Leslie Caron

The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence of greed, and to breathe new life into the lyricism of the original text by setting its scenes to extraordinary tableaux of modern dance.

A choreographer must face an unresolved romantic encounter from her past as she creates a new dance work.

A documentary about Academy Award-winning costume designer Cecil Beaton. A respected photographer, artist, and set designer, Beaton was best known for designing on award-winning films such as 'Gigi' (1958) and 'My Fair Lady' (1964). The film features archive footage and interviews with a number of models, artists, and filmmakers who worked closely with Beaton during his illustrious career.

The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image of his genius as a father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

One night, a little boy is forced to spend the evening at his grandmother's, an eighty-year-old stage actress. He is bored. She doesn't want to play with him but she asks him to rehearse with her. Her premiere is the next day and she can't remember her lines.

Leslie Caron, beloved star of Gigi and An American in Paris, is one of the last witnesses to the golden age of American cinema of the mid 20th century. Discovered by Gene Kelly when she was a teenager, she became one of the great talents in the worlds of film, dance, and theatre, still performing to this day! The film reveals a story told through the prism of a living legend who reveals secrets of her work and life- a world of contradictions, ambitions and dreams, lived by one of its most luminous personalities.

Ser o primeiro em alguma coisa é uma honra poucas vezes alcançada, e irá colocá-lo nos livros de História para sempre. O Eurochannel convida-os a conhecer uma impressionante lenda, um dos maiores cineastas da Grã-Bretanha, em Jack Cardiff: Vida e obra de um Cameraman.

The history of Hollywood musical movies, from the very beginning until the 21st century, hosted by Shirley Jones.

This recently produced behind-the-scenes documentary digs into Gershwin's original work, the genesis of the cinematic adaptation, casting, the shoot, and the eventual reception of the film.

Documentary on the making of Gigi

Isabel Walker, americana, vai para a França visitar sua irmã Roxeanne, que está grávida, mas foi abandonada pelo marido recentemente. Durante sua estadia na França, Isabel se apaixona por Edgard, um diplomata francês que é casado e também é tio de sua irmã. E juntamente com Roxeanne, Isabel passa a conhecer a bela Paris e participar de seus acontecimentos e eventos sociais.

American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he formed a style (first "blue collar dancer") and developed different cinematique techniques, such as brilliantly shot dancing sequences.

From Czarist Russia's Moscow Art Theatre to Hollywood's biggest film, narrator Gregory Peck joins an A-list of Hollywood stars to take us through the odyssey of two Russian born Hollywood legends: The great acting teacher Michael Chekhov and the amazing director George Shdanoff.

O célebre detetive belga Hercule Poirot é incumbido de desvendar um assassinato ocorrido dentro do luxuoso Expresso Oriente. Contudo, à medida que o confinamento dos passageiros se perpetua fica claro que o crime ocorrido no vagão tem raízes mais sinistras do que ele imaginava.

Vianne Rocher, uma jovem mãe solteira, e sua filha de seis anos resolvem se mudar para uma cidade rural da França. Lá decidem abrir uma loja de chocolates que funciona todos os dias da semana, bem em frente à igreja local, o que atrai a certeza da população de que o negócio não vá durar muito tempo. Porém, aos poucos Vianne consegue persuadir os moradores da cidade em que agora vive a desfrutar seus deliciosos produtos, transformando o ceticismo inicial em uma calorosa recepção.

After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.

Set in early 1900s France, a widow renews a former romantic interest until it is discovered that he has had a past fling with one of her new employees, a nanny. This sets the two women into many well-mannered accusations and conversations, but no modern brawling, and puts him in the middle or possibly on the outside.

During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis. After being freed she falls in love with and marries a German officer. When Berlin falls to the Russians, and her husband killed, she flees to America, carrying his unborn child, all the while not giving up hope that she will find her family, tied together by her mother's ring.

Right after getting engaged, a man starts taking dance lessons.

