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Blanche (Emmanuelle Chaulet) has recently moved to Cergy-Pontoise to work at the town hall. During a lunch break she meets the vivacious and immediately likeable Lea (Sophie Renoir). Although she is not fond of sports, Lea agrees to go swimming with Blanche at the local pool.

There they meet Alexandre (François-Eric Gendron), one of Lea's acquaintances, along with Adrienne, his current girlfriend. Blanche soon falls under the spell of the younger engineer. The holidays arrive, Lea leaves while Blanche stays on. By chance, Blanche bumps into Alexandre in the street. She clumsily tries to make a pass at him. Soon she bumps into Fabien, Lea's boyfriend...

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The third part in Eric Rohmer's 'Tales of the Four Seasons', charts the summer vacation of Gaspard, a young man who claims nothing ever happens in his life. But one summer, he discovers that nothing could be further from the truth.

In Dinard, a seaside resort in rural Brittany, Gaspard becomes romantically entangled with three beautiful young women: his classmate Lena, waitress Margot, and the outgoing Solene, whom he meets at a party. As the girls' patience with him begins to wear thin, a confused Gaspard must make the difficult choice between them.

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Luciano (Aniello Arena) is a Neapolitan fishmonger who supplements his modest income by pulling off little scams together with his wife, Maria (Loredana Simioli). A likeable, entertaining guy, Luciano never misses an opportunity to perform for his customers and countless relatives.

One day his family urge him to try out for a reality TV show. As his perception of reality begins to change, Luciano plunges into a self-delusional fantasy that threatens to destroy his relationship with his loved ones.

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After suffering a head wound in the last days of WW1, a soldier claims he can read minds and foresee the future. Adopting the name Erik Jan Hanussen (Klaus Maria Brandauer), he sets himself up as a clairvoyant in a Berlin theatre.

He predicts the rise of fascism and the election of Hitler as Chancellor, thus ingratiating himself with those in power. Based on a remarkable true story, Szabo's third collaboration with actor Klaus Maria Brandauer tracks Hanussen's rise in parallel with the Nazi regime to dark, mesmerising effect.

One night on the streets of Liverno, world-weary Marco (Marcello Mastroianni) bumps into Natalia (Maria Schell). Visibly distressed, Natalia recounts the story of a lost love (Jean Marais). In a bid to remain close to her, Mario reluctantly agrees to help find him.

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As the Nazis rise to power, German actor Hendrik Hoefgen (Klaus Maria Brandauer) faces a stark choice: political compliance or professional outer darkness. So eager is Hoefgen for applause that he opts for the former and becomes a star of the Nazi propaganda machine.

But in pre-World War II Germany, there is a terrible price to pay for selling one's soul to the devil.

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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.

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Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast. Taking a job as a casino croupier just to make ends meet, he finds himself seduced by the high stakes world of luck and chance.

As the job takes over his life and his relationship to girlfriend Marion (Gina McKee) begins to crumble, Jack's attention is caught by down-on-her-luck gambler Jani (Alex Kingston). Under pressure from her creditors, she asks Jack to be the inside man for a planned heist at the casino. It all sounds so easy. But even a pro can't predict the cards he will be dealt.

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In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbour is pitted against neighbour in Eddington, New Mexico.

A provocative, era-defining thriller from Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) that unpacks the forces that led us to where we are today, featuring a powerhouse ensemble including Austin Butler and Emma Stone.

From the balcony of her Parisian apartment, a young woman (Dominique Sanda) jumps to her death. As her body is laid out to rest, her husband (Guy Frangin) reflects on their marriage and the possible reasons that may have led to suicide.

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These astonishing documentaries, by groundbreaking director Ken Russell (Valentino, The Devils), were originally broadcast in the BBC TV arts documentary strands Monitor and Omnibus.

'Elgar' (1962), Russell's tribute to the music he loved, is remarkable for its sensitive portrayal of the rise of a young musician from an underprivileged background to international fame. 'The Debussy Film' (1965), co-written by Melvyn Bragg, is a truly experimental work that culminates in a sublimely ethereal finale. Perhaps the finest of Russell's 1960s biographical BBC productions, 'Song of Summer' (1968) is an immensely moving story of sacrifice, idealism and musical genius which charts the final five years in the life of Frederick Delius.

Washed-up revolutionary Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti). When his evil nemesis Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw (Sean Penn) resurfaces after 16 years, they must face Bob's past and run for the future.

When a series of Supreme court judges are murdered, inspector Rogas (Lino Ventura) is sent to discover the truth. A procedural noir soon turns to a labyrinthine conspiracy in which corruption and institutional power converge.

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A masterful mix of film noir and police thriller set on the sweltering mean streets of occupied Tokyo.

When rookie detective Murakami (Toshiro Mifune) has his pistol stolen from his pocket while on a bus, his frantic attempts to track down the thief lead him to an illegal weapons market in the Tokyo Underworld. But the gun has already passed from the pickpocket to a young gangster, and Murakami's gun is identified as the weapon in the shooting of a woman. Murakami, overwhelmed with remorse, turns for help to his older and more experienced senior, Sato (a superb performance by Takashi Shimura). The race is on to find the shooter before he can strike again...

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Frederique is a cool, rich predatory lesbian who picks up a young student, Why, taking her back to her elegant villa in St. Tropez. They lived happily together for some time, annoyed only by the lunatic pranks of the two resident camp buffoons.

At the party, Why is attracted to a young architect who readily seduces her. Frederique is rather amused by her young campions budding romance; but she later visits Paul and allows him to seduce her as well. Slowly and initially reluctantly he enters their lives and an uncertain, unsettling menage-a-trois is formed.