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James Mason is Johnny McQueen, the idealistic leader of an illegal organisation in Northern Ireland. Shot during an armed raid he is badly wounded. Stumbling through the back streets of Belfast his friends, enemies and the police begin to close in as he tries to find a place to hide...

Teenage sisters Anne (Eleonore Klarwein) and Frederique (Odile Michel) couldn't be more different: introverted Anne, on the threshold of adolescence, is trying to understand the world around her, while outgoing, politically aware Frederique is beginning her first love affair.

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Although made in 1970, The Ear (Ucho) was immediately banned by the Czech authorities and remained unseen for twenty years, being finally released only after the Velvet Revolution took place in Czechoslovakia.

This landmark film is an extraordinary mix of one of the most direct indictments of life under an oppressive totalitarian system and a not-so-private examination of a disintegrating marital relationship.

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When renowned TV personality Pierre Lachenay attends a conference in Lisbon, Portugal he meets Nicole a young, beautiful air hostess. He returns home to his wife. Franca, and their daughter in Paris, but he cannot get the dazzling Nicole off his mind and they soon start an affair.

But Franca is not willing to let another woman have her husband.

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The film follows the fate of three different women with the same name of Lucia during key moments in Cuban History.

The Cuban War of Independance, the 1930's and lastly the 1960'slt tells the stories of three Lucias, one in 1895, when the Cubans fought for independence from the Spaniards (a situation that resolved with U.S. intervention and purchase of Cuba from Spain); in 1933, when Cuban popular resistance against the dictator Geraldo Machado resulted in failure; and 196-, in the aftermath of the victory of the revolution led by Fidel Castro. They are women from three different classes: The first is upper class, the second is from the middle class, the third working class. They have three different ranges of potential action, and responses.
Each story is hung on a love drama. In the first, the woman has an affair with a Spanish soldier, in which she must betray her own family. In the second, a young woman abandons her family and class to go underground with her soon-to-be-slain husband; in the third, a young wife learns how to read and write and work in collective agriculture, in spite of a traditionally macho husband who tries to keep her in the house.
The battles sequences have been compared to the great ferocity of Orson Welles "Chimes at Midnight". The use of extreme close ups and long shots anticipates the works of Sergio Leone.

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Set in the mid '50s, Ray's often humorous story of conflicting social values in India's lower-middle class stars Madhabi Mukherjee as housewife Arati Mazumdar.

Finding it difficult to make ends meet on her husband's salary alone, Arati takes up a job as a sales woman and finds that she revels in her new-found freedom. But Arati's independence and burgeoning confidence alarms her traditionalist family and threaten to throw her life into chaos.

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Stanislas, a young sociologist researching a book on women criminals, travels to a prison to interview Camille, an inmate incarcerated for murdering her lover, husband and supposedly her father.

Upon meeting, Stanislas discovers Camille to have a surprising air of innocence and soon finds himself becoming enraptured by her charms. But all that glitters isn't gold -and sometimes it's actually cold, hard steel...

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A nineteen-year-old troublemaker starts a six year sentence in a notorious prison, a concrete hell where violence is the only language understood. Taken under the wing of a powerful mafia boss, he is initiated into a vicious and brutal way of life.

As the years pass, he proves his worth, moving up the ranks within the prison. However, he has his own plans, and they don't involve taking orders from anyone. Using his ruthless cunning to extend his influence beyond the walls of the jail, he arranges drugs runs, hostage exchanges and violent assassinations. Once merely a petty criminal, he is soon on his way to establishing a criminal empire of his own.

Antoine Doinel, the star of The 400 Blows, is back in civilian life after being discharged from the army. He needs a job and tries his hand at numerous things including private investigation. While on a case he meets Fabienne, an older, married woman, who he becomes infatuated with. But has he found a definitive love?

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A middle-class schoolteacher, stuck in a government-enforced teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in the mining town of Bundanyabba on his way home for the Christmas holidays.

Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the financial independence to move back to Sydney for good, the opportunity proves irresistible. But the bad decisions are just beginning and a reliance on local standards of hospitality in "the Yabba" may take him on a path darker than ever expected.

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Laura has spent her whole life waiting for Prince Charming. So when Sandro appears at a party, exactly like her Prince would in her dreams, she thinks she's finally found her knight in shining armour.

But when she meets Maxime the following night, Laura starts to wonder if some Princes could be more charming than others... Will everything end happily ever after for Laura? Or will the prince turn out to be a frog?!

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If cinema has its equivalents to the master modernists of music, painting, or literature, then one of the tradition's foremost practitioners is undoubtedly Alain Resnais - and "Muriel, ou le Temps d'un retour" represents one of his earliest, and greatest, triumphs.

In Resnais' two preceding features, the master filmmaker pioneered new ways of representing inner reality and emotion; but with Muriel, he merged the vicissitudes of his characters' personal pasts, and married them to the traumas of the political present - namely, the French war in Algeria. The story of the middle-aged Helene, an antique dealer located in the provincial port-town of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, who resides amid her wares inside the same flat that serves as her business showroom. An old lover of Helene's comes to visit and soon takes up a more permanent residence within her life, despite the presence of a suspicious, tortured, and sexualised stepson who is haunted by a woman, a name, from his own past: "Muriel". Scripted by Jean Cayrol, the co-writer of Resnais' landmark early short film Night and Fog, Muriel is one of the great family films, and stands like a cinema landmark as one of the most complex and rewarding films of the 1960s.

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Middle-aged company manager Michel (Bruno Podalydes) loves planes and dreams of life as an airborne explorer. Then one day a photograph stops him dead in his tracks. Kayaks - they could almost be planes, planes without wings.

Seized by a sudden crazy impulse, Michel orders the whole package online: canoe, paddles... everything he needs for an expedition. His wife Rochelle (Sandrine Kiberlain) encourages him to set out alone on his escapade. So what if he's never rowed a boat in his life? Adventure is adventure! His big trip on the water turns out to be full of surprises and unexpected encounters: Laetitia (Agnes Jaoui), the owner of a riverside bar, her crazy employees, the young waitress Mila (Vimala Pons) - after a night in their company, Michel finds it very hard to leave... After Park Benches and Granny's Funeral, Bruno Podalydes returns with a pastoral adventure sparkling with humor and lighthearted charm.

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A high stakes crime drama and political thriller told from multiple points of view.

Thrilling, bold and provocative, this new series picks up on the prescient themes and story of Geoffrey Wright's 1992 classic film, following a new generation of the activist Right, their Anti-Fascist counterparts and three young Muslims caught up in the conflict. As the tension grows between these groups, powerful and politically connected figures from the past emerge to pull the strings.

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The multi-talented writer-director-actress Agnès Jaoui stars as an aspiring politician who reluctantly revisits her roots in this witty, intelligent and superbly performed comedy.

When she returns to her childhood home in the South of France for an election rally and help her sister with her late mother's affairs, Agathe Villanova (Jaoui) is asked to take part in a documentary about successful women. But the ineptitude of the comically amateurish filmmakers (Jamael Debbouze and Jean-Pierre Bacri) manages to exacerbate the tensions of all those around them, forcing Agathe to confront the consequences of her own ambitions.