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Finales de siglo XIX, "Croûteux Inn" es un hostal en mitad de las montañas de los Pirineos. El establecimiento está a cargo de Martin y Rose, una pareja que tiene la costumbre de pedirle a su hijo adoptado sordomudo, Violet, que asesine a viajeros solitarios para robar sus pertenencias. Hasta que una tormentosa noche, el padre Carnus decide guiar a un adolescente a través de las montañas para llegar al monasterio.
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"La Pasión de Bernadette" es la segunda parte de la película "Bernadette". Narra el resto de la historia de la vida de Bernadette, desde su ingreso en el convento de las hermanas de Nevers para dedicar su vida a Dios, hasta su muerte.
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Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits Charles, a shoe manufacturer whose uncle is a Nazi sympathizer in the Vichy government. Charles and Alice become lovers when they are picked up in Paris by Nazi soldiers on a curfew violation.
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A bombing raid makes travelling companions of a blind man, Fernand, and Antoine, a criminal. Fernand is a virgin and is depending on his new friend to find him a woman. But to Antoine, on the run, his fellow victim is more a burden than a boon.
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Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie's mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train after he arrived in France, but Edouard denies any knowledge of what happened. Sylvie suspects that Edouard is responsible for Nemrod's death, but by now her mother has become Edouard's ally.
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Adaptación de la conocidísima novela negra "1280 Almas" de Jim Thompson. La historia se desarrolla en el África Colonial Francesa en 1938, inmediatamente antes del estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cuenta las andanzas del jefe de policía de un miserable poblado al que nadie toma en serio. Un día decide tomarse la justicia por su mano.
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Semblanza biográfica de Alphonsine de Plessis (Isabelle Huppert), la famosa prostituta parisina que fue la musa que inspiró a Alejandro Dumas hijo para escribir "La dama de las camelias", obra en la que se basó Giuseppe Verdi para componer la ópera "La Traviata". Alphonsine aparece como un personaje vulnerable y desamparado y, sobre todo, condicionado por su precaria salud y su voraz apetito sexual.
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Francia, 1893. Cuando Joseph Bouvier, un sargento francés, es rechazado por su novia, la mata y después se pega un tiro en la cabeza. Milagrosamente ambos sobreviven, y él es internado en un centro psiquiátrico. Con las facultades mentales aún perturbadas, sale del hospital y lleva una vida errante por las carreteras. Durante cinco años viola y mata a una docena de adolescentes en las granjas que va encontrando a su paso. Cuando, por fin, lo detienen, se declara un "anarquista de Dios". El ambicioso juez Rousseau se hará cargo del caso.
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A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
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En el distrito de Saint-Paul, en Lyon, Michel Descombes, un relojero de mediana edad, lleva una tranquila y aburrida vida de soltero en compañía de Bernard, suhijo adolescente. Abandonado por su mujer muchos años antes, ha criado a su hijo sin ayuda de nadie. Pero la ordenada vida del relojero cambia el día que recibe la inesperada visita de la policía para darle una mala noticia.
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In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but Clovis rapidly becomes obsessed with storing the precious tubers.
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Comedia de sketches con varios directores, cada uno de los cuales muestra un paso adelante en la historia de la prostitución, desde la prehistoria hasta nuestros días.
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A sequel to Claude Autant-Lara's 1965 A Woman in White.
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Claude Sauvage, a tenacious young gynecologist takes a months long internship in a Paris hospital. Between her private life and medical career, she set her doubts and desires in a society where the square and the plight of women remain at that time a secondary issue. The film follows Claude and the staff through the case of some patients while the crucial debate on women's professional ambition, contraception and abortion rights.
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Un estudiante matriculado en un colegio católico de chicos, en la Francia de los años treinta, comienza a colaborar en una campaña iniciada por sus profesores para frenar cualquier tipo de relación más allá de la pura amistad que pueda surgir entre los alumnos.
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Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives.
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La vida de Pauline, la hermana favorita de Napoleón Bonaparte, es uno de sus sacrificados y frustrados romances. Su primer encuentro fue interrumpido por su hermano por razones políticas. Luego, en sus desplazamientos a Italia, conoce y se enamora de su ideal, Jules de Canouville. Una vez más, el partido no es del agrado de Napoleón y ella es obligada a casarse con uno de sus generales, Leclerc.