Em Las Vegas, após fracassar na frente de um público influente, incluindo seu pai, um humorista lendário, o aspirante a comediante Tommy Fawkes viaja para sua pequena cidade natal, Blackpool, na Inglaterra, em busca de inspiração para o seu trabalho. Lá, ele conhece Katie Parker, uma cantora que foi amiga de seus pais na juventude. O filho da cantora, Jack, é um brilhante comediante que guarda um segredo sobre o pai de Tommy.

Algumas das estrelas musicais da MGM revisam a história dos musicais dos estúdios. De 'The Hollywood Revue' de 1929 a ' A Lenda dos Beijos Perdidos' de 1954. Dos primeiros talkies musicais a Gene Kelly em 'Cantando na Chuva' de 1952.

Documentary on the World War II invasion of Normandy by the Allies on June 6, 1944 utilizing diaries, personal letters, home movies, snapshots, period music and vintage radio broadcasts and newsreels.

O político britânico Stephen está em um casamento sem graça, mas estável, com Ingrid. Quando Stephen conhece a noiva sedutora de seu filho, Anna, ele se apaixona e começa um romance intenso, mas perigoso com ela. Dizer que Anna está noiva de seu filho e que ela é assombrada por demônios pessoais não é suficiente para parar Stephen. Continuando a relação sórdida, Stephen luta para evitar a destruição de si mesmo e sua família.

Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives.

March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations....

At the beginning of World War I, a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school.

In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it all, the fellow opts to ignore it and continue living the high-life for as long as possible.

Documentary - Cary Grant was the very essence of a movie star: a man every woman loved and every man wanted to be. His deft comic style merged easily with his strength as a romantic leading man. But the suave exterior concealed a complex and often sensitive individual. Cary's painful journey from his lonely working-class beginnings to the peak of Hollywood royalty is made vivid through family photos, archival footage, clips from many of his films -- including his first starring role in SHE DONE HIM WRONG, following his discovery by blonde bombshell Mae West. Among friends and colleagues interviewed on-screen are Leslie Caron, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Deborah Kerr, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Bellamy, Stanley Donen, Richard Brooks and Stanley Kramer. Narrated by Richard Kiley. - Ralph Bellamy, Richard Brooks, Michael Caine

Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.

World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies between the players draw parallels to the political conflicts and ideologies between East and West during the Cold War.

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concerns math professor Robert Powell, who feels that there is something lacking in his ever-so-precise life. What is missing is truth, specifically philosophical truth. Thus he philosophizes at great length, allowing director Zanussi plenty of room for didactic but little room for warmth. Leading ladies Brigette Fossey and Leslie Caron occasionally melt through the cold logic of Imperative.

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.

Three music students decide to create a science-fiction musical.

A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.

Nicole is a beautiful, rich and neurotic woman who lives in a mansion alone with her maids and chauffeur. But without someone to really account to, Nicole begins to spin out of control. Her decadent and lustful life leads to murder, despair and, ultimately, mournful regret in this cautionary tale for the idle rich who have too much money and time.

In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...

No enterro de Bertrand Morane estão muitas das mulheres que o engenheiro de 40 anos amava. Em flashback, a vida e os casos de amor de Bertrand são contados por ele mesmo enquanto escrevia um romance autobiográfico.

An English novelist is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbling mansion by what he imagines are the deliberately "literary" ploys of its housekeeper and two mysterious, lurking women.

É a sequência de Era Uma Vez em Hollywood, de 1974. A produção mostra uma retrospectiva dos principais filmes produzidos pela MGM dentre os períodos de 1930 a 1950. Neste segundo documentário, arquivistas destacaram números musicais pouco conhecidos dos arquivos da MGM, e também tributos a alguns dos times de comédia mais famosos da MGM, como os Irmãos Marx, e Laurel e Hardy, duplas românticas como Spencer Tracy e Katharine Hepburn, e uma montagem de estrelas icônicas como Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, James Stewart, Lana Turner e Greta Garbo. Gene Kelly e Fred Astaire apresentam o filme e Kelly dirigiu as cenas introdutórias, como a volta dele à Paris, na qual foi rodada dois dos filmes mais famosos da MGM "Sinfonia de Paris" e "Gigi".

