Alexandra Stewart
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Biography: Alexandra Stewart (born June 10, 1939 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actress. Besides her cinema career, she regularly appeared on television in shows such as Les Jeux de 20 heures and L'Académie des neuf. She has also appeared in the 1981 cartoon Space Stars and had cameos in Highlander: The Series, The Saint and the pilot episode of The X-Files. She was part of the jury of the 2004 Chicago International Film Festival. She has a daughter, Justine, with the French director Louis Malle.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Birthday: June 10, 1939
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Gender: Female
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Day for Night
Overview: A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-24
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Exodus
Overview: Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-15
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The Fire Within
Overview: Although his alcoholism has been treated, Alain still feels he is deeply unwell and does not feel he can leave the detoxification clinic once and for all. His wife, living in New York, continues to pay for his treatment, but no longer contacts him directly. He intends to commit suicide, but first takes a ride to Paris to catch up with old friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-10-15
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The Bride Wore Black
Overview: Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-03-22
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The Blood of Others
Overview: In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-25
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Under the Sand
Overview: When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-09-11
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Champagne Charlie
Overview: This is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just prior to the American Civil War. He is a reluctant French spy and is captured and spends time in a Union prison. There are two parallel love stories (he is French) and some battles with his uncle for control of the family vineyard (because his father married his mother who the uncle also loved).
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-12
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Midnight Meeting
Overview: A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Maroc 7
Overview: The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigue.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-22
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Mickey One
Overview: A former comic is on the run from the mob.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-27
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Under the Cherry Moon
Overview: Two friends from Miami are in the French Riviera enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inherit $50 million from her father. At first, Tricky has Christopher Tracy talked into romancing her for her money, but in getting to know her, Christopher falls in love with her. This love comes between the brothers, and Tricky tells about the plan.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-02
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Black Moon
Overview: There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: sister, brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the world through her radio.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-24
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The Last Chase
Overview: Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-01
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Kemek
Overview: A wealthy, eccentric chemical company owner sends his woman to get an American writer to take a mind control drug, Kemek, to verify its potential. She accomplishes her mission, but falls totally in love with the writer. The chemical magnate, satisfied with the results of the test, rewards her with murder, just as she is about to flee to Naples with her new lover. Her ex-husband and a private detective track the killer behind it all to a remote hideaway to unravel the solution.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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Bolero: Dance of Life
Overview: The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-27
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The New World
Overview: This short film shows a young couple during a short period after the explosion of a nuclear bomb 120 km above Paris. The city appears unaffected, but the man begins to notice changes in the behavior of the people in general and in that of his girl friend in particular. Part of the Italian anthology film RoGoPaG (1962).
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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A Game for Six Lovers
Overview: Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with Miléna, insists the other two grandchildren, Fifine and her brother Jean-Paul, visit the château for the reading of the will, even though they have been estranged from the family at an early age. However Robert, who had been living with Fifine in an open relationship, arrives and impersonates Jean-Paul. Robert falls for Fifine's cousin Miléna while Fifine has designs on Miguel. In the meantime, the butler César is focusing his lecherous intentions on Prudence, the maid he had just hired.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-20
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The Season for Love
Overview: Sylvain, a suave, witty player as well as an accomplished writer and Genevieve met 10 months ago. He wanted a serious relationship for the first time so they moved to the country so they could be together and he could write.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-06-12
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Because of the Cats
Overview: A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple's house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch. Thus begins a dogged investigation by a determined detective who quickly finds that their cult-like solidarity can be a serious obstacle to breaking them.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-15
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Son of Gascogne
Overview: You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-02-18
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Les filles, personne s'en méfie
Overview: Eight-year-old Judith was plucked from everyday life to act in a film that was made in Paris. After returning home from the experience, she finds that her parents' marriage is on the rocks. She makes her way back to Paris with her friend Nora, and the two of them do what they can to survive.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-08-06
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Naked Autumn
Overview: Milan is an ex Formula One driver and now he lives with his wife Roberte in a small country town. But Milan is not satisfied, so Roberte encourages a love-story between Milan and Helene, a young woman. Milan can't decide and at last the tragedy comes. Then Milan returns to drive in Formula One.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-05-17
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The Hidden Face
Overview: A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-09-16
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Only When I Larf
Overview: A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-27
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Homage at Siesta Time
Overview: The widows of four missionaries condemned by the Indians to die at the stake, go to the Amazon jungle to pay homage to them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-21
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Where Did Tom Go?
