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poster Defamation
Defamation
(3.8/5)
91mn - Documentary
Intent on shaking up the ultimate 'sacred cow' for Jews, Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative - and at times irreverent - quest to answer the question, "What is anti-Semitism today?"
poster Marianne
Marianne
(3.1/5)
111mn - Comedy, Music, Romance
In the waning days of World War I, Marianne, a spirited French farm girl who runs an inn and cares for war orphans, finds herself torn between duty and desire. Promised to her fiancé André who's fighting …
poster Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
(3.7/5)
113mn - Adventure, Drama, History
A brilliant swordsman-poet with an enormous nose secretly loves the beautiful Roxane but believes himself too ugly to be loved, so he helps his handsome but tongue-tied friend Christian win her heart by w…
poster The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror
(2.8/5)
102mn - History, Drama
The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his und…
poster La Parisienne
La Parisienne
(3.2/5)
86mn - Comedy
The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.
poster Second Chorus
Second Chorus
(2.9/5)
84mn - Comedy, Romance, Music
Two rival trumpeters in a college band sabotage each other at every turn while competing for the affections of their beautiful new manager Ellen Miller. When both men pursue spots in Artie Shaw's prestigi…
poster Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
(3.5/5)
52mn - Documentary, History, War
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of com…
poster Cendrillon
Cendrillon
(2.8/5)
Nonemn -
1922 version of Walt Disney's Cinderella
poster The Defect
The Defect
41mn -
LA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable hospital. Over the years, she rises to become the head of the institution, but when an old habitué of the d…
poster LĂ©once Loves Morels
LĂ©once Loves Morels
(2.8/5)
14mn -
A photogenic Partie de campagne with LĂ©once looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.
poster The Smiling Madame Beudet
The Smiling Madame Beudet
(4/5)
54mn - Drama
An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
poster Entr'acte
Entr'acte
(3.7/5)
22mn - Comedy, Fantasy
Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp …
poster Bluebeard
Bluebeard
(3.2/5)
80mn - Fantasy, Drama, Thriller
Anne reads her younger sister, Marie-Catherine, the story of Bluebeard. In 17th-century France, another set of sisters — also named Anne and Marie-Catherine — are left impoverished by their father's death…
poster The Oyster Princess
The Oyster Princess
60mn - Comedy
A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way there are mishaps, misunderstandings and a foxtrot sequence that must be se…
poster Barrabas
Barrabas
489mn - Crime
Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the leader of a brutal underground gang causing chaos and destruction in the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring S…
poster Onésime a un duel à l'américaine
Onésime a un duel à l'américaine
5mn -
Onésime short
poster Penn of Pennsylvania
Penn of Pennsylvania
(2.8/5)
78mn - History, Drama
A young English aristocrat abandons privilege and defies his father to join the persecuted Quakers, ultimately founding Pennsylvania as a revolutionary colony based on religious tolerance and peaceful coe…
poster Mademoiselle de La Seiglière
Mademoiselle de La Seiglière
87mn - Family, Drama
The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to France once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to…
poster Waxworks
Waxworks
(3.3/5)
83mn - Fantasy, Drama, Horror
A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize…
poster Monsieur Beaucaire
Monsieur Beaucaire
(3/5)
106mn - Drama, Romance
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two ma…
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