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Raised in a brothel, then wrested from the only life she knew by her father, so they could join the circus, Edith Piaf spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start and, ultimately, by her international success and final illness. Always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental, she was often on drugs or alcohol and was always in search of true love. Middleweight boxer, Marcel...
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Jean de Florette: Set amidst the rugged hills of Provence, this epic saga follows the heroic efforts of Jean Cadoret, who inherits a farm from his mother, Florette, and leaves his city job behind, hoping to create a "new Eden" with his wife and daughter. But, unbeknownst to Jean, his greedy neighbor, César Soubeyran, is plotting to steal the land out from under him with a wicked scheme that drives Jean to the brink of madness.
Manon of the spring:...
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Celebrity has unexpected consequences for everyone who lives in its shadow, as the family, friends and hangers-on of a famous writer discover. Lolita's father is a writer whose fame has made him so self-centered he has no clue the effect his egotistical behavior has on everyone around him. Now that she has grown up, Lolita becomes even more determined to make him notice her - especially since she's discovered a talent of her own and would like his...
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Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
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Film Movement volume 10, film 7
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Eli, who's about to be 60, is expecting a baby with his new wife. Upon hearing this news, his two grown daughters, Dom, who is trying to adopt, and Justine, who flits from one boyfriend to the next, are shocked. To get closer to Justine, whom he has never gotten along with, Eli has the bright idea of making friends with all of her exes ... without her knowledge. But when Justine falls in love again and Eli is about to ruin everything, this family...
10) Wasabi
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A French police detective travels to Japan to settle the estate of a dead ex-lover, where a series of violent and comedic surprises await him.
11) Auction
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Film Movement volume 12, film 3
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"A man of few words, Gaby manages his family's farm--Buchard & Sons--on his own, despite his advancing age. With no actual sons to speak of and his two grown daughters living far away in the big city, he spends his days tending to the animals and land that surround him, eschewing modern technology and most social interactions. When his eldest daughter, Marie, appears at the family homestead to share news that she's finally getting divorced and in...
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Lionel is a middle-aged widower who makes his living driving a train and shares an apartment with his twenty-something daughter Josephine. Lionel and Josephine have a warm and caring relationship. Lionel's on-and-off girlfriend Gabrielle and their footloose friend Noe live in the same building. Together the four have fallen into a casual family relationship. But when Josephine and Noe become more than friends, Lionel is on edge.
14) The rabbi's cat
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A rabbi's cat magically begins speaking and discusses religion and philosophy with the rabbi and his daughter.
15) Curling
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Set on the fringe of society in a remote part of the Quebecois countryside, this takes a keen look at the unusual private life of a father and his daughter. Between his unremarkable jobs, Jean-Francois devotes an awkward energy to Julyvonne. The fragile balance of their relationship will be jeopardized by some bleak circumstances.
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Kabul, Afghanistan, 2005. Jacky is master of his own little domain, his kitchen. It's a free-spirited place where sex, booze and the Taliban collide and it's the only place where expats can enjoy a swimming pool in the heart of the Afghan capital. Jacky's raking in the dough with the perfect gig until one single event changes everything. In walks Sophie, someone Jacky hasn't seen for twenty years. She's a humanitarian aid worker, she's deeply altruistic...
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Prise d'une jalousie incontrôlable à l'égard de la maîtresse de son père, veuf depuis plusieurs années, Cécile, une adolescente oisive et gâtée, va jusqu'à provoquer la mort de celle qu'elle considère comme sa rivale. Ce premier roman de l'auteure connut un très grand succès lors de sa parution, durant l'été 1954, et marqua son époque. Cette version est conforme à l'édition originale.
20) Seul contre tous
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Psychological drama about the futility and hopelessness faced by a French butcher who was the central character in Noé's 1991 film Carne. After being released from prison he leaves his mute daughter in a Paris institution and moves to Lille with his new mistress. Things do not work out, and he is forced to face the humiliation of job hunting in Paris.