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On a winding mountain road, Vittorio stops to help Kate, whose car has broken down. After gallantly making the repair, without a single word spoken, he speeds off. When their paths cross again, Vittorio learns that Kate has returned to join her family's traveling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by her story, Vittorio stays for the show, and the next one, and little by little is integrated into the circus...
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The decades-spanning tumultuous romance of a quintessentially French couple is chronicled in the thought-provoking and scathingly funny MR. & MRS. ADELMAN. Told in flashback from the early 1970s forward, this epic love-hate relationship begins as angst-ridden writer Victor meets Sarah, a brilliant doctoral student who falls head-over-heels. A complicated courtship and eventual marital discord ensue, as the egocentric Victor becomes a literary superstar...
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Based on the best-selling book by Irene Nemirovsky, a story of the power of love and the tradgedy of war, set during the German occupation of France in the 1940's. Suite Francaise tells the story of Lucille Angellier, she awaits news from her husband, whom is a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees pour into their small town, followed by a regiment of German soldies who take up residence in the villagers' homes. Lucille's life is turned upside down.
5) Violette
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"The daughter of a respectable middle-class couple, Violette Nozière leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent young girl her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the Latin Quarter of Paris. To acquire money for her latest lover, Violette resolves to commit an unthinkable crime."--Container.
6) On my way
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When her mother tells her that her married lover has ditched her for a 25-year-old beautician's assistant, Bettie, a former Breton beauty queen turned bistro owner, takes to the road and winds up at a dive bar named Le Ranch, for an evening of drunken revelry sets. Bettie's resentful daughter, Muriel, then asks her mother to chauffeur her son, Charly, to his grandfather's, and the pair sets out on a trip that will ultimately lead Bettie to revisit...
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When Paulo, a young pianist, meets Ilir, a lone bass player, it's love at first sight. Confronted by his girlfriend, Paulo finds himself out on the streets and soon living with Ilir. After Paulo promises Ilir that he will love him forever, Ilir leaves town for a concert and never comes back. It is a heartbreaking examination of the thrills, sacrifices, and disappointments of falling in love.
8) Le plaisir
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Criterion collection volume 444
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Français
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An aging man hides behind a mask to meet ladies, a madame takes her girls to a communion, and a painter falls for his model in these stories of life, love, pleasure, and death.
9) Transit
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Deutsch
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In Christian Petzold's brilliant and haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers's 1942 novel, Georg, a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming enmeshed in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie.
10) Follow the boys
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Follow the fun, follow the fleet. Navy wives and sweethearts careen around the French and Italian Riviera in a beat-up jalopy, trying to keep up with their seagoing menfolk. The girls are glamorous, but even they can't out-wow the scenery: Nice, Cannes, Santa Margherita Ligure, and a white-sand-fringed, brilliantly blue Mediterranean"--Container.
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