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The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.
When gambler John looses all his money in Afrika, he takes a job as bodyguard for the successful scriptwriter Eva. He's immediately fascinated and attracted to her and starts to neglect his jealous girlfriend Louise. Eva seems to return John's feelings - but not long, and she tells him what she really expects him to do for her. Only Louise suspects that no good will come out of this...
Maria Alfonsin
This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to bring down billionaire drug lords Don Pablo Escobar Gaviria and José Rodriguez Gacha, leaders of the infamous Medellin Cartel.
Madame Morey
With the dangerous smoothness of a tiger stalking his prey, Peter has circled the au pair Michèle. She quickly succumbs to his fascinating charisma and experiences for the first time a hitherto unknown, tender security. "I'll kill you," says Peter, as gently as cold-bloodedly. A macabre joke or a serious warning?
Hélène Fillon
France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting a young lover ...
Sonia
Herself
Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation, the program surveys France's most famous churches. Travel back to 1214 to explore the design of Notre Dame de Beaulieu, a representative Gothic cathedral. The program tells period tales revealing fascinating stories of life and death, faith and despair, prosperity, and intrigue.
Véronique
Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pascal is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancée, scorned by his associates, and cheated out of his inheritance by contemptuous relatives. The dispirited Pascal heads to Monte Carlo, accruing a fortune and also assuming the identity of a less fortunate gambler who killed himself. The "new" Pascal is treated with a dignity and respect that overwhelms him--and nearly kills him.
Anne
A young girl accuses her parents of being murderers. Hurriedly committed to an asylum, she attracts the attention of a psychologist who is determined to get to the bottom of the story. At her own risk.
Karine
Six young people decide to create their own television channel to compete with the official channels where they were not admitted. Canal soleil is the name of the pirate station and a real success. But when the pirate channel launches a parking meter snatching contest, the police get angry because thousands of parking meters are snatched. The minister decides to entrust the case to Inspector Harry Kossek, nicknamed "Super Cop".
Nicole, une femme nue à la piscine (as Caroline Bergh)
Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realises he can't stop the process, he decides to "flash" himself.
Pamela
A film producer on the verge of ruin decides to make an erotic film.
Claudine
An acting couple is forced to assess their life together when the wife falls for a wealthy horse-breeder while shooting a film.
Olimpia
The marquess of Grillo is a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes. The film tells the story of his life.
Marie-Christine