firm. The suave Aimsley, a lovable rogue, is popular with the other men and this infuriates Southey, as do his black market activities. Southey informs on Aimsley as he tries to smuggle some black-market goods into England. Court-martialled and dishonourably discharged, Aimsley heads to Tahiti and enjoys a comfortable exile complete with Belle Annie, a local girl. Some time after the war Aimsleys idyllic lifestyle in Tahiti is rudely interrupted by the arrival of his old adversary Southey, now a successful businessman. Southey wants to build a hotel on the island but will his relationship with Aimsley help or hinder his plans!

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Three titans of European cinema team up for a stylish film based on the works of macabre author Edgar Allen Poe.

Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini direct Jane and Peter Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, and Terence Stamp in three separate stories of souls tormented by their own phantasmal visions of guilt, lust and greed. Vadim directs the first segment, 'Metzengerstein', with Jane Fonda portraying the spoiled, vicious Frederique. Malle takes the middle slot with 'William Wilson', featuring Alain Delon as the troubled hero, a man who has been haunted since childhood by a man with his exact name. Fellini's segment, 'Toby Dammit', features Terence Stamp as a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. 'Spirits of the Dead' is a real gem for those who enjoy the surreal and grotesque.

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Berlin, 1923. Out-of-work circus performer Abel Rosenberg (David Carradine) is living in poverty.

When his brother commits suicide, he moves into the apartment of his cabaret singer sister-in-law (Liv Ullmann), but the pair soon attract the attentions of both the police and a professor with a terrifying area of research when they start to make enquiries about Abel's brother's mysterious death.

Maddalena (Anna Magnani) is a screenstruck mother convinced of her daughter Maria's (Tina Apicella) star potential. Dreaming of a better life for her family she invests everything, including her last penny, into the dream that her daughter will be discovered at an open casting.

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From Rachel Field's fact-based bestseller, the story follows Henrietta (Bette Davis), governess at the Paris home of the Duc de Praslin (Charles Boyer) and his jealous wife (Barbara O'Neil). When governess and nobleman are drawn to each other, the Duchess erupts in fury...and meets a bloody fate.

Soon Henriette and the Duc face a world eager to believe the Duc murdered his wife. And that gentle Henriette was a willing accomplice.

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Sixteen minutes or so into this adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play, 1930 audiences got what they were waiting for when Greta Garbo made her entrance and spoke on camera for the first time in her career: "Gimme a whiskey?.

" Here she made her landmark transition to the new era, playing a former prostitute whose past may ruin her chance for happiness.

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Oshima's spin on the notorious 'pink' film is a brazen and vivid thriller that takes a Hitchcockian premise (a murderer is blackmailed by a thief) and turns it into an allegory of post-war materialism, greed and sexual exploitation.

Having murdered a man who raped one of his students, teacher Wakizaka finds himself blackmailed into hiding a huge sum of stolen Yakuza money. Increasingly paranoid, unstable and deteriorating further into a spiral of guilt and obsession, Wakizaka succumbs to his baser instincts and spends the cash on indulging his every impulse and sensual urge – and face the consequences later…

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Inspired by a real article on housewife prostitution, the film examines Godard's theory that if you lived in Paris, at that time, one had to prostitute oneself to survive.

This 'sociological fable' is shot through the eyes of Juliette (Marina Vlady), a housewife who spends one day a week in central Paris selling her body on the street in the hope that she will be able to escape the high rise suburban drudgery, in which she lives with her family, and find happiness.

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When a provincial Italian couple arrives in Rome for a honeymoon, the wife sets off in search of her photo-romance magazine idol, the "White Sheik" (Alberto Sordi), and leaves her husband to wander the streets of the city alone.

When she finds the Sheik and then finds herself alone on a yacht with him, the newlyweds' weekend takes a definite turn for the worse.