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Casque D'Or (1952)Golden Marie
Georges Manda (Serge Reggiani), an honest woodworker, falls in love with Marie (Simone Signoret), the moll of minor crook Roland (William Sabatier). Gangster boss Felix Leca (Claude Dauphin) orders Georges and Roland to fight a duel to the death over the girl. Felix then pins the blame for Roland's death on Georges' boyhood chum, Raymond (Raymond Bussieres), knowing that the woodworker will nobly accept the blame; this will leave Marie alone, which is what lustful Felix has wanted all along. When Georges learns he's been set up as a dupe, he plots his revenge. Based on the true-life Leca-Manda scandal, 'Casque D'Or' brilliantly mixes violence with tenderness to capture the brutality of the French underworld and the tragedy of doomed love. - Director:
- Jacques Becker
- Cast:
- Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin
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Camera Buff (1979)Amator
Filip (Jerzy Stuhr), a clerk in a small Polish town, buys an 8mm camera to film the baby his wife (Malgorzata Zabkowska) is expecting. His bosses take an interest in it and commision him to film the company's 25th anniversary celebrations. When the result wins a prize at an amateur film festival, Filip, encouraged by his success, becomes consumed by his new found passion. But, as he develops his creative skills, Filip soon discovers that his devotion to making films has unexpected consequences as tensions arise in his marriage, his managers impose censorship upon him and his films inadvertently lead to the sacking of a colleague. Featuring a superb performance from Jerzy Stuhr, 'Camera Buff' is a compelling exploration of the power and responsibility of the filmmaker. - Director:
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Cast:
- Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Ewa Pokas
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The Bridge: Series 3 (2015)Bron/Broen
A famous Danish gender activist and owner of Copenhagen's first gender-neutral children's nursery is found dead on a building site in Malmo, her body arranged in a macabre tableaux amongst a 'family' of mannequins. This marks the beginning of a line of spectacular murders that eventually become personal for Saga. Forced to work with a new Danish partner, who has difficulty accepting her for who she is, and having to deal with her past once more when her mother unexpectedly arrives, Saga is put to the ultimate test both in her work and in her personal life. - Director:
- Rumle Hammerich
- Cast:
- Sofia Helin, Thure Lindhardt, Dag Malmberg
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A Woman's Life (2016)Une Vie
A powerful adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's first novel, 'A Woman's Life' is a timeless story of anguished love set in the repressive world of early 19th century Normandy. Jeanne (Judith Chemla) is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. Yet little by little her illusions are stripped away when she marries a local Viscount, Julien de Lamare (Swann Arlaud), who reveals himself to be a miserly and adulterous partner. - Director:
- Stéphane Brizé
- Cast:
- Judith Chemla, Lise Lamétrie, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
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They are both on the run: the man with the dog he is not allowed to own because the law deems it to be unclean, and the young woman who took part in an illicit party on the shores of the Caspian Sea. They barricade themselves in a secluded villa with curtained windows and eye each other suspiciously. Why has he shaved his head? How does she know he is being followed by the police? They are now prisoners in a house without a view in the midst of a hostile environment The voices of police can be heard in the distance, but so too can the calming sound of the sea. Are we looking at outlaws, or are the man and the young woman merely phantoms, figments of the imagination of a filmmaker who is no longer allowed to work? - Director:
- Jafar Panahi
- Cast:
- Kambuzia Partovi, Maryam Moqadam, Jafar Panahi
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The Colour of Paradise (1999)Rang-e khoda
The Color of Paradise is a fable of both a simple child's innocence and a complex look at faith and humanity. Visually magnificent and wrenchingly moving, the film tells of the story of a blind boy, Mohammed, whose inability to see the world only enhances his ability to feel its powerful forces. From acclaimed director Majid Majidi, The Color Of Paradise continues a strong tradition of Iranian cinema with this very effecting look at a child's definition of the world and his role in it. - Director:
- Majid Majidi
- Cast:
- Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi
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Inversion (2016)Varoonegi
Niloofar (Sahar Dowlatshahi), lives alone in Tehran with her mother, running a clothing workshop. Tehran's air pollution is making it hard to breath. When doctors insist that her mother must leave smog-laden Tehran or soon die, Niloofars family decide that, as she is single, she must also move North with mother. Niloofar is torn between family loyalty and living her own life, pursuing a potential love interest she has kept secret. She is the youngest and she has always succumbed to family pressure, but this time she decides to stand up for herself. - Director:
- Behnam Behzadi
- Cast:
- Alireza Aghakhani, Sahar Dolatshahi, Roya Javidnia
