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A documentary that examines the repercussions of the child abuse scandal that erupted on Jersey in 2007 and the role played by two bloggers in forcing the island to confront its past.
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A smaller scale Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées can be found just outside Shanghai; a copy of St. Peter’s in Rome can be found in Yamoussoukro, in the Ivory Coast: a journey over three continents to see the architecture of imitation, the uncanny world of the fake.
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Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way, their share their views on Algeria: Amal talks about lost illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with them. At the same time, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda are wandering about in a hostile Algiers about to steal their youth.
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About a hundred kilometers away from Kabul, Salim Shaheen, the most popular and prolific actor-director-producer in Afghanistan, comes to show some of his 110 films and to shoot the 111th in the process.
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Corniche Kennedy. In the blue of the Mediterranean, at the foot of luxurious villas, the young kids of Marseille defy the laws of gravity. Marco, Mehdi, Franck, Mélissa, Hamza, Mamaa, Julie : girls and boys dive, take flight, take risks to experience life to the fullest. Suzanne devours them with her eyes from inside her chic villa. Their free bodies, their excess. She wants to be part of them. She will be part of them.
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A photographer follows the footsteps of his two grandfathers both army men who died a long time ago, Pierre the legionnaire and Paul the paratrooper. Through them he explores the story of his family, a history bounded by wars, tormented by silences and the unsaid. In an immodest film, he unveils the history of France, a nation at war with itself.
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Filmed over five years, this documentary charts the progress of several veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder at a California clinic.
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История о юной девушке, которая встречает женщину с необычной внешностью. Под впечатлением от нового знакомства девушка решает, что ей тоже необходимо покрасить волосы в ярко-синий цвет. Разумеется, такие перемены вовсе не нужны родителям, которые всеми силами стараются убедить дочь в том, что та выбрала неправильный путь. И у них есть для этого основания, ведь юная Адель полюбила не только синий цвет, но и обладательницу синих волос…
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История о юной девушке, которая встречает женщину с необычной внешностью. Под впечатлением от нового знакомства девушка решает, что ей тоже необходимо покрасить волосы в ярко-синий цвет. Разумеется, такие перемены вовсе не нужны родителям, которые всеми силами стараются убедить дочь в том, что та выбрала неправильный путь. И у них есть для этого основания, ведь юная Адель полюбила не только синий цвет, но и обладательницу синих волос…
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18 years after his last film, (The Troubles We've Seen), Marcel Ophuls emerges from retirement as one of our last masters, the most corrosive, the funniest as well. And the most forceful. The director of The Sorrow and the Pity shares with us stories of his exceptionally rich life in this light-hearted yet bitter escapade though the century and the movies. Son of the great Max Ophuls, he is generous in his admiration. We also meet Jeanne Moreau, Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and of course François Truffaut. There are no great filmmakers without a memory, so here is the memory shop of Marcel Ophuls.
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When Melvin and Jean McNair hijacked a plane from Detroit to Algeria in 1972 with their two babies on board, they called it an act of political resistance. The hijacking was also an act of desperation committed by two people in their early twenties who saw no other way to escape what they felt was the constant state of racial oppression in America. Living in Paris forty years after the hijacking and unable to return to the U.S., Melvin and Jean are still coming to terms with their crime and its lifelong consequences.
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A mother of two mysteriously disappears one morning. Her husband isn't worried as they've had rough patches; his wife just wanted to give him a scare and will come home soon. But her lover is convinced she has been murdered by her husband.
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A young father has to teach Einstein's theory of relativity to his 9 years old son before the end of school term.
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1562 г., Францией управляет Карл IX, в стране бушуют религиозные войны… Мари де Мезьер, одна из самых богатых наследниц королевства, любит молодого герцога де Гиза, позже получившего прозвище «Меченый», и он, как ей кажется, разделяет ее чувство. Однако отец девушки, маркиз де Мезьер, стремится возвысить свою семью, и отдает дочь замуж за принца Монпансье, которого она даже не знает. Карл IX вызывает принца присоединиться к нему в борьбе с протестантами.
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A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment, they look for answers to existential questions. Yet it isn't until their different paths cross that they begin to understand why they came.
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Сериал из четырех документальных фильмов Марсель Офулс отдает дань уважения его отцу Максу, и в этом последнем обсуждается его роль помощника режиссера в «Лола Монтес».
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Julien, 28, returns to his home town. He's spent the last 13 years in prison. Out on probation, he's obsessed by a girl... Emily. And one day, he reaches for her: "it's me". She turns around, looks at him and starts to scream.
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A successful businesswoman thinks she has found her daughter, whom she lost when she was six months old...
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The old tailor, Yolan, just released from an Iranian prison, sets out in search of the village in Turkey where he was born. By his side is Ozal, a 9-year old boy. Together they wander through the mountains of Eastern Anatolia and discover a country whose realities are as fabulous as they are simple.
