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Married at a very early age to her cousin, Therese Raquin (Simone Signoret) leads an uneventful and joyless existence void of romance with her selfish husband and authoritarian aunt.

The arrival of the handsome Italian Laurent (Raf Vallone) to whom Camille (Jacques Duby) has taken a liking, turns her life upside down. Straight away, sparks of love and passion fly between Thérèse and Laurent, however Camille refuses to agree to a divorce and plans to take Thérèse to Paris, away from temptation. En route, Camille is pushed off the train after a violent dispute with Laurent. The inquiry draws the conclusion of accidental death. However, a young sailor who witnessed the entire scene starts blackmailing Laurent...

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"Paan Singh Tomar" is an untold true story of a simple farmer, a loyal soldier and a champion athlete who became one of India's most dreaded dacoits! A small town lad who went on to win the steeplechase at the Indian National Games for 7 consecutive years and broke the national record, a feat that

was unsurpassed for 10 years! A series of life changing events however forced Paan Singh to give up athletics, pick up the gun and become the scourge of the infamous Chambal valley in central India. Filled with deep emotions and incredible twists, Paan Singh Tomar is a gritty, no holds barred action adventure set in the heart of India's gangland, Chambal.

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Four prostitutes abandon their 'working girl' lifestyle after a change in the law closes their bordello. They open a restaurant.

Flourishing, successful and happy they find that their past comes back to haunt them as they are reported to the police and forced to consider their old 'jobs' as part of the landlord's tenancy agreement.

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In 1950's industrial Yorkshire, social climber Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) woos the boss's daughter as he sets out to reach the top of his profession.

But when his working-class background hampers his efforts, Joe seeks solace with the unhappily married Alice (Simone Signoret), an affair that will have dire consequences.

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Piku (Deepika Padukone) is a Delhi based architect who manages her small business, runs her home and takes care of her 70-year old father Bhashkor Banerji (Amitabh Bachchan). A hypochondriac, Piku's Baba must ensure that he has her attention 24*7 leaving her with little time to do anything else.

Romance and getting a life of her own, just don't seem possible! While both are deeply attached with one another, they are equally strong headed, stubborn and just won't let go when dealing with each other's idiosyncrasies and quirks! When Bhashokar emotionally blackmails Piku to take a road trip from Delhi to Kolkata , the owner of the local cab company Rana (Irrfan Khan) has no choice but to drive them personally since none of his drivers are willing to endure Piku or her eccentric father. During this undesired road trip they learn to deal with each other's moods and idiosyncrasies and it reveals more than Bhashokar's bathroom habits. What follows is a heady mix of motion, emotion and commotion which culminates as Piku and Bhaskhor return to their roots in Kolkata, giving us an insight into the father daughter relationship where Bhaskor's irritating yet endearing demeanor and Piku's equally headstrong nature may always be at loggerheads but this seemingly crazy relationship is bonded by an understated and an unconditional love that leaves you wanting more.

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As Joan (Sylvia Sidney) excitedly awaits the release of her thrice-convicted criminal lover Eddie (Henry Fonda), she has little idea of the tragic consequences that lie in front of them.

Once released, Eddie struggles against a society that refuses to give ex-cons a second chance and before long they are on the run, condemning themselves to an early demise.

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Adapted from the novel by prolific crime fiction author James Goodis (Dark Passage), 'Nightfall' is the story of Jim Vanning (Aldo Ray), an innocent man wrongly accused of murder.

On the same night he has a chance encounter in a bar with glamorous model Marie (Anne Bancroft), the hoods he s spent the past year running from catch up with him, determined to recover the money they believe he stole from them. Pursued by both the hoods and law enforcement, Vanning and Marie go on the lam, leading to a desperate chase that takes them from the streets of Los Angeles to the snowy peaks of Wyoming.

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The film is Fritz Lang's seventh Hollywood feature, made in 1953 on a miniscule budget and shot in just twenty days by one of the best 'noir' cameramen Nicholas Musurca and is considered one of his best murder mystery films.