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The Garden of the Finzi Contini (1970)Il giardino dei Finzi Contini / The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Set at the outbreak of War, De Sica's film tells the story of the Finzi Contini, an aristocratic Jewish family protected by the walls of their idyllic estate. Whilst outside Mussolini bans Jews from tennis courts, the Finzi Contini are not worried as they rally on their own, living in their dreamland. Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) is the middle-class Jew in love with his childhood friend, Micol (Dominique Sanda) of the Finzi Contini family, but she is in love with a gentile and wanting of experiences outlawed by the new government. With Giorgio's separation of Micol, De Sica tracks the loss of an idyllic way of life, from the tennis courts to the waiting rooms where Jews await transportation to the concentration camps. - Director:
- Vittorio De Sica
- Cast:
- Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger
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Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made - a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar endowment from a wealthy society j matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up - a missing dinosaur bone, a leopard on the loose, and plenty of gender-bending mayhem among them. Bringing Up Baby's sophisticated dialogue, spontaneous performances, and giddy innuendo come together in a whirlwind of comic chaos captured with lightning-in-a-bottle brio by director Howard Hawks. - Director:
- Howard Hawks
- Cast:
- Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
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It Happened One Night (1934)Night Bus
When her father threatens to annul her marriage to a fortune-hunting playboy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) hops on a cross-country bus to New York, where she plans to live happily ever after with her handsome new hubby. Romantic complications however, when she's befriended by fellow passenger Peter Warne (Clark Gable), a brash and breezy reporter who offers his help in exchange for her exclusive story. - Director:
- Frank Capra
- Cast:
- Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
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In the late 189th century, Captain Vallo, his trusty mute partner Ojo and his crew of nefarious pirates scour the Caribbean searching for ships to plunder. This light heartedx action romp has everything you would expect from a pirate film; scurvy men, a big pirate vessel, swordfights and a damsel in distress! - Director:
- Robert Siodmak
- Cast:
- Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok
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Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)Sils Maria
"Clouds of Sils Maria" follows the story of Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche), an acclaimed actor who is asked to perform in a new production of the play that made her famous twenty years prior. But rather than reprise the role of the alluring young protagonist - now to be performed by an up-and-coming starlet (Chloe Grace Moretz) - Enders will be playing the role of the older, obsessive Helena. Departing to the Swiss Alps with her loyal personal assistant (Kristen Stewart), Maria begins to see life reflecting art and, like her character, cannot help but be drawn into an inexorable web of doubt and fear. - Director:
- Olivier Assayas
- Cast:
- Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz
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Two classic dramas directed by Bernard Vorhaus and Henry Edwards.
The Ghost Camera (1933)When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence but lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray. John then becomes an amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. This was Ida Lupinos' first full feature.
Juggernaut (1936)
Victor Sartorius (Boris Karloff) is an ailing doctor working in Morocco. He teams up with Lady Yvonne Clifford (Mona Goya) in a plot to poison her husband, Sir Charles Clifford (Morton Selten), so he can collect the 20,000 pounds necessary to save his experiments and his funding. Roger Clifford (Arthur Margetson), the son of Sir Charles has also been marked for death. The only one who can stop the murder plot of Sartorius is Nurse Eve Rowe Goan Wyndham).
Bonus Short Feature: The Haunted Palace (1949)
Shaw Desmond, (1877-1960) Irish novelist, poet, founder of the International Institute for Psychical Research in 1934, and author of many works on the afterlife and several Scientific Romances. In this documentray he as the expert on ghosts, attempts to explain ghostly appearances with reconstructions of allegedly true legends.- Director:
- Bernard Vorhaus
- Cast:
- Henry Kendall, Ida Lupino, John Mills
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Corpo Celeste (2011)Corpo celeste
Set within a Catholic community deep in the south of Italy, "Corpo Celeste" is the story of 13 year-old Marta and her struggle to settle in an unfamiliar city after ten years growing up in Switzerland. Bright-eyed, restless and feeling very much an outsider, she clashes with her family and Sunday School teacher as she begins to question the catechism of the Catholic Church and shape her own life for the first time. - Director:
- Alice Rohrwacher
- Cast:
- Salvatore Cantalupo, Anita Caprioli, Renato Carpentieri
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Barbara Stanwyck plays a nightclub singer whose snappy street slang attracts the attention of bookish encyclopaedia editor Gary Cooper and his aged bachelor colleagues who devote their lives to compiling the perfect encyclopeadia. At first, their interest in her is strictly professional, but she soon charms the old men into letting her hide from the police (and her gangster boyfriend) in their mansion, Initially, she resents her forced stay, but after a while she falls for the charm of bookworm Cooper, and makes him realise there is more to life than books. - Director:
- Howard Hawks
- Cast:
- Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka
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