Stacy Keach narrates this documentary that chronicles the abbreviated life and career of iconic brooding bad boy James Dean, from his obscure early days working in television to his rise to stardom in films such as Rebel Without a Cause. Clips from Dean's movies are intermingled with candid interviews with the star's friends and Hollywood colleagues, including Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dennis Hopper.

Documentário que traça um panorama dos musicais no cinema desde a década de 20 até os anos 50, e traz entrevistas com algumas das estrelas do gênero.

Norman Lloyd directed this televised production of Jean Renoir's World War II-era play. Taking place backstage at a theatrical performance in Nazi-occupied France, Carola is a tale of passion and intrigue that involves a beautiful stage actress and her emotional and psychological struggles over a Nazi officer, whom she is entangled in an affair with, and a Resistance leader whom she is hiding. Featuring Leslie Caron as Carola, the play also stars Mel Ferrer, Albert Paulsen, Michael Sacks, Carmen Zapata, and Anthony Zerbe.

Em um retrocesso deliberado para 1940 filmes noir , um ex-detetive particular a partir desse período, Chandler, ocupa seu antigo trabalho de novo, e encontra-se constantemente dirigindo carros velhos. Ele é ostensivamente contratado pelo governo para proteger uma testemunha, Katherine Creighton, de um líder do submundo do crime, John Melchior, que quer matá-la. Mas Chandler é na verdade trabalhando para um agente do governo corrupto, Ross J. Carmady, que está usando-o como um joguete para que Carmady pode assassinar Melchior e colocar seu próprio agente duplo na parte superior da raquete.

A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old gunfighter.

A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.

A verdadeira história da retirada do exército alemão de Paris em 1944. Neste filme longo e cheio de estrelas, vemos as lutas das várias facções da resistência francesa para recuperar o controle de Paris, perto do fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. O general nazista encarregado de Paris, Dietrich von Choltitz (Fröbe), têm ordens de Hitler para queimar a cidade se ele não puder controlá-lo ou se os Aliados chegarem muito perto. Grande parte do drama gira em torno das deliberações morais do General Dietrich, do embaixador sueco Raoul Nordling (Orson Welles), e dos ansiosos mas desesperadas líderes da resistência francesa.

A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn't particularly care for children despite his profession.

The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.

During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with her pupils in tow!

"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.

Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.

Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.

Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want.

A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.

Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.

Gaston Lachaille é o solteiro mais cobiçado de Paris, sendo rico, bonito, bem vestido e com vários criados ao seu dispor. Gigi é uma jovem irrequieta, que recebe aulas de sua tia Alicia para se tornar uma dama da aristocracia. Eles são amigos, até que Gaston começa a se sentir atraído por Gigi.

A ballerina resorts to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War II.

Quando o playboy americano Jervis Pendleton III (Fred Astaire) secretamente custeia a criação e educação de uma charmosa órfã (Leslie Caron), ele nunca sonhou que terminaria perdidamente apaixonado por ela quando finalmente se conhecessem. Embalado pela canção indicada ao Oscar de 1955, Something's Gotta Give, Papai Pernilongo dá ao público de todas as idades aquela sensação de romance onde se tem vontade de sair dançando de alegria a cada vez que se assiste.

Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball.

Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.

Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?

A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.

Short subject anti-communist 'documentary' in which foreign-born movie stars such as Leslie Caron and Ricardo Montalban urge the audience (in their native tongues, subtitled) to write letters home speaking of how wonderful life in the United States is.

Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.

O veterano da Segunda Guerra Mundial, Jerry, vive em Paris tentando se firmar como pintor. Ele conhece a milionária Milo que o apoia e tenta ajudá-lo a subir na carreira, mesmo estando mais interessada em Jerry do que na sua arte. Mas ele acaba se apaixonando por Lise que está noiva de Henri, por quem ela tem uma dívida de gratidão por ter salvado sua família e ela durante a guerra.