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The intertwining storylines of an art dealer, a thief, a police chief inspector, a gun dealer, an inventor, a beautician, several bums, and a crazy old man play out as an 18th century chinaware set and a 19th century portrait pass in and out of their hands. A surreal cinematic Rubik's cube that examines the bizarre twists of fate that draw people and possessions together and apart.
4) Hail Mary
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A young teenage girl claims to be a virgin despite being pregnant and must cope with her family and her boyfriend's reactions.
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The lives of Mika and her husband, celebrated pianist Andre Polonski, are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned that she almost had been switched at birth with Polonski's son in the hospital. Also a pianist, Jeanne speculates that she may be Andre's daughter. Her suspicions further aroused by Mika's behavior, Jeanne begins the dangerous task of unraveling a dark web of family secrets and lies.
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Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between French Catholics and Protestants. Six days after her wedding, La Mole, a young man wounded by several sword injuries, frantically knocks on Margot's door. He is Protestant and must die like all the others, but Margot hides him, nurses him back to help and grows to love him.
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That Man From Rio: First, thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris's Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization.
Up to His Ears: Unhappy billionaire Belmondo, whose suicide attempts keep failing, hires some killers to do him in. He falls in love with beautiful Andress and wants to reverse the deal.
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Bertrand Tavernier's follow-up to his César-nominated three-and-a-half hour tour through French cinema, "My journey through French cinema" (2017). In this new series, the acclaimed director presents eight hours of new material, guiding us through a roster of filmmakers both influential and forgotten, exploring how his country's cinema was shaped by the German occupation and changed again through the New Wave, spotlighting little-known female filmmakers,...
15) Entre nous
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In this bittersweet, often funny, semi-autobiographical period drama, director Diane Kurys reimagines the post-War years of her parents and the passionate friendship between two women. We first meet Lňa in 1942, a young Jewish woman in an internment camp run by the Vichy authorities. She accepts a proposal of marriage by one of the camp workers in the hopes of escaping deportation to Nazi Germany. They escape on foot, crossing the Alps to Italy,...
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