Norah (Anne Baxter) is a pretty telephone operator engaged to a soldier posted overseas. When she receives a letter from him ending their engagement, feeling despondent, she falls for the charms of Officer Lothario and agrees to a date. They go to the Blue Gardenia Club, where he gets her drunk and then takes her back to his apartment. She is later forced to fight off his lecherous advances by bludgeoning him to death and flees, leaving behind her handkerchief, high heels and a blue gardenia at the scene. She awakes the next morning remembering nothing while a nationwide murder hunt gets underway, but journalist Casey Mayo (Richard Conte) offers his support and suggests an interview in exchange for a fair trial.

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The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism's total corruption of the soul.

In the wake of Hitler's ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates - including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), and the cruelly deviant heir Martin (Helmut Berger) - descend into a self-destructive spiral of decadence, greed, perversion, and allconsuming hatred as they vie for power, over the family business and over one another.

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Out Of Africa follows the true life story of Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep), an amazingly strong-willed woman who moves from Denmark to run a coffee plantation with her philandering husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer) in Kenya around 1914.

To her astonishment she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people and a mysterious British adventurer and idealist (Robert Redford).

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Eliane (Catherine Deneuve) is a wealthy French plantation owner living in Indochina in the 1930's with her father and adopted native daughter Camille (Linh Dan Pham).

She has a brief affair with a young officer, Jean-Baptiste (Vincent Perez), but after she has ended it, to her dismay discovers that Camille is madly in love with the young man. Eliane is able to arrange to have him transferred and Camille subsequently gets married. However, Camille never loses her love for Jean-Baptiste and finally sets off across the country to find him.

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Six years after 'Germany Year Zero', Roberto Rossellini returned to Germany to make this noir-influenced examination of solitude, alienation, and the crisis of moral values in contemporary life.

Loosely based on Stefan Zweig's novel Angst, Fear explores the inner turmoil of a woman pushed to the edge through the anxiety caused by her infidelity. Ingrid Bergman stars as Irene, the wife of a prominent German scientist, Albert Wagner (Mathias Wieman). Irene has been engaged in an illicit affair which she goes to great pains to hide in order to keep her husband blissfully unaware. However, when her lover's jealous ex-girlfriend, Johanna (Renate Mannhardt) learns of the relationship and proceeds to sadistically extort her, Irene's life soon spirals out of control.

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Oiao (the extraordinary Zhao Tao) lives in a depressed mining town. Her boyfriend, Bin (Liao Fan), is a dashing gangster who works for a corrupt property developer. After his boss is murdered, Bin ascends in rank within the Jianghu (a criminal brotherhood) but finds himself vulnerable to rivals.

When they both are arrested, Qiao makes a fateful decision: she takes the blame to save Bin. After five years in prison, she emerges to find her world has transformed. Her former associates have moved into legitimate businesses, while Bin has found another woman. Qiao seeks revenge, but, more importantly, she searches for a new identity in a changing China - a search that will take her to Three Gorges Dam and toward a powerful revelation.

Redford stars as Joe Turner, a junior analyst in the C.I.A., scrutinising published texts from around the world for coded messages. But once he discovers an unusual anomaly, his own existence comes crashing down, with every error carrying potentially fatal consequences.

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This enthralling, erotic tale of a young millionaire and his mysterious bride is bewitching, exciting and beautiful.

Written and directed by legendary cinematic genius Francois Truffaut and featuring European superstars Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo, 'Mississippi Mermaid' is nothing less than breathtaking. Beauty is by no means rare on the lush, tropical Isle de Reunion. yet when island resident and tobacco tycoon Louis Mahe first meets Julie Rouselle - his mail order fiancée - he's completely enraptured by her radiance. But it soon becomes clear that Julie is hiding a dark secret. And when she disappears without a trace, Louis vows to stop at nothing to find her - a resolution that lures him into a tangled web of relentless obsession, uncontrollable passion, and ultimately...cold-blooded murder!