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Film de sketches que giran en torno al mensaje del título.
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A soap-opera/murder mystery that builds to a deliriously melodramatic finale.
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At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a French Resistance fighter. They discuss morality, obedience, and religion.
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Michel Ferréol reluctantly meets up with an old school friend, Antoine Fiesco. Michel didn’t like Antoine much when they were at school and tries to get away by making an excuse. He changes his mind when Antoine introduces him to his wife, a beautiful brunette named Christine.
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París, 1943. Para complacer a su amante, Yvette, de 17 años de edad, Antoine Michaud se implica en actividades del mercado negro con su amigo, Paul Tiercelin. Mientras sus padres creen que está en unas vacaciones, se hace cargo de la entrega de un envío de champán. No pasa mucho tiempo antes que su padre descubre la verdad... (FILMAFFINITY)
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Matteo Diaz es un adinerado hombre casado que, a pesar de querer a su esposa Maria Teresa, satisface sus placeres con otras mujeres dado que Maria Teresa es paralítica. Su mujer, resignada, acepta esta situación porque está segura de los sentimientos de su esposo y sabe que nunca lleva estas aventuras más allá de lo casual. Todo cambia cuando en una fiesta Matteo conoce a una arrebatadora muchacha llamada Eva Marchand, por la cual perderá el juicio y hará imposible que pueda contener los violentos deseos que ella despierta en él. Para terminar de agravarlo, Eva le rechazará, pues Matteo representa todo aquello que ella más odia.
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In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagorianski to look after his children. Alexei discovers that his employer is a compulsive gambler who has been almost ruined by his addiction. The only money the General has is provided by the Marquis de Grieux, an adventurer who intends to marry Zagorianski’s sister, Pauline. In doing so, de Grieux hopes to profit from the vast inheritance that will come the General’s way from his Aunt Antonina, who is presently very ill. Alexei is appalled by this society which lives only for money. He loves Pauline and wants to take her to a healthier place, but when she refuses to marry him, he begins to gamble at the casino…
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André, un abogado casado, deberá defender el caso de Yvette, una bella muchacha acusada de hurto. Durante la preparación de su defensa, él se sentirá atraído por ella hasta el punto que no verá que ella no está siendo sincera con él.
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Adaptación del clásico de Victor Hugo, con una exuberante Gina Lollobrigida como Esmeralda y el siempre excelente Anthony Quinn interpretando al tierno jorobado enamorado de la bella zíngara.
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Durante la ocupación nazi de París, un torpe e ingenuo estraperlista se ve obligado a pedir ayuda a un extraño individuo que dice ser pintor para poder transportar en varias maletas un cerdo troceado. Juntos tendrán que cruzar la ciudad en plena noche. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Basada en la novela de Émile Zola "L'Assomoir". Narra los graves problemas de Gervaise, una joven cuyo marido es alcohólico y que, sin embargo, hace todo lo posible por mantener unida a su familia.
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Judge Julien Lamy regularly deals with the welfare of children, namely down on their luck delinquents. When an orphan named Alain Robert burns down a barn belonging to his abusive foster family, Judge Lamy has no choice but to send him to a juvenile jail. There he meets an older boy named Francis Lanoux, who is desperate to escape and be reunited with his girlfriend Sylvette. The boys eventually flee the institution, as Francis goes in search of his lost love and Alain continues looking for his parents. Unfortunately, the little rebels run into some big problems once on the outside.
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Judge Julien Lamy regularly deals with the welfare of children, namely down on their luck delinquents. When an orphan named Alain Robert burns down a barn belonging to his abusive foster family, Judge Lamy has no choice but to send him to a juvenile jail. There he meets an older boy named Francis Lanoux, who is desperate to escape and be reunited with his girlfriend Sylvette. The boys eventually flee the institution, as Francis goes in search of his lost love and Alain continues looking for his parents. Unfortunately, the little rebels run into some big problems once on the outside.
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Adaptación de la novela homónima de Stendhal. Francia, Siglo XIX. Julian es un tipo sin escrúpulos, capaz de cualquier cosa con tal de ascender en la escala social. Aunque es hijo de un carpintero, en lugar de trabajar como sus hermanos, él se pasa el tiempo leyendo libros.