Overview: Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from inaction he plans and kills dictator Anton Caras. Arrested he ends up in a jail full of political prisoners for whose freedom he had been working. Eventually he manages to escape but only one would follow him. The others preferred to stay and testify before the court.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-13
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The Marseille Contract
Overview: An important drug lord settled in Marseille is suspected of having ordered the killing of an American agent, but it is impossible to impute him due to his political influences, so the dead agent's boss decides to hire the services of a hitman to kill him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-04
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Tarzan the Magnificent
Overview: After the Banton family rob a store is a small village and kill the local police constable, Tarzan captures one of them, Coy Banton. He decides to return him to the authorities so that the dead policeman's family will benefit from the $5000 reward. The head of the clan, Abel Banton and his two sons have no intention of letting Tarzan deliver Coy and burn the river boat they were to use. Several of the passengers are now stranded forcing Tarzan to take them along on a trek through the jungle. Abel Banton trails them intent not only getting his son back but getting rid of Tarzan.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-20
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Charlots' Connection
Overview: Three friends begin to work the rent collectors. Fee collection goes with a lot of comic episodes...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-08
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Overview: The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-04-13
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Le Bon Plaisir
Overview: Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter, he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-18
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Le Choc
Overview: Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier knows too much, and he is still useful to the organization. He escapes to the countryside where he meets Claire, and the two soon fall in love. Back in Paris to confront his employers, Terrier learns that they've stolen all his money from the bank. They give him an ultimatum—do one last job for them and he gets his money and his freedom...
Genres: Crime Action Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-04-28
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The Wedding March
Overview: Satirical film in four episodes about family and marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-17
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Ma compagne de nuit
Overview: Julia is suffering from a terminal illness. While in hospital she encounters Marine and, taking advantage of the young woman's precarious financial situation, makes her an offer. In exchange for a weekly 1000 euro payment, Marine will accompany Julia to her death. An exclusive and singular relationship forms between the two women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-03
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Seven Servants
Overview: An elderly man wants to exit earth in a state of unity with all creatures. To that end, he hires a quartet of manservants to plug his facial orifices with their fingers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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Thank You, Natercia
Overview: A wealthy widow, Natercia, helps Alain, a poor young man, to put together the film he plans to make. They decide to pool their resources to make the project a reality. At the first screening, Natercia realizes that Alain no longer needs her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-02
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Trapped by Fear
Overview: Two French paras who had lived through deadly situations in Algeria, meet again in civil life. Frapier is a newspaper reporter, and one day finds his friend Porte - surrounded by the police after a car theft, and an accidental killing of a police officer. He helps him escape, and provides shelter with the complicity of his girlfriend Vera. Later, Frapier will have doubts about Vera's love, and lives a passionate night with beautiful Arabelle. However, he finds himself playing a game of life and death both with Vera, and Porte. It will end in sadness for one, and death for another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-04
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Law of Survival
Overview: In 1960, Stan, the protagonist, after having made a fortune in Asia, returns to Corsica, to visit a friend's tomb. In Ajaccio, he meets Helene, who she rescues from her kidnappers, who take advantage of her "charms" in a house of ill reputation. They hide then somewhere in the mountains, where they are pursued by the Corsican mobsters...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-19
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A Swelled Head
Overview: A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate this house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Chanel Solitaire
Overview: The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and became one of the most legendary creative icons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Highlander: Unholy Alliance
Overview: Immortal Xavier St. Cloud has mortals shoot his Immortal opponents so he can take their heads. Joe tells Duncan about the killings to warn him, and soon St. Cloud and his henchmen show up at the dojo. Duncan discovers the supposedly-dead Horton is working with St. Cloud, and Joe knew that Horton was alive. Meanwhile, an army intelligence officer named Renee Delaney gets involved while she is investigating one of the men working with St. Cloud.
Genres: Action Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-21
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Bingo
Overview: A young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an election campaign.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-14
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Man Called Gringo
Overview: Dakota, 1880. In Silver Springs, with the help of hired thugs, a lawyer tries to take over the town by sabotage, theft and brutal murders. The arrival in town of a new undercover sheriff hinder their plans.
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-03-19
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The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
Overview: An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-05-04
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Shotgun Garfunkel
Overview: A group of friends in their thirties go on the quest for an epic night out, opening the door to betrayal, lies, honesty and love. This movie was South Africa's attempt at creating the fastest feature film ever made.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-11
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The Passion of Slow Fire
Overview: Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with them, is found murdered. Despite Stéphane's innocence, the evidence points to him, and he learns that Belle harbored romantic feelings for him. Suspicions mount against him; even Christine thinks he is the culprit. Stéphane's sanity begins to crumble, and he lashes out in unprecedented ways.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-02
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Agency
Overview: A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all...
