The Seventh Door (1947)
Género : Drama, Fantasía
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 28M
Director : André Zwoboda
Sinopsis
An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property) and he strongly advises him not to open one of the doors, the seventh door. "I could throw the key into the sea" says the young lad" No use, you'd dive to get it back". The young man is curious and he cannot resist temptation: he opens the forbidden door. A strange world is waiting for him where a girl, Leila, will be his guide .
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Sátira en la que Moore se embarca en una "invasión" por Europa para encontrar soluciones que se puedan aplicar a los problemas internos de Estados Unidos.
Argelia, 1954. En medio del duro invierno, Daru (Viggo Mortensen), un profesor francés, acepta de mala gana escoltar a Mohamed (Reda Kateb), un hombre acusado de asesinato, a través de las montañas Atlas para que se enfrente a juicio. Perseguidos por hombres que reclaman la ley de la sangre y por colonos revanchistas, los dos hombres se rebelan. Juntos lucharán para recuperar la libertad.
Pépé le Moko, uno de los delincuentes más buscados de Francia, se esconde en el barrio de la Casbah de Argel. Sabe que la policía le esperará si intenta salir de la ciudad. Cuando Pépé conoce a Gaby, una hermosa mujer de París que se ha perdido en la Casbah, se enamora de ella.
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Comedia sobre un médico que, a punto de casarse, se enamora de su futura cuñada
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Cuando Giacomo se está imaginando en la cama con voluptuosas mujeres, en plan James Bond, le confunden con un verdadero espía y le envían a Túnez en misión secreta.
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Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the Islamists to put the district under their control...
The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is friend with president Steiger, leader of the French settlers but also with the old Arab Bouarab. One night looking at the Bay of Algiers, Louis is convinced that the world in which he has grown will disappear. The first events of the War of Independence have begun. The young boys and young girls have a good time at the seaside: swimming, dancing, flirting. But, little by little, the war becomes part of their daily life.
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