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Celestin works as an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of the girls' incessant practical jokes. By night, however, he is the celebrated composer of popular operas -- and the romantic vis-à-vis of a celebrated stage star. When schoolgirl Denise stumbles onto Celestin's secret, she threatens to tell all -- but only if Celestin refuses to escort her to the opening night of his latest opera. As a result, Denise falls in love with a handsome young soldier, while Celestin is accidentally shipped off to an army camp. A series of silly coincidences brings happiness to all concerned by fade-out time.
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Tres episodios: un hombre al que nunca vemos presenta a las tres protagonistas del film. Elizabeth, una víctima de la II Guerra Mundial; Juana, que hizo la guerra, y Lisístrata, que luchó contra la guerra.
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Based on the novel by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Friends since infancy, Philippe and Vinea have always regarded themselves as brother and sister. But as adolescence segues into puberty, the two youngsters fall in love.
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Based on the novel by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Friends since infancy, Philippe and Vinea have always regarded themselves as brother and sister. But as adolescence segues into puberty, the two youngsters fall in love.
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The first to die in an epidemic of meningitis in Vera Cruz is a French tourist. His wife Nellie, detached and indifferent, feels little grief and realizes that her coldness is her own doom. Over the next two days, she is attracted to George, a local drunk who does odd jobs for brothels and dances grotesquely for tourists in exchange for drinks. George has his own dark secret, a tragedy he caused that leaves him with a death wish. In assisting the local doctor to cope with the epidemic, these two emotional cripples enable each other to rediscover reasons to live and to love.
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Junio de 1940. Centenares de franceses, entre los que se encuentran la pequeña Paulette y sus padres, se dirigen en un desesperado éxodo hacia el sur de Francia. Los aviones nazis sobrevuelan el camino y bombardean sin piedad a la multitud. Los padres de Paulette y su perro mueren durante el ataque. Alguien lanza el cadáver del animal al río, pero la niña, incapaz de separarse de él, decide seguirlo, lo que propicia su encuentro con Michel, un chico de once años, que la lleva a la granja de sus padres, donde es muy bien acogida.
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A French/Italian motion picture drama covering the seven deadly sins in seven separate sections.
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Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the attention of Madame Alice, a shady woman who persuaded him to pose for pornographic photos meant for lonely aging women. Marceau also served as a gigolo before the war and captivity put an end to this juicy business. Now he wants to start a new life, all the more as ha has found love in the person of a pure young lady named Dominique. But Madame Alice won't hear of it...
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A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.
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A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.
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The inhabitants of a Scottish island in the 19th century follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis.
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Young Amélie is currently enjoying life as the kept woman of her reasonably well off boyfriend Étienne. But when Étienne is called off for military duty, he enlists his playboy friend Marcel to keep an eye on her....something of a problem seeing that he is currently looking for a woman with which to create a sham marriage so he can quickly inherit a large sum of money from his father. Then suddenly the Prince of Palestra enters into the picture and boldly asks for Étienne's romantic favors to assess whether or not he would consider taking her as his bride. What's a free-spirited girl to do?
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Un hombre, que es buscado por un crimen pasional, abandona su escondite a bordo de un barco para buscar ayuda médica en Génova. (FILMAFFINITY)
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On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock with Victorine Rousset nicknamed Maryse, a colorful tramp. When Garrone's son, Pilou, a worker, falls in love with Augusta, the mayor's daughter, the unconventional old couple tries to protect the unconventional young pair from the disapproval of self righteous villagers.
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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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Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Basada en un polémica novela escrita en 1923 por Raymond Radiguet. Narra la relación amorosa entre un adolescente y una joven cuyo marido está en el frente. A pesar de su éxito, tuvo problemas con la censura en varios países. En 1986, el director italiano Marco Bellocchio hizo otra adaptación del mismo título, pero ambientada en los ochenta.
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A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
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A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
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Animated short originally produced in France by Paul Grimault.
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A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father hires three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her. Little do they know, the ghost of the suitor himself is roaming the castle halls.