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-14
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Spray of the Days
Overview: Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love with a young girl, Chloe, but after their marriage she soon suffers from a strange illness: a water lily grows in her lungs.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-04-21
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Bye Bye Barbara
Overview: A chance meeting with an alluring stranger leads a sports journalist down a twisted path of deception.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-03-11
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Merry Christmas
Overview: With money running low, nine New Yorkers forgo their annual Christmas in Aspen and head to Pennsylvania for a murder-mystery weekend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-06
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And So to Bed
Overview: Twelve different episodes of erotic relationships are described as examples of modern love substitute.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-11-12
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The Endless Night
Overview: Anthology film about a night at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. Due to fog passengers can't leave Berlin by plane and struggle to find other ways out of Berlin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-05-08
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John
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Fifi Martingale
Overview: The stage director of the play L’œuf de Pâquesis given the importante Molière award. Taking this reward for a bad joke, he thinks that a conspiracy mounts against him and decides to rewrite the play, transforming it into Molière’s La critique de l’École des femmes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-05
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The Suns of Easter Island
Overview: Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-08-23
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Bekenntnisse eines möblierten Herrn
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-01-04
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Frantic
Overview: The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-19
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Bazar
Overview: Gabrielle, a pleasant woman in her sixties, learns that she is about to be evicted from her second-hand shop...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-02
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Slap in the Face
Overview: Dressed only with a muff, Eva - naked as God created her - reaches the conference room of the big bank to expose Terbanks' capitalists and bankers and to protest against capitalism and exploitation. But the naked woman from the "Red October" community slapped the wrong man and pursued tangible own interests in the form of inherited shares ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-03-05
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Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Overview: An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-23
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Secret Violence
Overview: An Italian in East Africa having an affair with a coloured woman realises that his treatment of her is as tyrannical as more overt superior colonialist dogma. Based on a novel by Enrico Emmanuele.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-24
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The Islanders
Overview: The story takes us to an island with no future, given that it’s already partly submerged underwater. A woman is caring for ten or so very elderly individuals, but the arrival of five travellers turns their lives upside down…
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-03-26
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Obsessions
Overview: A young medical student observes his neighbour's love life through a hole in his apartment wall.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1969-08-15
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Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
Overview: A young German comes to Rome on vacation and is not slow to win female hearts. When the game become dangerous due to a possible marriage, the young man returns to his homeland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-27
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Emmanuelle 3
Overview: Emmanuelle and her architect husband continue their amoral lifestyle in the Seychelles. But when a casual dilliance between her and a film director starts to turn serious her husband shows very traditional signs of jealousy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-10-14
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Climates of Love
Overview: The Marcenat couple seem to have everything they need to be happy. However, Odile's frivolity and Philippe's jealousy drive the couple apart. Philippe, manager of the family printing business, finds solace in Isabelle, a long-time employee at the paper mill. Isabelle's routine life, entirely devoted to her work, leads Philippe to strike up a romantic relationship with the playful young Misa. But, faced with Isabelle's grief, Philippe puts an end to the romance. When Odile, inconsolable since their break-up, finally commits suicide, Philippe realizes that she was his true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-04-11
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Malle's Fire Within
Overview: In these interviews, conducted in 2008, actor Alexandra Stewart and filmmakers Philippe Collin and Volker Schlöndorff discuss the making of The Fire Within.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-13
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Flammen der Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Overview: Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. Edwarda's underground political action group stages a little drama to test Balthazar's commitment and reliability, putting him through an interrogation by what appear to him to be French secret police. Having passed this test, he is given a real assignment. This film is a comedy with elements of satire, and it explores the humor to be found in left-wing pretentiousness of all kinds. - Rovi
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-31
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Fallen Heroes
Overview: Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to remain nothing more than a son, he begins his downward slide, as if a fog had shut him in a cage from which there is no escape. Bruno can never have children .He says nothing about this diagnosis to Anne, his beloved wife. Nor does he tell her about a large debt he has taken out. It is as if Bruno were a man without any qualities or talents. A mediocre man who has lost all pride. Though now everything appears hazy in his memory. Like a river that flows peacefully, showing no signs of the hidden currents at work below. But at times those currents can return to the surface. Without warning.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-03-28
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Valentin Valentin
Overview: In a small Parisian building, a diverse group of people crosses paths, likes and observes each other, without always seeing each other.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-07
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Far from Dallas
