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Una docena de elegantes personas se reúne en la mansión de un exitoso escritor. Siguiendo la tradición de Agatha Christie, todos ellos tienen algo que esconder. Entre los invitados, figura uno que es odiado por todos los demás, por sus formas de actuar y su malevolencia. Los invitados comienzan el juego de la verdad, un juego donde se supone que no debes decir mentiras. Las preguntas se vuelven cada vez más íntimas y precisas, y los ánimos irán en aumento. En medio de este clima, alguien es asesinado, pero, ¿quién lo hizo?
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Anne seeks revenge on Jacques who betrayed her trust. She decides to poison him and the people close to him.
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Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role: that of Captain Fracasse.
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Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France during the German occupation. Although the film is not set in any specified period, Gance wanted it to be seen as relevant to the contemporary situation in France. He wrote, "...La Vénus aveugle is at the crossroads of reality and legend... The heroine ... gradually sinks deeper and deeper into despair. Only when she has reached the bottom of the abyss does she encounter the smile of Providence that life reserves for those who have faith in it, and she can then go serenely back up the slope towards happiness. If I have been able to show in this film that elevated feelings are the only force that can triumph over Fate, then my efforts will not have been in vain."
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In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter's happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.
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Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.
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Dos hombres -uno casado y el otro, amante de la mujer del primero- coinciden en las trincheras durante la Primera Guerra Mundial y comparten los horrores de la batalla. Remake del propio Gance de una obra suya de 1919.
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During the Rif War, a lieutenant commands a torpedo boat. He finds in an abandoned yacht, a beautiful portrait of a woman, and soon meets this one who is married to a brutal and jealous baron.
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Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
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A commander suspects his wife of infidelity, when she turns to a subordinate officer to help her against someone threatening to blackmail her about her troubled past.
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French-language remake of Port Arthur (1936): espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky and his Japanese wife Youki.
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The many difficulties of a couple to harmonize, between the need for independence of one and the brutality of the other...