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A brave bookseller raises his four daughters alone, all of whom he employs in his shop. They are especially interested in their sentimental stories. Rosine, the youngest, falls in love with Francis, fiancé of Edith, the eldest. But Francis pushes her away and Rosine announces that she is going to commit suicide. Bertrand, a young doctor, decides to stop her by watching over her. After a few adventures, everything finally works out. Edith keeps her fiancé, the father, from whom the adventure has been hidden, returns to the usual course of his life and Bertrand and Rosine find themselves alone.
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Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital. Due to his large disability pension fund, several families claim him as their missing son. Gaston is introduced to the Renaud family by the Duchess Dupont-Dufort and her lawyer. The Renaud family attempt to revive Gaston's memory with stories of his past, but he is apalled by some of the things he hears and dislikes the man he is supposed to be.
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Winner of the grand prize at the 1946 Venice Biennale
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Adrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time. His latest revolutionary creation is the motorized roller skate. His problem is to be able to market them. Jules Petitpas, a jobless adman, is the right man for that.
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In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.
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A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
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The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis tells about the death of an old man in the lifeboat carrying the survivors. Husband and wife agree that this could be the starting point of a new story and go and see Dupuis to get more details about the drama. When they come to his hotel Dupuis is dead with a bullet in his head. Police characterizes the death as suicide but Paladine has found a train ticket in the dead man's pocket. With his wife he takes the train to the specified destination, somewhere in the provinces...
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An unconsummated marriage to fool the father who wants his heir to be wed.
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Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...
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The note seller Bicornu is annoyed by a troubadour named Niglo.
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Deals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on the play of the same name.
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Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
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Five people are gathered in a cafe because of a phone call they have all received. The plot thickens when they discover a dead body in a bedroom upstairs.The five people all become suspects.
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En un modesto hotel de un barrio popular de París, Renée (Annabella) y Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), una joven pareja de enamorados, alquilan una habitación para una sola noche. Ambos jóvenes tiene intención de suicidarse: Pierre matará a Renée de un tiro, y luego disparará contra sí mismo. Pero el plan no sale como tenían planeado...
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When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing her mind and sending her to live with her mother while sailing.
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Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her husband .
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Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her husband .
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A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their honeymoon, he takes his young wife in his arms when a customs officer suddenly enters the compartment. The groom is now inhibited.
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This 1933 documentary delves into the rich waters of the Rhone. Around Lyon, fishing is already rented and poisoned by industrial waste. Fishermen are forced to poaching at night. They are nicknamed the "Pirates of the Rhone."
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La Séance de spiritisme (La sesión de espiritismo) fue un corto publicitario (para Muebles Lévitan) de menos de dos minutos, dirigido en 1931 por el que luego sería conocido como famoso guionista, Jean Aurenche. Para este corto contó con la colaboración del luego realizador Paul Grimault, en su primer trabajo de animación por la técnica de Stop motion. En 1988, Grimault realiza un corto de animación, en color, fundiéndolo con las viejas imágenes en blanco y negro del antiguo film de Aurenche, con el que se iniciará el cortometraje. A su vez, el corto está incluído en "La table tournante" (1988), recopilación de cortos de Jacques Demy y Paul Grimault.
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La Séance de spiritisme (La sesión de espiritismo) fue un corto publicitario (para Muebles Lévitan) de menos de dos minutos, dirigido en 1931 por el que luego sería conocido como famoso guionista, Jean Aurenche. Para este corto contó con la colaboración del luego realizador Paul Grimault, en su primer trabajo de animación por la técnica de Stop motion. En 1988, Grimault realiza un corto de animación, en color, fundiéndolo con las viejas imágenes en blanco y negro del antiguo film de Aurenche, con el que se iniciará el cortometraje. A su vez, el corto está incluído en "La table tournante" (1988), recopilación de cortos de Jacques Demy y Paul Grimault.
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Después de un prólogo documental sobre las costumbres del alacrán, unos bandidos descubren a un grupo de arzobispos orando en un acantilado. La fundación de la Imperial Roma, celebrada en el sitio donde oraban los clérigos, se ve interrumpida por los lances amorosos de una pareja que es separada. El hombre es conducido a prisión pero logra escapar y se refugia en casa de su amada. Durante una fiesta, la pareja intenta consumar su pasión sin éxito. Finalmente, los sobrevivientes de una criminal orgía, entre los que se encuentra el duque de Blangis, salen del castillo de Selliny. (FILMAFFINITY)