Overview: Thriller centered round the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-28
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Phobia
Overview: A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-09
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Femmes
Overview: Helmut is fed up traveling around he world. Coming back from Asia, he decides to stay some time in Alexandra's house, a long time friend. She is living on a beautiful island where she is doing art. From his travels, Helmut brought back some old manuscript about secret rites that he decides to share with Alexandra after restarting a sexual relationship with her
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-22
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À deux c'est plus facile
Overview: In order not to be thrown from his big Parisian apartment by his sister, the idiosyncratic pensioner Joseph takes the 20-year-old farmer's daughter Marilyn with him. She wants to complete an apprenticeship as a make-up artist in the capital, preferably for horror films. An unequal pair, which soon finds attraction as well as rejection.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-12
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The Motorcycle Cops
Overview: Marc, a motorcycle brigadier, is engaged to the charming Véronique. But his future brother-in-law, the clumsy Roger, leader of a Sunday motorcycle gang, has set his sights on joining the motorcycle police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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L'Herbe rouge
Overview: Telefilm directed by Pierre Kast broadcast in 1985, based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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Le Soleil en face
Overview: Famous writer, Marat retires to Portugal, where he lives surrounded by his family, including his wife Genevieve. When she learns she is diagnosed with cancer, she tries to hide the truth. But Marat doesn't take time to know.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-16
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My Last Lullaby
Overview: Is there a suitable age to face a loss for the first time? 20-year-old Paloma has just lost her grandfather. Her entire family gathers in the grandparents' house the day before the funeral. It is a place full of memories, and without noticing, Paloma is led to confront her loss, as if this end of summer marks the end of her frivolity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-16
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Them
Overview: An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He puts the blame for his friend's death on an art critic and a shady art dealer. He is able to take out his frustrations on the pretentious critic at a party. When an elderly man moves into the boarding house, he brings a machine he invented that can make people realize their subconscious dreams...
Genres: Crime Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-11-18
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Zeppelin
Overview: The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he spent his summers in Germany as a child. When Geoffrey is approached by a German spy who offers him a chance to defect, he reports the incident to his superiors, but instead of arresting the spy they suggest that he accept her offer--and become an Allied agent. In Germany, among old friends, Geoffrey discovers that loyalty is more complicated than he expected, especially when he finds himself aboard the maiden voyage of a powerful new prototype Zeppelin, headed for Scotland on a secret mission that could decide the outcome of the war.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-08
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La Guérilléra
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Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-12-09
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Un animal doué de déraison
Overview: A wealthy French promoter living in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, but a prisoner of her strict education. He then shared his project with a journalist friend, who decided to make it the theme of a novel he imagined in 18th century Brazil...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-24
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One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
Overview: A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. The title of the film is a play on the title of Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-15
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Madame Claude 2
Overview: A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus of media scrutiny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-08-26
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Julie pot-de-colle
Overview: Julie asks Jean-Luc Farlot, authorized signatory of a big European bank to help her disguise a murder as an accident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-04-20
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The Heat of a Thousand Suns
Overview: A young man from the far future, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company. On a distant planet he discovers a serene, tranquil culture and falls in love with a girl. The story follows his problems adjusting to their sociological standards and customs where family units are comprised of sexual groups of eight people.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-07-21
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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Overview: Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is gradually being destroyed. From sexual trauma to financial disaster, he slowly descends into a world of insanity, perversion and finally the bottomless pit!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-19
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Il était une fois... « Lacombe Lucien »
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-19
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Angel's Skin
Overview: Héléna Werner leads a reclusive and deserted life. Alone, as if withdrawn from the world in her apartment of refined luxury. She places an ad for a private secretary, a "handyman" who would take her away from the daily grind. As soon as he starts working, Milo adopts an intriguing behavior. From the start, he takes everything in hand and the doors of the apartment close on them both.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-29
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La Candide Madame Duff
Overview: Married to a younger woman, Jacob sinks into jealousy, alcohol and violence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-03-29
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Chassé-croisé
Overview: Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-24
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The Man Who Had Power Over Women
Overview: A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man's wife, he also acquires a difficult new client whose public image must be preserved at any cost.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-12
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Looking for Jesus
Overview: An average Joe becomes the poster boy for a book about Jesus due to his Christ-like appearance, but his meek and good-hearted nature ends up clashing with the publisher's earthly-minded motives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-03-03