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Hostage-taking, deadly bombings in Paris, lobbying, media and judicial machinery. This is the story of a carefree little girl, suddenly confronted with death threats, the bodyguards, to fear ... until the final drama, one winter evening in 1990.
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Трагическая комедия. Действие происходит сегодня в маленьком южном городке на территории бывшего СССР. Главный герой - Эдик Летов - помогает людям разыскивать родственников. Он их находит в Канаде, Израиле, Швейцарии… Для Эдика это - бизнес, и бизнес безотказный. Если настоящие родственники не находятся, Эдик организует замену. И вроде все в его маленькой фирме идет хорошо. Но так как его клиенты люди одинокие, то на своих зарубежных гостей они изливают столько любви и тепла, что те и подумать не могут о своей мнимости - и проникаются ответным чувством. Все это создает повод для множества невероятно смешных, трогательных, а иногда и трагических ситуаций.
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The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia. On their difficult and transformative adventure, they must contend with obstructive authorities and the jealousies and mistrust of a small community of would-be adoptive parents.
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Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming flame of hope and humanity that endures, even in times of war and dispair. As young Julien, his family and a group of friends traverse the French countryside after fleeing the institution they called home, Julien must deal with his father's extreme violence and his mother's rosy fantasies and once again form a family that society tries to forget.
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История жизни. Россия. Последние два десятилетия. Время перемен, необратимо изменившее страну и всех нас. Академики обнищали, младшие научные сотрудники обрели невероятные богатства и власть, стали всемогущими олигархами…История любви. Он был готов положить весь мир к ее ногам. И мог себе это позволить… История денег. Деньги заработать можно. Даже большие деньги. Но как потом остаться в живых?..История успеха. За все надо платить. История большого бизнеса в России — это история людей, которые всего достигли. Но они дорого заплатили за свой успех. Кто-то — дружбой, кто-то — любовью, кто-то — собственной жизнью…Основные события и главные герои фильма не вымышлены. Имена изменены. Некоторые все еще живы…
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The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have to write anything collaborationist. Devaivre is in dangerous political activity. Devaivre also works for the German production company Continental where he is respected. On the other hand, Aurenche's scriptwriting doesn't help how he lives and he is a womanizer which causes him to procrastinate.
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In December 1997, Bertrand Tavernier supported a group of undocumented migrants in Lyon who went on hunger strike to protest against the double penalty. An agreement was reached, but the strike resumed a few months later, for lack of a real solution. The director then decides to take his camera and to give a long speech to these men and women that nobody wants to listen to.
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At thirty, Simon is juggling with life and it's problems. He is torn between his job as a journalist at "Tobacco Monthly", his girlfreind Christine with whom he can't seem to have a child and his friends Fabrice, Léa and Roché. On the family side, he should be sorting things out with his psychiatrist father but he mainly takes care of his Granma who is loosing her mind and making life impossible for everyone around her. When he meets Claire, a pregnant neighbour neglected by her husband, his life takes an unexpected turn.
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Молодая девушка Таня возвращается из Москвы в родной город Липки. Все вокруг ей знакомо с детства: дома и их жители, подруги и простой парень Миша, любящий ее еще со школы. На танцах, хлебнув водки для храбрости, Таня пообещала Мише подбросить монетку и, если выпадет орел, она выйдет за него замуж…
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Single mother Nadia is surviving on welfare while transport strikes are paralyzing France in December 1995. While watching the news, she recognizes the father of her child among the strikers and decides to go and search for him. But she has nowhere to go. The film, shot almost entirely at night, carries documentary qualities, part of which is due to the appearances of actual railroad workers in several group scenes.
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Даниэль Лефевр, воспитатель детского сада в маленьком шахтерском городке, с унынием наблюдает падение местного производства и благосостояния жителей. Это значит, что вскоре безработица и нищета ударит и по его маленьким подопечным. Чувствуя себя ответственным за детей и вообще за весь город, Лефевр разворачивает настоящую кампанию по защите своей вотчины…
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This film deals with the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation. Georges Montero, an Algerian-born Frenchman, manages an olive canning factory in Oran. He travels to Paris for a cataract operation. Marinette, his sister, and Belka, his friend and a recent immigrant, want him to return to France permanently. Friction develops between the two friends as Georges is pressured to sell his factory. Friendship developed between Georges and his surgeon, who as a French Arab has severed ties with his culture and country of origin.
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We follow Marcel Ophuls' two journeys to Sarajevo in 1993. He is starting a documentary about war correspondants. But this also becomes a reflexion about truth and life. The form consists in many interviews of mostly French and American journalists and reporters of television or newspapers.
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Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.