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Faut-il tuer le clown ?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-01
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El Cantor
Overview: William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion between both men creates one thousand memories: always so collusive, they become fast inseparable, living again, the space of moment, their young years… Only Elizabeth, wife of William, who has just lost her father, does not share their cheerfulness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-03-15
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Help Me Dream
Overview: In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-03-26
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Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Overview: Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
Overview: A woman accused of murder escapes an asylum and her psychiatrist tries to find her.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-24
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Le Bel Âge
Overview: Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-10
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Umano non umano
Overview: Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-05-07
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In Praise of Older Women
Overview: Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-22
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Ciel bleu
Overview: Nicholas is a conscience-stricken international news photographer. Revolted by what he has seen in wars in Africa and Indochina, he leaves his job and his girlfriend to do sports coverage. While covering a rugby match between the French and Irish teams in Ireland, he runs into an ex-American girlfriend, and their affair begins again. As she is very down-to-earth, she helps him begin to sort things out.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-06
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In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont
Overview: On 6 December 2013, a public exhibition dedicated to her memory, Bernadette Lafont l'exposition hommage, was held in Paris. Actors Stéphane Audran, Guillaume Gouix and Alexandra Stewart read some extracts of Bernard Bastide's new biography Bernadette Lafont, une vie de cinéma, including some original letters written by Bernadette. The event was filmed by Gérard Courant and aired as an episode of Carnets filmés, In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-03
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Joseph Morder tourne « La Duchesse de Varsovie »
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-04-03
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Le lys dans la vallée
Overview: Félix de Vandenesse's youthful love for the beautiful, inaccessible Madame de Mortsauf, who devotes her life to a half-mad husband and two fragile children. Madame de Mortsauf maintains a friendly, tender relationship. But when she learns of the young man's affair with an Englishwoman, she dies of jealousy and regret.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-05-16
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Duchess of Warsaw
Overview: Valentin is a young gay painter who lives in the imaginary world of his paintings. When he finds his grandmother Nina, a Polish Jewish émigré whith whom he feels very close, he confesses his lack of inspiration and loneliness. During these few days together in a psychedelic Paris, Valentin expresses more and more the need to know the past Nina always tried to hide …
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-02-25
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Thrilling
Overview: An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-21
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Le Retour de Lemmy Caution
Overview: The owner of Black Angel is shot by Mamba, a killer in the pay of the Chinese mafia. The victim's daughter, who witnessed the murder and knows she is threatened, refuses to collaborate with the police and prefers to call on an old friend of her father's, Lemmy Caution, but is this man, who lives on an island paradise, still old enough to play the vigilante?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-07-02
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À cause des filles…?
Overview: At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfortune of a person in love with someone that slips away. The guests paint a full picture of clumsiness, lies, and bad luck, that makes impossible, whatever the age, all attempts of seduction... or close enough !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-30
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The Uncanny
Overview: Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-24
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Waiting for Caroline
Overview: An indecisive young woman with an abnormal devotion to her father can't decide on which of her two boyfriends she should end her relationship with.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-21
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Sweet and Sour
Overview: Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-09-04
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Sugar Cookies
Overview: A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The dead girl's lesbian lover discovers what happened, and plots her revenge.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-31
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Photo de famille
Overview: Joshua, in his thirties, has just learned that his file has been classified “child of X” : in other words, the identity of his parents remains unknown to this very day. He thereupon decides to designate his parents himself and sets out to “conquer” his unknown mother and father.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Heatwave Lasted Four Days
Overview: A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-28
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Le Beau Monde
Overview: Jean Pierre, a young Parisian salesman, decides to go on vacation by hitchhiking at random. Taken as a jaguar by a rich man, he finds himself invited to his villa in Saint Tropez and discovers a luxurious, idle and decadent universe. A tasty TV movie, written and directed by Michel Polac, with a very young Fabrice Luchini.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-06-06
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After Blue (Dirty Paradise)
Overview: In a faraway future, on a wild and untamed female inhabited planet called After Blue, a lonely teenager named Roxy unknowingly releases a mystical, dangerous, and sensual assassin from her prison.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-20
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Final Assignment
Overview: An intrepid television journalist sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union has trouble sticking to her assignment when she unearths a horrific experimental drug trial involving children. Determined to prepare a video that will show the world exactly what's been going on, she dodges the long arm of the KGB and falls into bed with a Communist bureaucrat.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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Dangerous Love Affairs
Overview: Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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